Trees and Bridges

Welcome to my big dumb personal blog.

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Easter Eggs

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14 YEARS???!?

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Had a wild dream where rather than tolkien knockoff fantasy-adventure the primary genre of ttrpgs was "cute storybook animals living in a small town", but the levels of discourse, factionalism, and toxicity in the playerbase was the EXACT same.

The most recent drama was over the fact that the mayoral election plotline in the latest big official release included a murder mystery 2/3rds of the way through the plot. A large swath of people were VERY UPSET that death and violence had entered their cottagecore animal game, which they had been playing conflict free for decades. There apparently had't been this much drama since an edition back when the "canals and crossroads" expansion included the idea of outsiders causing a stir and coming to town

There was also apparently an OSR equivalent traditionalist faction referred to as "The pie guys", because they wanted to refocus on the older edition of the game that was primarily about gathering berries and baking pies out of them to get them judged at the county fair.

After that the dream sort of dissolved as my brain tried to improvise the statistics of 80+ verities of berry and build a coherent mechanic around crossbreeding them.

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This meme becomes relevant once again.

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So my Grave Domain Cleric bit it in the funniest way possible yesterday...

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Maybe one of the worst pictures I've taken of Batman.

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Photo taken before waiting nearly 2 hours past our appointed ticket time because sometimes the Louvre just... doesn't open? On time?

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Walkin' around Paris. November '25.

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Lounging around.

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Views of and from St. Paul de Vence. November '25.

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Boats in the harbor at Antibes. November '25.

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Which of the alcove putti in the church of Biot are you feeling like today?

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Nearing sunset, Jardin Exotique d’Èze. November '25

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Assorted cacti, Jardin Exotique d’Èze. November '25.

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Èze, in the South of France, from November '25.

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Pictures from Menton from late November '25. The weather was gorgeous, in the 60's, but there were still folks running around in big winter jackets.

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Look at these ridiculous photos of my friend Laurette's dog: Maelys. Tiny Maelys.