[arielgalloway]

Play a one-shot D&D game online with my partner and DM of 20 years on StartPlaying.Games! This game is perfect for: —Folks who fell in love with BG3 and have always wanted to try tabletop D&D. Playing a version of your favorite Tav is strongly encouraged! —Fanfic writers and Ao3 readers who have always wanted to step into the story. —Experienced D&D players who love narrative play and deep character immersion. If you make playlists and Pinterest boards for your OCs, this might be the table for you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQ+ players enthusiastically welcome! 🚫 AI use ever, and players are not permitted to bring AI-generated content to the table.

[arielgalloway]

The elf is DM-ing for the Christmas birds.

[littlestpersimmon]

Please, can someone please help me afford my diabetes medication. I have been 3 days out- it helps regulate my blood sugar for my type II diabetes. They are almost 60 usd a bottle, my insurin won't cover any more meds as I have used up all the allocated government aid recovering from a total thyroidectomy; thank you so much

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[littlestpersimmon]

Hello everyone. Sorry to reblog again. As of December 12, I am almost out of thyroid medicine;

I only have 2 left. Please help me afford thyroid medicine during the holiday season. I dont have a thyroid and prone to heart disease, it runs on both sides of my family and exacerbated by diabetes. I am very scared. I will literally die without meds. I would like to go out later today and get my refill; thank you so much. Happy holidays. When my health improves I will do my best to make more art to repay everyone's graciousness

[arielgalloway]

Caleb is an incredible artist who is running out of the medication they need to live. As someone who recently got kicked off of insurance and struggled to fill my diabetes meds for months, this situation is *fucking terrifying* for someone to be in. Please help if you can. Re-blogging this post for visibility is free!

[arielgalloway]

A heartfelt message for family members who have been totally fucking radio silent about MAGA persecution of trans youth—never once checked in on our kid—wanting to connect for Christmas.

[arielgalloway]

Overheard in my backyard

F: Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. M: This is a SWORD.

[arielgalloway]

STOP MAKING AI BOOK COVERS.

If your book cover is AI, why the fuck should anyone support your creative work?

Look, I know we’re all broke, but artists know that you’re probably not making six-figures as a writer and are generally willing to work with you on payment plans. Many artists will discuss how to simplify something to make it easier/faster for them and cheaper for you. Have a budget of $0? Good news, there’s an absolute MOUNTAIN of incredible art in the public domain. Stop seeing AI as an option. Kneecapping another creative professional to sell your own creative work is vile.

[arielgalloway]

I swore I wouldn’t do this until I was totally finished with all writing and initial proofreading/edits for our book buuuuuut I’m out of ADHD meds and it was almost half price and I got very ‘fuck it I’ve waited a decade’ and HERE WE ARE.

[arielgalloway]

[arielgalloway]

Thirteen years ago, my partner published this poem about going down on me, which still feels like more my achievement than his.

[larstenobar]

Everything Loghain Mac Tir did he did out of an unfathomable hate for the French. Is he a villain for this? I scoff at you.

[larstenobar]

Did he send assassins after you? Yes. Did he decimate the Grey Wardens? Also yes. A small price to pay to keep the French out of your country, I say.

[arielgalloway]

Tonight’s mood:

Remember how in 2021 my partner was teaching ESL online and I was working as a freelance writer and we were both making decent-for-us incomes and it was very we’re in our mid-to-late-30s and FINALLY semi-financially stable, yay? And then remember when both of those industries basically collapsed within a year of each other?

Yeah. That was super fun. So anyway what is your opinion on generative AI and why is it that it should be SET ON FIRE?

[arielgalloway]

I don’t know what it is but this man in reading glasses UNDOES me y’all. He wears them when writing and sits across from me sipping tea and making serious-writing-face and then wonders why my word output is a quarter of his asjsjdfsnfkjgsssss

(He doesn’t really wonder that, but I imagine him wondering it and THERE IS AN ANSWER to that question.)

[arielgalloway]

No, of course I don’t slip into my character’s speaking cadence in real life, why would you ask that? I am obviously a very functional adult with a firm grasp on reality vs. fiction.

[harpy-ally]

[arielgalloway]

Hiria Dunning (@hiriadunning.bsky.social) asked this question on bluesky today and I’m having so much fun reading the answers I wanted to try it here as well! Mine: Baldur’s Gate 3—the second act, specifically, Forgotten Realms in general, Wolfwalkers, The Little Mermaid, Alan Moore’s Voice of the Fire, Slavic folklore, Slovenian primeval forests, The Wizard of Oz, folk horror in general, Faun Fables, Jesca Hoop’s Hunting My Dress, Lorena McKennitt, The Decemberists’ Hazards of Love

[arielgalloway]

[arielgalloway]

Today’s mood: