BOZAMOZAM

My name is Tim Senft and someday you can ask me why "bozamozam," and I'll tell you and then you'll understand. Writer, nerd, punk, rage robot, digital communications & content designer.

[wilwheaton]

[bozamozam]

all of these things all the time and more.

[memewhore]

[bozamozam]

i got trapped in this thing so many times as a kid. 10/10 would buy in a minute.

[1980sactionfigures]

Zarak - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (LJN)

[wilwheaton]

These were so hard to find when I was a kid, and I bought every single one I could get my hands on. I wish I still had my guy with the blue fish-gill helmet. You know the one, if you know.

[bozamozam]

i also collected these rabidly and they were impossible to find. i know. i know.

[oldschoolfrp]

Krarshtkids are “nasty large scuttling things like giant crabs,” creatures of chaos with a habit of lurking on the ceiling (Brad Foster, from Big Rubble, an ancient ruined city locale for Runequest, Chaosium, 1983)

[bozamozam]

i started playing Runequest in 1980, long before i ever played D&D, which everyone was telling me they had to play. all those THAC0 and AC rules bored me and the Chaosium percentage thing was so much better. the art was the best. the original beastiary has the best Redcap drawing ever.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[bozamozam]

amplifying because I fucking hate billionaires.

[blackwoolncrown]

White people: if you want to help long term: get used to being told your opinion is wrong, irrelevant, or unwanted. Tell your friends to get used to it. Work on getting used to it and do this work with other white people. Because white supremacy has all of y’all very used  to being right and being an inherently valued voice and if we’re going to fight white supremacy you’re going to have to be comfortable surrendering that expectation and also white people will need to learn how to handle being rejected or disagreed with. It’s an extension of racism and racial trauma for black people to try and educate or speak up about our issues only to expose ourselves to your white fragility which  makes you defensive– this defensiveness can look like shutting down, silencing us, painting all corrections or disagreements as ‘fighs’ (extending the idea that black people are aggressive) etc.

White resilience is the opposite of white fragility and black people are VERY good at resilience, unfortunately. Listen to us we know how to combat this.

[blackwoolncrown]

I have been on this site firmly yelling about social justice for years and haven’t received quite so many upset asks for at least 3 or so until I made this post. Multiple white people have messaged me or replied saying that it’s invalid, ‘racist’ or simply unfair to suggest that white people by virtue of being white may share a common problem. Y'all really do not want to understand that racism is systemic (sidenote, this is why NOTHING I say about you as a group qualifies as racism) and that you are ALL part of the system. It is not possible to fight racism but not address how you perpetuate white supremacy. White people: ask yourself why you are so upset by the idea that your whiteness is under critique. Ask yourself why you feel so comfortable telling the victims of racism how they should (and should not) fight racism. Funny that it makes you uncomfortable to think that perhaps your skin color may, in some cases, render your viewpoint…less than relevant. 

Ask yourself why you are flinching and knee jerking at the idea that you may have to give up the privilege of having your voice ALWAYS being accepted and centered. Ask yourself why you think it’s unfair and upsetting that white people’s voices are going to need to be lessened if there is to be real equality. If you think this suggestion to learn to be open to and to accept being wrong, being told you need to listen and not speak, in order to balance the supremacy of white voices and white opinions; if you think this is too ‘rude’ or ‘racist’ or whatever, I want you to understand that that’s white supremacy talking. This is white fragility talking– the slightest suggestion that you may need to examine and surrender social privileges unevenly heaped in your favor has you automatically shutting down and silencing me. So this is me, telling you again: you are wrong more often than you know. And it’s time to accept that if you want to learn and grow. White people: learn to accept being wrong. Learn to accept being questioned and doubted– and learn to question and doubt yourself; ask if you’re thinking critically or just repeating racist shit you’ve heard all your goddamn lives.

[wilwheaton]

Reblog if you are antifascist.

[bozamozam]

i am antifascist.

[sirussly]

Some thoughts on storytelling.

[bozamozam]

as a person who runs and plays role-playing games every week, this is a very important thread.

[rishkarn]

You know, in a horror movie, everyone always responds with a flight response when they see the monster. But that’s not the only thing that happens when people get scared. I want to see someone choose the fight response. I want to see a character turn around to see the killer right there, scream in terror, and start punching them in the face repeatedly.

[blogging-phelddagrif]

[purified-zone]

[bozamozam]

this post makes me feel seen.

[vegan-anarchist-1312]

[bozamozam]

truth.

[xbirdthenerd-deactivated2019091]

Visit Original Link

[halfbloodhiccup]

I have never reblogged something so fast in my life

[apupcalypse]

it’s exactly what you think it is

[cassandrajean]

it’s exactly what I thought it was.

[tea-rexasaurus-deactivated20220]

[bozamozam]

i am reblogging this because it is fantastic and i am a nerd.

[endangered-justice-seeker]

At the core of conservatism is a hatred for democracy and the will of the people. They think only the elite should have a say because they are deserving, and then only certain elite.

[bozamozam]

reblogging this because it is important that a very small portion of assholes is taking over and we need to #resist.

[sunflowerseedsandscience]

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

[bozamozam]

reblogging because i hate nazis more than nipples.

[evoketheforms]

Rebecca Lindenberg | Interview in The Believer | March 27 2012 

[bozamozam]

yes. this. this.

[bozamozam]

pages

i’ve added pages to the book.  i can’t guarantee the quality of those pages, but the quantity is quite something.

[bozamozam]

small things

just writing a few paragraphs feels like a huge accomplishment these days and keeps me writing more, which is of course that counts.  going to write some more.

[bozamozam]

writing

i wrote something today. several things. i’m going to keep doing that until i’m done with something.  if i’m going to try and live to 101, i’ve got to get started.