down but not out

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[storybookprincess]

about to drop literally the sickest insider knowledge you will ever receive pls use it responsibly:

are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?

okay, then bring it up to a librarian

seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen

do you want a cosplay contest? a video game tournament? a free escape room? bring it up to the library. it's not a burden or an annoyance at all. it'll be like christmas came early for us

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified library post

[thetownwecallhome]

Oct 1st - "Sleeping Prince"

Hello tender lumplings. Told ya' we'd make it this year.

Zero's here too. He's resting a bit. Big month ahead of him.

[pusheen]

[patronsaintofsacrifice]

Replacing "I dont want to live" with "i dont want to live like this" was v helpful for me because it helped me figure out what parts of my life i was trying to escape and reminded me there are absolutely versions of myself i want to work towards and ways of living i havent experienced yet that i want to see

[yourplayersaidwhat]

The party has just woken from a long rest where a few of the characters got rowdy in the night.

Rogue: Yeehaw~ *winks at husband*

Bard, who is a cowboy: do…do yall roleplay as me in bed..?

Rogue, no hesitation: yes

Monk Husband: sometimes we take turns

Bard: i wish I could unknow that

Rogue: shit uh Cleric do you know any unmemory spells

Cleric, looking through her spells: I have Remove Curse….would you consider this knowledge a curse?

[write-it-motherfuckers]

Person A: “I cannot put into words, just how much I want to stab him, right now.”

Person B: “……You could always draw a diagram.”

[adoxographyandart-deactivated20]

I think there’s always that one character who would respond like that

[write-it-motherfuckers]

The sassy ones usually end up being a favourite of mine too.

[thydungeongal]

Damage types and elements in RPGs are made up, we need to rid ourselves of the boring standbys like "slashing" and "fire," how about taking "spooky" or "cool" or "spicy" damage

Fuck it, you all take 2d6 points of umami damage

[frogmagog]

Damage types based on the seven deadly sins. 3d10 greed damage. Pride resistance.

[thydungeongal]

When you take pride damage you gotta make a save or be knocked prone because pride goeth before a fall

[probablybadrpgideas]

Just gonna go ahead and reblog this before we get tagged

[stutterhug]

Baby dragons ponder the big questions

[memeuplift]

[asamiontop]

Fucking Carl Sagan 🫶🏽

[tastefullyoffensive]

[dark-nyx13]

Haven't posted here in a while, but I gave up Twitter so this gets those weird "I'm basically anonymous here" thoughts that you don't really want to talk to anyone about but need to get them off your chest. My mental health is struggling again. I want to get back to writing but I can't find the words. I'm having thoughts and feelings I'm not happy with and I just want to go back to being me again.

[marcchurch]

[wilwheaton]

This is great advice, no matter how you choose to read it.

[elektraking]

[popculty]

THIS^^^

And if you do get paid for your ideas/writing during the strike, that is considered scabbing and you will be barred from the WGA for life, as per this email from the Blacklist:

[neil-gaiman]

And, because a lot of people don't understand this bit, this is about you selling your ideas or writing to US-based TV studios or movie studios who are part of the AMPTP. There is no strike against book publishers. Nor audiobooks, graphic novels, or poetry publishing. Or just writing.

Read the above from the WGA.

[wilwheaton]

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[bookmania]

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[rox-and-prose]

I think a common mistake people make about puns is that they often believe puns are meant to make people laugh. This is not so! The emotion that puns are meant to elicit isn’t joy, it’s rage.

[herbertwest]

Puns are meant to inflict punitive damage