Random Thoughts on Random Things

Rest assured, by "random" I mean purely "whatever I happen to feel like posting at the time". I'm a British guy in my mid thirties, and I'm mostly just here to reblog stuff and post my various musings and comments.

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[ananxiousgenz]

no one worry about him guys, he's fine

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Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1 - "Gamma Glutes" (2026)

written by Cody Ziglar art by David Baldeon & Edgar Delgado

[mousathe14]

What the hell happened to Doc Samson and why is he a Sasquatch

[elfive]

Accidentally got body swapped with Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski) during Immortal Hulk after they both died.

[galileosballs]

Let's say I really wanted to reduce the number of children who die in car accidents. Car accidents are really bad, right? Nobody disagrees about that. And it would be much better for both the environment and the kids' health if they spent more time walking, or taking the bus. Perfectly reasonable. More cars off the road, safer roads, fewer kids getting hurt, healthier kids. A win-win!

Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!

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(Source: Sen the donkey)

[dramatic-dolphin]

who let biologists play dnd

[elfive]

See also exalted and lunars.

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[birdsareblooming]

thinking about this tag on my post again. i'm saying this all the time forever

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oh i'm also saying this one all the time forever

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[cyberglittter]

tumblr flagging every post as mature content

[thewingedwolf]

do you think the catholic church effectively utilized wokeness by funneling money into the colonization and rape of the americas after issuing the doctrine of discovery which effectively legalized the subjugation of indigenous peoples?

[lynnfynn]

The Catholic Church served a very large role in the transatlantic slave trade; both acting in utter complacency to the practice despite holding the immense political power to stifle it, and participating in auctions and creating loopholes to keep enslaved Christians enslaved purely because they were African. The Church believed that African Christians were inherently "morally inequal", which allowed them to maintain possession of countless slaves despite the multiple papal condemnations of the enslavement of Christians. Slaves purchased by and gifted to convents were compulsorily Christian as well. There is no room for an argument to be made that the church just didn't emancipate non-Christians; they were all Christian by mandate, and baptized upon arrival.

[wymanthewalrus]

And it needs to be mentioned again the sheer legwork the church did in enabling the genocide of indigenous Americans through religious schools and other institutions, both in the form of mass murder but also more broadly in cultural erasure through forced conversion and assimilation.

[lastvalyrian]

with the exception of antiqueerness, religious oppression, misogyny, anti-union, imperialism, islamophobia, patriarchy, sexual abuse of children, financial fraud, antisemitism, waste and embezzlement of funds, covering up of serious crimes, general alignment with every reactionary party in every country in the world. when has the roman catholic church ever been unwoke

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Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide

Help us create both a Deluxe Edition and a traditionally printed version for sale in stores!

Time to self-promo on what is undoubtedly the worst website for self-promo (but hoping this finds the right people). Presenting Exalted: Essence Storyteller’s Guide, on which I had the pleasure of working about six months ago with a really cool team of writers and a fantastic editor. My contributions included some alt-rules, some gm advice, and some of the antagonists. It was one of the best creative projects I’ve worked on, and only partly because I’ve been obsessed with Exalted for over a decade.

With that comes the obvious caveat

If you’ve never heard of Exalted before, don’t start with this book. Get Exalted Essence. This is a supplement, for GMs, to lighten the load and help you tweak, customize, and add cool scenarios and antagonists for your game.

I just found this, what is Exalted?

Glad you asked. Exalted is a post-apocalyptic (but not Earth post-apocalyptic) fantasy, wuxia, and pulp adventure game, originally made by White Wolf, the creators of Vampire the Masquerade, and now published by Onyx Path. You play the titular Exalted, accursed Chosen of the Gods, which possess superhuman powers. The game is geared toward dramatic combat, social intrigue, and epic scale adventure. It’s a moderately crunchy game, with heavy emphasis on giving characters impactful and cool powers, and alright for one-shots, but really shines in longer-running campaigns. It's also got probably my favorite social mechanics in a TTRPG, period.

Essence is the "newest" version, (published alongside the still-ongoing 3e, a "rules heavy" version.) It's “rules light” which to say it’s only moderately instead of very crunchy, and can be played from a single book. I've had a blast running it so far.

Also here's a tea party

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