When Will Kenji Uedo Return from the War

Comics and Wildbow fan. Defender of penny-whistle whimsy. She/her.

[where-your-eyes-dont-go]

Think I gotta give it to Robert Chambers for "What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself." Up there with "Jesus penis fuck Blake" in terms of out of pocket things to say.

[txttletale]

if you've followed me for a while, you've probably seen me mention Underside, my dark cape TTRPG inspired by deconstructive superhero stories like Worm, Astro City, Watchmen, and the first season of Gen V.

it's a project i've spent a lot of time on, trying to build a system that tells the kind of superhero stories i like; the shit that treats them as a subculture with a body count, that digs into the dissociative tension of the secret identity, that asks what it means to feel so completely ejected from regular society that you can only go out in a mask and costume.

for a while now, a playtest edition of Underside has been available on my patreon; now, as it's slowly become more and more complete over the course of a year, i'm putting the most recent one up on itch.io

i want to be clear: while this playtest edition is enough to play a full campaign and contains all the mechanics that are going to be in the finished book, it's still a playtest. there's no fancy layout and an entire section (guidance for the Administrator, the game's GM-equivalent role) hasn't been written yet. but for a while, every time i talk about Underside i get the question: "where can i get my hands on it?". so here's an answer to that question; right now, while it's still in beta--if you want to support the project and help me get it over the finish line, or you just can't wait until it's out For Real, you can get it here.

UNDERSIDE Playtest Edition by the HORIZON MACHINE

costumed violence in the dark

[redstonedust]

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.

[blessphemy]

this is how morbius can still win

[il3x]

a cassie sketch for @superhero-civilian-tournament poll submission purposes!

icon, love her <3 gotta appreciate someone who appreciates rachel! most of her design is lifted from the wiki but I decided to make misc parts (earmuffs, collar) blue to match her eyes + added a scar because henchwoman-ing is difficult work and she seemed to have had it rough before joining rachel. speaking of she is smiling at rachel :) she smiles without teeth

[spindle-girl]

Aisha Laborn deserves the world

[prokopetz]

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.

[prokopetz]

Okay, that was glib – let me expand. I'm fully aware that Batman comics generally don't have him fighting guys like the Penguin one on one these days. That's not the problem. The problem is that superhero power creep has rendered Batman functionally immune to hired goons, but owing to his roots as a street-level vigilante, like half of his classic villains are guys whose primary threat vector is the ability to field arbitrary numbers of hired goons. There just aren't a lot of ways to work around that without either doing violence to the villain's idiom or making Batman carry the idiot ball – though I'll grant that some of the attempted workarounds have been very entertaining!

[prokopetz]

#i say we give the goons powercreep too #some goon moves to gotham and is gobsmacked at the average goons fighting ability; that would render them their own mob boss in another city (via @chaoticspacedust)

You joke, but that's literally one of the workarounds I'm referring to. One of the reasons that recent Batman stories keep looping back around to ancient ninja conspiracy stuff is that an answer to "how do we make hired goons a credible threat when Batman is an invincible ninja?" is "the hired goons are also ninjas".

[nos4ra2]

Imagine turning to crime out of financial desperation and you can’t even land a job as a dumb knuckle cracking brawler anymore without five years of martial arts training, a CDL in evasive getaway driving and a hand written recommendation from an active member of The Court of Owls.

[assimilation-failure]

let me just say. a blonde girl who can fly? NOT normal.

[ptr-sqloint]

shivering, choking, unraveling on your bathroom floor

[tiredrei]

The guy with the cool sword or smth

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is this ant fabric!

[madlluna]

Very quick Bakuda because I wish we got more from her

[dailyparahumans]

Finally, day 116 of parahumans..!-

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wait, this isn’t parahumans art, is it? No, it’s something… Other

[bones-napss]

bzzzzzzzzzzzt bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzbzzbzbzzt bzzzzz <- sound of a fly trying to escape thru a closed window

[shortandsadandstupid]

slaughtermouse 9

Crawler looks the exact same, and maniquinn is dead because I couldn't come up with any ideas

[shortandsadandstupid]

I like the idea that the S9 are the only cats, and everyone else fighting them is normal

yeah they are doing atrocities and shit, but they are still 10 pound cats. Yeah if Jack Stray gets his paws on a knife, he can do some serious damage, but he’s still a cat with no dexterity

and you ask Defiant what his job is, and he’s like: “hunting… evil cats”

he still sucks at his job too

[emperorundying]

[bitezblood]

It’s too hot outsidee

[swagophile]

I just got fired

[swagophile]

fuck lol.

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[swagophile]

thank you so much to everyone who shared and donated, its definitely gonna help a lot in these next few weeks. i'm still kind of at a loss but my partner should be able to help pick up the slack for a bit while i find something else. fuck. thank you everyone. i really appreciate it.