Giant Men of The Hills

Hello. I'm Agnol. Autistic Adult. Bisexual, Genderfluid. 29 years old. Furry. Communist. Wish I Wasnt American. Kin: Lesser Giant (Rolemaster).

[beardedmrbean]

[bioniclechicken]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

How I found out that my cockatiel was a girl.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

How I found out that my cockatiel was a girl.

[ot3]

its awesome that neither mind reading nor god are real and all of the thoughts inside of your head are completely private and consequenceless forever #myprivacy

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

[vintagerpg]

Woses of the Black Wood (1987) is the first of two MERP modules I happened to pick that are set in the same region, Eryn Vorn, a wild forest on the south coast of Eriador, near the mouth of the Brandywine River. In the game (I’ve no idea of Tolkien mentioned the region in his writing), the rough country on the forest outskirts is home to some scant humans with some Welsh cultural flavor. The woods themselves are the refuge of a population of Woses, Middle-earth’s answer to the Medieval idea of the “Wild Man,” hill-dwellers who live an uncivilized life mostly in secret. Then the cape, with its many rocky islands, is the haunt of pirates. As a setting for adventures goes, it's pretty good.

The first scenario is yet another haunting. So many MERP adventures involve spectral figures and what to do about them! This, however, is the first I’ve encountered that involves what I’d consider a typical haunting where the point is to lay the spirits to rest in a somewhat typical, real-world fashion. I have a desire to stick this basic plot in my West Marches campaign to see if the pretty simple real-world solution is naturally obscured or complicated by the fact that it is happening in a fantasy world (the ghosts in question were being tormented by a demon, who was recently released, accidentally, by now-dead dwarven adventurers). I like this one quite a lot. 

The first scenario leads into the second: one of the ghosts was tormenting a girl in the settlement who plugged her ears to block out the spectral whispering. Free now of the ghost, it’s discovered she has injured her hearing in a way that only the local hermit herbalist can heal. Unfortunately, the demon from the first scenario has taken up residence in the herbalist’s house and hi-jinx ensue.

That these nicely interlocking mysteries give way to a dungeoncrawl in the third scenario is somewhat disappointing. The dungeon itself is large and dangerous and there are at least three factions — an undead Wose sorceress and her legion, a Wose party exploring the complex with the aim of resettling (most of the group is neutral but they are led by an evil sorceress) and a renegade troll warrior. The mix is interesting and complex, and any confrontations are further complicated by traps and the narrow confines of the dungeon. I just wish it was more like the previous scenarios.

Good maps and Liz Danforth’s illustrations are always a highlight. Angus McBride on the cover. Love the composition and the movement, especially enjoy the carved stone faces (they remind me in the slightest way of Arthur Machen’s “The White People”) but I don’t love the choice of making the Woses look like Neanderthals. I don’t hate it, either, but I think there is maybe a better visual solution.

[dunyun-rings]

Doctor Zira 🙉

[mudaship3]

Happy fucking pride Jonathan was murdered for being queer AND native It was a hate crime His death wasn’t by natural causes Jonathan Joss being queer and also native is a big thing as to why he was targeted in a hate crime That’s being left out of this conversation by non natives esp white non natives right now We know why They erasing that part of this During pride and indigenous month no less too His queerness and being indigenous are linked in this

“Why was he living in Texas In the South We didn’t he move to a blue state?” He was a Comanche Native in Texas He was already fucking home I know what white people are doing in posts like these But natives queer people Black people disabled people and people of color also live in the fucking south Where is that meme about white people acting like the north doesn’t also have bigotry cuz they have pizza ovens Happy fucking pride Remember that bipoc and qtipoc exist

[lavendercowboyart]

trans rights (and wrongs) seagull illustrations— inspired by @citizen.reid’s video (on TikTok and insta) of a seagull with a trans flag!!

I may add this to my shop if there’s enough interest! :)

[nega-aria]

Moar pride! Baby Boyd all grown up 💖

[ben-the-hyena]

Aaw he figured it all out now !

[mlcfa]

plorp

[nega-aria]

Taking baby to his first Pride parade 💖

[kairithemang0]

Last day of May!!!

I have no idea where I found this but I’ve had it on my camera for like 9 months

[mmmmmmmvbb-deactivated20250804]

[shoogachi]

evil vampire doctor ig

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[solarifle]

"we have to accept the fact that the r word is coming back" NO WE DONTTTT NO WE DONT