Things and Stuff, Etc.

Incoherent trans lesbian in her 30s

[ramenbats]

New vampire growing pains

[puppygirl-panopticon]

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

the sinister fetishist would like to touch your left hand inappropriately

[yaldabaothadeez]

These crow lady comics, that I can only trace to “some anon on 4chan”

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[toskarin]

something incredibly funny about dnd trying to get in on the cute animal of the week trend with a popular raccoon and, because this is how dnd works with regards to animals, doing so by releasing a statblock so you can fight and kill it

[toskarin]

putting "don't you dare" in the XP count but still explaining how one would go about fighting jimothy the raccoon, a random animal with a spinal condition, is killing me

[charl0ttan]

i think once u successfully win a debate there should be a period where they let you get out all the ad hominems you were holding back

[draconic-daughter]

Shoutout to all the trans girls out there who were forced to live as miserable boys during the 2000’s or 2010’s, missing out on all the weird sparkledog scene rawr xd era and who are now gloriously reclaiming this time in their adulthood. All power to you. Be blessed now and forever, colorful creatures. Go outshine god.

[vertigoartgore]

Lucy "Xena: Warrior Princess" Lawless's 3 seconds cameo in the first Spider-Man movie (2002). Source

[thydungeongal]

continuously wild to me that “you will be better at a game if you know the rules” and “if you hate the rules of a game, you might better enjoy playing a different game” always seem to make people so mad.

It's a bit weird yeah.

[agentnoun]

One of the many reasons for this, I think, is that modern D&D (and its competitor games, Pathfinder for example) has a play culture that assumes a group has a Main Game or even an Only Game they play. That's for a lot of reasons (the perception that all games are hard to learn, the passive belief that the ideal/only acceptable mode of play is the years-long campaign, etc.), but it ends up creating a ton of resistance to other systems.

If your group is A Pathfinder Group, and someone brings another system they want to try--if your perspective is that RPG groups have A Main Game they play, that's going to come across as that person trying to change the group's whole thing. If someone else suggests another game to you, they're suggesting you change up your group's whole hobby for that game. If the game has an obvious included setting that you can't convert your current campaign to, or a clear included setting at all, how could that be your Main Game if you're not all building your own world to live in for years and years? If you do try it for a session or two and it doesn't really click (for whatever reason, maybe you genuinely don't like it, or maybe you tried to play it like Main Game and it didn't work), well, that's proof that you should just stick to what you already like.

Modern D&D is certainly the center of this, but its direct competitors have a similar culture, too.

And that's just how some people--a lot of people--like their hobby. The idea of RPG omnivores doesn't really occur to them because it's just not the same hobby in the first place.

[cabbageheadgames]

IMO this is also a consequence of how D&D has put all its effort into becoming not just The Roleplaying Game and Every Roleplaying Game. But also it's effort to become the Marvel of roleplaying games.

These three intentionally creates a player who is both loyal to the brand and avoidant of everything else. Because the game has isolated them very strongly.

So you encounter RPG players who are better identified as "D&D players". The same way someone might call themselves a comic book reader but are better identified as "Marvel readers".

Follow that: If a Marvel reader states they dislike how comics are written, they aren't expecting suggestions to other comics. They want Marvel comics to become better. Similar to how some D&D players only look for solutions inside other D&D products.

[agentnoun]

This makes me think of something that I think cavegirl posted on bluesky a while back, but that I'd been thinking about too: "D&D" and "TTRPGs" are kinda separate hobbies and they don't overlap as much as one would expect.

Something like this (not to scale)

It's intentional that, proportionally, more of the "general TTRPGs" circle overlaps into the D&D circle than vice-versa. There are, I'd wager, quite a few more people into TTRPGs as a whole who also like D&D than primarily-D&D fans who also like TTRPGs as a general medium.

(Please imagine that Pathfinder is just kinda bouncing around inside the D&D circle somewhere.)

[morganitism]

Everyone get more anti-masculine NOW

[morganitism]

Everytime a transmisogynist whines about infighting I demonize masculinity just a little bit more

[morganitism]

The anti-masculinity will continue until morale improves

[deadsignaltv]

[18-1-9]

Why is everyone acting surprised about Ringo Starr still having the elfstones like his All-Starr Band didn’t literally release a song called “You Can’t Have Me Stones (Me Mystic Elven Stones)”. What else did we think that song was about

[mollymusicbox]

so does anyone know why ringo dropped his usual style for this part? had the elf stones fully consumed him by this point in his career?

[ms-demeanor]

Performance art is good and listening to people who don't understand art talk about performance art is a unique type of torture.

[ms-demeanor]

Which is probably a thought that could be the core of a pretty fun, masturbatory piece of performance art.

[ms-demeanor]

Oh. Oh actually. Actually.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay, so the name of the piece is "It's what you make of it" and you have a setup that's a cross between a zoltar fortune-teller machine and a crank penny press. The room the piece is performed in has a warning about recording the performance and cautions the viewer to only interact with the piece of they consent to being recorded and photographed.

The artist is in the box, made up as a marionette and the viewer can use pulleys and switches to position the artist's limbs and to change the background and lighting of the box and can type a short prompt for the artist to repeat and act out verbatim.

The viewer has to drop a token (provided as part of the piece) into a coin slot and work a crank to complete the prompt. While the artist is acting out the prompt, the prompt is printed on a photo strip that includes a picture of the prompter (taken by a hidden webcam on the booth). One copy of the prompt and photo is spit out along with the cranked token (which has the phrase "it's what you make of it" and an image of a clown pressed into it) for the viewer to keep, one copy of the prompt and photo is spit out inside the booth where the artist can collect it after completing the prompt.

What the artist is going to do with the photo strip is not explained, the artist doesn't speak or move except as a response to a prompt.

[ms-demeanor]

People will prompt the artist to say "this is stupid." People will prompt the artist say explicit phrases, or to swear incessantly. People will prompt the artist to say slurs.

And they will walk away with their prompt attributed to them with their photo and a coin they used their energy to mint into a reminder that the art is what they made of it. And their creation is documented in the hands of the artist as well. What did they put into the world? What did they decide to say when they had a chance to say anything? What were they comfortable saying before they realized that someone would quote them on it? What did they make of it, and how would they feel if their photo was attached to their prompt in a book or video or somewhere that people might see it?

How did they approach the piece? How would they approach it a second time?

[ms-demeanor]

Also the artist goes hog fucking wild on the prompts. They're acted out *loudly* and melodramatically with as much emotion as the artist can put into the performance.

And whenever the machine is not in motion the artist is still and vacant, but the performance of the prompt involves as much eye contact and emoting as possible.

[ms-demeanor]

The piece is dead and meaningless until you approach it, and as soon as you start interacting with it it should become disconcertingly alive with your intention.

[everbright-mourning]

That sounds like an actual, literal nightmare I had as a kid where I fucked up giving instructions to a mimic-biological construct and didn't say anything b/c I didn't want to get in trouble and the construct was killed for not following the instructions correctly.

I absolutely would never want to be put in a situation where someone couldn't refuse my orders.

Well. Clearly as performance it it works already. I need to go drink of a cup of tea about this to stop being upset. I'm sure it would also make other people feel things they perhaps didn't realize they were going to feel.

[digitaldiscipline]

Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0 (1974)

[ms-demeanor]

This post was directly provoked by stumbling across a reddit thread of non-artsy people reacting to Rhythm 0.

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[fishing-princess]

People hate it when one girl is super clingy and obsessive to a concerning degree. But what if both girls in a relationship were super clingy and obsessive to a concerning degree? What could possibly go wrong?

[fishing-princess]

Somewone who understabds me…

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[aeserathedreamer]

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