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Littjara, they/them, adult 💧🌳💀 Magic: the Gathering content creator, WotC New Perspectives '23

[littjara-mirrorlake]

Glistener's Guide to New Phyrexia: Preview Edition is now LIVE!

Glistener's Guide to New Phyrexia: Preview Edition

Get an early look at Littjara’s upcoming full-length D&D 5e homebrew sourcebook, in all of its Phyrexian glory.

The 43-page Preview includes:

New playable species including the 5 Mirran humans, Viridian elves, myr, and core-born Phyrexians

A modular Phyrexian modification system

Core rules for phyresis, compleation, and ichor magic (also known as "Phyrexian mana")

New feats, spells, and magic items inspired by the iconic mechanics and cards of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia

30+ monster and NPC stat blocks, largely concentrated at lower tiers of play, plus some named legendary hard-hitters

The goal of this preview is to allow for simple games to be run in the world of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia, introducing tables to core mechanics and gaining playtest data as I work toward releasing the full-length supplement. (Consider this its "Unearthed Arcana" stage of development.) I look forward to hearing your feedback and gameplay stories, and hope you enjoy bringing this setting to life as much as I have!

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[podcastenthusiast]

Not my posts but an interesting thought.

[beatrice-otter]

[image description: screengrab of a series of tweets from @ rootsworks: “When I was in college, part of our university’s graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning.

One of my service learning classes involved work at a local homeless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms.

Our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot–like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

And it’s not because they disrespect your work or don’t value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control.

When you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can.

Which results in trashed bathrooms.  It’s control exercised over the one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

I see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them

or holding the creators within their communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

I just see trashed bathrooms. ‘These are the people my voice will reach,’ they rationalize, ‘so these are the people I’ll hurt.’

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems.  Stop using them to dismantle people.”]

[anemonemimesis]

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems. Stop using them to dismantle people.

[robogrind]

drawings are secretly the enemy because they start off very nice and unassuming but then when they're about 80% done they start emanating a malevolent aura that makes finishing them the scariest activity you can imagine

[crow-posting]

Space horror? No, space joy and space hope. You're not alone, the dark isn't scary, and the stars will always shine a little brighter on your way home. You will always find a way home.

[mousidy]

they should make it easier to get bottom surgery

[mousidy]

special mention to how the BMI requirements are horrific and they need to go!

[mousidy]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how many trans women I've known who come to realize over time that they experience much more bottom dysphoria than they've consciously understood

I think this is partially a problem of trans women being fetishized, a trans woman's value being equated with her penis, but I think it's also partially a problem of availability. personally if something is difficult to attain then I have an internal reflex to unconsciously convince myself I don't want or need it. for this reason and many others it needs to be made easier

[mousidy]

personally it's fucking crazy going through life not even being able to be naked around trusted loved ones or fully have sex because the dysphoria is so bad. it's unacceptable that so many of us have to live like this. it's horrible that for many trans women it's almost impossible to get the care we need. it does not have to be like this

[mousidy]

GOD. YEAH. YUPPPP

[mousidy]

[mousidy]

[trina-makes-an-entrance]

There should've been a point in chapter 5 where you could save and the text would read "the power of mean girls shines within you!", so that the general audience could go "oh! Nice chapter 1 callback! Although it's a sorta cheap reference since Susie isn't even being that mean this time!"

Meanwhile the suspiciously mean girl shaped "Prince":

[pankendev]

of course newer followers may be unfamiliar with the black oil that i secrete

[littjara-mirrorlake]

It's probably nothing 《:)

[championofdogs]

Hi pervert! I've ô’btained an item...

[iwilleatyourenglish]

i take comfort in knowing that harry potter will one day fade in cultural relevance, but the beauty and worth of trans people will never waver

[divorcedzukka]

hope isn’t something you just have, it’s something you sink your teeth into like an animal so it doesn’t get away

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

[kevytmaitohorsma]

They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another

[devourallusurvey-deactivated202]

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

[dandyshorts]

being obsessed with ones OCs is fucked as hell. How am I supposed to find random art of them if they only exist in my head,,

[nadas-dirthalen]

To anyone who's ever been worried that your OC is too Extra... don't be.

The thing is, in any RPG, the protagonist is often meant to be a bit of a blank slate, with room to implement one's own OC, personality, and headcanons. The fact that game dialogue can sometimes feel noncommittal, or the fact that the responses can vary so widely, speaks to this: you can be anyone, so you are not forced to be any one thing specifically.

But when you carry that OC with you, out of that game? The role of the protagonist in the narrative shifts: it is yours. It belongs not to everyone (which is how they build the game) but to you, to your iteration and interpretation of the game's events. The protagonist goes from being the vessel through which we experience the story to being the main character of a narrative.

When we write, then (though this is also true for non-writers with OCs!) the protagonist - be they Tav, Rook, the Inquisitor, the Rogue Trader, anything - benefits from having more detail, and especially more extravagant detail. They are (most often) the POV character of the narrative. They are the lens through which we, as readers in fandom, experience your story.

So yes: make them special.

Yes: make them unhinged.

Yes: make them go on whatever emotional journey you like.

That's what they're there for, and these details enrich the story every single time.

[lemeebo]

Rory Nyte

[cardboard-crack]