MxFelicitations

Day job in MN movement work, side gig in TTRPGs. | Video games, tabletop games, podcasts, books, films, archery, hiking, camping, offroading. | Trans, nonbinary, queer (they/them). | Black Lives Matter!

[mxfelicitations]

Introducing myself

Hey! So, I guess we're introducing ourselves! 👋 About me: I'm MxFelicitations (30s, they/them). My day job is in progressive politics. I'm a former professional DM for DnD 5E and currently have a side gig with Table It! A Micro RPG Podcast. I live in Minneapolis with my beloved partner of 14+ years and our two pets. 💻 Returning to Tumblr: I cut my teeth on LiveJournal and FanFiction.net, was on SA when Slenderman was invented, took a spin through Tumblr in the Superwholock glory days, and have an AO3 rap sheet a decade long. Returning to Tumblr as an elder millennial feels like returning to a beloved, filthy, chaotic drag bar you loved as a 20something to find it's become properly posh and upscale, and suddenly you're the old and out-of-place one! The older I get, the less I am into Fandoms™ as a rule; I prefer to simply engage and enjoy from a distance, refraining from putting people and properties on a pedestal. That being said, I might post about: 🎮 Video games: Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, God of War, Stardew Valley, ACNH, cozy games in general, weird indie shit like Night in the Woods and Kentucky Route Zero 🎲 Tabletop games and TTRPGs: DnD, Critical Role, TAZ, Dimension 20, Grant Howitt joints, MORK BORG, Hexingtide, Monsterhearts, L5R 🎙️ Podcasts: TAZ, Magnus Archives, The Silt Verses, Old Gods of Appalachia, MBMBAM 📚 Books: Tolkien, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, China Mieville, weird horror shit like Nick Cutter and House of Leaves, The Wicked and the Divine 📺 TV and Movies: This varies a lot! I'm a recovering Marvel fan so try not to take any TV or film property too seriously. I'm currently digging Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon, Our Flag Means Death, and Severance. Other stuff I love: 🎯 Traditional archery: I'm not very good, but do have a home archery range in my basement and use a lightweight Arc Rolan Snake. 🥾 Hiking: Again, I'm not very good, but I try to lay down some miles in the warmer months, especially in the Midwest. 🎒 Backpacking: I'm no ultralighter by any stretch, but my pack base weight is pretty low at this point and I enjoy primitive camping a lot. 🛻 Offroading: I have a 99 Jeep ZJ adventure rig, modified for offroading and taken on some wild trips (especially in southwest Colorado and Utah, especially Moab/Canyonlands). 🏳️‍🌈 A word on values: I'm trans, nonbinary, queer, and bisexual. I care a lot more about community identity and ethical alignment than I do about personal identity and litigation of labels. Truscum, transmedicalists, and TERFs are never welcome. I believe Black Lives Matter and maintain commitments which render me unfriendly to white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Let's see... what else? I'm an Aries, an INFJ, an Enneagram 6, use piercings and tattoos as self-care, and love oranges as a symbol of abundance. I think that's all the important stuff! Let's connect! 🧡🍊

[calkestis]

“What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”

[darth-memes]

[toadlessgirl]

I know I’ve already talked about this shot too much

BUT COME ON

[mxfelicitations]

Table It! plays HEXINGTIDE!

📢 Dropping TOMORROW - HEXINGTIDE Part #1! Featuring our very first guest, none other than author Will Phillips himself! Join us for a noir adventure story rife with ghosts, echoes, monsters, and more. GM'ed by our very own Matt and featuring: 🔎 Private eye and fae changeling Kevin O'Neill (Manny) 🔮 Long-suffering secretary and cursed clairvoyant Rhett Winfield (Max) 😈 Fallen angel, part-time demon, and pulp comic aficionado Gab (Tim) 👓 Elegant, well-dressed collector and immortal golem Elisha (special guest Will) Starts tomorrow Sun 12/4 and runs biweekly Sundays all December and January. Like, follow, and subscribe on your podcatcher of choice! 🔗 https://linktr.ee/microrpgs

[aiweirdness]

AI-generated advent calendars

When people post the outputs of text-to-image generators, they tend to gravitate toward the kinds of things the AI seems to be doing well. One of my hobbies is collecting failure cases.

Here's DALL-E2 attempting "A Christmas advent calendar with numbered doors". When it gets to numbers higher than 10 it seems to *mumble mumble*

And here's midjourney (--v 4 for those curious) attempting "A Christmas advent calendar with numbered doors". This model is particularly tuned to fit the aesthetic tastes of people who like fantasy art. And apparently the number 2.

But what if we ask it to open some of the doors?

Dall-E2: "Product photo of a Christmas advent calendar with numbered doors and some open doors showing the scenes inside" (mumbling becomes more cursed)

Midjourney: "Product photo of a Christmas advent calendar with numbered doors and some open doors showing the scenes inside"

Also I made an interactive advent calendar at aiweirdness.com with correctly numbered doors that work!

[kiwisoap]

Attempting to get my students to fucking come to class

[mxfelicitations]

Have some vintage Kodak/Kodachrome snapshots of Baba Yaga's hut.

(Note: I use Midjourney 100% purely for fun and creativity, never for paid work and never in lieu of real art by a real artist. When I engage in AI tools, I do not think of myself as an artist and do not believe what I make is art. If I must put a word to it, I consider my AI results to be something I've found, as if in a library of existing pieces. TLDR: AI stuff is just for fun, it's not real art, if you want real art, you should always commission and pay a real artist!)

[failchild]

severance + screenshots

[aestum]

(by johnwingfield)

[bugmeyer]

Pinhead explorations Last year I spent some time doing concept art for the recently released Hellraiser movie. I had to wait a year to be able to share these, but I'm really excited to finally be able to!

The really fleshy direction for Pinhead was in play really early, but I wanted to poke around all the possible ideas to make sure we had eyes on all of them before everything was settled. It's worth noting that this was before the part was cast, so there wasn't an opportunity to consider Jamie Clayton's face or body type.

I'm hoping it comes through in these paintings, I was trying to make Pinhead as sexy as possible while also being as gross as possible. Working to integrate deeply opposing traits is always so much fun and why I find this character so compelling.

[pitchcanker]

BETRAYED

[rt0no]

[sumthinpumpkinplease]

[ruvviks]

CYBERPUNK 2077 ➤ sunset motel

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Table It! A Micro RPG Podcast Ep. 16 (SLASH!)

It's biweekly Sunday at Table It! Just in time for Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, we're finishing SLASH!, a love letter to horror movies set in a certain Backrooms-esque Scandinavian-inspired home goods store. 👀

Hey, listen! -> https://linktr.ee/microrpgs All credit to Manny, who wrote and GM'ed for us (@incharacterart on Instagram) - it was so much fun to play and review!  New here? A Micro RPG is a TTRPG with only a few pages. Listen to find out if this crew of theatre nerds & role-playing vets will table it or shelve it!

[pumpkingraveyard]

Preparing for All Hallow’s Eve

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Relevant to your interests, @nordic-witch-siri!