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oh do I have the game for you

I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.

shadowkira

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disgruntledexplainer

I've always liked the "magic as pollution" trope, and I feel like it is severely under-utilized. the best two examples I can think of is Defiling Magic in Dark Sun and Bargainer Sorcery in general in 7th Sea 1e. It makes it clear WHY people would hate magic users, and brings up questions about if using it for achieving a short-term good is worth making the world just a bit worse in the long run. it might seem like a worthy trade-off, but when EVERYONE is doing at the same time, the seemingly minor problems sorcery causes become cataclysmic. And of course, some people (like the Sorcerer Kings from Dark Sun or the Mad Queen Marietta) "pollute" far more than others, bringing the world close to destruction for petty reasons...

silverselunite

EA Sorcerer Robes Restored

First half of this mod is now out! The other half (the masculine version) will be in a future update.

These robes, gloves, and boots are available for all bt1 and bt3 races.

[DOWNLOAD FROM NEXUSMODS]

taigacryptid

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

archibaldtuttle

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

archibaldtuttle

Hi this currently has 37 thousand notes and I just want to ask - why?

desperate-acts-of-capitalism

Big Things Are Coming

blackteachangeling

💷🥄🥔 BIG THINGS ARE COMING🥔🥄💷

✨ Abundance Spell✨

Wealth, weal, and plentiful spoons are coming to me 👏

✨💰🪙🥄🥔💰🌟💰🥄🥔🪙 💰✨

Like to charge Reblog to cast

chryza

Hi today I learned about Starbrite cut sapphires and I’m going to throw up because this is the prettiest jewelry I’ve ever seen ever.

Proprietary cut by lapidary artist John Dyer. These are fucking magical.

chryza

Girl shut up! These are UNREAL.

icannotreadcursive

I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

icannotreadcursive

Good news, I’m writing it

icannotreadcursive

Update:

I’m at 9680 words, roughly 16 pages single spaced, with two or three sections to go.

icannotreadcursive

Update:

First draft done. 11,100 words, 29 pages with formatting

icannotreadcursive

The final draft is getting cleaned up right now. I’ll probably be figuring out how to post it tomorrow.

On which note, anybody know the best way to make a PDF available online?

icannotreadcursive

Okay it is done!

Go here for the PDF, or here to view the whole document as a tumblr post.

I recommend the PDF.

Related note: the post length limit on tumblr is apparently more than 13,000 words.

mikkeneko

Worth a read; even as a long-time fandom veteran I encountered things I didn’t know were in use, like the “& Related Fandoms” tags.

typewriter-worries

there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

peridotglimmer

She's on YouTube too! For non-Instagram using friends:

I love her, she's great. Her recipes are friendly for both physical and/or intellectual disabilities. And her 5-year-old helps her cook. 🥰

Link to her YouTube channel:

Celebrating the intersection of food and culture, travel tales, social commentary, grieving out loud. 🇳🇬/🇺🇸 👰🏽🧒🏽👧🏽👩🏽‍💼⚖️ Paid Collaboration

hellallamerican

my sincerest wish is that everyone know about the john c. campbell folk school in brasstown north carolina. where you can sign up to take classes taught by folk artists in literally every possible category of folk art. theyve got blacksmithy, traditional beadwork, lacemaking, instrument making, folkloric oral history. you name it, they teach it. literally everyting. its so awesome.

EDIT: you can also take classes online for as low a fee as $10 for a few hours of instruction over video call. they also host an annual folk festival where you can learn the basics for free by going in person <- how i learned to weave

SECOND EDIT: this place is alsp pretty close to cherokee and the ancestral homeland of the cherokee people, so they have a lot of classes and lectures about cherokee folk craft too

wholesomepostarchive

8/23/2025

angelwarm

i hope that one day i will finally be ok….i’ll make a cherry pie when it is all over

angelwarm

today is the day

joshpeck

reblog the cherry pie to be ok

pumpkinylink

The cherry pie worked for me and here’s to hoping it’ll work for you too

fanficaddict13125-deactivated20

Let the cherry pie do it’s magic

drmace

🩸Hi! I'm Mace - an artist who really loves drawing characters. And I've finally made a pinned post so nothing gets lost around here x)

Most of the time I post Baldur’s Gate 3 fanart, and I also share the story of my Dark Urge - Ro. Some handy tags: Ro Ref 🩸Story comics:

• about Ro's childhood (and her first murder) • about Ro and Orin • about Ro's first meeting with Gortash • about the night in Act II Hopefully, this list will keep growing c: 🩸Commissions:

• Info in progress

In any case - thank you for your interest in my work🩷

y-rhywbeth2

Act 3 Shadowheart: 'Shadowheart - and the Sharran part of my history - is as much a part of me as anything, and I don't deserve to be Jenevelle, so I'll keep that name.'

Six-months of personal development later in the epilogue: 'Yeah, no. I changed my name after all. That was trauma talking and I'm moving on.'

Edit:

Adding this to the main post:

A courier found you and delivered a letter addressed to 'Shadowheart', a name few call you anymore.

This line occurs if Shadowheart is the PC and regardless of her parents or if she's homesteading or adventuring - as a Selûnite she's distancing herself from Shadowheart as a name. She hasn't rejected it, but she's apparently no longer introducing herself to strangers that way.