Rolling penny

Personal blog thing of a Scot living in Sweden. My instagram My Bsky

[lilyblisslys]

Just learned about Bull Press, a tabletop publisher that focuses on games that are prison compliant (no hardcover, no dice, no maps), and their catalogue seems sick as hell. Def gonna pick smth up when I get paid next. They do a lot of donation work with books for prisoners programs!

[mortalityplays]

As mentioned, Bull Press donate playbooks to prisons out of their own pocket. If you know somebody in prison you'd like to refer to receive books, you can email them with requests.

and if you want to support them:

direct donation

patreon

merch (their shirt designs are sick as hell)

[dr-gaytorius]

"I'm looking respectfully" well can you look at me like you're dying of a fever. like you're delirious and it hurts. like you're fighting desperately for your life.

[sweetieboydyke]

like maybe i WANT YOU TO LOOK DISRESPECTFULLY

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[queerpeers]

yeah im “transitioning” *dissolves into tiny pieces as i click to the next slide*

[queerpeers]

[xuxii-bunny]

Is there a transfem version?!?

[queerpeers]

ask and ye shall receive

[roseycanvas]

Nonbinary version?

[queerpeers]

enjoy 💛🤍💜🖤

[queerpeers]

like status: sick 😎

[british-catgirl]

happy pride month I fucking love powerpoint slide transitions and gender transitions

[rabinovitch]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[gothic-chicanery]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[crayola-samgirl]

[corantus]

on sunday a pipe burst in the ceiling above my desk (getting sewage water & debris everywhere) and all of my electronics got destroyed, including my computer & tablet. at least $2000 worth of stuff (including my external hard drives with my all my art from the past decade)

thankfully at least my current computer’s hard drive survived. but everything else got wrecked. i’m going to consult an attorney but i don’t know what’s going to happen with my landlords. i do comms fulltime as my only income & i can’t work until i get my computer & tablet replaced

i’m sorry for the delays on comms because of this, will try to keep everybody updated

[corantus]

thanks for all the kind messages on this - i didn’t want to try crowdfunding til i had a better idea of what i’ll need. but it’s going to be $700 to replace my laptop & tablet:

Support Ted "corantus" Kaufman

Support Ted "corantus" Kaufman

[fujoshiwarrior]

(replying to my mutual's post about their day) We have to kill the people who make you suffer

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

[afeelgoodblog]

Fantastic idea

[durnesque-esque]

Article about it here. 

[nougatto-archived]

what’s important to note and missing from the “headline” tweet is that they simultaneously constructed additional good public transit to the public transit already in the city (bus rapid transit, train stations). Just removing highway alone isn’t going to make traffic better, the bigger part of the story is that they improved public transportation. And the current mayor wants to do more - cyclist lanes and reinstate a tram system

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[psychicequalizer-deactivated202]

this fucking paper is gonna kill me

[piratewithvigor]

[todaysbird]

GET YELLED AT

photos by carl bergstrom

[birds-in-posts]

Double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[penumbralwoods]

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

[xfhsfh]

@this-is-nonbinary-joy

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!

[generaljenobi]

[my-dailydreams]

[lackeyhenchman]

A test to see how fast I can make a shitposty comic page! Sorry it's this, but it was such a clear visual.

I can't be the only one who keeps coming across conversations like this.

[lackeyhenchman]

I wonder what their tax situation is.

[gharibajameel]

sorry i know this is from mass efect and i think its supposed to be a big important moment but it looks like hes standin like this and got a big swangin thang lol

[mass-effect-heritage-posts]

Mass Effect heritage post