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D&D Products

Thunder Sea Merfolk Report - Merfolk! It's all merfolk all the way down! It has druid merfolk, it has cleric merfolk, it has paladin merfolk. It has mers out the wazoo! This book is highly indulgent but I think it's fun.

Thunder Sea Merfolk Report - This player-facing supplement expands on the role and cultures of merfolk in the Eberron campaign setting. The

Tiefling Treatise - So I could give in-depth insight to how I wrote this book to be an exploration of what it means to be a queer woman of color, but this is tumblr, so I'll cut to the chase: this book got 4chan hate and I wear it like a badge of honor. It's so gay. It's the gay tiefling book. It's for the Eberron setting, but it's gay tiefling book.

Tiefling Treatise - The Tiefling Treatise brings heaps of new lore and a queer focus for the tieflings of Eberron. Four unique origins are

The Cyre 1313: The Mourning Rail - I wrote this book over the span of a month. It only has stock art. It's 11 pages including the front and back cover. This damn little Dread Domain done up in the style of Van Ricky's Spooky Book got me a gold medal on DMsGuild. I'm baffled. I'm utterly baffled. It's a haunted train. What more can I say?

The Cyre 1313, the Mourning Rail - The Cyre 1313, the Mourning Rail, first appeared in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft as one of the less-d

Tidelings - So this is the true indulgence project. I wanted to make shapeshifting merfolk, and boy howdy did I make shapeshifting merfolk. It's my favorite thing I've made. I made it for me. If you like gremlin merfolk, this is the book for you. Cover done by the fantastic @kikyoyuuki-arts

Tidelings - Do you enjoy playing characters from the ocean, such as tritons or sea elves? Ever wanted to play a sea-based trickster?

Talvakri's Guide to Adar - I went insane and wrote a campaign setting for an often neglected portion of Eberron. It's full of martial artists and freedom fighters and some of the most batshit worldbuilding I've ever done. It's 192 pages, half of which are mine and half of which were written by one of the best DMsGuild mechanics authors. It's my DMsGuild magnum opus. I will never write a book this big ever again.

Talvakri's Guide to Adar - Explore and defend the Land of Earth-Sky! Far from the Five Nations and the dragonmarked houses of Khorvaire lies

Writing

#writing - All the writing I've done over the years

#two together are always going somewhere - A collection of all the things I've written for my original story (that I'm theoretically still working on)

The Followers: A Discord Murder Party Fanfic - I wrote a novel length AU fanfic of an online audio drama. Check it out if you want, but tbh, just use my AO3 for that.

AO3 Account - Speaking of my AO3 account.

Genasi In My Eberron Post - Linking this just cause people like it

#about me #dnd #d&d #ttrpgs #my writing

yutaan

Papercraft commission of Resh'an from Sea of Stars! I knew this one would be delightful as soon as I saw his design. ^_^ I had great fun showing his robes billowing around, and with the variety of transparent textures for his hourglass vials and the blue smoke as he tosses them!

jsketch12

gratitude

depsidase

boringkate

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

paradigm-adrift

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

terramythos

holy shit this person in the notes

rontology

playthings2007

precinct 41:

precinct 51:

these precincts are 46 miles apart. kim kitsuragi was so desperate for pussy he picked up a 50 minute commute

playthings2007

this got nearly 100 notes without a single person noting that my weedbrain mistook kilometers for miles and calculated according to that. the commute is actually 15 minutes and as always he is excruciatingly normal and i in the role of harry du bois have severely overestimated kim’s level of pussydrive

playthings2007

LOGIC [Trivial - Failure] – He wants you so bad it makes him look stupid

cleo-fox

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

maple-seed

Both options convey that he's horny

cleo-fox

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

tpwrtrmnky

It's really quite bizarre how much work in trans healthcare bases itself on the idea that a patient who deliberately seeks out the Penis Removal Doctor and says "Yes, Penis Removal Doctor, I am certain that I would like to have my penis removed" might be lying to the Penis Removal Doctor, so that they can have their penis removed without actually wanting that.

tpwrtrmnky

Fun fact: The vast majority of people who have a penis are terrified of losing their penis. There is a whole cultural Thing about that, and deliberately going to the Penis Removal Doctor in the first place is a strong indicator of wanting to end up without a penis.

questionableadvice

~ Our Deportment or the Manners and Customs of Polite Society, Maud C. Cooke, 1902

Don't make eye contact with the help, ladies

marzipanandminutiae

this doesn't mean quite what it sounds like in the present day

informality is seen as polite and egalitarian now, but in 1902, you weren't even supposed to use someone's first name until they asked you to. and that's if you KNEW them. it's saying not to make eye contact with the waiter, not because you're better than him, but for the waiter's privacy

you know how customers using your name feels weird, when you work somewhere with nametags? like they haven't earned the closeness of the interaction? "familiarity" here basically means that, but in a society that's like 10 degrees more formal

was it an extremely classist society? yes. were many people in it dehumanizing to service workers? also yes. but that's not what this is saying. it's more like, "you don't know the waiter. don't act like you're his friend"

(also it's an etiquette manual, so probably there were differences of opinion in practice)

ryllen

hometoursandotherstuff

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

runcibility

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

anais-ninja-bitch

i support women's wrongs

homoqueerjewhobbit

deceasedcardinal

littlestpersimmon

beloved in lacquer

crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington

hello! i am crumb cat!

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fullmetalfisting

Tbh germ theory DOES sound crazy. Like if you told a regency-era nobleman that tiny creatures lived on the surface of everything and THAT’S what causes consumption, they’d be like “ah, I see you are a lunatic. Would you reside in my hermitage? Rantings and ravings do so amuse my guests”

mysteryteacup

But if you told a Medieval person this they would probably go "Ah, so when the miasma settles on surfaces it gains evil life. I understand."

alarajrogers

Yeah, actually, it would probably be pretty easy to explain germ theory to a Medieval person as tiny evil spirits that live on everything, but they can be purified by soap and water, or by alcohol, because that is why God has granted us those things. And because they can float in the air, if you cough or sneeze after they have infested you, that can cause them to infest others. And when you are sick, the angels God has deputized to defend the bodies of His beloved children are at war with the evil spirits, and, sadly, sometimes they lose, but the best way to help your angels win their battle is to rest, drink plenty (this would probably be small beer in this time period, not water, because the water was also infested), stay clean, and for the sake of God do not allow anyone to let your blood, for the angels need that blood in their war against the evil spirits. Bloodletting is good for some types of illnesses but not the kinds caused by the tiny evil spirits.

chekhovs-raygun

boiling as a sterilization measure is also easy to explain. water returns to the air when heated and it rises as steam back up to the floodgates of heaven; we know God created the world in seven days, He's not up there making more water every time it rains. it circulates. the returning of water to heaven also purifies the water of unclean and malign influences. you know wormy water from a muddy puddle will kill your kid. you know you wouldn't wade into a bog and have a slurp. water that remains in the low places of earth absorbs all that is unclean from our waste and it may also sponge up new diseases from hell, we're not totally sure about that one, but it seems likely. God set up the heavenly water cycle so that the earth's waters wouldn't totally fill up with gunk.

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

what's up with honey? it just preserves things against corruption. doesn't clean them off. honey doesn't evaporate at all. probably because bees don't sin. it's not good for ridding a tool of particles-- it's sticky-- but fine for preserving anything you don't want to go to heaven OR hell. this is why you wash the wound with wine spirits or purified water FIRST, to sluice the miasma out, then slap the honey on AFTER. and boil the damn bandage, too. you wouldn't put a rotten door in a sound doorframe and expect it to keep out bandits, would you? cmon.

systlin

One of the contractors at work is a dude who recently moved here from the Bay Area. He is used to Northern California, which is to say that he is NOT used to the general Tornado Alley attitude towards Thor dragging his dick across the plains and causing massive destruction on a semi-regular basis.

Namely, the fact that we get them at all, and the fact that the general Midwestern response is to wander outside to see if we can see it.

We have bad weather forcasted the next few days and I had to talk him through the site tornado plan and storm shelter locations (we have six on site, my office is actually inside one) to head off the poor guy's anxiety and also I had to admit that yes, I also share the general Tornado Alley brain damage and go outside to try and see it when the sirens go off.

Poor man thinks everyone in tornado Alley is out of their minds and as one of those people I can't even deny it. 'I seek shelter if it's heading this way' did not reassure him, he's convinced we are mad.

systlin

To answer the question in the notes, @what-about-second-tmblr ; when I visited Sacramento and LA some years ago, the sensation of a minor earthquake shifting the ground around just barely enough for a human to feel it had me freaked out and basically lying flat on my back outside going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA while the Californians looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

So yes it is reciprocal.

verschlimmbesserung

systlin

Thor's dick what's not clicking

ddeck

there's like a thousand ways for a shower to work and you wouldn't even imagine half of them until you have to take a shower at a new place

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