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Bad Things Happen Bingo

My card showed up!

Copying @denizenhardwick here, let's go.

Any fandoms you've seen me mention are fair game — off the top of my head I'll mention Brotherband, Creature Court, Ashtown Burials, Knights of the Borrowed Dark, etc. — and so are my OCs! Challenging myself to write for them properly instead of just shouting incoherently, so it's time to cause them some problems. Please send me prompts!

Fills:

Choking (OC — Ellemer Jann)

#prompt game #bad things happen bingo #fixing the pinned so i can edit it

tlirsgender

Loving how as soon as electricity was like, a Thing, people just went "you can make toast with this" and started working on electric toasters but they didn't quite have the whole heating element thing down so there was a not insignificant chance of it just exploding

tlirsgender

People have been making bread crunchy by heating it up for Ages but for some reason I thought electric toasters would be happening around the same time as like, refrigerators but no people went "easier crunchy bread?" as soon as the technology was available. Not even remotely safe but like, existent. It took Way longer to figure out how to make things cold with electricity

tlirsgender

I specify electric toasters because before that they had these bad boys

You just put your slice of bread in there and hold it over your fireplace and bam it's toast time

tlirsgender

Actually you didn't have to use those, if you find yourself wanting some toast in victorian england you could also stick your bread on one of these motherfuckers right here

These are the very creatively titled (/s) toasting forks and they look metal as hell for the purpose they serve

You might notice that the tips are bent upwards, which is actually not for inflicting more pain when tormenting the souls of the damned but rather because the bread goes on them like so

And the bend helps keep the bread from sliding off

tlirsgender

I know this is the most niche interest shit in the world but just look at that. The victorian era had no reason to go as hard as it did but every day I am grateful for it

definitelynot-darcy

But sliced bread didn't exist until... I dunno, but it was after Betty White was born. So would the Victorians just stab a wad of bread and toast it like a s'more or what?

tlirsgender

I don't know how to tell you that you can slice a loaf of bread

derinthescarletpescatarian

Before pre-sliced bread was sold nobody knew how to cut it they just took bites out of entire loaves

maryfitzroy

free-and-to-none-accountable

ever dream this man?

bowserdyke

starshadeemilyart

behold the lineart that has taken 17.5 hours. Now on to coloring.

blumineck

It’s been a while since I addressed this, and people were worried

rhymeslosingtime

Batman 2 being a winter movie is the perfect time to introduce a certain cold-theme villain 🥹

rhymeslosingtime

Skiing Joker

missinglinksblog

William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881 – 1941) was a British artist.

"Portrait of a young man carrying a basket of marguerites on his head," 1930.

vincentbriggs

I finished the jacket a few days ago, so The Pile is now down to 4!

I started the appliqué in 2024 and it sat in a bag for a long time, and earlier this year I got around to finishing it and cutting out a jacket to put it on. The jacket fabric is mostly a remnant of secondhand black wool suiting, with another very similar wool remnant making up the back panels because there wasn't quite enough. The appliqué is leftover silk taffeta from the lining of my patchwork dressing gown, and some of the sequins were from my stash (and had been there since I was a child) but I had to buy some new ones because I didn't have enough in the smaller sizes.

I also added a few green seed beads here and there. The lining is 2 different glazed cottons (one might be a blend? it's hard to tell with glazed) both from the thrift store. I have more of the solid green, but wanted to use it only on the more visible parts so I can use the rest of it on the visible parts of other linings too. Glazed cotton is such a pain to buy new that when I find a nicely coloured piece at the thrift store I must be frugal with it.

As I'm sure I've mentioned in a previous post, the appliqué is very much inspired by the ones on the costumes in Elisabeth das Musical, but since I made a mid 18th century style of jacket it's about 100 years earlier than the costumes from even the beginning of the show. I just thought the shiny green tendrils looked neat and figured they'd be a nice use for the green sequins in my stash. Though since I had to order so many small ones I think I have more green sequins now than when I started.

Speaking of the sequins, I'm disappointed in how the green finish comes off them if they're handled too much, and it's the same on both the new sequins and the ones I've had for 20+ years! Do we not have the technology to seal in the green pigment with another thin layer of plastic so I don't get icky little silver edges on my all-green appliqué? (It's not showing up in the photos but there are a few spots, especially on the tip of the pocket flap.)

sarahthecoat

love the different sizes of sequins, makes the texture so much more interesting!

vincentbriggs

yes! And it just makes more sense for all the tapered ends. It would have taken so so much longer to only fill everything up with the smallest sequins.

#oooh sick #love the cuffs

9musesandanoldmind

Artemis rescues Iphigenia.

I’ve decided to finally follow my wish of making a series of mythical women with more of a Bronze Age aesthetic than classical greek. So here it is. =B

Check Medusa too.

prokopetz

Every time I post an example of play involving a d66 table I get people in the notes being weird about, like, the concept of d66 tables, which is very irritating. However, I have to remind myself that having the temerity to look at a centuries-old piece of tabletop gaming technology that you've somehow never heard of before, deciding that you can improve upon it after a whole thirty seconds of thought, proposing an alternative that's both more awkward to carry out and less functional in use, and going away satisfied that you've solved a real problem purely because you find the existing solution's conventions of notation unaesthetic does in fact speak to having the proper mindset of a tabletop game designer.

prokopetz

@a-random-stingray replied:

What if i make it worse on purpose, does that also speak to the mindset of a tabletop game designer? The answer's yes, isn't it? I don't know why I felt the need to ask.

I once bumped into a game with an honest-to-goodness d1212 table (yes, notated exactly like that), though for the life of me I can't bring the title to mind at the moment.

prokopetz

For those taking issue with the "centuries old" part, here: have a US patent application for a tabletop American baseball simulator that uses a d66 lookup table for action resolution dated August of 1887. This almost certainly isn't the oldest, as the way it's used suggests familiarity to the target audience, but it's the oldest I can find off the jump.

stephenleasheppard

That’s only one century!

prokopetz

1.4 centuries, if we're being pedantic, and employing the plural to discuss fractions greater than one but less than two is accepted usage, so technically

prokopetz

@pachycephalosauria replied:

For the aliens who use senary, the d66 is just called a d%

I actually have a bunch of d6s marked zero through five rather than one through six, and in two different colours (as I recall, they were produced for a now-defunct wargame called Hard Vacuum), so I could totally write a game that uses senary percentile dice if I wanted to.

Hm.

rhapsodybenny

Y’know, given the notation “d66,” compounded with the discussion of senary, I really expected the two dice to be distinguishable for a full 6x6 table. Now that I’ve seen the actual form (from the patent linked above), I somewhat understand the impulse to improve it.

prokopetz

A conventional d66 roll does in fact consist of rolling a six-sided die twice, reading the first roll as the "tens" place and the second as the "ones" place, yielding 36 equally weighted results in the range from 11 to 66. The form shown in the patent is a common variant, though; many modern games use it both to take advantage of the "bumpy" distribution – it yields a table with 15 equally weighted "common" outcomes and 6 equally weighted "rare" outcomes, which is exactly what you want in some situations – and for the convenience that you can roll both dice simultaneously without needing them to be visually distinguishable.

prokopetz

(Interestingly, it's unclear whether the designer of Our National Ball Game – the game to which this patent application pertains – was actually aware of this statistical quirk of his chosen rolling method. A cursory examination of the provided table reveals that the "three base hit" outcome is twice as likely as the "two base hit" outcome, which seems implausible based on modern American baseball statistics. It's possible that this is an artefact of how the author collected his statistics rather than an artefact of the table's design, but if the latter is the case, that would make Our National Ball Game not only an early example of a d66 lookup table being used for action resolution, but also an early example of a tabletop game designer fucking up their dice math!)

enchantedbook

The illustration comes from the Brothers Grimm tale “Iron Hans,” in which the hero, after enduring a series of trials, finally reaches the end of his quest in triumph.

“Iron Hans” Illustration by Gustaf Tenggren, 1923

the real tragedy is that FBT don't seem to have yet reached their ideal niche audience (teenage songfic authors). their lyrics are perfect for it. I should be seeing scores of fics titled with the intonation of a helpless man and i know that it's half-crazy (that's why i want it more). I should be able to write out the entire lyrics to 'Cathode Ray' in fic titles like you can do with 'Take Me To Church'.

#folk bitch trio #just let them fill the lesbian hozier niche please

cover-art-showdown

first time trying a big Creative structure project! Regency-era mansion to give my friends a look at where they are in my upcoming D&D oneshot.

Nowhere near finished (there's a whole second story to go, and most of this floor's not yet furnished) but I'm having fun trying to make things like wallpaper and carpets. Does anyone know a good way to do chairs?

Why all the Pillagers and Vindicators? They live here. I just think they're neat.

Very very loosely based on Pattishall House, Northamptonshire.

cover-art-showdown

WRONG BLOG.

#posted this one in the wrong place but See My House

august-is-a-dragon

.....can you tell us about Eben?

YESSSS okay so.

The story of Eben is something I thought up while on vacation to the Alps, because yknow pretty landscape and I wanted to write something like that.

It’s about Eben who was once a feral forest child(but hes totally better now) and becomes a legendary hero, with his friend Aseka at his side, a knight with something sinister going on.

Eben is an extravagant charming guy, a travelling storyteller who can also. Yknow. Fight with knives. and tell jokes all the while.

I don’t know much about Aseka yet but I know he can turn into a dragon :). And is also constantly stressed about what crazy things Eben is doing.

and they travel and either stop a rebellion or lead a rebellion.

(I wanted to include a drawing of him but i cant find my sketchbook so ill reblog when i can)

august-is-a-dragon

I FOUND IT

here is he

#LITTLE GUY!!!#i love his silly springy hair

teaboot

Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink