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I choose my battles and don't say anything when players use AI imagery. I do, however, privately call them out internally with something like "Oh you're one of those asshole D&D players, got it." and there may or may not be a solemn vow to exclude their character from all campaign art I make.

Uummm hot (respectfully)

Ooo pretty indeed! Love the composition on this. So playful.

Omg adorable! The muscles, the little gadgets on the braids! That face!

Y'all, look at this swag. ORDER MARIE'S BOOK

Oof that fabric! Gorgeous.

It's always cis dudes who can't keep straight that I'm a she/her playing a he/him in my D&D campaigns.

Frickin' STOKED for Marie's debut solo novel!

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Listen I'm gonna say this:

The world is always burning. It was burning when I was a kid.

Promoting art, including and especially your own art, is an act of rebellion and defiance against the people who want to throw gasoline on it.

🫂

Starting D&D in my 40s is my chance to be my full dramatic sassy self in a fictional world where I can't get in trouble for it, except for that one table where the DM got weird about it and I had to leave but I learned from it and now every DM is my enemy until they prove otherwise

so so cute, respectfully

Sheath Your Sword. Medieval Tune. Hurdy-Gurdy, Organ & Drum YouTube video by Andrey Vinogradov

I've entered a magnificent rabbit hole looking up music for my bard-like genesys character and now want to own an expensive hurdy gurdy in real life. youtu.be/QKXTB2tTivo?...

Oh yeah that's tough. I guess it'll have to be limited to whoever is actively following along on social media or on your email list? Or were you thinking a private playlist?

This sounds amazing! Not a author but I have a song for each segment of my D&D characters backstory and it's so fun. Having that for a book would be rad

GET IT SOOP

Look at deez cuties!

Midlife adulthood so far has been a whole lot of balancing between

"speak your mind, it's your time"

and

"no no Rochelle, keep that part inside, no one needs to hear that right now. It won't help."

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Oh nooooo the computers are so lonely while you focused your time on real creative community building nooooo /s (thank you for this, love it!)

Well now I know that my back log of OC illustrations that no one has seen is now my HORDE and I love it. Thank you for that!

That's so understandable. Storytelling with clay though? Sounds awesome!

My god that's hot

I didn't make this mistake specifically but I really relate to the "oh yeah, the sports thing" conundrum 😅 It happens! They'll find your newsletter tomorrow while no one is working at work!

Y'all, the AI SLOP in D&D and TTRPG spaces. Slop. Slopppppp

Oooo it's perfect!

Reached a milestone in D&D this week where I did a narration of something absolutely epic and no one at my table said a damn thing about it and we just moved on and no one gave me a star at the end of session either so I just died inside and felt embarrassed for the next 36 hours #dungeonsanddragons

I don't want to work on writing and editing my newsletter blast. I want to work on my character token for Friday night's dnd game. Can you guess what my most important task is, today.