Lots of nice feelings after reading 'The Rainfall Market' by You Yeong-Gwang, especially in the afterword where he says that he wanted to write 'a book that could heal wounded hearts and cast a ray of hope into the darkness'. Would highly recommend if you're in need of a kind-hearted fantasy.
If you'd like to support a Romani creator on International Romani day, please take a look at some of my games on itch
- like this Duet TTRPG inspired by the Romani concept of Romanestan (the co-creation of safe, often metaphysical, spaces for persecuted communities) pennyblake.itch.io/nightgarden
The answer is always yes.
Today is International Romani day! 💚💖💙
I often highlight our struggles against racism, segregation and prejudice. But today I want to CELEBRATE the beauty and reality of our culture! So if you have any respectful question about Roma and our culture feel free to ask and, if I can, I will answer 💖🥰💖
I remind all my trans siblings that visibility is a radical thing. To stand in the light in a world that breaks you down for doing so? That is revolutionary.
That said though, please stay safe. Survival is paramount and continuing to live authentically when others say we should not is everything.
Honestly this is roughly what I would expect RRD meetings to be like
A pulp hero in a cloak, a fedora and a mask faces off against gas-masked, armed enemies.
Attention, TTRPG freelance writers:
Adamant Entertainment is actively looking for writers to produce adventures & supplements for our D6 system 1930s pulp game, THRILLING TALES!
Drop an email to gms@adamantentertainment.com, introducing yourself and giving a brief overview of your experience.
It's really rubbish when brains do this to us. I hope it passes soon.
Calling all artists! 🖌️
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The vibes of this are gorgeous.
Plus Howl's Moving Castle, Fire and Hemlock, Hexwood, Dark Lord of Derkholm, A Tale of Time City. Those first three are absolute soul books for me and she always wrote with wit, imagination and compassion.
I would also add the Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones: Charmed Life is imaginative, weird and captivating; Witch Week is classic boarding school drama + magic; The Lives of Christopher Chant is a fantastic pulp adventure multiverse story.
Alt: each A4 page is divided into a vertical image along the long edge and a column of text on the right. The text could wrap around any elongated limbs that stray into the column!
The author's brazen fetish, presented with such hedonistic flair and and open pride it makes you feel a little embarassed for needing to hide your own passions behind self-effacing jokes in order to preserve a sense of safe, pseudo-ironic detachment
Grim Fandango meets Dangerous Liaisons when
But they coooould
A black and white pen and pencil picture of a highly stylised woman. She is elongated to the point of looking alien and is wearing a rococo gown. She is pointing a closed fan towards her face in a vaguely quizzical manner.
When in artistic doubt, return to your comfort zone. Which for me is, apparently, skeletal creatures in rococo wear despite the fact that none of the stories I spend much time in actually include them 😅
You are not wrong about how the models look. And yet I am now considering obtaining a new Shadowcat miniature because Robin already painted his. And I wish to paint mine black with neon bits.
Grant. Grant. @jarval.bsky.social found a way to make me play Battletech. It's a co-op campaign with simplified rules where I'm casting hot people as my mech pilots. My team is made up entirely of disaster bisexuals, his team is made up of bear-themed mechs.
I was definitely Queered by the Apocalypse XD
The big thing is to make sure that the hurt we feel over a fictional world doesn't trump the safety and wellbeing of real people. If there's a safe way to still have a little of that brain space as a treat but support real folks, that seems like a positive thing to me.
I guess as someone who very easily gets obsessed and defines my identity by the world created by a media property, I sympathise with the need for help to move on, and the hurt that comes from the feeling of betrayal when the creator does bad things (my one of these is Neil Gaiman)
For a lot of folks it isn't just the books and movies and merch: it represents the first places they made friends on the internet, or where they tried writing fanfiction for the first time, or where they found community, or questioned their identity. Moving from those things to something new is hard
On the one hand, it is a concern that folks have so much investment: corporations are not our friends, and fans who love a property often struggle with that. But I also acknowledge that I'm very similar about, say, Star Wars. I'm lucky I wasn't as invested in HP as a lot of folks.
When the series ended, a lot of people were mad at the last book; Applegate responded with a letter that went *incredbly* hard, that showcased the respect she had for her readers.
It follows, below, in full.
If you are a worker at Epic Games looking to form a union to fight against these layoffs, reach out to us.
(as Eddy Webb pointed out, the buy used strategy mentioned doesn't work in the UK)
This is a really thoughtful, beautiful and sad zine about the feelings of having to break up with something that defined your identity and helped you figure out who you are. I broke up with HP long ago, but other folks might still be going through that process of grieving for what it meant to them.
A montage of covers from graphic novels centring on trans and non-binary stories.
Anyway, as this seems rather important today, if you want to support trans artists and hear their stories we have a massive 'trans and nb' comics resource list here at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social for your enjoyment. www.brokenfrontier.com/tag/trans-an... #transrightsarehumanrights
