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all descriptions gender neutral, based on vibes only

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all descriptions gender neutral, based on vibes only

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Save a thomas, ride a cowboy.

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Haha gay

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woaaaah guys check out this totally official trigun art

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Need me a girl that shoplifts 😩

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Just a lil much-needed queer youth joy - we need to talk about these students and allies in Hawai'i!

Students from Campbell- Kapolei Complex Schools used funding from one of our 50 States 50 Grants to give SO much support to their queer communities.

They bolstered their GSA clubs, held community based education events like a Halloween party and craft day, and even got to attend Honolulu Pride - where Hawai'i-raised Bretman Rock showed up for a surprise visit and marched alongside the students to honor them and their work, having attended the same schools themself growing up!

So proud of these students for recognizing what they need in their own communities.

And lucky for y'all...apps are open for the 3rd season of 50 States, 50 Grants right now through April 1, 2024 - if you're a high schooler or middle schooler in the US/DC/territories and have an idea for how you'd use the funds at your own school, don't miss out on applying: 50states50grants.org

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some doodles and stuff just to not leave you guys without anything while i work on my next comic

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Back at it again with more men in skimpy outfits, Easter Vashwood edition

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Hello tumblr user buffout-buffers, I am but a pigeon sent in the long and cruel war to deliver boops as requested by your beloved. They are in the trenches, every day is bleak but they will survive for the gods have decreed it. I do regret to inform you that they happen to be currently inflicted with the deadly blorbo virus, and it is untreatable and highly contagious, however you both shall live. Soldier on, brave hero, for this too shall pass. You are also requested not to ask under any circumstances about their stated goals, for those are well kept secrets of the state and country. Should you push this and inquire about this, an agent will be sent to your exact location within the next 2-4 business days. For my parting message, I humbly suggest that you take my words into consideration and mayhaps listen to the Magnus Archives, or perchance bully your beloved into thinking about it (/nf). May your days be filled with wonder and whimsy, Nova, your faithful carrier pigeon.

(aka Isa's friend who is very sleep deprived and has not written creatively for way too long so I am channelling it into this instead of actually writing, it is lovely to make your acquaintance)

Dearest carrier pigeon, an avian of truest wisdom and haste, I receive your message with open arms

I too hath wasted my creative energy, taking my pen to return a message to you instead of transcribing upon my theatrical dice game which should have been sent out to the masses 6 fortnights ago or some shit. I have, in truth, spent much of it procrastinating to gaze upon my orb, scrying the secrets of the hit CW show Supernatural which released on the eve of my birth in the year 2005. I have also been reading heretical texts about queer witchcraft, laying down, experiencing seizures, and other jazzy ass experiences within my mages tower.

I too am quite pleased to make your acquaintance, and hope this may be the start of a friendship, comradery, insane unhinged and downright unreasonable interaction, or some other pleasant experience

(Ellians beloved I am not sleep deprived just unhinged and not properly medicated for epilepsy very nice to meet you)

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We Were The First

You know how some sci-fi settings have one particular alien species that is "the eldest", first in the universe to attain starflight, providing wise guidance to the newer species? No? Well, it's an older trope, it's not as in vogue any more, and it was already getting subverted by the time Babylon 5 came around. But this game puts an interesting twist on it.

You see, in this universe, humans are The First Ones. The game is set in the distant future, after humanity has made contact with dozens of other life forms. We also have a Great Disaster in our past, perhaps even the destruction of Earth itself. We Were The First (WWtF, not to be confused with W:tF) has your characters attempting to make peaceful contact with strange aliens and help them avoid the kinds of mistakes your people made in the past.

Violence is a failure state. The entire combat system goes like this: "You can shrug off any harm done to you. If you try to harm someone else or win a fight, you succeed. However, you lose something important that you have gained or could gain this session." The few weapons you bring with you are immensely more powerful than anything you're going to run into, so someone who attacks you just wastes their time. The moment you start striking back, you've lost. Negotiation, give-and-take, and empathy-building are the game's key subsystems.

Core stats are fairly simple, consisting of Professions (Diplomat, Trader, Spacer, etc.) and some Resistances (Tenacity, Wisdom, and Calm). The complex part is your relationships with others. Each relationship has a rating from 1-3, and a Sentiment (love, curiosity, deference, obsession, etc.). You have to have some positive-emotion Sentiments and some negative. You can even have multiple relationships with the same person - You might have Love 2 and Curiosity 1, or even Love 2 and Hate 3 and Obsession 2 all with the same person. It can be a fair amount to keep track of. Luckily it borrows the Exalted 3rd rule of "If it makes sense that you have a particular rating with this person, just write it down when you need it. It doesn't have to be on your character sheet beforehand." Really, the relationship system is very close to Exalted's "intimacies". Building and changing them is a core part of the system.

The random alien and planet tables are my favorite. They flow together such that one roll modifies percentages for other rolls. Certain types of aliens are more likely on certain types of planets, and certain planet types are more likely around certain star types. Communication type, sensorium, mobility, closest Earth equivalent for visual description purposes, linguistic compatibility, emotional spectrum differences... they cover a lot. You roll up how many governments there are, what types they are, who they send as their first-contact teams, what their religions are like, and more. For some people this would be overkill, but they're really well-designed and I like them.

The biggest place where WWtF fails is that it doesn't explain why the ship is entirely humans. Why don't any of the other alien species in the Galactic Unity come along? A few half-assed rationales are given, the best of which is that they have their own ships with different life-support systems, but even that doesn't hold much water for me. It feels like a plot hole. If you can get past that, this game gets a strong recommend from me.

WWtF is distributed as a file package is compatible with Obsidian, Zim, TiddlyWiki, and other desktop wiki things. You can theoretically also just open it with a web browser.