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Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

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i love pictures of the international space station which are just completely overexposed because that is just.. unequivocally an angel.

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The Oh Hellos, releasing Soldier Poet King: This is a song about Jesus. It's a metaphor for the second coming of the Christ

Every repressed nerd on this website: This is a song about my dnd party. It's a metaphor for gay.

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Horny bard is cancelled. We’re bringing the dad bard to the table.

Bardic Inspiration? Because I believe in you, champ!

Vicious Mockery? It’s all dad jokes.

Seducing NPCs? Nope, we’re using Persuasion to get them to give you information you need, because “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.”

Jack of All Trades? Yeah, yer old dad knows a little bit about everything.

Song of Rest? It’s called “tucking you in and giving you a bedtime story.”

Be the one to split up party treasure and tell them that this is their allowance.

Mix up your game. Put your bard in a polo shirt and cargo shorts. Hit that party with some Big Dad Energy.

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Video Game Idea.

A game that is marketed as your standard fishing game and for the first 20 minutes or so you catch normal fish like bluegill and bass and what have you. But the further you go into the lake you start to catch fish with mutations and it gets more and more intense until you’re pulling in Eldritch horror monsters and sometimes severed human limbs. You realize you don’t recall how you got to this lake in the first place and the objective becomes to find your way back to shore. You have no real weapons but you can throw the creatures you’ve caught far away from the boat as a means to distract whatever is underneath you, bumping into the boat sometimes. Additional items for the game.

A fishing pole with a radar that starts out with just beeps but later includes noises with hidden messages.

A GPS that displays texts and story elements.

You meet other boaters, all from various backgrounds, countries, and time periods. Some are friendly, others want to sacrifice you to the lake monsters.

You can also take the route of sacrificing others to the lake monster.

Or you can assemble a party and work to keep them safe.

The more fucked up looking the fish you catch, the closer you’re getting to a boss fight, which is usually running from something you can only see part of in the water.

????

And that’s my game idea.

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do you ever get incandescently furious about how utterly unquotable some of the most hard-hitting lines from the magnus archives are. how the fuck do i explain to someone without context why i—open—the door is legitimately horrifying. how am i supposed to explain why “i see you, jon. …i see you” can elicit tears without sounding batshit. how do i convey the unspeakable emotion in “helen… was that a lie?” without first giving 186 episodes of backstory

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Okay so me n the group chat couldn’t find a good OCtober prompt list so we made one!! If anyone wants to have a go at these have at thee

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lighthouse ghosties

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Mechtober Day 9: HNOC/Favourite Headcanon

I saw this post by @alrightcampers1 about the idea of Raphaella being a mechanised Icarus and I loved it so much that I absolutely had to draw it for this prompt.

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A murder mystery where every character believes themselves to be responsible for the death, and tries their best to cover it up.

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educational youtube channels:

for when the burnout is real and all you really wanna do is lie in bed and watch things but you gotta at least try to study. these are mostly channels i’ve watched and subscribed to! (updated 17/12/2015)

sciences

veritasium

it’s okay to be smart

pbs space time

crash course: astronomy

crash course: ecology

crash course: biology

crash course: chemistry

crash course: anatomy and physiology 

crash course: psychology

the school of life: sociology

the school of life: psychotherapy

scishow

scishow space

asapscience

minute physics

minute earth

khan academy

the brain scoop

sexplanations 

healthcare triage

sixty symbols

periodic videos

deep sky videos

literature / art

crash course: literature

the school of life: literature

the school of life: art/architecture

art assignment

thug notes: shakespeare explained

thug notes: classic literature

history / geography / government

crash course: world history (season one)

crash course: world history (season two)

crash course: us history

it’s history: the industrial revolution

it’s history: the history of pirates

it’s history: battlefields (military history)

it’s history: the cold war

the school of life: history

alternate history hub

crash course: intellectual property

crash course: economics

crash course: u.s. government and politics

geography now

the school of life: political theory

it’s history: the history of china

it’s history: weapons of mass destruction

it’s history: the history of sex

extra credits: extra history

khan academy: history

khan academy: american civics

the great war

tom richey: ap euro review

tom richey: ap us history review

cgp grey

math

numberphile

khan academy

vihart

philosophy

the school of life: philosophy

the school of life: eastern philosophy

philosophy tube

8-bit philosophy

misc / no particular subject

crash course: big history

ted-ed

smarter every day

in a nutshell

vsauce

dnews

test tube news

test tube plus

seeker daily

the good stuff

thoughty2

how to adult

mental floss

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🎵i’m sorry I was gone…but look I made you some conteeeeeent!🎵

Hey hi how are ya. I drew another dress up game.

It’s made with meiker.io, (which has a move tool now that I’m really happy about), its called dress up, schmess up and you can play it here! I’m bad at coming up with names ok..

This is the largest meiker game I’ve ever drawn and I worked real hard on the layering on this one, it was A Lot. No real theme here, just modern fashion stuff, just wanted to draw what I felt like without worrying about it too much.

Also, now for the price of a single kofi you can purchase my eternal love and devotion! But seriously if you like these type of games, and you’d like to see me make more of them, it would mean a ton to me if you feel like doing that. (I mean..i will make more anyway..but…u kno…)

If ya wanna tag me in stuff you made with this game I’d love to see it :)

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someone recommend me some good fantasy books that aren’t centred on a war, please, my crops are dying

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i think we, as a culture, have moved too far away from fantasy films where every plot thread is like “the dragon rider and the werewolf joined a crew of sky pirates and hit a storm of cloud-eels but luckily they were saved by a friendly pod of star whales” or whatever the fuck was going on with movies like stardust and time bandits . it’s doesn’t necessarily make a good film but i feel like there’s something deep in our lizard brains that craves stories entirely made up of weird bullshit 

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anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them