#exile larp

[damienthepious]

why the absolute fuck isn't The Harp In The Hallows* an internationally known franchise with a massive fandom i can talk about the whole mess with**. what the fuck

*the hyperspecific hyperlocal larp my fiance gms for our group of 8 or so people

**which isn't to say that im not feral and frothing with the three close friends i've infected with fandom for my hyperspecific hyperlocal thing

[a-very-tired-jew]

A lot of the anti-Zionist crowd reminds me of the Che shirt kids from high school and undergrad.

You know the ones I'm talking about.

In high school they'd talk about how the "system was evil" while purposefully being disruptive in class, would barely pay attention or pass a class cause the material was all "propaganda", and would wax philosophic about their teenage comprehension of Communism and its associated leaders. Any history class would eventually end up with them arguing with your teacher. Yes, they would have some good points, but at the same time their understanding of the material would be juvenile at best.

In college they'd get worse. Some of them might continue wearing the shirts and paraphernalia, but others would go all out and start wearing the black beret and/or associated dress of Che and other leaders. They now have a college vocabulary and use it to drive every discussion towards their political ideology. Almost nothing exists outside of their political framework and talking to them is exhausting.

They're also not seen as a disruption anymore, but more as that annoying Tankie who has to go "um, actually" and then go on a monologue about the CIA in class. Professors will either let them do this or tell them that it's not the time or place and that they have to teach. The former gives a small sense of triumph as they "subvert the system" (and we do this because if we don't you become more annoying), the latter causes them to grumble and complain about being "silenced".

Yes, we're aware of the CIA's actions. Yes, Che had some very good points about the role of neo-imperialism in the Global South. Yes, the USA has done some absolutely horrid shit. But what makes everyone keep these people at arms length and/or ignore them is the refusal to acknowledge the atrocities that the man on the shirt did. It's the black and white juvenile reasoning that colors everything they talk about and putting him and other leaders on a pedestal.

If you talk to anyone in the Cuban diaspora they, their family, or someone they know within the community will refer to Che as a butcher. They will tell you about the absolutely horrific things he did as a leader. They will tell you about how this man that young adults are idolizing would imprison and execute them for any number of things that they enjoy simply because he objected to them. The same thing goes for anyone who has family members that survived the USSR or any other 20th century authoritarian country that called itself Communist.

It's the refusal to acknowledge that the world exists in shades of nuance. It's the refusal to acknowledge that these authoritarian Communist governments would imprison, exile, and/or execute all of them and their friends for being queer, speaking out, their writing, their taste in music, their manner of dress, etc, etc... That countries, governments, leaders, ideologies, and people are multifaceted and not this idealized fantasy that can be argued for with whataboutisms.

We see this same behavior in the current batch of anti-Zionists. Some of them are the newest cohort of Tankies who are just repeating the same behaviors we've seen time and time again. However, in this current situation we all have access to information and are able to address things for what they are. The disruptive misinformation isn't as tolerated any more because Che shirt kids are no longer just marching around on the college green in their Communist LARP gear, but are instead coopting a war and its suffering for their Glorious Revolution accelerationist rhetoric.

The adherence and defense of Cold War era tactics, the almost rabid want to implement them, the use of whataboutism to defend your blorbo and the refusal to acknowledge their atrocities, plus the additional antisemitic laden screeds, all the while the world is attempting to move forward from this is downright regressive and juvenile.

And keep in mind, I'm an old alt kid. I've been part of counter culture for decades now. I have patches older than most of these college Tankies. I remember the Che shirt kids and how we stayed away from them because they often spouted rhetoric that was both fantastical and extremely violent. If you're unaware, Che himself believed that to achieve the socialist utopia that extreme violent revolution was necessary (sound familiar?). Not mentioning the fact that often this process gets stuck at the authoritarian step after the violent revolution.

Meanwhile, we just wanted to be accepted for wearing all black, chains, and just being "creepy". We weren't actually violent as most suburban moms believed. So we often stayed away from people who actually believed in violent rhetoric. Not only would it not look good for the alt community, but it was simply antithetical to what we believed. We wanted to be accepted in society and help improve it, not burn it down (and look where we are now, everyone wants a goth mommy. Mission achieved).

The two groups are counter culture in essence, but extremely different. So when I say the current batch of anti-Zionist protesters are just Tankie Che shirt kids, believe me. I've known their type for years.

[psiionic]

i have been non stop thinking about schizophrenic latula again. of course i could always repeat the same things i always say, latuda is a mood stablizer and it doesn't make sense that a pyrope would become anxious out of nowhere because their family line never implies that pyropes ever have a "shy" phase and are entirely more likely to fall down the line of obsession and depression and spiralling over minor things. but i was talking to my friend about the alternian economic system and we came to the realization that alternia is likely a much more scripted planet than we initially assumed, since it's essentially a planet that focuses on pumping out child soldiers i believe that their economic system is almost completely falsified by the HIC and higher powers, each caste is set up with a projected job, a certain amount of money, a specific living situation and lusus to groom them into the perfect position they'll take as an adult once exiled from the planet and gaining their title. ive already spoken about how i believe that the beforan trolls are all essentially encouraged to pick a persona to "brand" themselves as in a show of personal expression that is expected of them by the government, but it got me thinking about how these two things interact with eachother. flarping is such a popular game on alternia specifically because all the kids are, essentially, larping as their projected adult counterparts until they leave planet. thats why there doesn't seem to be any ACTUAL job structure, the janitors are all kids pretending to be janitors until they leave planet, and highbloods commission people with their government allotted money, which funds the economy as well. there are mentions that if you don't "play your role right" you'll be culled and its because they figured out a system to learn who is willing to play the right role and who isnt BEFORE they have the power to actually harm the empire, which is NOT ON THE PLANET. drones kill anyone who steps out of line and its called culling because theyre still little kids. its like taking out the "bad actors" in a play, they arent needed, itll stall the progress of the machine. all of the characters essentially have a pre-determined role and persona they can fall into, and if they refuse to play along or start to look at the fact that theyre in a roleplaying game for too long they'll be culled.

anyways. this leads me to believe that because beforus is a planet without the exiling system, that means it's likely a system where no one ever stops playing "pretend." due to there being no expansion, the only thing that matters is appearance. It doesn't exactly matter how good you are at something, culling doesn't need to mean killing, it just means you lose your right on how to present yourself. You were clearly unable to play your part because you were too dumb or too pitiable and need someone else to ensure youre able to be presentable as the persona they choose for you.

this leads me back to latula. i believe that as a knight of mind, latula likely was able to see right through the pretend games that they were all playing extremely fast, but due to a knights innate questioning of themselves and their own thoughts, she was likely easily convinced that the problem was not the system but HER actually, for scrutinizing the system. calling people fake or invalid or implying they aren't what they actually are i'd imagine is a very strong offense in a society exclusively centered around always wearing masks. i also feel like this is exactly why all of the dancestors show that they are deeply disconnected from who they truly are, with mituna being the only one who couldn't keep up appearance and therefor had to have his autonomy stripped not just by beforus but by the narrative itself, disconnecting him from who he used to be by force. latula likely takes medication not for social anxiety but because she quite literally ruminates too much, i can see her being anxious in a paranoid and pointed way specifically at forces that be, especially considering how mind players act, but i cannot for the life of me ever see latula being the shy socially anxious fluttershy type i constantly see (or at least SAW) her be portrayed as. while this doesn't specifically point to schizophrenia, due to what latuda actually treats, it's my favorite headcanon to apply to her.

[jewish-vents]

i'm so tired of antizionists saying that zionists have made the word antisemitism meaningless as a way to brush off accusations of jewhate when they're doing their level best to rob zionism of any coherent meaning. in 140 years of jewish zionism (or 2000+ if one thinks of pesach as a form of zionism - ie jews returning to their indigenous homeland after years in exile), there have been nearly 100 years of nazis and communists using zionism as a dogwistle slur to politicize their jewhate and christians appropriating the word zionism to larp out the end days on top of the many different zionist parties that have grown in israel itself, and modern antizionists acknowledge NONE of that

i've never considered myself a zionist except in that most ancient sense, but 7 months ago when i saw former friends start really complaining about "zionists", the hair on the back of my neck stood up. i talked myself down, sure that they were just ignorant and blurring the lines between the likud party and all self-described zionists, but that ignorance has become so much worse, because sure enough it's come right back around to be used as a cudgel against any jew who poses a threat to The Party Line

if antisemitism has become meaningless, then i'm going back to good old fashioned jewhate, and i think anyone who can't give a reason to be antizionist that doesn't acknowledge the many uses is full of it. opposing zionism "in all its forms" is jewhate, plain and simple

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[castiellesbian]

this isn't really about who the best writer is but rather whose version of Dean you like the best. like Robbie tends to use a nerdy Dean, Adam Glass focuses more on how Dean is good with kids, etc

also not including Edlund or Kripke for any of these because that's too easy sorry

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

I know we'll probably never know, because it will probably never be plot-relevant, but I would love have a flashback of when TAS Morph joined the team. Especially because, out of all the characters, they don't have a comics "joining the team" story that would work for TAS.

Changeling had his whole "reformed villain dying of cancer impersonate Xavier and die heroically" thing. I can't imagine TAS Morph ever having been a part of Factor Three, unless they were coerced into it (like Banshee in the comics), or they were somehow tricked into thinking that Factor Three was just a super-villain LARPing group running around in silly costumes. ("Wait, you guys actually want to hurt people?!") If nothing else, if TAS Morph had ever been a bad guy prior to joining, it would have come up when they came back brainwashed and evil.

Exiles Morph was a New Mutant, and the New Mutants don't exist as a group in TAS, despite Roberto and the shape-shifting Illyana cameo.

We also don't know how long Morph was with the team before the unfortunate Sentinel incident, although I think there is evidence to suggest that they've been there awhile. They were there long enough to cultivate a strong friendship with Wolverine, and to know all the team well enough to imitate them perfectly and poke at their weak spots. And in "Courage," the way Morph and Wolverine talk to each other ("Feels like old times," "See you haven't lost your touch," etc.) sounds very much like two people who are used to working together and have probably partnered up on missions many times. I can't imagine Wolverine talking like that to someone who had "died" as a newbie.

Given that Morph originally took the place of Thunderbird as the short-lived character, I headcanon them being recruited around the same time as Wolverine and Storm, as part of TAS equivalent of the Giant Size team. So after the O5 + Lorna, before Rogue and Gambit. Of course, given the shaky continuity on the show (like Cyclops and Xavier acting like they don't know Angel, Pyro and Avalanche not knowing Rogue), you could really retcon Morph in anywhere. Maybe "Angel" in the O5 was actually Morph the whole time, and that's why Warren, Scott and Xavier act like they've never met before.

[swampythesweetsketch]

Jay introduces Lil'Lloyd to some book series that he's read like crazy at his local library and gets roped into creating a larp warrior cats clan where they're cats that have dragon wings and have elemental powers.

Everyone joins in, and Lloyd is the Clan Leader, Cole gets exiled over lunch because he fought Lloyd on it. Nya is the deputy and blows raspberries at Cole.

[slotumn]

Headcanon notes about Fódlani diaspora populations outside of Fódlan

Scothaic ("excellent/elite" in Irish, endonym): northerners from Nemesis Dynasty who fled to Dagda (with the help of Brigidans)

Qispichisqa ("rescued" in Quechua, exonym but eventually adopted by the group): Adrestians from the counter-invasion following First Mach War who didn't (couldn't) return to Fódlan

Akbunuzi ("white horn" in Turkic, exonym): refugees of Sreng-Faerghus conflict, with largest populations in northwestern Almyra

Fideli ("faithful" in Italian, endonym): Southern Church exiles, with largest populations in southernwestern Almyra

Bazargani/Tajari depending on the region ("sell/trade/merchants" in Persian and Arabic, technically exonym but plenty adopted it for themselves): descendants of Leicesterian merchants in Almyra who continue to speak the language

My worldbuilding is that the Dagdans from the First Mach War and Dagdans from the more recent war are actually entirely different groups btw. First one, which I'll call Middle Dagda, is based on Teotihuacan (+other city states across Mesoamerica under its influence), second, which I'll call Lower Dagda, is based on the Inca Empire (except it's on the east coast on the continent instead of west). Although people in the two regions are aware of each other due to trade through Brigid (think of them as Pacific Islands in the Atlantic), the civilizations emerged independently and don't consider themselves to be part of the same group.

More about the diaspora populations under the cut

Scothaics fled from Fódlan to Middle Dagda late in the War of Heroes, and they were originally reviled by Middle Dagdans due to their "barbaric" cultures + bringing over all kinds of diseases. But elites of Middle Dagda soon realized their unsavory reputations made them useful soldiers, which resulted in many Scothaics rising in status through battles, and after a few hundred years of intermarriage they came to be considered just one of the many ethnic groups in Middle Dagda by others there.

Still, many Scothaics clung on their cultural identity as people of Nemesis' Fódlan, and the idea that they should retake the continent from Adrestians (even if they'd rule from Dagda upon succeeding) remained popular among them; they were one of the (but not the only) major factions within Middle Dagda who pushed for the First Mach War. Other Middle Dagdans think Scothaics are LARPing whenever they do the "we were Elites n shit" because by all means they've completely integrated into Middle Dagda now, but they let them have it because it can be politically useful.

Qispichisqas were Adrestians in the post-First Mach War Dagda exploration parties who made their way past Middle Dagda (their recent enemies) to the mountains of Lower Dagda, then got trapped there. The Adrestian government made no effort to retrieve them, but they were saved by the ruler of a prominent city-state near a lake, who they swore undying allegiance to. As that city-state expanded to an empire spanning north and south of the Lower Dagdan coast, they also began to deify the ruler, which was adopted and spread enthusiastically by the Qispichisqa, as it was similar to what the Adrestian emperors liked to do. As a result, the Qispichisqa hold a syncretic faith that's a fusion of early~middle Church of Seiros practices and Lower Dagdan religion.

At the time of canon, they still consider themselves to be followers of Sothis, but they also believe that their ruler is the rightful ruler over followers of the goddess, not the Adrestian emperor; from their view, the current Adrestia (and Fódlan as a whole) has strayed too far from the faith. Qispichisqa don't have a "retake the land" thing going on like the Scothaics because they consider Lower Dagda to be their home and holy land now, but they certainly had no qualms about invading Fódlan once their ruler ordered, either.

Scothaics and Qispichisqas do not get along if they meet each other, and do not consider themselves to part of the same demographic, whether that's Fódlani or Dagdan, mostly for religious reasons. That being said, they don't come into contact with one another that often; again, Lower and Middle Dagda are pretty far away from one another, and the geography would make a war between them very cumbersome, so the two regions try to not step on each other's toes. Sometimes they have scuffles over Brigid, but when that happens both armies are usually more preoccupied with killing Brigidans.

As you might expect from that, Brigidans do not like Scothaics or Qispichisqas alongside other Middle/Lower Dagdans and Fódlanis, and many not-so jokingly say that their ancestors helping Scothaics escape to Dagda was their worst mistake.

Akbunuzis are northern Faerghans in Almyra who crossed the Whitehorn Sea to flee the Faerghus-Sreng conflict, starting at or before 892 with new waves coming in every so often. The community is very poor, with many turning to crime for survival; as a result they have a poor reputation among larger Almyran society. Despite Almyra already being a multi-ethnic and cultural society, the government didn't make much effort to try and integrate the Akbunuzi, partially because they tend to be religiously and culturally rigid, mostly because the government needs there to be criminals for the military to hunt in order to advance their careers and recent immigrants made for easy targets.

Some Akbunuzi attempt to return to Faerghus, but reality is harsh, they are scorned there, too, for being "too Srengi" (as northern and northwestern Almyra also has lots of Srengis or similar ethnic groups and is strongly influenced by their culture + there's some intermarriage) and/or "too Almyran."

Fidelis are Southern Church Adrestians who supported Victoria von Hrym in 1065 and were subsequently exiled. Some went to the Eastern Church in Leicester, but others crossed the Pearl Sea to southwestern Almyra. Fideli are also known for not integrating into Almyran society, and are even more insular than the Akbunuzi. Many have "taking Adrestia back from heretics on the promised day" as their goal, and as a result religious extremism and indoctrination is very rampant within the community; they also have very high birthrates, and other Almyrans often scorn them by calling them biohazards/pests.

Some spread malicious rumors about beliefs of Church of Seiros after bad encounters with the Fideli, and the government makes little effort to dispel those, or to deradicalize and integrate Fidelis; partially because, again, it's legitimately difficult, but also because fueling prejudice towards easy targets is useful for staying in power and justifying constant military operations at the border.

People who identify as Bazarganis/Tajaris, aka Leicesterian-Almyrans in specific instead of just Almyrans with general Fódlani ancestry, usually have ancestors who moved to Almyra after the Leicester Rebellion of 801 at the earliest and mostly during~after the Crescent Moon War in 881. That being said, a lot of Almyrans with Leicesterian ancestry don't identify as Bazargani/Tajari after a few generations; most of their families were fairly well-off merchants who came to Almyra for economic opportunities, so many quickly changed religions and intermarried/integrated into ethnic groups that would provide them better connections.

Because the language(s) of Almyra and Leicester already overlap, Bazargani/Tajari identification is based mostly on religion; usually those who call themselves such are involved in businesses that sell across the border, necessiating that they stay in touch with their homelands.

Akbunuzis, Fidelis, and Bazarganis/Tajaris absolutely do not get along with one another, as old grudges and prejudices carried over from Fódlan gets amplified by the differences in socioeconomic conditions in Almyra.

Akbunuzis think Fidelis give their faith a bad name and that Bazarganjs/Tajaris are selfish and irresponsible for being rich yet not helping other Fódlani-Almyrans; Fidelis hate Akbunuzis for being "enemies of the Saints" (because they're descendants of northerners) and Bazarganis/Tajaris for being unfaithful/apostates/etc; and Bazarganis/Tajaris don't want to be associated with the "backwards and uneducated" Akbunuzis and Fidelis under the umbrella label of Fódlani. Things often get ugly between the communities if news of something happening in Fódlan reaches them, with violence/riots being an expected occurence. The reaction of larger Almyran society to such incidents is usually something like, "oh look the barbarians are being barbaric again, but why do they have to do it in our country."

That being said, the three populations do have something in common, and it's that they tend to not serve in the Almyran military. For Akbunuzis, it's because making money from crime is easier than signing up for the military, and if they try to sign up later, they'll get screened and cut and arrested because of the criminal records/connections. For Fidelis, it's for religious reasons; they won't serve a master other than the goddess and they won't fight for a cause other than taking back Adrestia from the heretics. For Bazarganis/Tajaris, they usually pay instead of sending soldiers, which is legal and the government lets them, but socially, it's a bad look— that's exactly where the stereotype of Fódlanis being cowards come from, and many see it as sign that their allegiances lie with their Fódlani homelands rather than Almyra.

Things presumably get better post-canon once Claude takes the throne; it wouldn't be easy, but getting people with Adrestian and Faerghan heritage on his side was probably good for diplomacy with Fódlan, too.

[korva-the-raven]

Raven Lair Treasure

Rescued from storage exile, I present my boxes full of shiney treasures to make your corvid/goblin/gremlin/dragon brain go brrrrrrrrrrrrr...

The boxes.

Well the blue Sun&Moon box is empty, but the box itself is a treasure, and will be filled with shines soon...

The light brown roundish box contains a bunch of treasures that usually reside in a space dedicated to faeries. Some of the treasures will find their way into the Sun&Moon box.

The cigar box with decorative elements is a creation I made for a Steampunk event I participated in; the event was also the inspiration for a character creation andnthe name Korva.

My group created a steampunk themed natural history curio tent, and I also created the character Dr. Korva Tempus; a time traveling, dimention shifting naturalist.

I imagined Dr. Korva Tempus as a cross between naturalist Charles Darwin (but like a badass Chuck D) and Alice from Alice in Wonderland; with some Wizard of Oz vibes thrown in the mix. Steampunk was the first aesthetic I fell into, but I feel like my inner corvid was peeking out through when creating and collecting things for Dr. Tempus.

This piece is ment to be a time traveler's watch/compass, given to Korva by the Queen of Hearts.

I made several pieces that acessorized my LARP as Korva, and had variety of items that worked as props for Korva's character. I attended the Handcar Regatta event 3 years in a row. It was wonderful. But I think what O got most out of it was the chance to make altered art. I still love steampunk, and cyberpunk for that matter, but my home is amongst the creatures ans cryptids.

And last, but not least, the black wooden trunk. My adventure trunk. My treasure trunk. My pride and joy...lol. But seriously, this trunk holds many of my best curios and adventure artifacts. And I promise to make a proper post about the contents of my black trunk.

Thanks for letting me share my treasures. 🖤

[megaweapon]

The current situation with Wizards is yet another reminder of why I think it’s good for the hobby that people explore other kinds of tabletop games. There’s no one end-all be-all game that fits every player, every group, or every scenario. There’s a wide variety out there designed to do everything from play a funny one-shot to organize a whole campaign.

Spend an evening with your friends playing a round of Fiasco. Get up to some action-movie nonsense with a night of Wu Shu. Play a night of Dread, a game whose primary mechanic is a Jenga tower. Try one of the many PBTA-framework games out there--City of Mist! Scum and Villainy! Monster of the Week! Make up your own with the framework, if you like.

Fall in love (as I did) with the storytelling potential of the Genesys system, which can be adapted to all manner of genre (most famously in the fantastic FFG Star Wars series of tabletop games). Again, you can build your own world off of this system, and there are conversion rules to get around the biggest stumbling block, which is their proprietary dice (and free resources to replace physical dice like skyjedi in-browser and RPG Sessions on discord).

Explore (one of my personal favorite) sci-fi settings in Eclipse Phase, a game that’s distributed under Creative Commons, so you can get all the source material you need free and legally. ...I wanna recommend Shadowrun because I do like some of the stuff it has going for it (less so others) but god I’m still recovering from 5th ed. Hopefully the new edition is better. I haven’t played the new edition of Traveller but I remember it as being a delightfully weird but very fun experience.

If you want something a little scarier, there’s always Call of Cthulhu (my personal first TTRPG ever and what got me into the hobby), the newer more action-packed Pulp Cthulhu, or the 20th-century cosmic horror explorations of Delta Green. World of Darkness’s latest edition has done some interesting stuff if you like classic monsters, and the WoD LARP scene is still going pretty strong if you want an “extended cast with a vague murder mystery parlor vibe” kind of experience.

There’s a ton of stuff out there to suit all manner of sensibilities and play-styles.  At the end of the day, it’s all about telling a story, whether that story is happy, horrifying, intrepid, or silly as hell. There’s more than one way to tell it.

I’ll wrap this rant up with my own personal experiences. Technically, the game series I’ve been playing the longest, continuously, is Exile Studio’s Hollow Earth Expedition. Me and my pals have, at this point, about a decade’s worth of storytelling, worldbuilding, and (most importantly) inside jokes from the several campaigns we’ve run from it.

It’s a defunct system now, and we’ve adapted our latest campaign for the Genesys system. We never got the third sourcebook we were wanting, so we’re making it on a WorldAnvil with our group. As a system, it was imperfect, and clearly not designed for the long campaigns we preferred. As a setting, it was compelling but definitely needed some tweaking and brushing up from players. HEX itself was a mere blip, and Exile Studios doesn’t even have a website anymore. Pretty sure they got snatched up by Studio2. Despite all that, though, it was the one that worked, somehow, for all of us.

You genuinely never really know which system is going to be the one that clicks in a way that lasts. Don’t hold yourself back from trying something new.

[gonna-need-you-to-not]

Spn Episode Categories

Today in "Is it Autism or ADHD?", I put all the Supernatural episodes into categories by episode name.

ALLITERATION Dark Dynasty Monster Movie Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie Soul Survivor Tall Tales Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes Various and Sundry Villains War of the Worlds

BELIEVE Clap Your Hands if You Believe Do You Believe in Miracles

BIBLICAL Exodus In the Beginning Inherit the Earth Lazarus Rising Lucifer Rising Moriah Proverbs 17:3

BLOOD Blood Brother Bloodlines Bloodlust Bloody Mary Dead Man’s Blood First Blood Fresh Blood Let It Bleed My Bloody Valentine There Will Be Blood

BOOKS Bedtime Stories Book of the Damned Fan Fiction Meta Fiction Reading is Fundamental Slash Fiction The Monster at the End of this Book

CHILDREN Adventures in Babysitting Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things Destiny’s Child I Believe the Children are Our Future Pacman Fever Playthings Slumber Party The Kids are Alright

COLOURS Black Crossroad Blues Paint it Black Red Meat Red Sky at Morning Yellow Fever

DEAD or ALIVE Advanced Thanatology Bring Em Back Alive Dead in the Water Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Death Takes a Holiday Death’s Door Defending Your Life In My Time of Dying It’s a Terrible Life Live Free or Twihard Rock Never Dies

DEVIL Beat the Devil Devil in the Detail Devil May Care Devil’s Bargain Devil’s Trap Sympathy for the Devil The Devil You Know

EMOTIONS Everybody Hates Hitler Everybody Loves a Clown Love Hurts Optimism We Happy Few

FAMILY All in the Family Family Feud Family Matters Family Remains

FIRE/HEAT Caged Heat Halt and Catch Fire Out of the Darkness Into the Fire

FIRST/LAST/NEW/OLD First Born Last Call Last Holiday Meet the New Boss Out With the Old

GIRLS/BOYS/MEN/LADIES A Most Holy Man About a Boy Bad Boys Girl Next Door Girl With the Dungeons & Dragons Tattoo Girls Girls Girls Hook Man Inside Man Ladies Drink Free LARP and the Real Girl Man Who Knew Too Much Man Who Would Be King Mans Best Friend with Benefits Repo Man Slice Girls

GODS & MONSTERS Atomic Monsters Good God Yall Hammer of the Gods How to Win Friends and Influence Monster Remember the Titans

GOING SOMEWHERE? Appointment in Samarra Beyond the Mat Carry On Dark Side of the Moon Don't Go in the Woods Exile on Main Street Frontierland Heroes’ Journey Hollywood Babylon Into the Mystic Lebanon Long Distance Call Mystery Spot No Exit Our Little World Phantom Traveller Point of No Return Road Kill Road Trip Sin City Stranger in a Strange Land

GOOD/BAD Bad Day at Black Rock Bad Place Bad Seed Born Under a Bad Sign Damaged Goods Good Intentions Let the Good Times Roll

HEART Angel Heart Heart Heartache My Heart Will Go On

HEAVEN & HELL All Dogs Go to Heaven All Hell Breaks Loose (Part 1 and 2) Heaven Can’t Wait Hell’s Angel Holy Terror I’m No Angel King of the Damned Raising Hell Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell Stairway to Heaven

HELLO/GOODBYE Hello Cruel World Goodbye Stranger

HOUSE & HOME Hell House Home Houses of the Holy Safe House

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD Don’t You Forget About Me Galaxy Brain Just My Imagination Memory Remains Peace of Mind Wishful Thinking

LATIN/OTHER LANGUAGE Hunteri Heroici Jus in Bello Malleus Maleficarum Reichenbach

MOVIE TITLES/REFERENCES Back to the Future Blade Runners Born Again Identity Hunter Games I Know What You Did Last Summer Real Ghostbusters Taxi Driver The Usual Suspects There’s No Place Like Home Tombstone You Can’t Handle the Truth

NAME A Little Slice of Kevin Alex Annie Alexis Ann Are You There God It’s Me Dean Winchester Ask Jeeves Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox Criss Angel is a Douchebag Curious Case of Dean Winchester Dog Dean Afternoon Don’t Call Me Shurley It’s the Great Pumpkin Sam Winchester Jack in the Box Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets Party On Garth Patience Sam Interrupted Shut Up Dr Phil Simon Says There’s Something about Mary Thin Lizzie We Need to Talk About Kevin Weekend at Bobby’s

NATIONALITIES American Nightmare British Invasion French Mistake

NIGHT Game Night Night Shifter Nightmare Nightmare Logic Nightshifter

NUMBERS 99 Problems Hibbing 911 Magnificent Seven Mannequin 3: the Reckoning Route 666 Season 7 Time For a Wedding The One You’ve Been Waiting For The Third Man Two and a Half Men Two Minutes to Midnight

PAIRS Alpha and Omega Form and Void Freaks and Geeks Gods and Monsters Heaven and Hell Lost and Found Prophet and Loss Scorpion and the Frog Sex and Violence Torn and Frayed Trial and Error

RELATIVES Brother’s Keeper Mamma Mia Mommy Dearest Mother’s Little Helper O Brother Where Art Thou Our Father Who Aren’t in Heaven Rising Son Wayward Sisters What’s Up Tiger Mommy

SAYINGS/EXPRESSIONS Abandon All Hope And Then There Were None Fallen Idols Jump the Shark Keep Calm and Carry On Mint Condition No Rest for the Wicked Of Grave Importance On the Head of a Pin Rock and a Hard Place Southern Comfort Survival of the Fittest

SINGLE WORD #thinman Absence Asylum Baby Breakdown Bugs Byzantium Captives Croatoan Despair Faith Funeralia Ghostfacers Hunted LOTUS Metamorphosis Nihilism Ouroboros Pilot Plush Provenance Roadkill Sacrifice Salvation Scarecrow Shadow Skin Unity Wendigo

SONG Executioner’s Song Song Remains the Same Swan Song

SONG TITLES All Along the Watchtower Dream a Little Dream of Me Folsom Prison Blues I Think I’m Gonna Like it Here Like a Virgin Paper Moon Stuck in the Middle With You

SUPERNATURAL A Very Supernatural Christmas Scoobynatural

TEETH Bitten Citizen Fang Sharp Teeth

THE Benders Big Empty Chitters End Foundry Future Gamblers Great Escapist Mentalists Prisoner Purge Raid Rapture Rupture Scar Spear Trap Vessel Werther Project

THING/SOMETHING Something Wicked The Thing The Things They Carried The Things We Left Behind

TIME As Time Goes By Golden Time Time After Time Time After Time After Time Time is on My Side

TV After School Special Changing Channels Clip Show

UN Unfinished Business Unforgiven Unhuman Nature

WHO/WHAT/WHEN What Is and What Should Never Be When the Levee Breaks Who We Are

YOU & ME Drag Me Away From You Free to Be You and Me

Some obviously qualify for more than one category, so I just picked one 🤷‍♀️

[oswednesday]

the funniest thing to me about the hotel thing is as a once citizen of dA you would know as well as any furry on the site at the time that this series is like she took the loudest fan fave elements from two separate works of hers which were both more technically involved and more like mature (an episodic webcomic about a woman learning to over come her fear of animals after sexism in her field of work has manifested physically into an island she's exiled on/and a crime noir reservoir dogs style thing with the dead coming back as animal demons because they were so good at crimes) into one loud key jangling money grab and has been larping like its her magnum opus always intended

[walkingstackofbooks]

🌀❤️📚

🌀 What would be the first thing you'd lose a Holosuite for?

LARPing - We've got a small local LARP group and it's INCREDIBLE fun, but I can only imagine what we could get up to with the effects that a holosuite could provide, the holographic monsters, the scenery and castles and caverns and yeaaaaaah. It would be SO cool!

❤️ Your ST comfort character/s

I actually have a "Council" of Trek characters to help me with my anxiety - my therapist worked on building a "compassionate voice" with me, where you need to imagine four people to embody the different components. Mine are:

Wisdom - Spock - he's the best because he'll just be like "logically, Andi, that's not true" and it's extremely comforting to just have him shut down anxieties like that

Non-judgment - Bones - he'll be like "okay, you messed up, but everyone does and that's alright" in his grumpy but fond way :3

Warmth - Julian - he's there to remind me that people still like me and that I should still like myself, and to prod me to go and get a hug from my housemates if I need one

Strength - Jim - he'll be like "okay, that happened - what do you intend to do about it? Where do we move on from here?", I love in the show how he just keeps carrying on and he helps me to, too ^^

📚 Favourite ST fic you've read

At the moment my absolute fav is the series Escapees of Exiles by @kittenwriter - it's a gorgeously detailed AU where Julian gets revealed as an augment during the Academy and finds himself on Terok Nor during the Occupation. It has so much world building and so many feelings and the characters - canon and new - are all so vibrant and alive and yeah 🥰🥰

There are so many more I could mention, but I'll limit my cheating to just one more because I cannot not mention this one: "so. wē spacemen in geārdagum"

It's a Spirk fanfic written in Old English, with a Modern English translation AND explanation of the word choice and it's so interesting and fascinating - and a whole lot of fun to use my German and Latin to half-make-out some of the words! The story itself is a small missing scene from The City on the Edge of Forever and it is *deliciously* beautiful.

[brenna-ivy]

A collection of character pieces I made of the Lovecraftian Larp Miskatonic University by Chaos League Larp

1. Earnshaw, the death-haunted torn between religiosity and lust for life 2. Golubev, the exile survivor of the revolution in search of a happy life 3. Kaffenberger, the melancholic guardian of the law who disobeyed orders 4. Ellis, the suspicious lover of the hunt who is obsessed with death 5. Kovac, the gentle post-mortem photographer who gives a bit of immortality, portrayed by @wingedyera

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[knighteclipsed]

Wanted Plots (June)

Feels like it's been a hot sec for the Moonstone. hm.

AFFILIATED MISSION BOARD

(Valter is a Knight of Seiros, so anyone is free to take these up with him!)

monster hunting irl — any +1

it's monster hunting. need i say more? (this guy finds it to be a fucking RIOT.) taken by: @blaiddllodi

them storms be kinda wild low-key — no skill point

haha what if i just poke his exile trauma haha? taken by: @optimismxmagicism

are those the fucking gargoyles from my army days? — flying +1

i want. him to torment someone. (magvel muse moment :grin::bangbang:) taken by: @lindwyvrm

UNAFFILIATED MISSION BOARD

chat i think we're larping — heavy armor +1

Valter has no interest in dressing up, but studying old battles is a smart way to go about learning new tactics and seeing the actual implications of old ones. You can sign him up I suppose :joy: taken by: @fellpurpose , @goldoanheart , @livedtoserve

And that's all that I'm explicitly looking for, but with the right reasoning I can twist just about anything into working haha. Similarly, if there's a a thread idea not explicitly stated here that you, dear reader, are interested in nonetheless, I am open to chat! (Not looking to pick up too many threads dfhasbj, but we'll see!)

Oh yeah, for those Tumblr-locked, you can generally use my IMs (i check them pretty often); for those in the Discord, DMs are preferred to better keep track of stuff. Pings in plotting work too tho!

[krismasarson]

Part 2 ot my collection of DnD characters! Today we get a lesbian trauma baby!

Tw! Child abandonment, child neglect, ptsd, trauma, slight gore(?), gruesome depictions, imprisonment

Picrew : Baby carrot character maker

Legia Hardweaver

(I have a typical medieval setting campaign that she is in but i also have one thats modern so ill just use the medieval for now)

- a cold and closed off Goliath with more than enough trauMA OH GOD PLEASE NO! SHE HAS ENOUGH ALREADY STOP-

-a draconic bloodline Sorcerer (Silver dragon) who was forced to multiclass into a path of storm Barbarian during her years of "Training"

-She is a selective Mute who only really communicates through sign language, morse, or writing. The people that have heard her voice have known her for 5+ years. And even after that she still doesn’t do it much unless absolutely necessary.

-her face is very rarely uncovered. Her right eye and mouth are practically never visible. Though there are times where she will take off the eye patch around certain people.

- Her size and strength are her key attributes. Being able to dig a tunnel through a mountain with your bare hands in under an hour is no easy feat and her party doesn't plan to forget that seeing as she had to make it big enough for herself as well. Though her party ain't complaining. They get scary dog privileges in the form of a 9'11 (kinda thinking about changing that-) Ripped Female Goliath following them around.

- But her reason and need to be so big and scary is a bit less of a fun story. Legia is a very private person due to trust issues and past traumas. Her largest scars left over are her explosion burn scars that are very close to covering the whole right side of her body. Poor girl has been injured so many times from her time as a military weapon, that she has frozen like a deer in headlights at the sound of sparks.

-She was abandoned at an extremely young age and forced to navigate the mountain tundra that her tribe resided after waking up on the forest floor. She would have not survived if not for the silver dragons that randomly found her curled up under a tree. After the first encounter, around 8 years later she was found by the militia and taken in.

-her time in the milita is very fuzzy, atleast thats what she tells people. She remembers the more gruesome bits of time. Her training regimen, her testing process, the smells and sounds of the lab, the overwhelming smells of gunpowder as well as the unnerving quiet after a battle, the sights of victory in the form of bloody corpses and broken skulls, and things of that nature.

- her time there led her to meet her first love, A young woman named Evangelica, whom was the daughter of a very prominent aristocrat in the city. Having to keep their relationship secret both for Evangelicas sake as well as Legias. They were together for around 8 years when Evangelica proposed they run away together. Legia agreed. Though that little fantasy would come to an end quickly as Evangelicas father had found out of her little escapades and lectured her. Only 12 minutes of yelling and screaming were needed before Evangelica was finally convinced that Her father's words of Legia were true. Through this experience, Legia learned trust and loyalty is never guaranteed and that years of love and admiration mean nothing in the eyes of the wealthy.

-After this she swiftly escaped the confines of her "Instructor" and ran off into the world where She was able to quickly establish herself as a mercenary. She wanders with no real purpose other than to forget.

-Her current group consists of a orc boy who has fire magic but is deathly afraid of fire, a Larping Monk who is excessively exroverted, the Larping Monks emotionally tired Paladin sidekick, and an Old War veteran Elf Fighter who was exiled from his home town.

- Her relationship with the Monk never was great. When she first saw him in a town yelling about his faith, she immediately despised him. He had then noticed her looking, approached, greeted her respectfully, tried to shake her hand, and then woke up in an infirmary with 8 broken bones , a severe concussion, and the strong will to find her again.

-The Paladin and her get along fine. They both are pretty quiet so they prefer to just talk about the little things and then get on with their day.

-The Elf however... they are actually fairly close. They met while they both were just wandering and came across each other in the woods. Upon the sight of someone dressed a kin to that of the milita, legia immediately began swinging. When he had finally got her to stop and listen, they just kinda stood there staring at each other and then as she turned around, about to walk away, he noticed her limp and offered help which she hesitantly took as she was low on supplies.

-In the beginning of their partnership, legia was doing what she normally does which is practically NEVER communicate. Alexander (the elf) was not too shaken by this as his first encounter with her told him a bit on her stance with him. Over time, they developed a very tight knit father-daughter relationship. Around the 3 year mark was when he had first heard her voice, 2 years before he saw under the eyepatch, and 5 years before he first saw under her mask. All in all, it's a very good relationship between the 2.

- The Orc, Bastion, they found when clearing out an old iron mill. He was chained to a work station and in horrible condition. Legia was the first to find him, the room was full of loose coal, lit ovens, and random fires. When she first walked in he was paniced and uneasy. While trying to conversate with him a fire burst out beside her, her reflective response was her ice magic which completely killed the flame almost instantly. This caught Bastions attention very quickly and made him feel a lot safer with the large fire killing lady.

-He was so shaken up by everything so after they had completed their mission and got him out of there, he became completely inseparable from legia. If he had lost sight of her, he would go into a panic induced rage trying to find her. Legia sees him as a baby duck that just follows her around but she doesn't mind at all. If she can be the person she always wished to have while in the milita to this young orc, then she would be happy to help him.