#need a find a way to track that!

[mephestopheles]

My dnd group is almost finished with Rise of Tiamat. When we're finished we're going to pick up the game I run. Which gives me roughly 6 weeks of prep time.

I still have so much to prepare. The problem is ADHD at its finest. I did not take a lot of notes because I was in the middle of running the sessions. So my notes are, lacking. I have a decent memory of what happened, and I have notes from the note takers, which helps both with my memory and the events they care about.

So, problem the second, I do not know where to start.

Here's the basic list:

Add relevant world building articles to world anvil

Update all npc bios and character sheets

Write up session reports for the previous arc (2/9)

Prep for next arc including

Set up and write down somewhere the players cannot see the real reasons for the quests and the ulterior motives of several NPCs that may be villains

Build six major quests, (one for each of the elemental planes, then one for the celestial and one for the shadowfell) with options for each of them to be kicked off at their current level (save for celestial and shadowfell)

Create and or source all necessary maps and battle zones (currently a patron of czepeku so this is technically done but I want to email them to find out if I can upload their stuff with the watermark to world anvil )

Ramp up divinity subplot and start awarding divinity points that unlock specific abilities based on previous decisions (eg: the tattoo they received unlocks certain 1/day abilities based it's associated deity)

Create a Battle Royale as a centerpiece between the first three quest markers and the latter half

Have opportunities for the characters to do side jobs should they choose but also create consequences should they push off main quest objectives too long (one character has a Gaes upon her for a year and one day which means 5d10 psychic damage each time she fights the Gaes, this will likely drop her the first time it happens)

Create the rescue/kidnap side arc to rescue a missing player character

Apparently bring back space clowns because they really enjoyed them

Might use the space clowns to showcase the plague happening

Hopefully create enough that we all have fun and it doesn't feel forced

Things I would love to have at the ready:

Short stories from side characters that the players interact with only rarely

Timers for certain events that are happening around the players

Prettify the world anvil articles so they all look nice

Find a way to convince my players to update and use the character sections available for all the cool shit you can add (like memories and adding quests to your character sheet and fun shit like that)

This doesn't feel like everything. But this is overwhelming enough

[conscydraws]

Order 38. Undelivered.

[secret-71845th-thing]

When BGM for VBS' WLE slaps harder than most of their commissioned songs

[candy-induced-vertigo]

I decided to make a wordgirl fancomic, and this is how it's beginning! Well, not really, since I'm still working on issue one, but this was a practice thing I made a while ago and I liked how it turned out, so I figured why not post it here? It's not exactly canon to the story but it's something that's plausible.

I'm proud of the flow (even tho when gunner and tobey talk at the end it kind of disrupts it) and the fact that I succeeded at making a good background. I'll have to keep practicing them, since this took me too long to be sustainable for a comic. But I'm sure I can do it.

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[robin-buckleys]

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animal & nature lover, directioner since 2011 (ot5), biologist and photographer by day - fangirl blogger at all other times, scorpio

music: love pop, rock, lofi, really just anything tbh, I'm literally always listening to music ALWAYS

shows: castle, lucifer, obx, ted lasso, young royals, virgin river, sex education, psych, adow, heartstopper, bridgerton, & sooo many more

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[ryoryeonggu]

Alina Starkov - The Map Maker

Nikolai Lantsov - The Lucky Compass

Malyen Oretsev - The Tracker

[platypusisnotonfire]

Im being so fr when i say any future hypothetical child of mine by age 13 should have a life I don’t know about.

I do NOT mean living a double life, I would do everything in my power to make sure my kid doesn’t feel the need for that.

I do NOT mean I’m gonna parentify my 13 year old and expect them to be independent. 13 is still a child.

I DO mean I am raising a person. Every single year I should be teaching them enough to take care of themselves at developmentally appropriate levels.

I know for a FACT a 13-year-old is capable of having a full time job and running a household (fact being me at age 13 becoming the “man of the house” and having to both work and figure out how to pay bills and taxes and all the grown up stuff)

Should they? ABSOLUTELY not. It caused psychological damage I’m still trying to undo.

My POINT being that there is a lot of intelectual capacity in a 13-year-old brain. If I’ve done my job correctly in training them at 1,2,3,4 years old etc, by age 13 they should be perfectly capable of going off to hang out with friends, explore the woods, explore the neighborhood, without me supervising or being involved at all.

By 13 my kids should be able to go off and have a Goonies or Stand By Me type excursion without me ever knowing about it. All the while knowing, to their bones, that if anything at all is ever Too Much for them or too scary or to complicated to understand, they could come to me with NO judgement on my part. I’m here to teach them how to human. Not to mold them into some parody of myself.

[angelsdean]

ruthlessly deleting old 2021/2022 posts (not by me) from my dean studies tag like *click* un-incorporating that from my beliefs system! also the way SO many posts have me like ok uh-huh good aaand then say one completely wrong thing that loses me. it's so many posts.

[toytulini]

me, stupidly and weirdly resistant to listening to audio books vs reading a physical book for no real reason: man i wish there was a way to like, read a book while i crochet like i do with tv shows and movies and podcasts

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

At The Feet Of The Sun

book 2 in a slow paced high fantasy duology*

the right hand of the emperor (who is off searching for an heir) struggles with what to do after passing on his responsibilities and also discovering various pieces of information that are mindblowing to him, personally,

after adventure is thrust upon him, he travels to find His Radiancy and they go on some otherworldly adventures while growing closer and figuring out the nature of their friendship

(*there’s extra novellas & i think another book coming? duology adjacent, currently,)

[terrak0]

I think that over the years, as Ericsons grows and becomes its own full fledged community, more members and kids might join the ranks and the school gets way more lively.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

I don’t like hanahaki disease for the same reason I don’t like soulmates. It removes the choice. All the love and feelings feel instantly dampened by the lack of choice. I mean I get that with hanahaki disease there is technically a choice, but “love me back or I’ll die” isn’t really a choice, and the other options aren’t much better either

“Either you love me back or I loose the ability to love/ loose all my feelings for you/ forget about you entirely”

“Love me back or I’ll live with this chronic illness forever”

These aren’t good alternatives, if still feels forced and one sided

[idlingsomewhere]

i genuinely dont know if any of yall are into jazz but ive been thinking a lot about this album lately. therefore here is an album rec. for u. if u want. its really funky and sort of odd and i think some of yall might enjoy the vibe. erm

[futurewife]

Ven please, I'm begging you to go to therapy. Your posts hurt me so much cause I recognize myself and people I've loved in them and I always wanna say smth to make you feel better but I know from experience that that only helps for a little while or doesn't help at all or can even make things worse. But you don't have to suffer like this forever!! You can get better and there is help!! And as a fellow pmdd sufferer you can get help with that too. Idk how you feel about medication but going on birth control continuously so you never have periods or using antidepressants or mood stabilizers just for the two nightmare weeks after ovulation can help so much. Please please please I worry about you and I know you can have a good life if you get help! you're beautiful and creative and you have everything you need you just have to figure out how to access it and use it and I know you can do it. I know your F/Os would want you to and I know your future real life S/Os who are waiting for you would want you to too. You deserve to be happy instead of feeling like a ghost all the time.

Thank you anon I appreciate the concern, feel a little bit embarrassed about oversharing now but you know what...sometimes you just have to say it out loud somewhere. As you would know the nature of the disorder means there's often not much that can be done in terms of talking myself out of the way it feels cause biology is so (detrimentally) overpowering and intensifies other mental health issues and generally all pre-existing negative feelings about ones' existence. The ghost analogy is apt and I've often used this to describe how I relate to life and connecting with others. now idk if I can overcome myself and thrive but maybe I could switch some things up and see if it makes it suck a little less

I was on ssris constantly for years previously (edit: and therapy on and off) before I stopped taking them but your ask has me considering intermittent dosing even if I dislike the side effects just to see what happens. I thought I could just grit my teeth and bare it (put myself to sleep between being wracked by ugly crying as I cannot stand being conscious in my own mind) every month in lieu of meds but maybe I can't rawdog slog through dark funhouse mirror evil pmdd reality on my own/shouldn't feel that I have to in order to not "lose"

I was very touched by your reaching out and compassionately disagreeing with me (lol) and it means a lot from another person with pmdd. It helps to think someone out there sees the value in me as I am right now, and that someone else is also fighting their own good fight. When you said I have everything I need I just have to figure out how to access it and use it and you know I can do it you sound just like my grandma. (<3)

[quaddmgd]

I DON'T WANNA BE ANOTHER MEMORY