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[beaujagr]

Right before the pandemic, I did a Kickstarter for my TTRPG Turn, which is about playing shapeshifters in small mostly rural towns. I worked with some great people on it and I think it is still an amazing game and wish I could play it more and expand upon it extensively, but I don't think that it will be in the cards for me.

However, it still exists.

This game, where you struggle between your public and private identities, where the rules are mostly focused on avoiding faux pas in human social interactions in order to keep your beast side hidden, where violence is easy but has hard consequences, and where the biggest struggle is finding people who will still love and care for you when you're exposed to be something most people would see as monstrous or freakish & you're struggling to live, it exists. I made that, six years after I first conceptualized it, & now five years after I made it real, no one knows.

I didn't get to take it to tons of conventions & promote it heavily, in part because I was struggling with my health, in part because the pandemic cut short a lot of my plans, in part because I didn't truly have a community that loved & cared for me when I was exposed & struggling. Instead, I lost my community, & I eventually had to give up my dreams, too.

But Turn exists. It's still beautiful and special to me, and I have had experiences with it building community and finding myself that I don't think I will have in real life. It's how I found my name. It mattered. Today, I'm holding on to that.

Turn is here, with my other works:

https://thoughty.itch.io/turn

+supplement, Towns Like Ours:

https://thoughty.itch.io/towns-like-ours

+Script Change, which I recommend using with it/any RPG:

https://thoughty.itch.io/script-change

Print:

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Turn.html

DriveThruRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/10592/daedalum-analog-productions

KS:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/briecs/turn-a-tabletop-roleplaying-game

[sarahsmi13s]

kissing in between logan’s knuckles where his claws come out because you remember him telling you that it hurt when they came out

that’s it, that’s the thought

[whitestnoise]

[xxgothchatonxx]

So, Alisha Weir as Abigail was just delightful when she was being all wild, chaotic, and monstrous... but this is the part that really stuck with me. Lazar says "I came when you needed me" (which, excuse you, you're about 15 minutes late, darling) and Abigail 'responds' with this:

Honestly, this whole scene was fantastic, despite it being so short. Alisha proved that she could more than hold her own against an actor as seasoned as *spoiler*

(then again, I shouldn't be surprised - she played Matilda against Emma Thompson's Trunchbull)

But then, pure vulnerability.

Again, this scene is so short, but holy crap, Alisha nailed it. All Abigail wanted was her father's attention. But instead of it coming across as obnoxious and whiny, it's so subdued and quietly desperate. And Alisha got that across without saying a single word.

Which is also doubly impressive because Lazar looked like, well, That and it was still a really touching, emotional moment. So, instead of me pissing myself laughing at the contrast of seeing his buck-teeth-fangs, I nearly burst out crying.

[froyocorp]

LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEES RISE UP

[whumpbby]

Dunno, maybe because I'm an old ace my bar for good romance and love interest is a bit higher than the usual romance readers'?

Yeah yeah, he will do everything for his love and nothing is more important than them. Yawn. Yeah yeah, he's the most powerful of them all, but also has childhood trauma. Yaaaawn.

Does he have a job? Does he have friends? Can we see him interacting with people who aren't the protagonist?

Does he have family? Are there people he likes and has relationships with outside of the protagonist? Does he have any responsibilities that can't be easily dropped for the protagonist's sake?

Is he a dick to protagonist's friends/family for no reason other than seeing them as competition/danger/annoyance?

Is he unhinged in a way that doesn't include the protagonist?

[markthemannequin]

OOC

CHAT IS THIS REAL???

I JUST NOTICED THIS. I DIDNT KNOW MARK HAD PRONOUNCE !!!! ????

[beaujagr]

Would you believe it's been a whole year since I published the final version of my content, consent, and safety toolbox for tabletop roleplaying games (and other purposes), the Script Change RPG Toolbox?

https://thoughty.itch.io/script-change

https://briebeau.com/scriptchange

Did you know that it remains Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution licensed, free to download with an option to donate, filled with a variety of tools and new resources for play, and supplemented by emojis for Discord and both playing & tarot cards?

If you didn't, now you do!

[jackienautism]

THANK YOU @cannibalcult AS ALWAYS FOR TAGGING ME!!!! im always cool w/ you doing so :3

had to create myself in this picrew

i lied i dont have shoulder length hair (not rn...........) but my hair is also not this long FKGNDF i tried adding pins but they got covered ):

you already know the drill, pretend i tagged you if you wanna do it. gonna be tagging @marigoidz specifically though bc look!!!! this picrew has a nice variety of features and such and i feel i was better able to capture myself :] still not Exact,b ut i tried

[masonsbfgaming]

characters i think mason would get along with but it gets progressively worse

[driaswrld]

omg wait wait wait, hear me out!!! tsr but…it’s a beach episode!

i can already imaging satoru being so pale that you and suguru have to literally drench him in sunscreen and he’s just giggly bc you guys are rubbing the sunscreen onto his skin all over just to make sure he doesn’t burn up into a crisp 😭

omggg and bringing megumi, tsumiki and the twins!! megumi would prob just hang around the beach bc he’s not a huge fan of water satoru tried to drag him in there but he seriously wont even budge. with tsumiki in charge of the food making sure that someone doesn’t eat all the sweets!

all while mimiko and nanako bury satoru into the sand (y’know those little sand mermaids?). suguru won’t even stop them bc he loves his girls and…it’s hilarious seeing satoru like that. all fun and games until he’s next tho…

- 💌

ANON STOP U ALWAYS READ MY MIND

how do u know i have a beach fic wip,,,, omggg are u telepathically linked to me or something,,,

but now that we're on the topic of the beach fic— I MUST EXPAND on ur beautiful hcs bcus theyre so tsr coded goodbye

megumi definitely gets the twins to bury satoru way too deep in the sand out of revenge bcus satoru acc spent the first hour of the beach trip looking for a sea urchin js to point at megumi and tease him ab how the resemblance is uncanny and suguru laughed WAY too loud

reader and tsumiki sunbathe and try out different drinks (well deserved break after carrying the whole family on their back) until they have to dig the boys up

satoru forgets his sunscreen (he really didn't he js didn't pack it n boasted ab not needing any bcus he has perfectly invincible unblemish-able skin)

the twins spend most of their time in the water but they take the time to collect rocks and gift them to megumi who gives them seashells he found (megumi is the twins' emotional support neurodivergent brother I STAND FIRM)

reader falls face first off sugu's shoulders and almost DROWNS bcus satoru thought it was a good idea to do those two man water fights (where one person is on the other's shoulder and they fight the others)

suguru also sneakily takes photos of everyone in between everything (he has a carefully curated family photo album he will fight anyone abt)

all in all the beach trip took one month to plan bcus this is a BIG family and there's so much going on but best blv they did not leave til sunset (mainly bcus satoru said he didn't pay for an all inclusive hotel just to NOT enjoy everything)

nb : he's delulu n just loves spoiling his family

[lucidicer]

ZOHROU DEACTIVATED?????????? seriously will start crying

[antianimus]

redraw time that was perfect practice

[tillman]

can i ask where you found the scans from this post? https://www.tumblr.com/tillman/708536597780529152/hm-sadly-the-one-isuka-guidebook-scanned-isnt-the ive looked everywhere 💔

ok got distracted for a bit but its from the Isuka Complete Guide (its included in this little collection!) . from what i can tell theres two isuka guidebooks with about the same info but one includes ABA and the other doesnt. one also incldues aba concept art while the other includes concept art for the unique moves every character gets for that game. i have the other its where such awesome images as horse millia and horse eddie come from LOL. ill get it scanned once im done with the manga.

[koitarou]

he brings sort of a ‘i can’t be fixed’ energy that my ‘i can fix him’ energy highly fucks with

[linksthoughtbrambles]

for the director's cut: [star emoji] <3

Thanks for the ask, aurathian! Sorry it took me so long to answer. I thought about what to talk about, and suddenly two things hit me, both about Link's Thought Brambles (I guess that makes sense since it's a huge percentage of what I've written. It's a 200K whopper 😂).

Major spoilers for that fic below.

In the first chapter of Link's Thought Brambles, only about ten lines from the top, Zelda realizes Link has picked up the slate and says:

“You will hand the slate to me and never touch it again.  Consider that a royal decree, Sir Link.”

She only uses those words one other time—right after Link has been seriously wounded:

“You will live, Sir Knight.  Consider that a royal decree.”

The echo happened naturally - I didn't plan it. It's because I role-play the characters in my head as I write, and Zelda simply spoke.

I am thrilled that the language echoes the very beginning of the story, when Zelda's feelings regarding Link are so negative. The same words carry an entirely different meaning later, and it touches Link deeply.

2. Because the POV is that of the Sheikah Slate, there really isn't any descriptive prose. The only time something comes up that's kind of like that is when Link is in a sort of dreamy/introspective mood or gets so struck by something in his environment that he gives it a long moment of consideration. Partially because of that, I made very little conscious attempt at working imagery or foreshadowing into the text.

But WOW, my subconscious did it for me! It appeared in characters' actions and dialogue. I recognized it later, but it emerged naturally from that character role-playing process I do rather than me planning it. I'm still amazed at how that worked out.

For example:

Chapter 23, introduces the character Myrri, a very little girl (maybe 4 years old) who spends most of her days in the castle kitchen. She gives Zelda a bouquet of floppy weeds. Later, she's constructing another bouquet full of prickly-pods for Link. Even later, it's a bouquet of thorny wildberry canes which she tells Link he's supposed to give to Zelda, and in chapter 52 ("This gift is not for me"), she gives a bouquet of blooms to Zelda to put at Link's bedside table (including lillies, dahlias, warm safflina, and blue nightshade).

For the first three bouquets, I was thinking, "what does a tiny kitchen-helper collect to make a bouquet?" I figured things that would be available very easily outside the kitchen. The time of year was a factor, too, and it's getting close to the end of fall, so that's where the basically flowerless and almost leafless properties of the bouquets came from. Then that last bouquet comes from immense gratitude to Link for which a special trip was made.

What emerged from that is movement from weeds to prickles to thorns to blooms. It worked out so well as imagery for how the Link/Zelda relationship progresses in the fic. It's not a seedling to sapling to flower. It's weeds directly for Zelda (what she sees: looks not necessarily great, but fine - weeds are hardy, right?) to prickles for Link (what's really going on in Link's head, a lot of uncertainty, stress, and dread) to thorns for Link to give Zelda (he needs to open up to her so they can share the burden rather than bear it alone even in each others' presence), to blooms for Link that reach him through Zelda (the relationship can blossom when Link finally can speak freely, and so does Zelda - she's finally fully truthful about something at the end ❤).

...............I did not mean to be so long-winded. I was going to give a few examples but that's already a lot to read! Anyway - it turns out there's imagery and foreshadowing both in there in ways I never expected. It just emerged. Whatever tiny gremlin lives in my head that whispers at me to do this, I hope it sticks around!

Thanks again for the ask!