#usbourne

[wouldgaysexfixthem]

would gay sex fix them?

[autisticats23]

they really did match each others freak

[squiral]

ancient show of peep art

[petitjury]

I’m in my fucked up peep show echo chamber

[holygayrightsbatman]

realised some similarities between some of favourite shows

[oury-boros]

leech boy, a jeremy usbourne fanvid by yours truly. shout out to I've got the Keyboard's "The El Dude Brothers - Compilation of every 'eeeeh' between Mark and Jez - Peep Show" on youtube, a master work.

[firehair12000]

[troubledtealover]

[guardianreadersofthegalaxy]

Twelve: I'm going to have to punch through this wall Clara's ghost: Are you serious? You're going to punch the wall? Using your fist? With enough force it's going to be smashed open? Twelve: *punches wall ineffectually* Clara: [sarcastically] Good first punch! Of course you are going to have to smash right through so only about another million more and you'll be out! Twelve: Fuck you. I'm not wearing the right shoes. [from Peep Show]

[european-love-hotel]

mark and jeremy from peep show shouldve been allowed to fuck. it wouldve sorted all their problems

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

jeremy usbourne from peep show is bisexual (canon)

submitted by @holygayrightsbatman

[whatwhatwotter]

^ Pictures taken at the city library showing dozens of usborne books. Definitely still a thing!

Honestly thought I'd never hear the word "usborne" again. My mom used to live and breathe that company, and while I certainly don't regret a fair chunk, I do find it amusing as I look back now. I legitimately thought it had fallen off faster than Juice+.

In reference to a post where i mention my kid has the usborne “see inside germs” book.

So if people don’t know, usborne is a weird publishing company that has done indispensable books for British children for generations; they’re in every library, school and nursery, and have shelves devoted to them in every bookstore. They are how many people learned to read, and are the originators of many hyper focuses. They’re famed for doing educational lift the flap books for all ages, like “see inside your body”, as well as as the ubiquitous touch-and-feel series, “that’s not my….” In which a mouse comments improbably on various creatures not being their creature. “That’s not my dragon,” the mouse says, inviting you to stroke a dragon with a patch of fur on it, “its tummy is too soft. That’s not my dragon,” on the next page, where the dragon’s ears are lined with textured paper, “its ears are too bumpy.” This seems like such an inefficient way to find one’s missing dragon, a fact that simmers underneath you through endless repetition. Why does the mouse own so many things (pirates, ducks, polar bears) and why is it interrogating other people’s pirates etc by feeling their legs.

At any rate, turn a parents’ house upside down and these books fall out.

Which is why it’s completely hilarious that they are also an MLM.

Well. Kind of. In the old school sense. It’s less about signing up a pyramid scheme and more about getting a random citizen to buy a crate of perfectly popular books and try to sell them on from their home. It’s very traditional for Mums On Maternity Leave to do this. Pre-social media and online ordering, they’d hook up other mums at toddler group. Today, they post awkwardly on social media. The idea is that buying from another parent is cheaper than the bookstore, and they get to keep the markup. They get intense about things, and I believe they attend conferences. Nobody makes a huge amount of money and it’s unclear how undercutting local bookstores is helpful; it’s also basically the same RRP as Amazon I think.

And the books are perfectly respectable and sell perfectly well in bookstores.

So. Like. This marketing scheme is completely weird. Why?? Why does it still exist? People buy the books normally! You don’t need to promote them aggressively! You don’t need elaborate independent local middlemen schemes! You can just buy them! I have never understood this. I just file it under one of those weird mat leave hustles.

But don’t worry OP. They’re still going. They’ll never stop. The thing is that your mom got bored and online sales probably ate whatever residual profit margins were left and it’s probably very liberating for everyone to grow out of the “that’s not my cow” stage, but Usborne books are going strong.

[hydralisk98]

TTRPGs & CRPGs (GM learning session ideas)

As to learn the ropes of game mastery and earn the associated title of "Game Master" (for fun and profit), I felt like asking out if anybody would be interested in my second-ever attempt to run TTRPGs. I am contemplating towards a few experimental short campaigns or one-shots, filling the role of what the commoners call a "dungeon master".

Whilst I am not exactly sure whom desire to play such short campaigns (mostly customized one-shots, with pre-generated options, for the time being) with me, here are a couple suggestions and check in if you are interested.

Gila RPGs' NOVA ( alongside its Creator Kit ) with Heliopolis & ChronomancerTomb & Burnout UserGeneratedContent, powered by the LumenSRD

WONDERFALL

iXe

PARIAH with MÊLÉE & GENIUS LOCI modules

Cyberpunk RED, but run likewise to "Cyberpunk 2077", with or without its "Phantom Liberty" expansion pack. May or not include BlackChrome, InterfaceRED Volume 1, InterfaceRED Volume 2(Unsure because I don't own it compared to the others here but maybe eventually?), ElflinesOnline & FractopianCityPlanner ;

TalespinnerEU

Pathfinder 2E adventures but set in a fantastical version of Angora around the end of its 41st century (according to their mainstream calendar that is)

(dreaded by WotC politics & ethics) Dungeons and Dragons 5E (revision 5.1) adventures with much first-party content (considering specifically "Icewind Dale" but divided into way smaller chunks & editing around its content by much)

I am taking at the very least major hints from my constructed worldbuilding project to joint fun at the table and creative pertinence if not using those world's planets as campaign settings in all serious intent. And even thought it is far from satisfactory in immersive scenes bottom-up level on its own due to lack of multimedia content (especially over visuals, soundscapes, films, in-world feelies and other manifestation aids), it is quite enough to get started a few mystery-oriented sessions in all kinds of gameplay systems, play-styles & time periods. Especially looking forward to acquire the above-mentioned NOVA stack as well as a bunch more... Bronze Age materials. I got a couple more products I would love to use & cover over the indie scene, especially Game Mastery resources for historically-inclined dense immersive worldbuilding. Most likely going to host and play campaigns in a somewhat chronological order as much as possible to emulate the progression of my "Civilization 5 Complete Edition"-inspired workflows. Thus, this "shared"-paracosm if you will, would have plenty of content for anyone to immerse themselves onto. (Don't forget to consider that the major curator timelines and interpolating data between "save-files" / journaling record instances in a open source-y version-control manner is a transparent manifestation games' process and its private paths should be taken very seriously but its maintainers.)

And yes, I am definitely considering continuing what I did for the Gygax75 challenge too (only did the first "week" over the five presented thus far due to detailing scope creep / "worldbuilders disease"). Excited to make some retro-computer aids for my constructed world stuff once I reach a satisfactory level of expertise in that game mastery stuff (it helps to have a better grasp of how players interact and what they seek in my works) but I am very open-minded about whatever we can do to enjoy those sessions for whom wants to play really. (Still putting a decent social contract and safety tools there regardless, but that shouldn't scare you off considering that they only are a matter of handling edge-cases like nightmare players)

(It would be really nice to have a pool of at least 24+ contributors / players for this massive creative endeavor but I am not gonna force hands here. And I do have plenty of ways + resources as to get to my desired outcome. However, more people feeding into the project in some way or another really helps speeding the whole process up and making it way more accessible / useful for you all once it is ready for publishing than it would be if I did it all by myself alone)

Going to write a handful of suggested group-wise specifications relatively soon for those of whom want to play any specific sessions or campaigns I am setting up for fairly soon. Still preparing homebrew materials of my very own too for such and will play solo campaigns too. Farewell to soon fellaws!

[petitjury]

Bork and Yip

[oury-boros]

i think that jez believes that he and mark are in a sexual relationship, its just that they haven't had sex. and also he's right