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Like TTRPGS? Like supporting people who are trying to get back on their feet? How about prestigious names who are also leftist?

Friend of mine just released the FREE quickstart for their new RPG.

Want more reason to dive in and give it a try? This is Malix Nystul... a name that might sound vaguely familiar to those who played 2nd and 3rd edition D&D as dozens of spells bore his name (before 4th genericized all of them). The Archwizard Nystul in Greyhawk is named after him.

So do my wonderful friend a solid and download this, every download helps him out even if you're not spending any money!

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Promotional flyer for *Nuked*, a post-apocalyptic tabletop RPG. The flyer is split into two halves.</p><p>**Left half (gray concrete background):**</p><p>* At the top: A yellow circle with black stripes across it. Inside, large red text reads **NUKED**. Above it, in small black text:<br> *MUTANTS, MAGIC, MAYHEM*<br> *FAST FURIOUS FUN*<br>* Below the logo: White text reads:<br> *FREE INTRO*<br> *Nuked is a post-apocalyptic tabletop role playing game of mutants, magic and mayhem in a world gone mad. The rules are easy to learn and encourage fast moving, immersive play in a setting that is equal parts intense and irreverent.*<br>* Large bold white text: **NUKED-RPG.COM**<br>* Smaller white text: *TEST DRIVE ON DRIVETHRURPG*<br>* Bottom left: A large yellow-bordered QR code with the caption *NUKED PDF*. Next to it is a smaller black-and-white QR code.</p><p>**Right half (white border with black frame):**</p><p>* Left side vertical bar: Black background with white text: *TEST DRIVE*. Red vertical text next to it: **NUKED**.<br>* Top image: Cartoon-style illustration of four post-apocalyptic adventurers (a monkey in a hat, a warrior with a spear, a survivor with a rifle, and a woman holding a wrench). Background is an orange-red explosion.<br>* Below that, separated by a yellow-and-black caution stripe:<br> White text on a photo of a decayed industrial setting:<br> *Everything* you need to give Nuked a try<br> *Except for some dice*<br> *For 3–4 players and a GM*<br>* Lower right corner: Illustration of a trench-coated figure with a wide-brim hat and a large, single, glaring eyeball for a head.<br>* Large diagonal red banner across the bottom-right corner with yellow-outlined text: **FREE**.<br>* Bottom edge text (partially visible): *A GAME OF MUTANTS, MAGIC… WORLD GONE MAD*.

@Malix

#TTRPG #DND #DungeonsAndDragons #RPGs #Tabletop

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#dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #dnd #tabletop #rpgs @Malix

To be honest, this is something I see constantly around the fediverse of people shooting themselves in the foot over high minded ideals, choosing the sacrifice the now for an ideal future that won't happen because they're sacrificing it.

Favorite example here is the people that complain about corporate networks but then get angry at and shutdown anyone trying to make it easier for people to leave those networks.

Post by user TheRealMoonGod reading: At the height of COINTELPRO, the FBI taught agents that a great way to destabilize and destroy left wing movements was to infiltrate then sow division by introducing debate on largely irrelevant and often granular ideological differences. Many (MOST) of you seem very eager to continue their work for them. You just call it "discourse" and "hot takes" now.

They're trying to spin a version of things that suddenly claims that most or all mass shooters are trans, despite zero evidence of that fact. And why are they doing that? Because it gives them an excuse for platforms like this...

This asshole is literally calling for me to not only be arrested, but experimented on!

... Things are speeding up.

I sorely need help getting at least to a state that will be more likely to defend me: gofundme.com/f/assist-a-jewish…

Right Wing Commentator Joey Mannarino posted on Twitter: Health and Human Services must immediately get involved and violate the HIPAA laws to forward every transgender and transgender-questioning person to local law enforcement for IMMEDIATE detainment until we can figure out why they keep killing children in schools. This is a matter of national security. They must be locked away and studied. Anyone enabling their transitions should be immediately expelled from the medical profession. This needs to be handled by the federal government with no mercy. They need to be treated as we treat terror organizations.

#lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #trans #MutualAid #transwoman

#mutualaid #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #transwoman

A screenshot of a post on some platform from Megan Finger @meganfinger reading "THANK YOU Central for my awesome email address and username... like really side-eye emojii. Followed by a picture of a registration confirmation showing the username FingerMe and email address of FingerMe@cwu.edu

#communism #KarlMarx #PuppyGirl
A screenshot of three social media posts. The first post is from user "fangymutt" and reads "Karl Marx didn’t predict the puppygirl so what does he know really." The second post, also attributed to "f-goth," is a quote that reads, “Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.” The third post is from user "fangymutt" and reads, "well god damn ill go fuck myself sorry Mr Marx."
#communism #karlmarx #PuppyGirl

Being the person who listens, who provides support is hard...
It's hard to speak when you're always listening, and even harder to feel heard.

GIF from Lord Of The Rings in which Bilbo says "I feel thin, like butter scraped over too much bread"
#MentalHealth

#mentalhealth

Why do we have so many confusing identities and why should I remember them?

To be honest, you don't need to remember them unless they're relevant to you or those in your life. The only real reason to remember large quantities of them is to help people in their journeys and to help people feel not alone.

Labels, and especially micro-labels, aren't there for you. They're there for us. They're to help us communicate to ourselves that we're not broken, and to communicate to others that we're not just making it up from nowhere (not that you would be any less valid for doing so).

I'm trans because I'm not some broken confused man, I'm a woman, but also because my experience differs from cis women.

I'm gray-sexual, because I'm not defective, it's not some "performance issue". It's genuinely less interest and significantly less need. (Part of the asexual spectrum, it means significantly less sexual attraction or significantly less intense attraction, but not none. Not to be confused with libido which is the need for sexual release.)

I'm polyamorous, because I'm not non-committal or "want permission to cheat", but because I see relationships as ours to define, be it with a single partner or many. I can commit to one and I can commit to many, it's all about the agreements I have with the people I'm in relationships with.

LGBT+ flags in four rows of five flags, with labels, consisting of: Rainbow, Lesbian, Gay Men, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-binary, Bigender, Agender, Asexual, Pansexual, Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Aromantic, Polysexual, Bear, Leather, Polyamory, Intersex, Demisexual, Progressive Pride

#LGBT #LGBTQIA #Gender #Trans #Identity

#trans #lgbt #lgbtqia #gender #identity

screenshot of a twitter convo. first tweet says “been loving clit lately.” someone replies “ik ur gay ass is lying.” the original poster claps back with “name one classic literature book mark.” the other person replies again, “why on EARTH are you shortening classic literature to clit.”

As someone taking the opposite path from the below image:

I navigated it most of my life by constantly and obsessively managing my threat presence. It felt like a constant battle with the toxicity of other men. I had my guard up not because there was some threat of women assaulting me, but because watching their guard go up around me felt like being stabbed in the gut, like a lifeline getting cut off.

It took trauma and ego death for me to really start building an actual community for myself. I had bits and pieces I had gathered carefully and with great effort, but all that toxicity kept me from knowing what to do with it.

Now, even later, transition has been a massive weight lifted. (For those in the closet or eggs cracking: people clocking you doesn't make much difference here, if they put up that anti-creep guard around you they're a bitch anyways)

I feel like I can breathe. Connection is so much more casually there. I can see it in people's eyes, I can be in a crowd of strangers and I feel drastically less alone.

Unfortunately, those years of malnourished pain don't just disappear. I still have all of those threat management patterns, I feel like I'm scarred and sometimes even bleeding from that. There's a caution in me, afraid that people will misinterpret, that this wonderful person I want to make friends with will abruptly shut down on me and then disappear from my life if I relax too much, if I'm too open... I still feel like I'm emotionally walking on tip toes...

A Tumblr post by user "demilypyro" featuring a series of text posts from "skaldish" discussing the culture shock of transitioning and male socialization. Text: skaldish: Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances. skaldish: I'm pretty quiet about the fact I'm a transman usually, but holy shit I need to tell you about the culture shock I'm going through because it's blindsiding me. There's a huge sense of social isolation that comes with being perceived as male, because now people are subconsciously treating me as a potential predator. All strangers, no matter their gender, keep their guard up around me. It made me realize that there is no inherent camaraderie in male socialization as there is in female socialization—unless, of course, it’s in very specific environments. And the fact I don’t ambiently experience this mutual kinship in basic exchanges anymore is an insanely lonely feeling. You know how badly this would have fucked my mind up if I had grown up with this? It is 4:30am and I'm mourning the loss of a privilege I didn't even know I had. Anyway, I'm going to figure out how to navigate this. Don't know how yet, but I'm gonna. azaloset: If you figure it out, can you share your insights? This is a fundamental as to why I'm in the closet skaldish: Absolutely, because it’s an extremely sticky issue. Frankly, this is something I would’ve never understood without living the experience. It's now blatantly clear to me that most cis men probably experience chronic emotional malnutrition. They’re deprived of social connection just enough for it to seriously fuck with their psyches, but not enough for them to realize that it’s happening and what’s causing it. It’s like they’re starving, but don’t know this because they’ve always been served 3 meals…except those meals have never been big enough. This deprivation comes from all sides of the aisle, by the way. In the case of women: When I’m out in public and interact with women, all of them come off as incredibly aloof, cold, and mirthless. I have never experienced this before even though I know exactly what this composure is—the armor that keeps away creepy-ass men. As someone who used to wear it myself, I know this armor is 100% impersonal. Nobody likes wearing it, and I can say with absolute certainty that women would dump the armor in favor of unconditional companionship with men if this didn’t run the risk of actual assault. (Trust me when I say women aren’t just being needlessly guarded.) But I only have a complete understanding of this context because I’ve experienced female socialization. If I hadn’t, I would’ve thought this coldness was a conspiracy against me devised by roughly half of the human population. Even now, with all that I know about what the world is as a woman, I am failing to convince my monkey-brain that this armor isn’t social rejection. And as for male socialization? Again, it seems taboo for a man to be emotionally intimate with men for reasons that I’ve heard but never felt: a) historical culture that teaches boys that it’s not okay to be soft with each other, and b) garden-variety homophobia. Our media only shows men being intimate with one another when they’re teamed up against a dire situation, and I’d bet real money it’s a huge reason why men gravitate toward activities that simulate being teamed up against an opposing force. But men are not machines of war. Yes, testosterone absolutely gives you Dumb Bastard Brain, but that just makes you want to skateboard a wagon down a hill or duct-tape your friend to the wall, not kill someone. The human species looks so much colder standing from this side. I can see how men might convince themselves that their feelings of emotional desperation is personal weakness as opposed to a symptom they’re all experiencing from White Imperialism. Because this human connection, this frith, is as essential for our wellbeing as water is. So sick. How sick. I want to destroy this garbage. #this is a certain perspective you gain from having crossed the gender barrier #now that people se...

#lgbt #lgbtqia #trans #transmasc #transman #transfemme #transfem #transwoman #toxicMasculinity #Patriarchy

#trans #lgbt #transmasc #lgbtqia #transfem #transwoman #Patriarchy #transfemme #transman #toxicMasculinity

Stepped out of the shower today and had a moment appreciating myself, most of all appreciating that I actually like my hair now.

I'm not conventionally attractive, but I don't think of myself as ugly any more.

A selfie of a woman with light skin and shoulder-length, slightly damp blonde hair, taken in a bathroom mirror. She has a gentle smile and is wearing a patterned tank top and an olive skirt. Her nails are painted red, and she holds a smartphone with a floral case in her left hand. The bathroom has a white wall, a silver towel rack with a red towel, and a blue towel hanging on another rack. A washing machine is partially visible in the bottom left corner. The lighting is soft and even.

#TransFemme #Trans #TransWoman #Selfie

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The image features a stylized map of the United States with certain states highlighted in shades of blue. At the top, the text reads, "Oh, the Places I’m Allowed to Go!" in a playful, curved font. Below the map, a caption states, "THE ONLY RELATIVELY SAFE STATES FOR TRANS PEOPLE." The highlighted states represent areas that are considered safer for transgender individuals compared to others. The states shown as "relatively safe" in the image are: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Washington D.C.

Picture of Luigi Mangione with the text "Notice how luigi completely disappeared from the headlines? That's because when the media found out the public loved him they had to stop talking about him.

A Twitter thread by Sheryl Weikal (@leftistlawyer.com): "I think one of the things that increasingly bothers me about the Online Left in the United States—especially the Online white Left—is the number of people here not for praxis, not for coalition building, not to educate and inform, but to Be Correct." "Being Correct, by itself, has never saved a single life. If we truly are going to reject the great man theory of history—as we should—that means recognizing we aren’t the heroes of our own stories. That’s rugged individualism too." "Because as we’re all On Here arguing about whether x or y philosophy is True Marxism and everyone else is revisionist and who is Actually A Liberal... people are dying. Good people are dying. At the end of the day, it is possible to do praxis and activism online." "But that comes from the same way you do praxis in real life: by standing with and defending marginalized people. Protecting marginalized people from harm. You don’t do it by being the purest Marxist to ever Marx."

#autism #neurodivergent
Screenshot of a Bluesky post screenshotted on a Tumblr post: The top post is by Andrew Middleton @ecoandrewtrc.bsky.social and reads: "A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store because her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. 'My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid.' I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends." Below that, another user, redshiftsinger, comments: "'Sir, this is a Wendy's' = 'I have no idea why you're here for that, but this is possibly the LEAST relevant place for you to be right now.' 'Ma'am, this is a map store' = 'This is an even more relevant place for you to be than you know yet.'"

White text on black: Violence is Not the answer. The answer is *opens history book*. uh oh. *frantically starts flipping through pages*. uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh.

A screenshot of a humorous text exchange. The first post, from "livslibrarylabyrinth," says, "I told my husband he looked handsome and he got offended and looked to the swamp monster book I had on display saying 'I know what type of men you find handsome.'" Below it, another user comments, "new variant on 'your boos mean nothing; I’ve seen what makes you cheer.'" A third post from "naamahdarling" responds, "Your thirst means nothing; I’ve seen what makes you h*rny."

Pulled from Facebook
A custom Magic: The Gathering card titled "Masterful" Acquisition is displayed. The card is an Enchantment with a high mana cost of 9 generic mana and 3 black mana. Its text reads: - **Cumulative upkeep** – sacrifice two treasures. - Gain ownership of target card for as long as you control "Masterful" Acquisition or until the game ends (this doesn’t grant control). - Whenever "Masterful" Acquisition leaves play, you lose the game. The flavor text says: *"I really like your birds of paradise, I’ll name them X – The Elongated Muskdragon."* The artwork features a silhouette of a head with a birdcage hanging from it. Inside the cage is the Twitter bird logo, symbolizing entrapment. The card is credited to MTG Cardsmith and @AmataTai.

It hurt... it hurt so much and like so much trauma it's not that obvious until the trauma is past...
I was isolated, not only from other people, but from my own emotions... I wanted so badly to cry but I couldn't, all I could do was bottle it up (not toxic masculinity, literally an effect of testosterone)...
I looked at myself and pretty much didn't see myself... I had no self-image then and now I have one forming.
Before even my transition I figured out I'm grey-ace, now that I have a girlfriend I've really established that I'm grey-ace, emphasis on the grey... 😳
So it's really nothing sexual for me... there's the opposite of gratification there (without details... certain things don't work right anymore...). What it is is feeling at home in my skin, looking at myself in the mirror and finding things I like... sure I get dysphoria and there are plenty of things I don't like about my body... but there's for once in my life alot of things I do like.
And on top of it all... my personality and interactions with the world feel so less discordant... so many of my behaviors were early hints of being a woman... I may never have kids, but it's clear I've had "mother" energy for a looooong time.
... I could keep going but I got a day job to do...

Source of Image

This is a two-panel comic depicting an emotional conversation between two characters sitting on a bed. Panel 1: A blonde-haired character (on the left) sits cross-legged, leaning on their knees, looking concerned. They ask, "So, if it's so stressful, why do it?" The brunette character (on the right) is wearing pajamas with a tank top and patterned pants. They hold a makeup brush and a compact mirror, looking down and slightly tired as they reply, "Because it’s still better than trying to be a boy." Panel 2: A close-up of the brunette, now more visibly emotional and reflective. They say, "Sometimes it sucks. But other times it makes me feel great." The next speech bubble reads, "When I tried being a boy, I never felt anything. I was numb." Their expression conveys a mix of vulnerability and resolve. The setting feels intimate and supportive, with a visible brush, compact mirror, and soft bedding.

#lgbt #transfemme #lgbtqia #lgbtq #transition

Comfort food entertainment... catching up on the Mashle: Muscles and Magic anime.

Basically a himbo in the world of magic navigates life via brute force abusing physics.

Cover of Mashle tankobon

#anime #comfort #himbo

#anime #comfort #himbo

This hits hard tbh

Meme showing drawings of two women, copied images, first in low quality style looking to the other with the text "Hey, I like your smile!", second is a woman with hair in trans colors and the text "Thanks. It's new."

#lbgt #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #meme

#trans #lgbt #lgbtqia #meme #lbgt

Just highlighting that I'm right there in Texas, right in the "Do Not Travel". I am definitively not safe.

Map of the united states highlighting different states on a scale from "Do Not Travel" to "Safest States with Strong Protections"

#lgbtq #trans #uspol #lgbt #lgbtqia

#trans #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #uspol

Post by gentleaffirmations: Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt. Follow up comment by gentleaffirmations: I hope this message reaches all the neurodiverse and disabled people who were made to feel like their abuse was justified because they had "behaviors". While this message is true for every child, you are who I had in mind when I wrote it.

Date night tonight with my girlfriend, what do y'all think? #TransEuphoria

(Sorry no image description, if someone else writes one I'll copy it, but I'm useless at describing myself)

#transeuphoria

I shared this a few years ago but a lot has changed since then...

Not a perfect graph regardless, but I like it for communicating.

OMG I'M WHEEZING!

Tumbler Thread: Post by UnhingeMyHeart reposted by Neil Gaiman written as dialogue: Prime Video: So, Good Omens Season 2 Neil Gaiman: Yes Prime Video: What's the Story? Neil Gaiman: No story, just vibes. Prime Video: Neil, we need a little more to work with. Neil Gaiman: Okay, do you remember Sister Theresa Garrulous and Sister Loquacious from Season 1? Prime Video: Yes? Neil Gaiman: They're in a coffee shop AU. Prime Video: (drawn out) and? Neil Gaiman: And they need to fall in love. Prime Video: But Neil, what about Crowley and Aziraphale? Neil Gaiman: Oh, don't worry. They're already in love. Follow up by user Vidavalor: Prime Video: Not sure this is enough. Neil Gaiman: Naked Jon Hamm. Prime Video: OK, yeah, sold. Final follow up by Neil Gaiman: Actually I started with Naked Jon Hamm. But otherwise, yeah, more or less accurate.

#GoodOmens #GoodOmens2 #NeilGaiman

#neilgaiman #goodomens #goodomens2

Headline of article reading "Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after two die: `People's lives are at stake` above the image of the exhausted Ben Affleck smoking meme labeled "Boeing Hitman"

My sister Chelsie is struggling emotionally with potty training her kid, so I edited a popular meme to be more relevant.

A panel showing Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation saying "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still poop." followed by a second panel reading "That is not a weakness. That is parenthood"

#StarTrek #Parenting #PottyTraining #StarTrekTNG

#startrek #parenting #StarTrekTNG #PottyTraining

Oh wait, already did... maybe I need to make it more prevalent?

(Edited as based on a reply it was far too easily misread. Previously said "Admin is a Jew" and it never dawned on me that someone could think it meant the admin of the zionist server rather than myself)

Excerpt of the server description reading: Server Level Block Standards: We block Trolling, Disinformation Campaigns (ie. Anti-vaxxers), Explicit Bigotry*, Zionism (admin of Foggyminds is a Jew), Free Speech Absolutism (because the rest is pretty much guaranteed on such a node). This list is non-exclusive and reasons are given for each block.

Had a really long night at a charity LARP event I was invited to, I thought I felt slightly pretty for a moment in the last one picture I shared... But after last night I felt much much more happy and sure of myself.

Edit: alt-text provided by @Janet Logan 🏳️‍⚧️

#selfie #transfemme

Very cute selfie of a smiling trans woman in a fabulous black top with white trim.
#selfie #transfemme

Felt pretty, not just slightly cute, today for the first time...

WTF Google? It costs serious money just to get a network jack that fast!

Screenshot of a post with a reply, the original post from @_Aaron448 reads "I saw a discussion about how Aaron Bushnell deserves no praise because he was 'still an imperialist at age 25. He should have known better.' ..." with the reply from Erika Chappel - Profession @open_s (appears to be cut off): "Essentially an enormous part of the reason that online leftist spaces suck so much is that they are filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right"

Call for help for emergency vet bills, thankfully my fur-nibling is safe now but my sibling Dandelion is under a lot of strain from this.

Hey friends: my dog got into something he shouldn't and I've been left with a $700 emergency vet bill. Doggo is okay now, thankfully, but I could use some assistance if anyone has anything to give. Venmo: @ronanjoem

Link To Original Post

Picture of a Facebook post by Dandelion Leonaitis featuring the quoted text from above in front of a poop emoji background.

#EmergencyAid #VetBills #Pets #Dogs

#Dogs #pets #EmergencyAid #VetBills

Just a random picture of my kitty receiving joyous chin scritches
a black cat resting her head on a hand that's scratching her chin

Screenshot of a Facebook post by All-Purpose Cultural Transgender Catgirl that reads: Cat: *meows* Entire household of gender diverse autistics: *meows back*

(Not my OC)
Bullet points that read: See criticism of technology, look inside, It's a consequence of capitalism. Above a super close up picture of a cat looking into the camera.

Got my anti-cistamines today! One order of tit-tacs and one order of antiboyotics!

Photo of a hand holding two pill bottles, one for Estradiol and the other for Spironolactone

#hrt #trans #transfemme

I want to run tabletop games, be emotional support, teach people techie shit, and contribute to programming projects or building small programs for people who'd benefit from them.
Twitter post by @burnitupbabee, display name Autumn with a hammer and sickle symbol. "I don't have a dream job I have a dream community role. I don't want to work for profit in a world where that's the priority, I want to work because I love the people around me. That's my dream, not labor under capitalism." Timestamp 10:13 AM - 7/4/20

30 Days of US Healthcare: DIR Fees

youtube.com/watch?v=I61wCVh0Y1…

Day 23 of 30 Days of US Healthcare youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpM…

Saw this and had to meme it.

#trauma

A single frame from a comic strip featuring Doctor Doom standing over a glass capsule containing another Doctor Doom saying "It is my gift to the world: Me. In case there is ever a crisis so dire that I alone cannot overcome it." There's text on the capsule that reads: "In case of global catastrophe wherein the Real Doctor Doom is indisposed, break glass." Below this frame is the text in large letters: Hyper-Independance and in small letters: (it's a trauma response)
#trauma

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