Just Started The Silt Verses And I Love How Even Though Other Faiths Are Called ‘false Faiths’ They’re

im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers

Back on track

ok prefacing this with the fact that i'm not fully caught up on tsv but i must speak. i have been so obsessed with brother faulkner the last couple of days.

i think the Thing about brother faulkner is that he's ruthless and amoral and a backstabbing murdering fanatic and a cult leader, and there's no effort made to conceal that fact, and still it's so impossible not to like him. and it isn't just that he has charisma, it's that he's so fucking genuine. he really believes everything he says, he absolutely wears his heart on his sleeve, the one time he outright lies (as far as i've seen), it's to protect carpenter.

so when he does something terrible, he so openly regrets it, he feels so unabashedly guilty about it, that you're left really wanting to believe that he's a fundamentally good person. and i'm still not convinced he isn't.

and isn't that kind of terrifying? he's so likeable, so genuine, so guileless, so easy to forgive, and he's actively seeking out what's sure to be a bright future as a literal cult leader.

as a member of the audience, i have been taken in by him. every awful thing he does feels like a fluke. i still believe there's hope for him.

and dude. i know i've been had.

don’t think bud was expecting that

some of my favorite frames ↓

One thing I think we’re all glossing over about Thanks to Them is the fact that Belos got hit by a car. You’re a half-millennia old 1600s New England Puritan witch hunter who addresses Hunter as a grimwalker and then calls him Caleb in the same sentence and you just charged out into a modern road and got hit with that woman’s sedan. How do you cope with that. You used to be the Emperor. You’ve been living in the woods for months. Does he think that he got hit by an extremely fast wagon. The threat that’s been menacing the protagonists since episode fucking one just got hit by a car.

Voyage Is back YIPPEEE

hey gang it’s been… a while. TikTok’s gone which means I have the mental capacity to handle another social media app. Gotta change a bunch of this account up bc half of my intro post is WRONG now

All of my need to maintain atmosphere as a horror GM is fighting my love of puns. Like I just can't call the desolation ritual in my game Fire Fest.

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

Im pretty sure artfight isn't a week away but I could be wrong?

Me right after experiencing life’s hardships: if I just make it to art fight, I’ll be alright….