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In case you were looking for it, Flying Circus is out in PDF form, and can be purchased at @DriveThruRPG or @itch!
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Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Professional Simpsonsologist
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Erika Chappell 🏳️⚧️ Professional Simpsonsologist
@open_sketchbook
Magical Girl. RPG designer & author. Milhist nerd. Buckling spring keyboard shill. Made Flying Circus that one time. NSFW account: @opensketch_nsfw
- 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
- essentially my main beef with a lot of stuff that thinks its Ghibli-esque is that Miyazaki's work is intensely political and these things are all terrified of being that because what they want is their perception of a soft, nonthreatening aesthetic
- the simpsons has been on so long that they went from a fairly standard single income middle class family with a house and three kids to an impossible fantasy world where a thirty four year old high school grad with no inheritance can have any of those things and still be ‘lazy’
- it’s not guns, it’s fascism. it’s always been fascism. almost every mass shooter is a fascist; their manifestos are fascist, their online communities, all of it. they are almost all hateful white supremacists
- thank you jk rowling for giving me the confidence boost that comes with knowing i cannot be the worst writer on the planet
- there's a very specific kind of fucking awful when you discover a trans women creator, like their stuff, see they haven't updated in a while, check social media, and see it just... stops at some point like... fuck
- a huge problem that a lot of RPGs have is that doing the right thing is 'free', or even explicitly rewards you. rogue trader does let you try to do right, at a cost if incurring costs from doing the right thing stops you, you aren't actually as good a person as you thoughtThe Rogue Trader game is introducing a lot of people to the general concept of Warhammer
- Replying to @open_sketchbookthat a show which was originally about a dysfunctional mess of a family barely clinging to middle class life in the aftermath of the Reagan administration has now become aspirational is frankly the most on the nose manifestations of capitalist American decline I can think of
- the fact that drag queens somehow became the front line in trans women’s social acceptance is like, just fucking typical, isn’t it? the fight against the fascist movement to destroy our rights and criminalize our existence can’t even bother to actually be about us
- watching my friend play Unpacking and the bit where you take her diploma out of the box and try to fit it in her boyfriend's apartment and realize there's no room for it on his walls is so fucking brutal, jesus christ
- Replying to @open_sketchbookhomer has a secure union job doing technical work he was clearly trained to do by his employer. they had a kid in their mid twenties and it hasn’t destroyed their life prospects. without the family’s material circumstances changing the family became totally detached from reality
- one thing Balders Gate 3 reveals really starkly is how incredibly boring levelling up is for most D&D characters
