adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

for the past several months, my ttrpg group and i have been playing through various world- and character-building games to prepare for our new scifi campaign. i've never done something like this before so intensely, and i highly recommend it. we've been having a blast. we start the campaign proper this week with Scum and Villainy, so that's exciting!

anyway, i wanted to share a comprehensive list of the games we played during this prep period and a brief summary of what we did with them:

First, we played Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies, focusing on a satellite community trying (and mostly failing, RIP) to resist assimilation by the Evil Empire.

Next up was Microscope: a fractal role-playing game of epic histories, to flesh out the thousand-year history of aforementioned Evil Empire;

Next we played Fiasco to explore the events that led to a specific faction leader's power grab (aka. a drama-filled graduation party)

Then we played Dialect again (it's a really good game, okay?!), focusing on some robots who were tasked with taking care of a base full of a Big Bad Evil Guy's secrets for 300 years. (They have his soul on a USB drive now.)

Next up was Heretical Geese, to play through the final exam of a group of assassin students, set in a VR speakeasy;

After that was City Planning Department, to create the city where the PCs live at the start of the game, from the point of view of the slightly unhinged city council.

Then we started focusing on the PCs' backstories, and played three different games (one per PC) to explore specific events that happened pre-campaign. You can read about these in more detail here, but in summary, we played:

Good Society, to explore how one PC chose duty over love 25 years ago;

HOUNDs, to explore how one PC stole a sentient spaceship and tried to escape the empire (it went badly);

A Long Night in the Mech Bay, to explore one PC's relationship and eventual divorce (with the npc who will be the ship's captain).

And then we played Bucket of Bolts to explore the history of the ship the PCs will be adventuring on, and we plan to play i'm sorry did you say street magic in a week or so to create the city where the campaign will really kick off! i'm also planning on doing a part 2 of Microscope at some point, to flesh out even more history, for a day when i don't feel like prepping a regular session.

WHEW. as i said, can't recommend doing this enough. it's been super fun and (from a GM perspective) very little actual work, since most of these games are GM-less and prep-free. involving the players in worldbuilding fosters this really great dynamic where everyone really cares about and takes ownership over parts of the world that have nothing to do with their PCs, and it's really gotten us pumped for the game to come.

i miss when actors all had normal human teeth

If you go to the park at 3 in the morning the cops make a whole production out of it but what the fuck else am I supposed to do at 3 in the morning?

Hi my name is Count Doctor Hannibal Lecter VIII M.D. im a cannibal (that’s how I got my name) and I have shiny brown hair with gold streaks and silver tips that reaches my mid-neck and maroon eyes that reflect red pinpoints like limpid blood and a lot of people tell me I look like Sandro Botticelli (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Lady Murasaki but I wish I was because she’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a cannibal but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale golden skin. I’m also a doctor, and I own a psychiatric practice in Baltimore where I help my patients (I’m forty-seven). I’m an aristocrat (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly brown. I love Garrison Bespoke and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a brown plaid suit with a matching silk pocket square and a blue paisley tie, blue socks and brown oxfords. I was wearing pink lipstick, beige foundation, gold highlighter and concealer on my eyebrows. I was walking outside the BSHCI. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of fbi agents stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

hey man mind if i reclaim some slurs next to your parrot

Reblog to give the one you reblogged this from species euphoria

honestly my advice for people questioning if they're aro is kind of the same as my advice for people questioning if they're trans which is do less worrying about whether or not you inherently fall into this arbitrary category and do more considering what you want in and from your life. like ultimately deconstructing societal ideals of what relationships (or gender) should be like and figuring out what you want them to look like in your life is what matters and whether or not you experience romantic attraction is kind of immaterial

Before you post on Tumblr, THINK!

T – Is it Terrible? H – Is it Horny? I – Is it Ignorant? N – Is it Nautically themed? K – Is it Kringe?

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Both of them didn't get paid that day.

nbc hannibal restaurant au yelp review looks like this:

“1 ⭐️ out of 5. we waited for 15 minutes at the foyer before anyone acknowledged we were standing there. host was exceptionally rude and gave the vibe that he would rather we eat somewhere else (we were only here to spend the $50 coupon we won at a workplace raffle) and refused to make eye contact with both me and my partner. when asked him for his recommendations, he threw down “I wouldn’t eat here” before calling a waiter over and leaving. sommelier is very distinguished and polite, old-world gentleman type, very knowledgeable about wines and what to pair with certain entrees. however it felt like taking a test I was bound to fail as the corner of his mouth would twitch when me or my partner mentioned a wine that he didn’t think would suit the meal, we ended up going with his suggestion. later when the bill arrived I came to realize the host meant the food was good but way too expensive for a normal person’s budget, which it was. atmosphere was great but I won’t be returning”

my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.