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mel-addams · 2 years
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[Image Description: The first image is an illustration of Five Snow Blossom, a young woman who has brown skin, a warm smile, and is summoning an illusory purple flower with swirls of cloud-like magic. She is seated, holding a large book, and sweeping her arm above her head, as if to “pull” the magic from the story she’s reading. She is wearing a blue wrapped skirt, and a maroon huipil that has orange and green stripes, with purple embroidered flowers on a blue section around the collar. She also has a green sash wrapped around her waist, with a dyed orange-and-green flower pattern. Her hair is green with paler green streaks, reminiscent of a plant, and her eyebrows are layered purple petals. Handwritten below her is her name, and the name of her RPG class, Dreamer.
The second illustration is of Blue Rose, a woman holding a sword wreathed in blue flames in her left hand, with a serious look on her face. She has pale skin, pointed elf-like ears, and is wearing close-fitting grey pants and a vest, with a poet-style long sleeve shirt. There is a blue rose embroidered on her vest, thin blue streaks in her blonde hair, and she has blue lipstick and eyeshadow. Handwritten beside her is her name, and her RPG class, Vigilante.
The third illustration is of Lo Karlsson, a young man grinning while aiming a shortbow at an off-screen enemy. He is mixed race, with short brown hair, green eyes, and light brown skin. He is wearing a grey tunic and loose green pants, which have visible stitching repairing some rips. He has archery gear at his hips, a sword hanging at his side, and a messenger bag with an orange-colored potion sticking out of it. On his shoulder is a light brown rat with a white spot on its forehead, and at his feet is a pet raccoon, ready to pounce. Handwritten beside him is his name, and his RPG class, Drifter.]
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Wyrd Street TTRPG IndieGoGo, funding now!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wyrd-street-d20-ttrpg-system/x/9982631#/
Wyrd Street is a new d20 system and setting written by Tyler Edwards, that I’m doing character art for! It’s similar enough to 5E to learn fast if you’re familiar with it, but unique enough to feel fresh! Here’s some highlights:
An original fantasy setting—though the old magic races are gone, what remains are humans descended from them, with lingering features hinting at their magical ancestry. Magic itself is alive and well—spirits and magic critters are regular features, even within cities.
Flexible racial abilities—choose one from between three available for each race once you reach level 3. Some even have physical manifestations, like plantlike features, a cat tail and claws, or wings that can be summoned briefly to fly with!
“Iconic Characters” with moderately established backstories and connections—which you can choose to either play, or leave in the world as NPCs! (These are who I’m drawing, with the three I’ve already done featured at the top of this post!)
Iconic Characters’ details are flexible—you’re encouraged to switch from their default class, if you like their look or background but prefer another class. YOU DO YOU
Additional rules for physical and mental disability—which can be applied to any character, Iconic or original, with framework for how it affects them and how they interact with the world.
“Loved Ones” are a mechanic—get boons and boosts for establishing RP connections, or be a Lone Wolf to custom-pick your skill boosts. (Or be a Lone Wolf and SEE WHAT FOUND FAMILY YOU GET)
Level cap of 10—small-scale heroes! Let other people handle world-ending shenanigans, you’ve got your community to take care of. (But you still get cool abilities, because MAGIC AND SHIT)
“Focus” as the ability resource—everyone has it, but with different amounts and regen methods. It’s what you use for either magic or fancy martial abilities, so everyone has both basic AND fancy attacks.
“Missed” attacks glance instead of doing no damage, so turns feel less wasted. Chipping away at an enemy is better than metaphorical (or literal) thumb-twiddling.
Wyrd Street’s IndieGoGo ends on the 26th, so go give it a gander, and take a peek at the free primer to check out the gameplay!
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- Wyrd Street Masterpost - Ji Wensdottir the Street Preacher - Lo Karlsson the Drifter - Blue Rose the Vigilante - Five Snow Blossom the Dreamer - Osiron the Fortune Teller - Burning Grin the Scoundrel - Bing Li the Heretic - Na Wen the Brawler - Dr. Zuberi Mbogo the Quack
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mendedrum · 6 months
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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called witches and wizards, Magrat reflected, as she followed the other two back to the road.
It was probably some wonderful organisation on the part of Nature to protect itself. It saw to it that everyone with any magical talent was about as ready to cooperate as a she-bear with a toothache, so all that dangerous power was safely dissipated as random bickering and rivalry. There were differences in style, of course. Wizards assassinated each other in draughty corridors, witches just cut one another dead in the street. And they were all as self-centered as a spinning top. Even when they help other people, she thought, they're secretly doing it for themselves. Honestly, they're just like big children.
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (via Magrat Garlick)
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this was just so funny to me. I like that Pratchett never fails to emphasize that these social classes of characters aren't inherently good nor bad. They have their flaws and different ways of dealing with each other and the world. It's very human and therefore very grounding and entertaining.
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publishinggoblin · 6 months
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October 3rd my friends, we are going to. the. dark.
All you have to say to join me there is "Take Me to the Dark". We have three new games to help you bring the Strange and Wyrd to your table with little to no prep. All three are card-run games, no pens or pencils required.
Tell ghost stories with your friends in What We Possess.
Join the ZOETROPE time patrol and fuck up time, or probably fix it. Yeah, that's what you were supposed to be doing. Darn.
or stalk the streets of 1993 Chicago as a mortal mage, trying to keep the peace among the supernal communities in Secret Halls.
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whiteravengreywolf · 2 months
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The Search for Wyrd - a Wolfwren fanfiction
A/N: Hello everyone! This is the beginning of the first chapter of my new fic, a sequel to "The Witching Hour". If you want to read the whole chapter, the link will be at the end! Enjoy :)
Shin remembered jumping in puddles after the rain and watching how the light shattered under her feet; the reflection of the nearby storefront interrupted, then, as the puddles became placid again, appearing as solid as the real thing. She remembered breaking a lightbulb of the already poorly maintained streetlights by kicking a ball too hard, and running home before anyone could spot the culprits, a gaggle of children laughing off their mistake. She remembered following her mother around the stalls, gathering ingredients for supper and ingredients for potions. Rarely had a place held so many memories for her, but as she walked down the busy streets of Swanpond, it all came flooding back.
Shin let her feet take her, as if after all this time they still remembered her way home. The stores had changed. Some of the houses looked the worst for wear. Time had taken its toll, added a few cables arching over the street, a few cracks in the walls and a few stains on the windows. Shin thought she would have to pull her map out, when, all too soon, she was standing in front of the right building.
Her heart skipped a beat in her chest, making her light-headed. What were the odds of her mother still living in that basement, waiting for her, after eighteen years? She could be anywhere in the galaxy. But a flicker of hope still nestled in her brain. Perhaps she had spent too much time with Sabine. With anxiousness in her chest and more optimism that she usually allowed herself, Shin walked up to the door and knocked.
“Coming, coming…”
The door opened to an old Weequay woman wrapped in a teal shawl. She looked up at Shin with a frown. Though Shin recognized her, she had forgotten her name. She remembered only that her mother had specifically instructed her no leave the old woman alone, lest she kick them out.
“Can I help you?”
“I’m looking for a Zabrak woman. Her name is Wyrd. She lived here last I heard.”
“You a client?”
“Not exactly.”
The old woman continued to stare Shin down with a deep frown, the folds of her leathery skin almost covering her eyes.
“She’s not in trouble, is she? She was a good tenant for many years, I’d hate it if she got into trouble.”
“No, she’s not…” Shin paused as she caught up to what the woman had said. “She’s not here anymore?”
Her heart seemed to stop then, to compensate, start up like a furious horse. Her hopes dashed against the ground of Coronet City. The woman hesitated another second. Then, finally, she opened the door wider.
Full Story Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53409133/chapters/135179428
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technicalgrimoire · 1 year
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gallium-spoon · 4 months
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I haven't done this in a while and I'm bored but having trouble focusing on my current book despite it being very very good (Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett) so I'm hoping that giving myself a kinda reading order might help motivate me?
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theadventurerslog · 7 months
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Discworld | Part 1
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The Adventurer’s Log
Release Date: 1995
I love Discworld the book series by Terry Pratchett and have done so since I was 13 when I first discovered it by taking Soul Music out of the school library. I'm currently doing a chronological reread and figured I might as well go all in and play the games too while I'm at it. Well, the first two anyway. There are three games, well actually four. Apparently there was an interactive fiction game in 1986 for The Colour of Magic, but I know nothing more beyond that and never see it mentioned. (Have to say I am curious though). For purposes here, however, three games. The first two pull events from the books, while the third focuses on an original character in an original story and that's Discworld Noir, which I would love to try sometime but getting it to run looks like more of a hassle. So for now the first two games.
That said I don't know if I'll go straight to the second one after this one or have some other stuff in between. I'll see how I'm feeling and how things are looking as I already have plans for November and I may want some short stuff for October.
I watched a friend play the second game several years ago, but I don't remember much and I'm pretty sure we didn't do the first game. What I've played so far hasn't been familiar. I'm pretty sure this is a blind play-through and if it's not it may as well be.
As for the Discworld itself, if you don't know, it's a magical flat world resting on the backs of four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle, the Great A'tuin, drifting through space. Reality tends to be...thin. Things have a tendency to slip through.
This first game pulls its general plot from Guards! Guards! which surrounds a brotherhood summoning an actual dragon to the city of Ankh-Morpork. Dragons at this point in time only exist as much smaller swamp dragons which are far less dangerous aside from having a tendency to explode. The book is the first book in the city watch arc. The game, however, uses the character Rincewind as the main protagonist. Rincewind is a wizard, or wizzard, of the Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork. He's actually terrible at magic, but in his heart, he's a wizard. So, clearly the progression of this plot is going to go completely differently. Which I am okay with and it's nice the game could be played by someone who's never read the books. And it's drawing inspiration without stomping all over its source material and making you wonder why they didn't do their own thing, so I'm okay with it. I just need to tamp down on my own nit-pickiness for smaller details. Inspired by, inspired by. While still being recognizable. Excuse me I may have some aggravations with a certain other...'adaptation but oh no not really'. If you know you know, if you don't, don't worry about it. Ahem.
The game opens with a shot of the Discworld and the Great A'Tuin.
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Introducing the Discworld.
Then we get the summoning ritual:
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Dragon! Dragon!
Dragon!
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Ominous peeking through the wall. Dragon!
And I'm already wondering who may or may not be involved from the book. Like, is the Supreme Grand Master still there heading this up? Are they the same person? It's an interesting thing both knowing and not knowing the plot at all.
From here we're gifted a scene of an Ankh-Morpork street with Death waiting and a drunk ambling down the street.
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That's Ankh-Morpork all right.
I'm not sure about Death's voice, but I'm also very used to Christopher Lee from the animated adaptations of Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters (and Christopher Lee, come on, just an unfair fight really) or Ian Richardson from the Hogfather movie adaptation. They did add some effects so he's still got some IMPACT though. Still some sense of speaking in caps. And he's not a main character here anyway. I wonder how much he will pop up... How many deaths will there be? Will Rincewind have a near-Death experience?
The drunk ran into him briefly and got an ominous see you soon. Which... Yeah. The drunk proceeded into an alley and was saved from a mugging by being fried by dragon fire.
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With that grisly affair complete we move on to see the Unseen University.
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I was given another scene of the Bursar speaking with the Archchancellor talking about the rumours of the dragon. The Bursar notes that dragons don't exist unless you believe in them. Belief is extremely important on the Disc. Nevertheless there seems to be one and it's the university's civic duty to do something about it, so he sends the Bursar off to fetch Rincewind. Do you hate Rincewind, Archchancellor, is that it?
A note about the Archchancellor. He seems to be meant to be Ridcully from the books, and by the point of Guards! Guards! he certainly was the Archchancellor and have been for several books. He hasn't felt very much like Ridcully at this point though and if it wasn't for an 'unhygienic' comment I'd be uncertain if it was him or not. The game just has him labelled as Arch chancellor so I'm sticking with that instead. Except making it the one word it's meant to be. Split in two words is driving me a little nuts.
A note about this whole intro: there's been a fly buzzing around every scene from the drunkard coming on screen, then it bothered Death and continued on through the Archchancellor and Bursar's conversation. I have no idea what to make of that if it's going to be relevant or what. Complete mystery. In some ways it feels like it's just a fun guide to follow as you move through the intro, but also... why?
And finally we move in to Rincewind being woken up by the Bursar banging on his door letting him know the Archchancellor wants to see him, and I was finally given control.
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I had a few different things to examine, like the totally not-ominous shape outside to which Rincewind said:
"Yes - a mysterious shape, a sinister shape - a shape fraught with... shapeness.
It must be a plot element - otherwise there'd be a better label!"
I can't remember the exact label. I think it was something like 'mysterious shape' or was that exactly.
The wardrobe had no knob to open it with. Turns out I could have opened it then but I didn't have a handle on the controls yet. Sometimes... it pays to look at manuals! Something I did not do until a little later.
And on top of the wardrobe was the sleeping Luggage. The Luggage is also from the books. It's made of sapient pearwood and rage and will follow its owner everywhere and anywhere on its many legs. At least when it's not sleeping here anyway. I couldn't rouse it yet.
With my examinations complete and my seeming inability to do anything yet I left to go explore the university.
And got traumatized by stairs.
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I mean it's a point and click. No manual movement here. You can't die. But the Sierra stair trauma is real, especially after King's Quest IV... After my little moment of gratitude that this isn't King's Quest and the stairs cannot harm me, I started exploring.
I found my way to the dining hall and got my first conversation the UI of which was sure familiar. I had to laugh that I'm playing this after Sam & Max Hit the Road. It's the same system!
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This also made me go find a manual to see what these options actually mean and learn other controls.
So from left to right we have
Big smile - greeting
Clown - sarcasm
Question mark - question
Cloud (has an animated lightning bolt I didn't catch) - anger
Waving hand - goodbye
And then other topics can appear too.
I also found out that left clicking is for moving, of course I knew that. Right clicking examines. I'd figure that out. But most importantly, double clicking is how you interact. I also found out if you click on Rincewind you can access his teeny tiny two item inventory which is more like one item because once you get money, it sticks so you only ever have room to carry one other item on his person. The rest is for the Luggage when it's acquired.
I chatted with the wizards which while entertaining didn't give me anything too terribly useful to know at this point which is fine: mostly just chatter about wizardry and the dragon rumours. I like talking to all the people anyway. And Windle Poons was there too! He's an important character in one of the books.
In my continued exploration I found a storage room and got my first inventory item--a broom. I always get excited for my first item.
I also found a statue and a groaner:
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I checked out the library and got an aside? An instructional aside? A game equivalent of a footnote as a nod to the books' footnotes?
There were a couple of these informative bits, one explaining the Librarian who is an orangutan--he was turned into one in a magical accident and refused to be changed back--and another discussing L-Space.
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So far I've only seen these in the library.
Here's a whole page about L-Space! https://wiki.lspace.org/L-space
So a fun thing here I wasn't expecting and they don't explain at all so purely for book readers. The character giving these little lessons is Twoflower made clear by the glasses and camera, ahem, iconograph. He was in the first two books and was the Disc's first tourist. Circumstances led him and Rincewind to be travelling together and many antics ensued. He was also the original owner of the Luggage.
See? I can do asides too. Back to the game.
I also chatted with the Librarian "Ook!". And was told I'd need a library card to take anything out after much back and forth. I did get a little irked that a lot of the dialogue options led Rincewind to calling him a monkey, which is something you Do Not Do with the Librarian if you don't want the wrath of an orangutan. You do not want the wrath of an orangutan. Rincewind kept getting head bopped. Hard. It's just Rincewind of the books would know better! And he and the Librarian end up getting along pretty well. Then I reminded myself of 'inspired by' and carried on. Things are just going to be different. Not looking at anything horrifically egregious so far; it's okay. Even Rincewind himself isn't exactly right here in other ways either. Just hush that part of my brain.
I finally made my way to the Archchancellor and found out what he wanted.
Unseen University needed to be 'properly represented' in attempts to dispose of the dragon. Can't have some yokel slaying it and have people wondering what wizards are for. Then he sent me to go fetch a copy of Featherwinkle's Concise Compendium of Dragon Lairs from the library.
I ended up going back to Rincewind's room first, and with my knowledge of double clicking was able to open the wardrobe with a little magic and get a pouch of money. With the broom I was able to prod the Luggage awake and get it to join me.
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Then back to the library where I was able to just request the book. No card needed when it's a request from the Archchancellor I suppose. Or the Librarian was trying to be rid of me earlier.
I brought the book back and the Archchancellor found the formula for Recoglimento's Neverfailing Dragon's Lair Revealer. He was quick to halt Rincewind's protests as well with making sure his performance would be brought to the attention of the university board when they review his grant next year. Ah, university politics.
So the formula, which thankfully can be accessed when checking the book again, so it's always handy needs four ingredients:
A staff of tumultuous thermaturgy.
A miniature creature of excitable chitters
A container made of the strongest ferrous metal
Dragon's breath! Ulp!
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I got a voice actor joke too when I kept trying to talk to the Archancellor:
Archchancellor: "No time for idle chatter." Rincewind: "Well, sorry. As if I can help who supplies my voice."
Rincewind is voiced by Eric Idle. Heehee.
I have goals now! Good old adventure game object collecting!
Next up I'll do another sweep of the university in case anything changed, then check out whatever can be checked out on the grounds and presumably head into the city proper.
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thefiresofpompeii · 2 months
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HIDDEN STREETS OF LONDON oh yeah psychogeography. urban wyrd. urban folklore. my favourite settings. pocket world parallel street
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theygotlost · 3 months
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2023 book log/year in review!
here is a comprehensive of breakdown of every book I read this year!!
Terry Pratchett's Discworld
this was THE YEAR OF DISCWORLD for me. I read more disc books than non disc books. I'm probably gonna take a break from the series for a few weeks to get my breath back. I read my first ever disc book, Going Postal, in december of 2022 so it doesn't technically count as being part of this year, but here's every one that I read starting in january, in the order I read them:
Making Money
Raising Steam 
Guards! Guards! (x2)
Men at Arms (x2)
Soul Music
Feet of Clay
Mort
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
Night Watch
Wyrd Sisters
Faust Eric
The Wee Free Men
Witches Abroad
Thud!
Monstrous Regiment
The Truth
Lords and Ladies
Hogfather
Rereads
The Fourth Bear is kind of whatever but rereading all the others has cemented them as some of my favorite books and I'm really glad I got to experience them again because I hadn't read them in years 😁
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
How I Killed Pluto (and Why It Had It Coming) by Mike Brown
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Other Books
It's kind of embarrassing to see how this list pales in comparison to all the disc books but I WAS reading other stuff I swear!! look!!
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Sacrifice by Mitchell Smith
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Did Not Finish
Some of these I got through more of than others. the really bad ones I dropped only after 50 pages or so. im sorry women.
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde 
The Real and the Unreal, vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Total Stats
Books started: 36
Books finished: 31
Books finished that I hadn't read before: 26 (19 Discworld, 7 not)
I PROMISE I'm not trying to be one of those "30 books in 30 days!" type booktok people, I wasn't aiming for any specific number. I only read this many books because i genuinely really loved them and couldn't stop reading them!!!!!!!
Reading List for 2024
I have an even longer list than this with a bunch of books that I saw or were recommended to me and I thought "oh that seems interesting maybe I'll check it out" but who knows if I will actually get to them. this list below is basically a new years resolution, books that I fully intend to read this year:
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (already currently reading this one, just need to finish it)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Discworld Reading List
Yes, I am keeping this one separate. I don't necessarily intend to get to all of these by the end of 2024, just some time in the future (I probably will end up reading them all next year anyway LOL). Once I finish these, only the Rincewind and Tiffany Aching series remain. I'm not as interested in those based on the small sampling I got of them, but I'll probably read them all at some point just for the sake of completion.
Moving Pictures
Snuff
Reaper Man
Pyramids
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Maskerade
Carpe Jugulum
it's kind of scary to think that this is all thats left..... idk what im gonna do after that man..... kill myself? start over from the beginning? I guess ill just have to cross that bridge when I get to it ☹
happy new year everypony!!!!
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oldisstrange · 6 months
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Are you a simple shop girl in Sheffield, Bristol, or Stoke-on-Trent who longs for life as seen on The Crown, or as you've read about in the spicier tabloids that have their eye on the Royals?
“But I’m just a common lass!” you say?
Then try the latest product from Ye Wyrd Antiquarian Apothecary Inc.
Royal Care Shampoo and Conditioner: Regal Dowager Blend!
Just twelve washings, plush one, during the New Moon, and… you and everyone else will see the results.
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No one will doubt you look like you just came from Buckingham Palace.
All the lads will be going from “Here luv git us another pint” to “Yes ma'am!” in quick time. (if married or you have a boyfriend, before you use it, be sure to warn them that there might be a sharpish change in your appearance.)
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Or try some of our other Royal Care Shampoo and Conditioner products.
Posh Hottie, Prim Nanny, Liverpool Waif, and Lime Street Vixen.
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bruadcr · 11 months
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“  I see a road ahead I never thought I would dare to tread.  ” ( to ullr from Magni … kingly thoughts perhaps !?? )
ᚦ @runaljod​ | abba lyrics | accepting
NONE   knew that their heads would adorn a crown, perhaps the foresight of their mother, or Jord had heard it long ago upon their births when the streams and the leaves whispered of Kings borne from others battle and mend what had been broken.   But all things must come to fortition--he supposed--without the complete   KNOWLEDGE   of them, for the Nornir may have weaved their wyrds, but webs often get tangled as he has come to learn, and what had been written on threads could be unknotted for something new, so long as one was   PATIENT   enough for it.
Yet neither could any skald or scholar could describe the   PRIDE   he felt, witnessing his own brother take the throne of Asgard and the feeling of hope sweep across the lands.   The son of Thor in Valhalla, the son of Loki bound by no king taken from Ydalir to Jotunheim. . .though the yew dales would be for his children should they want them  ( for no matter how much Jotunn blood he has   EMBRACED,   he cannot ignore half of him still belongs to the Vanir, and with her face in his mind briefly is he grateful she lives on in many of Thrud’s features the older she becomes. )
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He watches on, meeting with him in the grandiose streets of a rebuilt Jotunheimr, observing the united peoples as they pass by and he can only offer a soft smile.   ❝ It is   IRONIC   isn’t it ??   The two most despised Jotun’s of Odin’s court are the ones who take his place. ❞   Though he could easily argue that the silver upon his brow   BELONGS   to the giant - wolf who was bound for life until the very end.
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mel-addams · 2 years
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[Image Description: the first image is the cover of the TTRPG Wyrd Street. A pale woman wearing a hooded robe is seated in the center of a candlelit room, looking with shock at her bloody hands. She’s sitting on a torn and bloody rug, a broken chair in front of her. Behind her is Ji Wensdottir, one of the Iconic Characters, casting a protective spell while she looks down at the seated woman. Surrounding them are glowing runes from the spell, a few floating, jellyfish-like critters made from possessed junk, and a large, menacing ghostly figure, floating in front of a broken window. At the top is the Wyrd Street text logo, and at the bottom is the text “Core Rulebook.”
The second image is an illustration of Bing Li, a woman with light skin and straight black hair, partially shaved to reveal rough scars along the side of her head. Her clothing is dark and loose, generalizing her silhouette, enabling her to be nondescript if she had her hood up. The case for a set of portable eating utensils hanging from her waist peeks out from under her hooded tunic, though the knife from the set is in her right hand. Her left arm is lifted slightly, blood magically extending from a small cut into a gruesome tendril. Handwritten beside her is her name, and her RPG class, Heretic.]
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Bing Li the Heretic
Wyrd Street TTRPG IndieGoGo, funding now!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wyrd-street-d20-ttrpg-system/x/9982631#/
Wyrd Street cover illustrated by Dana, whose portfolio you can find here: https://www.danabraga.com/
Fuck forced loyalty and imperialism—fled her shitty country when they eventually came to silence her.
Fascinated by and researching taboo magic—figure out why it’s taboo, and what good it can be used for.
Using blood whips and launching poisonous teeth that bud out of your flesh may be grotesque, but it’s not inherently “evil.” It all comes down to how it’s used, same as any other magic.
At level 8 you can become a blood puddle and ooze yourself through small spaces, or move through occupied spaces without being slowed or causing disengagement attacks! Gross? Maybe. Rad? I SURE THINK SO
Again, not to play favorites with a longer post, but I also get to draw her with enough funding! So, for a little more class info: Heretic can also make up to 3 Blood Dolls—simple undead companions formed from human or other corpses (which end up looking human, and you choose their appearance). They can be improved as you level up, too!
A deep dive post from Tyler, with more info on Bing Li and her class design:
https://superior-realities.com/2022/06/24/wyrd-street-tease-bing-li-the-heretic/
And that’s all the Iconics revealed! Wyrd Street’s IndieGoGo ends on the 26th, so go give it a gander, and take a peek at the primer to check out the gameplay!
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- Wyrd Street Masterpost - Ji Wensdottir the Street Preacher - Lo Karlsson the Drifter - Blue Rose the Vigilante - Five Snow Blossom the Dreamer - Osiron the Fortune Teller - Burning Grin the Scoundrel - Bing Li the Heretic - Na Wen the Brawler - Dr. Zuberi Mbogo the Quack
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bondsmagii · 2 years
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HI I'm in love with you, you top books rec please?
all my favourites can be found on my ever-expanding favourites shelf on Goodreads! however, to narrow it down a little, my favourites so far this year:
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
The Bang-Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva*
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd*
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer*
Wyrd and Other Derelictions by Adam Nevill
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold*
and some constant go-tos:
IT by Stephen King
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Fisherman by John Langan
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer*
(* denotes non-fiction)
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uhtcearemorning · 2 years
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So @eyriedescent asked me what order they should read the Discworld books in and I needed to make a whole separate post about it because there are lots of answers.
Discworld is a bunch of small series all tangled up in each other. There’s the Witches books, the Death books, the Watch books, the Rincewind books, the Tiffany Aching books (which are a sort of sub series of the Witches books), and the Moist Von Lipwig books (yes you read that right, his first name is MOIST), plus a bunch of other books that don’t precisely fit into any of those categories. All told there are about 40 books total. A lot of wonderful people have made some lovely flowcharts about this:
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So where to start? With most series the logical place would be at the beginning, working through the books in chronological order by publishing date. I’ve done this with Discworld and I’m sure other people have too. If you’re already a big fan of Terry Pratchett it can be a really cool read because you see how the series and the world develops over time as it migrates from pure satire to a fantasy world fleshed out in its own right (although still incredibly funny). I do not recommend reading them in publishing order however if it is your first time reading Discworld.
“If I shouldn’t read them in publishing order, then where do I start?” Well, I know a lot of people who fell into the series by accident, not knowing it was a series because they just picked up whatever was available at the library and started there. I read The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents when I was a kid, long before I knew it was part of a larger whole. So one answer is you can start anywhere.
However, I know that’s deeply unhelpful, so here’s a more concrete answer: start at the beginning of a sub series. Interested in the doings of the anthropomorphic personification of Death and his granddaughter? Maybe the Death series is for you, start with Mort. Would you find a parody of academia (and fantasy in general) up your alley? Maybe the Rincewind novels are for you, start with The Color of Magic or Sourcery. Want magic but the complete opposite of academia, with amazing female characters? Go read the Witches series, start with Wyrd Sisters. (Or start the Tiffany Aching series with The Wee Free Men). Like film noir and mystery? Tramp the dark rainy streets of Ankh Morpork with Sam Vimes in the Watch series (my personal favorite). Start with Guards, Guards!
Or, one final suggestion, if you don’t want to commit to a whole series (many of them get better as you go on), start with Going Postal. It’s one of Terry’s best in my opinion, part of the peak of the Discworld series along with Thud! However, Going Postal introduces a new character not featured in any previous books (Moist Von Lipwig) as the main protagonist. He’s as unfamiliar with the main city of Ankh Morpork as a new reader would be and by reading this book first you kind of get to explore the world together, figuring out how the city works and meeting some of the big players. If you read this one and like it, then you can go back and start with one of the subseries knowing you already like the style and author.
On the whole there aren’t really wrong places to begin, only a lot of different right places.
Happy reading!
GNU Terry Pratchett
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scotianostra · 2 years
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Happy Birthday Scottish actress Annie Wallace.
Annie was brought up in Aberdeen and is a former National Youth Theatre member, she graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre in 2004, and has also appeared in many theatre productions. As well as being an actress, Annie writes and records music, and has two albums already released. She is also a skilled sound recordist and designer.
Annie was the consultant for the character of Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper from 1998-2000, developing a friendship with the writers and the actress Julie Hesmondhalgh. This led to her applying to drama school and eventually becoming a professional actress in her own right appearing on stage in Manchester in productions  including Withnail and I and Wyrd Sisters.
On the 29th of October 2015, she became made history by becoming the first transgender person to play a regular transgender character in a UK soap opera when she debuted as school head teacher Sally St. Claire in Channel 4’s Hollyoaks.
Annie is one of several Scots over the years who are or have been regulars on the Channel Four soap set in Chester
Wallace has been nominated  for and on many awards over the years, most notable, The National Diversity Awards 2016 she was  Celebrity of the Year, the  Proud Scotland Awards she was awarded a gong for  Outstanding Trans Activism. Annie was also the first transgender star nominated for a Scottish Bafta. 
Away from Hollyoaks, Annie has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, where she specialist subject was Doctor Who from 1970 to 1980.
Annie revealed she was trans during a Manchester Pride panel in 2015 which discussed the writing of LGBTQ+ characters on television.
Speaking to Lorraine earlier last year, the soap star said: "I turned 50 in May 2015 and I went, you know what, I am at this stage where I really don't care what people think of me anymore. I just thought this is the time to come out.”
Since then she hasn’t looked back, well done Annie. 
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whats your favorite songs on those albums?
i adore space ghost coast to coast and dreamland (the song) and i haven't listened to zaba as much but i really like pools
you want me to choose a favorite?? i thought we were friends why do you hate me /j
space ghost coast to coast is definitely one of my too favorites, it's so stimmy for me. i don't wanna talk i just wanna dance is my other favorite off dreamland. altho domestic bliss hits me in the feels, as does heat waves and helium, waterfalls coming out your mouth makes my brain go brrr. it's all so incredibly loud is also just. brain go brr. also sensory overload song.
off how to be human... probably poplar street and cane shuga? but also the other side of paradise
i really love all of zaba, partially because it's good and partially it's been forcing creative thoughts into my brain which has been keeping me afloat in really stressful times, lol but flip and cocoa hooves and wyrd would probably be my favorites?? pools is really good too tho
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