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Avery Edison

@averyedison.com

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briefly a comedian • not going to get yelled at • trans woman (she/her) • twitch.tv/averyedison • onlyfans.com/averyedison

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 18h

COWBOY IN MULHOLLAND DRIVE: you’ll see me more one more time if you do good, twice if you do bad
GUY WITH ADHD: okay, just… okay… it’s just that I worry I’ll, like, lose track of how many times I’ve seen you and that’s gonna be just, just *so* bad for my anxiety

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 21h

“tax the rich”? man, we’ve got to *get rid of money as a concept*

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 21h

it’s so bizarre seeing political debates where the furthest-left contributor is shouted down for suggesting taxing the wealthy more. that’s not… that’s not even *close* to what the have to do to survive the next few decades as a species, and you’re not even allowed suggest it!

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 21h

should be at least four women on the show every season imo, but the guys at the very top of production will of course tell you that’s insane

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 21h

glad to see taskmaster fans being vocal about the current champion of champions 4 lineup being all white dudes. I remember arguing to some Important London Comedy People eight years ago that the show should be better about gender and the response being that that would be logistically impossible

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 1d

latter

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 1d

>looking for a new homebrew d&d game
>ask the DM if the setting is “no magic” or “too much magic”
>he doesn’t understand
>I pull out illustrated diagram explaining the difference
>he laughs and says “it’s a good system, ma’am”
>I join the party
>it’s “no magic”

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

When I was writing these posts I was wondering to myself what the current upper limit on fame for Actual Play was and landed on these exact folks. We can go higher!

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

I guess following my podcast comparison, big money is just waiting for the Serial of Actual Play to establish a beachhead? Maybe in a different universe, that Bernthal clip becomes a segment on This American Life.

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

“We tried!” Live-action Harmonquest doesn’t count, Hollywood.

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

I’m not saying I want this to happen, BTW. I’m just surprised! Wizards of the Coast should be putting so much effort into this! Scoop up some of the medium names from the glory days of UCB, an Actual Movie Star, a multi-cam sitcom perennial, and a reality show lifer, sit them around a table.

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

But how has Big Hollywood Money not looked at the reaction to stuff like the Debra Ann Woll/Jon Bernthal podcast or the Joe Manganiello Critical Role pay-off and not think, “We need to make the ‘Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend’ of Actual Play”? Is the D&D brand really _that_ toxic?

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

The barriers to entry—having to read a book, committing to several dozen hours of play, working with no script, being sincere and looking kinda cringe, finding a good DM, making the scheduling work, attaching your brand to something as historically uncool as TTRPGs—have just held *so* strong.

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 4d

Fascinating to me how resistant the Actual Play space has been to real celebrities coming in and claiming the space the way they did with podcasts. Especially given that a show with any decent star power at all would be _a license to print money_.

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 5d

Woman with a gun is part of operation to box ice agents in with cars www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Federal Agent in Chicago Shot Motorist in Confrontation, Officials Say

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 6d

I feel like a lot of Americans don’t realize where the country is???

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 6d

so just for the record what it looks like from the outside is there are starting to be skirmishes between armed resistance fighters and the state’s masked border enforcement agents

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 8d

liked a few posts about the charli of it all and now my whole timeline is fans being shocked that it’s getting poor reviews. yeah, it sounds bad! bad music often gets reviewed poorly!

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 8d

reminder that it’s early october, so make sure to go for a walk near some trees and check out those beautiful autumn green leaves we love and expect to see at this time of year

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 9d

one weird guy versus nature, one weird guy versus another weird guy, one weird guy versus god (who is also a weird guy)

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 9d

sometimes a horror movie promises that it’s gonna show me the origin of evil and I’m like idk I think sometimes people are just jerks

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 13d

as my computer is working away I’m stroking my chin and saying “good. goooooood.”

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 13d

computer, imagine for me “what if superman evil” devote ALL your power cycles to this task. category: urgent high priority. I must know about “what if superman evil”

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 14d

managed to move some things around and fit into my schedule the big movie event everyone’s excited about (rewatching margin call in bed)

Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 15d

it absolutely did (maybe)