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Adam Beltaine

@maddambeltaine.bsky.social

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He / him. Perpetually exhausted but still somehow smiling. Showrunner for the @forcemajeurepod.bsky.social and Dungeon Majeure podcasts. Lifelong ttrpg nerd and games hoarder Banner art by @kanizo.bsky.social and PFP art by @jaunty.art

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 15h

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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◢ The-Red-Right-Hand ◣ @rrh-art.bsky.social · 17h

So you knew I had to be making a Del for the Knights of Guinevere right? And of course she was gonna be some crooked crowner cop with a redemption arc and a murder-robot sidekick. Right?

#myart | #oc | #del-verse | #KnightsofGuinevere I #KoG

From left the right. A large machine with tentacle arms, behind an police officer from the show Knights of Guienevere, with a blue robot arm and a stun stick. Next to them is the same character out of that outfit, a battle worm women with a blue metal arm, with short black hair and smoking. Around them are various facts about how she is a moraly grey person.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 19h

"I say I say I say, my dog's got no gnosis."

"No nose? How does it smell?"

[*angrily*] "He lacks any and all immanent knowledge or transcendent insight, such as was sought by Clement of Alexandria, Marcion or Simon Magus. What has smell to do with it?"

"I'm sorry, I misheard."

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 21h

It depends on who's chosen you, and it varies greatly by what you've been chosen *for* really.

In the best case scenario you're chosen by the Wanderer or Wise One to serve as a moral lesson. Suffer the humiliation, learn some humility, pick up a little power to help others.

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 22h

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;

What exactly does it mean to be "Chosen by a God" in your setting?

Is it a good thing? Bad? Either or?

Does it even actually have any ties to a God, or is it just a title given by religious groups?

#TTRPG

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Izzy.PumpkiNG | comms open @izzypetersart.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wanting to try my hand at the Green Knight for a long time

#mythology #folklore #art #knight

a tall, green-hued knight in greathelm and plate, wielding a huge, heavy axe

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 22h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are looking up at the same spot in the ceiling.
Green: Do we have a dead moth on the ceiling?
Blue: No. It's alive.

Green turns to look at Blue, whose eyes are still on the moth.
Green: It's what?
Blue: It sits in a different spot every morning.

Both of the foxes return to looking up at the moth.
Green: Should we do something about it?

Now Blue turns to look at Green, who keeps staring at the moth.
Blue: Make it pay rent?
Green: I think it flinched.

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Adam Beltaine @maddambeltaine.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh, I'll have to look for that. I've not read as much of Pico as I wanted on holiday but I like what I see! Feels a lot cosier and lower stakes than Wildsea

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Alsares @alsares.bsky.social · May 14

"River Pearl"
A random sketch that became a pile of scales last year

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 1d

recovery team

#digitalart #scifi #rpg

A futuristic vessel hovers over a ragged landscape, a searchlight onto the ground below.

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Gammatrap @gammatrap.bsky.social · 1d

I had massaman curry today

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Adam Beltaine @maddambeltaine.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 3

actioncookbook @actioncookbook
SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday
OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you
INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid
10:00 AM • 2018-01-11

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Saxon Musk
motive: mistook his father for a visigoth
Quote: "Unhand me, Roman dogs! You'll never get the secret of Getafix's magic potion!"

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

Grimes, Justine Wilson, Taluley Riley, and Ashley St. Claire: [simultaneously answering the door in their merry widow mourning lingerie] oh inspector i didn't expect you so soon, i'm just soooo distraught over the death of my late husband
Highsmith: [smirking at camera] it's good to be the detective

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 1d

M. Lopes da Silva: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of what if elon musk got [censored]
Aubrey Wood: ah yes what if melon husk got unalived, hypothetically, in Minecraft
Wood: lol just kidding!
wood: .... unless?

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Adam Beltaine @maddambeltaine.bsky.social · 1d

Just tried some crab flavoured crisps. Happy to say they really do taste like crab! Unhappy to say that they really do taste like crab!

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Caimh/CK McDonnell @caimhmc.bsky.social · 1d

Ring The Bells book 5 of The Stranger Times series is out today!! Available everywhere.
Well, not newsagents.
Or hairdressers.
Almost no nail saloons.
Come to think of it - book shops. Really mainly available in book shops.

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 1d

Time to storm into your local comic store and demand NOTHING BUT THE BEST (the new DIE Quickstart) and REFUSE ANYTHING LESS (than the new DIE Quickstart) because YOU'RE BETTER THAN THE REST (and so deserve the new DIE Quickstart)

Graphic reminding you to pre order DIE RPG. It's a black paper texture background, with red graffiti sprayed on it. The cover of the quickstart is centered, with the text DIE RPG quickstart edition at the top, and PRE ORDER NOW in all good comic stores*. In small text at the bottom the asterix is completed with *and probably some shite ones but that's not our fault.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 2d

once again i cannot emphasize enough that transphobia is almost entirely an elite panic. the overwhelming majority of people simply do not care—it is media and political elites who are obsessed with us and keep bending over backwards to justify and spread transphobia.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 2d

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight!
Come join us for a conversation on fantastical landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them!

www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 9d

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 2d

OK. Last time.
A D&D Stirge detaches after draining 10 HP of blood. Therefore HP are a measurable unit of blood (I estimate 200ml per HP).

Characters with high HP might have hundreds of liters contained in their bodies at high pressure. Even light nicks tend to spray anime-style.
It's science.

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