Thomas Parrott
@parrotttom.bsky.social
Former tie-in author, cat enthusiast, and all around lover of storytelling and games of many kinds. Always a work in progress, always trying to be better than yesterday. Living with MDD & BPD. He/him
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I'm just so pleased for capitalism that it finally found the sawdust to put in the bread that was art. And now we all get to consume it, wondering what percentage is what.
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I'm just so pleased for capitalism that it finally found the sawdust to put in the bread that was art. And now we all get to consume it, wondering what percentage is what.
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It's the moment many have been waiting for—the ChangedStars full catalogue (+EK) 50% off SALE! You'll be able to get it all half off across both itch and dtrpg!
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It's the moment many have been waiting for—the ChangedStars full catalogue (+EK) 50% off SALE! You'll be able to get it all half off across both itch and dtrpg!
we call it the mouth of a river but it's more like a river's anus if you stop and think about it
#insomniathoughts
#insomniathoughts
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
we call it the mouth of a river but it's more like a river's anus if you stop and think about it
#insomniathoughts
#insomniathoughts
Hot take Tuesday! people finding exploits and broken rules in TTRPGs should be treated as a bad player issue, not a bad rules issue. No system of any kind has ever been perfect or proof against bad actors. And any energy spent trying to write a system that turns bad players good is wasted.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Hot take Tuesday! people finding exploits and broken rules in TTRPGs should be treated as a bad player issue, not a bad rules issue. No system of any kind has ever been perfect or proof against bad actors. And any energy spent trying to write a system that turns bad players good is wasted.
If I said that I think the Mortis Gods are actually a huge mistake vis a vis Star Wars, and that I wish they'd be reconned out instead of becoming important in the next season of Ahsoka... Is that a hot take or a lukewarm take?
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
If I said that I think the Mortis Gods are actually a huge mistake vis a vis Star Wars, and that I wish they'd be reconned out instead of becoming important in the next season of Ahsoka... Is that a hot take or a lukewarm take?
i shall rise from this dumpster fire, rise, rise and soar, like a Phoenix composed purely of trash
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
i shall rise from this dumpster fire, rise, rise and soar, like a Phoenix composed purely of trash
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There should be a Mary Shelley Award for debut sff femme writer or a Margaret Cavendish Award for most daring femme-written work.
Just saying.
Just saying.
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There should be a Mary Shelley Award for debut sff femme writer or a Margaret Cavendish Award for most daring femme-written work.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Well, I am 40. It is weird. I was "supposed" to die at 30, I had a whole plan laid out and everything. And then that didn't happen. And here I still am, ten years later. Hm.
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Well, I am 40. It is weird. I was "supposed" to die at 30, I had a whole plan laid out and everything. And then that didn't happen. And here I still am, ten years later. Hm.
I heard someone say today that they were "incapable of giving an unbiased review of [book series]", and it has left me in a rabbit hole of semantic self-debate.
Like, I think I get what they meant -- their review would be altered by things outside the book series itself -- but... 😵💫
Like, I think I get what they meant -- their review would be altered by things outside the book series itself -- but... 😵💫
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I heard someone say today that they were "incapable of giving an unbiased review of [book series]", and it has left me in a rabbit hole of semantic self-debate.
Like, I think I get what they meant -- their review would be altered by things outside the book series itself -- but... 😵💫
Like, I think I get what they meant -- their review would be altered by things outside the book series itself -- but... 😵💫
This morning a conversation with a friend has led me to analyze watching Farscape and Babylon 5 as a callow youth, and the impact this may have had on me hating the fuckin fash.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This morning a conversation with a friend has led me to analyze watching Farscape and Babylon 5 as a callow youth, and the impact this may have had on me hating the fuckin fash.
You know what just struck me? There's zero Predator vision in Badlands. Not one bit. That's so weird, given this is the Predator is the protagonist of this one.
There's even a shot from his point of view specifically at one point, and it's just done as normal footage.
Huh.
There's even a shot from his point of view specifically at one point, and it's just done as normal footage.
Huh.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You know what just struck me? There's zero Predator vision in Badlands. Not one bit. That's so weird, given this is the Predator is the protagonist of this one.
There's even a shot from his point of view specifically at one point, and it's just done as normal footage.
Huh.
There's even a shot from his point of view specifically at one point, and it's just done as normal footage.
Huh.
Normally one of my little boosters is I let myself get a Starbucks coffee on Monday morning each week. But ya boi does not cross picket lines. Might see what I can find elsewhere, but SB it will not be.
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Normally one of my little boosters is I let myself get a Starbucks coffee on Monday morning each week. But ya boi does not cross picket lines. Might see what I can find elsewhere, but SB it will not be.
i am sorry but I cannot stand for this blatant body shaming of saturn
Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
i am sorry but I cannot stand for this blatant body shaming of saturn
When I tell you Kit is an absolute purrbaby. Like she purrs so much. But you wouldn't know unless you can feel it because she has the quietest purr. Like you legit can't hear it unless she opens her mouth.
Contest with Alley Cat, who I could hear purring from across a room.
Contest with Alley Cat, who I could hear purring from across a room.
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
When I tell you Kit is an absolute purrbaby. Like she purrs so much. But you wouldn't know unless you can feel it because she has the quietest purr. Like you legit can't hear it unless she opens her mouth.
Contest with Alley Cat, who I could hear purring from across a room.
Contest with Alley Cat, who I could hear purring from across a room.
No, like, I get it wacky inflatable flailing tube guy. Me too, buddy, me too.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
No, like, I get it wacky inflatable flailing tube guy. Me too, buddy, me too.
Two people agreed today that I look and sound like Seth Rogen, and I dunno how I feel about that.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Two people agreed today that I look and sound like Seth Rogen, and I dunno how I feel about that.
I saw a thing about how people are allowed to make villains unrepentent, sexy, and their protagonists.
I'm curious about what prompted the assertion, which seemed to have a lot of people riled up but only in the "hell yah" sense. Is there some shortage of douche characters in recent fiction?
I'm curious about what prompted the assertion, which seemed to have a lot of people riled up but only in the "hell yah" sense. Is there some shortage of douche characters in recent fiction?
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I saw a thing about how people are allowed to make villains unrepentent, sexy, and their protagonists.
I'm curious about what prompted the assertion, which seemed to have a lot of people riled up but only in the "hell yah" sense. Is there some shortage of douche characters in recent fiction?
I'm curious about what prompted the assertion, which seemed to have a lot of people riled up but only in the "hell yah" sense. Is there some shortage of douche characters in recent fiction?
Recommend the new show Pluribus on Apple+. It's only three episodes in but so far it's really good IMO
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Recommend the new show Pluribus on Apple+. It's only three episodes in but so far it's really good IMO
Never underestimate a Tom when he is cornered but ALSO it would be great if I could summon these capabilities sans crises.
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never underestimate a Tom when he is cornered but ALSO it would be great if I could summon these capabilities sans crises.
the trick obviously is to take a man, teach him to fish, let the man with a thousand fish take 1/3 of his fish because they were caught in "his lake" and then tax another third and use that to give subsidies to the man with a thousand fish, and make sure to never tax him ever because what if he left
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
the trick obviously is to take a man, teach him to fish, let the man with a thousand fish take 1/3 of his fish because they were caught in "his lake" and then tax another third and use that to give subsidies to the man with a thousand fish, and make sure to never tax him ever because what if he left
It makes me viscerally angry that people this stupid are able to perpetuate so much evil in the world. Aragorn may have been the side of good given too much credit, but Increasingly it is clear Sauron was too competent an evil for the real world.
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It makes me viscerally angry that people this stupid are able to perpetuate so much evil in the world. Aragorn may have been the side of good given too much credit, but Increasingly it is clear Sauron was too competent an evil for the real world.
The tragic and inescapable problem of wanting to explore other romanceable characters, but there's the one character who draws you like gravity.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The tragic and inescapable problem of wanting to explore other romanceable characters, but there's the one character who draws you like gravity.
My PF2e setting hack features Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and Beastfolk. Wild, I know!
But in all seriousness, the whole project started as an exercise in deconstructing the tropes of the above and trying to reconstruct something interesting.
What's your usual favorite among those five options?
But in all seriousness, the whole project started as an exercise in deconstructing the tropes of the above and trying to reconstruct something interesting.
What's your usual favorite among those five options?
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My PF2e setting hack features Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and Beastfolk. Wild, I know!
But in all seriousness, the whole project started as an exercise in deconstructing the tropes of the above and trying to reconstruct something interesting.
What's your usual favorite among those five options?
But in all seriousness, the whole project started as an exercise in deconstructing the tropes of the above and trying to reconstruct something interesting.
What's your usual favorite among those five options?
Did not expect Predator Badlands to be both funny and heartwarming, but here we are. Loved it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Did not expect Predator Badlands to be both funny and heartwarming, but here we are. Loved it.
Thomas Parrott, the man who dares to ask the tough questions. Like "how much would a starfighter cost anyway" and "did the different cradles of civilization all invent swords independently"
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thomas Parrott, the man who dares to ask the tough questions. Like "how much would a starfighter cost anyway" and "did the different cradles of civilization all invent swords independently"