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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · 4d

Oh wow! I’ve been absolutely marveling over your work in the Orruk and FEC tomes, what a treat to stumble on your profile here! Amazing work!

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · 12d

*sharing this

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · 12d

This is the hardest I’ve laughed at 40K content in a minute. Bless you for this.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · 29d

Extremely low stakes debate topic:

What do you figure is the English word with the worst “what it means” to “how it sounds” ratio?

Like, I borderline refuse to say “demonstrably” right because “demonstrate-ably” is what it means while “de-MONSTER-bly” sounds like a children’s monster movie title.

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 14

If you’re open to a lesser temptation, AoS is a lot cheaper to get into and (imo) much better written.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

(Especially since in every other way the show is *allergic* to doing anything with queer characters. We get the bee kid’s two moms in season 1 (barely) but no one else despite the show being otherwise *weirdly* romance focused. Which, again, fine but you’re telling a story about outcasts!!!)

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

This is what I mean when I say it feels like the show is trying to flirt with allegory (someone in a writers room made that conversion camp line) but doesn’t actually commit to saying anything. You can do so many stories about community with that setup without invoking conversion camps.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

ENID’S BIG CHARACTER GROWTH MOMENT FOR THE END OF THE SEASON IS WOLFING OUT! Allegorically we have a character who is struggling with her relationship to loved ones because if a part of her identity that makes her an outsider… and the resolution to that is “never mind I stopped in my own.”

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

And that’s not even getting into stuff like the “werewolf conversion camp” (show’s words, not mine) which, ok. If you’re going to call it that, you’re saying that “not turning into a wolf” is your allegory for queer identity. Which, sure, it could work if it’s a conformity thing, except…

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

Like, there’s the very surface level stuff (all the houses are named after Shakespeare characters without that really meaning anything) but season 1 really tries to sell an oppressed underclass narrative with Outcasts that *super* doesn’t work.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

Like, it’s in a strange place thematically where it’s clearly trying to do allegory but also just completely isn’t (or at least it’s trying to pretend to do allegory without actually putting the work in).

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

I have… way more thoughts about the Wednesday show than is probably healthy. Like it was fun, but idk if I’ve ever seen a piece of media jumble its ideas so powerfully before.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Sep 7

The inevitable has happened, I booted up Silksong and I’ve finally hit a point where the time investment to get good enough to play it just doesn’t really grab me anymore

I lived off Soulslikes through my 20s. But I’ve got other stuff going on now I want to do more. End of an era. Skong on for me 🫡

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Aug 28

Can we do it line item, like yay to the Birds of Prey center and potatoes but nay to the white supremacists.

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hello I’m back.

(Did a bit of a social media hiatus, cuz you know, everything.)

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Jan 24

Just my boys and our devastating ice weakness haha.

Me! Art from my podcast depicting me in a cartoon style. Longish brown hair and beard with half-framed rectangle glasses.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 28

Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.

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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · Jan 20

I try to maintain empathy and connection for humans as a whole, but the illusion that the world "just works"--that the assumptions of past generations are true, that the rules of your teachers are sacred, that change is a risk rather than a necessity--is poisonous, and creates poisonous people.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 19

File this under “evidence that democrats can’t get attention for doing wild shit because everyone expects that they will make sense and follow rules but every dumbass thing Donald Trump says is the whole news for 2 weeks.”

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · Jan 19

I don’t understand what Biden et al are doing with the ERA, do they think people are not going to notice that it isn’t actually in place?

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Jan 18

Listen, it is obviously *someone’s* aesthetic or it wouldn’t be the no. 1 source of plastic miniatures in the world… but I have literally never seen a space marine that looked cool.

The EC reveal felt like a fever dream (bad). This? This is your long awaited Slaanesh range???

Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Jan 18

I’ve always thought a soulslike would be perfect (newly reforged Stormcast protagonist going again and again) but I’ll take anything. Realms of Ruin looked great and clearly had passion for the setting… but was rough to play. An Owlcat rpg would make my year haha.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · Jan 17

What does your true self look like?
How does it feel to transcend?
How does it feel when the power is spent, and you change back?
Girl By Moonlight.
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On the left, a copy of the Girl By Moonlight RPG. On the right, a quote from the page 51 of the book: "Transcendence. In order to stand a chance against the various threats the protagonists face, they will need to transcend. Each playset will have variations on what it means to transcend, but at its core it is always the same—transcendence means embodying your truest self. It is an exultant expression of everything that the characters are forced to bury and deny about themselves in their day to day lives."

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · Jan 14

Stop being a sinophobic dipshit and come up with a comprehensive plan to legislate *all* social media for privacy and user data, bud

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Ringed Mountain @ringedmountain.bsky.social · Jan 9

If you see this, post a ghost!

Lady Olynder, the Mortarch of Grief, from Warhammer Age of Sigmar. She is a tall figure in a spectral wedding gown complete with veil. Roses coil around her and she’s framed by a crown of wrought iron.

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