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Salamander

@sallywargaming.bsky.social

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Amateur writer, amateur tabletop game designer, sci-fi and tabletop video essayist and host of the channel Salamander's Forge on YouTube, gender goblin (they/them)

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · Nov 7

I've been getting new followers every day since the election so I figured I ought to do a bit of an introduction thread. Hiii, my name's Sally! I'm a queer and Jewish video essayist making videos about 40k and other tabletop games. You can find my work below!

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PLAY TRENCH CRUSADE, I AM NO LONGER ASKING

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 15h

Knowing the exact amount of gods that exist in a universe also counts.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 15h

Hard quantification of a god's nature is like the number one way to make a fictional pantheon immediately boring as shit to me. If divinity and magic exist in the same setting but The Divine is just as explicable and quantifiable as arcane magic, then gods just become glorified spell dispensaries.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 15h

I see women especially getting accused of being AI voiceover if they talk with a monotone affect, or don't alternate their register in a sentence. Just immediately accused of being AI. The fact that these accusations are almost always targeting women is for totally not infuriating reasons, I'm sure.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 15h

I heard a line from a podcast where the host was basically jokingly saying that the real victims of AI generated art are artists who just really liked drawing with very airbrushed rendering and hated drawing hands. I feel like something similar can be said with VAs with certain kinds of voices.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 1d

After 57 questions and two wrong guesses it did eventually guess Tarik Torgaddon.

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THAT'S WHAT I FUCKING THOUGHT YEAAAAH HUMANS WIN AGAIN

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 1d

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 1d

Okay but there's no way it'll know who Tarik Torgaddon is.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, how the fuck-

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot change this.

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Kristina Amuan🍉COMMS closed @iraganaart.bsky.social · 7d

NEW HUNTER THE PARENTING AUDIOLOG IS OUT!
𝙒𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙒𝙊𝙇𝙁 𝙇𝙊𝙍𝙀- and did quite alot of work for this one! along with voice work and writing, i also designed Wayda, she is based off of the indigenous Ati people, specifically from Nagpana, Barotac Viejo #huntertheparenting

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Kristina Amuan🍉COMMS closed @iraganaart.bsky.social · 6d

more art from the recent #huntertheparenting audiolog! decided to design the werewolf to be closer to the aspin dogs of the philippines(wolves arent native to here), and the woman is based off of the Suludnon indigenous group also from my island(Panay)with their signature headdress and red dress

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 5d

So I just really, really appreciate being able to see you give your own take on werewolves and seeing your take on werewolves rooted very firmly in your own people's history has inspired me to consider giving my own take on Canaanite/Ancient Hebrew werewolves via the Glass Walkers.

Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 5d

I remember reading older editions of Werewolf the Apocalypse and seeing the Glass Walkers and going "Oh there's a werewolf tribe descended from ancient Hebrew tribes I wonder what they're like!" and then being jumpscared by their totem animal being THE COCKROACH! and I've never been the same since.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 5d

I am in love with the art you've done for the most recent audio drama. Werewolf lore in World of Darkness always felt like a nexus of extremely problematic and racist writing and seeing your take on them is genuinely so refreshing as someone who was always put off by WtA's bizarrely frank racism.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot change this.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10d

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 10d

This is amazing.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 10d

It depends on how you count it. My first edition of 40k was technically 7th, but the farthest I got was playing like... 150 points or something like that. My first 2,000 point games of 40k was during the 8th edition Indexhammer era, like a decade ago.

Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 10d

Marshal Bohemond is a name I have not thought of for a very long time. Loser blocked me years ago on Twitter. Glad to see he's still the same loathsome shitheel he always was.

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 10d

the space marines that get sent to planets rich in promethium deposits:

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you are not immune to trenchant analysis @wrongopinionman.bsky.social · 11d

They already did that

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Salamander @sallywargaming.bsky.social · 11d

I'm uh. I'm gonna need bigger shelves for my Trench Crusade collection...

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anticiv anarchist hellfire and brimstone preacher @freeprincessluigi.bsky.social · 13d

tell that to the people being rounded up.

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