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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟

@sinland.gay

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Pretentious Auteur 🏳️‍⚧️ Artist/TTRPG Designer One half of Super Despair World, a podcast for nice people DM or [email protected] for art commissions. Portfolio: https://cara.app/sinabsentia Podcast: superdespairworld.com

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · Jun 21

I'm revealing my big ttrpg project soon, and I need my followers to appreciate why it's taken so long. This week I'm doing my final pass over the (tr)ashcan edition, sitting at 140 pages with no almost art, no GM materials, and minimal setting fluff. It is a big and absurd game for tactics perverts.

An opening page from the "trashcan edition" of Absentia's yet to be announced tabletop RPG. The title over an illustrated group of characters is censored.

Bold text on the left column reads "A Tactical RPG of semi-automatic sorcery and psionic turmoil across the Golden Cosmos."

Plain text on the right reads "(title) is a foolish labor of love that has colored my entire adult life. In 2011, a group of friends came together to write rules for a roleplay setting in an MMORPG we played. For the next ten years, we who hardly knew a thing about tabletop games forged a wild, rich tactical TTRPG by trial and error after error.

Since 2022, I have been chipping away at this game from an enormous slab of stone. This Trashcan Edition is born of all the experiences these years have gifted me. It's the umpteenth edition, it's as clean as it ever was, it's a beautiful mess, it's an ugly google document. Our work is never done." signed by Absentia.

A three-column table of contents teasing the yet to be revealed RPG that Absentia is making. The majority of table is long lists of ancestries, backgrounds, classes, talents, and equipment.

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 45m

Video essays are just podcasts with keys being jingled in front of your eyes for the entire runtime

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 48m

this was definitely meant to be something else first before it got turned into mario

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 55m

Reading these threads is always interesting to me. Being hyper-online often makes me feel like in the minority for being a trans girl who isn't into the puppy stuff, but I wonder what the actual numbers are like because it seems so common and popular.

Voizel @voizel.bsky.social · 2h

What's y'alls theory on why so many trans folks are into puppyplay (no judge, I'm part of the puppy agenda)

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1h

I want to love World of Darkness but man none of those books are laid out well

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 6h

shes just like me fr fr

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 8h

I can only hope that being outwardly ashamed about it might signal to other people that they should be more critical or embarrassed about keeping up with these losers too 😔

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 8h

Every single one of these political streamers (especially the ones on "my side") disgusts me to my core and I don't think I'll ever stop being deeply embarrassed that I used to watch this shit

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 16h

this girl finishes her WIPs eventually #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

An illustration from Absentia's TTRPG of a woman posing with a katana. She has a pale complexion, long and straight white hair, elf ears, and a yellow hairband. She wears lightly armored attire in a modern/sci-fi style with a translucent, plastic coat overtop. One of her arms is covered in high-tech armor that projects a magical shield over her side. There is a revolver holstered at her waist, opposite her sword's sheath.

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 10h

The point of comparison in my mind was this post I saw the other day, which makes me feel like the standards are definitely slipping bsky.app/profile/wesl...

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 10h

Is it bad that the first thing that stood out to me is that this cop looks fit and lean compared to the DHS chuds they've got roaming the streets now

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 16h

this girl finishes her WIPs eventually #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 20h

Every $6 we get adds a new layer of bricks to the ziggurat
www.patreon.com/c/SUPERDESPA...

creating podcasts

www.patreon.com

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 20h

Subscribe to superdespairworld.com if you think guys like this need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the top of the ziggurat

A cover illustration for the podcast Super Despair World, with the caption "Lo-fi Podcasts to Chill to". The illustration shows a mustached man strumming a guitar while sitting on the banks of a lake. He wears a white buttoned shirt and black slacks. His surroundings are vibrantly green and full of colorful flowers. In the distance there are towering fantastical mushrooms with waterfalls pouring from their caps, feeding the lake.

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 20h

I can't even pray for this guy to lose his job to an AI because the substance of the show would not meaningfully change in any way

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1d

the real kicker of encountering intelligent, civilized alien life is that every piece of media with aliens in it is gonna age REALLY badly overnight

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1d

I'm not well versed on science but I think if aliens are carbon-based life then they'll probably have similar drugs, but I have to wonder if things like "humans enjoy spicy food that physically pains them to eat and horror movies that scare the shit out of them" would be considered weird to aliens

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1d

I stopped using weed a long time ago but I'd get stoned with an alien if I can try some of their drugs

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1d

There is also a third guy, who is not as evil but just as annoying, who is only there to ask questions about tectonic plates and wind currents

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 1d

Every space on the internet dedicated to "worldbuilding" is plagued by one guy who says 'you can't write anything without people calling you racist these days!' and another guy who asks 'hey guys, what's the most racist thing you wrote today?'

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 2d

Rayquaza is a singular legendary force of nature in the Pokemon universe, there are plenty of huge and absurdly strong Digimon who are Just Normal Guys

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 2d

I mean it certainly helps that most Digimon are like 12 foot tall mecha-dinosaurs or demons with cybernetic power arms or some kinda enormous knight guy with machine guns. Let's see you try exerting a power imbalance over that!

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 3d

It's not for you americoid

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 3d

Hey can I be on the blocklist of people who say "USian" and "USAmerican" too? you guys missed one thanks

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 3d

Always bet on nothing ever happens

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