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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 14m

thanks!
The show is just so good; I can't rec it highly enough. It literalizes some dream logic and abstracts real-world things and it's just so neat

TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1h

nothing alienates me more from my gender, just throws it all out of joint, then hearing yet again that tswift is uniquely relatable for women.

maybe I really am just the patch of moss I long to be

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1h

this is fantastic writing (and overall work)

TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 20h

making up weird shit is awesome but figuring out stats/effects is hard/beyond me

Day 7 - shard

#mörktober

$Image of round ceramic jar with skeleton face on the upright spout. Text reads: "Cultists in the highlands above Lake Onda kept the heads of their sacrifices in ceramic jars. When unstoppered, the jars were said to release foul and fractious forces. "Fewer than twenty jars remain intact. Broken, however, their shards have proven to be potent weapons & arcane artefacts. "Large: 100s Small: 35s Toothpick:15s "Wielded as stabbing implement: DR10, deals D6 damage and foists visions of the sacrifice's last moments on the victim. "Used for magic: Test Presence DR14. Success boosts access to D4 additional scrolls for D6 days; failure incapacitates all scroll use for D4 days."$

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 21h

thinking last night about "blogging" again: go back to dreamwidth, I thought, but a new account closer to my current interests (with bonus upside of avoiding [media/AO3] fandom & its proglib zionism).

Comments could be made via OpenID.

Turns out OpenID is basically defunct? idk, argh

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 21h

Congrats/happy for you!

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 22h

unusual and lovely midcentury #typography

Bill Caraher @billcaraher.bsky.social · 22h

Holy creative kerning!

I love this Francis Wolff album cover.

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 23h

I'd post this on the subreddit if it hadn't fallen the Slop Lovers (and if I were on R any longer)

TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 23h

just had the wankiest thought about how Twin Peaks concerns the tension/incommensurability between *dream* (submerged elements of consciousness surfacing to play out) and *fantasy* (what one wishes would be truth).

Cooper is seduced by the town as fantasy-fulfillment, can't address the dream facts

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 23h

just had the wankiest thought about how Twin Peaks concerns the tension/incommensurability between *dream* (submerged elements of consciousness surfacing to play out) and *fantasy* (what one wishes would be truth).

Cooper is seduced by the town as fantasy-fulfillment, can't address the dream facts

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

A map showing the percentage of counties in the US who are majority black residence. A high number of those are in the US South.

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1d

I am more than a little fond of games that veer toward poetry-making (blackout, concrete, w/e)

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 8d

NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING:

SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.

In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…

You are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative… Image: Print copy of SPINE

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1d

"they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead."

Thunder: Normal Mind @buddybrotherton.bsky.social · 27d

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carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 1d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1d

Please do this, it sounds rad as anything

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1d

It's a skittering, mildewed doll of regret. You could try to sell it, I guess?

Day 6 - Husk

#mörktober #morktober

Illustrations of 2 corn-husk dolls, one astride a horse, the other standing.

Text reads:
"Husk Rider:

"A particular skittering whisper behind you, just to the left and down. The Husk Rider is woven from dead discards. Its interior seems hollow, but for the mold-sticky threats and regrets that streak the material.

"Some believe a Husk Rider is woven by abandoned children, then set to travel in search of parents who are not likely to return.

"A Husk Rider is solitary and prefers to dog the steps of the lonely, the doubtful, and anyone on their last legs.
Though prone to sudden crackling disintegration, Husk Riders are unaffected by fire.

"Intact specimens fetch 85s. Good luck keeping one intact, though."

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 1d

"We have turned ourselves into disgusting creatures, and for once I don’t mean that as a compliment": what a great line in a really good post

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TF Grognon @tfg.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh, yes, BSG was really compelling there for a while

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)