Hi!
My posts here tend to be re-posts. Things that entertain me, things that are worth thinking about, things I want to try, or read, or watch, or follow. This blog exists mainly to be a pleasing archive of fun things for me to read. You may enjoy it as well. I rather hope you do.
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cool dice for sure
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SECOND TIME DOIN THIS COS I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE FIRST ONE GRRRR
not the one i was expectign but yay!! yippee thank mew!! lemme tell mew abt my hypurrfixation fur the last year, eidolon: become your best self and its actualplay podcast, eidolon playtest!!
eidolon: become your best self is a tabletop rpg inspired by jojos bizarre adventure and persona, where players find their way through combat and encounters using physical psychic manifestations of their souls called Eidolon!
the game was created by molly rhinebeck and luke varner, and its originally born from the Powered By The Apocalypse system, but gradually evolved away from that. the 1st edition, thats had a full release and can be found on itch.io here, is still pretty noticably inspired by pbta, but on the patreon they release drafts of the 2nd edition, where most noticable they replaced the 2d6 resolution system with an entirely unique one, that uses the major arcana tarot in order to determine outcomes of player actions in many fun n unique ways!!
the game itself is very open ended, the eidolons you can make are practically limitless. each playbook has a template sentence with blank spaces to fill in, and mew can put literally anything mew can think of, as long as the template still makes like, sense as a sentence (and doesnt run on fur a million words :P). fur example:
The Vanguard
My Eidolon obliterates enemies by ______.
the vanguard is probably the simplest playbook. its for your shounen protagonists, and such archetypes. its simply just a very powerful fighter, and its advanced moves allow for extra advantages when in direct combat, as well as fun “power of friendship” type special moves, such as giving inspiring speeches or summoning all ur friends’ eidolons to help u fight.
or The Alchemist
My Eidolon can transform any _____ it touches into _____.
the alchemist is rly fun and powerful, its for the characters with a weird outlook on life, who enjoy solving problems in unconventional ways with the tools they were given. this is a very open ended playbook, and most of its advanced moves give you new ways to apply your eidolons power, such as transforming on sightline, or puttin a delayed reaction on it, or rewriting their power to add in a third step in the tf chain.
theres also the infiltrator, who can hide their eidolon from detection by ____ and attack from hiding using ____,
the navigator who plays support and can perfectly sense any ___ around it,
the virtuoso, whos eidolon is a real physical ____ and they can use it to _____,
the beast, whos eidolon helps fullfill their animalistic instincts by ____, and has innate extra buffs cos of bein a funny little guy,
the inhuman, who is a supernatural entity and whos eidolon can ___________ (basically whatever you want),
the veteran, which is for formerly retired characters, whos powers have fallen in disuse or otherwise diminished, they use another playbook’s power and can only a few times per session use a move from their former playbook,
the wildcard, which randomly switches between every other playbook in the game except veteran,
and lastly, new in the 2nd edition,
the conductor, whos eidolon is always on, and passively warps reality around them by _____.
its a REALLY good game, its some of the most fun ive EVER had with ttrpg, and its simply just super fun to come up with eidolon powers. heres some of my fafurrites ive come up with:
「MAMA MIA」 “My Eidolon can rewind time to the last time i woke up, but only in the event of my death.”
「TRANS STARSHIP FEMINIST BDSM PARADISE」 “My Eidolon can… well, the name speaks for itself, don'cha think?.”
「Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap」 “My Eidolon helps me pursue my animal urges by getting me past any obstacle that blocks my path.”
「HOMEWRECKER」 “My Eidolon can transform any your wife it touches into my girlfriend.”
「IDK MAN YOU NAME IT IM TIRED」 “My Eidolon can turn any motivation it touches into procrastination.”
「THE CLOCK STRIKES NOON (APOCALYPSE!)」
Veteran playbook, original power is:
“My Eidolon obliterates enemies by causing natural disasters to occur.” (Apocalypse! was its og name, nowadays its TCSN.)
[Thnks fr th Mmrs] “My Eidolon can allow me to receive the heirloom virtuoso eidolons of any alternate timeline me’s in the event of their death.”
「Girls Just Wanna Have Fun」 “My Eidolon is a real, physical purse, and im so good with it that when i use it i can retrieve anything a modern girl on the go might need.”
「Angeleyes」 “My Eidolon can perfectly sense the truth in the area around it.”
[Bad To The Bone] “My Eidolon obliterates my enemies by exaggerating their worst qualities.”
[Untitled Bonus Track] “My Eidolon warps reality around me by giving other Eidolon users a second Power while in my zone of influence.”
「I DO what i WANT」"MY Eidolon warps reality around me by copying other people’s abilities.“
THIS POST IS ALREADY SO LONG BUT NOW THE PODCAST!!!!
SO eidolon playtest is where they playtest the game themselves. each season consists of two campaigns, both GM'ed by game creator Luke Varner, that release their episodes on alternating weeks, and so far always have some sort of overarching plot connecting the two campaigns. the first 2 seasons were POP/ROCK and POP2/ROCK2, and the current, season 3, is DISCO/SKA.
ROCK follows some low level gangsters as they fuck up and accidentally get eidolons (basically stands) and now their former gang is out to kill them as they have to roadtrip across the united states to deliver a high-value parcel
POP follows a gaggle of college students (and a professor) as they get transported to another world, thats a representation of the collective human perception of reality, and get tasked with cleaning up the otherworldly estate, thats in dissarray, hereby altering reality (hopefully) for the better…?
DISCO and SKA both follow the mystery solver’s clubof a highschool in a small town in kentucky, however DISCO is set in the 70s, and SKA is set in the 90s.
DISCO follows the founding club members, as they solve various mysteries and conflicts, in a town where everyone obtains an eidolon upon becoming of age, and are entered in a city-wide magical contest to become the "yolk that hatches”.
SKA follows the new members of the mystery solver’s club, as they take part in the club tradition of attempting to unravel the mysteries behind the disappearance of the original club members, 20 years ago (thats the DISCO party).
the alternating release schedule may be a bit off-putting, and takes some getting used to, but i promise it is very much worth it. theres a lot of overarching plot between the two sister campaigns, and at the end of each season they tend to combine both campaigns into a joined finale.
also POP has a bit of a rough start, and takes a little while to find its footing, and being able to alternate that awkward beginning with the more solidly started ROCK, really helps with the enjoyment of the show imho.
the podcast is very fun, very creative and well-played, the players and gm are extremely talented and play some very compelling characters and pull some baller fuckin rad shit that has me bouncing in excitement even on my current third relisten. the cast is also like. 90% queer and/or trans, and while thats a minor thing it IS, like. comforting, yknow? its nice!
also, the podcast has its very own soundtrack by the extremely talented and very wonderful @maxknightley! its really good! shes really good!! go check it out and go check her music out!!! she also made a game called Our Stormy Present which is inspired by old-school fantasy RPGs and its also really good but this post is long enough go check it out urself!!!!
OH and mew can find eidolon playtest both on their own site, and anywhere else mew can find podcasts!
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
The anime is called Daily Lives of High School Boys, for anyone who wants more of this kind of thing. And yes the entire series is like this.
Since I appear to have maxed out the number of links in a single post, here is the continuation of my Masterlist.
I’ll format it in the same way, that being chronologically, rather than by monster or reader ‘type’, and the rating (sfw/nsfw) will be added to each part/story.
Newer stories at the bottom. Be sure to check the original post (not just reblogs) for updates!
Masterlist of Shorter Stories and Drabbles here.
Male werewolf x female character (Gabe & Odessa) Part One (sfw), Part Two (sfw), Part Three (sfw), Part Four (sfw), Part Five (sfw), Part Six (sfw) Part Seven (sfw), Part Eight (sfw), Part Nine (sfw), Part Ten (sfw), Part Eleven (nsfw), Part Twelve (sfw), Part Thirteen (sfw), Part Fourteen (nsfw), Part Fifteen (nsfw), Part Sixteen (nsfw), Part Seventeen (sfw), Part Eighteen (v. light nsfw), Part Nineteen (nsfw), Part Twenty (nsfw), Part Twenty-One (nsfw), Part Twenty-Two (season finale, sfw)
Male orc x male character (Victorian era fantasy) Part One (WIP, posted on Ko-fi)
Male merman x reader (nsfw)
Male mothfolk (Elis) x male reader (very light nsfw at the end)
Female selkie (Meg) x female reader (sfw)
Male each-uisge/sea kelpie (Rhion) x reader (sfw) *Mermay*, Part Two (changed to cis female reader) (nsfw)
Male wyvern
(Askaen)
x male reader (nsfw)
Male dragonborn (Yrdan) x trans female reader (nsfw)
Male dremora (demon) x female character Part One (sfw), Part Two (sfw), Part Three (sfw), Part Four (sfw), Part Five (sfw), Part Six (sfw), Part Seven (sfw), Part Eight (sfw), Part Nine (nsfw)
Male yeti-shifter dad x reader Part One (sfw), Part Two (v. light nsfw), Part Three (nsfw)
Male goblin (Gil) x gn reader (nsfw)
(old) WIP Male vampire x female character - Part One (sfw)
Male goblin x gn reader (nsfw)
Male witch x male goth (non-monster romance story) ‘Like Moon and Tide’: Part One, Part Two, Part Three (v. light nsfw), Part Four (nsfw), Part Five (Final, nsfw)
Male cerberus boyfriends x gn reader Part Two (nsfw)
Male scarred werewolf (Rhett) x female reader Part Five (nsfw)
Male ‘yautja/feral predator’ inspired alien x gn reader: Part One (sfw), Part Two (sfw), Part Three (sfw), Part Four (sfw), Part Five (sfw), Part Six (nsfw), Part Seven (nsfw), Part Eight (sfw), Part Nine (sfw), Part Ten (sfw), Part Eleven - final (nsfw)
Male yautja x gn reader (implied poly) (sfw)
Female ghost x gn reader (sfw)
Male scarecrow x gn reader (sfw)
Dragon Heart (non romance, dragon & human story, sfw)
Male drider pirate captain x gn reader (mild nsfw)
Male orc (Guthlak) x gn reader (light/fluffy nsfw)
Male sharkman (Titus) x male reader (nsfw, light D/s undertones)
Male fox spirit (Rowe) x female reader (nsfw)
Male werewolf (Beorn) x trans male reader (nsfw)
Male werewolf x male human (3rd person POV) (nsfw)
Male uruk hai x gn human (sfw)
‘Protector’ - short story featuring a male gargoyle and a female witch (sfw)
Female vampire x nb/gn reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Male naga x nb/gn reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Male swamp monster x female reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Male dragon x trans male reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Female drider x female reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Male vampire x male reader (sfw) (drabble)
Male swamp monster x nb/gn reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Female vampire x female reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Male bugbear x male reader (nsfw) (drabble)
Non binary tiefling x plus sized female reader (nsfw) (drabble)
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Date updated: 05.07.2023 - UK date order: Day, Month, Year
everyone's saying it but yeah the new tumblr desktop layout is complete garbage lmao
yknow what i really can't fucking stand. how every social media now feels like it's designed for mobile first but then subsequently there is NO design for desktop and they just kinda slap a mobile interface onto a widescreen canvas and fill it with a solid color. like why is what feels like 60% of my dashboard just negative space on a 16:9 monitor. the entire thing is so fucking claustrophobic and just bunched together. use the space!!!! why are the timeline switcher tabs at the top of the screen getting cut off!!! you could fit all of them!!!
LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
zooming in to like 110% makes it a LITTLE better but it's still way too much empty space on the sides that could be used so much more meaningfully, and then going any further than that just starts to literally cut off the content i actually want to see, like at a certain point in order to cut down on negative space i can only fit half of a post on screen if it's long enough. on a 4K monitor. i don't understand why so much modern website design conflates "compact" with "efficient". they are not mutually exclusive but they're also not synonyms!!! 16:9 will not hurt you!!!! some of my favorite stuff is in 16:9! like psychonauts 2! everyone wants to be psychonauts 2! what are you afraid of!!!
I know this is kind of a stupid question, but as someone who uses Tumblr pretty much exclusively on the mobile, what did it look like before?
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-it’s our history people.
Marsha P. Johnson allegedly died of suicide in 1992, and her death was never investigated. Even I, a mere prole, could catch the “she was murdered” vibes from the circumstances surrounding the discovery of her body.
Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.
R E M E M B E R
And whatever you do, don’t watch that awful movie Stonewall. Go watch a documentary on Marsha P. Johnson instead.
there’s a wonderful documentary on netflix called the death and life of marsha p. johnson! very powerful watch.
every white person ever should reblog this
Official graveyard post. +Bonus
Like so many things we have, we have them because people of color did it first, and white people took credit for it.
you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!
i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea
by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel
here it is again because uh. seems relevant.
Just begged Tumblr to keep the Following tab free of algorithmic sorting.
You should too. And be nice about it.
can we talk about the ups strike can we PLEASE talk about the ups strike
i know since writers and actors are already striking thats gonna take up most of the news space on social media but like. ups has until july 31st to meet the teamster's demands and if not then theyre going on the biggest strike against a single corporation since the early 1900s. the uaw (auto manufacturers union) contract is up this fall, and i believe the alu (amazon labor union) is as well. there's a huge possibility that they might strike as well, depending on how long the ups strike lasts.
im seeing a lot of talk about hollywood going down but i want to see more talk about labor rights and working class solidarity across the board... like A Lot of shit is about to go down
we're about to see a lot more propaganda by more than just hollywood, we're about to see a lot of bullshit political moves on local, state, and federal levels. dont fall for it. workers have power.
There’s a typo in that first image.
It should say “would cost the economy more than $7 billion and be the COOLEST work stoppages in at least a century”
