@witchwater
Hi! I'm an award-winning (and now Ennie-nominated!) TRPG writer who's been helping people play pretend since before it was cool. My pronouns are she/her. My opinions are my own! Basic writerly stuff can be found here: rachaelcruz.carrd.co
Unclench your jaw.
Drink some water or have a nice soothing cup of tea.
Listen to that audiobook you wanted to finish.
Curl up with your pet and tell them how much you love them as you give them cuddles.
Make it a habit to find ways to treat yourself kindly in spite of a world that refuses to.
Sorry to post this so much, but this is so new I don't know what my financial needs will be yet. I also want to make sure everyone who follows knows the context for my new jokes.
I would like to file a bug report. My foot is cold. I should not be getting error messages from disconnected equipment.
( > News > MarketWatch > UnitedHealth is dropping a million senior... United Health is dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage as it aims to restore its 'swagger' MarketWatch Provided by Dow Jones • Nov 19, 2025 at 7:56:00 AM By Neal Shah America's largest insurer is making sweeping changes to its Medicare Advantage plans to improve profit margins United Health Group is dropping some of its Medicare Advantage plans. United Health Group announced last month that it plans to drop 1 million Medicare Advantage members. Two weeks later, at a UBS healthcare conference, Wayne DeVeydt, the company's chief financial officer, said many of the changes UnitedHealth is making will allow it to "get back to the swagger the company once had."
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.
How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage
Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
We're proud to announce our first Disability and Neurodivergence special!
Submissions are open and anyone who is or identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent in any way that's meaningful to them is welcome to submit
Submissions close: Nov. 10 2:59 AM ET
Dates: Nov. 29-30
gdq.gg/disability-d...
PSA: You can pick up my award winning indie game for less than 15 bucks. We want to keep making more games, so tell your friends! ❤️
#indiegame #pixelart #steam
✨We wanna hear your women-made indie TTRPG recommendations!✨
Let’s hear them, folks!
Extra points for links, and don’t forget to check people’s pronouns to avoid misgendering.
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Thanks, Jack!
One of the books I worked on has earned an ENnie nomination! Ee!!
Grizelda's Cursed Curiosities is in the running for Best Adventure - Long Form! This was such a fun project, and I'm so proud of everyone!
Wanna vote? Go here: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/
We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
It's my 35th birthday today🎂!!
I would appreciate if you rt my portraits as a little gift ✨
Thanks for supporting me this year !🖤🖤
We are doing it again and this time even BIGGER!
FREE VTT DAY IS BACK!
Get the 2025 FREE VTT game collection on Alchemy for the low price of... well... FREE! (for one day only)
Check out all these titles and more using the link below:
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*scrolls through descriptions of shows and movies coming soon*
*show description exactly matches a story I started writing ~30 years ago but never finished because ‘no one’s gonna want to read this psycho-fantasy bullshit’*
Lesson: WRITE ALL THE BULLSHIT. 🤦♀️
We don't talk enough about how far we've come with HIV/AIDS. This shit used to be a guaranteed death sentence.
I used to buy fresh raspberries and then put off eating them because "just eating them wasn't special enough" (what???) but then they would go moldy and I couldn't enjoy them at all!! So now I eat the raspberries! Light the fancy expensive candle! Stick the stickers you're hoarding! USE THE STUFF
The Last Unicorn
#jlmart #art
Black graphic with text “You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”
If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.
Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer (side-scrolling action-RPG/platformer from Blast Zero) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayAj...
store.steampowered.com/app/2413800/...
Please don't evangelize the use of AI after I tell you I don't support AI.
Evolution saw fit to give you a brain; use it instead of relying on a magic 8 ball that accelerates climate change 🫠
If you are a TTRPG designer who can’t afford to pay an artist living wages it is 100% cool and good and AWESOME to use resources like this so you can create a world you’re proud of looks cool.
The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
![[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kazs6skhkhitmtlhxwq2g264/bafkreigxvcrmm3rvnlyvqvekioqbrypd2l7z4vbzsgvjkncpmfr5fx72h4)
[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]
Oh, I have good news.
Thinking about media that gets celebrated for its diverse and inclusive approach to sexuality and yet fat people are nowhere to be found save for maybe as evil trolls and demons, their bodies an object of horror and ridicule
Now I’ve heard there was a tiny rat
Who fell into a mutating vat
And who knows how much pizza he’d have brung ya?
Cos he might have raised four turtle sons
And equipped them all with shurikens,
But…
This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.
williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...
ICYMI! I have a sweet #TTRPG starter pack for the Pacific Northwest! British Columbia. Washington State. Oregon. Idaho. GMs, creators, artists, companies, and more. All here!
go.bsky.app/P7Nq6Xo
Facebook post: So my son who started crocheting earlier this year decided to start micro-crocheting. He made me a whale. - the picture contains a hand with a tiny crocheted blue and white whale the size of maybe a penny. It is smaller than the man’s finger digits. It is really tiny and cute and well done.
Because art brings joy, you have to see this too.
Not just you! Gotta clean the experience away. :)
• they/them This is how we do on BlueSky when someone doesnt do Alt-Text. We share it without the source but with Alt-Text. #MakeltBarrierfree December 1, 2024 at 10:03 AM • Translate
ABSOLUTELY NOT
This is a great way to completely destroy the cause of ALT.
“We steal from artists” is NEVER the answer. Repost with ALT AND ATTRIBUTION
Or politely ask someone to ALT their work
Threatening people and painting folks that advocate for ALT text as thieves is a horrible strategy.
THANK you! 😀
