EmpanAIDA (she/her)

It was also very cold and windy and rainy that day. I'm STILL sick. 🤒 But I don't regret a second of it.

Oh hi. I've been off SM for a while to focus on in-person things that bring me joy. At the end of February, I had the honor of dancing 'Tobas', a 💯🇧🇴 Bolivian folkloric dance in Brussels

I'm in the green & black, 2nd row, right-side of the screen

MUÉSTRAME PUES.

Foundry VTT dialogue showing Sombra rolling a critical hit against a target and their damage total within a Pathfinder 2e game

Foundry VTT dialogue showing Sombra rolling a critical hit against a target and their damage total within a Pathfinder 2e game

Back to back to back to back

Feels good to monk after what felt like a long while 😎 #pathfinder2e

Selfie of Aida with statue 'Santa Claus' (as titled, by artist Paul McCarthy) in the background.

Statue 'Santa Claus' by Paul McCarthy in Rotterdam

Happy Holidays from me and this statue of Santa holding a jolly TREE.

Fruity Pebbles Christmas Commercial YouTube video by WillyTBird

I... I can't remember the actual lyrics to this Christmas song. It inevitably gets filled in by this commercial 😭

a cartoon of a girl lighting a candle with the word manifest written below her Alt: a cartoon of a girl lighting a candle with the word manifest written below her

Me, for you:

Origami Lucky Star - How to fold YouTube video by Easy Origami and Crafts

Cute tree is cute!

If you like folding paper/origami, I immediately thought of making those 'lucky stars' from long strips of paper. Stringing them up would be super cuuuute

This feels like a fever dream...

Like, what on earth do you think the story was based on this snippet?

Answer: YES

As person who made this video and regularly looks at people super zoomed-in, I was all, "omg Michelle's lighting is always so good. Look at how gorgeous her skin is ARGGGGH I HATE HER ❤"

Film you've seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Star (Wars or Trek), LotR or Marvel.

I'm so rooting for Hadjar, esp with the new regs. It felt sad being disappointed by [most-recent] Checo & Yuki's performance, KNOWING it was the car but like, still.

For as much as Checo couldn't get that car to perform in the last few years, his legendary defending was sorely missed 😭

At least it came down to racing and not rules shenanigans (Yuki's last try was... a diplomatic 'yikes')

That's essentially my post Dragonmeet write-up

But to TL;DR,
- The new venue had breathing room. Wishing for signage next year
- Great array of vendors, including from the continent
- Props to @soulmuppet.co.uk for Muppetmeet
- Thanks to @taylorannnx.bsky.social for another POC-centered space

👃🏽👁

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Donate to charity, derail our game!

TONIGHT

GM @michellicopter.bsky.social is joined by @nanosounds.bsky.social, @glowpinkstah.bsky.social, @lalionnecosplay.bsky.social, and Ken Cheng to play Jimmy Mothballs' Festive Staffing Agency Steals Christmas by @exstasisgames.bsky.social!

Join us and help raise funds for @jinglejam.co.uk!

Animated sprite of a female sniper wearing bunny ears and angel ear wings from Ragnarok Online

COOL KIDS (starting with @itslyssabish.bsky.social @urbanfriendden.bsky.social @thechindividual.bsky.social), post your og Ragnarok Online characters

View on central London and Thames from an airplane. Airplane wing in view

Londonnnnn

Going to squish ALL my friends (who consent to squishing) #Dragonmeet

Good old reboot? And test in other programs (like Discord, any recording app, etc) to see if it's a software or hardware issue.

Sometimes after a Windows update, audio settings are just completely wrong, mics are for some forsaken reason muted in system settings, etc.

Hope your gremlins bug off!

Aida on a cough with a fold-out map from Alien 2e RPG on top like a blanket

Keeping warm today, the best way I can. With the Alien Evolved/2e map from the Starter Set and by being smol.

(FreeLeague, could this maybe actually be a blanket in the future? Please?)

Wishing everyone a good-luck-cloudflare-is-having-problems DAY

Hey, POC TTRPG writers, designers, professionals who are based in CONTINENTAL EUROPE, (sorry, but specifically NOT the UK this time)

Please holler so I can be your friend 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

#juegosderol #lodelrol #pnpde #jdr #giocodiruolo #dutchdnd #dndnl #rpgdemesa #jogos #rpgpolska #ttrpg

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

Gift article from The Atlantic that overviews "fantasy racism" in D&D (and ofc why it's bad and why bad people prefer that)

If I could put you into my suitcase for the trip back, I would 😂

(assuming we could safely ship you back too)

It is earmarked for a special someone 😇

I will be partaking of Greggs for my breakfast needs while in the UK

Generations of people were discouraged from speaking & learning these languages. Externally by governments removing those communication avenues or internally to "pro-actively avoid discrimination"

I think I'll be putting some effort into learning one or the other so next time I can use them!

Also... I was indeed asked to contribute and I HAPPILY did. BUT

When I started recording, I got into THOUGHTS about how I don't know Aymara or Quechua, which are the indigenous languages that my ancestors would have spoken. Unfortunately there aren't reputable online tools to facilitate translation

Biggest congrats to Amaan and the team behind this story. To be part of this journey affirming that our different cultures and languages can positively influence and improve our stories, feels great

Open suitcase with one half filled with pre-packaged stroopwafels

Packing the essentials for Dragonmeet.