Townsend S. Wright

In my experience it is almost impossible to *finish* a novella. By the time you get there it’s not one anymore. Godspeed!

please don’t ever trade your authenticity for approval. Let people dislike you.

I drop posts like this every once in a while to weed out racists in my follower list.

I was genuinely surprised by how well it worked from the get. It came in with a really poignant reentry point and some line from the most recent ep made me bark out laughing.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.

And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.

They're slavers.

“Peggy! We’ve been turned into pigs!”
“And just what are you trying to say about me, Hank?!”
“Dangit, Peggy, the boy’s lost his name to some kinda Got-dang yokai!”

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Of course, I had the exact same thought.

And so we say goodbye to the Seekers! Thou shalt be missed, but we all have the intrigue of the Schemers to look forward to! (and even though I like a more combat-heavy play, Murray is my favorite, so…)
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"This is a monkey's hand stuck in the cookie jar"
WHAT A METAPHOR
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TPK! TPK! TPK!
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And we thought the culminating fight for the Soldiers was a bunch of slapstick!
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Fighter: I got all these cool special moves!
Druid: I found a gun!
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This is the Seekers table, we don't roll 20s to deal damage, we roll 20s to gain fantastic knowledge that will never ever leave this room!
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"You put the Peeps in the Chili pot!"
I know that Good Place reference!
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An monstrous screech rings through the room, and an unholy beast soars directly overhead, hauling one of their companions to an apparent doom.
Occtis, who can't see shit: "I sense there's something here…"
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We got no hit points and there's glowing crystals all over the place, this is gonna go great!
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Ooh, cosmological nuance, love to see that in D&D.
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They were going to turn Occtis' corpse into the Angel. And the Lloys disrupted it on several fronts at once!
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Oh good, there's an Imhotep Gooey Mummy room! Should have seen it coming with the Sun God desert country thing, honestly.
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Dr. Talter: "hey guys, I think there might be a whole dungeon crawl past this?"
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…Now I can't say I support their murder and fascist takeover of the government… But that's some damn good Blasphemy the Tachonis got there.
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"Oh, shit, right, the NPCs!"
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Aotheon Vindicta? Brennan's really dragging out the pseudo-catholic naming conventions.
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"Seems like there's a lot of ways through the fuckin' woods,"
Wait till you meet the Dogs, Thaisha.
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Ah. "Drowned Men" is literal.
"Get rid of our souls" THE FUCK? What's left after that???
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Can't usually say that somebody is "as much a victim" as a literal dead guy, but in this case…
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Is this a Stingy Jack situation? You've barred yourself from entering Hell but an enter heaven neither?
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