misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

it's all fun and games until the vowels go on strike. then t's ll fn n gms

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-363A-recount-report

In which Rakela winks and tells, Milli's reunited with a familiar face.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-373A-referendum-report

In which Milli finds out someone read her paper, and Spark's heart grows three sizes.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-383A-ward-report

In which many people prepare for election day.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-destiny-crusade-literorrery/a/session-393A-election-day-report

In which all politics are local politics.

And now you're caught up too!

I'm super-chuffed to say that, despite everything aggravating my stress levels and keeping me anxious through most of November and the start of December, I managed to both finish all of the old session summaries but also get the next section of game loosely outlined. I'm now at the point with Book Two that I was with Book One when I started two years ago.

I am officially Caught Up™️.

At the end of our Halloween session, I asked my players if we could take a short hiatus from the game. We had just completed several major story arcs and had a huge background plot point drop, and I had massively fallen behind on getting the game summaries written. @ElectricKeet had done amazing work helping keep things up to date on the site, but they couldn't manage both that and Milli's journals, and so the story summaries went on pause.

If you're a US taxpayer, the CARES Act has a lesser known positive surprise:

"Previously, charitable contributions could only be deducted if taxpayers itemized their deductions.

However, taxpayers who don't itemize deductions may take a charitable deduction of up to $300 for cash contributions made in 2020 to qualifying organizations."

So, if you have a charity in mind and some spare funds, *today* would be a very good time. ^_^

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/how-the-cares-act-changes-deducting-charitable-contributions

As part of our Quietus celebration, we're putting together some small "ritual participation kits" to mail out to folks who'd like to join us, or who could use just a bit of outside encouragement to keep in touch with your spiritual side.

If you'd like to receive one of our kits, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc1I-S34n2Ezo78ImNQdcf3WR4GD-E1DAKyNHwlnTMsa7d7vQ/viewform

You don't have to commit to participating to receive a kit; this is just us trying to help people make their lives a little more magical.

Hey, fedi. The Fellowship of the Phoenix, a queer neopagan mystery order to which I belong, has begun hosting its rituals virtually and streaming them as part of our ongoing practice.

Next Saturday, January 9, is our celebration of Quietus, where we honor the Queer Elder and the divine gift of wisdom; in our tradition, this is a time for reflecting on the past year and preparing ourselves spiritually for new growth in the next.

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Linux Is Not UX

#drawings today listening to Foo Fighters and the Pumpkins. Druid healing a fighter won on Mastodon, throne with villains won on Twitter, so I did both!

someone: the genesis had bad sound compared to the super nintendo

me, listening to Gauntlet IV's soundtrack for some reason: what

"Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking"

"A lot of attention has been given to the power of spoken self-affirmation as a means of self-empowerment, in the spirit of positive psychology. However, as Kleist says, talking to oneself is also a cognitive and intellectual tool that allows for a wider array of possible use cases. Contemporary theories in cognition and the science of learning reaffirm Kleist’s speculations, and show how self-talk contributes not only to motivation and emotional regulation, but also to some higher cognitive functions such as developing metacognition and reasoning."

https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-technology-for-thinking

Meme creators are the bards of the digital world

"You will be visited by three spirits..."

Where there’s smoke, there’s popcorn

this is just to say
i have digitized
the orange
that was in front of
the laser array

and which
you weren't expecting
to send to
the Grid

Forgive me
here goes something
here comes nothing
Now Tron is confused