Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Whoo hoo! I have been inspired enough to plot out a short Dark Sun campaign, but then of course; it’s 2024, would players be interested in Dark Sun, which rules system would I run and where would I get time and motivation to run?

A take on a meme with D&D settings. The Virgin Forgotten Realms Adventurer (personally met Elminster once, +3 everything, Harper, feasts on finest whatever) vs The Chad Athasian (former anonymous quarry slave who lives in fantasy Fresno, owns a +1 scapula and ate the last of her friend 3 days ago).

Welcome to ATHAS, the D&D setting with the mightiest HATS! World of three seasons (summer, ultra-summer, and whoa-rain-makes-arroyos-impassible-but-it’s-still-summer) where it’s been Thursday for the last several centuries! A world where any item a player character might want is spelled with at least one extra k and an apostrophe!

Fish and chips at Spud, a used 4e book, a text based MU* earlier today. If the CD deck in my car still worked I’d use that, too. I am old and things I love belong to a world increasingly lost in the past.

seriously thinking of expressing tmi

@Kusimanse And Spirit, then if you go further the Americanized Godzilla/cartoon and Jurassic Park's dinosaurs. The 90s really had a lot of animal characters beyond just obvious cartoons.

Why this is I'm not sure, but I think someone smarter than me could probably relate imagery *within* furry fandom to mainstream animal imagery to the larger sense of what's going on (in the 90s "our planet is dying" is a big revelation, in 2024, "our planet is dying" is pretty accepted "common sense").

@frost I feel like festivals, costumes and art are part of the innate nature of humans. Part of what defines humans as *animals*, so it makes sense that theater and fiction would wind up gravitating to animal imagery.

So the role-playing as animals makes sense to me. If you're going to talk about stuff as a spectrum, where one end is a Victorian completely humanocentric view of the universe and the other end are say therians, furry's definitely somewhere on that spectrum.

I slept for over 8.5 hours, waking up to use the bathroom exactly once, and I feel emotionally low and physically not great.

@frost I fell asleep pretty much immediately after posting (was falling asleep *while* posting)!

reading back some

This is a weird theory but I might argue that most anthro animals are highly symbolic - their forms are specifically neither animal nor human as an IDEALIZATION.

I think that's part of how ferals were a lot more popular in 90s fandom - ferals are more recognition and representation of human AS animal (or in the case of therians, a quadruped animal self image is very intentionally NOT an idealization), less very derived animal traits as a shorthand for idealized humans. If that one makes sense?

dude! It's that OTHER part of the movie where Neo fights that one dude!

okay, to be fair ALL Juno Reactor is potentially the part of the movie where Neo fights that one dude

when you're the OWoD kwisatz haderach you get into lots of punchouts, okay?

this is of course before Neo meets Colonel Harlan Sanders who explains that originally the Matrix only came in original flavor and didn't include any sides, but The Oracle insisted that for stability they make a spicy option

whoa

it's like the part of the movie where Neo meets that one dude and there's a punchout

you know, before the part where Neo meets that OTHER nimrod and they fight

https://youtu.be/TZmdmEAAZPM?si=2q8w0jYujI6teS70

and then suddenly KA-STEINEM!

right in the gender!

oof

zhilis muzhina
v'rossii davim davno
he was big and strong
in his eyes a flaming glow
most people looked at him
with terror and with fear
but to moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

* any Werewolf the Apocalypse game if played in certain ways is effectively indistinguishable from Shadowrun

* any high energy Juno Reactor track is effectively indistinguishable from the part of Cirque du Soleil where all the cast is running across the stage/rolling across in big hoops/etc

it took me years to realize that this old folksong was NOT about one of the many struggles for Irish independence

I couldn't find anything significant about May 14 (turns out to simply rhyme)

but instead the young man who dies sadly perished of VD.

and who does mama teach
to mend and tend and fix
preparing for to marry
whoever papa picks?
POTATO! POTATO!
TRADITION!
KARTOFFELN! KARTOFFELN!
TRADITION!

gower wassail, gower wassail, from out of the town
our cup it is white and our ale is brown
our wassail is made from the finest horse-shit
some nutmeg and ginger add flavor to it

*takes off into the sky above Seattle, trenchcoat trailing like a superhero's cape*

although you try to discredit
you'll still never edit
the needle I'll thread it
radically poetic
standing with the fury they had in 66
and like e double I'm mad, still knee deep in the system's shit
hoover!
he was a body remover!
I'll give you a dose but it can never come close
to the rage built up inside of me
fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy!
movements come and movements go
leaders speak movements cease
when their heads are flown
cause all these punks got bullets in their heads
department of police, what
the judges what
the feds