Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Not really sure how to feel about Book of Boba Fett other’n I probably won’t buy a subscription to watch it. Idk. Maybe at my age Star Wars is just a sometimes thing or something, which feels weird to say.

ah yes, Halloween. Time to elaborately roleplay performing "Sweet Transvestite" as karaoke, during an online Halloween party.

As a (large, adult, hexaped) red dragon.

Frank's flamboyant and literally murderous egotism maps pretty well to reds, right?

Okay this isn't especially Halloweenish but I tried out one of the recipes from my new cookbook and it's pretty awesome. I feel like sundried tomatoes would work a little better than fresh but I like them more in general, and I think the smaller okras are WAY tastier. CW food photo.

Okay so far my impression of Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons is a batch of kinda okay stuff, a fairly okay breakdown of dragons, nothing I really need, and then… a bestiary which is one of the coolest things ever made for 5e.

calling the novel "Dune" as a compromise between the very personal scale of calling it "Paul" and the huge, universe-wide scale of calling it "Holy Crap The Future is Really Fuxx0red"

... okay admittedly the answer to "who gets excited about owning a vegetable peeler" is probably "someone who got excited about mashed parsnips without owning a way to peel parsnips," here.

I’m excited about owning a cookbook and a vegetable peeler and buying okra. Who am I even becoming?

… but also; persimmons!

KEXP played only part of DCD’s “Into the Labyrinth” album, my first and still my favorite, as part of their weekend of Halloween ish music. Ironically this got me singing the next track, “The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” as thanks to WtA I associate it with werewolves.

one problem with getting Shepard Paine's book on figure models is that so far it's inspired me to feel that I really need to start painting minis again. When I quit years ago, I was just beginning to have the first stirrings of knowing wtf I was doing.

I really, really should learn the lyrics to "Korobeiniki," it's not exactly a tune you never hear, and the translation sounds like exactly the sort of thing I want to sing.

Sadly no big visible aurora borealis last night, though there was some sort of obvious distortion in some of the sky for a while. But where we went to look, the sky was so clear we saw the stars in fairly good detail, saw the Milky Way, saw shooting stars. And it was spending a late night/early morning in a forest with friends, so it was definitely time well spent!

although Columbia maps pretty solidly to The Shadout Mapes.

The housssssssekeeeper.

what's really weird here about RHPS not mapping to the David Lynch "Dune" is how technically both Feyd-Rautha and The Beast Rabban are Meatloaf in this movie

get all the virgins in the audience to stand up and walk without rhythm #JustAJumpToTheLeft #TwoThumpersArePlanted

actually I lied, the third stage Guild Navigator gets the callout about "what an ugly guy"

Piter obviously gets the callout "lips, lips, LIPS!"

* mentat Piter deVries appears on screen *

what an ugly guy, I hope he doesn't get a closeup

* closeup of Piter's lips acquiring stains from the Juice of Sappho *

Found Yotam Otalenghi’s (sp?) “Jerusalem” cookbook in the used bookstore, and a quick flip through found some stuff I’d like to try cooking (I promise not all of that were varieties of roast eggplant) and I thought why not? So now for the first time in my life I own a cookbook!

If you’re running low, go to the store!
Carry some money to help you buy more!
If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling,
Listen to reason, the season is calling!

... whoa, apparently "phylactery" gets used as a synonym for "reliquary." That makes a *lot* more sense as a lich thing!

Paizo is changing the term "phylactery" to "soul cage."

Since these don't contain tiny but incredibly key documents, aren't worn obviously or related to faith, it seems like a weird choice of word in the first place. May as well call it a cheeseburger... or a soul cage.

I assume Gygax thought "phylactery" was a cool word like "fane" or "eyebite."

"Phylactery" seems like a weird place to try being sensitive, but; maybe it's one of those things that I got used to which is actually pretty bad.