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Update; I didn't read about Mycenaeans. Instead I read through this old Role Aids module, "Lich Lords," which is equivalent to a pretty decent 1-12th level 3e-5e D&D campaign jammed into a railroady module. I think I might try scribbling down ideas about adapting it.

Pallas's cat kitten is hurrying to meet a keeper who brought her juicy a... https://youtube.com/shorts/J6xguyuzJrw?feature=share via @YouTube

omg pudj 💙💙💙

Can I read about Mycenaeans or will I be unable to focus cause someone nearby is tuning their tuba? I’m NOT making this up.

Another park with awesome trees is Tolmie, but that’s heading south rather than north.

Even more Camano

Since I’m kinda in an ehh mood here’s even more recent weekend photos - this time Camano Park with lots of awesome trees.

why not FIGHT NAKED?

I mean several thousand angry Swiss... Welsh... something guys can't be completely wrong!

@troodon birb

https://twitter.com/WobblyWorks/status/1621585656182104066

oh no

I rolled out of bed eager to go places. Then I thought, "let me check email before I go *anywhere*." Then I...

uh. Let's just say that I put in for a few jobs, reviewed email, and am currently still at home eating homemade breakfast sandwiches while checking Telegram groups.

Gonna try to get a little more sleep.

this is definitely one of those "rationally my anxiety is about 8 parts habit and spiraling thoughts to 2 parts something actually happened to set things off and it's entirely possible that those 2 parts are things which are just kinda stuff that happens and not really worth that much alarm, but emotionally I'm very far from accepting that" sort of mornings.

"7 poisonous mushrooms and what happens if you eat them" as opposed to 7 venomous mushrooms, in which case you'll need to make Fort saves or Poison saves depending on which edition you're playing

#drawing today, human wizard, tiefling warlock, halfling sorcerer.

DUDE! TIME BABY III IS ON THE SPEAKERS AT STARBUCKS!

Victims, aren’t we all?

Hang my head, drown my fear
Till you all just disappear.
Black hole sun, won’t you come and wash away the rain?
Black hole sun, won’t you come, won’t you come?

Do not weep openly at Starbucks because “Interstate Love Song” is on the speakers but it’s 2023 and everything looks a lot bleaker than the 90s

the Imperial March, aka the Desssstiny Theme, aka the Standing in Front of Windows at Parade Rest Theme, aka the

This *started* as a rant about how I don't get arguing for the Imperium of Man as this wonderful society, since to me part of the *fun* of 40K is that there's no single faction which is obviously The Good Guys, and *especially* not the Britain stand-in. You can have the fun of Necromundan hives and gang wars, clunky cybernetics, servitor skulls, Inquisitors, Adeptes Sororites, and everything else because the Imperium *isn't* good.

It's a great bit of 80s reaction to Thatcher, still relevant today. The idea that the "good guys" can be antiheroes, or heroes who are part of a terrible system, is very much the same Britain that gave us Lobo, Elric and 2000 AD. I don't think Americans with our self-righteousness would ever create a universe like this; the after the fact, conservative idealization of the Imperium suggests it could have easily gone a different direction.

But here's where I get fan-worshippy instead. Pulling on an Arthurian golden age turned to backwards pop medievalism is also very very British - and simply a brilliant way to build a mythological explanation for all the story details which aren't really the far future.

And those story cues as visuals are brilliant too; a "dark future" full of cybernetic putti, censers, huge tomes, and skull-encrusted shields won't raise eyebrows when tanks slightly more modernized than WWI versions are supported by infantry inspired by Rambo movies. Among other things *that* sets up other factions believably having a clunkier design aesthetic (orks, Kroot) or a more futuristic one (Aeldari, Tau).

And all this came into being organically, it's amazing.

remember I'm making up for lost time listening to Iron Maiden albums, so; I really like Seventh Son of a Seventh Son so far - it's very different from earlier albums I like, simultaneously introspective and bombastic.