brooke @brooke@awoo.space
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
Pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our being at a week-long professional workshop requiring frequent daily social interactions with people we don't know well.
It's a while since we talked here about how tomatoes are good, but they still are.
@Sparrow @ThatDamnCat D&D is such a wonderful rabbit hole to fall into!
The podcast "The Short Game" (about short video games) recently took a special episode to talk about veteran players' strategies for keeping D&D sessions fast-paced and less prone to drag on at points. It was interesting and I learned a lot. Here's a URL if you like:
http://www.theshortgame.net/118-dungeons-dragons/
@ThatDamnCat @Sparrow (To get down to 500 chars I cut all my "iirc" and "pretty sure" etc, so the post might look very assertive and terse! Sorry if so!)
@Sparrow @ThatDamnCat In Tolkien's Universe, "goblins" in The Hobbit = "orcs" LoTR.
There's a key line in Jackson's LoRT where someone (Gandalf?) says that Saruman bred "Orcs w/ Goblins" to make his Uruk Hai. However, in the books, the line is "Orcs & Men." So Jackson seems to have decided that in his universe these are different creatures.
Still, in Tolkien's LoTR, Orcs vary widely in size & shape, because they are sub-species bred for different purposes (tunneling, war, labor, for example).
brooke
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hi mastodon I'm tired and gay
(this is pretty much usual content from me tbh)
@fireh9lly Me and my family are really digging on this rn.
@awoofriend @Siphonay@wasteland.pro @ZorcNecrophades@theshadowrealm.party From the Shadows, echoing across the Waste, emerges a cry ...
~Awooooooo
ooooooo
oooooooo!
Just explained freezer burn to my family, in case anyone still imagined that I was even the least bit sufferable.
brooke
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good evenong
@maloki
*scans memo*
*thousand-yard stare to horizon*
*disregards hard-wired internet conventions, insouciantly presses caps lock*
AAWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
creepy, photoshop body horror type thing
@Andrea@witches.town no no it's my fault I went on the internet!
creepy, photoshop body horror type thing
@Andrea@witches.town Gah!! *upsets coffee cup, tries to right it, knocks over water glass*
@awoofriend @BrunoSpy@metal.odon.space
~metallic awoooo~
brooke
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awoo.space announcement:
i'm gay
@cnc@cybre.space I will too. My lichess account (anummabrooke) is new but I used to play some correspondence with friends.
@cnc@cybre.space I can never believe that everybody with a directory full of unreadable 20-year-old proprietary word-processor files isn't breaking down the doors to learn about plain text.
srsly tho, we enjoy our old-timey memes here, but they'll pass, new users will have their own in-jokes, and yet it will still
BE TWO DAYS BEFORE I SAY I'M SORRY
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space Or if not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a pineapple.
THREE HUNDRED
@thefishcrow Boom. Now I'm happy and can go to bed.
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
