Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

"The Purple Sun of Shyish", aka "The Grimdark Teletubby Reboot", is a very Warhammer Mood mini

Big fluffy snowflakes drifting down today..

@kitsch aaaa thankyou!

Minis I've painted lately.

This time: Endless Spells

A mechanic in AoS I was on the fence about at first, but it turns out it's a lot of fun and has some cool as heck miniatures

Tonight's Headline Event:

Angry Seahorse Lady VS Angry Beehive Lady

(image CW: Trypophobia)

I played my first game of Age of Sigmar today! It was a learning game against another newbie I'd never met before, and we both had a good time.

I zapped some evil mounted knights in the butt with my electric eels, my Swole Elves failed to defend a pile of treasure from their footslogging mates. My wizard rolled abysmally and ended up just harmlessly sprinkling water at people, and then the enemy boss charged in on a dinosaur and killed prettymuch everybody by himself.

This pleased his gods, so much so they kept trying to mutate him into random things. By the time his dino-pal finally gobbled up my cowardly wizard, he'd been turned into a demon and had all his meat replaced with metal. What a champ.

I lost in a fun way? Which sums up all the best wargaming experiences imo.

I am very excite

It's one of the few series to really grab me and make me have lots of new thoughts and theories about it long after actually-reading it

I mean, it combines ambiguous magical ontology for me to chew on, book within a book, historical narratives as a central theme, spectacularly flawed + untrustworthy narrator/s, AI (sphinxes!!), an Ant Nerd character, and ridiculous edgelords being gay and doing (awful) crimes

So that's a lotta my boxes ticked

But it's also a work where the ways I disagree with the author on it are mostly the "that's interesting and I'd love to argue the toss about it for hours over coffee" variety.

(Also she's a distinguished professor in most of the stuff I'd disagree with her about, lol..)

Caveat that uhh this is mostly me fan rambly, cuz if I were actively recommending it I'd include a *metric tonne* of CWs that I can't usefully list this late at night/with my memory stuff. But it is Capital-D Dark at times and overall heavy content/themes.

Herein lies the reason spent my late teens reading a tonne of Kafka/Camus/Foucault

"Oh! This. This is exactly what I'm experiencing, yes. Well described."

Franz Kafka's Gender Affirmation Castle

Going through a uk trans survey and

"Have you ever tried to access any gender affirming medical services?"

I mean, I'm assuming they mean GICs (& private doctors)

but I would not call GICs 'gender affirming' by any stretch (in social role or individual-level function/experience)

The Agender Flag looks delicious

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Maybe I'm just sleepy still

(I mean, I am)

But can I nibble it a little

I beat Untitled Goose Game & Slay The Spire in the last week, so I've officially defeated 2019 now