Vanilla cake layered with homemade raspberry jam and vanilla bean whipped cream, painted with a garden of impressionist-style buttercream flowers with a few grass pokémon playing among the flowers 💐 Can you spot all four? 😉
darkersolstice: Do you know what the worst part of having a uterus is?
HobbitGuy1420: I don’t. What is?
darkersolstice: When you’re upset about something, to the point of crying, and you go to the bathroom, and there’s blood on the toilet paper, so you’re like “Oh, of course I’m upset, I’m hormonal and whatever was wrong must not really be a thing at all.”
HobbitGuy1420: I’m sorry you have to deal with that.
darkersolstice: It makes me doubt if my upsetness is all…wrong. Fake. Not real.
HobbitGuy1420: I think it’s real. It might be hitting you harder than it would normally
darkersolstice: Probably.
HobbitGuy1420: If you excuse the analogy, just because you’ve temporarily lost 10-again on Composure rolls doesn’t mean that there isn’t something calling for a roll
darkersolstice: …Oh.
HobbitGuy1420: You aren’t weak, you’re just suffering a situational modifier
darkersolstice: That’s…really, really useful to hear.
Let it be known that despite saying like twenty times in the official printed publications of D&D that rules and such are up to interpretation and you can tailor the game, setting, and even rules to your exact specifications……. if anyone actually DOES that, some trog will crawl their way up out of the floorboards to make fun of it, compare it to something, or just generally shit on it lol
In Thunderbird Strike, a new side-scrolling game that launches at the ImagineNATIVEfestival this week in Toronto, players can control a thunderbird—a symbol in several Indigenous cultures—that destroys as much of the oil industry’s machinery and pipelines as it possibly can. And it’s so satisfying.
The game was created by Elizabeth LaPensée, an Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish games developer, and assistant professor of media and information at Michigan State University. She told me in an interview that she wanted to create a game where Indigenous players could reclaim some agency around oil pipelines, even if through a video game.
“Especially when we’re talking in the context of pipelines, and the oil industry, there are some wins we can have. But ultimately protectors will be pushed out and the processes are going to move forward. It’s happening with mining and it’s happening with pipelines,” LaPensée told me over the phone.
The creator of this game is getting attacked and defamed by oil lobbyists and racists
(and let’s be honest, the venn diagram circle of “oil lobbyists” is just a small circle in the larger circle of “racists”) and could really use support and advocacy:
Wait so now an indigenous woman making a video game that promotes protecting the environment has been told that she is promoting terrorism, but the literal fucking KKK, mass shooters, and fucking neo-nazis are just using their right to free speech and right to bear arms when they specifically target minorities and innocent people? What kinda bullshit… Support the hell outta this woman and her game.
Lobbyist will do anything to keep the black snakes moving, and they have all the money from around the world to try and shoot down anything that flies against their headwind… even if it means making a profit, because the only thing renewable energy hurts are gas and oil… also anybody who has their hands in its pockets
