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Stand Together.
Be Strong.
Be Brave.
Be Kind.
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Reality Check
Reposted from my Tumblr: http://athelind.tumblr.com/post/152852129787/reality-check
Nothing frustrates me more than people who talk about whether a presidential candidate would be a “strong leader”. People who want to be led are and always have been the ( Read more... ) -
Every Day I'm Tumblin' Tumblin'
In the year or so that I've had my primary Tumblr account (http://athelind.tumblr.com/), I have made good use of it: I've expanded my horizons into a wide range of blogs covering a wide range of interests. I follow blogs focused on art, comics, politics, science, comics, movies, science fiction, comics, diversity, activism, and comics ( Read more... ) -
The Hoard Potato: The Forever Mark
Last week, Your Obedient Serpent let slip the single nerdiest thing he has ever said, or, in all probability, ever will say. Those who have spared even a cursory glance at this journal will understand that this is a high bar indeed.
I compared the Cutie Mark Crusaders to the Forever People.
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Understanding Athelind's Argot: Everlasting Gobstopper
The Everlasting Gobstopper* is Your Obedient Serpent's own rhyming slang for a "Neverending Doorstopper", the most egregious metastasis of Trilogy Creep.
To qualify as an Everlasting Gobstopper, a work must have most or all of the following traits:
- Each volume in the series will run around a thousand pages, putting each individual installment ( Read more... )
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The Hoard Potato: It's Time To Meet The Muppets
I watched the first episode of The Muppets last night.
First impressions: where the classic Muppet Show had backstage wackiness, The Muppets, thus far, has backstage wangstinessThis is not to say I’m not interested to see where they take it. They haven’t lost me yet. They’re just patterning themselves on sitcoms that I already don’t watch, and, ( Read more... ) -
The Hoard Potato and Cyberpunk, Part 1
... okay, over on Tumblr, fuckyeahcyber-punk just reminded me that Johnny Mnemonic came out just three years after Lawnmower Man.
Johnny Mnemonic is still filed under "relatively new movie" in my head, even though it's TWENTY YEARS OLD NOW. Lawnmower Man (1992, BTW) just ... feels so much older.
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The Hoard Potato: Baby, It's Better/Down Where It's Wetter
Dungeons & Dragons is infamous for having a lot of minutiae that "nobody's ever going to use".
This is a long-standing tradition in the game: as a single example, Greyhawk, the first supplement to the original D&D rules, contained elaborate modifiers for comparing specific weapons to specific kinds of armor that almost every player dismissed as ( Read more... ) -
RST: Introducing the Rune Star Tapestries
Okay, I'll bite. What's the Rune Star Tapestries?
It's the blanket title for the Sword & Sorcery Magnum Opus* I've been tinkering with on and off since the early 1980s. It stars several of the characters I played in godhi's Corongond Campaign, the first big, ongoing tabletop RPG campaign I was ever involved in.
Yes, characters. It was the Dawn of the ( Read more... )
