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In His Image
I wrote this for Antioch '99, a youth retreat I attended (and was a peer leader for) back in high school. Posting here without initial comment - feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section. Note that this post's Visibility level is Public.
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Pegasus as an RPG?
Today I was talking with redlily, and I made the offhand comment "Whatever, if Robin McKinley hasn't finished writing the Pegasus "trilogy" in a few years, we'll just have to run a parent-led RPG for our kids and THEY can finish writing the story."
Aaaaaand...go!
Cast of characters:
* Sylvi - aristocrat?
* Ebon - pegasus - base CR is 3; what's the ( Read more... ) -
I write emails -- Arabic edition
I just sent the following email.
Unlocked for importance.
Superintendent Morrison et al ( Read more... ) -
Religion and history
This is an interesting argument for the importance of history when evaluating churches. Not sure if I agree with it (I mean, the Church has thoroughly repudiated Thomas More and his actions against translated Bibles, right?) (right???), but still. Interesting ( Read more... ) -
Religion in America, and a catharsis
A friend of mine linked to this article from the NYT - "Paranormal Flexibility ( Read more... ) -
Jabberwockke
NB: I have not included any macrons (is that what we call them in Old English?) because I don't know how to type them. And you can't put an umlaut (my usual macron substitute) on an æ. So ( Read more... ) -
Rattled
I have a younger friend (no names; the vast majority of you don't know her) whose ex-boyfriend (a recent ex) is threatening to kill himself if they don't get back together.
What the bloody fucking hell. I left her this comment on her livejournal (which is the primary means by which I communicate with her). I'm reposting it here, in a rare ( Read more... ) -
D&D specific post, ignore if you want :-)
Why would ANY Favored Soul ever *not* take the Spontaneous Healer feat, combined with knowing Cure Minor Wounds, Knowledge (religion), and a decent Wisdom score? Holy crap ( Read more... ) -
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I miss Tucker. Oh, for the days of grammatically prescriptive graffiti... -
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A good Fraywatch on Slate recently. "Why is it so hard to say what everyone knows, namely, that there is an entire world between the two extremes of religiously-enforced abstinence until an arbitrary offical ceremony on the one hand, and random no-holds-barred fucking everything in sight on the other - a world in which, incidentally, the majority ( Read more... )