I'm back because why the hell not.  I figured I would drop some notes about my homebrew D&D setting, because I'm really enjoying the hell out of it.

The Basics: I have elves, dwarves, humans, halflings, firbolgs, and gnomes as my primary playable races.

Most elves live in New Moon Bay, which is a city on the coast about two weeks journey from the ( Read more... )

The garden was lovely. The Muse took a seat on the base of the statue of Erzanx, a safe distance away from the cluster of carnivorous daisies. Apparently the garden was not entirely forsaken if some intrepid member of the kitchen staff had spent enough time in it to determine which of its denizens were edible. The fact that Erzanx had conceived ( Read more... )

To the eye and ear of any sentient biological organism, the kitchen of the Versacore was a tumultuous scrum of deafening activity. To the sensory systems of Project Inquisitor, it was hardly less overwhelming. Its targeting systems flashed from body to body, strobing with the effort of locating its opponent amongst so many people and machines ( Read more... )

"Congratulations ( Read more... )

Yhelth was praying, eyes closed in deep meditation, when he was teleported to the testing ground. A sensation like falling, like the moment before passing into sleep, and then he opened his eyes and there was a forest where the walls had been, and stillness replaced the rumbling of the great ships engines, which he had never heard until they were ( Read more... )

I'm rather pleased with myself--I just made a delightful dinner AND CLEANED UP AS I WENT ALONG! So not only will I be well-fed (as soon as it comes out of the oven) but my kitchen will not look like some sort of culinary bomb crater!

I thought I'd post the recipe (which is about 50% improvised) because it makes a nice vegetarian/vegan centerpiece ( Read more... )

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

Summer was two months late, but Winter sure is a prompt little bastard. My landlord needs to turn on the damn heat. The space-heater action is getting really old, really fast.

I got carded yesterday. That's the third time in the past two months. I blame it on the new haircut.

People think that you can't be well-meaning, intelligent, and politically progressive and still be racist. Well, folks, you can. Seriously. Same goes for sexism, transphobia, ablism, etc. It's possible to commit a racist (etc.) act without intending to be/realizing it is racist (etc.) I've done it before myself. I'll probably do it again. It's ( Read more... )