GM Connie Chang 🐸🌈
@byConnieChang
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they/he/she. GM @TransplanarRPG. phasing out my presence here. follow me to 🦋☁️: https://t.co/fqTifZQQmn
Joined January 2013
Hey friends! I’m officially easing off Twitter. It’s been a wild ride and this website has given me so much, but I can’t stay here any longer. It’s so hard to rebuild a platform, especially as a marginalized creator, so please join me over on 🦋☁️!. See you on the other side. 🌸
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any other zillennials swear by the “if it’s important, they’d leave a voicemail or text” approach to ignoring calls from unknown numbers?.
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REALLY don’t like how the r slur is coming back into the mainstream lexicon, especially in queer and ostensibly “leftist” spaces……. can we collectively agree to bully and shun the people who use it or something.
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As a Chinese person, I need you all to shut the fuck up, quickly, with your ironic little jokes about eating cats and dogs. Defanging racism through irony inoculates society against its sting and makes Black and Asian people more acceptable targets for violence.
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"slut era" i say as i go to sleep every night swaddled in my army of stuffed animals and blankets and intensely hallucinate about my OCs before waking up at noon.
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Who is a character that someone hating is an instant red flag for you?. Korra. Easy. No better litmus test for assholery, especially men.
Who is a character that someone hating is an instant red flag for you?. You do not gotta love Harley, you do not even gotta like her, but if you hate her I am side eyeing
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I hate it when posts say “CW” or “trigger warning” but they don’t tell you what… the… content… is… it’s like seeing a street sign that just says “BEWARE.” Beware of what??? Pedestrians? A school crossing?? A FLOCK OF RABID WASP-GEESE?? BEWARE OF WHAT??.
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the funniest subset of dudes who play DND are the ones who are like “this ain’t high school DRAMA class, i just like playing an imaginary GAME about magic and kingdoms with my BOYS where i can be a STRONG HUMAN MAN” as if that’s not gender euphoria and wish fulfillment… 🤔.
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A #DND campaign where a celestial warlock, divine soul sorcerer, zealot barbarian, and cleric who serve the same god are lifelong rivals… until the day their god goes missing.
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Thanks so much for hanging while I was in town, @matthewmercer! 🌈 I’ll be carrying our conversation about radical kindness with me for a long time. You’re the coolest! 🤩
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i wanna run a campaign of childhood best friends who grew up and drifted apart, but then one day they wake up in the #dnd world they used to play in all the time, as their PCs. except they can’t remember what happens because none of them took FUCKING NOTES.
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GUESS WHO’S ON THE NEXT SEASON OF ADVENTURING ACADEMY W/ @dimension20show?. @BrennanLM and I talk noncolonial worldbuilding, plastic vs metal dice, character arcs, and, of course, hot butch lesbians. Talking with Brennan was SUCH a blast! Thanks so much for having me!
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There’s no “should” in speculative worldbuilding. Yes, you CAN make a grimdark fantasy setting with violence and horror without SA, slavery, racism, or misogyny. Yes, you CAN create a solarpunk tech utopia where disabled people exist fully, openly, and at the forefront!.
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me: *does push-ups*. my cat, screaming and weaving between my arms: you are dying? father is dying? father is in his death throes and getting ready to abandon me? hark! hark! the reaper draws near to take precious father from me!.
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the kotaku article is tame. its wording is generous, it encourages critical thought. it introduces orientalism and colonialism in a very approachable way. and white fans are still NOT LISTENING. i feel disheartened. this is why i stopped trying to educate people a long time ago.
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NO MORE “bearded white dude in a hood holding a d20” AS THE DEFAULT WAY OF PORTRAYING DMs. pitch queer alternatives below.
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GMs be like “i know a spot” but they never fucking get there because their players are too busy starting bar fights, scamming nobles, tricking the mayor into renaming the city “Pound Town,” and committing grand theft auto with horses.
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me: i’m bored, maybe i should rewatch this comedy series from the 2000s i remember liking a lot. the pilot episode: transphobic joke. racist joke. transphobic joke. fatphobic ioke. homophobic joke. transph—.
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i don’t do GM “prep.” i go to sleep and the visions come.
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If you’ve been playing D&D for decades and fear it’s being infiltrated, taken over, or ruined by “woke” gamers, then you’ve bought into white supremacist “great replacement” fearmongering. White nerds who gatekeep don’t hate their childhood bullies. They want their power.
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I am once again begging well-intentioned white folks to not feed the trolls. They’ve made up their minds that diversity is poison and trans people should die. What ACTUALLY works is blocking them on sight and redirecting your righteous anger toward supporting creators of color.
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me cooking: i am a god. i am a fucking master chef. these fumes? immaculate. my seasonings? michelin. this kitchen is my canvas and i am leonardo. me washing dishes: why the fuck did i cook.
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Always thinking about the man I met at the game store who said that when shopping for new d20s, he’d always buy 2, roll them both on the car ride home, throw the lower roller out the window, turn to the survivor and whisper, “That’ll be you if you don’t behave”.
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For D&D players trying PBTA for the first time, some important paradigm shifts to keep in mind that will make the transition easier for you. From a pro PBTA GM, pro *D&D* DM, *and* game designer making the ashcan of an original PBTA game with a PBTA-first indie publisher. 🧵.
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it’s not enough for AI to lose. i need it to suffer.
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i’m not like most girls *opens google docs on my phone while we’re in the club so i can work on my indie tabletop roleplaying game about killing god*.
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Hey, if you want to support some trans creators while all this wizard game crap is happening, the all-transgender D&D show I run is having its third-to-last stream EVER tomorrow, and it’s a million times more emotionally impactful than anything Head Terf has ever written, so 🤷🏻.
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One of the central problems around the whole “birds can fly, fish can swim, why can’t we apply this logic to D&D races” thing is that in real life, species refers to different animals. In D&D, it refers to different PEOPLE.
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i like school settings but i don’t like playing kids or teens, so… fantasy grad school actual play, anyone? juggle the rigors of academia, a dark magical conspiracy, AND the drunken hookup with your advisor!!.
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Happy #TDOV 🏳️⚧️✨ The stories I tell are rooted in my perspective as a trans Chinese person forever, now, and always. Here’s to another year of unapologetic queer narratives about grief, hope, revolution, and love 🗡️🩸
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more #DND players justifying their PCs leveling up in the fiction. i wanna know how you’re suddenly able to cast fireball now. why you can make an extra attack. how come you can now turn invisible at will. let’s roleplay it out!.
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My top surgery is scheduled for FEBRUARY 11, 2022!!! 💖. To prepare, I’ve been lifting at least 3x a week since October 18th. That’s 6 weeks so far!!!!.
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The burden of playing a high INT character in #DND when you, the player, have naught a thought betwixt your gay little ears.
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me: gender is a construct. also me to my cat: you are just a mister man. you’re just a baby boy. you’re just a sweet man. look at your mister face. your sweet man paws.
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I can't believe I fucking poisoned Brennan Lee Mulligan.
Each new episode of Adventuring Academy has a segment where Brennan and the guest try a random snack. In our latest episode with @byConnieChang, this segment went. in an unexpected direction. ☕#AdventuringAcademy
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oh you’re a queer couple? which one of you is the literal feral wild animal that tracks dirt everywhere and bites to show affection and which one has ADHD.
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I’M BACK AND FLAT, BABY!. My drains are out and I’m a person again. After a week off, I’m ready to dive back into TTRPG work!. Thank you so, SO much to EVERYONE who sent me well wishes, donated to my meal train, and sent some love my way. 💖🏳️⚧️
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I've been sitting on this news for months, but it's finally time to share. GODKILLER preorders will open on March 28th, 2023: my birthday!. This launch will include a streamed one-shot series with some amazing guests AND an official podcast series. Let's KILL GODS and BE GAY!
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i think it’s cute when people only use specific colors of hearts. like we all have that one friend who only uses 🖤 or 💜 yknow what i mean.
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As a queer and trans person of color who makes good fuckin art, I wish I was given the same leniency, grace, and multiple chances to make Kinda Bad Art that mediocre white dudes are given over and over and over without worrying that it might literally tank my career.
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*slams table*. HERE’S MY SUPER SPECIFIC #TTRPG “SHOOT YOUR SHOT”:. I want to DM a Level 20 #DND one-shot with @GabeJamesGames, @matthewmercer, @quiddie, and @CriticalBard as reincarnated demigods fighting the eldritch prince that killed them and consumed their plane of existence!.
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Trans people, esp trans people OF COLOR, are making some of the most thought-provoking art out there right now. We are more than just statistics, charities, and heartbreaking headlines — we are artists. Don’t just show up for our rage and grief. Show up for our creation, too.
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god gives the biggest brains to their most depressed queer storytellers.
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At this point can we collectively agree to stop pressuring all-white and/or white-led productions to diversify when they're obviously never going to and instead, spend all that time and energy and labor and MONEY supporting all-BIMPOC and/or BIMPOC-led live plays instead? Please?.
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Got a slew of racist, transphobic comments on Transplanar’s YouTube channel — this always happens after we get any kind of exposure. The instant we shine a little bit left of our queer TTRPG bubble, I’m viscerally reminded that there are many very loud, very ugly bigots in RPGs.
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It’s my birthday, which means I’ve got a big ol’ present for y’all:. GODKILLER is officially being published by @EvilHatOfficial! 🗡️🩸. The full book will include additional character options, GM tools, setting details, and new system variants for SOLO and MULTIPLAYER games!
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Any kind of worldbuilding that binds species to culture is racist. Period.
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Me: I was just wondering what your office's Covid policies were like?. Them: Huh?. Me: Like, are the staff masked?. Them: Um, we don't force anyone to mask. Me: The dentists are masked though, right? Like when they do exams?. Them: (like I'm stupid) Well of course, they have to.
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moby dick is hilarious. it’s like this dude really wants to kill this whale. now i’m gonna describe the gayest men you’ve ever heard of. now here’s 23 pages of whale facts except none of them are true.
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Trans and queer people of color are constantly pouring our hearts and tears into our work, creating innovative, boundary-pushing, deeply resonant and worthwhile art — only to receive a fraction of the support and twice as much criticism as mediocre white people.
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SCREAMING. I am only 16 sales away from breaking 300 preorders for the ashcan of GODKILLER! I would LOVE to smash that milestone before our penultimate one-shot tomorrow. Toss your sword on the pyre, Godkiller, and let the flames scorch heaven. ⚔️🩸
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@D_CLAN_ @katthecarroll uber drivers are really out here performing the emotional labor our parents never did.
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Support your local DM, board game worker, and union member. Pledge to boycott Hex & Co. if they don’t get their shit together.
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a horror actual play where PCs are all attendees of a “wellness retreat” to become totally transformed because they hate the people they currently are (or because their therapist told them to), but it’s actually a front for an eldritch blood cult.
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In AP-land, many white creators and audiences don’t actually engage with creators of color as artists or worthwhile colleagues, but only know us as “the diverse show.” Unless they actively decenter their own whiteness, white folk will always prefer to support other white folk.
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We should start adding tone indicators to pronouns. I’m they (ominous) / he (joking) / she (deadly).
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It’s here, heretics. GODKILLER: First Blood is a holypunk PbtA game for one player, the GODKILLER, and one GM, God. Weave a mythic, violent, and transformative tale about a single mortal rising against the challenges of the divine. Layout by @rocketorca!
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us: can we please have diverse, non-Eurocentric settings please. them: okay! *commits orientalism*.
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#BIMPOCShootYourShot, LET’S GO!. I’m Connie, a Chinese pro-GM and #TTRPG designer. I tell stories about queer drama, broken heroes, & hot villains with a point. I’d love to GM *THE* GMs together: @matthewmercer @BrennanLM @ThatBronzeGirl @BDaveWalters @GabeJamesGames & @quiddie!
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Petition to call She-Hulk just “the Hulk” and for the Hulk to be called “He-Hulk” and slim down to a “skinny fit” twinkish build.
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The dragon’s out of the bag! I’m a writer on the Tian Xia World Guide by @paizo alongside an ensemble of amazing creatives. I wrote Quain, a Successor State brimming with martial arts, cultivation, and fierce rivalries between centuries-old grandmasters! It’s very Gender 🐉
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Thinking a lot about actual plays and audience expectations. An actual play is not a home game. For the narratives, twists, character development, and thrilling fights you love so much, there needs to be consistent dramaturgy. Building intentionally upon theme =/= scripting.
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The only limitations, prejudices, and inequities are ones you put on your own work as a biased creator. I can’t stop you from making Transphobia 3000: The Simulator under the guise of “that’s just how a dystopia would work.” But it does show how small your imagination is.
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hot gym tip: if you’re struggling through a heavy set, just visualize all the shredded female NPCs in your #DND game. you will absolutely power through.
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fellow ADHD-havers… what song is currently looping itself over and over and over again in your head? 😔.
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Man, I’ve only ever run this as a one-shot, but I’d LOVE to do a longer campaign of it someday: a Suicide Squad-esque #DND series where the PCs are villains on death row who will get released, no strings attached, if they complete three impossible missions for the kingdom.
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Happy Pride! 🏳️⚧️ I’m excited to bring queer divinity and trans MESS™️ to the forefront with GODKILLER: Last Hope. More will be revealed in a week 😉, but if you’re a monster queer, a heretical queer, a queer who learned to carve their own Fate from blood… this one’s for you
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I’ve seen a teeny bit of 📀🐴 about GMs being wary of high-level play in D&D. So, as a GM who LOVES high level play and is currently running a streamed Level 3-20 campaign…. Bring. It. On.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Preorders for GODKILLER: FIRST BLOOD are LIVE! ⚔️🩸. For you are not the pawn, the witch, the beast, the revenant, the prophet, the dancer, the saint; you are the. GODKILLER. and the gods will taste your steel.
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White TTRPG players care about, support, and uplift creators of color outside of when we’re directly critiquing racism and offering unpaid education online challenge.
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i wrote an original horror screenplay four years ago about an out of luck chinese woman who attends a company’s orientation retreat in the woods where she slowly discovers they’re a capitalist blood cult worshiping an eldritch god and y’all… should i revisit it? 🤔.
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In top surgery news…. IT’S TODAY! It’s happening! It’s this morning! Right now! I’m crawling out of bed with Sea, and we’re both yawning a lot. I feel like a kid waking up early before getting to the airport or something. Like this isn’t real quite yet….
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people who don’t use safety tools baffle me because i LITERALLY had a dream where i was being chased by a zombie and i turned around and X-carded it.
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People suck. Look at cat. Share your cats (and non-cats) in comment. Profit.
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HONK HEIST is an all-goose hack of #HoneyHeist where you are preparing for the greatest con of your life… as a horrible goose. Featuring new evil goose skills and a TIE TABLE so your goose can wear an adorable tie. 🪿. It’s PWYW; all funds will go to Operation Olive Branch! 🇵🇸
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How do we build fantasy worlds beyond orientalist, colonialist, and racist frameworks of "some races MUST be evil"?. On the last day of #AAPIHeritageMonth, I'm doing a Q&A about *gestures vaguely* all of this at 6pm ET on @TransplanarRPG. Save the date, show up, and tip me. ✨
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@samreich Thank you so much for writing this thread, Sam! Dropout is so special and is leading the industry in so many ways. Proud to be a fan of the platform. 🏳️⚧️✨.
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normalize saying "i don't know enough about this situation to have a coherent opinion about it".
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i need you fucking POSERS to respect the BACKBONE of modern classics studies: socially awkward young Asian women. the field of classics is dying but but by god Asians are keeping them on life support. and i am so fucking serious about this.
Everybody talking about Hestia in Hades 2 but can we also acknowledge that Hermes literally looks ASIAN. These are all Greek gods, why do some characters not look Greek?
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As a trans and queer Chinese person who grew up in a homophobic household, I was told my gayness was just me following a fad. That’s why I’m partnering with Old Navy to showcase the latest fashion trends—.
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i wish more actual play GMs would ask for feedback as part of their decompression ritual. if you get crickets — make it mandatory, at least at first, to encourage the habit. every player has to critique **something**, even if it’s superficial. there’s always room for improvement!.
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rewatching steven universe as an adult without all the baggage of fandom is truly an exercise in experiencing a certified banger with unclouded eyes.
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When I say that @TransplanarRPG is a noncolonial, antiorientalist show, I don’t mean that in the abstract. We stand against genocide and ethnic cleansing and support all oppressed peoples of the world struggling against injustice, imperialism, and colonization. Free Palestine.
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✨☁️ I’M LIVE! ☁️✨. Rocking some brand new hanfu for our very special guest charity stream ft. the unparalleled @erikaishii! 🐲 Come join us in raising money for @ThePCRF as I facilitate 3 cultivators and one god through the Trials of the Mist ☁️. 🍊 🍊
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A character who vows to never use a specific weapon ever again despite being unsurpassed at it… being forced to pick it up, one last time, in the final fight against the big bad.
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Stand in solidarity with Palestine and join the #BigBadBoycott with me!. This comes from a place of love. I know Big Bad can do better. Censorship and silence are unacceptable, especially when you claim to center the margins. ✍🏼 at
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I am looking DISRESPECTFULLY at your buff women Witcher OCs. That is all. Love a woman who can snap me like a matchstick.
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*flings self across a velvet fainting couch* i hope a vampire doesn’t bite me on my tastefully exposed neck tonight.
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It’s true!! It’s me!! I’m on Adventuring Academy tonight! I can’t WAIT to share this chat with yall — Brennan and I talk noncolonial worldbuilding, hot butch lesbians, and, of course, Transplanar. ✨. See y’all in the app at 7pm ET 🥺🤩.
This week on .🚨Monday: @GameChangerSam's Season 5 premiere, w/ @ZacOyama, @JacobWysocki, and @agbeardsley .🎲Tuesday: Adventuring Academy w/ @byConnieChang .☝️Friday: @UmActuallyShow w/ @jfwong, @HeyBethMay, @fwong
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i’m a girl but not a woman. a tomboy but not a boy. nonbinary, neither female nor male. genderfluid, all genders, yet none of them at all. the DMV clerk: can you please just check a box.
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Hilariously, an anime pfp under this said "queers bitchify DND" as if the act of playing DND doesn't already bitchify you.
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I was expecting the summit to be, well, a summit. I was prepared to discuss high-level issues with leadership about race, accessibility, safety, and equity. This is why I came in the first place. I have more Thoughts, but for now, kudos to the attendees who spoke their truth. 💖.
God bless @byConnieChang.
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tonight on america’s next top GM, our talented dungeon masters will be undergoing a pressure test. thirty minutes to design a compelling and unique 5-room dungeon, with the toughest audience of all: high school players. open your mystery boxes please to reveal the dungeon’s theme.
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The cognitive dissonance between "ew obviously dentists MUST wear masks during procedures and exams" and "Why the fuck should I mask during an ongoing, worsening pandemic" is cognitively dissonancing 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋.
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Heyyyy if you publish RPGs and are looking to add a holypunk duet PbtA game about killing gods, violently divine queerness, and literally destroying oppressive systems of power to your roster… I’m looking for a publisher for the full version of GODKILLER and my DMs are open 👀
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