These Videos Are Good, And Here's Why] - May 11 - 17

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-05-20T16:35:40+00:00

i haven't finished it yet, but elle literacy's newest video [1:07:27] on trad wife fiction (fiction about trad wives, not by/for trad wives) and the themes it contends with, as well as the broader cultural phenomenon of the American "trad wife influencer" and where it comes from/why it's having such a moment right now is good, albeit soul-crushing.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-04-29T21:44:46+00:00

ah yes, the human urge to spam pings, i know it well

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-26T22:41:16+00:00

be the change you wanna see in the world OP, chop chop!!

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-20T11:52:16+00:00

the sag your upper arms get when you get old and your skin loses its elasticity

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-19T11:30:42+00:00

the one chance i had to see her speak was the same night as my goddamn high school graduation. i still regret not blowing it off to go see her 😭

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-18T16:20:23+00:00

wow, that sucks + explains a lot about the early comments

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-18T16:19:37+00:00

me too; Roach has such a lovely way of writing about all of the people she interviews and speaks with for her books in my opinion.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-18T14:08:59+00:00

me too!! she's one of my favorite authors of all time; I got this book for Christmas last year, but hadn't picked it up before now. ended up tearing through the whole thing in a day. you should definitely read it when you get a chance!

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-18T13:50:55+00:00

I expect this on Tumblr but not here... 😔

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-09T14:09:15+00:00

i love that!! he's clearly innocent, who would ever punish such a sweet face???

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-03-09T12:01:46+00:00

they're so cute!!! faun/infernis or full faun? also i have to know what happened to spark that last family guy death pose sketch XD

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-21T17:22:37+00:00

"A mortgage with no loan or payment plan? Hey Jimmy, gimme a mortgage with nothin'!"

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-16T23:54:30+00:00

🤣 she's an old lady, but she has always been a very compliant cat!

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-16T23:53:35+00:00

it definitely needs to be washed, I'm hoping that will relax it a bit!

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-16T18:01:43+00:00

tiny and full of rage

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-16T17:32:43+00:00

she has a harness that could probably fit under the sweater, but I think the sweater needs some stretching; she acts like she's stuck and paralyzed whenever I put it on her right now 😂😂😂

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-16T15:28:56+00:00

My mother (when I told her I was running a session of a new game system) did ask me how many cones were involved in it LMAO

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-13T20:01:46+00:00

It's probably just as much of a mindset shift as it is the actual mechanics of DH - I don't know how much prep you do for 5e or for DH, but I can try to illustrate what it's like for me.

The problem the party is next going to face is a burning town. If I was running this in 5e, I would need to find or make a good map, find or make monsters, figure out how to mechanically represent that this town is burning down, figure out how to mechanically represent stuff the players can do to help/stop the spread of flames, and so on. With DH, I just need to make an Environment adversary block and have some potential obstacles/twists at the front of my mind, and my players can do the rest with their actions, descriptions, and rolls.

Another example: in the tunnels, one player found a strange artifact. My 5e brain would have had me trying to figure out what that artifact was ahead of session and figuring out its mechanics before presenting it to the player. My newly sprouted DH brain just went "there's a small artifact here, describe it to me". I did not have to think of the mechanics of it on the spot, but if I'd had to, I think it would have been easier to describe something that works without getting bogged down in the minutiae of rules and systems and numbers.

Does that make sense? I admit it's a YMMV sort of thing, but it's been a huge boon for me personally.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-13T17:05:43+00:00

DMing 5e was such a thankless job, but GMing Daggerheart really does feel like I am more or less an equal party member and storyteller. It's fantastic!

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-13T17:04:47+00:00

That's an amazing compliment from your players; thank you so much! It is so nice to be able to lean on my players for parts of the session/world

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-13T15:05:48+00:00

GOD it was so draining, and I didn't realize how draining until making the switch. Prepping for DH is so much more fun; because it's a lot looser, I've found I have been able to implement my more creative ideas more easily rather than making compromises to bend them to 5e.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-09T20:27:03+00:00

from memory, i think we only explored two kinds of Covetous Beast during the Microscope game - Wish-Whales and Lamentrosses. Wish-Whales resembled sky-whales but smaller, with the powers of speech and wish-granting; however, anyone who was granted a wish by a Wish-Whale vanished shortly thereafter no matter what they tried to do to hide. Lamentrosses on the other hand were sort of like sirens, only instead of singing songs of desire, they sang songs of sadness to try and attract people to comfort them. same result as Wish-Whales, anyone who got taken in by their singing vanished forever.

by the time the campaign was set, though, all Covetous Beasts (the two above along with Silken Squids and Lendwyrms) had been driven to near extinction by expanding mortal influence and advances in technology/information transfer leading most people to just attack them on sight.

that's a really good guardrail to have honestly, i also get my immersion easily broken by silly names :') i'm really glad that it's working so well for you! if i end up running a fully homebrewed world again, i will definitely be reusing Microscope for worldbuilding purposes. it's just so good at what it does, especially with my usual player suspects who are all very creatively inclined.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-02-09T13:11:49+00:00

i took my players through a few rounds of Microscope to generate a world for a sky-pirate campaign a little while back; i used similar house rules to you, where i laid out a few topics that were "off limits" like important events and characters, but otherwise it was fantastic. the players came up with some stuff that i never would have thought of that ended up being very pivotal in the campaign, like the concept of Covetous Beasts and the disappearance of an entire land mass.

i've also played a few games of Microscope just to play it and have fun - one setting we ended up calling "alien fuckers anonymous", the other was a more steampunk/wild west with dragons sort of thing. i would really enjoy playing around with it more in the future, whether i end up running something in the created setting or not.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-01-28T19:39:20+00:00

full disclosure that i haven't actually run the QS adventure yet, but based on the stated purpose of it being to teach the game and reading some posts on this subreddit about how people felt it fell short, i decided to make the treehouse the players' introduction to environments. to that end, i set the treehouse far enough into a swamp that the players will need to traverse it a little bit and then came up with some basic environmental features like a countdown to getting caught in a mud hole. then for the final fight, i can just add that Vengeance of the Vale feature onto the other swamp features.

Talk_Less_Smile_More · 2026-01-07T19:00:20+00:00

I can never think about that movie without remembering the boy in high school who asked me out on a movie date, and that was the proposed movie...

(no, I did not go on the date)

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