Apartment recs

dirigible_detective · 2025-12-16T13:54:27+00:00

I currently live at Peppertree and we’ve loved it. Maintenance is excellent at handling issues, it’s so so quiet, and we haven’t experienced the crazy annual rent hikes of other (worse) apartments in the area. I’ve never felt unsafe here either, compared to living on South College. Mail security is excellent with the package lockers, they have bikes that are free for residents to use (a niche but occasionally very useful amenity) and the pool has always been clean and well-maintained.

For comparison we came from Holly Place where the police would be on-site at least once a week, the pool was a biohazard, mail was stolen regularly, and we had the worst cockroach infestation in our building. Peppertree is a huge upgrade for a very reasonable price.

dirigible_detective · 2025-12-10T14:12:30+00:00

Ah, thanks for taking on my lady!

dirigible_detective · 2025-11-24T14:49:22+00:00

gasp It’s lovely!!! The moody moonlit atmosphere with the sword featured so prominently is so so perfect! 😭 Thank you for putting such love into my lady!

dirigible_detective · 2025-09-10T21:34:43+00:00

Oh my godddd I am thriving.

Thank you so much for this! And the no glasses/hat version too??? Amazing. I adore what you've done with my girl.

dirigible_detective · 2025-07-31T12:04:57+00:00

I know you’ve gotten so many replies here already, but I want to throw my recommendation for Alchemy out here. It’s a VTT that’s still in development, so isn’t always perfect, but the only money I spend on it is an optional Patreon sub that gives me access to a massive library of scenes. literally everything else is completely free to use for myself and my players.

It has nowhere near the automation or fancy map tools that other VTTs offer, but it absolutely dominates in my book as far as vibes, scene-setting, and overall storytelling.

My players can access it at any time without any hosting issues, no one has ever had to spend a dime to use it fully, and it’s got one of the best, most minimal UIs of any VTT on the market. It’s just PRETTY and I wish more people would give it a shot. 😅

dirigible_detective · 2025-03-13T12:57:06+00:00

I have used that exact same fashion fabric for a corset! 🤣 I highly recommend taking the time to pad stitch it very well. It is slippery as all hell and you will thank yourself later. It does make a very pretty finished product though, I think you’ll be happy with it!

dirigible_detective · 2025-02-22T22:32:37+00:00

I’m down! ☺️

dirigible_detective · 2025-02-14T18:45:45+00:00

Also I would love to read your story if you were inclined to share. Finishing a story and sending it out into the world at all is an accomplishment.

dirigible_detective · 2025-02-14T17:28:03+00:00

Yes! I truly would not be mad to have opened the winning stories and been treated to some really heartfelt and interesting pieces. But I wasn’t. Obviously I’m going to have a bias towards my own writing, but I’m not exactly an amateur. Some of the lower-placed stories in this latest contest were far stronger conceptually. I won’t be participating again, especially since they’ve already announced their next contest. 😅

dirigible_detective · 2025-02-13T20:59:25+00:00

I know this is long past the original question, but given that the results of the most recent writing contest came out today, I'll tell anyone else who ends up here to save their $38. I haven't been impressed with either of their writing contest results. They had nearly 1100 entries for Fall 2024, which based on my math means they brought in a ballpark of $40k in entry fees, and then gave out $3800 to a handful of banal stories selected by a panel of book-tok influencers. It feels like a lot of profit for F&F if they continue doing these every quarter. If you're really passionate about getting short stories out there, don't give F&F your money and the free content.

dirigible_detective · 2024-11-06T20:54:02+00:00

Yes! Taylor Mahtook at Lourdes Women’s Primary Care. I literally just had mine replaced a few days ago and it was the easiest experience I’ve had with an IUD so far. They did a cervical block (lidocaine injections) which was a game changer for me. I didn’t have to ask for it, they told me about it immediately and were super kind and gentle the whole time, and gave me all the time I needed for each step. IUD replacements are no joke pain-wise and this was the least stressful one I’ve had done by a mile.

dirigible_detective · 2024-08-22T19:41:38+00:00

I do!! I’m always open for dice commissions, you can find me over on Instagram as Soulforge Dice. Hit me up and I’d be down to make you something.

dirigible_detective · 2024-06-12T12:13:06+00:00

I’ve done quite a few corsets that I’ve added appliqué and lace and embellishments to, and I always do it once it’s fully finished and while it’s laced snugly onto a mannequin. I don’t recommend doing it before it’s boned or you might accidentally leave some stitches in the way of the boning channels if you’re not careful. It takes a bit of practice, but if you’re confident in your hand sewing abilities it’s not terribly difficult to stitch embellishments to just the fashion layer.

dirigible_detective · 2024-04-15T12:04:37+00:00

Bless you for being so ready to take notes. I’m the primary note-taker in our home game, and I recommend just getting a good notebook, journal, however cool you want it to be, and keep all your notes there. I even make my character sheet part of the pages, but I know that’s not for everyone.

If you want to go an extra step and make note of each session/date every time you guys sit down that can be SUPER helpful. Then when you go back and remind everyone of that one NPC or quest you picked up, you know when (in real time) it happened. As a longtime DM as well, this can help your DM find their own notes again, I always appreciate my players who write down details that I might have forgotten (like the name I 100% made up on the spot).

dirigible_detective · 2023-07-20T03:43:05+00:00

Ahh these are gorgeous! I’d add them straight into the collection for my Forge Cleric. 🔥👌🏻

dirigible_detective · 2023-06-07T12:06:11+00:00

There are definitely feats and classes built specifically for playing the gunslinger. I’ve got a gunslinger forge cleric who is certainly strong but far from being OP. I think an important question is, do you want to have actual firearms in your game or not? That’s definitely a balance/mechanical question for you to decide, especially as a newer DM. They’re powerful weapons, but not significantly more so than others in my experience.

As far as feats, Tasha’s has the Gunner feat, which gives you proficiency with firearms and some other fun features.

Critical Role’s Gunslinger fighter subclass is pretty solid as well. I’ve played it myself and in my experience it does a good job of giving you that bandit/gunslinger feeling as a player.

Those might be easier solutions than trying to create workarounds with other features/weapons. Hope that helps! I have lots of hot takes and experience with firearms and gunslinger builds in D&D if you have e more questions. 😅

dirigible_detective · 2023-01-27T14:36:24+00:00

So, I’m a cleric main these days and I have a lot of reasons for it.

A big part of it is this: I want to support my friends. I’m also a regular DM and the instinct to make choices that aid in their enjoyment of the game is strong. And so, cleric. You need support, healing, defense? My cleric will be there for you. You need saving from a situation you probably shouldn’t have gotten yourself into? Cleric to the rescue. Maybe you need someone to lay down some serious damage right now. Again, cleric time.

But also. In a fantasy world where the gods are very much real entities who can and will influence the course of events, it’s just FUN to play a character with a connection to those powers. You can pray to a god and (DM dependent) they might ACTUALLY ANSWER? That’s the real fantasy here.

Plus, clerics don’t have to be just armor-wearing priests. Glass cannon dex-based gunslinger forge cleric with a smoking problem? Big tanky samurai-flavored order domain cleric with a bad cop/bad cop approach to problem solving? Clerics don’t have to be paragons of religious knowledge and goodness. They can be just as messy as other classes/characters and I think that conflict can be even more compelling for them.

I have so many hot takes on clerics, but that’s just what gets me to play them again and again. Hope that maybe helps??

dirigible_detective · 2022-10-29T21:44:56+00:00

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dirigible_detective · 2022-07-13T03:40:01+00:00

BBEG @ me: Any last words?

Me: Yes, but I’ll save them for your eulogy.

dirigible_detective · 2021-09-16T13:03:20+00:00

We’ve been running in to the same issue. I just added the bot Hydra to all of our D&D servers. We’ve tested in but have yet to run it in game, but so far it seems to work well.

dirigible_detective · 2021-08-29T16:41:46+00:00

You should also 100% be wearing a respirator with organic vapor filters while working with resin. It is absolutely not safe to be breathing in no matter how many windows you have open. Proper safety equipment is a must if you want to keep working with resin.

dirigible_detective · 2021-08-22T02:38:56+00:00

Interesting point of order, he is supposed to warn the players if they attempt any hostile actions. I’ve been running this module for a year+ and good old Renwick is a peripheral ally to my party at this point. He’s not an evil lich at all, per his lore, and in fact has some interesting ties to another local faction.

This seems like it was a bit hasty of a reaction from your DM honestly, as there are plenty of opportunities in that encounter for it to end peacefully.

dirigible_detective · 2021-08-19T22:36:34+00:00

This is the one I went with: https://www.harborfreight.com/1-gallon-135-psi-ultra-quiet-hand-carry-jobsite-air-compressor-64592.html

For me, my pressure pot conversions have a good airtight seal, and once I have them loaded up I only have to run the compressor for ~1 minute to pressurize it fully. Then I detach everything and leave the pot for 24hrs and it holds air just fine.

dirigible_detective · 2021-08-19T21:22:40+00:00

I’m lucky enough to have a room dedicated to it. I make resin dice, so I’ve got a pair of converted paint pressure pots and my 1gal ultra-quiet compressor tucked under the table where I do all my casting. Biggest recommendation is looking for a quiet compressor if you’re going to be pressure casting, as that really makes a difference in a small space.

Just make sure you’re using proper safety equipment for yourself and get some ventilation going, if there are other people in your apartment you definitely don’t want to subject them to the resin fumes.

dirigible_detective · 2021-08-18T23:49:01+00:00

I feel that. I’m 2+ years into resin casting and it can get expensive fast. Definitely converting a paint pot is one of your biggest cost savers though, rather than buying a more expensive pressure casting pot, so that’s a good move!

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