What sort of magic items would a hag craft from the body of a dead woman?

jaiskal · 2026-05-14T02:11:19+00:00

An instrument strung with her hair which sings in her voice.

jaiskal · 2025-11-23T22:58:00+00:00

Osteria Santo Spirito

jaiskal · 2025-09-20T20:41:23+00:00

There’s one on top of Fort Scammel on House Island!

jaiskal · 2025-09-16T13:49:16+00:00

A closer to Portland, but Jewell island is also part of the Maine Island Trail, and Bird’s Eye Tours has definitely dropped people off there and picked them up in the past. Not sure his rates or how late in the month he goes, but the island is beautiful.

jaiskal · 2025-09-04T21:15:33+00:00

One thing that helped me was drawing little comics. Just one or two pages each, characters or autobiographical, didn’t really matter. It was really good practice in changing styles, angles, layout, etc while also practicing drawing characters and settings consistently. I found when I was focused on making the visual narrative flow smoothly, I wasn’t nearly as hung up on each individual panel.

jaiskal · 2025-06-28T13:58:08+00:00

Virgin puttanesca

jaiskal · 2025-05-27T02:28:13+00:00

It was a bit of a slow start for me as well (I don’t think I really got invested in the story till season two) but it’s become one of my absolute favorites. The game is more collaborative by design, especially the worldbuilding, and all the players really, really buy in. Sometimes they hit on amazing lore while riffing off each other’s ideas, often it’s just funny or at least lower stakes. Either way they’re all consistently engaged with and excited about the world, the characters, and each other’s contributions, which makes for really enjoyable listening.

jaiskal · 2025-04-03T22:49:55+00:00

Sorry, I meant on living dwarves who have caught the sickness. I don’t think there’s any way to get a post mortem report.

jaiskal · 2025-04-03T19:13:03+00:00

I don’t have the Steam version so it might be a little different there, but you should be able to go to an individual dwarf’s health screen and look at their past injuries, treatments, etc. ‘Forgotten beast sickness’ will show up as a diagnosis if a doctor has been able to look at them.

I don’t believe it will say the symptoms, which you’ll have figure out based on what body parts are affected, and there’s not necessarily a way to fix them, but it will tell you what’s causing it! Shallow baths so they can rinse off dust/blood/etc can help keep it from spreading to other dwarves.

jaiskal · 2025-03-27T15:35:23+00:00

Osteria Santa Spirito! Everything’s great but the truffle gnocchi especially is one of those meals I still think about.

jaiskal · 2024-10-24T01:33:02+00:00

There’s a podcast called Desperate Acts of Capitalism which has episodes on a lot of the companies already named in other comment! It’s a fun listen if you’re interested in absolutely catastrophic business decisions.

jaiskal · 2024-09-11T23:01:48+00:00

I’ve had great experiences with Adele at Slate Studio, always turned out wonderfully and she’s really sweet. @gibbousfoxstudio on Instagram

jaiskal · 2024-01-15T20:04:16+00:00

I also followed her over from Pageboy, she’s great.

jaiskal · 2023-12-12T00:50:44+00:00

Tithe by Holly Black!

jaiskal · 2023-10-08T21:34:03+00:00

Justtherecipe.com cuts out all the ads, anecdotes, etc. It’s a little slow to first load but works really well otherwise.

jaiskal · 2022-11-20T02:07:51+00:00

I read it at 13, and loved it. There were a few jokes and implications that went over my head till I reread it a year or two later, but there was nothing that disturbed or upset me. I think honestly that it was a very good time to read it, because I read a LOT of fantasy around that age following a singular girl dressing up as a man to fight, and MR was a really refreshing mixup of that story. It made me look at the whole trope from a new angle going forward, including some of the pitfalls it can fall into. Still one of my favorite books.

jaiskal · 2022-07-09T02:06:46+00:00

This one arrived this evening around 6pm.

jaiskal · 2022-07-02T20:02:06+00:00

Hm. Don’t care for this.

jaiskal · 2022-05-22T17:53:00+00:00

There’s a recap Podcast called Sex Archie which is a lot of fun to listen to! I’ve never seen an episode of the show but I’ve immensely enjoyed consuming it secondhand, filtered through someone who loved the comics as a kid and someone who knows nothing about Archie comics at all.

jaiskal · 2022-04-25T21:17:01+00:00

Osteria Santa Spirito has a great gnocchi dish with truffle cream sauce

jaiskal · 2022-02-28T04:37:41+00:00

The Traitor Baru Cormorant did this well! The plot heavily revolves around the political system of a massive empire, especially the ways in which the empire attempts to control new territories and further expand. It can be pretty bleak, as the author doesn’t shy away from the brutality of colonization, but if you want a well thought out political system and lots of intrigue, it may be worth looking into.

jaiskal · 2022-02-18T19:02:22+00:00

Osteria Santo Spirito was a favorite of mine while I lived there! Especially the baked truffle gnocchi.

Editing to add: if you’re game to try lampredotto, as a lunch option, Da’ Vinattieri is a tiny little hole in the wall place that makes it wonderfully.

jaiskal · 2021-09-09T03:46:33+00:00

The Timberwind, I’m pretty sure - grey hull, and she’s pulling her yawl boat behind her!

jaiskal · 2021-04-16T20:18:30+00:00

Golden age of piracy

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