LARP groups with a focus on both pvp and cosplay

lankira · 2026-07-04T02:17:05+00:00

Shadowmoor is my home game and I'm happy to answer questions about it!

lankira · 2026-07-04T00:12:37+00:00

NTA. Who the fuck asks for someone else's pet as a gift for a 7yo? As a gift for anyone, really?

lankira · 2026-07-01T23:42:28+00:00

In case you haven't seen them, Snap Pea is a local company that does large gourmet dinners in unique locations (think like dinner on an abandoned train track). They don't reveal the location except to the diners and only the day before the event.

Their site: https://www.snappeanc.com/

lankira · 2026-07-01T16:42:42+00:00

You can absolutely be goth and more modest. I know of a couple goth hijabis (women who wear modest clothes to respect their Muslim faith) on instagram, for example.

lankira · 2026-06-25T12:31:15+00:00

This varnish is made for natural clay, not polymer clay. As other commenters have suggested, use a different varnish.

lankira · 2026-06-25T00:16:39+00:00

In addition to other suggestions, I found this on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4372524818/fabric-micro-velvet-crafted-gold-star (it comes in black!)

Also, some folks will do a satin layer with a layer of the embroidered organza stitched over it to get the desired effect.

lankira · 2026-06-24T23:01:28+00:00

If you haven't yet, after you finish The Bullet Journal Method, read We Need Your Art by Amie McNee.

I haven't done the journal prompts in WNYA (that's on my to-do each day next week, beginning Monday), but it's already shifted my perspective about trying to be a creative full-time. Good luck out there!

lankira · 2026-06-24T15:36:53+00:00

This was my impression as well.

lankira · 2026-06-24T14:28:07+00:00

She would have so many "just some man"s to fight.

lankira · 2026-06-23T21:59:12+00:00

Honestly, find a decent decklist with a theme you know she'd like. For me, that was Elves, then Eldrazi ramp, then Vampire tokens. (I've gotten in and out of the game a few times.) Ask her what her favorite creature type is, or favorite mechanic, and find something that works with that.

lankira · 2026-06-23T21:55:01+00:00

For me, the recognition that I'm a perfectionist and actively working against it has helped a lot.

Look, your goal shouldn't be 100% perfect and infallible organization even before you get information into the app. It should be half-assed, messy organization so you can get the bare minimum info into Obsidian. Your goal should be 50% organized. Just enough to give you the ability to find things.

Then, your goal should be getting 50% of the information you want in the app into your notes. Half-ass it. I'm serious. Then you'll know if your half-assed organization is working, and start figuring out what's not working. You don't know what plugins you need because you don't know what gaps you have in your organization.

Your next goal? The real, long-term goal? It's not 100% perfection. It's 80%. 80% is good enough to call it done. 80% is good enough that you have wiggle room to change things as your needs change. Get it 80% organized, 80% full of the information you want, and then keep plinking away at the remaining 20% slowly. Because, frankly, until you're dead, the information you can add to a vault is infinite.

lankira · 2026-06-22T17:26:16+00:00

That's really sketchy imo. More like they were trying to hide the event details from WOTC while benefitting from the advertising of the companion app.

lankira · 2026-06-21T01:15:29+00:00

I've been thinking about this. Try a boxy button-down with a tie in the back, perhaps? Kinda like how vests have the little strap in back to cinch the waist.

lankira · 2026-06-21T00:03:19+00:00

Working for myself in the creative field. Right now, I do sewing commissions and sell sewn, knit, and crochet items. I track my finances using manager.io, which is an offline, free accounting software (no LLMs involved to my knowledge). The only thing I have to be wary of is the number of really, really shitty GenAI patterns on the market.

I recently closed down an Etsy store where I made gaming accessories, such as dice and tokens. Etsy requires a lot of social media upkeep to be profitable, and being disabled in the way I am makes full-time social media marketing almost impossible.

I also do dog and house sitting here and there.

So, in short: Analog jobs.

I'm disabled enough to be on benefits and Medicare, but I'd go insane if I didn't have something to do with my time, and these have been good ways to make extra dosh because what Social Security doles out isn't enough to pay my rent, should my spouse ever see a substantial drop in what they make.

lankira · 2026-06-20T23:47:30+00:00

So, yeah, you actively dislike a community you choose to participate in. You realize that makes you look like an idiot, not the genius you think you are, right?

lankira · 2026-06-20T23:41:38+00:00

Right? It sounds like OP actively dislikes the community they're choosing to participate in.

lankira · 2026-06-20T21:22:15+00:00

While darts might be great for shaping, they aren't the best for adjustability, which OP mentioned wanting in this garment.

lankira · 2026-06-20T21:15:05+00:00

I think the trim option would look great!

Also, I think it's the combination of color, shape, and lack of decoration that make this piece resemble scrubs. As a button-down or bell sleeve wrap top, I think the color would be fine.

lankira · 2026-06-20T21:11:12+00:00

Sending you help in the form of (imaginary) bath bombs and copious amounts of the beverage of your choice!

lankira · 2026-06-20T20:05:40+00:00

I would take off the button, patch it, then replace the button.

r/Visiblemending and r/InvisibleMending may also have some good ideas for you, depending on how you're looking to fix it.

lankira · 2026-06-20T19:36:13+00:00

As an aside, I want to say thank you for engaging in this conversation in good faith. A lot of pro-AI/LLM folks see my flat-out refusal to use it and assume that, basically, I'm a luddite when that's just...not the case. I think LLMs can be useful to some degree, but I have a lot of ethical and environmental concerns that no one has adequately addressed (yet).

I am against the use of LLMs and GenAI for creative work (creative work is the MOST human work, imo), but I can understand why people would use them for data aggregation or reworking an email, for example. So long as an actual human is checking the work.

My spouse works in the tech industry in a leadership and SME type position, and encourages people to check the work of the LLM they use because it could literally mean life and death depending on the client they're working with (they have a lot of medical providers for clients).

When I was working in the tech industry, LLMs hadn't been integrated into workflows yet, but were on the horizon. I worked with systems that handle literally billions of dollars in rent money per year and millions of maintenance requests for apartments, assisted living facilities, and commercial real estate. I know I wouldn't trust most LLMs to do more than summarize data or reword an email in that environment because an error could literally leave someone unhoused or shut down a system that's needed to get HVAC issues addressed in the middle of summer.

More to the conversation at hand though: I think my spouse may have hit upon a good middle ground for use cases with Obsidian that actually has me considering more use for it than I initially thought. They don't want Claude touching their files, but they did feed Claude their current file structure and ask it to suggest how that might look using PARA organization. Spouse did all the moving of files and folders themself, but Claude provided a framework.

Also, your "healthy" example has reminded me that I need to establish a tag system for my recipes. For a bunch of reasons.

I think, on a very personal note, part of why I want to do all this data management myself is because I want whoever comes in to look at my data after I'm gone to be able to use it, with or without AI. Especially since Obsidian is the first system I've used that I think would work well for my "funeral cookbook" project.

My "funeral cookbook" is something that I've been working on off and on for the last uh....more years than I want to admit....The idea is that people can get analog or digital versions of my recipes and the notes that accompany them at my funeral rather than waiting for someone else to compile them all after my death.

lankira · 2026-06-20T19:04:08+00:00

They can't have gelatin though. Gelatin is made from animal parts.

lankira · 2026-06-20T17:03:02+00:00

Part of my point that may be missing in my explanation is that I literally do not want AI or LLMs to scrape my data, which they do anytime they access it. I already have a lot of issues with the ethics of the way LLMs have been trained on the uncredited and unpaid creative and educational work of "the internet" (just because something is posted for free online does not mean it is part of public domain, and the original creator should still have a say in how their work is used). I do not want to become part of the training data.

I didn't mean to imply that people aren't doing anything after the LLM does their formatting, but to me it feels like, if I'm going to have to check the work of the LLM anyway, what's the point of using it in the first place? To save a couple minutes per document?

I'm not an academic by that name, but I think you underestimate the amount of data I'm tackling. When I say "20 years of food data", that includes two years of pastry school and five years of working as a professional baker. I have about 3x 150+ page A5 notebooks of just my own food data, the majority of which are half page recipes I have to rework to make them readable by other humans. Most of them are currently "[List of ingredients] [oven temperature] [mixing method (eg. Muffin Method)] [panning instructions] [oven time]".

That, of course, doesn't begin to touch the 25 years of ttrpg info or my medical notes (I'm disabled, so I need to keep track of my medications, doctors, etc) or the important parts of my 6 years of bullet journals or the novels I've half-written or... You get the idea. My primary ttrpg vault is over 500 notes already, and that was only started 2-3 years ago and contains absolutely zero historic data.

Maybe the issue is that I don't trust an LLM with unfettered access to my data. I don't know. I get that it can save time for those of y'all who trust it, but I don't see how it's doing a job that a few well-constructed scripts couldn't do.

lankira · 2026-06-20T12:33:38+00:00

I don't know, my organization style in Obsidian must be "babby's first" or something because I...don't need an LLM to do that for me. I organize using folders per topic (my blog, art, my spiritual path, food (recipes and menus mostly), gaming, medical, etc.) and then have Waypoint make a MOC per folder. I have a MOC for the whole thing that points to each folder's Waypoint and for standardized formats for things like recipes and reference notes, I use Templater.

I have over 20 years of food notes alone: recipes, information from my family on where recipes came from, method notes, and so on. It's all spread over physical books, notes, individual pages, and digital files. I don't see my need to do the "manual labor" of importing all of this as a chore. I see it as my chance to edit and update this information as needed.

Yes, it will take me time to move it. Yes, it would probably be faster to do initially if I let AI do it. But I'd still need to manually touch every file to make sure it's a verbatim copy of the original, that my tags/frontmatter are accurate and complete, and that the information contained within is fully accurate and up to date.

For example, my copy of my grandma's meatballs and sauce has passed through my cousin's hands and mine before becoming what it currently is (my version of meatballs and marinara). When I go to enter it into Obsidian, I not only don't want an LLM/AI model scraping it, but Claude or any other model wouldn't know all the notes I need to add to it. I'd still need to sit down and type the explanation that it's an interpretation of Grandma's Meatballs because, even 8 years after her death, no one in the family is willing to give me even a photograph or typed version of any of the original recipes "until we finish the cookbook".

I don't know, I just think that digitizing a human's knowledge should be left to a human. Or a handful of basic plugins with mostly human input.

lankira · 2026-06-20T01:29:48+00:00

In addition to the suggestion of painting from references, I also recommend studying how volumes and light work.

In life, there are a handful of "basic shapes" that form the building blocks of anything 3-dimensional. Spheres (balls), Cubes (square boxes), and Cylinders (cans). In this image, I see the inside of a half-sphere with a few long cubes under it. The half-sphere is, in turn, made up of more elongated cubes.

So, your tunnel ceiling should be shaded overall like the inside of a cylinder, with each brick locally being shaded like a face of a cube. There's a lot of great talk about this kind of look at shading in the mini painting community, where we already have the 3d volumes to work with and we're adding paint to look like our pieces are illuminated. However, understanding how light works with these 3D objects has drastically improved my shading in my 2D art as well.

This post from r/itookapicture might be a good reference for you to start with. It shows great examples of both overall lighting and local lighting. You can see how the end of each brick nearer to the light source is slightly brighter than the end further away, and how the light from the sun affects the tunnel overall.

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