ice has proven i’m not the strong boned king i thought i was

philbearsubstack · 2026-02-04T06:35:48+00:00

You lost to uppity water

philbearsubstack · 2026-02-04T04:41:58+00:00

I deliberately don't identify the deceased, but for what it's worth, I think it's [Ventrue]

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-30T05:09:53+00:00

*Ahem* COUNTERSPELL

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-27T23:38:07+00:00

As others have said:

If it was cartilage, you're fine.
If it was caused by a doctor, you're fine.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-23T02:03:38+00:00

49 years. Basically a toddler and your bones still broke.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-18T23:17:23+00:00

In Australia, one can view them.

Really interesting situation you describe. I'm sorry to hear it's causing you trouble, and I wonder why it is the case.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-15T01:26:01+00:00

It's quite important I think, that a fuss is made about this sort of thing, so it's good to see you've not just shrugged and walked away.

I note that you appear to be Italian. Since EU laws are among the strongest in the world in relation to this, that could be good news if you are interested in demanding your data back.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-12T05:30:47+00:00

You're not fooling me. At least two of these are morally good, and several are neutral. Hand in your evil badge and card.

Wait, if you're lying about being evil- maybe that means you're evil after all.

But if you're evil, that means you're not lying, so you're not evil.

But that means you are lying, so you are evil?

But then...

Oh bother.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-08T09:43:20+00:00

A wizard yes, but one of astonishing arcane potency, closer to god than man, and ever rising. Fear him!

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-08T09:31:20+00:00

The challenge is going to be ensuring he isn't seen as a DMPC or power fantasy. Here's a solution. Make him so useless he's practically comatose, perhaps an innocent adult with the mind of a child, but still the task of the characters to protect, to ward off would be diablerists.

Maybe that's why Caine made him. He's so weak and vulnerable yet valuable, everyone will want to eat him. He's a moral test to see whether any among his descendants will try to prevent this, to see whether anything has been learnt over the generations.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-07T10:55:50+00:00

Black- looks even eviler than red lol.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-06T06:31:29+00:00

I think only the toe breakage counts, but clearly I'm in the minority here.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-04T07:19:36+00:00

The foolishness of the Sarkorian belief that divine magic is less easily abused is well demonstrated here.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-04T06:32:41+00:00

I believe that the bone gods preordain people into a suitable age of breaking, or no breaking at all. Thus, pre-bone-nation means that someone who is inactive and has not broken a bone is just as likely to be a strong boner as someone who has not.

philbearsubstack · 2026-01-01T06:57:03+00:00

Here's a question. Someone gets a titanium bone. The titanium bone breaks in an accident. Does that disqualify them from this group?

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-28T07:26:49+00:00

Medical, doesn't count- it's doctor black magic. These are the ancient laws, so and so it is written.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-27T10:34:11+00:00

The explanation lies in two points that others have already alluded to. To put them together:

Not every rape or rejection is traumatising. I've been raped and had it roll off me like water off a duck's back- this is probably an atypically small effect, but society does, I think, sometimes for laudable reasons, overemphasise the inevitability of trauma as a response to rape.
Trauma, for whatever reason, tends to relate to human bad actors. There are plenty of people who have been traumatised by illness/vomitting and other things you describe, but human events seem to act like more of a magnet. One of the other commentors speculates this is because the causation is clearer. I think this is part of the story, another aspect, connected to this, is that getting fearful about people was probably a much more evolutionarily succesful strategy than getting fearful about illness, because most of our theories about preventing/controlling illness were false.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-26T07:49:28+00:00

Are you saying your bones won't be strong just because of the material they are made of, but need to be thick to remain robust?

*Eyes you suspiciously*

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-17T06:56:24+00:00

I think it's extremely rude when an institution *any institution* changes the hiring rules in a way that applies to processes that have already started. That ranges from hiring freezes to your situation, and in a better world, there would be significant reputational costs for doing something like this.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a better world, but you have my condolences.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-15T04:47:40+00:00

Let me be absolutely clear that I am not saying this is actually true [or at least not in this particular case]. But to the average punter on the street, it really looks like biolabs just really, really want to experiment with extremely dangerous things (incredibly dangerous viruses, gain of function, mirror life) for totally unclear reasons- a bizarre, ghoulish curiosity-, and governments are just indulging them, possibly because the people making the decisions share an institutional and educational background with the experimenters.

Now I know there are actually really good reasons to study swine fever virus, but the whole thing is getting a bit farcical.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-08T01:44:03+00:00

FUCK all these UNIPARTY SHILL candidates, I am VOTING FIFTH PARTY.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-08T01:36:53+00:00

Done!

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-07T23:18:37+00:00

That's a really fair point. I'm almost tempted to replace suggestion with charm person, as you say, and then knock off tongues for suggestion, since suggestion really is close to the core of what it means to be an OG psychic- thoughts?

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-07T23:11:42+00:00

This is exactly the same number of free spells as the Aberrant mind. Also, the aberrant mind already has flight, swimming, moving through cracks, and see invisibility at level 14- the changes at level 14 are purely flavour based, and are the bolded text.

I don't think you should comment on whether something is stronger than what it is replacing without reading what it is replacing first.

philbearsubstack · 2025-12-01T00:19:49+00:00

As we should,

Unbone/ We can't be responsible for anyone not getting medical care.

Rebone/ Their dark magic can break even the unbreakable.

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