Y'all ever really think about the choices capitalism forces you to make everyday? You know, the kinds of choices that erode at your humanity a lil bit but they are still choices because you could not make them and maybe suffer greatly? Or am it just on some existential shit?
I hate that I'm going to say this, but America has never given a single fuck about kids.
As a child, I saw multiple people die in gun violence. The first when I was like, 4-5 maybe? The second maybe I was around 7. These weren't school shootings but in parks and playgrounds.
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Today I got multiple bot/hate raids. Fun times. Also, I learned that the π is used in place of n in n****r to bypass automod (might wanna get on that,
@TwitchSupport
).
Fellow men: It's okay to have nothing to say but, "I'm sorry this is happened to you". You don't have to add tips or suggestions on how to fix it. That work happens when you confront the abusers, not the abused. Be there for your fem friends. Check in. And just friggin listen.
Imma be real with y'all for a sec. I fucking hate this hell site. Everyone is too damn quick to distill everything to one fucking hot take moment. Everything loses any sense of nuance and everyone wants to prove how much better they are than someone else.
I know that the TTRPG creator community is a VERY small in the great space of the internet, but because of that we creators of color ain't all that hard to find. So when we end up with these pale ass tables I'm always wondering did y'all even try?
If you can reply to this, you are pretty. If you can't reply to this it's probably because I don't know you well enough to drop random compliments on you.
I hate subtweeting so I'mma just make my one statement.
This shit sucks. I hope the people who got hurt can find peace. I'm sad my friends got hurt. I feel some kinda way about another Black masc presenting person getting outed as a shitty person.
Ya know, those raids ain't bother me yesterday but you know what did? The fact that my mods had to deal with that shit. I know they are capable, and I know that they probably don't mind. I mind. It's frustrating.
Okay friends. I'm officially done casting for my Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign. If I had less applications, I'd have reached out to all of you to thank you for applying individually. Honestly, it was super difficult to pick just 4 from 241. It kinda sucked. Cont...
Let's speak some shit into existence. In the next year I'm going to:
- Play in a game GM'd by Brennan Lee Mulligan.
- Be the Storyteller for one of the biggest World of Darkness APs ever made.
- Be 38 years old.
C'mon. I had to at least make one of em a promise.
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The fact that me and my mods have to come up with all of the different ways racists can get around filters to use n****r in chat instead of a billion dollar company automatically doing that for us is a fucking problem.
I went for an interview for an office job today. The interviewer told me I’d start on $2,000 a month, which would increase to $2,500 a month after six months’ time. I told them I’d start in six months.
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.” - Martin Luther King
I ain't even trippin though. My community showed up, and I had several peeps to help get everything situated. All love to the fine folks that helped clean out the trash. Y'all rock.
Listen y’all, if we can’t make shit related to Fables because the creator was problematic, I bet not see y’all doing anything lovecraft inspired because woooooo lawd.
But no one was checking on how messed up that is for a kid to grow up in. There were certainly calls to remove guns from the streets then but it was all coded language right? The tl;dr Get guns out of the Black people's hands.
Y'all ever make a character that is for a one-shot that is practically BEGGING to be in a long campaign? Yeah, that's the character I'll be playing today.
Lissen, I know more than a few people that do SW and I have paid for an OF sub or 2. I'm sure some of you have too. That does not mean when u see those people on meatspace u get to touch them or that they owe you something. Nor does that mean you can't talk to them 1/
I think I want
@vampiresnvino
's job. Not to like take it from him, but more like be the person running a game like LA by Night for all of y'all to enjoy.
After meeting at PAXU, I'm convinced that me and
@GabeJamesGames
could totally run a game based on fruits and veggies and have it be the thirstiest game you'll ever see.
I've been streaming tabletop things for a little over 3 years. I've gotten to work with ridiculously talented people. I've met so many people that inspired me to start this creative endeavor. However, this Gen Con was the first time I actually felt like I belonged there.
I can relate to this a lot. Being a Muslim kid when this happened was a trying time. Even worse for my sisters and mother. And lord knows I'll never forget my first time going through TSA. Being stopped, searched, and questioned about who I knew and where I was "really from".
TW 9/11 and domestic terrorism: For me, today is like looking back at a forked road. One where my dad came home on a red-eye flight and we cooked the live Maine lobster he brought with him in a styrofoam box, and one where he got on that second plane that hit the towers.
So, I'm watching the homie
@pleasantlytwstd
stream on twitch and since she's shown her face she's been getting nonstop hate bot/raids. Been over an HOUR straight of this. Pretty much every marginalized creator I know has been hate raided, myself included.
@Twitch
wyd?
Why do we need dozens of people to die to pay attention? Why can I count off at least a dozen people I grew up with that have died of gun violence before they could even get out of their twenties.
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I wasn't allowed to go outside to play. I wasn't even allowed to walk to the corner store. I've heard people say, "oh that neighborhood is too dangerous/ghetto" about places that were to me pretty much boring suburbia.
I'm not by any means trying to downplay how horrific this school shooting is. If you think that you are missing the point.
Why are we okay with kids dealing with having to watch other kids die every day until the next mass shooting?
I went to bed after PT's stream last night which was getting hate raids for around 3hrs, and now I wake up to
@urbanbohemian
getting the same thing. I know
@Twitch
ain't fixing this in a day, but what y'all want us to do in the mean time? Just deal with it?
Once more into the breach.
@urbanbohemian
streams early AF. Today was his day to get hit with the medium strength password hate bots. Slurs in the second image. So once more I ask you
@Twitch
what's good?
I did up a new blog post on ko-fi. The tl;dr is my cat is sick and the vet bills suck. I could use a bit of financial support if ya got it. If not give this a boost, please.
As a kid I saw gun fights outside of my house. Literal bullets in my walls. I've seen two drivebys as a teen. I've seen gang violence and people beaten to death.
That's different. That's, "Black-on-Black crime". That's not the same.
Still guns. Still people killing people. Still people getting killed by other people who need help.
Obviously, it wasn't that simple and people know a lot better now (at least we have the data to know better), but the language hasn't changed. These mass shootings at schools make for big stories in the news, for good reason but this is happening ALL THE TIME.
If you do something wrong and then get called out for it, please don't ask why won't anyone show you any empathy for getting roasted. Especially if y'all refuse to apologize for doing the bad.
I feel like I have so much to say about Ohio cops, racism, and people that look like me getting shot up by cops with utterly absurd uses of force. However, I'm not trying to hit 2k followers from people who just want to see me hurting.
I posted a ko-fi goal.
I struggle hard with asking for help. Tryin' to figure out ways to cover this (paid gming, new job, etc) but we just don't have enough in savings to cover this bill now. So I am asking for help. If you can. Only if you can.
As an aside, since this came up during PAX, red and I are not polyam. I appreciate people asking tho. I am a flirt, but that's truly all there is to it. I ain't leading no one along into anything.
Sup folx, I am looking for flexible pt/temp/contract gigs to supplement my income. I'm open to TTRPG or content creation jobs as well as totally unrelated work. (Details in thread) 👇🏾
If you or someone you know of is looking for help plz DM or comment.
You know what sucks? We are still talking about people going to conventions like that's the big problem with the pandemic or that it's a moral failing for the people that go, while I see people every day on crowded trains having to go to work.
IDK if this is politically correct, but when we remember 9/11 we should also remember all of the people that had nothing to do with it that were wrongfully persecuted as well. Remember how we were treated when y'all say, "never again".
This. This is the first con I've ever been to where I wasn't pitching someone's product. I was pitching my own work. If I had missed something like this, I would've done myself and many future opportunities a great disservice.
I refuse to add a lot to the convos being had about PAXU as a lot has already been said.
What I (will) say is, as a full time black content creator who has bills to pay via the content I put forth & the opportunities I [barely] get — either pay my bills for me or 🤐.
Dassit. ❤️
When it rains it pours.
My AC stopped working two days back. Got it checked out today. Turns out my whole furnace is dead. I thought it might just be the blower but it's the whole thing. $3500 dollars for replacement, labor, and removal.
I don't have $3500.
Yay.
My wife thinks that in a year I'll be on people's list of "I wish he was on x TTRPG show"
Y'all still have a little bit of time to get me before I'm that busy 😉
@nerdytattooer
@satinephoenix
@StoneJamison
This was just so unnecessarily mean. They were trying to make you feel bad even though you were trying to do right by them. Good on you for speaking up though. This story needed to be told, because if it happened to you it's almost certain that it happened to someone else.
Quarantine sucks. You know what didn't suck? Being able to link up with all the amazing people I got to meet at Gen Con. Certainly unfortunate to catch an extremely infectious virus that is hard to avoid without ever doing anything around other people. But I don't regret going.