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Marcia B.

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notorious girlblogger 💁‍♀️ freudomarxist 🚩 ongoing projects: #cinco 🏴‍☠️ #resourciv 🏛️ blog: https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/ itch: https://traversefantasy.itch.io/

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 8d

resourciv v0.2 released!!!

itch: traversefantasy.itch.io/resourciv
blog: traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2025/10/reso...

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 3h

Featured story: "When I saw Marwan Marouf’s face plastered on my Instagram feed, under bright red letters announcing he’d been arrested and detained by ICE, the first thing I remembered was his distinctive, gentle voice."

Trump's ICE Has Arrested a Pillar of the Dallas Muslim Community. I Grew Up Hearing His Calls for Compassion.

When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 6h

talked about the childhood experience of going from being bilingual to being forced to speak just english

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Being Boricua

"You can't just ask people why they're white!" I was with my gay friends at brunch (where else?), and they asked me a question I've been itc...

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Nicole Saltesi @nacl.sh · 17h

atp we can pretty safely say that "transgender" is a slur, yeah?

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Sandro AD -> PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22h

Two Blogs in One Week???

Today I'm talking about the ways in which "Restriction Breed Creativity" - And how coloring in the lines can still be quite expressive:

www.failforward.moe/2025/10/colo...

Coloring Book Game Design

OR BUILDING A LEXICON FOR PRINCESS PLAY Two Men Contemplating the Moon - A Painting Caspar David Friedrich which'd help inspire the play ...

www.failforward.moe

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Paolino Caputo @magnolienne.bsky.social · 22h

Just released V2.0 of my very funny and surprisingly popular shitpost RPG supplement. You should check it out if you haven't yet!

magnolienne.itch.io/ai
#ttrpg #rpg #ai

AI CARDs by Paolino Caputo

Rules-lite AI to upgrade your NPCs — perfectly sized for your wallet

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 20h

jay dragussy ❗️❗️❗️

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

thank you as well! :)

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

it shocked me that my liberal aesthetician wouldn't understand why puerto ricans wouldn't want to be assimilated as a state---but she was equally shocked!

they live in a different world; at least the fascists fully know that they're colonizers

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

LMAO yep!!

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

frustration at the partisan discourse around bad bunny at the super bowl, and in general about the presumption of liberals towards puerto rico as a colony

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Big Game, Bad Bunny

When you meet a Puerto Rican, the first thing they tell you is that they're Puerto Rican. The second thing they tell you is that they're an ...

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

why is erika kirk wearing a black mesh top at the oval office it’s like funeral at 6 but club at 10

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 1d

yep literally bought tickets before she blew up 🙂‍↕️

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Charli XCX says she was worried about negatively impacting the ‘SWEAT’ tour due to being a ‘smaller’ artist than Troye Sivan.

“I was worried that people would be like, ‘Oh no, who’s this girl preventing us from hearing ‘Rush’? Um, and then obviously, you know, things kinda changed for me.”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

its really unfortunate the "accidentally became important at work" tweet is the realest shit of all time

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

HISTORY HAS ABSOLVED ME

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 7d

i don’t doubt the utility of ground news per se but i’ve only ever seen suckers use/promote it

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Lasciva, peluchière @lascivapeluchiere.bsky.social · 3d

Who's the cutest balloon in the afterworld, mmmh ?

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

farther from convinced :/

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · Aug 31

i’m sure it’s a good movie but i can’t bring myself to be interested in kpop demon hunters bc i can’t shake the feeling that it was green-lit for having kpop in its name and i fear it doesn’t rise above that

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

i had went with a friend to an art market a few weeks ago and was struck by how cool, by way of being countercultural, they all thought they were

it’s just all so nothing, and yet it’s engaged as something even by fascists—it’s all appearance! we’re trapped in the spectacle

Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

at best it’s a complaint masking more serious issues of ladder-pulling and taking a seat at the table of the ruling class

at worst the mere appearance of non-assimilation becomes a virtue and a cudgel against material demands and social critique

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 2d

tbh i think assimilation is a red herring of a non-issue, and one should be more wary of aestheticization and authenticity-seeking

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 3d

historian of Latin America here, reminder that Columbus's extreme cruelty to indigenous peoples was known to his contemporaries and got him in trouble *then*

yes this man was so racist that he got chastised for it in *1500*

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 3d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Marcia B. @traversefantasy.itch.io · 3d

this is genuinely crazy and cool as fuck!!! need to read more in depth after work, but this will blow your mind in terms of what's possible for od&d when shoved out of its own context

#icon0clasm

Oleander Garden @voidhyacinth.bsky.social · 3d

SONGS FOR POLYMEDE.

Free tomboyish supplement for FMC (1974 OD&D + Chainmail). Campaign setting & special rules & poetry. For the FMC Icon0clasm Ball. Class as sex class + angels + resource rules + false canon + imagined mythic history.

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