Dezzy Parrish (Xe/ Xer/ Xem)
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Dezzy Parrish (Xe/ Xer/ Xem)
@dezzyparrish.bsky.social
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Tabletop role-playing gamer since 1981. World-builder, story teller and game master. I am writing a weekly blog at dezzy-parrish.com I have started a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DezzyParrish
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Gonna sweep out the 2 party system with sudden national figures. That all starts at the county and local level. Work NOW and build. Keep going. There are older voters who will support your efforts and help the heavy lifting.
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Especially if you live in a state that heavily favors one party or the other to think nationally. But remember all the state and local elections that are coming up. For everyone under the age of 35, these local elections is where you can build change that pays off in 20 years. We aren't
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I'll remind all my Democratic friends whenever Newsom pops into the news. We need to work on winning the midterms next year. Don't be distracted by Newsom. He isn't the nominee. 2028 is way out in the future. 2026 and the elections that run up to is must be our focus. I know it's hard
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and when I refer to the Podcast, I'm talkin' about the whole thing. From hosting Charlie Kirk to this exchange, inclusive.
Newsom has really thrown his mask into the waters of the Pacific with this podcast. He knows the Dictator is circling the drain and he wants to pick up the crown when it falls from Trump's greasy orange brow. He believes that he can be a Republican with a D next to his name.
another lonely kid that my art might touch. I join a 50 year legacy of writers, artists and designers who have presented worlds of possibilities and inspiration. How could I not contribute my efforts?
Why?
Because I was a lonely kid and my only outlet was my imagination. I found D&D at a time in my childhood when that imagination needed something to hang on to. I don't think I would have lived to be an adult if it were not for tabletop roleplaying.
So, I create to give back, in case there's
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Why do you make [creative thing]?

This extract sums it up perfectly: we want to make people happy... and we're a "bottomless pit of ambition". But mostly the happy thing

From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
I'm in the middle of packing and moving across the country. I'm carving a couple hours out of my Saturday to join the protest. Dictators don't go quietly. The People must fight them.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Elk Grove, CA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Elk Grove, CA · No Kings
We know you've been watching and reading about Trump's authoritarian power grabs. He's deploying the military to blue cities, he's abducting immigrants and holding them in inhumane facilities, he's at...
www.mobilize.us
IT MUST BE MINE!!!!
The Albino Emperor, Elric, White Wolf of Melnibone, Soul-Drinker, Kin Slayer, Eternal Champion...and now a sticker!
I got one more thing... doesn't need to be added to that very long rant.
The world is burning. I'm partially to blame. I should have, I dunno, worked harder for a better place for the kids coming up after me. I'm sorry. really. I shoulda taken better care of things.
Doctor wants.
I think I can hear the imaginary nice young woman telling me to go back to bed and get some rest. Enough excitement for one night.
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are for sale if you want new content that appeals to you. Don't worry grandpa, you're still being catered to. Don't let those mean 'ol gays make you upset with their sparkley dice and gender bending characters. Just crawl back to your man-cave. And don't forget to take your meds like the
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still get a copy used in about a hundred different ways if your mom threw your books out when you left for college in 1988. Morgan Ironwolf still has nipple bumps in her chainmail on page 33 of the Basic rulebook. There is a WHOLE group of authors and designers making OSR games right now that
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bikinis are still out there right where you left them in Savage Sword of Conan Issue 51. The 1st edition D&D Player's Handbook still has limits on women character's maximum strength, because girls are just small and weak like you remember. Those words are still printed on those pages, and you
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himself. ON BLUE SKY NO LESS. Hello kettle, I didn't know if you were aware, but your black. Love, pot.
It's a comic. it has rainbows and people being affectionate and kobolds in drag. No one, not Arenson nor Gygax are spinning in their grave. The illustrations of babes in hawt chainmail
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excited kids at the convention or your game store talking about how they wanna make friends with orcs, or seduce the minotaur. Fucking get over yourselves.
Yes, I am fully aware I've written a dozen post thread for the past 45 minutes only to tell my straw man Gen X grognard to get over
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one, least of all me, or Wizards of the Coast is gonna stop you! The Queer Gamer Mafia isn't gonna break through your windows on rainbow zip lines and glitter you before replacing your BECMI D&D books you've been using since '85. Worst thing that will happen is that you'll have to endure some
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block. So it's ok, I can still be "Chaotic Good") belonged in D&D when I was a teenager.
Point is, if you don't like the current direction of D&D, ignore it! Play the edition you're comfortable with. Gather around your dining-room table with your friends and play the game the way you want. No
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hobgoblin, wood elves and a drow and I see something that tells my aged queer self belongs in D&D. Just as much as my edgelord priest of Thor who slew orcs for no other reason than orcs were monsters in the monster manual and had Treasure Type M. (and they were Lawful Evil, said so in the stat
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corporation owned by a megacorporation. They know a good rainbow capitalism when they see it and queer dollars spend just as well as straight dollars. I look at the imagery of LGBT D&D characters who are having a party, I read about those NPCs who are a married same-sex polycule of gnomes, a
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everybody's future in the hands of a band of cut-rate Nazis who are threatened because people who don't look like, talk like fuck like or dress like them are being paid attention too.
Which brings me back to the cartoon.
WotC is, if anything, dubious in their corporate sensitivity. They're a
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age. Gen X on the cusp of old age, angry that the world has changed and they're not "with it" any more. (see the Simpsons reference above). Our rage, the anger of my peers is burning the world down. White, angry man-children who are pissed off that they can't use slurs in public are putting
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There's a Beholder in make-up with full lips! A Halfling is doing a power slide with a lute! DEAR GODS won't SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?
I wouldn't let this bother me so much except... well, remember Jan 6 2021? All those angry MAGA freaks storming the capital. A bunch of them were my
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