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@paladinosaur.bsky.social

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Butch dyke 23 AuDHD TTRPG nerd, artist and general goofy guy they/fae/xe

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · Oct 17

Time for a (re)introduction!

My name is Mars and I’m a TTRPG performer, writer, and artist!

I go by paladinosaur_ (or some variation of that) all across the internet!

Here’s the link to my link tree, which I’ll definitely be reworking soon! linktr.ee/paladinosaur

A picture of Mars (they/fae/xe) in a baseball cap. They are a freckled nonbinary person with glasses. They’re wearing a pale yellow shirt and holding a wooly bear caterpillar up to the camera.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 2h

Today has been pretty fucking miserable for ya boi

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 6h

I loveeee living in a hellscape /s

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 6h

Fun fact this is what it says if you open the USDA website rn

A picture of a laptop screen, showing the USDA website. There’s a large brown pop up that reads “Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 10h

I never know what to say on portfolio day posts so here’s more art

A drawing mars did for Matthew Gravelyn’s game “Clever Girl”. It’s a drawing of a velociraptor pack on a creek side, drawn entirely in black and white, with a sketchy style.

A picture of a blockprinted patch. It’s white ink on a purple fabric. The patch has a carabiner on it and reads “FUCK TERFS, PROTECT TRANS DYKES”

A picture of two mothman earrings. There are flowers in the background

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 14h

~310 short for out of pocket seizure med. These are the GoodRX *discount* prices. So unhinged here. Out of pills. Truly, each step closer means everything to me! 🙏💖

Tips:
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https://paypal.me/tpipc
(credit/debit): https://bit.ly/payrev

#TTRPG games:
www.drivethrurpg.com...

Screenshot from GoodRx showing discounted medication prices around $1400+.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 10h

I hear it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Mars, a non-binary lesbian and cartoon-y illustrator!

I’d love to do work on more ttrpgs, and I’m always open for commissions!

I also always use alt text!

A drawing of a blonde woman walking through a forest. She is bathed in yellow light and holds a silver long sword. She is wearing a white cape, brown gambeson, and brown pants.

A drawing of two women, seemingly posing for a picture. The woman on the left is a light skinned black woman with blonde hair and bright teal dress. She leans flirtatiously on the other woman, who is a dark haired butch white woman. She wears a long brown coat and has her hand on the back of a chair. She smiles, somewhat wearily, at the woman in the teal dress

Fanart for the tv show “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury”. Miorne, the princess, stands over suletta, the knight, who is on her knees, bowing. Suletta is wearing a suit of armor modeled after her gundam, mostly white, with accents of red, blue, black, and yellow. Suletta is wearing a princely outfit of blue and black. Sunlight streams through the doorway behind them.

A drawing of 3 characters. On the ground lies an orange tiefling in a sun and moon themed jester outfit. They are looking up at a small black tabaxi standing on a stool, proudly wearing a jester outfit with a Star on the chest. Next to them stands a drow woman with a long white braid, leaning on her spear. She is smiling at the tabaxi.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

Butcher knife implies the existence of a butchest knife

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I should note that the same guy making fun of PirateSoftware also makes a lot of videos making fun of shitty gamers (mtg, ttrpg, war games, etc) and while it was kinda funny the first time I also am realizing the only kind of content this guy makes is content that makes fun of others s

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Listen I know Thor has said some pretty shitty things in the past (and maybe continues to) regarding gaming stuff, but I also think he’s done a lot of cool work for ferrets and, no matter what he does, should be allowed to express himself freely

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Saw someone making fun of PirateSoftware for preferring to go by a different name and like, I know he isn’t trans but it rubbed me the wrong way. It feels like a gateway to transphobia at times.

People should have the freedom to express themselves, including changing their names.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

This fucks so hard

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✨HEX @ Commissions Open ! @hexlix.art · 3d

Back when I was but a Youth whose primary artposting was tumblr, I remember a practice called "reblog karma" where before you steal someone's meme (oc question, timeline game etc), you always interact with the person you stole it from and man I rly love that practice. Gotta bring that back

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 3d

If you wanna check out the decklist it is here! moxfield.com/decks/IB3br0...

Ellie and Alan Dinosaur Graveyard Recursion - Commander (Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists)

A deck created using Moxfield.

moxfield.com

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve finally finished building my first (non-pauper) EDH deck!

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists, is a bracket 2 commander deck where two nerds rescue dinos from the graveyard to trample their foes!

A picture of the magic the gathering card “Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists”. Behind it are a stack of other magic cards in green sleeves, topped with a copy of “Thrasta, Tempest’s Roar”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently at some point water got into my favorite playing cards and I didn’t notice and now a bunch of card fronts and backs have separated and they’re basically destroyed @keymastergames.bsky.social pls let me know if you have more of these I can’t find them online

Mars’ favorite deck of cards. A dark green box with glow in the dark print reads “campy creatures
Dead•luxe
Playing cards
Glow in the dark”

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 3d

She works in turtle conservation, and even tho I wanna go into frig conservation, she came to talk to my class the other day and gave out her email so I figured I’d give it a shot cuz both are herpetological conservation

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 3d

Just sent an email to someone in my future intended field asking for advice/guidance and I’m so nervous about it

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 4d

I have an ear infection and a eustacian tube dysfunction:/

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 4d

At urgent care cuz my ear hurts so bad I got dizzy and am trying not to panic about potential costs

A picture of mars wearing a green hoodie and a blue surgical mask. They are making a peace sign at the camera. They look tired.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 5d

I know nothing about m9 I just watched the trailer for the animated series and also own a Mollymauk button up

🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 5d

Mollymauk CriticalRole gives me so much gender envy why can’t I be a fruity little eccentric tiefling guy

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 5d

PLEASE back absurdia I need to see these folks do their stuff

🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 5d

8 days to hit 25K for @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social, @moreblueberries.bsky.social, @goblinmixtape.bsky.social, and myself to write some cool one shots for Absurdia! Let’s get over that hump to 20k and further!!

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Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 5d

Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.

Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.

a cartoon drawing of a fox carrying a flag

Alt: Magic the Gathering character Miles Tails Prowler says trans right

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 5d

Oh I mostly play commander and pauper commander but I’m looking at giving some more niche formats a try!! My pauper decks are Eowyn, Lady of Rohan and I’m currently working on a thrummingbird one! The only regular commander I’ve built myself is Alan and Ellie, Paleontologists!

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