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Turhan's Bey Company

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Tsundoku master, unreliable narrator. TTRPG (GURPS) publications at https://warehouse23.com/search?q=Matt+Riggsby or https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=matt%20riggsby&page=1&sort=7a

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 18h

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 19h

This is kind of brilliant.

Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 22h

One of the things I make sure to put in my #GURPS historicals--because I can and because it makes the line editor hungry--is a section on typical food and drink. Each book can smell like a different kitchen suitable to the place and time.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

For the curious, it's this cam:

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

I Talk To The Trees

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

So, the *other* Mongolian folk metal band.

Uuhai - Khar Khulz

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 1d

I recognize where and approximately when that was taken and I even know that guy from Ye Olden Days (tm). And despite the size of the crowd, you and your lovely and talented spouse were nothing but marvelous that day.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

On one hand, the historian in me enthusiastically agrees. Marginalia rock.

On the other, a lifetime of being taught to treat books as inviolable recoils at the notion.

On the gripping hand, margins are way too small, particularly given my utterly illegible handwriting.

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 2d

More people should write in books they own. Annotations are a gift.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

An identity assumed for purposes of living in a yurt is a nom-de-ger.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

Monastic-style scriptoria should be supported by grants from the state. Socialized codices!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

Note to self: cooking show with saving throws. Iron Golem Chef?

Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 2d

A cookint contest judge asking “Did you taste this?” has the same vibes as a DM asking “So, you’re touching the idol?”

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

Be sure to have *pistachio* baklava for the health benefits of eating greens.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 2d

And we had to dial the numbers for ten miles! Through the snow! Uphill! Both ways!

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 3d

She knows what she did.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 3d

And twice on the pipe if the answer is no.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 4d

Creepypasta meets copypasta.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 4d

I don't remember anything else.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

Unsolicited snikt pic.

Marvel Comics' Wolverine in the classic yellow and black uniform, facing forward, claws extended, standing in front of snow covered evergreens and shouting.

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

Warning: contains not being a dick.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 5d

That's one!

Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 6d

one off of my work, it's probably for the best they know up front so they don't waste their hard-earned dollar on something which will offend their delicate sensibilities.

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 6d

and not-abled people through time, including now. Nobody's complained yet (likely because few people read them), but if knowing that I at least indicate the possibility of a gender-fluid Ottoman Turk, a gay Florentine, or a disabled Black Venetian with a good job as viable characters puts

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 6d

My GURPS historicals touch (briefly) on things like race, gender, sexuality, and ability, not because of "DEI consultants" (there's hardly enough money involved to pay me, let alone a consultant) but because as someone who reads history I know there were lots of not-white, not-dude, not-straight,

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 6d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow, it is not Friday.

a woman says i have a lot of questions number one how dare you ..

Alt: Mindy Kaling says "I have a lot of questions. Number one how dare you?"

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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 7d

How can people not know "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?