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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 7h

Same. I'm loving the prep work for Daggerheart and the play style lets me be much more responsive. Now I'm basically writing an outline, with a few plot paths to follow depending on PC choices instead of overwriting.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 7h

That was my thought, I’m hoping to get them to a point where our in person session starts with a level up, has a big backstory reveal, and then a decent battle. I have adversary minis already and thought I could reveal their PC minis.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 7h

I GM an online #Daggerheart game for a group of friends who are spread out across the country. Amazingly, we will all be in the same city and I’m hosting a session in person! So, do I splurge and buy and paint minis for their PCs, knowing they will be a single use thing? Or is that me being extra?

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 16h

I’m just learning about medlars! We don’t really have them in the US, so it was a fun wander down a “Trees of Antiquity” list. I’m very excited to find a place that ships to Texas.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for this! I’m looking into medlar and jujube trees right now. Might be hard to grow here, but it’s something I can baby and care for. And yes, next Saturday would be perfect!

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 17h

Mold and bookworm throughout.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 17h

The world feels particularly terrible today. I probably shouldn’t self-soothe by buying rare fruit trees and original artwork, but here we are. My little, sadly urban, witchy heart just wants something to feel peaceful. Growing things and finding beauty is a good thing, right?

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 1d

*People have often asked my husband what he thinks of my “look.” He invariably responds “She can look however she wants, I adore her. But if you ask me, she looks like she could kick your ass.”

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 1d

See also: having short hair (in conventionally masculine cuts) and lots of piercings.

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 1d

I am someone with blue hair and a rose ring. This is empowering on a daily basis.

It is the power to reject societal expectations of what "pretty femininity" looks like; it is power to sit in my own Self without catering to the male gaze.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday afternoon folks. Here be some leaf sheep wishing you a lovely day 🌊

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 2d

Okay friends - I’m looking for a tarot deck, but I’m so sick of finding so much AI-generated art. Seemly like everything on Etsy and Kickstarter is AI slop. I’m looking for something natural and/or darker gothic vibes Can you help?!?
#tarot #witchsky

The hanged man tarot card from the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards. Features a blond man wearing a white shirt and green trousers hanging by his left foot.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 3d

It may not solve all of problems currently facing the world, but I think we can all agree that bringing back gargoyles, mixtapes, and handwritten letters with wax seals would be an important first step.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 4d

Perkins being open 24 hours was a godsend. Late night coffee and banana cream pie got me through my undergrad. I was there so often, the staff knew me and saved me a piece of pie. They started plating it up when they saw me walking through the parking lot. Usually at midnight.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

This is why I don’t often attend church. The phrase doesn’t bother me-I like being able to question things (thanks super conservative upbringing) but the “you must belong” to come here thing is what gets me. I want faith, not a group that immediately thinks we’re besties because of the Lord’s Prayer

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

I want to be included, not the newest item up for show and tell. The aggressive evangelism of “oooh new person! Come & be involved in everything! And I want your personal contact info so you can stay in the loop” is too much out of the gate. It’s about building trust. I’m basically a wounded stray.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like there is a fine line. Like I want to see specifically that LGBTQ+ are welcome, I want to know how to navigate a service, and I’m fine with a polite hello or gentle invitation to come back but if people call attention to the fact that I’m new or are in my face, I probably won’t be back.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

Same. If someone comes up to me & tries to find out my life story or tries to get me to go to something more, I will nope out immediately. I want to know how to inconspicuously participate from the back of the church & want no one to pay attention to me until I make the first move.

A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone who isn’t regularly attending a church but is interested, was likely made to feel unwelcome somewhere else. By not helping them to feel comfortable, or assuming that they’ll figure it out, they are basically being told that they’re not welcome here either until they prove themselves.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 5d

I occasionally attend church and I look at bulletins if they’re posted online before going. If they can’t bother to put “please stand” or “please sit,” I assume they prioritize a “you might not be one of us” ethos over making visitors feel welcome. And then I don’t go there. It makes a difference.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 6d

Trying this now, since nothing else seems to stop the horrors.

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Apr 5

we have a rule at our house that if it is past 9pm and you are having feelings, the only thing you are allowed to do is have a snack and go to bed, so anyway, I will be having a snack and going to bed!!

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, did MTG just give me a reason to watch the Super Bowl?!?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6d

!!!!!!!!!

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 6d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6d

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 6d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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