Griff

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[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Oh same! I also loved that <3 speaking as a fellow autist, heheh, though I had only read mention of that guy in brief. I should really sit down with the novels they made from the setting at some point. Really the conceit of enemies that desperately want to help you, but their “help” is actually killing you, is super interesting to me. Idk. There’s a type of horror there that is unique to CtD, and might even be why I prefer it to CtL.

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It’s really quite depressing. For anyone not in the know, Changeling: the Dreaming’s main conflict is the rise of Banality (depression, adulthood, bureaucracy, the wasteland), versus the slow and inevitable leeching of Glamour (childhood, creativity, art, fantasyland) from the world. Psychologists and cubicles are just as deadly as Kithain and Fomorians, and as you can imagine, this narrative trends towards horrific in a way you just don’t really get with other fictional settings. Everything good in the world is going to lose. You can never go home. Winter is coming to the Autumn World.

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmm but a Warlock’s relationship with their Patron doesn’t involve worship (otherwise they’d be a Cleric), so can you really “convert” someone?

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m sure I speak for the community here when I wish the same for you <3

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing this article! Going through the longlist helped me pick out some of my next reads (first is All the Little Birds).

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Any baby bottles for the baby bottlenoses? <3

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I love this instance. Thank you so much guys, all this Meta stuff has been a bee in my bonnet. Forgive the pun.

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Oh gotcha, thank you so much!! ❤️

 

As a teenager, I remember using my family's phone service to load creepypastas onto a tiny Kindle - a trickle of bad scary stories one after the other. I would get on Reddit where, sometimes sure, I would browse r/nosleep, but I was never completely satisfied by the content there. There were cheesy YouTube narrations. There was r/FearMe. We cut to today and I'm getting my horror fix through podcasts like Knifepoint Horror or rereading the House of Leaves (great book), but I still kind of miss the forum vibe of those community-contributed stories. What websites do the rest of you use to scare yourselves? What are your favorite spooky stories? How have your tastes changed and is there anything you guys miss that we might rebuild here in the Fediverse?

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been super looking forward to this, thank you 😄

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh my god this is great. You’re incredibly talented OP, and this is incredibly adorable ❤️

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Rest in peace, Don ❤️

[–] Griff@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

… human thing …

🤖

 

It was hiding inside a copy of The Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon. I’m not familiar with the contents honestly? Still. It’s heartwarming getting to see this very human thing and interesting to wonder why it was stuck here of all places.

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