…roll +Live when performing actions related to physical strength* or ability (wrestle shoes onto a squirming child, weed the garden, carry an entire SUV’s worth of groceries in one trip).
…roll +Laugh when performing actions related to social status and networking (get your way at the PTA meeting, give the neighbour a scathing backhanded complement about her tacky new lawn ornament, recruit a downline for your #girlboss MLM business).
…roll +Love when performing actions that require creativity or genuine empathy (console your daughter over her first crush, make a Pinterest-worthy birthday cake, actually have a conversation with your husband for once instead of perpetuating the cycle of uselessness/nagging you’ve been trapped in for years).
(*+Live is also your combat stat, because no matter how much you don’t think it will ever come up in your game, it will.)
Possible scenario table, roll 4D6 to generate for the GM:
A threat: 1. The PTA board which you hope to sit on, despite it being a seething interpersonal relationship battleground, 2. Your teenage daughter, who despises you and all you stand for right now but will ultimately come to a deeper sadder understanding of you, 3. Your husband, who has not done a lick of housework since three days after you married him without being nagged into it, some day you will leave him and all that will be left in the house is a carefully stapled print out of she left me because of the dishes in the sink 4. Your mother-in-law, who you’re convinced can only be appeased with the blood of the innocents, but she raised your shitty husband so are you really surprised at this point, 5. Your boss, who wouldn’t let you have time off for Jaclyn’s high school graduation and you hold a grudge, 6. Your best friend, who you have drunk a lot of wine with and never ever fantasised about kissing,
Wants to: 1. Ensure 2. Run 3. Destroy 4. Ruin 5. Dominate 6. Take over
The: 1. Scouting camp out 2. End of term bake sale 3. Little league baseball organising committee 4. PTA 5. Fourth of July barbecue 6. Last turkey in the grocery store right before thanksgiving
Which will: 1. Destroy your chances of getting onto the PTA board. 2. Make you have an emotional crisis about what exactly you’re doing this all for. 3. Ruin a very important annual holiday about togetherness. 4. Mean you have to run around in the background organising the whole thing while pretending you’re not. 5. Really fuck with the local werewolf population in a way you’re not sure the town is ready for. 6. Probably lead to something getting burned down.
You have been visited by the Boast Ghost 👻 Name 1 thing you're proud of yourself for! (Please include @boast-ghost so I can find your answer!)
Thank you @boast-ghost :) I’m proud of many of my artistic achievements, but particularly the words I wrote for Dark Eras 2: The Great War. It was a fascinating time period to learn about, and I think I came up with some really neat concepts and evocative ways to describe them. It’ll never be the most mainstream or popular book I’ve written for, but I’m very happy with how my section came out.
…roll +Live when performing actions related to physical strength* or ability (wrestle shoes onto a squirming child, weed the garden, carry an entire SUV’s worth of groceries in one trip).
…roll +Laugh when performing actions related to social status and networking (get your way at the PTA meeting, give the neighbour a scathing backhanded complement about her tacky new lawn ornament, recruit a downline for your #girlboss MLM business).
…roll +Love when performing actions that require creativity or genuine empathy (console your daughter over her first crush, make a Pinterest-worthy birthday cake, actually have a conversation with your husband for once instead of perpetuating the cycle of uselessness/nagging you’ve been trapped in for years).
(*+Live is also your combat stat, because no matter how much you don’t think it will ever come up in your game, it will.)
$61 for “Anything but Karen” was beaten out by $65 for “Harrowhark”
Still $60 for “Wilfrid”
Don’t you want to name a kitten???
They spent their first week with us, so I can confirm that they are very soft and wriggly and sweet!
Their mama Bear needed an emergency c-section and for a brand new organization that was a pretty big expense.
Worth it though.
Oh right I forgot to say what this is for!
There are a lot of circumstances in people’s lives that keep them from being the best caretakers for their pets.
Maybe it’s unemployment, eviction, going to rehab, or experiencing domestic violence, but a lot of people find they can’t provide their pets with a safe space and the necessities of life.
In many of those circumstances, the only answer for many people who care about their pets is to surrender them to a shelter, never to see them again.
No Surrender Ottawa is a Canadian nonprofit that aims to keep people and their pets together. They provide temporary foster services and network with other resources in the Ottawa valley to help connect people with affordable pet food, equipment, training, and veterinary care.
In this case, No Surrender took in Bear, a pregnant cat, when her human couldn’t keep her. They’ve paid about $4000 so far for care of her and her kittens. Most of that money went to an emergency caesarean section that ensured these little babies’ survival. Kitten naming auctions are one of the ways they fundraise and raise awareness.
Right now Bear and her kittens are in foster care. No Surrender’s intention is to adopt out the kittens when they’re old enough, and reunite Bear with her human when her human’s able to take her back again.
Current bids:
$65 to name the girl “Harrowhark”
$66 to name the boy “Karen” (narrowly edging out “Stormaggedon, Dark Lord of All” by a dollar)
Bidding ends July 1, 2021. After this post, I’ll update on a less frequent basis in individual posts. For more updates on the auction, follow nosurrenderYOW on Twitter!
Another round of Superhero x Supervillain doodles, featuring some cute dating-your-nemesis moments, a few compromises, and designs for Starsong’s nemesis-she’s-not-gonna-smooch.
