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feotakahariILU, author who shall go unnamed, but based on the emotions and viewpoints you put into your stories, you are the last person who gets to talk shit about narcissists and sociopaths.
I'm playing Even20: The Interference of Parallels
Mar. 7th, 2026 03:17 amfeotakahariOh, that's a mean-spirited trick for people used to RPG Maker horror games. You die if you hide inside the conveniently human-sized locker.
From a dream
Mar. 5th, 2026 07:29 pmfeotakahariBroadly speaking, sapients are divided into two categories. Those like elves may use magic, but they function perfectly well without it. Those like fire elementals have magic integrated into their natures.
Shadow elementals belong to neither of these categories. They bear their name because they’re recognizably “of shadow” in the same way that light elementals are “of light,” and they can do things with shadows that parallel light magic. But shadow is the absence of the light element, not an element in itself, and the things shadow elementals do are fundamentally not magic. No one has an explanation for this, save perhaps the shadow elementals themselves, and they aren't telling.
Shadow elementals belong to neither of these categories. They bear their name because they’re recognizably “of shadow” in the same way that light elementals are “of light,” and they can do things with shadows that parallel light magic. But shadow is the absence of the light element, not an element in itself, and the things shadow elementals do are fundamentally not magic. No one has an explanation for this, save perhaps the shadow elementals themselves, and they aren't telling.
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Mar. 5th, 2026 06:18 pmfeotakahariLooking back on my old posts. Among other things, I said I was sick of people who darkly hint at points they never actually state. A reblog darkly hinted that when I said other bloggers use dark hints, I was lying and conspiring against them.
I’m playing Esoteric Ebb
Mar. 4th, 2026 05:54 amfeotakahariD20 rolls often feel too swingy to me, and this is worse than usual because stat bonuses cap out at +5 for most builds. Give me a DC 20 roll, and no matter how much equipment I pile on, I’m screwed on a roll below 15. (Granted, I’ve seen circumstance bonuses that are something like +17, but that’s not exactly common.)
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Mar. 3rd, 2026 09:09 amfeotakahariI didn’t get very far into Tavern Talk before I got bored, but violence is the trap option when dealing with the werewolf, and violence is the trap option when robbing the vampire, and violence is the trap option when collecting chimera spit, and I have to wonder if violence is ever good in this game.
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Mar. 3rd, 2026 06:20 pmwolffylunaI have had. A week. Or, well. Ten days.
Now, a bunch of what happened in that ten day span was supremely frustrating, but also, supremely doxxing. Needless to say, it ended up with me working 24 days instead of 21 in a row, and also my suitcase being. stuck at my workplace.
But I have, also, had something not doxxing happen, and it's funny because it's a very "how the hell did you DO THAT?" injury. You see, I injured myself with that most dangerous of crafts: spinning yarn.
( injury details )
Anyway, I have also had good things happen. I have discovered sweet potato slump. (Excuse the shorts link, the recipe is in the description box.) A slump is a type of dessert that is like a crumble in that it has a layer of fruit, and then a layer of something on top, but in a slump's case, the layer on top is cakey.
I knew that sweet potato in desserts was a thing. But with this recipe, I have been converted. Sweet potato cooked in spiced syrup is so so good, it's soft and warm and sweet but still has that complexity of sweet potato without the spices or sugar overpowering it. And by baking it still with it's syrup, you make this spiced sauce that goes so well with the cakey layer on top. And it's so simple too! It's a solid 'it's saturday, I want dessert, but I don't want to spend all day making dessert' dish.
(WickdConfections has a whole series of historical African American dessert recipes that this slump is a part of. I haven't tried any of her other recipes, but I definitely am going to try some of the other simple ones, because goodness is this a good recipe.)
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Feb. 27th, 2026 10:28 pmfeotakahariOne good thing to say about The Monstrous Horror Show: every chapter’s protagonist gets a more awesome last stand than the previous one. These girls go down hard.
I’m playing Yokai Landlord
Feb. 27th, 2026 05:42 pmfeotakahariThis game is Frieren levels of fantasy racist. Every time someone says maybe there are Yokai who aren’t evil, it turns out this latest Yokai also wants to murder or mutilate humans.
I’m playing The Monstrous Horror Show
Feb. 26th, 2026 04:05 pmfeotakahariI’m so sick of people lying that their favorite porn games have great stories and characters. This works pretty well as shock-horror, but the characters so far have one personality trait each, and the sexism is bad even by porn game standards.
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Feb. 26th, 2026 12:52 amfeotakahariI briefly posted about how horror allows its protagonists to make mistakes you wouldn't usually see in other genres. I'd like to elaborate on that a little more.
I read a fantasy novel where the main character breaks a giant metal chain and nearly decapitates their love interest with it. No one is actually harmed. This is a typical fantasy novel mistake.
Horror can have a main character who isn't even thinking about violence fuck up in a way that ends up with a body count.
(Okay, horror and also Tales of the Abyss. And tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, but tragedy as a genre is pretty much dead now.)
I read a fantasy novel where the main character breaks a giant metal chain and nearly decapitates their love interest with it. No one is actually harmed. This is a typical fantasy novel mistake.
I watched a military movie where the main character shoots some civilians he thinks are enemies. This is a typical military movie mistake.
I played a horror video game where the protagonist needs to cross a street, but no matter how long he waits, the cars never stop zooming past. He throws a dummy into the road so cars will stop. A driver swerves to avoid it, crashes into a lamppost, and dies.
Horror can have a main character who isn't even thinking about violence fuck up in a way that ends up with a body count.
(Okay, horror and also Tales of the Abyss. And tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, but tragedy as a genre is pretty much dead now.)
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Feb. 25th, 2026 11:03 amfeotakahariIt amazes me that we've developed a way to assign new meanings to any word, and we use it solely to reference sex acts and genitals. Take the people who referred to the movie Pocahontas as "Poke Her Hontas." "Hontas" isn't even a word, and yet it's taken as a given that this sort of sentence is sexual. Plural* confirms that it means "poke her breasts." And you can do this with almost any noun or nonsense word!
Most of the time when I read a post by an asexual person who doesn't understand what was sexual about some statement, the statement in question is along the lines of "poke her hontas."
*It's unusual to see this sort of redefinition for testicles unless it's set up in advance.
Thinking about an Owl House fanfic
Feb. 25th, 2026 12:28 amfeotakahariThe Owl House is fantasy-horror-comedy, which means the main plot is mostly fantasy-comedy, but there are a bunch of horror-comedy jokes that are never really addressed and would make the Boiling Isles look like an absolute hellhole if you took them seriously. This fic, The Angel of the Owl House, does its best to explain away or modify all these jokes so the setting becomes just fantasy-comedy. The one thing it cannot get rid of is all the cannibalism. It ends up just going "It's a different culture, and they do things differently. They don't kill wantonly, but eating what you kill is normal here."
Story recommendations
Feb. 23rd, 2026 04:29 pmilzolendeI did the book cover for a supervillain web series, The Tragedy of the Titanium Tyrant.
Someone's leading a sci-fi worldbuilding project called the Atmaverse. It is, so far as I understand, intended as hard scifi plus an FTL method. There is a significant focus on alien civilizations.
People who dislike isekais with slavery will perhaps like the John Brown Isekai.
I recommend a lot of Saphroneth's work. It's better-organized on AO3 but more up-to-date on SpaceBattles.
Comprehension Castle (Part 2) is a set of 'screenshots' from a fake game.
If you want to see someone's overpowered OC beat up everyone, Mitraka is fun. I have some complaints but I keep reading it.
The first several Starship's Mage books feel like the author was like "what if we had a bunch of cool stuff all in one setting? wouldn't that be super awesome?" and then committed pretty hard to it. (I haven't finished the series yet.)
1632 sends an entire town into the past. You can read the first book free.
The Wicked + The Divine is a finished comic series.
Chunks of Worm is a set of Worm snippets. (I haven't finished Worm, so take my Worm recommendations with a grain of salt.)
Of the Coming of the Star Warrior is a brief Kirby/Silmarillion crossover.
The Background Noise of Defiance is a cute Star Wars series.
Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue is an HP fic where the non-wizard government gets involved.
The Legend Of Zelda: Speedrun Of The Wild: What happens after speedrunner Link beats up Ganon in his underwear with improvised weapons?
Something to Fear / Someone to Fight: Steven Universe post-movie fic.
Wolf Incident Postmortem is a Boy who Cried Wolf epistolary fic.
Spinning Silver is a fairy tale inspired work in which lots of minor characters all have their own goals and take actions towards those goals. It feels very well-put-together and complete.
Karl K. Gallagher does some decent short stories.
Conditional Release is a fic in which the Valar take a different strategy with Melkor.
Empty Graves, the fic where Martha Kent keeps encountering time travelers.
Sherden Pact is someone's Khornite faction in Warhammer 40K which is focused on Effective Murder Maximization. This sermon may be a decent intro.
Constellations is a Worm/Ōkami crossover where Taylor gets a canine friend.
On Silksong Wishwalls
Feb. 23rd, 2026 03:26 pmilzolendeSilksong has some “wishwalls” where people post requests. A wish board that is “empty” of requests for Hornet's purposes still seems to have markers on it, just smaller ones.
These could, perhaps, be quests Hornet feels other people can handle.
So maybe someone else is looking at the board and seeing things like this:
Shawl Stitching
"My shawl is falling to pieces and is no longer befitting of a pilgrim. With a bit of thread, it could be good as new."
Repair Pebb’s shawl.
Reward: 5 rosaries.
There's also plausibly wishes specifically asking for other NPCs, the way some of the wishes specifically ask for Hornet.