C.M. Basking
@cmbasking.bsky.social
Reader/Writer/Mini Painter/GM, all things speculative fiction. Presently obsessed with sci-fi horror. He/him and bi
Please tell me about your current RPG campaign
Please tell me about your current RPG campaign
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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G I V E A W A Y
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my dice shop!🥹 Thank you all SO much for everything!
To celebrate you have the chance to get a 7pieces dice set in the Pastel Sunrise Design.
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Today is the 3 year anniversary of my dice shop!🥹 Thank you all SO much for everything!
To celebrate you have the chance to get a 7pieces dice set in the Pastel Sunrise Design.
Rules:
-Follow this account
-Repost this post
-international, I cover shipping
-ends 27/02/25, 7pm CET
February 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
G I V E A W A Y
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my dice shop!🥹 Thank you all SO much for everything!
To celebrate you have the chance to get a 7pieces dice set in the Pastel Sunrise Design.
Rules:
-Follow this account
-Repost this post
-international, I cover shipping
-ends 27/02/25, 7pm CET
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my dice shop!🥹 Thank you all SO much for everything!
To celebrate you have the chance to get a 7pieces dice set in the Pastel Sunrise Design.
Rules:
-Follow this account
-Repost this post
-international, I cover shipping
-ends 27/02/25, 7pm CET
Hell yeah another Weather Factory game! Obsessed, Fascinated with everything they put out
"A dialogue-driven choices-matter combat-free CRPG" <-- well, people did keep asking for one!
store.steampowered.com/app/2915730/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2915730/...
Travelling at Night on Steam
Travelling At Night is a dialogue-driven choices-matter CRPG. In the myth-scarred Europe of a very alternate Cold War, a hollow man with a shattering secret forges new goals to fill the emptiness insi...
store.steampowered.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Hell yeah another Weather Factory game! Obsessed, Fascinated with everything they put out
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Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away
December 7, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away
My favorite part of American healthcare is paying them to perform a service and then getting on the phone with them *every* month to convince them to do the thing I pay them for
December 5, 2024 at 2:28 PM
My favorite part of American healthcare is paying them to perform a service and then getting on the phone with them *every* month to convince them to do the thing I pay them for
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Ok, stop having clever conversations for the next couple of hours. I have writing to do and it gives me FOMO knowing you are all on here being smart, witty, an using the correct form of to, too, their, they're, and there.
December 5, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Ok, stop having clever conversations for the next couple of hours. I have writing to do and it gives me FOMO knowing you are all on here being smart, witty, an using the correct form of to, too, their, they're, and there.
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Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
RPGs should by default include options to change a character's appearance and stats. I am indecisive and I need developers to enable me
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
RPGs should by default include options to change a character's appearance and stats. I am indecisive and I need developers to enable me
This is so good. [Write something good here later] is an underrated tactic
Stuck in a scene? Do what the pros do: use brackets. Write what the story beat is:
[Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means]
Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.
[Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means]
Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.
December 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM
This is so good. [Write something good here later] is an underrated tactic
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My writing process is usually:
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
My writing process is usually:
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
a) I got this
b) well, fuck
c) wait that part was real good
d) wait no that part sucks
e) I am a god of this place
f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here
g) oh man I just figured it all out
h) mistakes were made
I) existential dread
Ok Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader is wayy more fun than I expected, this is dangerous
December 3, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Ok Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader is wayy more fun than I expected, this is dangerous
GMing is a gateway hobby to a ton of other things. Writing, painting minis, wargaming, reading more widely, collecting cool RPGs I'll never get to play
December 2, 2024 at 2:42 AM
GMing is a gateway hobby to a ton of other things. Writing, painting minis, wargaming, reading more widely, collecting cool RPGs I'll never get to play
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Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
November 29, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
Space Marine 2 is to masculinity what Hades is to bisexuality (I won't elaborate)
November 29, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Space Marine 2 is to masculinity what Hades is to bisexuality (I won't elaborate)
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I must not dunk.
Dunks are the time-killer
Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation
I will ignore bad takes
I will allow them to pass, or block them
And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter
And where the takes have gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
Dunks are the time-killer
Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation
I will ignore bad takes
I will allow them to pass, or block them
And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter
And where the takes have gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
Yep, I'm here to protect my peace. I will not fight random people on the internet.
I know temptation and old habits call us, but remember friends: when an anon rando with no platform has a weird bad take
You can just block them
I know, the optimists amongst us think that surely a person wearing the trappings of reason can be reasoned with
Don't do it
Be free
You can just block them
I know, the optimists amongst us think that surely a person wearing the trappings of reason can be reasoned with
Don't do it
Be free
November 27, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I must not dunk.
Dunks are the time-killer
Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation
I will ignore bad takes
I will allow them to pass, or block them
And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter
And where the takes have gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
Dunks are the time-killer
Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation
I will ignore bad takes
I will allow them to pass, or block them
And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter
And where the takes have gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain
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please do not "test" this you rubes. it wants you to do that. it is challenging you "please give me text on which to train." you marks you fools you absolute turnip truck accident victims
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.
buff.ly
November 26, 2024 at 7:38 PM
please do not "test" this you rubes. it wants you to do that. it is challenging you "please give me text on which to train." you marks you fools you absolute turnip truck accident victims
What are you reading right now? I'm currently triple-dipping with:
Moby-Dick, to get it off my bucket list (and having way more fun with it than I expected!)
Children of Time, to get my sci-fi fix with a sprinkling of horror
Steering the Craft by LeGuin, which has been extremely useful so far
Moby-Dick, to get it off my bucket list (and having way more fun with it than I expected!)
Children of Time, to get my sci-fi fix with a sprinkling of horror
Steering the Craft by LeGuin, which has been extremely useful so far
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
What are you reading right now? I'm currently triple-dipping with:
Moby-Dick, to get it off my bucket list (and having way more fun with it than I expected!)
Children of Time, to get my sci-fi fix with a sprinkling of horror
Steering the Craft by LeGuin, which has been extremely useful so far
Moby-Dick, to get it off my bucket list (and having way more fun with it than I expected!)
Children of Time, to get my sci-fi fix with a sprinkling of horror
Steering the Craft by LeGuin, which has been extremely useful so far
Books that have the "there's only one bed at the inn 😏" trope:
- many wonderful romance books
- Moby-Dick, for some reason
- many wonderful romance books
- Moby-Dick, for some reason
November 25, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Books that have the "there's only one bed at the inn 😏" trope:
- many wonderful romance books
- Moby-Dick, for some reason
- many wonderful romance books
- Moby-Dick, for some reason
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Hallmark needs to start making Hallowe’en romances. She’s a gal from the big city seeking a new life in a small town. He’s a mysterious horseman cursed to throw his flaming head at passersby for eternity. And when these two meet one night, sparks, and heads, will fly.
November 23, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Hallmark needs to start making Hallowe’en romances. She’s a gal from the big city seeking a new life in a small town. He’s a mysterious horseman cursed to throw his flaming head at passersby for eternity. And when these two meet one night, sparks, and heads, will fly.
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If you're a writer, translator, editor, anyone who works in writing, then you should read.
Read novels, short stories, articles, non-fiction, anything. Just read.
Read novels, short stories, articles, non-fiction, anything. Just read.
November 22, 2024 at 7:22 AM
If you're a writer, translator, editor, anyone who works in writing, then you should read.
Read novels, short stories, articles, non-fiction, anything. Just read.
Read novels, short stories, articles, non-fiction, anything. Just read.
Finished this and Peter Fehervari is definitely one of my favorite #wh40k authors, and probably my favorite among the Warhammer Horror authors. Converting to the genestealer cult now
November 22, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Finished this and Peter Fehervari is definitely one of my favorite #wh40k authors, and probably my favorite among the Warhammer Horror authors. Converting to the genestealer cult now
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This is genuinely solid advice.
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM
This is genuinely solid advice.
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the simple truth conservatives always ignore
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 AM
the simple truth conservatives always ignore