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Jennifer Kretchmer
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Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
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And, at 9AM, check out the FGCon ‘25 opening keynote — they’re making some VERY cool announcements that you won’t want to miss!

Everything is happening on the @fantasygrounds.com Twitch and YouTube channels!
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Headshots of B. Dave Walters, Alicia Marie, Hope LaVelle, Jen Kretchmer, Adam Bradford, and Greg Haben on a poster for FGCon ‘25’s Heroes Reunited Liveplay. The lower right corner has a red beholder logo for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Tomorrow at 4pm PT, guess what Alyndra has foreseen? IT’S A HEROES REUNION on @fantasygrounds.com!

@badeye.bsky.social, @aliciamariebody.bsky.social, @bdavewalters.bsky.social, @thehopelavelle.bsky.social, @lauren-urban.com, and DM Greg Haben!

Come join us!
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November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Chicago BY CARL SANDBURG Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Jen’s Last Four Watched on Letterboxd: Weapons, The Vast of Night, The Craft, and Vivarium
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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“I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority's order before the
illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur.

Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.”

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A legal document. “We have come to expect a dose of political theater in the political branches, drama designed to rally the base or to rile or intimidate political opponents. We also may expect there a measure of bending sometimes breaking the truth. By design of the Founders, the judicial branch stands apart. We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority's order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.”
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

*stares in Lupin*
Omar Sy as Assane Diop in Lupin. He is a Black man in a grey beret and trench coat leaning on a sunbeam-lit wooden desk. Behind him is a corkboard and shelves of books.
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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(1/2) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 18, 2025 Media Contact: media@nokings.org Nearly 7 Million Attend Overwhelmingly Peaceful No Kings Day of Action WASHINGTON, DC — In one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly seven million Americans gathered today, 2 million more than June, in over 2,700 cities and towns for the No Kings Day of Peaceful Action, standing together in nonviolent defiance of authoritarianism and affirming that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, today's mobilization was 14 times larger than both of President Trump's presidential inaugurations combined, marking a historic moment of unity and resistance. From rural communities to major metropolitan centers, the message was clear: America will not be ruled by fear, force, or one man's power grab. While the Republican-led government shutdown continues to wreak havoc, forcing hundreds of thousands of families to go without pay and cutting off critical services, the people they represent are stepping up to lead. Across districts, neighbors are organizing, marching, and demanding a government that serves the many, not the powerful few. Our work continues in big cities and small towns around this country and we will not back down to President Trump's continued abuse of power. There will be regular opportunities in the coming days and weeks to take action with No Kings and we will be regularly sharing community rights resources. In response to this historic day of action, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statements: "Today, millions of Americans stood together to reject authoritarianism and remind the world that our democracy belongs to the people, not to one man's ambition," said Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, Co-Founders, Indivisible. (2/2) "Authoritarians want us to believe resistance is futile, but every person who turned out today proved the opposite. This movement isn't about a single protest; it's about a growing chorus of Americans who refuse to be ruled. Trump may want a crown, but in this country, there are no kings."
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.
A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Transcript and alt text of Comey’s video statement below.
My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living in any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right, but I'm not afraid and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the judicial system. I'm innocent, so let's have a trial. And keep the faith.
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Look who has a shiny new glow-up!

Legendkeeper Alyndra skin and Professor Griff familiar are now on @idlechampions.bsky.social! (Yes, you’d better bet Griff is JUDGING his students through those spectacles!)
A banner showing the Legendkeeper Alyndra skin and Professor Griff familiar in Idle Champions. Alyndra is an ice blue elf with steely hair with a red stripe. She wears blue robes embossed with runes and book-shaped pauldrons. Her staff is made of scrolls. Griff is a brown owl in a red vest and spectacles, wearing a black four-cornered hat. They are next to a headshot of Jen, a white person with red hair wearing a one-shouldered black dress.
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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And these illuminated manuscript pages blew my mind. I was in total awe—the reference points for these are so specific, the narratives are delightful, and the level of detail is astonishing.

These are *arguably* my favorite pieces in the whole book.
An incredibly detailed, predominantly red-and-gold illuminated manuscript of a three-panel story: a dragon warns a man about a diadem. The man wears the diadem and shows off how he wields fire to a gathered group. On the bottom panel, a gold dragon, with a red gem that matches the diadem, burns down a city. A highly detailed illuminated manuscript with two panels. The top shows an adventuring party approaching a dragon. The bottom, a larger frame, shows people wearing clothing in similar colors to the adventurers, sitting around a table playing a tabletop roleplaying game.
September 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The stained-glass pieces by @eshpur.bsky.social are some of my absolute favorite art in @hellomcdm.bsky.social’s Draw Steel. (They also were some of the most complex for art description. Abbreviated text here, book is FAR more detailed.)

I’d never seen anything like this for a game book before.
An illustrated stained glass window with several rosettes above four side-by-side, arched panels depicting fantasy-species individuals from four professions: Sage, Performer, Warden, and Artisan.
September 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The art in Draw Steel...

The gasp I gasped when I first saw this.

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A painting of a dark-skinned, bearded person with a gold-beaded, braided beard, floating in an air bubble, meditating. They are bare-chested in green pants, a gold headpiece, collar, belt, and bracers, and linen footwraps with red gems, and float amongst sunset clouds.
June 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This section in particular stuck out.
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Overall, in over 99.5 percent of protests in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion. Contrary to officials’ hyperbolic claims of a disorderly movement attempting to sow chaos, at least through April and May, protesters associated with the anti-Trump movement were extraordinarily nonviolent in their tactics.
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Judge Breyer: Hey, I just wanted you to know that you can't just say the word 'bankruptcy' and expect anything to happen.

Admin: I didn't say it, I *declared* it.

Judge: Still, that's-- that's not anything.
From a legal decision: Defendants assert that they complied with § 12406 because written at the top of the June 7 and June 9 DOD Orders was the label "THROUGH: THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA." Opp. at 17. Highlighted: "True enough. But an interpretation of § 12406 that permits the President to federalize a state's National Guard by typing the phrase "Through the Governor of [insert state here]" at the top of a document that the President never sends to the governor strains credibility, especially given that Congress specifically amended the statute to add the requirement that orders "shall be issued through the governors." See Militia Act of 1908 § 3."
June 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Did you see this?
June 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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A decision in Newsom v. Trump for a TRO. Highlighted: “The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces. At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.I”
June 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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*chef’s kiss*
June 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles, California June 7, 2025 News Release NR25118jf Los Angeles Police Department Statement Regarding Today's Peaceful Protests Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful, and we commend all hose who exercised their First Amendment rights responsibly. The Los Angeles Police Department appreciates the cooperation of organizers, participants, and community partners who helped ensure public safety throughout the day. While today's events concluded without incident, the Los Angeles Police Department remains fully prepared to respond swiftly and appropriately to any potential acts of civil unrest. Our commitment to safeguarding the rights, safety, and well-being of all Angelenos continues - day and night. We will maintain a heightened readiness posture and remain ready to ensure the continued safety of our communities.
June 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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(Also, HOLY SHIT.)
Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles Nearly 30 years ago, the collapse of Japan's bubble economy engulfed the nation's financial institutions in mountains of bad debt, triggering a wave of corporate bankruptcies, a sudden and extreme rise in unemployment rates, and stagnation of Japanese society as a whole. It was an era when many were robbed of hope, when dreams were measured by their price tag. Against this historical backdrop, I crafted a story. It was the story of Ramza, a young man who fought tirelessly against the entrenched social class system. It was the story of Delita, who sought to take advantage of this confusion and despair to advance his own social position. It was a story of a peculiar destiny, in which friendship and betrayal intertwine. And now, in 2025—a time when inequality and division are still deeply rooted in our society-I offer this story once again. The will to resist is in your hands. Yasumi Matsumoto - Original Script, Scenario Writer and Editor
June 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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A letter from the Game Manufacturers Association (1/2 for alt text) “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GAMA Opposes New 54% Tariff on Chinese Goods: A Threat to the US Economy and Tabletop Industry Columbus, OH- April 3, 2025 - The latest imposition of a 54% tariff on products from China by the administration is dire news for the tabletop industry and the broader US economy. As an industry highly dependent on producing goods overseas and importing them into the US, this policy will have devastating consequences. Tariffs are essentially taxes on consumers, not on the countries where the products are produced. Publishers will be forced to pass these costs along to their customers or face the prospect of ceasing operations. Nearly a third of all US consumer goods-including clothes, food products, appliances, cars, and entertainment items like games-are imported. This means higher prices across the board as all these products will need to increase prices to compensate for these new Trump Taxes. Not only will game prices rise, but everything will become more expensive, reducing discretionary income for entertainment items like games. This one-two punch is likely to put many of our members out of business or force them to downsize and lay off employees to survive. This will have ripple effects across all segments of the industry. The US lacks the production capacity to quickly ramp up and create replacement products at affordable prices, contrary to the administration's beliefs. This policy is not well thought out and is doomed to fail. It will have major repercussions throughout the US economy and could lead to a recession. GAMA will continue to oppose this policy and calls on Congress to show common sense and work together to avoid wrecking the US economy in a misguided tariff war that is neither necessary nor needed.” (Cont’d) A letter from the Game Manufacturers Association (2/2 for Alt text): “Call to Action: We urge all US members to contact their representatives and senators to step in and vacate this damaging policy. You can find your representative and senators' contact information at house.gov and senate.gov. Please write or call them to express your concerns and demand action to protect our industry and the broader economy.”
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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In addition to Muñoz, USA TODAY has confirmed through attorneys, family members and documents that ICE has detained for weeks: • a woman in her 50s who has lived in the country more than 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen; • a woman in her 30s with proof of valid permanent legal residency, whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens, and who first came to the U.S. as a teen; • a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21; • a woman engaged to a U.S. legal permanent resident, with whom she has lived for nine years.
March 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism. Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.
February 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Traduzione in lingua spagnola Lettera del Santo Padre Dear Brothers in the Episcopate, I am writing today to address a few words to you in these delicate moments that you are living as Pastors of the People of God who walk together in the United States of America. 1. The journey from slavery to freedom that the People of Israel traveled, as narrated in the Book of Exodus, invites us to look at the reality of our time, so clearly marked by the phenomenon of migration, as a decisive moment in history to reaffirm not only our faith in a God who is always close, incarnate, migrant and refugee, but also the infinite and transcendent dignity of every human person. [1] 2. These words with which I begin are not an artificial construct. Even a cursory examination of the Church's social doctrine emphatically shows that Jesus Christ is the true Emmanuel (cf.Mt1:23); he did not live apart from the difficult experience of being expelled from his own land because of an imminent risk to his life, and from the experience of having to take refuge in a society and a culture foreign to his own. The Son of God, in becoming man, also chose to live the drama of immigration. I like to recall, among other things, the words with which Pope Pius XII began his Apostolic Constitution on the Care of Migrants, which is considered the "Magna Carta" of the Church's thinking on migration: "The family of Nazareth in exile, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, emigrants in Egypt and refugees there to escape the wrath of an ungodly king, are the model, the example and the consolation of emigrants and pilgrims of every age and country, of all refugees of every condition who, beset by persecution or necessity, are forced to leave their homeland, beloved family and dear friends for foreign lands."[2] (cont’d) (Page 1 Cont’d) 3. Likewise, Jesus Christ, loving everyone with a universal love, educates us in the permanent recognition of the dignity of every human being, without exception. In fact, when we speak of "infinite and transcendent dignity," we wish to emphasize that the most decisive value possessed by the human person surpasses and sustains every other juridical consideration that can be made to regulate life in society. Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa. 4. I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality. At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival. That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness. 5. This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for the rights of all - as I have affirmed on numerous occasions - welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable. This does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration. However, this development cannot come about through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others. What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly. 6. Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity. Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation. The trueordo amoristhat must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the "Good Samaritan" (cf.Lk10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception [3) 7. But worrying about personal, community or national identity, apart from these considerations, easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth. 8. I recognize your valuable efforts, dear brother bishops of the United States, as you work closely with migrants and refugees, proclaiming Jesus Christ and promoting fundamental human rights. God… (Page 2 cont’d) 9. I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters. With charity and clarity we are all called to live in solidarity and fraternity, to build bridges that bring us ever closer together, to avoid walls of ignominy and to learn to give our lives as Jesus Christ gave his for the salvation of all. 10. Let us ask Our Lady of Guadalupe to protect individuals and families who live in fear or pain due to migration and/or deportation. May the "Virgen morena", who knew how to reconcile peoples when they were at enmity, grant us all to meet again as brothers and sisters, within her embrace, and thus take a step forward in the construction of a society that is more fraternal, inclusive and respectful of the dignity of all. Fraternally, Francis From the Vatican, 10 February 2025
February 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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For so many reasons.

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A pencil sketch of a blob with eyes with a pencil and a briefcase sticking out of it. “This is the Employment Jelly. Reblog whenever the hell you like and you’ll get a job that you love and deserve.”
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM