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Gaurelin
@gaurelin.bsky.social
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AuDHD, queer, polyam, demi 🐺 (he/him). Pantheist, discordian, futurist. TTRPGs (GM & gaming history buff), Tolkien, Star Trek, general SF & Fantasy, video games (PS5), etc. Level 53 & living the geek life full time! Profile art by @rhapsodna.bsky.social
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'Voices of a Distant Star' will never fail to touch me deeply.
Two arms reaching toward one another across the screen. A cell phone hovers between them, untouched by either. Behind them is a background of sky & clouds, space, and Earth.
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Leaving shortly to run my regular Sunday game. Tonight however, is something special. Session 0 for the Mutants & Masterminds 4e playtest! As one who's watched each iteration of M&M markedly improve, I'm pleased to say 4e doesn't look to disappoint! Another win for @greenroninpub.bsky.social!🦸‍♂️
The Sentinels, a team of superheroes from the Earth-Prime setting of Mutants and Masterminds. They are all looking to the right of the frame, and all look appropriately heroic.
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Happy International Tiger Day! 🐅
A tiger looks at the camera as it makes its way across a waterway, with lush green foliage behind it.
July 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Well, it's been a while hasn't it? I have spent the past two months running the very excellent new TTRPG #Daggerheart. This is the game that I have been looking for for the past 20 years. I foresee myself running quite a bit of it in the future. Game On! 🧙‍♂️
An image of a Galapa, which is a humanoid turtle from the game daggerheart. Emblazoned across the center of the image is the word daggerheart, and the logo for the game, a dagger reads in blue fire.
July 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Look at what turned up unexpectedly early today! I'm really looking forward to giving this a read, and trying #Daggerheart out with my Table, perhaps as soon as next month!
The cover of the Core Rulebook (right) and box enclosing the cards (left) resting on a kitchen countertop.
May 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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No, I'm not dead. Just... Taking a break from being overloaded online. Still keeping up with my usual silliness. Started a new BG3 run now that patch 8 is out. Playing with photo mode. @rhapsodna.bsky.social, @urbandragondice.bsky.social, what do you think of this iteration of Pelwin? 🤪
A Baldur's Gate 3 photo mode screenshot of a scruffy looking halfling looking at the camera with a mischievous grin and giving a double thumbs up. It is night, in the main Act 1 camp. 5 stickers have been applied to the image: the BG3 logo, Rogue class symbol, Talos symbol, and stuffed bear and owlbear toys.
April 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I completed The Final Season of Telltale's The Walking Dead, bringing Clementine's story full circle. I have #videogame thoughts. I played Season 1 when it was initially released, an episode at a time as they dropped. Life got in the way of my keeping up with it, so this has been my first chance 1/9
Screenshot from The Final Season of Telltale's The Walking Dead. A 15 year old Clementine stands to the left of frame, wearing a battered baseball cap and denim jacket. To her right is a walker head on a wooden stake and a couch near a fire pit. Behind her looms a somewhat overgrown building, with a handmade sign reading, "Leave Or Die" hanging by the eaves.
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The view out my front door a few minutes ago. Game night isn't cancelled, but it is going to be a virtual session. "'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast!"
A view of a snowy front yard and road (barely plowed) with houses and power lines visible across the way, from my front porch.
January 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I always kind of default to this:
Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who. Text reads: Never be cruel Never be cowardly... Remember Hate is always Foolish Love is always Wise Always try to be nice But never fail to be kind Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time Christmas 2017, Peter Capaldi
January 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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1st video game played of 2025! 🎮
Screen shot of the title screen for The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
January 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Very well and succinctly put. Repost with ALT text.
Brianna Westbrook To be absolutely fucking crystal clear, the fight for trans rights has never been about bathrooms. Just like during the Civil Rights Movement, when the focus wasn't just on segregated restrooms but on basic human dignity and equal treatment, the issue at hand is about targeting and marginalizing a minority group. It's a calculated effort to create a scapegoat, divide and give someone to hate, to advance an agenda rooted in patriarchal binaries that fear the breakdown of traditional gender norms. The real threat isn't the presence of trans people in society; the danger lies in the discomfort some feel about a changing world where gender isn't rigidly defined and where power dynamics are challenged. Transgender people disrupt a deeply ingrained system where men and women have been assigned specific roles, and for some, this shift is an existential threat. The idea that someone born male might choose to live authentically as a woman or vice versa shakes the very foundations of patriarchal power. This isn't about bathrooms-it's about control, fear, and maintaining a status quo that benefits those who wish to keep people in defined, limited boxes. Trans people simply want to live their lives as who they truly are, free from discrimination and violence, just like everyone else. The real struggle is not about what bathrooms they use; it's about resisting the oppressive forces that try to dictate who can exist authentically in this world.
December 31, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Quiet day today. Dealing with a little post-holiday depression & some physical pain, but hanging in. Smoking & playing some Telltale Walking Dead to occupy myself. I've only played Season 1 previously & I'm looking forward to playing the complete story. It's been a long time, Lee. I've missed you.
Lee, the main character of Telltale's Waking Dead Season 1. He is a black man with short hair and beard, wearing a blue buttoned and collared shirt, with a white undershirt visible underneath. He is standing in a dimly lit room, facing the camera, but looking side-eyed to the left of the frame. The art style of the game is comic book-esque. Lee and Clementine, the two primary characters of Telltale's Waking Dead video game. Lee is a black man with short hair and beard, wearing a blue buttoned and collared shirt, with a white undershirt visible underneath. Clementine is a young black girl with chin length hair protruding from a baseball cap. They are sitting in the back seat of a truck looking at each other. Visible behind them are the head and shoulders of a white blond man seen from the rear.
December 26, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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One of the best gifts I received this year? @twick1321.bsky.social got me 2 lbs of @foundfamiliar.com Theives' Cant, my absolute favorite coffee in the world, bar none! 😁🎄☕
Photo of a pair of pound bags of Thieves' Cant coffee, unopened, sitting on my kitchen counter.
December 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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My holiday has been quiet. @twick1321.bsky.social works overnights & neither of us have family nearby. Keeping myself entertained (Nightmare Before Christmas atm) until they awake this evening, and we get a few hours to spend together before they head to work. I hope that you are safe and & content.
A Starfleet Communicator badge with a very exaggerated star along the right side. Text below reads: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
December 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and/or joyous Wednesday! Wherever you are, whomever with, and whatever you are up to today, remember to keep yourself safe & hydrated, and that you are important! 🎅🎄
A small red dragon with a string of Christmas lights in its teeth, pulling them off the branch of a tree.
December 25, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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...and to all, a good night! 🎅
A high definition photo of the moon in a starry sky, with the silhouettes of Santa and his sleigh superimposed across it.
December 25, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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Certainly! It takes batteries, and says a number of phrases spoken over Communicators from ToS! I love the silly thing! 🖖🎄
Photo of a Star Trek Original Series Communicator ornament on a very blue lit tree. The grid is closed. Photo of a Star Trek Original Series Communicator ornament on a very blue lit tree. The grid is open, with the interior panel of the device visible.
December 24, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Time once again for my annual reading of 'A Christmas Carol'. Illustrated by Roberto Innocenti, this is my favorite edition of all those I own. I'm a little bit obsessed with this story, you might say.
The cover of the edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' with illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. The art is of a Victorian London street scene.
December 22, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Actually, yes! I received this book from a friend earlier this year, and have yet to read it. It is on my short list for 2025!
The cover of the book 'The Ring Legends of Tolkien ' by David Day.
December 15, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid:

That's the original theatrical release, mind you. I was 5. It changed me. 😁
Movie poster from the 1977 original release of Star Wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Just gonna leave this here...
Leonard Nimoy as Spock from original series Star Trek. He wears a flower crown and a bemused expression. Text in white reads: It's never illogical to be fabulous.
December 13, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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Further highlights from this year's Geekmas tree (some additional info in alt text)... 🎄
A Darth Vader ornament, wearing a red cloak, gloves, and a Santa hat. As our tree topper broke in storage, Vader is standing in this year. A TARDIS ornament hanging on a very blue lit tree. It is snow covered, and has a holiday wreath hanging on its door. We are multi denominational geeks in our household. Emperor Palpatine ornament. He sits on his throne in his black cloak, nestled among lit branches in my tree. We let him think he's in charge. Hanging off a lit branch of my tree in blue hued light hangs a K.I.T.T. ornament from Knight Rider. Also visible is one of the small booklets from my A Christmas Carol advent calendar, which become ornaments once removed from the calendar backing. K.I.T.T. is another dear favorite of mine.
December 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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In my continuing effort to keep normal life functioning as normally as possible, I've managed to finish my holiday decorating. Please enjoy these images of my yuletide Geekmas tree, and a few of my favorite ornaments (additional info in alt text)! 🎅 🎄
A shot of my fully decorated tree. It sits in a corner of my living room, with a pair of wildlife photos on the wall behind it, and portions of a floor lamp, cat tree, and two windows visible. The tree has a healthy mix of traditional and geek themed holiday ornaments, with a blue and white tree skirt. The lights are multi colored, but there's a strong blue theme to them. A molded plastic ornament of Santa standing on a portion of a snow covered roof near a chimney. It has been on every tree I've had since my first, in 1972. My Hallmark original Enterprise ornament. It's one of the prides of my collection, and I'm delighted it is still in working order! The second Hallmark Star Trek ornament made, the shuttlecraft Galileo. Another of my favorites, it also still works perfectly, with Leonard Nimoy's voice offering holiday greetings.
December 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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From the funny because it's true files:
Repost with alt text.
A drawing of a brunette caucasian woman in a pink short sleeved shirt holding up an infant by its ankles and preparing to smack its butt with her blue gloved hand. Text above the image reads: After the umbilical cord is cut, a Republican spanks the child for wanting food, shelter and Healthcare without working for it first
December 10, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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If you see a dragon, quote post a dragon. 🐲

"The Dragon Cave" by the incomparable Keith Parkinson.
An expansive cave, mostly in shadow, with a single shaft of light illuminating a person in a cloak, seen from behind, holding up a small light as a huge black dragon looks down upon them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:49 AM