Particularly wild since the plot line which that meme shows is about Shaxs fighting his internal demons.

Fiction, science or fantasy, can always be viewed as critiquing the present.
I think I would be frustrated by a cosmic/eldritch/chthonian framing for political trouble. Those things being so petty feels out of scale. Superhero setting have some traction here, and historical precedent.

I have trouble when superheroes and horror overlap (The Boys), but either on their own is good. I play what a DM/ST wants to run!
If Mage, could see a scenario where the Technocracy is fighting a battle to keep reality together in the face of an administration inimical to them.

Would play the hell out of that. In pretty much any system.

Yeah. Cortisol needs to leave me alone. My blood pressure has been high enough to be noisy since Friday.
I can’t even feel the stress at the moment because it’s become background radiation.

Maybe try wooing them with dreamlike stories of Canadian wilderness and cities? Flatter them about their strangenesses.

Here’s what the alert says. I don’t know if it was THE problem, but it was A problem.

Imagine werewolf stories tracking actual moon cycles.

Why? I barely notice there are characters, which might be a quirk peculiar to me, but I barely notice them. I guess if I were using stories I might see them more?

Kinda? It was less about whether my posts were accessible by meta-itself than that I could choose upon which groups of my friends I inflicted my whinging.

Even while one was sitting on me and needing to just burrow into me, I was thinking about how to divert harm from them. My OCD tells me that I will end up hurting them, or failing to prevent harm, but I feel so powerless to prevent what’s coming.

Like having a shoulder dislocated, where there is fear of more damage, and you are anticipating the pain to come, but numb at the moment. Where you know that even when you fix it, the bruising and swelling are going to take a long time to heal. And even doing the PT might not prevent it again.

Ward will be the one to try cooking the monsters. Less out of curiosity than out of not wanting to starve, and knowing how to cook (and how to do everything else, too). Food is payment Food means he did ok.