Heya Everyone, new Mega time and for it, I’m gonna advertise a TTRPG system called Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends. If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place.

In this book, you’ll find:

Flirting, sword-fighting, and zingers in a system designed for both narrative drama and player safety.

An innovative take on the Powered by the Apocalypse family of games.

Nine character types, each focusing on a particular emotional conflict: Beast, Chosen, Devoted, Infamous, Nature Witch, Scoundrel, Seeker, Spooky Witch, and Trickster.

Guidance and support for running the game, including how to make appealing adversaries, set the tone, pace the game, and structure play.

Tools to create your own settings and stories, alongside a dozen pre-written options including the cyberpunk Neon City 2099, steamfunk poets battling oppression as Les Violettes Dangereuses, laser swords and intrigue in the Starcross Galaxy, and more.

World building worksheet for custom scenarios and starting scenario seeds to play with: Best Day of Their Lives, The Constellation Festival, Gal Paladins, and Sword Lesbians of the Three Houses Variant rules to highlight different identities, emotional connections, and setting elements.

Strategies to adapt any setting where swords cross and hearts race for Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Here’s a link to their website, I did copy everything over directly from it because I put off writing the Mega this week. I was drawing a blank on what I wanted to talk about. catgirl-huh

https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/

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  • Eco [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    had a conversation the other day that’s still weirding me out a little. i was walking back from the shop when this random woman called out to me, “why have you got the side of your head shaved?” i responded, “because i like it that way.” and she was like, “well i don’t like it.”

    i’m sorry for not asking you?? next time i change up my hair i’ll be sure to consult some random woman on a bench

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Some random 8 year old girl was just hard staring at me while I ordered my coffee. doggirl-sweat My usual experience is that I pass very well, but now I’m starting to doubt, was I just clocked by a literal child??

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Little kids and babies stare at me at work, like siblings of patients. They lock in on attractive people, not a joke it’s a whole scientific thing apparently. Eventually they start to learn not to stare but someone has to teach em, 8 is getting a little old to just stare at random people lol. The girl probably thought you had some striking feature and likely didn’t care if you’re trans and might notve been able to guess (who knows - kids gender weird shit)

  • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago
    More new thoughts

    My brain’s going through all the fantasies of having a child again. I’m starting to wonder if maybe the reason I have this baby fever now after 5 years of having no interest in kids at all might be because I stopped tutoring a month ago. Like I find teaching kids fulfilling and now that I that I’m not doing it anymore I want my own kid to fill it? Idk. I don’t mind having these daydreams of having a little family since I think they’re very sweet and cute, I just find it odd how they started so suddenly.

    Specifics

    I really like the idea of having just one kid to pour all the love towards, but then I think about how I tend to be very busy and worry about them getting lonely, so I think two might be better. Plus if it’s two then hypothetical wife and I can each hold onto one while we watch movies as a family so none of us feel left out and everyone’s cozy. Maybe twins would be ideal, but obviously that’s unlikely so I shouldn’t hold out for it.

    God and they’d be sooooooooo cute too! I was already an adorable child and I bet they’d be even cuter. Maybe one’s got my dark blond and the other is a ginger like my mother. Or maybe they take after hypothetical wife and I can see her hypothetical pretty face in them all the time…

    Sad

    But I also feel like all of these are kinda superficial and shitty reasons to want kids. I’d probably be a bad parent. I’m too much like my mother. Stubborn, prideful, controlling, I’d probably hurt them in some emotional way. And I don’t want to. I don’t want to hurt them at all. But how I am right now, it probably would happen. I’m not equipped to have kids at all, so why should I daydream about it so much.

    Maybe some day I will be though. But I’ve still got a long way to go. And for now… The daydreams are nice.

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Bought some press on nails today, can’t wait to try them on tomorrow catgirl-heart i watched like 4 tutorial videos and it doesn’t seem that hard, but i’ll pick up some cuticle remover before I try putting them on

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What fictional character made you go “oh hmm hang on I’m not cis maybe”? For me it was Kris Deltarune. I saw them eating moss and being nonbinary and I was like. Hmm. Yes. I can get behind that

  • AshenWolf [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I know I’ve been doing this for a year, and this is the question of one who’s been doing this for a week, but what gender-affirming stuff can I do? I really need to get back to taking care of myself in some sort of way, and I don’t have energy to do much, but I really need to try.

    cw: dysphoria, anxiety, depression

    I really need to get better, because I hurt. My anxiety was already a mess, and I was feeling particularly depressed, and my dysphoria has been worse and hasn’t really gotten better (I feel like I’m backsliding in that regard, I look and feel disgusting). Now though, I see one thing, and I did have some body dysphoria I feel like, but it was the kind of thing where it wasn’t a priority, and I felt like it would depend on that partners might want. Anyways, I see this thing, and it sets me off, and now it’s really bad, and I can’t get it to go away.

    I have work to do this week and I’m struggling to get it done, this is all really so overwhelming. I really just want to lie in bed and sleep it all off, probably while wishing I had someone there with me because I’ve been feeling really lonely again. I was genuinely excited to make a mega post on my coming-out tranniversary, and how much I’ve done, and how much better things are now. I can probably still do that, it’s just now I have the looming context of this. I really hope this goes away by then. I love how I’m thinking about a megathread post and not myself.

    • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago
      spoiler

      You can always try some simple self-care things, like shaving your legs or doing your hair or nails, but if you’re currently in a place where you don’t have the energy for stuff like that, something that feels gender affirming to me is just engaging in some media that I used to be ashamed about liking because it was too girly. If I feel dysphoric it can really help to try to relax with a romantasy book or watching Gilmore Girls or something, maybe you have things you feel similar about?

      I really hope you feel better soon, and that you can feel some of that excitement again in time for your tranniversary, you deserve it cat-trans

    • 🎀 Seryph (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Simple stuff I tend to like is just brushing and styling my hair, or getting out of work/school clothes into some casual femme stuff as soon as I’m home.

      spoiler

      but it was the kind of thing where it wasn’t a priority

      Things that aren’t priorities now will become priorities later. Especially when it’s dysphoria. It’s usually not a “new” feeling, it’s just become more immediate. But regardless it sucks every time it happens, especially when it comes after a period of feeling better. I’ve been there, I hope you can find some comfort in something despite it 🫂

      I felt like it would depend on that partners might want.

      This though, kill that shit right fucking now. What a partner wants regarding your body is not more important than what you want. Every concession you make about it can and will eat at you and get worse as time goes by. I understand the impulse to want to be perfect for them, to make yourself fit what they want so that they’ll love you and won’t leave. But that’s not healthy for you, you want someone who loves you for you, not the front you put up to make them love you.

      • AshenWolf [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago
        spoiler

        Holy shit you’re right about the partner thing that’s dangerous! I did not see it like that, just that it was something I didn’t have much of a preference on so why not let them decide, but that’s literally just doing what you said, and that’s a big decision to leave to someone else. I am killing that right now, don’t worry about it catgirl-salute

        Also I should really wear fem more often, I try to cover up a lot of my body since it’s dysphoria-inducing, but it probably just hurts more to do what I’m doing now

  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So, as an update, I am planning to move in with my beau, but that’s be after my current lease/job contract expires at the end of July so we have plenty of time to be completely firm on that and develop our relationship. So, it will not be after just one date (we’d been talking for weeks and had a video date as well anyways). I don’t know why I feel the need to justify this, but I do.

    I know it’s corny, but it’s fun being in love.

    catgirl-heart