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