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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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.
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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.
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You can always do respite care for foster children, help someone else out for a few weeks. Sometimes they do respite care for bio parents, like somethings come up and they can’t parent for a short term period - we have one kid at work who just lost his mother, he has sickle cell, and his dad isn’t coping between the kids complex needs the othed kids and losing his partner. He would benefit from respite care so he can get his shit sorted, they have to go to the city for hematology and rheumatology, hes gotta deal with his wife’s estate, plus the guy looks exhausted every time the kid comes in. I don’t think he sleeps much…
Anyway, the point is you can do respite care for a while to support bio parents or foster parents. Or you could babysit
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Oh right! That would be fun! I’m too busy atm for it though with my full time work. Maybe another year when I have the time for it. My baby fever isn’t super pressing anyways, I can wait. Plus that would make me better at raising kids…