Hey all, there is a fundraising campaign going on in the community of survivors of long-term residential “treatment programs” for teenagers that aims to provide a prom-style party for those who did not have a chance to have this experience in their youth, because they were taken by force from their homes and missed some or all of their high school years.

I won’t personally be attending, but I really believe in the people hosting it and the cause of making a great memory to help heal past trauma.

Here’s my donation link if you’re interested in giving a little, or here is the campaign homepage where you can donate without the reference.

I do not believe there is any difference in where you donate, but we were told in the committee to sign up for our own personal links and share them, just for clarity.

While I, being from and in one of the places that are Not-The-United-States, don’t typically celebrate Thanksgiving, I do find it a fine time to remember that for which I am thankful.

I’m thankful to be alive, which hasn’t always been a sure thing. I’m thankful to be reasonably successful at my studies. I’m thankful that I have a healthy family. But mostly, I’m thankful that I have ample opportunities to use my hereditary privilege to better the lives of others.

@IoleRae Welcome. Also, when I told her who initially started the thread, she said:

Send her a hug if you don’t mind. ❤

@Testament said in Making it Easier to Nope Out (or should we?):

@Jumpscare said in Making it Easier to Nope Out (or should we?):

All that stuff that @Jumpscare wrote

Holy shit, I’m in love with all this. I love the non-combat conflict system. This isn’t being used in Ares by chance is it?

Thank you! (And thank you too @IoleRae!)

Unfortunately, no, it’s not in Ares. It’s in Evennia. I played Arx before I ever touched a single Ares game, so I looked into Evennia first and somehow didn’t turn the project into a smouldering heap of wreckage after a few months. Two years later, I’m almost done coding, haha. I never expected to have made it this far.

EDIT: Wrong thread, my bad.

I haven’t logged on to my main game in over a week because I was on vacation and then came back into a work shitstorm so just reading this thread has made me want to roll into a ball like a hedgehog.

@Snackness said in Mush Adjacent Discord Links:

@Pyrephox I clicked it and now I’m a robot.

throw her out the airlock

@Solstice said in Pose Composition (What makes a good pose?):

Let’s go full chaotic evil with it, then, and put a coffee mug of water with a tea bag in it before microwaving.

Accurate metaphor for my posing style.

@Tez said in IoleRae Playlist:

It took my several attempts to tag you in a post before I realized it was an I and not an l.

It took you posting that before I realized…