Can-Con Weekend 2025

Oct. 17th, 2025 09:04 pm
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I'd love to go. I used to be a volunteer working with the organizing committee on designing promo stuff.

Two problems with going there in person:

1) No masking-required policy in place on public transit. If I can't walk to a destination or get a lift from a trustworthy driver, I only use public transit.


2) The venue is in Kanata, at the other end of Ottawa from where I live in Orléans.

So.

If you're going, please be careful. đŸ˜·
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Another revival, the July 2022 Eclipse Phase 2E Bundle, featuring the 2019 Second Edition of thetranshuman survival SFRPG:

 https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Eclipse2025


  

The last time around my comments mostly quoted my comments on a previous and somewhat different bundle:

'"I'll be honest - these look like good deals, they're just not where I want to be right now with role playing. As usual with these bundles you get a shedload of stuff for your money, and they do look like pretty good deals. I'll probably download a couple of the supplements because they address areas that interest me - most notably Panopticon - but I'm not going to try to get my head around another new (to me) RPG at this stage in my increasing decrepitude. But I think I can recommend them, subject of course to all the usual YMMV disclaimers."

This time the offer is a bit different, with fewer supplements, but it's a good starting point if you're interested, and all of the supplements from the earlier offers are still compatible.'

Unfortunately Panopticon didn't make it into the bundle, but the rest is a pretty good horror / SF setting - unfortunately still not something I want to run at present, but you get a lot for my money and if you are in the mood for a primarily SF horror setting it's worth a look.

As expected, these bundles will mostly be horror of some sort from now to the end of the month - I have no idea what else is coming as yet.
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Another Bundle of Holding offer: the Huckleberry Bundle, featuring the "mythic Wyrd West RPG about tragic cowboys in a world doomed to calamity."

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Huckleberry




This basically seems to be cowboys (and other interested parties) in a world full of chaotic monsters. I don't think it's really a game that interests me much, but it's well-presented and you get quite a lot for your money, It's just not a genre I particularly like.

Seeing this makes me suspect that we are now in the run-up to Halloween with these offers, which usually means a lot of horror.

Hallowe'en Quiz

Oct. 12th, 2025 08:56 pm
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From the OUP (whose blog I highly recommend; much variety and fun): https://blog.oup.com/2025/10/whats-your-literary-classic-halloween-costume-quiz/

I'm classic Gothic. Caw!

DöstÀdning

Oct. 12th, 2025 04:00 pm
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I've been procrastinating since the diagnosis, or perhaps for even longer, maybe since I heard of the concept. But today I made a start. (This does not mean I've had bad news: I'm toddling along just fine, if knackered.)

For someone who claims to have few clothes (and I maintain I have, at least, fewer clothes than most: no judgment intended as it's nostly 'cos I simply dislike shopping for clothes, or shopping at all), I had a desparately overstuffed wardrobe.

Summer clothes (to the tune of one skirt, three dresses, one vintage blouse and two knitted pieces) are now in a box under our bed. One pair of lightweight linin trousers will be added after they're washedmand ironed. A second box contains my undergraduate gown (should probably donate to college), my wedding dress (homemade), one hand made skirt that down't fit, my mum's wedding dress and a couple of her party dresses (all three made for her by her mother). These I'm not ready to part with.

A pile of stuff to go to Vinted ('80s silk ballgowns, a bridesmaid's dress of Looby Loo's, an Alexon jacket) and some probably only worth donating items remain to be dealt with next weekend.

The wardrobe still contains items that fit, but I may not ever wear. I'll review at Easter.

I confess I haven't tackled the collection of impractical boots.

[This was all prompted by my sending off for a new pair of trousers, the third pair I've bought this year, and a new pair of winter shoes. I'm ditching more than I'm acquiring.]

The True Trump Motto

Oct. 12th, 2025 10:53 am
dewline: Art Against Bigotry and Fascism (artists vs fascism)
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Magnitudo per crudelitatem.
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This is a crossover between the Harry Potter books, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series, and the film Bedazzled (1967, not the 2000 remake), with some other crossovers and Easter eggs, so far including Dogma (1999). All characters belong to their respective creators / owners / megacorporations of doom and not to me, please don't sue...

V - On Task )
I haven't proof read this much and it's 3AM, so please let me know if you spot any mistakes. Comments please before I post to archives. For previous parts see:

On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34251/MarcusRowland+Harry+Potter+Undazzled.htm
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14336114/1/Harry-Potter-Undazzled
On Archive of Our Own - https://archiveofourown.org/works/54407350

update Sunday - corrected errors etc., thanks to everyone who commented.

Is it just me...

Oct. 9th, 2025 11:48 am
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...that thinks of the guards in Castle Wolfenstein whenever I see these in a supermarket?

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/315239766

Today's weird thought

Oct. 8th, 2025 07:11 pm
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I have just listed a box of genuine IBM 3.5" floppy disks on eBay and said, without any attempt at irony, that they might be useful for "collectors or for period film and TV". It took me a few minutes to realise just how strange and/or pretentious I would have thought that say 20 years ago...
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This is the Mystery Flesh Pit RPG Special bundle, featuring "Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: The RPG," the Cypher System game of cosmic horror and bureaucratic satire from
Ganza Gaming.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FleshPit

   

This one is simultaneously strange, horrific and very silly, based on a web site that has developed the idea over several years. It's cheap, and if you want to use this setting it's well worth a look, even if you have to convert it to your preferred system. Definitely recommended.
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This is an offer of the Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20 Bundle featuring the "Modiphius RPG of cosmic horror amid the chaos and heroism of World War II."

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/AchtungCthulhu



This is one of the most highly recommended Cthulh Mythos RPGs and deservedly so, and you're getting a LOT for your money. Definitely recommended!



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