Wanderhome is a fantasy role-playing game created by Jay Dragon released in 2021 which is currently available as part of the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Texas bundle. Based on the Belonging Outside Belonging engine, Wanderhome is very light on mechanics - there are no dice rolls or maths, even a game master is unnecessary. Instead tokens are gained when your character performs an action such as giving up something dear to them or leaving an offering for a small and forgotten god, and tokens can be spent every time you wish to provide a solution to someone's problem, or ease someone's pain. Wanderhome is focused on collaborative storytelling - tokens can also be gained by describing a beautiful vista as you crest a hill or the bioluminescent glow of the walls of a cave, encouraging every player to be involved in the creation of this world.
Rather than a grand narrative of facing some world-ending threat, Wanderhome will have you journeying through the Hæth [pretty sure it's just pronounced heath, or at least that's what i'm going with] dealing with the interpersonal conflicts of ordinary folk - farmers, craftspeople, and merchants. The gamebook states that other than those who have been corrupted by power - the wealthy, nobles, or soldiers - all of the people of the Hæth are essentially good, and so the journey will not involve combat. This peacefulness should not fool you into thinking that this game is purely wholesome, however - though it could be if you wanted - the engine is explicitly designed to allow the players to explore themes of trauma, recovery and even gender.
i haven't even played this game yet and i already know it's the perfect game for me. gonna be starting our journey on thursday and i'll be doing writeups in this comm so i can practice my creative writing~
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The new Deprogram is so upsetting re: tracking, racism and classism
When I first moved to the suburbs, I had to take a basic literacy test with a bunch of Salvadorian refugees and migrant farm kids and the office lady just kept aggressively asking me and my brother if we could speak English. We both blew that test out of the water and finished in like twenty minutes because we were born here and they still denied me any honors classes despite being GATE certified and having been selected to go to a private school for gifted kids in my old school district.
I remember finally getting into AP my junior year of highschool and seeing how bullshit it was, just how fucking stacked it was. I was the only Mexican kid there who was from the fucking barrio, ese.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I hated how much more stable and put together everyone else there was, even the other Hispanic kids who just had more succesful parents. My dad was a fucking cashier, these people had doctor, engineer, and CPA parents. I slept on the floor the whole time I was in APUSH unable to sleep because my dad would get hammered and blast music through his loudspeaker that happened to be right next to my wall the entire night to forget his shitty job.
It's so bullshit. I remember being in the remedial math classes with all the gang members and black kids at my school and I remember the teacher who also taught AP and BC Calc told us we all better get used to asking "would you like fries with that?"
The class stratification in the USA is very real, and I think it's the primary reason I'm so fucked up socially. I get thrown into the suburbs with a bunch of Crazy Rich Asians and white people far away from the Mexican kids I grew with who all had the same background with no way to get around because my mom couldn't drive and my dad worked ALL day. It's bullshit.
This is why the scene from Machuca where the poor kids dad tells him that his friend from the rich neighborhood in Santiago isn't his really friend his friend because "you are going to be scrubbing toilets, and in twenty years you will still be doing that. Your friend will be the CEO of an international company" nearly made me cry
There's a lot of racism and classism in remedial and Special Education classes.
Solidarity comrade. I grew up in the barrio and I hadn't really thought about how that has shaped my experiences honestly.
I get that, moving to the suburbs, and having to do ESL classes because my family was latine despite my english being pretty fucking good, all because I moved to a suburb 40 mins away from where I was born. That class was the first time I’ve been around other latine kids without having my parent around, so I have no background in speaking spanish, literally who the fuck else would I speak that language to? The rest of my old neighborhood were fucking polish people. I went to a public school there and none of the teachers there had any problem with my speaking.
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American coworker worried about going to Denmark because the food will be too exotic. He's really hoping that there will be "hotdogs and hamburgers". Literally a parody of an American tourist omg.
Americans once again proving they are the most boring people on the planet
That guy goes to nice restaurants and orders chicken nuggets lol
He was once mad about being taken to a Chinese place for a free work lunch because they didn't have his favorite Chinese foods: ribs and friend chicken
i have a friend like that lol. We did a performance awhile back at a Mediterranean restaurant and they cooked for us before they opened and dude literally got chicken tenders from the kids menu
I’ve heard that when people move to Texas they often go from shitting once a day or even every other day to shitting 2-3 times per day
Honestly you will meet people here who are like "I am just shitting constantly, never stop shitting. This is normal for me, always on the toilet. I'm so quirky!" as if this is some kind of charming character trait and not a sign that your diet is all kinds of fucked up and possibly killing you.
Source: My younger brother (among others) thinks the fact he shits constantly is an endearing character trait
A*glos genocided an entire continent's worth of people for this "culture"
I remember going to foreign countries and eating as local as possible for someone who doesn't speak the language, getting back to work and people talk about going way out of their way to eat fucking McDonald's.
You know what's crazy? Mexico had 400,000 people or more die to the drug war and everyone acknowledges that's a lot, while over 1 million died in the USA from COVID in just two years compared to the 16 in Mexico and that doesn't even register
wtf
you're gay because you were born that way
i'm gay because i took mushrooms one too many times and became enlightened
we are not the same
In the wake of Ukraine invasion there's a lot of fash-adjacent tears about the plight of Slavs (from people who 80 years ago would've cheered on Hitler's attempts to exterminate Slavs). A lot of mythologizing us as an extremely oppressed people, even though what Slavs lived through is largely similar to the myths about conquest that are used to dismiss the horrors of colonialism. Yes, technically the word slave comes from the word Slav, but that equivocates between three common uses of "slave". It's used to describe not only Atlantic slave trade style slavery, but indentured servitude (which is also awful), and in the case of Slavs essentially vassalage. In Slavic countries we refer to it vassalage as "slavery" as well, but it's largely about the lack of self-determination for the country as a whole, and on the personal level it is nowhere near the horrors suffered by Africans or other colonized peoples. White people are so desperate to feel oppressed they've decided induct Slavs into being white, and decided that the treatment of Slavs is anything resembling the horrors they've imposed on native Americans and Africans.
The same thing is done with Afrikaners as well, I think there's a great paragraph in Settlers about this phenomenon in your last sentence, and comment in general.
took me a minute to realize you meant "man cave" paint and not "man" "cave paint". anyways cave paintings are really cool (hence my username)
Critical support for my man Jet waging a protracted people’s struggle against the Fire Nation imperialists.
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