Mors Rattus

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Game writer, librarian, religious studies. He/him. Autistic, Jewish, ace.

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dear friends in discord: please actually read what i say when i say i find a character annoying for entirely non-in-character reasons, i do not find him a piece of shit, i hate that he kills my ability to control text speed regularly

someone gotta explain to me why syncope is a word we use for fainting and also the root word of syncopation, the musical term

you ever think about how the goblin mafia would be the moblins

Chinggis Khan, amazing wife guy we don't talk about how much he was a wife guy not for all his wives, mostly Borte, but also kind of for all his wives

releasing the slavery post to dead silence and being like 'so is this offputting in the right way or the wrong way, i don't know how to read this' like i knew it was gonna be offputting, but it had to be written

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some interesting numbers entering tonight's debate: 38% 33% 77% (+/- 3 points) 18% among likely voters and unlikely voters 31% among likely voters AND unlikely voters 54% among those surveyed (margin of error: %, source: 87%)

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... So, I'm still working on a fashion post - it's gonna take a while because I have so much to write about hats still. That post is going to be big. But this post is on slavery. So, content warning: slavery. It's bronze age-style slavery, not American chattel slavery, but

Pentan Cultural Overview - Slaverycohost.org (content warnings: bronze age slavery)

weird ipad fact: it will correct "canadian app store" to "Canadian App Store" but "the canadian app store" to "the Canadian app store"

i gotta say, i really do not like the degree of fan worship that exists around victor von doom

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It rules that Yiddish has a suffix you can throw on the end of a noun just to show that somebody is kind of a dick

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This link can save my family life by evacuating them from gaza please share it if can’t support www.gofundme.com/f/sspqf-10k-...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza, organized by Robyn Parsonswww.gofundme.com Hi, my name is Robyn, I am a British citizen living in the UK. I am fundr… Robyn Parsons needs your support for Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza

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Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea #PrideMonth (This wasn't originally a pride month card but I couldn't resist with this name.)

took fucking long enough, this is literally the easiest slam dunk of an ad ever

President Biden’s campaign on Monday began its most aggressive effort to accurately describe Donald Trump a felon after largely avoiding the subject by introducing a new TV ad that focuses on Trump's criminal conviction.

Biden Campaign Factually Describes Trump as a Convicted Felonwww.nytimes.com Democrats have been urging the president to more forcefully attack Donald Trump after his felony conviction by a New York jury.

The best sports movie is A Knight’s Tale and you should watch it

I tried to watch Acolyte with my girlfriend this weekend, as she assured me it did not require prior Star Wars knowledge and was an entirely different era, meaning my general lack of interest in Star Wars would not leave me confused and annoyed. She was correct, in a sense!

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... On sports, competition, and glory, for my Glorantha ttrpg project, Secret History of the Horse Sun!

Pentan Cultural Overview - Sport and Competitioncohost.org It is essentially impossible to understand the Pentans without understanding the role of competition and hierarchy in their society. Social hierarchy is divided into age-based groups, yes, but within ...

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Wild horses return to Golden Steppe after centuries

Wild horses return to Golden Steppe after centurieswww.bbc.com The wild horses roamed Asian steppes for millennia before dying out and surviving only in European zoos.

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... More on daily life and food culture in Pent for my ttrpg project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Daily Life and Foodcohost.org Pentan daily life revolves around ensuring the tribe has the necessities needed for survival. The main camp of the tribe is a central hub, but the herds will spread out around it for quite a distance ...

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... Horses! Which, in Glorantha, are cladistically a bird. This is for my TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Horsescohost.org The horse is the single most important animal in Pent, the sacred partner of the Pentans. Every human being, they say, has a second body - a horse body, which bears the other half of their soul. Even ...

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... Age and Pentan society, for my Glorantha ttrpg project, Secret History of the Horse Sun! Age is rank and respect for the Pentans.

Pentan Cultural Overview - Agecohost.org Pentan society is built around the family, then the tribe. Pentan families each descend from a legendary ancestor, a hero whose deeds earned them acclaim and who often was the child of one of the gods...

bad, bad leroy brown baddest man in the whole damn town badder than ol' king kong meaner than a junkyard dog this is going to be in my head on loop for like three days

it is a crime against me personally that i am unable to regularly and easily buy meat buns as a snack

okay, so next post, talking about life and growing up in Pent. Also horses, the two are kind of intertwined. after that?? should probably talk about daily life and food maybe?

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... An overview of the Pentans! We begin with a grasp on who they were, but no longer are: the Ancestral Peoples, five different groups that came together in the Great Darkness and became Pent. This is for my Glorantha TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

Pentan Cultural Overview - The Ancestral Peoplescohost.org The majority of humans in the Pentan plains are Pentans. A small minority of non-riders, called Half-Men by the Pentans, also live in the plains, largely in river farming villages around the Arcos, El...

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Well this looks absolutely fascinating.

Thrilled to share that Religion in the Roman Empire 10.1, “Religion at Work: Jewish and Christian Experiences of Labour in the Roman World,” has been published and is fully open-access! Please check out these terrific contributions and share widely! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/r...

so now i have to decide where to start on describing Pentan society and culture.

cohost.org/MorsRattus/p... This took a while, thanks to my moving into a new condo. But we're now through the three in character perspectives on Pentan life!

What The Judge Told Me: Life From the Four Winds Perspectivecohost.org Who are you? I am Orizaya Mapmaker of the Soinam family, chief Judge of the Long Swords Tribe. I am the final authority on the law's meaning within the tribe, as well as the chief overseer of the Wil...

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Me: AI assistant, decline meetings AI: meetingae, meetingās, meetingārum, meetingīs

slowly coming to realize that my musical tastes congealed in a way where i am perpetually swinging between 'metalhead' and 'dad in the 90s'