Let’s be real—being a caregiver is one of the most loving, selfless things you can do. But it’s also one of the hardest. Whether you’re caring for a parent, spouse, child, friend, or neighbor, the emotional and physical toll can sneak up on you. That’s where Powerful Tools for Caregivers comes in. And trust me,...| Spend Smart Eat Smart
Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to lords| New Statesman
[Supplement] The Music of Ericha Zann (2025)James Edward Raggi IV (Lamentations of the Flame Princess Adventures)Lamentations of the Flame Princess So Raggi has made a bard class. What do we do about that, how do we, the normal people, and the obviously more disgusting but still generously termed normal Lotfp players, figure out if that’s … More [Review] The Music of Ericha Zann (Lotfp); Call me Pachinko| Age of Dusk
New York City’s housing crisis isn’t new, and it’s getting worse as the years go by. Across the city, millions of residents are struggling to find and keep a place to live. Rent is climbing faster than wages, affordable housing is in short supply, and homelessness remains a pressing and unresolved issue. Despite a gleaming...| The Science Survey
Apple’s “Price-Tag TV,” to propose a new entrant to the TV name game, is expensive programming about folks who like expensive things, made for viewers who either can’t see or don’t care about the difference between good and expensive. The post Price-Tag TV and the Transformation of Television Prestige appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Students from the class of 2024 had historically low scores on a major national test administered just months before they graduated.| eSchool News
Many of us in higher education are grappling with the same fundamental questions about secure research computing. How do we balance the agility and scale of cloud computing with the stringent compliance requirements of sensitive research? When does it make sense to move secure workloads to the cloud, and how do we do it responsibly? […] The post Community Workshop: Help Shape Our Learning Series on Supporting Secure Cloud Research appeared first on Internet2.| Internet2
A construction site with a large amount of dirt in the foreground in Brumadinho, Brazil, September 2023 (Image Source: Photograph by Hector Brasil, uploaded to Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-construction-site-with-a-large-amount-of-dirt-in-the-foreground-e5qqoi-aleo) By Amanda Clark Executive Summary Demand for transition minerals is projected to skyrocket, increasing four to six times over to achieve global climate targets. Brazil, with substantial reserves […]| American University: Journal of International Service
It is not an uncommon thing for a child to be left in the care of beasts. Many in your place would become entirely wild. But your humanity was affirmed the first time you held a spear.| the greatest poster in the world
So goes Lugal’s first and greatest command: Those who place any other above God must be destroyed. Your every breath has become an assertion of autonomy; cardinal sin is a sweet, sweet thing.| the greatest poster in the world
Monstrous hordes roam the desert wastes beyond the river’s reach, driven out by Lugal when He first established His kingdom. The responsibility of defense now falls to you.| the greatest poster in the world
The serpent, crowned with horns, lies in ambush. For whom does it wait? What intrigues does it plot behind those dead eyes?| the greatest poster in the world
Why would Obligators need to spread the word of God? The river is right there for all to see. No, the Obligators lead chants assuring obedience.| the greatest poster in the world
Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving The Fire. Sarah is trying to finish her PhD in religious studies at a university in southern California, considering the threefold nature of Buddhist justifications for violence. Her fellow student and best friend Nathan has spent time in a Catholic monastery in the Dolomites and been celibate for over a … Continue reading Reading Diary, September 12th to 23rd, 2025| Laura Tisdall
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project. This Booker-shortlisted novel purports to be a collection of papers concerning a (fictional) notorious murder case; in 1869, a seventeen-year-old crofter c…| Laura Tisdall
Camp Fire First Texas is offering early education courses October-December, for child care professionals in Texas. Online options available. The post Early Education Courses: October, November, December 2025 appeared first on Camp Fire First Texas.| Camp Fire First Texas
I've been milling over a stealthy barbarian ever since this conversation, which led to the thought that Fear and Rage are really two sides o...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
No one knows what is taught to the children taken through the bronze doors of the Temple of the Graces. How can so many be so beloved?| the greatest poster in the world
You killed another human being and—willingly or unwillingly—submitted to Lugal's justice. Execution was the alternative, and you had a burning desire to live. You still do.| the greatest poster in the world
What is an aristocrat, really?| The American Conservative
Spanish ceramicist, painter, and textile artist Aitor Saraiba answers some of our questions about his work, ethos, and process.| Tatter
“Right” and “wrong” are the emptiest of words when you’re hungry. All must eat. The strong just eat more and often.| the greatest poster in the world
Devotion is violence against Lugal’s enemies, and His enemies are widespread. Only you can be trusted to safeguard the future. Your Grace told you so.| the greatest poster in the world
Written or the GLÅUGUST 2025 "Paladin of an unorthodox Law" challenge.| Grackle Court
Our final class for this round of posts is the Artificer, the setting's wizard equivalent. It draws heavily from Loch Eil's Wonder-Worker. Included are four Lores (wizard school equivalents).| Grackle Court
The prior post talked a great deal about scrap as a mechanic. Here's the rules for that and a class (the Astrologer) who uses them just as extensively, if not more so. But first, let's talk resources:| Grackle Court
In this post, we're looking at the two Fighter-esque classes in GLoW, the Knight and the Raider.| Grackle Court
Our first two GLoW classes are the Mutant and the Outcast.| Grackle Court
Red Death. Tomb Pox. Extinction. The history of men is punctuated by plagues, a cursed cycle of suffering. Only flame can chase away plague...| mascaraknight.blogspot.com
In two hours, Ersa McMalin retires from her house party to pen a letter to the lord-supplyman of Freeport, La Royce.| MASCARA KNIGHT
On his death bed, the notorious pirate Roger D. Longadder said this:| MASCARA KNIGHT
To become another is to magnify a secret part of oneself. The Order studies the hundred secret selves - roles, stock characters, destinies - and invokes them in ritualized theatre.| MASCARA KNIGHT
When the wind blows, the City speaks. Thru coiling stone streets, from the mouths of gargoyles, it whispers; the Committee listens, and then they build. | MASCARA KNIGHT
Fashionable ladies are never seen without their purebred pets: their maned dachshundober mixes, their superior piebald pigeons, their southern royal half-clown crocodiles.| MASCARA KNIGHT
It is not in the lion's nature to explain herself.| MASCARA KNIGHT
The astrologer-hermit Etymon once mapped the movements of stars so accurately she was named the third great oracle. She used no tools or lenses; according to her, she politely asked the stars where they were going, and they told her the truth.| MASCARA KNIGHT
I while ago I wrote a class about being an elves stuck between the worlds of the Sun and the Moon. This class assumed assumed the standard ...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
Use these 35 fiction writing prompts to inspire your teens as they author their own original works!| JournalBuddies.com
This back-to-school season, the conversation is not just about devices or apps, but about how technology and innovation transforms education.| eSchool News
How I organized my first PhD Portfolio with Microsoft Sway as a student with low vision that uses large print and responsive layouts| Veroniiiica
This essay, on the realities of the white working class, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 6 April 2025, under the headline “The white working class is nothing like what politicians think – or claim – it is”. “Many of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants”, Labour MP David Winnick told the House of Commons in 1968, “have not in the past gone out of their way to defend the interests of the white […]| Pandaemonium
This essay, on how class is a missing category in discussions of the justice system, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 16 March 2025, under the headline “Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class”. As so often in such debates, the controversy over new guidelines for courts from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales has obscured as much as it has illuminated. Critics have condemned them as presaging a “two-...| Pandaemonium
It’s 6pm on a Sunday when Brittany calls to tell me about the mealworms.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Manda Scott, Any Human Power. This long and weird novel focuses on a single British family who recognise that the world is swiftly being destroyed by those in power and decide to create a grassroots movement to promote true democracy. It’s narrated from the point of view of the grandmother, Lan, who in fact dies at the … Continue reading 20 Books of Summer, #18 and #19: Any Human Power and Helm| Laura Tisdall
Álvaro Enrigue trans. Natasha Wittner, You Dreamed of Empires. This short but incredibly intense speculative historical novel spans a few days in 1519, focusing on the infamous encounter between co…| Laura Tisdall
Everyone remember the conversion of the Cloak and Sword Sanguine class I made last year that was inspired from the half burned pages I sto...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
I found this Cloak and Sword class while browsing some sketchy sites that probably gave me virus or two. Inexplicably from what I can find this class originated from the Horror supplement and has nothing to do with the Sanguine class despite fitting each other quite well.| The Whimsical Mountain
"Hartley weaves a compelling net of intrigue and a brilliant portrayal of the starchy customs of aristocratic life ..."| reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
Halfway there! And I’m doing better than it might appear in that I’m in the middle of another 7 books and just have to decide what the final 3 will be. This was a sobering but satisfying pair of no…| Bookish Beck
Hopping on the bandwagon: this is a single-level class that might be compatible with Cloak-and-Sword. (See here .) From what I can tell, i...| goblinpunch.blogspot.com
Just getting on the semi-regular GLOG bandwagon for single-level Cloak-and-Sword classes, this one comes from the future.| Craggenloch Tribune
I love Legend of the 5 Rings, or more accurately I love its setting of Rokugan. It is not an attempt at authenticity to feudal Japan, rather...| craggenloch.blogspot.com
Quick-fire reviews of some more books that are not included in my 20 Books of Summer challenge! Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar. In the walled capital city of Orrun, seven contenders arrive to c…| Laura Tisdall
Josh Morris delivers the July political report of the YCL Central Committee| Challenge Magazine
A quick WIP snapshot of how it’s going.She’s a big ship, it’s taking some time to fill her out.| LCARSGFX
Instructor: Richard Levine Learn to use two beautifully compatible mediums—pastel and gouache—together.| Falls Church Arts
I actually wrote this class way back during the original Cloak and Sword bandwagon, but was never quite happy with it so never posted it. I...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
Character education helps kids learn more about basic morals and values and their importance in this world and in their personal lives - try these prompts with your class today!| JournalBuddies.com
Back of black woman in 1930s dress as she walks into a barn dance. A front view of two Black people wearing oversized white tee shirts to her right performing contemporary hip hop dances.| Sounding Out!
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”| Public Books
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) argues that we can free identity politics from its “elite capture.” But why not simply pursue a politics of class?| Damage
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My favorite strategies and tips for recording accessible video lectures for low vision and blind students| Veroniiiica
We are delighted to announce the launch on October 25th of the first ever UK Class in Classics Survey, sponsored by the Network for Working-Class Classicists and the Council of University Classics Departments. This survey is designed to gather data on class demographics and experiences in the discipline of Classics in the UK. It is openContinue reading "UK Class in Classics Survey"| CUCD EDI
Lilah Grace Canevaro, Mirko Canevaro, Henry Stead, Eris Williams-Reed The CUCD Equality and Diversity Report published in 2020 offered a valuable insight into the ‘current state of the discipline’ and has since prompted some productive actions across the UK and beyond. At the outset, the report indicated that its analysis focused on gender and race,Continue reading "If Class Were a Protected Characteristic"| CUCD EDI
The Dutch-born Moluccan artist is interested in how class, rather than race, creates solidarity among immigrant communities through tender images of young men in Europe| 1854 Photography
What if Greyhawk...but good?| Permanent Cranial Damage
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative, the Latinx Sound Cultures Studies Working Group critically considers the role of sound and listening in our […]| Sounding Out!
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative, the Latinx Sound Cultures Studies Working Group critically considers the role of sound and listening in our […]| Sounding Out!
The Londonderry Arts and Historical Society is expanding its arts programming this summer. Residents and guests are invited to participate...| The Vermont Journal & The Shopper
Mantles are engineers who can mould their soul, splitting it into two layers, and submerging a piece of machinery within the outer one, and in that process create your own Machine, an offshoot of your Self sustained by your tender care. It loves you as its progenitor. But can it really trust you?| Octarine-tinted Glasses
Joanna Miller, The Eights. Set over the course of the academic year 1920-1, Miller’s debut novel follows four female undergraduates who start at Oxford at the same time women are finally perm…| Laura Tisdall
Clerics are odd ducks. Their classical image of the mailed crusader with a religious proscription against wielding bladed weapons deliberately evokes medieval warrior-priests of the Archbishop Turpin and Odo of Bayeux vein. But while those fellows were members of a powerful Church with clear heirarchy and vast political power, the adventuring cleric is free to roam the backroads and wildnerness, associating with thieves, bandits and witches, and if they run afoul of the authorities they can e...| Craggenloch Tribune
The common man has infinite options available to them, and like the diffuse rays of the sun their will presses itself only lightly upon the World. The true master prunes his will, aligns and collimates it, as a lens focuses light into a narrow point - and the World burns beneath it.| Craggenloch Tribune
Why not just take one spell from DCC and turn it into a whole GLOG wizard? Yeah, lets do that.| Craggenloch Tribune
A conversion of Locheil's Rotless, which I have been having tremendous fun playing in his Qal Ashen game, for Ransack by Justin Todd, who also writes a damn fine game;| Craggenloch Tribune
Quite by coincidence at least twoother noble-themed GLOG classes have been published in the last week. Much like busses, you wait all day for one then three come at once.| Craggenloch Tribune
Art by Adrian Wilkins| Craggenloch Tribune
Chain Binder| Grackle Court
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith I first came across this book when I saw that The Literary Book Club Box Subscription was doing a box on it a few years ago and many people were commenting about…| janeaustenrunsmylife
Set up in 1984, the Turner Prize has been awarded to a photographer only once - but Rene Matić has won a nomination aged just 27, for a solo show featuring stacked images, installations, and sound art| 1854 Photography
April 19th, 2025 This piece contains excerpts from Beyond the Blueness from TATTER Journal Issue 3, written by Aboubakar Fofana. Additional words by Aboubakar Fofana and Elliot Rockart| Tatter
This isn't "Wizard Business". This is "Wizzard Bidness". It's the difference between a scientist and a science enthusiast. Everything is going to go wrong, and it'll be your fault, but man, look at all these results! For further reading, see here.| Meandering Banter
I've had both of these wizard schools sitting in my generator for months now, without a problem. Now I have had two Narcomancers and a Beeromancer show up, and it is a nightmare.| Meandering Banter
Long, long ago, I was interested in this. I then discovered GLOG, and all of that melted away. But some of it stuck around. This is a love-letter to a 3.5e rebalancing homebrew, written for an OSR DIY sub-system:| Meandering Banter
This was a request/challenge by Micah from Nuclear Haruspex. I was all for collaborative work, but my honour was impugned, and thus, a friendly challenge was born! You can find his version here.| Meandering Banter
Have a research paper due? Consider writing about disability, assistive technology, or accessibility topics using these research tips| Veroniiiica
NB. I’m still working on my post about three standout novels I read earlier this month – not to say these ones were bad! Andrew McMillan, Pity. This Barnsley-set novella traces both hom…| Laura Tisdall
Mall Rats are varied in kind and skills, but all serve only one master: the great god Greed. A Mall Ninja serves a greater power: Pride. In the service of Pride, you take a Lord. Your Lord is the best Lord, and protecting them is your purpose. Anyone who questions your methods is just jealous.| ふかひれスープ
So I was thinking about more 80s/90s cult classics to base 80s/90s cult classes off of, and I realized I'd never seen Buckaroo Banzai. And then I realized that I *had* seen Miami Connection.| ふかひれスープ
Assassin bandwagon, woo! Shout out to the unreality of numbers , from who I stole a lot of the mechanics. Bleeding Heart Starting Equipmen...| whimsicalmountain.blogspot.com
The GLOG is going through a bit of a bandwagon again, this is mine . The Erĝeshmál are a rumour, albeit a persistant one - a hidden cab...| craggenloch.blogspot.com
SCOUNDREL| MASCARA KNIGHT
GALLANT| MASCARA KNIGHT
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It just wasn't fair. It wasn't fair that you lived in a world teeming with unmatched biodiversity, with quintillions of animals in every beautiful shape, and here you were stuck with just one.| MASCARA KNIGHT
armsmaster| MASCARA KNIGHT
the princesses of yore| MASCARA KNIGHT
A groundbreaking new study from Columbia University seemingly proves that the sound of music abruptly ending with a record scratch upon entering an establishment is still the best indicator that a person has walked into the wrong bar.| The Hard Times
