Eldritch Mlems

when dilating, often I have a lot of pain around what I suspect are certain scar rings in my neovagina, basically areas where it's much harder to push past, almost like a sphincter but without control to tighten

I have discovered that after pushing painfully past certain points I can experience painful burning sensation, but if I pull the dilator out, put a horizontal ring of lube on the dilator around the threshold of how deep it goes in, and then put the dilator in, I often manage to get the same depth as was painful before but experience less pain and burning. I think this is twofold, maybe relaxing and re-inserting helps reduce tension, and maybe the lube at the edge helps prevent pain from pushing deeper.

A castle serves as a place of refuge, a silent guardian that protects those within.

Unfortunately, this castle is neither silent nor safe. It is secretly a beast that lures wanderers closer towards it. The travelers find that the castle is open and there is no one in sight. As they cross the bridge and make it inside, the gates slam shut and the creature transforms into its grotesque form. Behold, the Castle Mimic!

Welcome to yet another map in my Mimic series. So far, I've made a Mimic Ship, Mimic Mansion, and Mimic Cathedral. This fifth map, the Castle Mimic, is another nightmare that will give your players trust issues.

This map pack features Transformed, Summer, Winter, Fog, Haunted, and Night variants. Foundry VTT modules with pre-built walls and lighting are available to Gamemaster patrons.

Download the map for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140941597

Updated the meme from the low quality one I had posted. I'd apologize for the Trek font but lol

by Sefu_Sneezed

I agreed to run a game of Blades in the Dark starting in Feb. I've not run or played it before, but I have plenty of GMing experience. The plan is to do a limited game, once or twice a month for about six months (so somewhere around nine to twelve sessions in total).

It seems like the most important thing will be getting as much of the lore in my head as I can between now and then so that I can respond to the evolving gameplay, rather than plan out any kind of storyline.

If anyone is interested in sharing their dos and don't, or other experience, my player will appreciate it.

My cat has some kind of bladder problem and I need to collect a urine sample from it. The vet gave me this set of non-clumping kitty litter that should should let me use a syringe to collect a urine sample.

Also, the urine sample should not be too old. I have to bring it to the vet for analysis on the same day that it is collected. So I can not do it over night.

However, my cat does not pee on command. Obviously. So how should I go about that? Does anyone have experience with that?

(I think this was the sauce but it shows as unavailable: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQIOabJCEW8/)

There’s a running joke online that gay people just make better coffee. It usually boils down to someone crossing their fingers that their barista has they/them pronouns, so their cold brew is actually drinkable. “I’ve definitely heard the joke and there’s a lot of truth to it,” says Kent Collins, owner of the Flying M Coffeehouse in Boise, Idaho. “Queer people are a huge part of coffeehouse culture—they always have been.”

At the intersection of Halsey Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, passersby are greeted by a hot pink sign welcoming them into Soft Butch, a trans-owned café. Antæus Mathieu, a co-owner, says that “ on the surface, it’s a funny, cute meme about how all your baristas are gay,” but there’s more to be said about job accessibility within the coffee industry. “It’s one of those skilled jobs that are both accessible to queer people and people who are [otherwise] marginalized because you can start on so many different levels.”

Whether or not you buy into the playful stereotype, what’s certainly true is that the LGBTQ2S+ community has long-standing ties to the coffee industry. Coffee and tea have long been a way of creating community at a low-cost buy-in, according to Dr. Alex Ketchum, an associate professor at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University in Montreal who’s also the author of Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses—which, she says, were primarily run by lesbians and queer women. She points to the “women’s music musicians”—a code word for lesbian artists at the time—who would work at Brick Hut Cafe, which was a lesbian-feminist establishment founded in the seventies in Berkeley, California, during off time between touring or recording. “ Not that all queer people are creative—I don’t want to generalize us—but there is this kind of tie [between the] artist community and cafés,” Ketchum explains.