Even a stopped clock, amirite?

I really hope that Daeny’s arc this season starts with her taking bloody vengeance against Khal Jhaqo for his treatment of Eroeh, then marshaling his khalasar as her own and leading them back (herself mounted on Drogon) to Meereen so she can crush the Harpy once and for all. Too optimistic?

That is an interesting and unfortunate perspective, but I postulate that welfare is better reserved for people rather than for corporations.

I hate capitulations to the superstitious as much as anyone, but I think healthcare for all, provided irrespective of employment, is one benefit that would assuredly not be dragging is back to the dark ages. The present system, where we attempt to get them to compromise and we have to continue to waste money fighting…

Sweet Monkey Jesus.

anytime! I went through a Blue Rose obsession a few months back, so it’s fresh in my mind. I will agree that, in general, a lot of the social commentary seems kind of facile and trite. There’s a sort of hand wavy, my little ponyness to Aldis and I can see it being annoying to some people. Luckily, a narrator can…

And the governor is pardoning Bree Newsome... When?

The theme/campaign setting was presented as integral, though. You were buying the setting as much as the rules with these books and, as you say, it was far more the setting that pushed any progressive or inclusive tendencies. That’s why, when the MRAs flipped out, Green Ronin stripped out the setting details and…

The Eurocentrism is not really remotely unique to Blue Rose, though, and they do make some attempt at racial diversity via the Rezean and La’tyan peoples (though those also receive less pages and have a very “people of hats” cultural pastiche going on).

Technically, there’s ample abrasion included jn the neighboring Kingdom of Jarzon, a theocracy that insists upon “traditional” roles for men and women and uses mind rape psychic change therapy on its LGBTQ citizens. One of the main political tensions of he setting is supposed to be that Jarzon could be a strong ally…

Exactly. Blue Rose just makes things a little more explicitly inclusive. For example, their version of !Pan is in a relationship with !Apollo.

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is my fave! I first learned about the rpg because she put the cover art up on her site, www.shadowscapes.com

The setting is so refreshing compared to the grimdark that has become de rigeur. The ruling class is competent, compassionate, and rises based on merit, the commoners are healthy and happy, it’s explicitly pro-feminist and LGBTQ-friendly. Sure there are monsters, a country of religious fanatics, and an evil lich king,…

Caveat: it’s “romantic” primarily in the literary sense: primacy of nature and conscience, finding your way, human nature is generally inherently good, etc. Unless the AGE system changed something, there are no “romance rules” or anything like that.

I did somehow picture the princess of the elves as being more... “Elfin,” though.

Are there any fundraisers to help the victims of these “accidents?” It’s something I feel is missing from what little coverage I see of this.

I was really hoping she’d helm Captain Marvel, reimagined as a Carol Danvers/Monica Rambeaux mashup (i.e. Giving Marvel a top-tier female superhero of color). This is okay, though.

“They’re also looking for movies that bring different perspectives to their growing universe.” Just so long as that perspective still belongs to a cishet white male, amirite?