Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️

@helenareal

Chilean trans tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) designer, writer, editor, and translator. Game Master at Player & Game Master on @averageroll.bsky.social

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Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· 14d

Goth beauty 😍🖤

Text of the poem "The Night is Darkening Round Me" by Emily Brontë

The night is darkening round me
The wild winds coldly blow
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot cannot go

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow
And the storm is fast descending
And yet I cannot go

Clouds beyond clouds above me
Wastes beyond wastes below
But nothing drear can move me
I will not cannot go

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· 15d

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· May 28

With alt-text!

Black and white illustration depicting a vintage computer tower with a monitor that has a cracked screen from arrows. Text above reads "BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW!". Text to the left reads "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· May 23

With alt text!

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Apr 19

it's bring your daughter to work day

A Magic The Gathering card featuring ZUL ASHUR, LICH LORD, a legendary zombie warlock with purple glowing eyes and staff, standing before two zombie soldiers. The card text describes the creature's abilities and stats.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Apr 18

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Poster for "Masque of the Red Death" 1964 Roger Corman film, featuring a quote that reads, "If a god of love and life ever did exist... he is long since dead. Someone... something rules in his place" and a stylized red face of its protagonist, Prince Prospero, as portrayed by the magnificent and inimitable Vincent Price.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Apr 5

My dear Marfisa Ferran!

A haunted female character in a swashbuckler outfit with a corset and a braid, standing with one hand on her hip and a sword at her side. She has an intense expression and is surrounded by a light background.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 24

My favorite MTG card art is @kortizart.bsky.social depiction of my favorite MTG character, my beloved Liliana, in her "Defiant Necromancer" version in ORI. I feel Karla perfectly captured Lili's personality and powerful aura here 😍🖤

Karla Ortiz's art for the Magic The Gathering card "Liliana, Defiant Necromancer". The art depicts a young necromancer standing on a mound of earth, surrounded by grasping, undead figures, with a moonlit, hazy cityscape in the background.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 23

A female version of the Sickos "Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!" image

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Feb 21

My favorite hero is Lúthien Tinúviel from Tolkien's Elder Days stories! She's a badass elf/"angel" lady

Meine Sehnen by Julia Metzger. The art depicts on the right Lúthien Tinúviel in a long dark turquoise dress with her wild long hair and magical cloak floating behind her, reaching out with her left hand towards a shadow that represents Beren. You can buy a print of this amazing art here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/juliametzgerart/mein-sehnen/

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Jan 12

world's a fuck, share an island

A Magic The Gathering Island card illustrated by Donato Giancola during Urza's Saga (1998). It displays a couple of rocky dark blue islands stormed by green, wild waters under a dark blue, cloudy sky from which white-blue lightning is falling

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Jan 7

To wit: Lord Dunsany's "Charon", the best 500-word heart-tearing, mind-blowing flash fiction I've ever read sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/fotd...

CHARON

Charon leaned forward and rowed. All things were one with his weariness.

It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide floods of time, and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was of a piece with Eternity.

If the gods had even sent him a contrary wind it would have divided all time in his memory into two equal slabs.

So grey were all things always where he was that if any radiance lingered a moment among the dead, on the face of such a queen perhaps as Cleopatra, his eyes could not have perceived it.

It was strange that the dead nowadays were coming in such numbers. They were coming in thousands where they used to come in fifties. It was neither Charon's duty nor his wont to ponder in his grey soul why these things might be. Charon leaned forward and rowed.

Then no one came for a while. It was not usual for the gods to send no one down from Earth for such a space. But the gods knew best.

Then one man came alone. And the little shade sat shivering on a lonely bench and the great boat pushed off. Only one passenger: the gods knew best. And great and weary Charon rowed on and on beside the little, silent, shivering ghost.

And the sound of the river was like a mighty sigh that Grief in the beginning had sighed among her sisters, and that could not die like the echoes of human sorrow failing on earthly hills, but was as old as time and the pain in Charon's arms.

Then the boat from the slow, grey river loomed up to the coast of Dis and the little, silent shade still shivering stepped ashore, and Charon turned the boat to go wearily back to the world. Then the little shadow spoke, that had been a man.

"I am the last," he said.

No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Dec 27

Did you see Matt on this year's Halloween episode? I almost had a heart attack

Matt Mercer in a black goth long-sleeved shirt with black eyeliner and black lipstick on Halloween 2025

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Dec 19

Rebecca Guay's my favorite MTG artist of all time, and Priest of Titania I think was the first time I was entranced by her amazing art style

Priest of Titania
{1}{G}
Creature — Elf Druid

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

Titania rewards all those who honor the forest by making them a living part of it.

1/1
Illustrated by Rebecca Guay

The art shows a downcast elf priestess looking at a field of purple blooms with some elves behind her as sad and/or worried as she is

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Dec 15

Tonight you're mine

Meme with a pen and the words "write an erotic story in only three words"

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Sep 28

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Screenshot from what-even-is-thiss tumblr

"Cats don't actually love you"

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don't you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it's helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Sep 24

With alt text!

A panel from the Sailor Moon manga showing in Serena in full Sailor attire with the bubbles reading, from right to left: "Girl-boss? No way! Girl union! Girl strike! Girl revolution!!"

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Aug 27

It's one drop Wednesday ☺️🖤 My fav 1-drop ever illustrated by the GOAT 🥺🖤

Dark Ritual
{B}
Instant

Add {B}{B}{B}.

“Eye of twilight, give us sight.
Take our offer, give us might.
Make our power tears of night.”

Illustrated by Rebecca Guay

The illustration shows three robed figures holding hands over a blue-green domed ritual area, with a curly and prominently eyebrowed eye among green-blue clouds.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Aug 20

Just as an FYI: DuckDuckGo now allows you to turn off ALL AI bs and it hides AI-generated images. So, I think that this makes it by far the superior alternative to Google duckduckgo.com

A screenshot of DuckDuckGo's AI feature settings, showing you can turn them all off as well as hiding AI-generated images from search results

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Aug 19

Welcome back! ☺️🖤

Magic The Gathering card Xira, the Golden Sting
{1}{B}{R}{G}
Legendary Creature — Insect Assassin

Flying, haste

Whenever Xira attacks, put an egg counter on another target creature without an egg counter on it. When that creature dies, if it has an egg counter on it, draw a card and create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

3/3
Illustrated by Mila Pesic

The illustration depicts a humanoid insect lady with 4 arms dressed in a gold and blue fancy dress, with a staff in one hand and a glass in another, wearing long gloves on all four

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Aug 15

As per usual, I'm here playing Glasses, the Time Raider Void Elementalist (art by the amazing Juanin @juanin.bsky.social )

Art of a female Time Raider from Draw Steel by @juanin.bsky.social with pale, green-ish skin, a side cut with long purple hair going into pale red through pink, a tattoo of a black rose on her neck, hoop earrings, and turquoise glasses replacing regular eye globes connected to a small, cyberpunk-ish circuit implant

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Jul 25

How disappointing to see the new White Wolf embracing AI. Immediately not interested in whatever game(s) they produce under those conditions

A screenshot of a question from new White Wolf's job appplication that reads, "In our dynamic work environment, we embrace tbe integration of AI tools to enhance efficiency and innovation. Could you share any experiences you have using AI tool in your workflow?"

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Jul 22

With alt text! And yeah: I totally agree ☺️🖤

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection born of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Jul 11

My humble opinion is that you could rock a look like this

Deedlit, a young elf mage from Record of Lodoss War. Anime style, she has ridiculously long, sharp ears, long blonde hair, big blue shoulder pads and a thin-ass rapier sword. She's wearing a short green dress and long brown boots under everything, and a red cape

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· May 28

Here's with alt-text!

"It's a scientific fact that humans come in two varieties: XX for female and XY for male."
Except
•You can be born appearing female, but have a 5-alpha reductase deficiency and grow a penis at age 12.
•You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, but your body is insensitive to androgens, and you appear female.
•You can be born legally male with an X and a Y.
chromosome, and have a penis and testes, *and* a uterus and fallopian tubes.
•You can be born legally male with an X and aY
chromosome, but your chromosome is missing the SRY gene, which gives you a female body.
• You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but one of the Xs has an SRY gene, which gives you a male body.
•You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes - and also a Y chromosome, which gives you a male body. •You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but your adrenal gland doesn't produce enough cortisol, and your body develops as a male.
You can be born with XX chromosomes - *and* XY chromosomes (chimerism).
So the next time you attempt to use science as justification for your bigotry, remember that God created humans in many variations, and maybe stop trying to stuff everyone into little "male or female" checkboxes.

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Apr 15

Morticia Vampira Siouxsie Sarah Connor Metalhead Fantasy & Horror Nerd

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like "male" "female" "nonbinary" "masculine" "feminine" or "androgynous" go

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 21

What's your transition timeline? Wrong answers only

Gomez Addams, as portrayed by John Astin in the original Addams Family TV adaptation

Morticia Addams, as portrayed by Carolyn Jones on the original Addams Family TV adaptation

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 19

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

All the main characters of Cowboy Bebop fighting for space on a tiny window. You can only see their lovely faces

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 19

face reveal, wrong answers only

The art of the Magic The Gathering card Unmask by rk post. It depicts a redhead woman in a skimpy pale yellow dress with a expression of relief on her face as a green mask breaks apart from her

Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️@helenareal· Mar 18

We were watching The Tiger's Apprentice with my niece, and then the dragon character (the tall lady with white hair pictured below) appeared. I've seen her irl. Plenty of beautiful trans femmes here look like her! 😍🖤