Christian Hendriks

@cerhendriks

Work & volunteering: arts admin, box office, museum collections. Education: MLIS, English lit MA. General: Ontarian, Anglican, autistic, leftist, TTRPG hobbyist, he/him/his. Opinions are never wholly one's own, but I'm responsible for mine.

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Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· 26d

I think the hoatzin is underappreciated. Their chicks have vestigial claws/fingers on their wings, like little dinosaurs (which as we know, they are). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin

A hoatzin (which is a kind of bird) sitting in green foliage, its wings raised. Bright daylight falls from the upper right. The bird has a blue face, red eyes, and a raised tawny crest, which is very long. Its throat is white, but the back of its neck is black with long white feathers poking from the black undercoat. The body and much of the wings are russet, though part of the wings are black with white flecks. This images is from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoatzin_in_Peru.jpg

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Jul 1

Sounds like it's time for people to use these signs I designed.* *as in, I put the words into the same website as everybody else

One of those "In this house, we believe" signs, with text in different colours and sizes on a black background. It bears a portion of the Magnificat:

Line 1 (white): In this house, we believe:
Line 2 (orange): He has shown the strength of his arm,
Line 3 (yellow): He has scattered the proud in their conceit.
Line 4 (blue): He has cast down the might from their thrones,
Line 5 (green): And has lifted up the humble.
Line 6 (pink): He has filled the hungry with good things,
Line 7 (white): And the rich he has sent away empty.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Jun 25

There was no preview image, so this is what the cover looks like.

The cover of a PDF document. The background is a pale photograph of cave paintings, including human figures and some kind of long-horned cow. The title "Savage Teachings" is laid over this in red, and below it is the subtitle, "A Collection of Subclasses for the Planegea Campaign Setting." At the bottom are two logos: one reading "5E 2024" and the other reading "Planegea Open License."

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Jun 13

How is this not in one out of every three post-apocalypse television shows and films and video games? Perfectly versatile for breaking into derelict buildings or dispatching zombies/robots/whatever. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

A display of five Halligan tools, wall-mounted. With one exception, each has a claw on one end (like on the back of a claw hammer, but larger) and a pick and an adze on the other at right angles to each other. The exception has a spike on one end and an adze on the other.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Jun 1

I can't help but share the crop I used for the main post; I almost set it as the preview image, but in the end decided I had better use the RPG Blog Carnival banner.

A crop of Logan Marshall's 1914 illustration of Polyphemus the cyclops entering his cave with a bundle of sticks; the armoured Greeks wait within the cave; the way the image is cropped, the Greeks are poking above the bottom of the frame, almost peeking; in the upper left of the image is Polyphemus's one-eyed, bearded face, and he looks friendly, almost child-like, with three prominent teeth, his cheeks bunched in a smile, his eye wide, and his brow raised, looking directly at the viewer; he looks, if anything, goofy, and entirely innocent; there is a tragedy, therefore, to this image, if you know what fate is in store for this simple giant

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Jan 30

As a TTRPG-relevant example, the Walters Art Museum has posted Capri Albert Bierstadt's *The Blue Grotto*: unsplash.com/photos/GqIVW...

The Blue Grotto, Capri Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830-1902); an oil painting of a flooded cave, with a small half-circle of light in the distance (about along the bottom third line, near the centre), as though daylight enters through the cave's mouth, reflects off the water; stalactites hang from the cavern ceiling; overall, blacks, greys, greens, yellows.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Nov 16

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

A black-and-white photograph of French academic René Girard, with purple laser eyes. The photograph may have been taking while he was laughing; at any rate, his smile looks particularly intense and a little aggressive, though that might be the influence of the aforementioned laser eye treatment.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Nov 12

The Sia tweet, which originally reads, "I had two people on the spectrum advising me at all times," has been jankily edited to read, "I had one Canadian on the spectrum advising me at all times." Above this is the legend, "Christianity on the Spectrum listeners be like." The title of the Christianity on the Spectrum podcast is italicized.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Nov 3

This also seems more or less perfect.

A screenshot of three posts by D&D on the Road (@dndencroad.bsky.social), in order. The first, posted 13 days ago, reads, "Dinarv, a male dwarf thief fleeing the royal guard. He has angered a swarm of hornets, and begs for help." The second, posted 14 days ago, reads, "A male elf hermit named Reone. He lives in an a wooden hut near a pool of clear water. [sic]" The third, posted 14 days ago, reads, "The road ahead is blocked by the royal guard, who seem to be searching for someone." The first and third posts have been Liked.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Nov 2

Oh, *this* is a neat coincidence!

Two posts from the Wasteland Waystops account (@wastelandwaystops.bsky.social), chronologically adjacent. The first, posted 14 hours before the screenshot, reads, "You stock up on supplies at a rustic militia garrison in an operational train. An unusually high number of residents are identical triplets." The second, posted 21 hours before the screenshot, reads, "You come upon a thriving medical clinic made from derailed train cars. An unusually high number of residents are identical triplets."

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Sep 22

1382. "From Allegories to Novels":

A screenshot of a PDF, the page number 340 and the name Jorge Luis Borges appearing in the header. A passage is outlined with a red rectangle; that passage reads as follows: "The passage from allegory to novel, from species to individual, from realism to nominalism, required several centuries, but I shall have the temerity to suggest an ideal date: the day in 1382 when Geoffrey Chaucer, who may not have believed himself to be a nominalist, set out to translate into English a line by Boccaccio-'E con gli occulti ferri i Tradimenti' (And Betrayal with hidden weapons)-and repeated it as "The smyler with the knyf under the cloke.'" At the bottom a date, 1949, appears in brackets.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Sep 16

And I don't know if anything I've already run has been very much in the line of Poortvleit, but I would like to figure out how to catch the grounded realism of his gnomes and his prehistories. imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/ri...

a painting by Rien Poortvleit, in which a little gnome with a pointed red cap and full white beard sits on a midwinter deadwood branch; the gnome offers with an extended hand a morsel of some kind of food to a little mouse, who sniffs it cautiously; behind the gnome, taking up most of the space of the image, a doe deer also looks on, stretching her head forward in interest; only her head, neck, and shoulders are visible, the rest of her out of frame or obscured by snow; the suggestion seems to be that the gnome is sitting in the bracken between a forest and a field; the gnome is made to look quite small, and indeed he is

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Apr 10

Re: the *name* Trump.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Mar 12

Again with alt-text.

A graphic on a white background, obviously made in paint. At the top it says, "I am free in Christ"; an arcing arrow labelled "thus" connects this to text at the bottom, reading "I am cringe", which is connected in turn to the upper text by another arrow reading "thus." Inside this loop is the crest of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Mar 12

Oh no, I forgot alt-text. Is the alt-text reminder thing disabled? Here it is again, with alt-text.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Feb 14

This is just one tab. I adjusted the difficulty by changing the number of turns it should take the party to kill the enemy, the number of turns it should take the enemy to kill the party, and the number of enemies.

A screenshot of a Google Sheets page. It has a table with cells reading, "Encounter Variables," "Hit Rate Data," "Party Damage," "Party Survivability," and "Encounter Details"; each of these has more detailed lines with numbers, so for instance to the right of "Party Damage," "Ealis Hit Rate" is "65%" and "Ealis Damage/Turn" is "16.9." There are other less-structured charts to the right, one of which is titled "Melchellor Death Rates" (and "Hits to Kill M" is 0.70). The equation line reads, "=18+(((D14*D2)+D13)/D5)," the result of which is 60.7 ("Average Enemy Hit Points"). The Encounter Variables indicate that Rounds to Kill Enemies is 3, Rounds to Kill Party is 2, Actual # of Enemies is 3, and Effective # of Enemies is 3.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Sep 17

This is one of those places where it is clear that my mathematical intuitions are all wrong, because the 547,383 number looks right to me and the 10% looks completely wrong (ie. I feel like there's no way I was here that early). (Reposting: forgot alt-text, spelling error)

An image, created by Bluesky, "Celebrating 10M users," telling me I was the 547,383rd user to join Blueksy, putting me in the "First 10%." My name (Christian Hendriks) and username (cerhendriks@bsky.social) are in the bottom left hand corner of the mostly blank white image. Many images like this one have been posted yesterday and today.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Aug 26

Here is what I was seeing, sort of. (It is clearly flowers. The little foot is a flower. I get that. Still.)

A crop of John William Waterhouse's /Matilda/, focusing on the flowers in the subject's arms. It has red circles over parts of the flowers (which look vaguely like a little opossum on its back), labelled as follows: "Base of Tail?," "Foot!," "Pale grey face?," and "Ear." Clearly made in MS Paint.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Feb 7

Repost with a picture you have saved but haven't yet found a use for.

In a cartoon style against a dark blue forested backdrop a brown pig stands on a stump and says, "It also doesn't matter." From the video game WILDERMYTH.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Dec 16

Bluesky, what is your website doing? For those not interested in counting, that's seven of the same post by @tznkai.bsky.social appearing in a row at the top of the feed.

A screenshot of web browser open to a Bluesky feed, with three identical posts by one user (K. Chen) quoting a post by a different user (Lord Businessman), all marked "From Mutuals."

A screenshot of a web browser open to a Bluesky feed, showing seven copies of the same post by user K. Chen quote posting user Lord Businessman, followed by some other posts by other users. All of K. Chen's posts are labelled, "From Mutuals."

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Nov 7

The other day my mother cut back the outdoor catnip and brought what she cut in to dry, but first she left it on the floor for a bit for her cat to investigate...

On brown tile floor part of a tuxedo cat is visible (lower right of the image) with her left paw extended into the stems of a cutting of green plant (catnip), also on the floor (about half of the image, clustered in the lower left). The cat is looking over her shoulder, to the bottom of the image.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Sep 11

Also some pictures of what I think is a robberfly eating what must be a damselfly.

An image of a predatory fly (seen from behind) on a metal handrail, with a shiny purplish abdomen, sitting over a dead damselfly; a red dot on the handrail sits below the fly, and the damselflies abdomen is bent nearly parallel to the predator fly's own.

An image of a predatory fly (seen from the side) on a metal handrail, with a shiny purplish abdomen, sitting over a dead damselfly; a red dot on the handrail sits below the fly, and the damselflies abdomen is bent nearly parallel to the predator fly's own.

Christian Hendriks@cerhendriks· Sep 11

A few pictures from the Pinery Provincial Park.