Cora Spare

@asparecora

she/her, opinionated and cranky nerd of middling years, extremely queer but in like a boring way

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Cora Spare@asparecora· 28d

Sometimes, I am still five years old.

A clipped screenshot from the Weather Channel site, from a sidebar called, "Our World," featuring an image link to a video of a white guy standing in front of a temperature map of western New York State. It's all in reds and oranges, and numbers in the 90s and high 80s Fahrenheit are all over it. The image link has a caption that reads, "Rochester weather: Warm and humid, wildfire smoke, poo..."

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 27

Chickens got cranky when I got eggs the other day, so now I get to stalk them and search the tall grass for where the new nests are.

White and brown chicken eggs in a small nest hidden in a pocket of tall grass, shaded from the morning sun.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 24

My "bird" wishes to say hello to her cousin.

A white-masked plague doctor Mini Squishable in front of a screen showing a picture of several plushies including a black-masked plague doctor Mini Squishable.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 23

Post a robot not from Star Wars or Transformers? I've been playing a lot of My Time at Portia lately.

Art of Ack from My Time at Portia. Ack is a damaged humanoid robot, covered mostly in scuffed yellow plating but with a fake mustache bolted on his face, a dress shirt and tie somehow under his chest plate, black pants, and an apron. His right hand is replaced with a spatula and his left with a frying pan holding a fried egg. His left foot is replaced with a toilet plunger, and an iron pot is on top of his head.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 17

A TV show you're positive no one remembers but you? I liked this a lot, almost nobody has ever mentioned it since including the person I watched it with. It lasted about half a season, and was supposed to be at least three full ones.

Promotional art for the 2005 TV series, "Threshold." The main cast are assembled near the horizon, backlit by a column of orange light that turns into a spiked triskelion (kind of like if a spiral galaxy was three-armed instead of four) set against a cloudy sky. The title, "THRESHOLD," bisects the triskelion. The taglines above and below the title read:
Above: "They're here. More are coming."
Below: "Don't worry. We have a plan."

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 17

I think the eggs were left too long.

A dozen fledgling chicks of mixed colors (light yellow, golden-brown, and almost black) sitting in an egg carton.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 14

Okay I am still all-in for Petra in My Time at Portia, but this lady Mali just showed up looking cool as fuck getting out of her own prop plane, so it's a good thing that she CAN'T be dated because I don't want to have to play this game a second time. The raw power she exudes. Lesbian power.

Cropped screenshot from My Time at Portia, showing the character Mali. She's a tall, lean woman with short messy black hair with a green highlight, and a single earring that looks kind of like the ribbon on a medal. She's wearing some kind of purple shirt, a pink overcoat tied by the sleeves around her waist, blue jeans, and dark tall boots.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 14

Behold: moe.

The cartoon character Elmer Fudd, a bald white guy wearing hunting clothes and carrying a shotgun. Big eyes, small mouth, has the proportions of an infant. Somehow not considered anime.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 12

Oh they're ASLEEP asleep, neither one so much as twitched when I got into a crinkly bag in the same room.

A pair of black-and-white cats asleep in a sunny window, with a large fan.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jun 8

I really like both the Persona 1 and 3 manga adaptations. They each try to do different interesting things with the material, either in delivery (P3) or expansion (P1). P2's is bad, basically unrelated. P4's is... how to put it... Oh, yes, thank you, Kanji.

A screenshot from Persona 4. The main cast are gathered around a table in the Dojima home, with four large plates with omelets of varying quality on the table. In the foreground, a portrait of Kanji - a lanky punk of a kid with bleached blond hair swept back - sits over a dialogue box that reads:

KANJI: "It tastes really, um... boneless...?"

Cora Spare@asparecora· May 7

Literally calling to get someone harassed off just a few days ago. And you can see commenters bragging about it. We also have no way of knowing what he was responding to because he succeeded in getting someone brigaded and suspended.

Screenshot of Will Stancil quote-reposting someone (who has since deleted) and saying, "Surely we can ban THIS one at least??" and commenters bragging about reporting and getting the person banned.

Cora Spare@asparecora· May 7

Receipts for a recent example of that, by the way. Cropped to include the post link number up top if one wants to go check for it personally.

...and, as in this example, at least one bragging about doing so.

As a fun little chaser for the previous shot, a post from Stancil less than three hours earlier claiming he does not do targeted harassment.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 23

Also, in things I do entirely to amuse myself: one of the security measures in a Thuranni enclave is a massive emblem of a displacer beast (their house symbol) that suddenly assembles itself into a construct when activated. So this is the token art.

A Lego displacer beast set. It is a black panther with red eyes, and two tentacles coming out of its shoulder blades that terminate in large flaps covered in toothy spikes.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 11

Today started with 22 eggs in the incubator, at capacity. We've now got 10 escapees with two more definitely making a go of it, and at least another whole day for the remaining 10 to decide what they're doing.

A small yellow chick sitting in an incubator next to unhatched eggs and with a brown chick an indistinct blur in the back. The yellow chick is gazing up and squinting against the light, in a way that gives her a challenging look.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 10

A gold-colored, newly hatched chick sitting among several brown eggs in an incubator.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 9

Myriad Song. I've wanted to dip my toes into Sanguine's games for a bit now and this feels like the one most up my alley. It's space opera with a shake of space magic (of course) based off of musical theming. The book cites New Wave SF, prog rock and metal, and such as its aesthetic target(s).

Cover for the Myriad Song roleplaying game book. A human woman, a small bug-like alien, and a deinonychus-like alien are on a balcony together, looking out over an alien city-scape with a strange tower in the distance that has the footprint of several city blocks when compared to the environment it's rising from. Everything's cast in a warm light like the glow of sunset.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 9

Jaws of the Six Serpents, a PDQ-system game of sword & sorcery. PDQ's long been one of my little favorites for a relatively rules-light game system, probably because it was my first. I really like the approach(es) to magic in this game and it's influenced stuff I've done elsewhere.

Cover of Jaws of the Six Serpents, a PDQ System RPG by Tim Gray of Silver Branch Games. A man in piecemeal armor and a tabard, holding two swords, is standing over the bodies of his foes. He is yelling at something unseen, with a bleeding cut across the right side of his face. The sun hangs low in the sky over a ruined city in the background, in a sky that looks hazy with dust.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 6

Spellbound Kingdoms! Another one high on my list of "tie people down to force to play" games. Swashbuckling adventure fantasy in a Renaissance not-Italian States, where Princess Bride rules carry the day - even death cannot stop true love, it can only delay it. These are HARD GAME RULES.

Cover for the Spellbound Kingdoms roleplaying game, by Frank Brunner. A man and a woman are on a building ledge, the man holding a big fancy dueling rapier and the woman crouched and brandishing a pair of old-timey (probably wheel lock) pistols. The sky is heavy with dark clouds behind them and lights are lit in background buildings' windows, but there's a small break in the clouds just to the far right side that daylight is starting to shine through.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 5

Mutant Chronicles. Also science fantasy, though more in a cyberpunk future that in some places has regressed to World War 1-ish technology. Gonzo and rather tongue-in-cheek. Before Fading Suns 4e was announced, I was seriously considering trying to adapt this game's rules to run FS.

The cover of Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition's core rulebook. A guy who looks like a football player whose gear was made out of Darth Vader's armor is kicking and shooting his way through a bunch of space zombies, while just behind him a woman in a similarly sporty-looking outfit one-hands a carbine with a drum magazine.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Apr 5

Fading Suns! I'm playing in a 2e game and very much want to run or play a 4e game of it someday. I love science fantasy and space medievalism.

Cover for the Fading Suns 4th Edition "Gamemaster Book." The cover art depicts a Viking-esque warrior woman (who is also Black), a squad of armored soldiers carrying banners with various symbols, and a white man in medieval finery and holding a scepter in the center, all arrayed in front of a sci-fi jump-gate ringed with carved stone faces with glowing eyes that spaceships are passing through.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Mar 21

I'm running guns!

Screenshot from The Curse of Monkey Island. Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, is standing on a cliffside path in the foreground leading into a town, where a rather frog-faced child has a little stand that used to be devoted to selling lemonade but now supplies ship cannons. In the background is the dock, with Guybrush's ship, and even further beyond is the wilderness of the island with a mountain poking up out of the jungle.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Mar 6

I feel like the internet's ready to be really weird about Vi Domina from Wizardry 7 and 8.

From the opening cutscene to Wizardry 7, depicting a young woman in a very skimpy sci-fi outfit including a visor over one eye and a robotic left arm with some kind of energy ring pulsing around the wrist. A caption says, "A young girl, Vi Domina, who possesses a special power over the Astral Dominae..."

A screenshot of Wizardry 8, showing Vi Domina now as a 3D character model standing in the middle of a tavern. The UI taking up the lower fifth or so of the screen shows a basic minimap, party arrangement, and status messages.

Taken from PurpleXVI's Wizardry 8 LP on the LP Archive site.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Feb 28

Here, a classic.

Small brain to galaxy brain meme image, in four categories.

First: "Being Poly For The Sex," accompanied by an X-ray image of a half-size brain in a skull.
Second: "Being Poly For The Emotional Support and Love," accompanied by an image of a person with brain "visible" through their skull, with all kinds of connections and nodes lit up like normal brain activity.
Third: "Being Poly For The Multiple Incomes," accompanied by a similar image to the second except now the whole brain is glowing and suffused with light throughout.
Fourth: "Being Poly To Have a Full DnD Party," accompanied by an image of a person with a glowing brain with all kinds of lines of light coming out from it presumably to link to other minds or greater powers in the world.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Feb 24

Been forgetting for Way Too Long to share this, but got this dang beautiful Pride Dragon pin in from @fairyfort.bsky.social's most recent crowdfunding campaign. Joining the rest of the kitties and dragons I have from her.

A metal pin of a "Pride" dragon, a dragon with rainbow feathers on its wings and head crest, as well as on its tail. In the style of the Mesoamerican Feathered Serpent, though also known to D&D nerds as a monster called the couatl.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Feb 12

Post a mage 🦋

Pencil sketch showing a butterfly-masked figure with fuzzy, pointy ears, mismatched eyes, and pronounced canines tapping at a window as it says, "HELLO~" The window is tilted at a not-quite-45-degree angle while the figure is upright, suggesting it is very off-kilter.

The figure is a rendition of a friend's character in a Blades in the Dark/D&D crossover adventure named Masque, a githyanki... ghost-magician thing, kind of a fucked-up necromancer, rendered according to my (inaccurate) understanding of what the player was describing. He is apparently supposed to look way more like Mothman.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Feb 7

Of course learning the traders' patois of Tulandra took time and effort, especially as I had no speech whatsoever in common with my tutors. But I have learned the Devil's own language of English, and no tongue among the stars can be more of a trial than that.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jan 26

Face reveal, wrong answers only.

Screenshot of a pair of Tumblr posts, both from someone named "fleshdyke" (with a user icon that is some character in front of the lesbian flag).
First post: i love how hyenas still have the winter coat gene
Second post: like if you keep hyenas in cold climates they just do this. its so silly
Text of the second post followed by a photo of a hyena that is incredibly fluffed-out with a winter coat of varying browns, snow visible on the ground behind it. The hyena has an annoyed expression on its face.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jan 25

*Totally* not just copying Giovanna Guiltygear's design for my party's private detective boss for this Eberron game.

A screenshot of a miniature modeled in Hero Forge. The mini is of a slender red-headed woman in cargo pants, dress shirt and suspenders. She also wears fingerless gloves and has a knife at her side. There's a vaguely metallic-looking mark just visible on her right cheek, mostly covered by her hair. A spilled bottle of booze lies on the stone street next to her.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jan 15

High queen of "do I want her, or do I want to be her."

Claudia Christian as her character Commander Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5. She has a skeptical but faintly amused look on her face.

Cora Spare@asparecora· Jan 9

The dragon's hoard, along with various businesses and money in the bank. I loved coming up with these.