Heya Everyone, new Mega time and for it, I’m gonna advertise a TTRPG system called Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends. If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place.
In this book, you’ll find:
Flirting, sword-fighting, and zingers in a system designed for both narrative drama and player safety.
An innovative take on the Powered by the Apocalypse family of games.
Nine character types, each focusing on a particular emotional conflict: Beast, Chosen, Devoted, Infamous, Nature Witch, Scoundrel, Seeker, Spooky Witch, and Trickster.
Guidance and support for running the game, including how to make appealing adversaries, set the tone, pace the game, and structure play.
Tools to create your own settings and stories, alongside a dozen pre-written options including the cyberpunk Neon City 2099, steamfunk poets battling oppression as Les Violettes Dangereuses, laser swords and intrigue in the Starcross Galaxy, and more.
World building worksheet for custom scenarios and starting scenario seeds to play with: Best Day of Their Lives, The Constellation Festival, Gal Paladins, and Sword Lesbians of the Three Houses Variant rules to highlight different identities, emotional connections, and setting elements.
Strategies to adapt any setting where swords cross and hearts race for Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
Here’s a link to their website, I did copy everything over directly from it because I put off writing the Mega this week. I was drawing a blank on what I wanted to talk about. 
https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/
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I remember trying to get through some judith butler and thinking this is some advance gender stuff. I can appreciate nuanced discussions of course but sometimes my brain is
I’ll give myself some credit tho got through 1/3 of gender troubles at least when I started it. Gonna have to restart it but it’ll only make my brain stronger 
Gender Trouble’s prose is so bad, like winner of a bad writing award bad levels. (Admittedly that award is more just indicative of the perpetual war of Philosophy between continentals and analytics but still) Butler’s writing just… Isn’t super great. Like when I find fucking Kierkegaard and his deliberately indirect writing easier to read there is a problem.
Also doesn’t help that a lot of people reading Gender Trouble lack the assumed academic background for it, given that it’s building off of plenty of the big continentals. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen anyone online even comment on Butler’s takes on object/subject distinctions, for instance, even though I think it’s lowkey one of the most interesting parts of the text and an integral reason for why they argue their notion of gender is necessary (and the first one that made me really critical of it, since I don’t think their critique actually stands very well, I think Butler misreads Hegel and when read in that respect a lot of their other theory breaks down a little imo, but that’s neither here nor there)
Basically I wouldn’t take finding Butler difficult as a sign of not being smart, this is stuff that people need a lot of background to really understand and it isn’t expressed very clearly in their writing.
had a feeling something was missing on my end still
going to the first point the most I know on hagel was some yt vids so my understanding is shallow
I do like continuing my attempts but I’m glad you cleared this up, philosophy isn’t so much my weak point academically but non existent. I still try since I’ve heard high praise of gender trouble from a friend tho and word of mouth is how I find new things to tackle