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rorystarr

@rorystarr@mstdn.social

A writer with a website: https://varietal-literature.ca/

I was there for the collapse of LiveJournal, MySpace, Google Plus, and now Twitter.

I also host two livestreams a week. One where I read folklore with sfx & drama. The other where I write using Solo TTRPGs & live chat suggestions.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

rorystarr, to music
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We defunded high school #arts and #music programs so now we have adults that think an #ai algorithm can make art rather than meaningless sensory noise.

The sheer lack of grasp on why anyone enjoys art or where it even comes from is a condemnation of our whole culture, honestly.

rorystarr, to cooking
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Carrying on with my (medically necessary) journeys in #celiac friendly dishes, this spicy chicken and apple salad turned out more balanced than its parts would lead you to believe. I have attached both recipes you need to make it. Requires some prep, but is overall easy. Partner found it too sour but she's very sensitive any acid in food.

Recipe is from Cannelle et Vanille: Nourishing, Gluten-Free Recipes for Every Meal and Mood https://a.co/d/f0LETOe

#cooking #meal #glutenfree

rorystarr, to gaming
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Pulled this from a discord server I'm in. Examples we came up with:

Moist tiny hut
Moist Spray
Moist Friendship
Moist Missile
Create Moist
Moist Growth
Moistball

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
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Folklore read live!

Are the fairies a force for good or a TOTAL MENACE!?

Hear these two Scottish tales & decide tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/564OLRWgqVo

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indiewriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #lotr #fantasy #scotland #scottish #fairies #princess

rorystarr, (edited ) to vancouver
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A write-along stream!

In this Solo TTRPG, you write journals to cope with your idiot roommate.

Join in the misery @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST: https://youtube.com/live/3d-tMYYphkw

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along stream!

In this game, we write internet product reviews with coded love letters.

BUT, Subtext is key since The Algorithm swallows inappropriate messages.

LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/jtZOkYwbePk

rorystarr, to random
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@SimonRoyHughes

Hello Simon,

I am scouring about for tales of transformation. Whether that is from man to animal, animal to man, man to something else entirely. I'm not really sure what terms or tropes deal with that in Norwegian lore. Are there any tales or concepts you could recommend from your collections?

Thank you,
Rory

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

Will you brave the dangers that lurk within a Trove?
(This solo D&D game is awesome!)

Join in LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/RGdB_8ZbyTk

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #livestream #litgames #amwriting #vancouverwriters #canlit #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeonsanddragons #dungeon #itchio #cozy #cozyvibes #roguelike #roguelite

rorystarr, to random
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I will never not reshare this legendary #fail. Not new, but consistently hilarious.

rorystarr, to cooking
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I made a Volga #German classic: Bierocks. I am not Volga German, or German/Russian at all, but I learned about them in this Max Miller video: https://youtu.be/h_xqJtGWvhg

Anyways, this #recipe did require a lot of kneading but otherwise was simple #cooking that made several days of delicious #food.

The Bierocks assembled and read to bake, which is just round pale dough blobs on a cookie sheet.
The toasted brown Bierocks on a cooling rack
A Bierock cut in half to show a layer of soft dough with the filling in a bubble of thin dough on top.

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

Rifts have opened to an entirely new world of strange creatures.
It's time to write a script for David Attenborough that explains them all!

Write-Along about Weird Creatures LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/jBRYFWBxErA

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #indie #fiction #livestream #litgames #amwriting #canlit #writealong #TTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeon #itchio #ExquisiteBiome #NatureDocumentary #DavidAttenborough

rorystarr, to random
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The problem ppl often have with Mastodon is it requires you to build something when for the last 13 years a few corporate conglomerates--using a massive shared database of user data via Google--have been doing it for you.

Or more accurately, have been manipulating your dopamine cycle in bubbles that steer you to their advertisers.

Fediverse isn't going away at this point, but I do think that most ppl will lack the ability to alter their expectations of social media so they can enjoy it here

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along stream!

You are a lonely scrapper that finds a frozen old colony ship in a system abandoned by the corps. Surely, this is your lucky day!

Surely...

See what we find LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/dUiQfGlFxAw

rorystarr, to Instagram
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My friends send me links to #Instagram videos and everytime--every single time--the comments are ppl trying to "cancel" the poster on the thinnest premises.

Funny video of a cat rolling off a couch? Animal abuse.

Woman does her own silly dance? Cultural appropriation.

Kid did something funny you filmed? Child abuse.

I'm not whining about cancel culture here. This is an Instagram-specific culture of outrage. Worse, these ppl are often wrong about the facts & corrected in the first reply.

rorystarr, (edited ) to ethelcain
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A write-along stream!

In this solo TTRPG, stale air makes our deep breaths shallow. Will we see the sun again?

Or will the dice make those depths our grave?

Help write our tale LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/RFeZYIRtnmQ

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
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Folklore read live!

In this odd tale, a great Christian Cathedral is built by the DEVIL at the behest of the town.

Find out why LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/uE_5uUJimZo

rorystarr, (edited ) to vancouver
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A write-along stream!

In this Solo TTRPG, you're a solitary shepherd sent to guard your master’s flock of a thousand sheep.

Will they all make it?

Join the writing LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/d9q68R-ZKzU

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
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Folklore read live!

Who the heck is "Pumphut?
And why does Germany have a dozen tales about him?

Hear the tales tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/JwM0wZ28I_w

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #fantasy #German #Pumphut #Faust #Faustian #FaustianBargain #Goethe

rorystarr, to random
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Before you start apologizing for Nazis, ask yourself this: "Why am I like this?"

Then stop it. Stop trying to find the soft heart at the core of every Nazi. It doesn't matter how a person gets there, it matters what they do and what they did was murder civilians.

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
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Folklore read live!

Could you get a band of robbers to till your fields for free?

Come hear of the Wise Woman that did tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/sf8om-Ma0rY

rorystarr, to mastodon
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#Mastodon is slow today. And when the #Fediverse slows down you know what we say: what did #Musk do now?

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along/TTRPG Play stream!

You are an Exclusion Zone botanist.
You have until sunset to document plants & get out!
Stay too long & mutate into a plant...

Sketch & Write w/us LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/-ATa7_kSfC0

rorystarr, (edited ) to story
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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

T'was a busy year of book sales for Mr. Fox & his floating bookshop.
But now, as he closes for Xmas, a customer is rushing forth for just one more gift...

Let's play a Cozy TTRPG LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/RcOgukqUfQA

rorystarr, to random
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Everyday on this app I see a "Cat Fact" that seems scientifically impossible to verify. Like, today one said, "cats love to hear you say their own name!"

Really? Is that what they told you? How could we possibly test that? There's never any citation.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Science

rorystarr, (edited ) to books
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Folklore read live!

These saintly defenders of the High Alp's fauna live under vaults of glittering crystal!
But why do they leave paradise to help us?

Find LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/6yoYAvMGaXA

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indiewriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #lotr #fantasy #German #germany #fairies #princess

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