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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.

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Folklore read live!

The Scottish Cinderella is similar to the one you know!
Except with more grim horror!

Find out why LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/ZLrH_t7cSfo

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Folklore read live!

In these tales, the Fae grant wishes for adventure by forcing people into felony kidnapping.

Hear the stories LIVE right now: https://youtube.com/live/ES7Ufj4XQeM

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Folklore read live!

Johnny Redbreast is a bird that makes the poor rich!
The REAL "Robin" Hood!

Find out LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/SfgL5HUlDbk

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indiewriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #lotr #fantasy #france #french #normandy #brittany #Redbreast #dwarve

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Folklore read live!

Tragic romantic fan-fiction about an 8th century warrior?
What's better for Valentine's?

Hear the weepy old folklore tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/5aY0J173lLM

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #iceland #prince #princess #fantasy #romance #romantic #tragedy

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Folklore read live!

What are the Danish Nisse? Did they inspire "house elves"?

Hear tales about them LIVE right NOW : https://youtube.com/live/RYwNBZ4P_es

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #fantasy #Denmark #Danish #Nisse #Kobold #Sweden #tomte #elves #elf

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HORROR Folklore read live!

Have you heard the tale of the tall man in Murder Alley?
Or of the hare that tears off their hunter's arms?

Catch up on Ancient Cryptids LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/12h8ZlDdvuA

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Folklore read live!

What hides in a volcano? Tectonics plates? Or angry trolls in magic underwear?
(It's obviously trolls, Science.)

Tales of lava [& Xmas] LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/rM8FAfXRc44

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #iceland #trolls #volcano #eruption #icelandvolcano #xmas #christmas #winter

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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

You are a drunk hobbit walking home through the snowy Shire.
These days strange folk are on these roads.
Will you make it home?

Let's Stagger through the Shire LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/Qt32kGKxoWQ

#writingcommunity #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #litgames #amwriting #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #pathfinder #itchio #Xmas #Christmas #hobbit #lotr #lordoftherings #tolkien

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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

The PERFECT cozy Solo #DnD game for when there's a foot of snow outside and you're sick!

Join the Adventure LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/eL4j8PXq0Jk

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #litgames #amwriting #amreading #vancouverwriters #canlit #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeonsanddragons #dungeon #itchio #pockethex #hexcrawl

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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

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Folklore read live!

The Hulder Folk are ill-defined spirits born from the chaos of the wilds--NOT just "seductive forest creatures", Wikipedia!

Learn how the Wikipedia entry errs LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/y22HRg42OE8

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Tonight's stories will feature translations by:

@SimonRoyHughes

You can support him by buying his translations here: https://www.amazon.ca/Simon-Roy-Hughes/e/B01MFGZOUH/

Do please consider supporting the work of translators! You get great stories for only a couple of bucks!

Storytellers like me really depend on translators, so if you like what I do, that's a major part of the infrastructure I need to do it!

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"BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink warned of a looming “retirement crisis” facing the US and called on baby boomers to help younger generations save enough for their own futures.

That, he said, will prevent them from becoming disillusioned with capitalism and politics in coming years."

Because "disillusionment with #Capitalism " is the real problem here!

https://fortune.com/2024/03/26/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-boomers-fix-retirement-crisis-millennials-gen-z-economically-anxious/

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@juergen_hubert

Just saw this in our local paper. Notable here, the National Post is a right wing rag:

"A secret RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police - our federal police force] report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are

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Folklore read live!

Everyone wants the "Victory Stone" in this Celtic fairytale!
Why though? What does it even do?

Find out LIVE right NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/JSnUqYBL37w

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Folklore read live!

The one who buries you learns a lot of tales.
Maybe he'll tell you them when you're cold and in the soil.

Hear one of Asbjørnsen's best tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/GHJyFPC1inM

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #fantasy #grave #gravedigger #Asbjørnsen #hulder

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Tonight's stories will feature translations by:

@SimonRoyHughes

You can support him by buying his translations here: https://www.amazon.ca/Simon-Roy-Hughes/e/B01MFGZOUH/

Do please consider supporting the work of translators! You get great stories for only a couple of bucks!

Storytellers like me really depend on translators, so if you like what I do, that's a major part of the infrastructure I need to do it!

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Folklore read live!

Have you ever wondered why trolls turn to stone in the sunlight?

Hear a tale that illuminates this LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/v1kCyEWm16I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #fantasy #Trolls #Iceland #Icelandic #Troll #Hobbit #lordoftherings

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

You are members of the National Parks Service. Also, you are wizards.

Come manage a magical park LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/Fhwc0N4CdvI

#writingcommunity #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #litgames #amwriting #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #writingadvice #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeonsanddragons #dungeon #itchio #plants #forage #cozy #cozyvibes #wizard #parks

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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,
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Tonight's stories will feature translations by:

@juergen_hubert

His Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/sunkencastles/​​

Please consider supporting the work of translators! You get great stories every month for a couple of bucks.

Storytellers like me really depend on translators, so if you like what I do, that's a major part of the infrastructure I need to do it!

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

A blackjack game about a heartbroken necromancer.

Join the absurd tragedy LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/toHLcCVcy2Q

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #litgames #amwriting #amreading #vancouverwriters #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeonsanddragons #dungeon #itchio #cozy #cozyvibes #necromancer #heretic #blackjack

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Folklore read live!

The noble prince is a trope, but is an evil prince one as well?

Hear two tales about evil princes LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/6o1gQD6X6Uw

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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!

How many cats will we get across the plains?

Saddle up, "Cat"-boy, & get scratched LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/a1Jvfq3RThI

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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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Tonight's Show ALSO includes a reading of a passage from this article by the incomparable @SimonRoyHughes :

https://folklorethursday.com/folklife/aurora-borealis-the-northern-lights-in-the-north/

rorystarr,
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Tonight's stories will feature translations by:

@juergen_hubert
His Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/sunkencastles/​​

Please consider supporting the work of translators! You get great stories every month for a couple of bucks.

Storytellers like me really depend on translators, so if you like what I do, that's a major part of the infrastructure I need to do it!

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