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Valerie Raith

@wraithstrike.bsky.social

Nerdy New England Transwoman. She/Her. Loves Tokusatsu, TTRPGs, Food Network, Board Games, and writing. https://ko-fi.com/wraithstrike/commissions -Commission me to write TTRPGs for you!

created October 17, 2024

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Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I enjoyed what I saw, but suffered from a sensory overload as every character's speech overlaid with every other character's and it just kept building until my brain hit its limit. I want to finish it, but I don't think I'll be able to do it in one sitting, which ruins the experience.

3/9/2025, 12:28:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Had a strange thing happen to me Monday night: Movie night with the friend squad, and the movie playing was "Noises Off." This is a very well-written comedy of errors, with Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve and and John Ritter.

3/9/2025, 12:28:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sophie Pilbeam πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ (@sophiepilbeam.bsky.social) reposted

This is exactly how something called "Derzerb" should look. No notes.

It's Derzerb! He's kind of a rhino and kind of a beetle and he looks mad and not very smart.
2/9/2025, 1:24:46 PM | 73 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Remember, Nogami Ryoutarou is never more than six feet away from an absurd pratfall.

2/9/2025, 8:51:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought he was a guy on a bizarre adventure.

2/9/2025, 7:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Respect for the short one's philosophy.

2/9/2025, 7:11:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Me to my players when I've given them a challenging fight, and they're only on the first of three phases.

2/9/2025, 7:06:45 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Carrying on from this thought: They didn't need to shoehorn him into the Gonzo/Rizzo duo. Those two can, and have carried movies by themselves.

2/9/2025, 7:05:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Everybody who played Cassette Beasts will get that.

2/9/2025, 4:19:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Pictured here; The Agent: My friends' insecurities and self-loathing. Vram: Me. The Vrambreaker: My love and admiration for them.

2/9/2025, 3:44:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Phantom Menace is great. But it could be amazing if Jar-Jar was a soldier, not a fool. If he had been banished from the Gungan City for daring to say they should help the surface dwellers, and met the jedi while he was laying traps for the droids, it would have been the best Star Wars ever.

2/9/2025, 3:41:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm pretty sure he wrote "The Last Unicorn."

2/9/2025, 12:45:15 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The item shows you how to access the real doors and sneak around the level boss to beat him without a fight.

1/9/2025, 9:04:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The truth you discover is that the walls you thought were fake are actually the doors to the other areas in the game, and the doors you have been passing through are illusory. Each time you pass through a "door" the boss of the area has been learning your combat style.

1/9/2025, 9:04:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Video Game concept: Metroidvania where each area you enter has the hallmarks of fake walls in obvious places, but only three of the potentially fake walls are fake. However, behind each of these fake walls is a part of an object that reveals a truth about the first area.

1/9/2025, 9:04:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I say it needs its own name. Like "Valen Vault", or "Hanto Punto"

1/9/2025, 6:48:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

"It's time to separate the art from the artist" said The Punisher as he chainsawed the Joker's hands off at the wrist.

1/9/2025, 5:30:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

#Muppets thought: Pepe was better as part of a duo with Seymour on Muppets Tonight. Take away the elephant, and Pepe the King Prawn becomes a one-note character.

1/9/2025, 5:24:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Here's the general ideas I have for #Magi-Knights Episodes featuring "The Wordsmith" 1st: Save missing people from the Wordsmith 's fictional world. 2nd: Iron Chef meets Jumanji. 3rd: Star Trek/Magical Girls pastiche 4th: The Wordsmith 's fictional world has been targeted by Outsiders.

1/9/2025, 5:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

A group of aphantasia sufferers, sent to prison for indescribable crimes.

1/9/2025, 4:49:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

It was funny. Odin actually made two appearances in my campaign. The first was when he was Another-fied, and the second was when the Zi-o Riders needed help in breaking through a temporal barrier set up by Kronos. And while Odin was busy negating the pause power, Zi-o stole the Survive cards.

1/9/2025, 10:12:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Things I believe every trans woman should have: 1) Affordable access to HRT 2) A primary care doctor who doesn't second guess her 3) Quick wait time for surgeries 4) At least one Damascus steel sword or dagger 5) A supportive TTRPG group 6) Tickets to GenCon, Comic-Con and/or Power Morphicon

1/9/2025, 9:56:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Why was my tabletop version of Kamen Rider Zi-o better than the canon version? Lots of reasons, but here's one of the terrifying ones: ANOTHER ODIN.

1/9/2025, 1:33:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The Wu-Tang Clan.

1/9/2025, 1:28:47 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

My Brain: #NoMansSky Board Game, maybe? Me: So you want a boardgame where the box is five times bigger than Kingdom Death's, where the gameplay manual is thicker than Joy of Cooking, and where a campaign of the game would take five time the development cycle of Silksong? My Brain: Yeeeeees.

1/9/2025, 1:04:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Me, as a D&D DM: Ok, before you begin, are you bringing up some broken "hack" you saw in a short form video? The player: Well... Me: No. Full Stop. If you're gonna bend the rules to do something awesome, put some thought into it! I want you to make me say "That awesome, do it!" Not "Not this again!"

31/8/2025, 6:52:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

At least he's not Sarubrother level broke.

31/8/2025, 3:40:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Hoeru clearly goes to Takumi for his dry-cleaning. Takumi is the best at getting bloodstains out.

31/8/2025, 2:35:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

That would mean admitting they're not the best at something. TOEI can't do that.

31/8/2025, 1:42:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Frankly, with this group, I'm surprised homoromanticism was only the third option.

31/8/2025, 1:38:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

How do five magical girls free five civilians who are trapped in the lives of fictional characters? In last night's #Magi-Knights game, the answer was "by editing their introductory paragraphs through nonsense, non-existence, homoromanticism, infodumping and a safe and happy retirement."

31/8/2025, 1:38:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Any excuse to post the Zi-O Campaign Memes, I'll do it.

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30/8/2025, 11:34:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Post a Meme You Made:

30/8/2025, 11:25:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Only if you're Ben Grimm talking to Alicia Masters.

30/8/2025, 11:20:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

A Borzoi is what you get when Evolution says "We need an anteater" and all you have is dog.

30/8/2025, 8:43:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

All things horny are also wholesome so long as all involved consent.

30/8/2025, 8:13:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

If Miller got injured in a knife fight, it wouldn't kill him. He'd have to be staked through what passes for a heart.

30/8/2025, 7:58:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

I posted the story about the cinema doing the "Treadmills for The Long Walk" bit to my main discord and the general consensus was "I'd try it."

30/8/2025, 6:24:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 4:43:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

His name is Jules Gordon, aka Kamen Rider Chuu. He has a silver Gavv, and his final form is called Prix Fixe.

30/8/2025, 4:40:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

4) Had permanent Gochizo, based on savory and rich foods he cooked himself. 5)Worked behind the scenes to help Granute recover from their Dark Treat addiction and make restitution to the human families they had hurt. I had made him a combination of Chairman Kaga, Gordon Ramsey and Anton Ego.

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Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

When Kamen Rider Gavv's story first came out, I created an OC for that world who turned out to be the Anti-Shouma. He 1) had a human father and Granute mother 2) Understood addiction, because his father was a two pack a day smoker 3) Loved food in all types because he was a chef

30/8/2025, 4:40:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

First question: How many aides does it take to get his body into the golf cart? Second question: Who's cheating for him?

30/8/2025, 3:04:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. I admit it. But it just doesn't feel fun to me if I need to have a hand trap card to actually do things, especially knowing that pretty much every one of those decks has the same hand traps to prevent hand trap play.

30/8/2025, 2:57:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I tried to get back into it by playing Master Duel. Really enjoyed the Trickstar play style. But in twenty games against randos, I only got to take my first turn three times.

30/8/2025, 2:53:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

No, just someone who watched until 5Ds and fell out of playing before Master Rule 4.

30/8/2025, 2:49:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought that reaction was limited to Dark Magician Girl.

30/8/2025, 2:45:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🎸🀘🏻🎧 Jan 🎧🀘🏻🎸 (@borntorock4it.bsky.social) reposted

#HardRock #HeavyMetal #musicsky #metalsky ... From the mist, a shape, a ship, is taking form And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm Sign of power, show of force Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVWE...

30/8/2025, 11:16:05 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Anime Idea: Anne of Green Gables Became a Heroine in a Sentai World.

30/8/2025, 11:34:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Imagine Philip from Kamen Rider W encountering a Gochizo for the first time.

30/8/2025, 10:27:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Anybody got the gif from Kingohger of Desnarak VIII dragging Kamejim to the underworld? I need it for reasons.

30/8/2025, 9:40:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

I woke up thirty minutes ago, and realized I'm too excited for tonight's game session to go back to bed.

30/8/2025, 9:24:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Much as I enjoy that last phrase as a metaphor, I really wish it was literal.

30/8/2025, 9:22:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

In little less than a day from now, I'll be playtesting the adventure I've been writing for the Magi-Knights Community Content Program. I want to share this with as many friends as possible. If you want to listen in tomorrow night at 8:30 Eastern, hit me up on Discord!

30/8/2025, 1:47:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought the first season was good. That's as far as I know, sadly.

29/8/2025, 9:37:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

God, I remember that one. It ended with her being happy in her new body and living without regrets, right?

29/8/2025, 8:55:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The phrase "Navy Parade" makes me think of all destroyers, battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines transforming like Autobots l and matching in single file just to flip him off.

29/8/2025, 2:23:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Even with 50% odds, I wouldn't risk it on Wheel of Fortune as often.

29/8/2025, 2:17:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Moose. Alternate Dimension Doppelgangers who are also Addams. The Crippling weight of being the most amazing people in their city. Starship crash landings.

29/8/2025, 2:15:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

I had this idea for a Good Mythical Morning episode, where the boys would have to guess correctly on a Super Sentai multiple choice quiz game. The episode title I thought of was "Our Lack of Experience May Be Showing, But Have We Seen Enough Sentai To Know Where This Is Going?"

29/8/2025, 2:09:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to time travel to the era of B-Fighter and tell people "Hey, there's going to be a bug-themed Sentai."

29/8/2025, 2:01:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

You know, with Slay the Spire 2 coming out, now would be a great time for someone to release a GokaiRed or Don Momotaro mod for Slay the Spire. Just saying...

29/8/2025, 12:08:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

One of my favorite villain moments in a campaign: The villain, Saberlot, has just met with an informant Informant: "I did all this for my family." Saberlot: "Oh of course! Artie! Make sure Mister Iscariot's family gets this money. And make doubly sure they know how he earned it."

28/8/2025, 9:42:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Why bring this up? Because if we could combine these two forms of punishment and make Republicans relive the last moments of school shooting victims,ten thousand times in an hour, we'd no longer be the country where this keeps happening.

28/8/2025, 9:32:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

In Star Trek Voyager, Tom Paris is accused of murder and has to relive a reconstructed version of the victim's last moments. In DS9, Miles O'Brien is accused of a crime and has to live out decades of punishment in his mind in short time.

28/8/2025, 9:32:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

You know, seeing yet another No Man's Sky update makes me glad I picked that one as my on-again, off-again game. There is literally no way I will ever do everything the game has to offer. And I love that.

28/8/2025, 7:38:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Your Kangaroos should run for office.

28/8/2025, 7:32:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

You can say "Ninja Magic Shark Motorcycle Railgun" and anyone who's seen Kakuranger will know what you're talking about about, and and five to ten year-olds around will not know it, but will think it's the coolest phrase ever

28/8/2025, 5:12:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

Congrats!

28/8/2025, 12:45:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate the fact that this could be verbatim.

28/8/2025, 12:26:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Three scenes you can show to someone to guarantee they'll get into Pretty Cure: 1) Cure Beauty vs Joker 2) Cure Flora's first fight 3) Cure Moonlight's return

28/8/2025, 12:07:58 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Three things that are guaranteed to pull newbies into Kamen Rider: 1) The Kuuga Beatdown 2) The jazz riff at the beginning of W-B-X 3) "If fighting is a sin, then let me damned."

27/8/2025, 11:54:20 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

One thing I've always wondered: Does the Crimson Smash cone just stay there until he passes through? Could he possibly drop the cone on let's say a Granute and just throw a ten yen coin into the cone to get his point across?

27/8/2025, 11:28:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

If that worked, you must have a really hot oven.

27/8/2025, 11:21:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The suits in Faiz are best described by the line from Phineas and Ferb "Sleek, Stylish, and Completely Undetectable by RADAR."

27/8/2025, 11:20:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Me: *sees the Oceanliner Designs video of "What if Lusitania hit Titanic's Iceberg" and posts it for friends to view.* One Friend: What's Lusitania? Other Friends: *not so gently encourage that friend to watch the video and read* (You should watch the video, but the short answer is: It's worse.)

27/8/2025, 11:01:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

One thing I still wish I had seen at the end of Kamen Rider Ex-aid: Hiiro and Taiga walking down the hall of the hospital, passing by a door that reads "Doctor Hojo Emu."

27/8/2025, 10:52:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

More media needs to have Hakaider references.

27/8/2025, 10:42:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd probably want to smell Green Hill more than I'd want to smell Silent Hill.

27/8/2025, 3:13:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Hmm. What if Gozyu Polar is writer's commentary on studio interference? I see it this way because, Gozyu Polar: 1) Complicates matters 2) Claims to know better than the ones doing the real work. 3) Believes money can solve everything 4) Distracts from the story.

27/8/2025, 2:52:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

The best part about the core Den-o Forms is how the armor parts are modular, like the weapons, with only the helmet pieces being different.

27/8/2025, 1:51:13 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

*wakes up to news about Taylor Swift* *briefly reads her feed* That's nice for them. *goes back to work on writing*

27/8/2025, 1:16:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

I believe that if Superman were to meet Kamen Rider Ichigo, Superman would ask for an autograph and he would put that autograph in a place of honor next to the Bottle City of Kandor.

27/8/2025, 1:09:26 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I know what it says about me: Sunshine: A girl who had to hide her femininity for family obligations. Rosetta: A belief that the rich should use their money for the betterment of others. Macaron: Finding something to strive for is a way to save your soul.

27/8/2025, 12:27:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

When I watch a Pretty Cure series with more than three Cures, I don't usually latch on to the leads as my favorite. Suite Pretty Cure is the exception. In Heartcatch, my favorite was Cure Sunshine. In DokiDoki, Cure Rosetta. In Kirakira, Cure Macaron. What does this say about me?

27/8/2025, 11:57:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

You know those scenes in tokusatsu where the hero gets clobbered so hard it shatters their helmet and you can see their wounded, bleeding face through the cracks? I love those scenes and I'd love to orchestrate a scene like that in a TTRPG.

27/8/2025, 11:35:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

It's a rare feeling, certainly, but designing new material for my favorite TTRPG and then having the creator of the game love it lifts my spirits.

27/8/2025, 11:22:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 12:54:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

My reaction to K-Pop Demon Hunters: I never got into K-Pop. I never cared for Supernatural and only barely interacted with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Asking, suggesting or begging me to watch KPDH for a fourteenth time isn't going to make me want to.

25/8/2025, 9:07:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I already take offense at everything he does.

25/8/2025, 7:37:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Me: I need to focus... My brain: JJBA with the stands named after the songs in The Rocky Horror Picture Show... Me: Nope. Gonna put that on Bluesky and let the true nerds figure it out.

25/8/2025, 7:36:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Yeah, the French audio version of Superman sounds like Lex Luthor is orgasming every time he gets to punch Superman in the face. Have you considered, though, that the English audio sounds like that too?

25/8/2025, 5:21:42 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social) reply parent

I had a player like that. It's how a squadron of Marines airdropped into Disney World to save survivors of the zombie outbreak wound up with a Duckboat with an auto-tracking fireball turret mounted to it.

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"I seek only to understand this thing humans call Art. How they take their own transience and create things that will outlive them. How they create worlds within worlds to share with people they never meet. That is what I want to understand." The Wordsmith, my foe for Saturday's #Magi-Knights game.

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He cannot 🐻 the weight of being so lame.

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Repost with a Group you'd love to hang out with

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Profile picture Valerie Raith (@wraithstrike.bsky.social)

Two of the dreams I had last night: Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a car, but the bridge was made out of rope. Throwing Knives at Ren Faire, but one of the knives went backwards and accidentally parried the sword swallower's act.

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The three best things about the boy wizard franchise are Daniel, Emma and Rupert.

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Return to Oz

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