The Lady Laughs

disorganized musical flailing 35

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:21:38 GMT

tonight we have the Crooked Moon campaign, so here's a song for my skeleton boy Jabo:

Jabo lost his soul to a demon after a fiddle contest gone wrong, and now that he's died it's time for an eternity of servitude in the afterlife. he thinks he's ruthless enough to do anything to stay on that demon's good side, but unfortunately the party he found himself working with is challenging him on that already. one is a grandmother witch who gave him a cookie; another is the father of a young daughter. he doesn't want to know anything about these people, let alone like them, and it concerns him because the demon could always be listening or watching in order to keep him in line. it's a pretty bad position to have found himself in. it's only going to get more complicated from here. I'm loving the process of Jabo twisting in the wind.

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another fic happened when I was supposed to be working on the novel

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:59:04 GMT

so my grave cleric Tali got laid in our Vecna: Eve of Ruin game this last Friday, and I apparently got possessed by the spirit of pornography because I wrote roughly 6k of Tali getting his groove back with a friendly paladin NPC. I'm posting it on AO3 and linking it here with the understanding that nobody is under any obligation to actually READ the totally shameless PWP: bedroom hymns.

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disorganized TTRPG musical flailing 34

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:30:38 GMT

tonight is the night for Eve of Vecna, the d&d game that's a continuation of our Curse of Strahd campaign, and this is a song I've been listening to and thinking of Tali the grave cleric:

( rambling under the cut )

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disorganized TTRPG musical flailing 33

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:38:58 GMT

it's a new campaign start day! we're playing The Crooked Moon, a folk horror by the people behind Legends of Avantris. what I've seen of their work (I've been watching the Actual Play that inspired the module) has been really creepy and cool, so I'm very excited to be traumatized.

the character I'm playing is Jabo, a hobgoblin from the Forgotten Realms who dies and gets dragged to this terrible afterlife where he becomes a living skeleton. the whole concept of his character is that he's basically Johnny from The Devil Went Down to Georgia, except he lost the fiddle contest and therefore his soul. (I always liked the devil's solo best, personally, for all that Johnny's is apparently a lot more difficult on a technical level and he basically beat the devil's ass.) Jabo is a ruthless little con artist with a cocky streak, and I love him very much.

a song that makes me think of him:

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:07:15 GMT

this is mostly blorbo-related posting, but I've had this stuck in my head for the last few days because of the cold despite the fact that it's not nearly winter yet:

(yes, I'm also thinking of Kristoff and Dalton's five-year separation before the campaign starts. Dalton is resigned to prison for life; he thinks it's safer for everyone if he's there. per the DM, Kristoff refused to give up on him even if he struggled to find a solution. the campaign starts with Dalton getting out. I'm looking forward to them finally seeing each other again, to say the least.)

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Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:12:54 GMT

I've got nothing much concrete to say today, but I'm in a music sharing mood, so here's this song I listened to on repeat while writing and that has been consequently stuck in my head for days. the artist used to be the bass singer in Pentatonix who left to do his own thing, and it's pretty awesome:

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more of that backstory fic

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:58:26 GMT

because I have no chill, I have written the second part of two of the backstory fic for my oath of redemption paladin Dalton and his prince-turned-thief Kristoff. this one is set about a year after the first. there is much gay pining between the prince and his paladin if you're into that kind of thing. I also decided to post it on AO3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the Bastard is borrowed from Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion series, which I would highly recommend.

( in which Dalton has a very long day and certain promises are made )

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so I wrote a fic

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:08:15 GMT

one of my d&d campaigns, Arvandor, is wrapping up around March. T's been homebrewing a new campaign about fucked up fairy tales and I've been revamping a character I played in previous oneshots on a different server, an oath of redemption paladin named Dalton. as I sometimes do, I accidentally created a minor obsession and ended up writing fic about his backstory. I'm not putting it on AO3 yet, I don't think, but I'm going to put it here because why not:

( cut for self-indulgent backstory exploration of my own OC from 6 years before the campaign starts )

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FIC: the moon will sing (12/?)

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:57:58 GMT

Fic: the moon will sing (12/?)
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
Rating: Mature
Summary: In which Skink gets his crooked tail. Set a few months before Skink makes his deal with Eilistraee and leaves Baldur's Gate. Content warnings for depiction of torture.

chapter 12

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three weeks postop

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:51:42 GMT

( recovering slowly )

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week two!

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:11:34 GMT

( in which I am frustrated )

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day 8

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:36:42 GMT

( went to my postop! )

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day 6

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:23:19 GMT

( doing mostly okay )

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day 5

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:43:58 GMT

( nothing much to report )

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day 4

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:25:32 GMT

( medical stuff )

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day 3

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:47:30 GMT

( day 3! )

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day 2

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:43:34 GMT

( day 2 postop )

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day 1 postop

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:25:39 GMT

I live!

( surgery ramblings )

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top surgery ramble

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:15:39 GMT

( one week! )

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disorganized TTRPG musical flailing 34

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:51:44 GMT

it's the day for our Frostmaiden campaign, barring schedule disasters, so here's a song that reminds me of my paladin Skink:

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top surgery update again

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:36:01 GMT

( top surgery ramble )

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disorganized TTRPG musical flailing 33

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:46:52 GMT

our characters from the Curse of Strahd module are coming back tonight after an 8 month hiatus to continue in the Vecna: Eve of Ruin module. therefore, here's a song for my grave cleric Tali, and it seems appropriate for a depressed priest of the Raven Queen:

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Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:43:54 GMT

( another top surgery update )

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Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:28:25 GMT

I haven't posted about the secret project for a bit, between my father's death and top surgery preparations, but I've been poking at it again. I found this song that's almost eerily appropriate for it:

(particularly the part about "the gods we thought were dying were just sharpening their blades" because Penn is doomed to be entangled with gods no matter which universe he's in.)

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Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:46:53 GMT

update: I have survived the funeral. nothing terrible happened aside from some guilt-trips. nobody made a scene. huzzah!

now I'm getting a drink in the hotel bar because fuck this day. XD

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