Walkin’ in a Winter Faerieland…

Merry Christmas, everyone, and a happy holidays to y’all that don’t celebrate it!

With video gaming, other projects besides the Arkadenverse, taking care of my grandmother’s health issues, and my readthrough of Like Lambs to the Slaughter (which will no longer be on a weekly schedule; sorry, I tried to keep myself on a set schedule, but trying to tie myself to one just makes it feel like work), I haven’t exactly made huge leaps and bounds on any Arkadenverse sourcebooks. Still, I wanted to give something, so I thought to those PDFs with a handful of entries, typically 10 to 13, that are put out by various companies. And you know what? I decided to try one myself!

So, for the 12 fey of Christmas, my PDF gives to thee…

*The asrai, a graceful water spirit of the United Kingdom.

*The barbegazi of the Swiss Alps, a strange frosty gnome with massive feet.

*The baobhan sith, a beautiful but deadly vampiric Unseelie fey.

*The changeling, a sickly replacement for people that are “faerie-taken”.

*The rude and crude clurichaun, a relative of the leprechaun that gains power from magical brews.

*The daoine sidhe, haughty remnants of the mighty kingdom of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

*The grindylow, a far-reaching kidnapper found in English waterways.

*The infamous man-eating kelpie of the Scottish lochs.

*The treasure-hungry korred, a brutish and unkempt fey of Celtic lore that guards the wealth and riches of times long past.

*The nain rouge, an impish creature that torments humans during blizzards.

*Unseelie Creature, a template bestowed upon those that are marked with the power of the king of the Unseelie Court himself.

*The urisk, a tiny craftsman fey with a dark side.

So, download Winter Faerieland: 12 Fey of the Northlands to your heart’s content, and if you like the idea of these little “one shot PDFs” to tide between my admittedly very slow release schedule of larger things, feel free to comment on it.

 

Rappy Reads Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Chapter 3, Part 1-Wherein Psychology is Bashed as “the Occult”

Apologies for a rather short page today, but I haven’t been feeling very well, slept the afternoon away, and would rather be doing anything else than reading this tripe.

Now that Like Lambs to the Slaughter has dedicated a chapter on “the Humanist Conspiracy” to the supposed evils of education, it’s only fitting that this chapter, “Your Teacher the Occultist?” is less about teaching and more about piling blame on clinical psychology on the rise of the occult.

Before I go into this chapter in earnest, though, I’d like to share a personal story. As

 

Rappy Reads Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Chapter 2-Those Darn Occult Humanists

This is a fairly short and repetitive chapter, but it has enough of the eye-burningly stupid to have its own post. Welcome to chapter 2 of Like Lambs to the Slaughter, provocatively entitled “The Humanist Conspiracy”. Yes, because

 

Rappy Reads Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Chapter 1, Part 2-The He-Man Horseman

Welcome back to peering into the abyss that is Like Lambs to the Slaughter! After some deliberation, I decided it would be most apt to update this series on Wednesdays and Sundays (other than those Wednesdays and Sundays when I’m busy), with my RPG reviews and other topics getting updates on other days only. So, after a first page of content showing a connection to Hal Lindsay and extolling the evils of Smurfs, what does the next entry of chapter 1 hold for us?

 

Rappy Reads Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Chapter 1, Part 1-Dare to be Stupid

The people have spoken. I originally had a more grandiose opening to this post, but it was eaten by a WordPress fail, so let’s just cut the crap and get into this…well, crap. It’s time to start our look at Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Your Child and the Occult, by Johanna Michaelsen.

If you were not a child of the ’80s, you may not remember the

 

Rappy Reads Fundamentalist Literature

So, if you haven’t noticed lately, and you surely have, I’ve got a beef. That beef is with intolerance and bigotry cloaking itself under religion as if it were a Kryptonian cape. As such, I plan on interspersing my already-present review and ranting categories with one specifically dedicated to religious fundamentalism’s fail fiction and “knowledge books”. Now, I’m not the first one to do this. Indeed, I stand on the shoulders of giants such as Slacktivist (oh hey, there’s talk of John Hagee again), Heathen Critique, Apocalypsereview, and Confessions of a Former Conservative when I make this endeavor. Still, I’d like to think I could contribute something to the fundamentalist-combing people of the Internet with my own personal observations and style. So, without further adieu, I’d like to see a vote on which of the following titles (description and poll after the cutoff) you, the viewers, wish for me to go into a read-through of first. The poll closes in a week, so get your votes in now.

 

Rappy’s RPG Reviews: Testament, Part 3

Welcome to the third and final piece of the Testament review. Here, we’ll be going in full steam and taking a look at the remaining chapters, from 7 to 25 and reaching our final verdict. Is this title anointed by the Heavenly Host, or cast down into the Pit of Despair? You’ll just have to stick around to find out!

 

John Hagee’s Jesus

My parents’ fundamentalist bile passed on to them by John Hagee’s television seminars pissed me off again yesterday, especially with the pro-fundamentalist revisionism of the Medieval bubonic plague. My attempts to avoid confrontation always end when we basically have to meet up again as a family over something. As such, I am going to do a little list venting and veer off my usual territory, especially out of my frustrations that any of my notations of errors, contradictions, and downright racist/sexist/generally disturbing arguments my parents make are only met with statements of “you should respect your father” and “‘political correctness’ (or at least their definition of it, which is basically anything beyond outright hate speech) is a sign of surrender, and Jesus wouldn’t want that”. So, definite trigger warnings on religion for this post. Skip it if you want, as the final part of the Testament review will be up in a few minutes.

 

Rappy’s RPG Reviews: Testament, Part 2

Alright, after that last tangent, we’re back with part 2 of the Testament review. And with increased font size, I might add, since I got some notes detailing the fact that my normal PDF-writing font size came out – well, odd, to say the least – in WordPress’s blog format.

 

Rappy Reminisces on Zoo Tycoon 2

Greetings, faithful viewers. To take a break from Testament for a moment, I figured I’d take a look at a game that has been on my mind a lot recently: Zoo Tycoon 2. Now, y’all know I don’t go into video game reviews that often, but I figured I’d at least give it a go nonetheless. A fair warning, though: this is less an in-depth review and more me enjoying hearing myself talk, so don’t expect any scoring or such from this post. If you want that, you may want to check Wikipedia’s page for animal lists and such. Sorry!