Stygia, Scholarly Road (nov/dune/road)

@kingtheline.bsky.social

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Freelance game designer. My opinions are my own. Queer as hell. Fall like night, gleam like dawn. Banner image is my own photography.

selfie of Stygia, a white nonbinary person with shoulder length brown hair and hazel eyes. nov wears a black KN95 covid mask, a ballcap with a biblically accurate angel inspired fish on it that says "women or fish, fear me not," a sky blue zipper hoodie with the sleeves cut off, a black tank top featuring a shark swimming in turquoise liquid that says "blahaj blast," and orange and white checkered jeans. nov sits on public transportation and has a black and red walking cane resting against novs thigh.
Meme of a madly smiling star surrounded by balloons and party poppers with the text "Fascist career politician down"
Screenshot of a tumblr post from user devious-buffoon from December 6, 2023, with 101,314 notes and the reblog button lit up, indicating the screenshotter reblogged it, that reads as follows: Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "the ten hells" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard "power word:scrunch" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
A selfie of Stygia, a white nonbinary person with brown hair, wearing a black t-shirt depicting the snake old one Yig, red glasses, and corduroy shorts.
Selfie of Stygia, a white nonbinary person. Nov has brown hair that reaches novs shoulders and is wearing black headphones, red and white cat-eye glasses, a white N95 mask, a turquoise lanyard that reads "live, laugh, lobotomy" and has a button pin of a vtuber on it, a gray and black hooded sports bra, and a green and black short sleeve button up. Nov sits on public transit.
A screen shot of the favorite pokemon website with a picture of Quilladin, the middle stage of Chespin and Chesnaught, and the text. "Declaration saved. That Pokémon has someone now." at the top. In a box above the image of Qulladin, more text reads "Want to change your declared Pokémon form? Send me a message on Instagram with your trainer name and pokemon." and then has a link to the developer's instagram. Below the image is another text box with the text "There are already 53 fans of Quilladin like you!"
A selfie of Stygia, a white nonbinary person with brown hair, standing in novs room. Nov wears red and white cat-eye glasses, a graphic tee shirt featuring KK Slider from Animal Crossing in a parody of My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade album cover, with the text "My Wild World" and "The TTKK Parade." Stygia also wears a black and gray knit cap with cat ears, evoking classic emo energy.
image of radioactive green demon girl from fortnite in daisy dukes. a letterman jacket, sneakers, and kneepads. she wears a ballcap that her horns poke through and her midriff is exceedingly exposed. i love her
Image of the "how do you die" application on github with the beader "The lies end here." The body reads "@kingtheline, your music taste is awful. Somewhere, sometime down the line, someone has enough."
This image is a meme featuring characters from the video game Of The Devil. Emma Rockford says "Big brother is watching" and Serra Ashur says "but can he see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch???"
This image is a screencap of the party musician Andrew W.K., chewing some food and looking at his hand with a look of consternation, with a caption reading "*suspects betrayal*".
Screenshot of video game text saying "Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
A screenshot from The Simpsons of Mr. Burns grocery shopping, trying to decide between two bottles of ketchup, but each bottle has been edited to feature a reaction icon from Facebook. One bottle is the haha react of a laughing face, the other is the sad react of a face with a single tear drop.
Poster for the movie The Mighty Ducks (1992).
Selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown shoulder-length hair and hazel eyes, wearing red and white glasses, black fingerless gloves, a blue lanyard, and a black and white t-shirt depicting a female bassist and the phrase "love and" repeated across the shirt.
an image of the band "forever the sickest kids" with the word "kids" scribbled out and "kicks" written under it
a swirly twisty image of a mine cart level from donkey kong country
Screenshot of text that reads "#Envoytober2025 Day 5: Acceptance ARCANAMIRIUM ENROLLMENT ITEM 4 CONTRACT | INVESTED | MAGICAL You have been accepted into the Arcanamirium, the prestigious magical university on Absalom Station. When you invest this contract, choose one mystic connection, technomancer programming language, witchwarper paradox, or similar class feature that includes a cantrip and 1st rank spell. This is your enrollment track. You can cast your enrollment track’s associated cantrip as an innate cantrip of your enrollment track’s associated tradition, and can cast your enrollment track’s associated 1st rank spell once per day as an innate spell of your enrollment track’s associated tradition. Innate spells from this contract use your class DC for their DC and your class DC -10 for any spell attack rolls. Once per day, from any distance, an employee of the Department of Finance at the Arcanamirium can request payment on your student loans, forcing you to make a Will save against the microtransaction hell curse. When you succeed at a Will save against this curse, you can cast the chosen class feature’s associated 1st rank spell once more that day as you find ways to apply your degree.
Screenshot of text that reads "#Envoytober2025 Day 4: Depression APATHETIC EXPECTATION FEAT 8 ENVOY Prerequisites Size Up, Saw It Coming You don’t have particularly high expectations for your foes, such that you keep an uncaring eye on any source of danger. When you use Saw It Coming, you can make one enemy you can see your asset for 1 minute."
A screenshot of text that reads "#Envoytober2025 Day 3: Bargaining COLLECTIVE COORDINATION [two-actions] FEAT 9 BARATHU Prerequisites merged barathu heritage, envoy directives Frequency once per 10 minutes You utilize your many minds to strengthen your coordination at the bargaining table, and when it goes south. Use two envoy directives, despite normally only being able to use one per round. You do not gain the Lead By Example benefits for either directive. Special If you’re at least 17th level, you can use Collective Coordination as three actions. If you do, you get the Lead By Example benefit for one of the two directives you use, after applying the normal effects of both directives."
Screenshot of text that reads "#Envoytober2025 Day 2: Anger THROUGH RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION LEADERSHIP STYLE You’re mad as Hell, and you’re not gonna take it any more! The system, your opposition, everything in your way, you can no longer contain your feelings about them all. Your anger sustains you and you’re not about to back down. Leadership Skill Intimidation Leadership Perk You gain the Diehard general feat. Leadership Directive You’ve Got To Get Mad! You’ve Got To Get Mad! [one-action] to [two-actions] DIRECTIVE | ENVOY You spur your allies’ anger and remind them what must be done. Nominate yourself and one ally within 15 feet. The next time you deal damage to an enemy creature before the start of your next turn, you deal 2 additional damage, and you take a -1 circumstance penalty to AC. The nominated ally can then choose to gain the same effect as a free action. Lead By Example If you used two actions, you can Strike, Area Fire, or Auto-Fire. If your Strike hits or if a target fails its save against your Area Fire or Auto-Fire, you and your nominated ally gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier plus half your level that last for 1 round."
Screenshot of text that reads "#Envoytober2025 Day 1: Denial BLOCK THE COMMS [free-action] FEAT 4 ENVOY Prerequisites trained in Computers Frequency once per round Trigger Your turn begins. You use your technical skill to prevent your opponents from coordinating, at the cost of blocking some of your own channels. You cannot use any directives until the start of your next turn. Attempt a Computers check and compare it to the Will DC of any enemy creatures within 30 feet of you that have the tech trait or are wearing armor with the tech trait, on a success, an affected creature does not treat any creatures as allies until the start of your next turn. If you’re an expert in Computers, this affects enemy creatures within 40 feet of you, 50 feet if you’re a master, or 60 feet if you’re legendary. Special If you have at least two envoy feats with the directive trait, enemy creatures you affect with this ability also become frightened 1 when successfully Block their Comms, as your self-denial scares them. If you have at least five envoy feats with the directive trait, they instead become frightened 2."
A screenshot of text that reads "kingtheline's #Starfinder2e Envoytober2025 Prompt List," has a list of 31 numbered prompts, and the description "For each day in October 2025, design something for envoys in Starfinder 2e that relates to the prompt for that day! You can write an envoy feat, a feat for another class (or ancestry, or archetype, or anything) that relates to envoys, some new equipment with envoys in mind, a new leadership style, a skill feat designed for envoys, or anything else you want, so long as it has a connection to the prompt. Feel free to combine with other prompt lists!" The prompts are as follows: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Words of Affirmation Acts of Service Quality Time Physical Touch Gifts Phantom Battle Stardust Diamond Wind Ocean Steel Lion Island Flying Swimming Burrowing Climbing Carousel Lightning Recording Glass Stone Realty Jokes Burnout
Mirror selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown shoulder length hair with some blonde streaks and hazel eyes. Nov wears red and white glasses, a black tube top, an open black and green short sleeved button up shirt, and purple shorts with lavender flame designs. Nov looks at the viewer through the mirror, standing in novs bedroom, with a nonplussed expression.
A promotional image for the Pathfinder Infinite book The Arts of War, featuring an image of a rowdy crowd, a lime green banner on a black pol with the words "the arts of war" written on it, and an orc beating a drum.
Selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown shoulder-length hair. They're wearing a black t-shirt that depicts a flaming skeleton with the words "cool and mysterious" crossed out and replaced with "autistic and gay".
A photo of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown hair in a wolf cut.
A selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown hair worn in a wolf cut inspired style. Nov has red and white cateye glasses and hazel eyes, and is grinning at the camera. Solatra wears a black and white shirt depicting a bassist with the words "and love" repeated across the background, with an unzipped carolina blue sleeveless hoodie, and holds a pink and brown pastel goth bat plushie.
Selfie of Solatra on the day of posting, age 29. Nov is a white nonbinary person wearing red and white eyeglasses, has shoulder-length brunette hair and bangs, and stares with bemusement at novs phone camera. Solatra wears a black long-sleeve crop top with pink and white designs forming a heart, wings, stars, and other swirly designs. Iconic, truly.
Photo of Solatra at age 17, winking at novs laptop camera, with ear-length hair that spikes up in a few places. Despite the angle pointing mostly at novs face, Solatra is clearly shirtless and wearing fingerless gloves, while attempting to do some kind of hand gesture with novs hands. Iconic, truly.
Art of Star, a nonbinary automaton from Pathfinder Society Scenario 4-08: Battle for Star's Fate. They appear to be a massive mechanical snapping turtle standing upright on their hind legs.
Title card for the animated series "Chop Socky Chooks." It features three CGI chicken-like people doing martial arts moves against a background of colored panels and the series logo.
A selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person with brown hair and hazel eyes. Nov wears red and white glasses, a blue KN95 face mask, a lavender and light gray backpack, and a yellow grraphic t-shirt with an image of the female characters from WarioWare. Nov is looking at the camera and standing on a train platform.
A meme of a deer in the middle of the road looking into the headlights of an oncoming car with the text "Me discretely checking if you are my uber because I don't know what a Toyota crayola looks like."
Picture of a cartoon cat with a speech bubble saying "Have you tried not giving up and using whimsy and hope?" The word "giving" and phrase "whimsy and hope" are of a different font, and appear to have edited into the image to change the message.
Selfie of Solatra, a nonbinary person, sitting on a park bench.
A photo of a circular table in a convention room with a white tablecloth. It's bedecked in dice, miniatures, and maps for playing tabletop RPGs.
screenshot of a femme moneky character from the donkey kong bananza trailer. she has blonde hair with a dyed-pink cowlick. she wears a conductor's uniform accessorized with gold half-rim glasses, gold lipstick, and gold hexagonal earrings. she holds a weird magic item that looks like a pink perfume bottle.
A selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person that uses nov/nov pronouns. Nov is wearing a dark gray low-cut t-shirt, red and white cat eye glasses, and black headphones. Nov has brown hair cut in a sideshave, glasz eyes, a bit of stubble, and is smiling.
Chrome Zephyr, a black and red B-Daman marble-launching figure.
Selfie of Sola, a white nonbinary person. They have brown hair cut in a sideshave, white and red geometric cat-eye glasses, and are wearing a red t-shirt with a picture of Christmas clowngirls.
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A selfie of Sola, a white nonbinary person with approximately blond hair and striking hazel eyes. They are wearing rectangular purple eyeglasses, a purple KN95 face mask, black headphones, a lanyard that reads "Live, Laugh, Lobotomy," a yellow graphic tee shirt depicting characters from the Wario Ware video games, and a black and white unzipped hoodie designed to resemble a keffiyeh's patterns.
Photo of Lizard, a pet bearded dragon, attentive and curious with a galaxy pattern harness around her midsection. Some video game controllers and leftovers are visible in the background.
A meme of two smiley faces with their eyes closed, exchanging money with ms paint hands. The paypal logo stands above, saying "to: DEADNAME from: DEADNAME." both smiley faces say "I do not see it"
A gif of part of the opening sequence of the 1990s Australian cartoon "Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers" that features the titular characters playing music while an antagonist looks on.
A selfie of Solatra, a butch nonbinary person. They have windswept brown hair with blonde sections and some facial stubble. They wear purple glasses, a green and black funky patterned short sleeved button up, and a blue lanyard with text that reads "Live, Laugh, Lobotomy". They are smiling at the camera.
A photo of Billie Eilish with text at the bottom of the image that says "The feet dangle, as they do, from the ankles".
A photo of an open window with a green pillow in it, a tired-looking white cat resting on it. Above the cat in the window frame is a piece of paper with a drawing of three cats on it that have their names beneath, a two-tone cat named Squirrel, a black cat named Lucky, and a white cat that is clearly the cat on the pillow below named Hubris. There is a caption that says "This window cat seat comes with a legend to identify the current occupant."
An image of Princess Rosalina, Princess Peach, and Princess Daisy from the Super Mario franchise against a colorful pink, blue, and yellow background. There are faded symbols of items from the franchise on the background and a border at the top and bottom of the image of interlocking pink, blue, and yellow pipes.
A selfie of Solatra, a nonbinary person whose brown hair with bleach-blonde portions has a sideshave. They are wearing rectangular purple glasses, a t-shirt of KK Slider from Animal Crossing parodying the cover of My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, and a hoodie with kheffiyah patterns.
A selfie of Solatra, a white nonbinary person. They wear a tank top depicting the blåhaj shark plushie from Ikea, a hoodie with patterns reminiscent of a kheffiyeh, and a pair of rectangular purple glasses. Their hair comes down to their neck in the back, has a sideshave on one side, and the shorter hair on top looks effortlessly windblown.
A collage of six photos of Solatra ranging from 2013 to 2024.
black and white digital sketch of a lesbian in a tank top saying "bringo"
Screenshot of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Archives of Nethys showing the opening to the one-inch punch feat, which I wrote.
3D render of a humanoid rhino-person holding a tommy gun. They are wearing pinstripe pants, an open jacket, and a button-down shirt.
A photo of Solatra, a nonbinary person, wearing a sailor moon t-shirt, a black hoodie with white symbols, and glasses. They have a new haircut.
Picture of a text document with the header "GameHoleCon" and subheader "Schedule for Sasha Harving." Thursday October 17th has sessions of PFS2 3-13 at 8am and PFS2 5-15 at 7pm. Friday October 18th has sessions of SF2 Playtest Scenario 1 and 3 at 8am, PFS2 6-03 at 1pm, and PFS2 6-04 at 7pm. Saturday October 19th has sessions of PFS2 6-01 at 1pm and SFS1 1-98 at 7pm.
A meme that says "what if we touched tips in the beyblade arena."
Tom morello.