Morgan Welch

OK, I'm leaving X. It's not you, it's all the fascism. See you on Bluesky or something!

@JeremyECrawford D&D query (2024). The Ritual Caster feat includes the word "spellcaster", which isn't well defined. I can see something in attunement about it, but that's it. Can my phantom rogue cast spells as rituals infinitely, or only once per day via quick ritual?

The 300 lost, my dude

I wrote a thing about writing a thing, but it's possible it turned out to be a rant about Killing Floor by Lee Child. morganwelch.com/home/blog/when… #WritingRules #WritingTips

@austingragg Hit me up from time to time. Sending love ❤️

Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/

Watched THE HOURGLASS SANITORIUM and only afterwards realised it's based on the work of Bruno Schulz. Really, really strange, but atmospheric as hell.

My first Brocken Spectre. Creepy to see it out the corner of my eye and think it was someone else moving

Still depressingly relevant

Some TERFs have suffered abuse themselves, but that abuse was almost always at the hands of cis men. It's easier to pick on a vulnerable minority than it is to deal with those issues. Patriarchy is a difficult thing to overcome.

It means cis women can be abused for going to the bathroom or doing sport or just existing. It means cis women are labelled men with cries of "we can always tell". TERFism isn't feminism at all. It's anti-feminist.

Hopefully now more people can see that transphobia harms all women. It results in women being judged on arbitrary standards of what 'female' looks like. It encourages the abuse of women who don't look 'female' enough.

Nightlight in the form of a cat. c. 1760 - 1770, China. #InternationalCatDay 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛

A lovely little story!

@SmallwondersSFF Really fun 🐈‍⬛❤️

Aidan Doyle's "The Royal Wizard's Apprentice Explains the Prophecy of the Return of the Sorcerer King in Varying Levels of Complexity" is a delightful piece of flash that both surprised us and made us laugh. Check it out in our issue 8 here: smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-roya…

Pay attention to that "but world won't let us" bit at the end. Never let anyone tell you that your efforts to oppose Israeli atrocities make no difference. If westerners weren't creating pressure on western governments about this, Israel would be acting SO much worse than it is.

This is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative report compiled on the systematic abuse and torture in Israeli prisons since Oct 7th: btselem.org/publications/2… The report is called "Welcome to Hell" and was written by B'Tselem, the main Israeli human rights organization, who spent months interviewing dozens of former Palestinian prisoners (those who survived the ordeal). The report's conclusion? Israeli prisons, "in which EVERY [Palestinian] inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto torture camps... The abuse consistently described in the testimonies of dozens of individuals held in different facilities was so systemic, that there is no room to doubt an organized, declared policy of the Israeli prison authorities... As the testimonies reveal the new policy is applied across all prison facilities and to ALL Palestinian prisoners. Among its main tenets are unrelenting physical and psychological violence, denial of medical treatment, starvation, withholding of water, sleep depravation and confiscation of all personal belongings." They also note that "most" Palestinians are held without trials. They end their report with an "appeal to all nations and to all international institutions and bodies, including the International Criminal Court, to do everything in their power to put an immediate end to to the cruelties meted out on Palestinians by Israel's prison system, and to recognize the Israeli regime operating this system as an apartheid regime that must come to an end".

This is such a dream-come-true moment that I'm coming back on Twitter. I can't express how thrilled I am to have a story appear in Clarkesworld. I hope you'll all read and enjoy it!

Jesus fuck will authors I like and respect stop turning out to be shitty people please. (This is about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, if you haven't heard.)