A sparkly, confused actor/singer/writer/D&D addict with no brain filter and a talent for dancing like an idiot. Part of the Roll The Damn Dice podcast. She/her
"This night had been going on for years. She blew into her cupped hands, steam mingling with the smoke still in her lungs. It was a long shift. But it could be worse." Joy-Amy Wigman's "The Long Shift" is the latest #StorySunday#darkcomedy#shortfiction
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Had a great time hosting the @damn_dice Live Show at @ukcgfevents today! Big shout out to the person dressed as Luigi who suggested a MarioKart scenario and then lobbed a plushie shell at @ShawFireDesigns , @santouris and @moa_myerson when they started racing 😆 #dnd#ttrpg
I'm in that traditional, end of holiday mood that is "when I get back home, I'm going to get my life together". See also, the week in between Christmas and New Year, and after any stage show has finished.
@MadameDM_DND I have a tabaxi warlock called Coastal Village. Her family pick names by throwing a dart at a map. Unfortunately on this occasion, the dart hit the map key.
The lady circled in the photo was Lucy Higgs Nichols. She was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby.
She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse throughout the war.
After the war, she moved north with the regiment and settled in Indiana, where she found work with some of the veterans of the 23rd.
She applied for a pension after Congress passed the Army Nurses Pension Act of 1892 which allowed Civil War nurses to draw pensions for their service.
The War Department had no record of her, so her pension was denied. Fifty-five surviving veterans of the 23rd petitioned Congress for the pension they felt she had rightfully earned, and it was granted.
The photograph shows Nichols and other veterans of the Indiana regiment at a reunion in 1898. Beloved by the troops who referred to her as “Aunt Lucy,” Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915.
@IoShiv I've got Call of Cthulu on my birthday list. I want to frighten the damn dicers. Although Paul is doing a pretty good job of that at the moment!