Since TwoXchromosomes became a default, TrollX has become less about humor and more about emotional support and social justice. Which is fine, the community has decided that's where we're headed.

But during TrollXMovieNights (my other subreddit & ongoing troll project) I heard a lot of people saying that they were no longer visiting the main subreddit because it simply wasn't fun anymore.

##So I created /r/TrollXFunny.

There's almost nothing there right now, so let's call this a "soft launch". It's not ready for an announcement on the main sub, and maybe it will be rejected for insinuating that the main sub has become a repository of justice boners, updates on successful people's personal lives that no one asked for, and cries for help.

So let's make this all a little less grim and get something good started.

So I'm from Sweden and we have our own phone number now. You should totally call and a random swede will answer you. If your lucky you get to talk to me. I would like that, I'm a delightful person.
Anyway, here's our number, give us a call!

http://theswedishnumber.com/

I'm sorry folks, I love trollx, and was one of the first 10 subs (this is a throwaway).
But this is not the right way (or place, but that's another story) to beat down on male chauvinism, even if there is an imbalance between male and female in our lives. Faking logs and presenting "yeah that happened" situations just causes resentment from male readers, and removes the focus on the actual fields of injustice in our everyday lives, and makes feminism as a whole laughable.

And so much of the stuff isn't gender specific, it's asshole-specific. One guy saying something dumb, or 2-3 isolated episodes, everybody flips their shit and it turns into "I'm so tired of being female because of this". Come on, it looks so weak. It's super biased. And TrollX isn't where we want a 14-yo ideology as our core, baiting for feminism and pity with a complete lack of self-irony and satire. We got TwoX for that.

There's a post in offmychest regarding the quality of existing pregnancy subs, and I think that the Troll community could fill this void. If ever a troll needed a laugh, it'd be during pregnancy.

I know, I know, TrollX is the safe space where no one will fault us for having problems, but I feel like I'm seeing the same dozen gifs attached to titles that are just lists of things that happened, and sometimes a [DIT] tag at the end, and later on some other overused reaction gif with "I got the job!" or "I got an A on my dissertation!".

The subreddit is being taken advantage of, milked for pity and it's causing a whine-powered vortex similar to the one that made TwoX difficult to stomach long before it became a default.

Has the subreddit just gotten so large that we need some sort of message in the submit box directing people to /r/TrollXSupport? Do we banish the overused gifs? What do we do to divert pity parties away from the main sub where things are supposed to be posted "in the troll spirit"?

The votes are in! The following are the weekends that seem to work for everyone. So, let the second round of voting begin!

If one of these dates don't work for you, say so. I'm trying to do my best to work with everyone's schedule.

• September 4-5

• September 18-19

• October 16-17

• October 23-24

• November 6-7

• November 13-14

Evening all!

Who remembers TrollProm 2014? That's a depressingly few number of hands. OK, that's fine, I can work with this.

Here's the deal: TrollProm was a series of regional get togethers with an online component hosted by our good friends at /r/troll4troll. I thought it went about as well as could be expected considering it was thrown together rather last minute, so I wanted to start talking about TrollProm 2015, which is going to be sleepover themed because someone suggested it and I love that.

So, this is Prep Thread Number One (which, as you may have noticed, is cat themed), where we're going to figure out when we'll be going. Post any Friday/Saturday that works for you, between July 10th/11th and November 20th/21st. If any weekend works for you, say "any weekend works for me", or "this weekend does not work for me, but I'm good otherwise". I'll be ignoring votes, but counting a comment "this works for me too"

If there is no clear winner by the 8th of June (ie, next Monday), I'll probably repeat this, but with less days.

When the day is set, I'll move on to other things. For now I'd like to focus on figuring out when.

Ready? Go!

I think I know, but I'm notorious for my abismal facial recognition.

I remember seeing many complaints on the Troll subreddits about being matched with nasty people for the Reddit-wide gift exchanges. Should we look into starting one for trolls?

If you are like much of Reddit, this Valentine's day you will be sitting at home crying and looking for your cat to give you comfort. Unfortunately, I am allergic to cats. Besides, my landlord won't let me have any pets. So this Valentine's day I was proposing that we all get together so that way we can be lonely together!

Unfortunately, do to logistics I understand we can't all get together and have fun at my place. Primarily because it's too small, secondarily because people would have to travel great distances.

I, myself, reside in Seattle, Washington. If any of you trolls in the Seattle area would like to meet up on Valentine's day I would appreciate the company!

A recent conversation with a redditor made me look long and hard at the way in which the TrollX community manages itself. The TrollX mods appear to have a very hands-off policy towards everything, which means that only the vocal, active members of the sub can hope to maintain any semblance of a healthy atmosphere. With the continuous influx of people from /r/all I'm beginning to think we need actual rules. That can be enforced by mods and don't need the community to go on patrol.

Maybe we need flair so that posters can request tone of conversation. "Support"/ "Discussion"/ "Ladies only"/ "Counterpoint welcome". I feel like too many of us have our own ideas of what the sub is supposed to be and how we're supposed to act towards each other, and some discussion of those ideas would be helpful.

Something that has given me pause lately is noticing how many troll-response comments on TrollX are by men. I personally like reading (many of) them, but I wonder if my reaction is common. Are there TrollX members who feel crowded out of their space because of the guys who feel the need to swoop in and "protect" us? Because I've felt that way a time or two, and I'd like a place to discuss it. I know we welcome anyone and everyone to comment, but women are outnumbered on this site and I think the blanket welcome is beginning to hurt the sub.

I suppose it could be because reddit itself is largely a TrollY kinda place, and the female trolls need a place to call their own more than the males do. Is that it, or is it something completely different?

We should all come out and have a tea party!

/r/TrollLouisiana. For all your Louisianian Trolling needs.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I don't want to post it in the main troll subs. I am a relative newcomer to the subs and so I don't see it as my place to change the subs (not that I would want to, you all are wonderdul), but I feel like I am seeing a disturbing trend of people complaining about being down voted when they don't think they should be. There was even a post in trollx about it, and all of the comments corroborating this. I am not sure what should be done, but I wanted to see if other people see this, if they do, I just want a conversation to happen.

Edit: took out some editorializing.

A few days ago I was buying my lunch at school when mother nature knocked on my door (surprise period, 3 days early). I had to go to the bathroom and dig through my backpack, hoping I had a crumpled up pad or something sitting at the bottom. I sat my tray with my mini corndogs on one of the sinks.

I thank whatever cosmic force had my back that day, there was a pad under my laptop charger.

I was worried about the mini corndogs though, because they're like $3 and I couldn't afford to get more. So I said "The sink corndogs are mine!" and went in the stall. There were two other girls in stalls at the time. I put on the pad and went to wash my hands. The other girls came out at around that time. We looked at each other and started laughing. "We've all been there."

It was nice, I felt included. I don't really feel that very often.

Later that day I was browsing reddit, and I realized that /r/trollxchromosomes is like the girl's bathroom. We can make period jokes, and we've all been there. We've all had celebrity crushes, bad break-ups, surprise periods, and other girl things.

I love you ladies! Keep being you!

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Recording

Hey there, everyone! Despite some technical difficulties, we were able to broadcast last session! Fun stuff. Hopefully we'll have a few more kinks worked out by next time, if anybody wants to tune in. For those who missed it (everyone) there are recordings on the YouTube channel. Part one and part two.

To quickly recap: the group found themselves at the mouth of a cave system being used as a headquarters for some goblins. In search of the location of their dwarven patron, Gundren Rockseeker, they decided to poke around to see what they could find. After stumbling into a few traps, they finally found their way to an opening that had five goblins and one human, who had been captured. Making short work of all but one goblin, the surviving monster grabbed the human and demanded a favor in exchange for his captive's life. Aaaand that's where we left off for the week.

Hopefully we'll finish up the dungeon stuff in short and can move along in the story. I'm excited to see what the group's gonna do! For anyone hoping to watch live, we aim to be starting sometime around 7:00 PM CST. I'll update this post with a link that'll take you to the call when it goes up, and you can join along if you want to watch some people have fun and be heroes.

As always, if any of the players need to delay or cancel, just let me know and I can get it out to the rest of the group. See everyone on Sunday!

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LINK TO THE LIVE BROADCAST OMG

Howdy, folks! Sunday is fast approaching and I forgot to post this earlier in the week again. Oh, well.

We had a great session last time, and now that we have officially started playing I expect things to start getting exciting pretty quickly. It looks like we're on track to broadcast the session this time, so anybody who wants to tune in should be able to. We'll be using the 'Hangouts on Air' feature in order to let you guys and gals tune in.

Unfortunately, I have never used Hangouts on Air, so I have absolutely no clue how it works. I assume that I'll be able to share a link that leads you guys to our call, but I couldn't really find an answer by searching around. To anyone who can't watch the session live, I believe that Hangouts on Air conveniently and somewhat annoyingly automatically posts a recording of the call to my YouTube account. If that's the case I'll be sure to update this post with the link to that.

I'd also like to start giving short summaries of the prior session in these posts, so even though there wasn't a ton that happened last time I'll go ahead and review it for anyone following along.

To start, the group contains five members. Vola, a fighter from a fishing village who uses a spear and net; Hunter, a rogue with a mysterious past; Arienna, a somewhat naive and bubbly cleric of Lliira, goddess of joy; and Liessa, a fledgling wizard who has a bit of a complex about people taking her seriously. Later in the session the group encounters Butler, a warforged warlock with little-to-no knowledge of the world, who decides to travel with them as well.

The game started with the party leading a wagon along a small trail through dangerous territory. Each had been previously approached by a dwarf named Gundren Rockseeker, who had hired them to escort his supplies to a mining town while he traveled on ahead with his bodyguard. They had been on the road for a few days before they encountered a couple of dead and ransacked horses blocking the trail. Upon inspection, they appeared to belong to Gundren and his escort!

Immediately after realizing this, the group was ambushed by some goblins hiding in the surrounding woods. They prevailed, but not without getting a little beat up in the process. Luckily, they had also managed to capture one of the goblins alive, and with a little encouragement, he shared information surrounding Gundren's fate.

According to their captive, the goblins had been instructed by their leader, Klarg, to waylay tralvelers on the trail to Phandalin. After Gundren was captured, he was taken to the Cragmaw Castle, which the goblin, unfortunately, did not know the location of. He was willing, however, to take them to the nearby hideout where Klarg resided.

After a bit of resting and scouting, the group got underway. Shortly before reaching the hideout, they came across a deserted warlock's tower. Inside, they found Butler, who knew nothing of the world outside the tower. He decided to travel with them, as they were the first people to find him since he gained sentience following the accident that had demolished the tower and killed his previous master.

Shortly afterwards, they reached the goblin hideout. Their captive informed them of a couple of sentries guarding the entrance, and with his help the group was able to ambush them. Killing one and knocking out the other, the group then tied their two captives to a tree before heading into the cave that served as Klarg's headquarters.

The session ended there, and I just realized I'm going to need to condense events further in the future because that is way too long to be quick recap. I'm still trying to figure everything out, so I apologize if things are a bit rough in the beginning. We have a good group dynamic and some awesome players, so I'm really looking forward to the future. See everyone on Sunday!