Welcome back to the Goblin Lore Podcast. After finishing up May as Mental Health Awareness, our Goblin Hosts had taken a week off from the cast. The original plan had been to publish a Goblin Games for the first week of June but with the killing of George Floyd and the protests and unrest the host decided to wait. Both Alex and Hobbes live in Minneapolis and this definitely hit close to home.

As such the Gobbos are back with a Patreon Inspired Goblin Games (courtesy of Titus Lunter). However, prior to jumping into the episode the hosts both share a personal message about Black Lives Matter (with a link to where you can offer support both monetary and not) and the general stance of the cast when it comes to social issues.

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As promised, we plan to keep these Mental Health Links available moving forward too. For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has great resources for people struggling with mental health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to this article on stigma from NAMI's site.

If you’re thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you can get support from any of the resources below.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
 

Veteran's can Press 1 at anytime to be taken to the Veteran's Line




Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741-741

International suicide hotlines: A comprehensive resource list for people outside the US.

IMAlive: Click Chat Now to access a live online network of volunteers through instant messaging.

TrevorLifeline, TrevorChat, and TrevorText (LGBTQ+ crisis support): 1-866-488-7386, or text “Trevor” to 1-202-304-1200

Trans Lifeline (US): (877) 565-8860


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You can find the hosts on Twitter: Hobbes Q. at @HobbesQ, and Alex Newman at @Mel_Chronicler. Send questions, comments, thoughts, hopes, and dreams to @GoblinLorePod on Twitter or GoblinLorePodcast@gmail.com.

Opening and closing music by Wintergatan (@wintergatan). Logo art by Steven Raffael (@SteveRaffle).

Goblin Lore is proud to be presented by Hipsters of the Coast, and a part of their growing Vorthos content – as well as Magic content of all kinds. Check them out at hipstersofthecoast.com.