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Today I wrote out some backstory and relationship set-up questions for Greatness (GMless oneshot, artistic rivalry), and again on scene and round structure for The Squire's Sword (by which I mean I made a matrix of all the player roles and all the segments of the game to keep it all straight)

Yeah this was a banger and it also wins the special award for being the first book I’ve read in probably twenty years to send me to the dictionary no fewer than five times and THAT is a beautiful thing

As compelled as I was by “do you understand the mental consequences of dealing with me?” I decided to be nice to myself instead

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For like two years I’ve been deep in mourning for the canceled Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Custom of the Country, but yesterday someone reminded me that in 2015 they also canceled a Sofia Coppola adaptation of The Little Mermaid and that hit me like a truck all over again

“The same shit should be happening at the beginning as at the end, but like, connectedly” - literary criticism with @gdposta.bsky.social

saw someone post about being unable to even conceive of befriending a hypothetical 20 yr old coworker, as someone in their 30s-40s, because there would be some kind of insurmountably vast gulf of life experience and that made me so sad

My friends put on somebody’s YouTube video of them just walking around the vendor hall at gencon today while we play games and it made me have much less fomo lmao

I've read at least three different books this summer that use "ribands" instead of "ribbons" despite, I'm fairly sure, never seeing this archaic version before in my life

Should I read Gormenghast? Kinda feel like I should read Gormenghast

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I had to like, force myself to put this down and step away from it for the night because I could physically feel that if I didn't, I was going to stay up to 1 am finishing it all in one go, which is certainly one kind of recommendation

1a) "everybody came from Shafrazi / sha-fra-zi TO THE BEAT" in Danceteria 1b) the faint little guitar riff between the two halves of the chorus in After All, between "the after hours, every night, even after all" and "lock the door, dim the lights, it's a celebration"

Today I worked on 2 more playbooks' worth of moves for Collegiate Gothic (PbtA, dark academia, crime); scene structure and Q&A type resolution for The Squire's Sword (oneshot GMless, knight-squire bond); and I did some prep for the next playtest of Before the Season Ends (historical, coming-of-age)

karaoke is a roleplaying game send post

now how did I get it into my head that July was gonna have 30 days this year. I was so ready for August, which is not, in fact, tomorrow

#NowReading Lud in the Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Somewhere in one of my many moves in my 20s, a box of books went missing, and I never knew what exactly was in it, so I get random moments even now of "wait a damn minute... where is my copy of [whatever]" and I assume it must've been in there because I otherwise have never really "lost" books

I was thinking about this again and then realized I posted this almost exactly a year ago; there is a straight-up calendar of “thoughts I have” somewhere deep in my brain

#NowReading Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun