I've almost certainly decided on a topic for my ZULA/master's thesis - after a long time waffling about fanfic, Marlowe, fairy tales and Vikings, I've decided to give role-playing games a try. There's just enough of a body of works on them to start from, and they offer many interesting areas of research, plus I think there are some interesting ( Read more... )

Tonight our Ars Magica campaign of more than half a year came to its grand finale. And I survived! But we won't be playing these characters anymore, so it's RIP Fahid, evil conjuror, crazyperson and overlord of Ancient Egypt(It was a pseudo historical campaign ( Read more... )

That fic which was actually supposed to be a short, slashy episode tag to "Frontier in Space" has now turned into a plotty (for certain definitions of plotty... I'm not sure bastardizing the plot of "Planet of the Daleks" counts), not terribly exiting gen piece of 13000 + words - but at least it's getting written. And there's lots of touching and ( Read more... )

The first lesson at a real school thing went well - it was actually more fun to teach a class of thirty "normal" students than to teach four or five remedial ones. And I was really surprised that when we played the "The Streets of London" the kids actually started to sing along. That was a really sweet moment ( Read more... )

I'm back at home. I had a nice couple of days, but I think I caught the flu or something. Well, it's just a sore throat. I've started a RPG campaign (RuneQuest) as game master, which I'm excited and a little nervous about. (The horrible thing about our RPG group is that we've played together for years and have developed certain... bad habits. Me: " ( Read more... )