Dreaming, this morning ( Read more... )

... before I get back to plotting my Fireborn game (where the PCs have just learned they need to slay the seven siblings of Chaos -- the closest thing to gods/creators that the human race has -- before a new and growing darkness drives the gods all mad) ...

I. A tangential thought spun off from skimming through the webcomic Pantheon (warning: ( Read more... )

Time to close the books on Pcon 2010, which means sharing the awesome and never-before-told Sunday evening anecdotes!

1: I chose that day to wear my Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt. Although I did not achieve spiritual enlightenment, I did procure the following unsolicited testimonial: "The 3-Wolf Moon T-shirt is only surpassed in manliness by ( Read more... )

So after last night's whiny rant, I decided I need to push myself a little more out of my comfort zone today and/or have fun. There's nothing wrong per se with treating magic as an intimate act, but it's not helping me out right now, and a little openness on my part in an environment filled with people who know what they're talking about can only ( Read more... )

To expand on a comment I tweeted earlier about Pantheacon being an adjustment:

Every con has its flavor. Compared to scifi/regional/general cons, furry cons are a lot more hands-on and close-knit, because a much higher proportion of the fandom is creators and there's a much more DIY aesthetic than with fans of various flavors of traditional media. ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, a bunch of humans did their little human things all around an area of the world now known as Greece. These human things included plenty of creative efforts. The soft and fickle arts. You know the type: music, theater, astronomy ...

Then one day, some creative person got a little restless and thinky. (Ten bucks that they were ( Read more... )

4+ hour ritual. Irish gods sure can get loquacious.

Wasn't nearly as epiphanic as last year's [friends-locked], but then, I've been pretty centered over the last 12 months -- a lot of my friends had really horrible 2008s, and in many ways I've been in the eye of the storm. Not a lot to talk to gods about when you're largely where you want to be ( Read more... )

Going around my friends list right now is a link to artwork of Inuit mythological creatures. It's fantastic art -- I'm especially partial to #5 -- but a little more relevant to my current project was a side link I followed that led over to InuitMyths.com. They describe the Taqriaqsuit, or shadow people:
They live like we do in a world like our ( Read more... )

George W. Bush clearly grew up on a diet of endless John Wayne movies.

Then he became president, and put us in oneMission accomplished ( Read more... )

Took a break from the campaign this week -- ended up playing a few rounds of Munchkin instead. As the last game of the night came to a close, I decided to play kingmaker:

Me: Alright, you're short by a point. Aaron, want my help for free?
Aaron: ...?! ... Sure!
Cole and Steven: WHAT? You can't do that! He'll win!
Me: I know. But you guys ( Read more... )