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bearded woman, grad student game designer, mostly in that order. writing about religion, play, conspiracies, sex. pay my rent @ patreon.com/s_che

a single comic panel, captioned "TYPHON IS NEARLY BURNED TO DEATH." below, a lion-headed man wearing a crown spits fire at a collapsing figure in a yellow shirt (and maybe a bubble helmet?). speech bubble: "HA-HA!"
Online Ordination: How It Works Technically you cannot receive ordination "online" because ordination takes place in the spiritual realm when you answer the Call
a fishlike creature which does not look very much like a dolphin
archive of our own page showing a list of 3 results for fanfiction involving Émile Durkheim
several clowns. four are green. four are pink. one is purple.
The Realis cover art, featuring moons and strange windows into other worlds, bug-eyes, castles, illuminated faces, skulls, mustachioed men, and the title of the game in capitals.
Talking to a friend about this, I described the episode as Game Changer at its most “gamefull” — a term I mean pretty literally, as in “full of games.” Each of the smallest pieces of the episode (individual rules, prompts, etc.) can be looked at as a little game in its own right, held together by metagames: spinning the wheel, the scoreboard, and so on. The pleasure of playing — or observing — this kind of “game of games” could be called procedural, in that players and observers alike can take joy in the technical intersection of distinct routines, which crash together, swap inputs, and recontextualize each other. The simplicity of each individual game — “NO CURSING,” “WEARING A HUGE COWBOY HAT” — means you can hold any part of the thing easily in your head, but as the venn diagrams of games begin to overlap and the space not affected by one rule or another begins to shrink, it’s the iterative, recombinative process where the game really sings.
saruman the white, lord of isengard, master of the council of the wise, surrounded by sparkling hearts and cartoon daisies. in something like 144p.
Text from a PBTA-style move: "When you draw fanart, make it sloppy. Wear your heart on your sleeve about it! Or be super cool and ironic. Either way -- send it to someone when you're done. Or -- better yet! Send it to them before you're done. Cash out on their approval before you've finished the thing, and then never finish it at all. Come up with a ship! I'm not writing bespoke guidelines for a fic. They're the same as art dw about it. If you send the art to your fellow players, it becomes a (1)..."
the first page of an rpg. Under a section titled "Walkthrough" two narratorial voices each warn you not to trust the other. Under "0.1.1 INSTALL AND SETUP" a list of materials: the rulebook, playing cards, index cards, scissors, tape, paper clips, pens and markers
A quote from the linked article: "Why bother, then? Why create something special and set aside--and necessarily limiting and restrictive--when those limits are only given substance by our abiding by them? Why create social structures? Why play games? Well, in the case of that last one: because they're fun. Because effective ritual is effective. It has an effect. In the case of a game, that effect is fun."
"The 'harsh and uproarious welcome,' the Public Ledger noted. 'entirely demoralized those in charge of the show." For a Harper's Weekly reporter, the Philadelphians seemed "to be moved rather by the desire to celebrate than to celebrate any particular thing.'" Gary Nash, "First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory"
the thumbnail for QUEEN OF THE MOON. the background is dark blue. 2/3 of a yellow crescent moon with a face takes up most of the frame.