#going through old drafts

[wintersoulwitch]

VNV Nation - Beloved // Inside No 9 S03E05 Diddle Diddle Dumpling

[embervoices]

Alright, look.

My first computer game was Rogue, played over my Mom's terminal calling into the mainframe over a modem that audibly shrieked at us.

My first console was an Atari 2600, on which my older sister consistently defeated 8 bit dragons that ate me.

My first TTRPG was an AD&D once off at a Sci Fi con - my Mom played with us. I grew up reading her 1st ed books for fun.

I still own my Original Gameboy cartridges. (I can play them on an old GBC I got off eBay, thankfully. We have ways to play all our old Zeldas, one way or another.)

I played Magic: the Gathering before it was officially released. (Alas, I did not own any cards myself until the Unlimited release at WorldCon.)

I got into immersive high fantasy boffer LARPs in high school and urban LARPing shortly after.

I played one of the earliest MMOs on the market with my boyfriend on my first desktop computer, which I built myself.

I got into strategy board games when I got together with my boardgame-collecting life partner 25 years ago, which mostly has shown me that I really love cooperative tabletop gaming.

What's my point?

I am an enthusiastic life-long 2nd gen GAMER of nearly every kind.

I was primarily raised in an all-female* household playing the "old school" games many "old school" gamers claim set the standards.

But apparently some people don't count me as a "Real Gamer" because I prefer cooperative narrative games over war games. I've been around long enough to know what I like, and aim for it. First person shooter cred doesn't impress me, and neither does a militaristic, misogynistic attitude.

There have always been women in gaming.* There always will be.

My Mom used to make her own D&D figurines from scratch.

Wanna know what game she most recently demanded I play with her?

Animal Crossing

Because her grandkids liked it.

* There have also always been non-binary folk in gaming, myself included in retrospect. Blessedly, there have also always been cis men who don't have their heads up their asses!

[and-her-saints]

“purchase my st. benedict medal to protect yourself from demons. use my code BENEDICT20 to get a 20% discount. the devil haaaates this sticker i made!” what if i hit your little toe with a hammer? catholic instagram was a mistake.

[sorrygotthesesacks]

Wait, did I really not post this back when I first started shipping them? (It’s killing me to see my current Christmas cucumba pop with a draft dated back in February.)

[ilummoss]

ANAKIN SKYWALKER: THE GALAXY’S WORST COWORKER. 

Oh, you wish to be released from your cursed, undead, half-existence? Sorry, but Anakin Skywalker is also miserable, which means he will make sure everybody suffers with him!

[hansjisung-nolonger]

can they please relax?

[writlargefic]

a continuation of Kiss Cam with Aster's friends

First story here: Kiss Cam

[sheerioswifties]

LOL WHEN DID I MAKE THIS AND WHY! ?!