#hrh-spinach

[canisalbus]

You know your art has had an impact when you got me looking at these defuser sticks and thinking ‘Vasco’ while I brush my teeth.

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[gen-is-gone]

So you’re on the wire now huh??? 👀

Welcome welcome

Calculated reblogging of that poll, not gonna lie XD

Yes! I'm about halfway through season 2, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Omar is my favorite character so far, and now you have to tell me who your prediction was for my fave!

[frozen-fountain]

7 / 11 for the ask :)

7. What element of writing do you struggle with most?

There are a few potential answers here - action/fights, dialogue, judging the text-to-subtext ratio for myself - but really I think the big one is scope creep. I prefer to let ideas stew for a while before I begin any actual drafting, and the downside of this is that a story tends to run away from me and I end up biting off way more than I can chew. Hence the many unfinished projects and work that on paper doesn't match what was in my head. I will pat myself on the back for even attempting big and ambitious ideas, and I think we do our best work when we push a bit beyond where we're really capable of going, but I still need to work on that balance of letting it germinate without letting it sprawl out of control.

11. Who or what do you find yourself writing about most?

Metanoia, and the characters I feel would experience it in the most interesting and powerful ways.

[gen-is-gone]

Thought I’d drop you an ask about your D&D character(s) after your nostalgia post. Consider it an opportunity to wax lyrical if you want

Oh man, my high school D&D characters, hell yeah.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

So my high school D&D group was probably most notable for being waaaaay too big, because the guy who who was running the game that started the whole thing didn't quite know how to say no to people asking to join, and ballooned up from maybe six people to like. Thirteen. Which is fucking massive and horribly unwieldy, and bear in mind we were playing 3.5, where combat was somehow even worse and more long-lasting than modern 5e.

(This, incidentally, was how Ferro and I got to know each other properly, because of our group he was the one who didn't go to the same school as the rest of us, but he'd known the DM since they were like two. We got each other in the epic six-way post-college friend divorce, and Dan and Cedric got married.)

I can't remember any of their names, but the two characters that come to mind from that period were the very first character I made, an elf bard (natch) who came in late to the game comparatively late but had a few cool moments that mostly actually revolved around nerfing this other player's constant attempts to kill a different guy's characters, because he was that type of guy who would make a big thing out of playing chaotic evil characters to justify bullying other players. I had a couple moments in the climatic final battle of that first campaign where I mostly stopped him from ruining what everyone else was doing, lol.

The next campaign, which to this day remains an old favorite, was an Underdark exclusive where we realized that we couldn't reasonably play another game with this many people and split off into two groups. Ferro Dm'd one, and my then-girlfriend DM'd the other. I played an Orc barbarian with like 1 intelligence who made friends with the other characters and formed a bond with them. We spent a huge amount of that campaign fucking around and getting into stupid scrapes instead of following the storyline, it was fun.

I have a lot of nostalgia for that group, even though we were objectively kind of a trainwreck. We all learned a lot, certainly, and all of us went on to have a lot interest in game creation and craft later. We had a bunch of stupid in-jokes, like you do, and we would sometimes cosplay our characters for big moments.

These days I haven't had a group to play with in a few years, in part because I really don't want to play D&D or other crunch-heavy games, but it's hard to get people to branch out to other games, although given how WotC has shat the bed recently, there's been a lot more interest in other types of ttrpgs, so we'll see what the future holds.

R's group is so...they remind me of that old teen group so much. The only thing that's really changed is which edition they're playing, and the fact they're all packing smartphones rather than little flip/slider late 2000s monstrosities with a hundred phone charms hanging off them. When I walked in on them, they were, as cliched as it sounds, actually about to fight a dragon, so I watched them play for a bit. R kept beefing her rolls, and her friend was convinced that he could repair a wall they broke with the one hundred crackers he had in his inventory. One of the girls had a really expensive-looking heavy metal dice set that everyone else was envious of, because she's apparently about as veteran of a player as you can be at fifteen and collects dice sets. Of course.

It was just really fun seeing kids playing, and the whole thing continuing on to a whole new generation. There was a dad who came in looking for something else, and he told me he used to play AD&D back in the eighties when he was a teen. At this point the game's been around long enough to have multiple generations playing together, which is absolutely delightful.

[gen-is-gone]

I’ve ordered the complete series of Homicide on dvd. No other comment, just felt you should know this

omg my lasting influence

Have you seen it before or did you just decide to take the plunge?

[canisalbus]

Adding to the ‘wild machete out in the public sphere crowd’ — walking past a very handsome machete-esque dog doing a stately trot, but it was raining and while his body was protected by a quilted dog-jacket, his head and tail were bedraggled as fuck.

It was amusing

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[canisalbus]

Something about modern au Vasco says skateboarder to me. It’s only recently an Olympic sport but I can see him having a mildly successful career on the competitive circuit in his youth.

(Now entertaining myself with the thought of young new goth phase Machete lurking in the skatepark while Vasco tries to catch his attention with a sick ollie)

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[canisalbus]

Just a little line to say your dogs fill me with feelings! Your line art is divine. You make it all look so easy, and effortless. Like my logical brain knows this is false because I failed art, I cannot draw a stick figure to save my life, but your boys just look so NATURAL, I’m staring at them like “yeah. Easy peasy.”

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