#parlor game

[charnel-grounds]

The Ghosts of My Friends, arranged by Cecil Henland, c. 1910s

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[nullandvoidgames]

Please check out and share this video of The Sentient Severed Arm at the UCSC Lighting Studio

[angrytheatremaker]

Girls, I found a marvelous new way to clarify your political beliefs to yourself and your loved ones: I call it "pretending you're running for office". Okay, the working title's clunky, but you get it. Grill yourself on every possible issue using set questions and watch as your opinions on issues of the day get categorized or mis-categorized in one direction or another. The secret off-menu option is to play it silently, tally up your answers on a sheet of paper, and figure out the lay of your (political) land. If nothing else it forces you to be specific.

[nemospecific]

That's how you know it's a good board game.

[fidgetyhands]

Fandom parlor game

I like semi-cooperative in-person games. I just thought of a new one, and I'd love to get a chance to try it.

First you come up with a list of shared fandoms. They don't have to be recent -- if all of you have read Narnia, Narnia can go on the list. Odd "fandoms" can go on the list, like local politics or other shared information. The only criteria are that everyone in the circle is familiar with them and nobody would be deeply hurt by talking about them.

Put the elements of the list on pieces of paper in a shared hat. Pick two. If one of the two is very specific (like the way people drive U-Hauls into low-hanging bridges every September in Boston), maybe pick a third. Now you have your seeds.

Go around the circle. Each person says a sentence or two. You'll figure out what you're building as you go along. Maybe characters from one fandom are adventuring in the other's universe. Maybe they all meet up for coffee, or for a jewel heist. Maybe Valencia and your friend's playful cat are competing over the One Ring. Maybe you end up with something like https://archiveofourown.org/works/414983 (and if so, please have a tape recorder running so I can read what you come up with). TBD!

[danskjavlarna]

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To see or not: my collection of vintage blindfoldedness.

[danskjavlarna]

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Float along: soap bubbles.

[likethedew]

Leroy of Barnwell and other Southern gothic characters

Leroy of Barnwell and other Southern gothic characters

Hand over my heart, this is a true story. The South is known for its unusual characters, right? They populate the stories of Southern writers like Erskine Caldwell, Harper Lee, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, etc. and et al. But we Southerners know, don’t we, that you don’t have to crack one of these authors’ famous books to find such a fictional…

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