Dear Reader, It would seem that discourse about that same old thing has circled around again. You know, the one where some black person or other person of color said something about the thing that you thought only you had the right to speak on and that no one can ever critique because how dare… Read more The Discourse
This entry is going to be heavy in stream-of-consciousness writing. I will try as hard as I can to get keep this readable. The recent revelations of long-standing issues and their impact at Wizards have left us all a bit of a wreck. Partly because we treat companies like people but also because of nostalgia… Read more A Word on WotC
I was reading this thread the last night and among the things that stuck out for me was this particular point: I started to think about an answer to this question and the first thing I ran into was this thing I already wrote about accountability. In some of my calls for accountability, I’ve been… Read more On Things Redemption Looks Like
First, let’s have a definition so we’re all on the same page. Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. For example, chromesthesia (sound to color). From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia Hello. It’s me. I can do that. It’s nifty. Simple… Read more Narrative Concept: Synesthesia
As pride month ends, I’m copying this from my secret stash and posting it here. I hope these words are helpful and healing. I hope they lead to good questions. I hope you find courage here. * * * I feel like this comes up a lot for me; in many cases, I have a… Read more The Power of Language: Sexuality
This post contains mentions of sexual harassment. A while back, almost two years ago, I wrote about a situation that involved sexual harassment. At that time, the end was uncertainty. Not knowing how to move forward and be helpful. I’ve learned since then and I want to pass that knowledge to you. What I learned… Read more Teach Me How To Ally: Lessons on Listening
With all of the discourse around trying to pick a system – D&D or otherwise – to tell a particular story, I’ll take a story I’ve worked on refining for the last three years. The story of Of Hand and Heart (OHAH). I’ve chronicled different things about the story and the journey it’s been here,… Read more Story Concept: Emerging Heroes OR Deconstructing OHAH
It’s a wee bit after 1PM Eastern time and I’m listening to Friskk in the background as they recount the pain of the last few days. It’s heart-wrenching. In particular, the way in which over a few days, years of trust and relationships lay shattered and the grieving that entails. In the sounds of her… Read more Grieving for Friends Never Made
With events at Wizards and Hasbro being what they are, more than a few people have opted to move away from Dungeons & Dragons as their primary material for creating games and are looking to other systems. This is a good thing and means more options for experiences in the space. They are also asking… Read more Tabletop System Exodus Advocate OR Say What You Want, but Don’t Be Ableist…
So last week we were on the front page of Twitch (you can watch some highlights and catch a solid tune here) and I also came up in a commercial for Pride. Like… y’all. This is a thing that’s happened and on top of that, I’m going to have to dress as a dragon because… Read more We Did That: An Open Letter to Mori
It’s 11:12 AM Eastern US at the time of this writing, but it was much earlier when I read yet another dialogue on how Korra is better than Aang which was of course met with “No u” and I’m tired, y’all. I know that for those of us who have seen both series, we have… Read more Avatar: The Last Narrative-bender
