Hey, here I am! So, between AmberconNW, the Thanksgiving holiday, working on the game, and work craziness I have not had the wherewithal to post. This, however, shall be changing. Hopefully. So, what raised my ire to get me to rouse myself from my post-turkey lethargy? Check out the #1ReasonWhy hashtag on twitter. #1ReasonWhy talks… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #241 – #1ReasonWhy on Twitter
There will be a new update soon. Promise! Including my Ambercon NW post-con report, and progress on the game. But right now, if you guys are so motivated, could you donate to some fellow geek podcasters who had a fire in the their place last night. Kevin Weiser and Jen Dixon who host The Walking… Read More Sorry for the Silence.
Ambercon I am IN you!!! Having a fantastic time! Sorry about the no update this week, I was prepping for the games I’m running and desperately behind on submitting characters for the games I’m in. Last night I ran Behind the Yellow Wallpaper, which is a game of female Victorian Monster Hunters. The blurb in… Read More Ambercon NW!!!
Ok, so there was drinking, so it’s a little rambly in places. I talk quickly about how to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and then on to processes for writing games, and some other rambly ass shit. Seriously, drinking. http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2115509/height/360/width/640/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/
I am giving this its own post because playtesting is how you tell if your game is playable, if people want to play it and what you need to do to fix this broken ass game that makes perfect sense in your head, but not so much to anyone who isn’t living in your head.… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #240 – Playtesting
So, I’m very nearly done with the first draft/playtest document of a hack of Joe McDaldno’s Monster Hearts, which is itself a hack of Vincent Baker’s Apocalypse World. I’m also finishing up the first real draft of The Novel, which is terrifying in and of itself. But what I’d really like to talk about here… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #239 – Writing Games
Ashes of Honor is the sixth book in the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. As we all know I am an unabashed Seanan McGuire fangirl. She’s one of the few authors I actually DO try to by the first week the books are in print, in a brick and mortar store to help influence… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #238 – Review: Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire
So after the post where I was complaining about cosplayers making female analogs of male characters unnecessarily sexy, Lela Gwenn, a twitter follower and all around awesome person, told me of her plan to make a “Sexy Gambit” costume. Since I think a sexy female Gambit is perfectly in line with the Cajun’s personality, I… Read More Quick Post: Lady Gambit
I would like to begin this review by stating that I am not sure whether I want to hug Mr. Hodder or punch him. Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, the third book in the Burton & Swinburne series (the reassurance on twitter that #4 is coming along, currently has me leaning toward hugging)… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #237 – Review: Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
I’ve been nattering on a bunch about fangirls, celebrity culture seen through the nerd filter and attraction, be it to celebrities or people you might actually meet and interact with on a deeper level, and how those two types of attraction should ideally differ. And that has me thinking a lot about why Fangirl culture… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #236 – Male and Female Gaze in Nerd Culture
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