A bat-thing.
Yes, i am involved in yet another kickstarter, this one is for an RPG zine for Zinequest. You're playing beleagered villagers defending their home from horribly altered warbeasts. The system is lightly based on PbtA, but with its own unique touches. Check out the link if you're interested! We'd be honoured to have you in our mob.
Follow in the footsteps of a band of curious vagabonds searching for a fabled artefact deep beneath the earth. Will they find the redemption they seek, or meet a grisly fate?
If you want to find out, the comic book exploring these adventures (written by Erik Warfield and drawn by yours truly) is getting backed on Kickstarter right now!
Reblogged
I sense that I will be continuing to reiterate this one complaint for the rest of eternity, but I'm really concerned about how the internet affects people's way of expressing themselves. Like no matter how personal or general and no matter how grand or mundane, everything has to take the form of a pompous speech leveled at all of humanity, or if not that then it has to be expressed as a nasty sarcastic zinger; nobody can either speak from a place of sincere concern OR make a fun joke like a normal fucking person, everything has to be this obnoxious performance and it makes even legitimately worthy information into shallow, meaningless exhibitionism. There's definitely a parroting effect in play where if you follow a lot of accounts that really are a kind of business entity, even if the business is just someone's "personal brand," then you run the risk of starting to talk only in brand-building language or like you think you're on TV. And I think a lot of people don't even realize they're doing this, it just seems natural to them, but it really stands out when it's someone who should know better. There are like professionals and academics and intellectuals who I know for a fact are smart and have published considered, compelling work, and now they're on Twitter with a constant barrage of haughty, quippy declarations from on high that make them sound like total stupid assholes. Or worse, they're on Instagram putting their declarations into graphics with bold, attention-grabbing fonts so their quippy, haughty words can be extremely big and loud, and I think it's a really bad sign for civilization that even intelligent people with something to say actually aspire to transform themselves into a shitty condescending billboard.
Tangentially I also worry about this phenomenon, I don't know if it's Tumblr-specific or not, where people post as if they are directly addressing a giant hoard of enemies. Certainly the Tumblr "y'all" is a very particular thing that has no regional or cultural identity, that exclusively means "Everyone is stupid except me," but I do see a lot of posts where the person seems to be telling Everyone that they're all stupid, and it makes me want to ask, "Wow, how do you think you collected all these followers who don't align with your tastes or values at all, instead of people who relate to you and dig your posts? Why are all your followers someone you hate and disagree with? That's wild, I hope it doesn't happen to me!" I mean, it's true that every Tumblr post risks commentary from randos who have no idea what you're saying, and god forbid something gets popular...but I think it's a very bad sign, this subconscious assumption that social media is a place where you are completely surrounded by enemies and inferiors, rather than a place where you personally get to choose who to follow and who follows you, and whatever you see is largely the result of your own behavior. I don't have a specific conclusion to draw, just something about how people are reacting to their general awareness of living in a world that is increasingly hostile to humanity I guess.