This is the second post in a series on fictional board games. If you want to learn more, check out the previous 2 posts, as well as the one coming up. This is another of my favorite games that is used in SFF. I say 'used in', because unlike the other two, Liar's Dice does not have it's origin in a piece of fiction. Instead, it is a real world game that was used in Pirates of the Caribbean as a storytelling device. However, all the rules of the...
This is the first post in a series on fictional board games. If you want to learn more, check out the previous post, as well as the coming 2. I think my first great experience with fictional board games was with this lovely game from Avatar: The Last Airbender, so I think it's only right I talk about this one first. Pai Sho is a strategy game akin to chess, checkers or go, where players take turns placing and moving pieces across a large...
I love board games. I love sci-fi/fantasy fiction. So no wonder when the two combine I absolutely love it. This is going to be the introductory article for a small series I am going to do, where I talk about my all-time favorite board games that have come from works of SFF fiction. The three games I am going to talk about are: Pai Sho from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Liar's Dice from Pirates of the Caribbean, and Sabacc from Star Wars. There...
Hi, you might have noticed a new tab at the top of the website! My Wiki I have mentioned, I think, in a few posts that I have a personal wiki for my own fantasy world. It is called Aenín. I use this homebrew setting for some tidbits of writing (i might publish them here someday), as well as for my D&D campaign. It is a very useful tool and allows me to easily browse through related topics/areas of the setting, which at this point has grown...
It was 1816, and Lord Byron had invited a few friends to spend time at his villa near Lake Geneva. Among these friends were fellow poet Percy Shelley and his 18-year old wife Mary Shelley, and also John Polidori, his personal physician. "It proved a wet, ungenial summer", Mary Shelley later wrote. 1816 has been named the Year Without a Summer, because of a climate disaster that followed the eruption of Mount Tambora that left most of the world...
Ah yes, the first leaves are turning brown, the weather is getting colder, and I've already spotted some chestnuts on the ground. You know what this means: Hot Girl Summer is over, Witch Bitch Autumn is here! In about a month's time it will be Hallowe'en again, my favorite time of year. I love Autumn, or Fall, whatever you call it. I love walking through nature when you can see so many variety all around you, and the air is as crisp as the...
So yeah, Life happened. If anyone is reading this (i doubt they are), they are probably wondering where I have been. My last blog post was... holy cow! january? so yeah, more than half a year ago. Well, I'll tell you about it. I started blogging after some things changed in my life. Nothing major, but I started to have doubts about my study and my ecducational trajectory, and I needed to get some things off my chest (also a lot of other ongoing...
How it began with Minecraft My online journey began a long time ago. One of my cousins introduced me to a game called Minecraft. I liked it, and started building, mining and exploring in this cool sandbox off and on over the next few years. After a while, I discovered youtube and learned about redstone and the almost magical contraptions you could make in this game. The first youtuber I started actively watching was Mumbo Jumbo, a minecraft...
So, I have known for myself that I was trans for over year now. It all started for me somewhere in november of 2020. COVID was raging (and still is, urgh), and I had a lot of time on my hands, sitting at home and thinking. At one point I decided to download one of those selfie editing apps. I had heard about these things, and their feature to change the gender of the selfie, and been wondering how I would look as female for some time now. (An...
Hi! I know I promised my next post was going to continue my vampire story, but with all of the celebrations going on I kinda got swamped and didn't have the energy to write. That is still a bit the case, so Cyrus and the fledgelings are going to have to wait. I have started on a draft but it's not finished yet, so I just wanted to take it easy this week and tell you a bit of what I did the past few weeks. First of all, there were a lot of...