Fox says things too long for bluesky.
As I stated in the description of my Eberron Artificer mod for Baldur's Gate 3, I was aiming to stay within the tabletop rule margins from Eberron: Forge of the Artificer to the best that I could within BG3's framework, which is both built on an earlier version of 5th edition D&D, and which makes a bunch of its own compromises even with those rules. For the most part I think I succeeded, but there…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's (for real this time) track is "The Gift" . The prompt was pretty specific: "That moment when the hero's down, but summons everything they've got inside them and stands back up." I went back to short fiction, this time, because the vignette in this post — about someone who gets isekai'ed/Narnia'ed but finds they…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's (well, technically the week of April 19th) track is "The Raindrop" . It should have been posted on April 26th, but I didn't have time to start that track until Saturday, and when I did sit down to do it, I was just... I had a really bad mental health week that week and wasn't in a place to write music. Plus, as…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's track is "The Tree" . I don't have a lot of time for writing, unfortunately, so no short story this week, but I wanted to explain how I got to the piece I ended up doing (and the "story" of it). The prompt was "Trees," but I heard the 'Enchanted Garden' sample loop in Logic —- this is the arpeggiated bit you…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's prompt-composition piece is called "The Login" . You can read more about the actual musical composition angle of it on the track's page. For now, I just want to jump into the accompanying short fiction. "I'm in? I think." [Great. Going by the metrics looks like proprioception and sensory transferrence…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) This week's prompt-composition piece is called "The Walk" . I wanted to try and least write something every week, even if I don't make the "short accompanying fiction" stage, and I realized there was maybe some congruence between the mental story I had while I wrote this, and the emotional rollercoaster working on it…
(Poster image crop from original by "Malta Girl" used under CC 2.0 license) So for folks who don't know, despite now being in media studies and game design, I started life (and even college) in music, but left it behind... partly for practical reasons, partly for traumatic ones. I have attempted to get it back in my life and for the past few years have been making small electronic songs in…
Please note: spoilers up through the season finale of Starfleet Academy season 1 in this post. This is a blog post about Starfleet Academy , though it's also very much not a blog post about it. This is a blog post about how I'm not okay with a Trek character using the word "spooged." Honestly I don't think I'm okay with any character using the word "spooged" but it's particularly egregious in this…
I knew in advance, thanks to a friend, that Resident Evil: Requiem was gonna have a fatphobic character. She told me because she wanted me to be prepared for discussion about it, which was gracious and kind. Truth be told, though... I didn't actually need to be warned, because I knew there'd be something . Horror as a genre, after all, loves to use fatness as a stand-in for all sorts of things, as…
The first time we meet Darem Reymi, he is a complete dick. Starfleet Academy is, at its heart, a high school ensemble show (despite the Academy being, to the best of our understanding, a university and not a high school). Darem is given to us early as the most prototypical of teen content tropes: the hot jock bully. The first thing he does is steal a pair of binoculars from a student who's just…