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despite some folkloric precedent for "guy who turns into a bat," the werebat is strongly informed by the modern urban fantasy vampire vs werewolves paradigm. they're funny guys.

Reading Mob Psycho 100, followed by Kieron Gillen's The Power Fantasy, was a very good idea.

unexpected laptop loss with incomplete backups is, y'know, not great, but it does give me a chance to reconsider which patterns are worth bringing over to the new model. do i really want to keep up with those webcomics, do i really need to stay in touch w…

HeartQuest is an early 2000s FUDGE-derived system for shoujo manga-style campaigns.

what a weird show.

I wrote the manifesto like a year ago, pleasantly surprised it made an impression!

Recently translated interviews from the director and series composition expert of LuluttoLilly!

carnivorous concept, conqueror wyrm. your scales are so shiny, let me make them mine. down the hatch into context and comparison and no way out, intertextual inseparable invincible me. weren't you so lonely as a local lizard?

Proposition: Approaching a work with the expectation that it is a perfect representation of its genre tends to make your experience worse.

1) did you know that there's "JSTOR Daily" with short overviews of various topics and links to free articles about them 2) did you know that they did one about global BL fandoms comments

Lyrical Nanoha: magical girl spin-off of the Triangle Heart eroge VN series Prisma Illya: magical girl spin-off of Fate/stay night + Fate/hollow ataraxia eroge VNs Madoka Magica: Not a direct spin-off but creators wrote/directed several VNs There's plenty…

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umamusume: pretty derby is a nerd game for huge nerds. this is known.

This got posted in a game design channel i visit.

Finally got my hands on Fellowship through a bundle after years of telling myself "i should read Fellowship." worth it!

My day job (self-employed) includes wandering around the internet and keeping track what people say about PbtA.

I'd heard that Studio Pierrot was doing a new magical idol anime for the first time in almost twenty years, and then forgot to follow up on it, and then saw that it's on youtube in English now. get hype.

One of my favorite mecha writers shared [this discussion]https://magicalstage.moe/2026/03/17/how-we-got-into-plot-and-how-to-get-out/] of the possibilities that open when we don't let The Plot be the main focus of our experience with a work, and included…

they made a bunch of these. let's make a list Beauty and the Beast: An Enchanted Christmas (1997); Christmas special, frame story is a sequel but the main body is not. makes sense, include their most marketable designs.

If you run campaigns in systems that don't match the premise, you can be extra confident that the good and fun parts are the product of your own effort and genius. and when things go wrong you can blame the game. like and subscribe for more pro tips comme…

forced to redo my RSS feeds bc my reader isn't working right.

Adding "figure out differences between RPG Maker 2000/2003/XP/MV" to my to-do list.

I have discovered a new old Dracula, one even newer and older than my previous preferred new old Dracula: Mörkrets makter ("Powers of Darkness"), the likely-unauthorized Swedish version.

friend read through Riddle of Steel, which is mostly famous for its detailed combat system, and I'm struck by how much of a historical anomaly it is Author commentary describes it as responding to "dnd is too gamey and easy these days (00s)" which i mostly

a friend is informing me that her youtube recommendations are filled with Rainbow Dash being subjected to "a broad swathe of medical and psychological horror." anyone know what's up with that. why is this happening to her. is this what "whump" means or was