stepnix: Nanoko from Wish Upon the Pleiades (magical girl)
2025-02-25 05:44 pm
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fate/stay night good

i have finished the Heaven's Feel route of the visual novel Fate/stay night

...I feel like any kind of summary/thinkpiece I attempt will be insufficient, so I'll just say, I completely see how this would kick off a twenty year franchise. I was already getting inspired by it partway through, so I expect this to stick with me for a long time.

however it is unfortunate that finding interesting fanworks or discussion for this means sorting through the fanworks and discussion for the rest of the franchise, which I am less interested in. also 8tracks is down so i can't find fanmixes easily ;_;

so uh if anyone has songs they associate with various Fate characters lemme know

stepnix: Purple shepherd's crook (pastoral)
2025-02-17 12:17 am
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Rooftop Jam Retrospective

I ran a homebrew jam! I feel accomplished. It was fun to write my own work and fun to see what others came up with, like the Pied Piper storyline or Strigoi. I got entries from beyond my immediate circle of contacts and honestly that was my measure of success.

Will I do something like this again? Probably depends on if I get inspired enough to write something myself again. But I won't rule it out. I'm glad I got to do this.

stepnix: chibi Shin Godzilla (Default)
2024-10-14 04:14 pm
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archive disruption as an inconvenience to me personally

you're probably aware that archive.org is down right now. i wish them all the best and want them to take all the time they need to make sure everything is safe and secure before opening back up.

but

this coincidentally lines up with my impromptu attempts at digital archeology on indie ttrpg twitter, which, i forget if archive.org even stores tweets, but, either way it's thrown a wrench into my efforts here

stepnix: Purple shepherd's crook (shepherd)
2024-10-05 09:33 pm
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Curation is work!!!

At the moment I'm thinking about expanding my TTRPG horizons, largely as a reaction to Cohost shutting down one vector of recs and discussion, and kinda also as a "long shadow" effect from Twitter becoming significantly less... good. that about sums it up. This is also doubling as reasearch for my own site, I want to include links to cool people and cool ideas, so this "stuck" feeling has an antidote of some kind, for people who find my site

I am experiencing that 1) Finding cool stuff is work and 2) showing off cool stuff to people is also work. who could have foreseen this

(Signing up for a couple newsletters that other people have already done the work of curating has been a good step for me here I think)

anyway here's a History of TTRPGs post index and here's a second link for when that one is incomplete

stepnix: chibi Shin Godzilla (Default)
2024-10-01 09:03 am
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really over now huh

I'll be okay I think. just gotta readjust to the new space, new ways to find people to talk to

i GOTTA get a DW ttrpg community set up

... even the post editor feels weightier here, somehow
stepnix: chibi Shin Godzilla (Default)
2024-09-27 12:10 pm
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(no subject)

i'm getting linked as a ttrpg blog, guess i'd better post more ttrpg stuff here huh
stepnix: chibi Shin Godzilla (Default)
2024-09-14 12:23 pm
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intro or something

hello yes I am here now, trying to maintain some kind of social media presence after Cohost goes down

I don't know what it will take for me to keep up with this, but I'm going to give it a shot.

I would like to post about genre history, especially magical girls and mechs, and also cool TTRPG game design

My other pages are https://stepnix.neocities.org/ and https://stepnix.itch.io/, gonna be working on all of them together

Big days ahead