finally got to more of the wizard’s grimorie! this game is just so so satisfying and i love how it lets me get more of my ‘i can’t gm’ friends to try a kind of play that’s closer to gming and feel comfortable in that space.

at the bar the local ttrpg meetup takes place on a non-meetup day (still here to play a game) but the smell and lighting of this place does that same thing it always does

reposting the last issue of my newsletter bc i've started working on the next one again

the music playing in my bouldering gym rn is a kind of peppy jazz that makes me feel like i’m doing a minigame in ff7r

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUU_... so captivated by this op i've watched it 4 times already and this is an anime about the cast of college students enjoying a lot of alcohol lmao (it's almost also certainly yuribait?)

diving into fatherfrog 0e i just love connecting the design back to mothership. it's not difficult to see the direct translations but enjoying the intertextuality there is just pure sugar for me

i try to keep down on my digital rent but some productivity software is so essential to... everything i do

esp with the newsletter i’ve been working on saving everything i had some amount of care for through holding on to links or downloaded versions of things

world 2 of my newsletter is out!! things included: words about shadow libraries, isekai, an abridged play report of Mausritter/a module for it and lots more! akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/i...

ztmy please give us more 8 minute tracks like lomotion algae i will sell my soul to you music.youtube.com/watch?v=pSeG...

world 2 of my newsletter is out!! things included: words about shadow libraries, isekai, an abridged play report of Mausritter/a module for it and lots more! akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/i...

part of coming back to a piece that you’ve left for a while is having to accept that the work that you could have completed if you finished it back then is no longer available and dissection/reinterpretation must be made to create a work that you can release as you are now

that said i’m back in tokyo! lots to plan and write

i had no idea i would be so tired from the trip + jet lag this way (uk > jp) would be so bad so i timed it i would land in the evening, get my hair done next day and then attend my graduation the day after the next — it all worked out but i am so so tired now

going to apply for that when i have a second

Have been working on a new project for blog discovery. It's now live! Check out rootr.ing! A new small hub and webring for ttrpg blogs. Read about here: elmc.at/rootring-is-...

marathon's fiction of the runner being a disembodied consciousness placing itself into disposable shells aligns them with the position the player is in. each death is real for both the player and the runner insofar as they lose all their carried items but equally as unreal -

i had been bouncing off of stonetop but finally found my way into it (probably just started reading it at the wrong time) and i love a game that tells me on a 6- to “chuckle grimly and start thinking about threats”

okay but gojo in jjk is a great example of tying an important and fairly abstract lore point and theme (who is and what makes the ‘strongest’) to a very close and easily understandable character in the actual story.

i really love listening museum audio guides, especially when they’re good ones. i’m at the national gallery in london and i really enjoyed how they brought in people who have an interesting relationship to the work they’re talking about and they introduce them at length

haven’t been around because i’ve been on an europe trip to see someone really important to me and to see the world for a bit i thought i might have the energy to finish up the next issue of the newsletter while on this trip but boy was i wrong i can barely get all my thoughts down onto paper

every single panel of jujutsu kaisen is so expressive and beautiful i wish i had started reading this earlier

finally bought pokemon AZ!! excited to see what everyone has been talking about

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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

slightly diminish a game: shadowjog

Motoko Kusanagi on the subject of vertical video and tiktok:

definitely a very personal take but i don’t read the relationship the love himmel showed frieren as romantic at all, it feels to me like a very deep platonic one

System both does and does not matter. Water is both necessary to life and dangerous. You are both a good and bad person. You can hold two things to be true at the same time. You can understand context and application.

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finally submitted my graduation thesis! now i can... graduate?

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i just really enjoy eating at 11pm somehow food feels more satisfying in the late of night

i hope eveyone has a very happy new year! despite and because of everything, things continue.

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

I'm doing a newsletter and the first issue is out now! It's more personal, including links to things that I found interesting, mini-essays not long enough for a full post and a dev log. it's named: "i hope it's not the end of the world" akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/i...

gacha machines are an endless source of fun and cute dice pouches

starting the morning off by crying over vocaloid songs youtu.be/uB_jQ8H2Yeg?...

I'm doing a newsletter and the first issue is out now! It's more personal, including links to things that I found interesting, mini-essays not long enough for a full post and a dev log. it's named: "i hope it's not the end of the world" akisperspectives.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/i...

i miss when i could look at social media and not have to confront the whole misery of the current moment - like i know it's important for people to talk about these issues but also like i can't deal with the lack of divisions between contexts - sometimes i can't handle all the pain mixed in

last night i got so engrossed in reading a book that i read from 11pm to 4am it was such a nice feeling to be so deep into it without worry (until i was very sure i should go to sleep instead of reading more)

there is something about setting a timer for 22minutes and saying 'i will do this for as long as this timer is going' that gets me to actually focus better why does it work

hmmm should i pick up nightreign now that its 25% off

i have a submittable version of my thesis now which feels weird almost like wow i’ve actually gotten here..

when i’m reading on an ereader, the ambient light changes how the page looks, just barely, but it’s enough to place the words in the environment that i’m in and that’s something i don’t get from a screen. the screen is always that colour, always that warmth, unchanging, inorganic

with computer parts availability getting worse maybe we're approaching the future where the computing a lot of us take for granted today becomes more and more inaccessible for wide swaths of people

i love random tables so much

Movie you've rewatched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar. only one comes to mind for me

i wish i had a group of friends to play multiplayer survival crafting games and the like with