Oooo …. If only I had the spare time at the moment. And had found out two months ago xD but saving it to do belatedly.

…oops. I meant to stop halfway through the 3.6 story of Honkai Star Rail. Got to a good stopping point. Then: “maybe I’ll just see the start of what’s next” and, um. Finished the story at 5:30am? I‘ve never cried so much over a video game. Wasn’t even as tragic/depressing as other patches but…

Save the date for The Once and Future Court larp, November 20-22 2026, near Chicago, IL! (Oregon, IL) —The Court of Camelot is reborn throughout the ages. Now it gathers in the modern era, drawn together by dreams, invitations, and whispers of fractured memories. www.onceandfuturecourt.com

Cheat Sheet v.2 nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

The (very cool) castle venue I visited only had two dates left for 2026, and one date overlapped with another big larp... so I'm doing an interest check to see how viable the weekend before Thanksgiving actually is. Friends assure me it'll work out, but I want to be sure before the downpayment!

The most helpful, hopeful take I've heard in the past year is this: "The apocalypse has already happened. We're in a post-apocalyptic world." Been meaning to write this for a while. Eventually I'll revise, clean it up and post somewhere more official, but until then: www.tumblr.com/liminalpsych...

mood. I also mostly stopped using Facebook (because no thanks, Meta) but now I feel so out of the loop on so many things. ah well, I don't actually miss it.

PSA: If a mental health professional says you can't possibly have ADHD because you're "too smart" or "your grades are too good" or "you made it through college" – fire them, they don't know ADHD. I'm so tired of *still* hearing this b.s. in 2025.

I’m working my way through so many videos of larp talks/presentations, and keep running across comparisons between immersive experiences and larp. But where does something like renfaire street theater fall?

Gonna playtest the workshop for this larp intimacy mechanic in a couple weeks. Needed something that would fit the aesthetic, theme, mood, etc for an Arthurian larp, so I modified an old SCA tradition and fused it with a variant of the Taste of Intimacy meta-technique.

Found this *fantastic* hat at my local secondhand/vintage/craft co-op while looking for a hat for my modern Merlin character, because his costume was missing something. Realized I can do “wild man of the woods” era Merlin which fixes my costuming issues. Now have to come up with new kit around hat.

!!! It’s finally available to the public! I’ve been following this documentary process closely and I’m so excited to watch it. Jen and her cockatoo kiddos are all amazing <3 gathr.com/vod/e2331901

Dissecting (repairing. attempting to repair. salvaging) this 1996 RV is going … excitingly. But I actually got a pleasant surprise when I peeled back the rotting thin sheets of plywood (?) from the interior leaky window: it was glued to firm not-rotted insulation. Whew. (I need to wear a mask…)

Can’t get larp work done around here without a kitten trying to “help” (my nesting partner was going through some sword patterns and Setka thought the sword was a cat toy and so it became playtime with kitten instead)

28 remote NPCs written, 38 to go, I wanted to finish this today, we’ll see if that actually works out @_@ but it’s so worth it, this is fleshing out the modern characters so much more *very* quickly

That feeling when the writing *flows* and all the creative cylinders are firing and you’re making connections between characters/plot points one after another. Exhilarating. Haven’t had this in a *while*

Lots of good autism info in this thread and corresponding links! 🧵⬇

There’s a maxim in the equestrian world that all interaction is training. Every ride is training. Meaning: every interaction involves reinforcement of behavior, whether you mean to or not. Humans reinforce each other’s behaviors all the time, unintentionally. Better to be conscious about it, imho.

…anyway. I realized my social media output has been very focused on hobbies/leisure, fandom, personal projects, cute critters. A big part of that is because I don’t share bad news unless I have actionable items to go with it, to reduce demoralization. The rest is conserving energy for work.

The Resistance Museum at Akershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway - about the 5 years of German occupation of Norway in WW2 - was probably the most impactful place I visited while in Norway. It’s what sticks in my memory the most. It was both heavy and hopeful, unsettling and bracing.

Setka’s tail just keeps curling more and more and it’s so cute :D He’ll be a year old this weekend; it started curling over his back when he was happy/excited (instead of sticking straight up) and has becoming most of the time. Not injured; apparently it’s a genetic mutation.

aaaAaAaAaaa holy crap. (I am so thrilled that Galehaut’s starting to get the recognition he deserves)

GALEHAUT MENTION <3 and they got to be king-married in this? Love a fix-it AU.

And my final two pieces for this year's March to Camelot challenge. (And I've definitely figured out the difference in the icons now) #arthuriana

Hadestown got me to finally appreciate tragedies. Used to think tragedies were depressing, despairing, hopeless; no, that’s grimdark. Now I really believe that tragedies have deep themes of hope, resilience, beauty, love, life. Don’t think I could’ve appreciated Arthuriana before seeing Hadestown.

I accidentally called traditional/mainstream U.S. larp “authoritarian style larp design,” and now I can’t stop thinking about it. (I was at Knutepunkt trying to explain the low-trust, high-control elements in many long-running u.s. boffer/parlor larps, and it was a freudian slip of sorts)

The night deepens as stars gather around the moon. Press to listen to the "Song of the Welkin Moon" >> hoyo.link/DJcFT1b7F #GenshinProphecy #GenshinImpact

Sent out the preliminary character sheets for the 2-day Once & Future Court playtest. Getting to see what people do with characters is my favorite part :D and player excitement is always so rewarding.

Why does scope creep happen to *all of my projects.* this is why I can’t write short fiction. (the scope creep is currently happening to a larp I’m working on, but it applies to all my other projects too)

march to camelot prompt #2 ruin, featuring lancelot and gawain #illustration #art #arthuriana

Some samples of my notes from Knutepunkt. This is why I don’t usually take handwritten notes. My handwriting is mostly legible to me, at least. Or… Well, I’ll figure out what I meant to record. Eventually.

Last coffee in Norway (Supreme Roastworks ftw) before heading to the airport in 14 hours. …at 2am. …anyway, I normally can’t stand coffee, but Norwegian coffee tastes more like fruity black tea to me. None of the acridity I’m used to in American coffee shops. Might have finally converted me.

MALAHAUT: Gules (or sable), a porcupine or unguled azure. Art by Hannah Lipsky, because I needed a representation for the Lady of Malehaut and this was the closest heraldic description I could find. Porcupines are ungulates now, I guess Blazon (desc) from www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/som...

….this is better than I ever dared to hope??? There’s so much about this that feels representative of my experience. Not 100% of course (obviously, since I’m not a dream-eating species in a fantasy world xD) but it rhymes! Reflects and resonates! I’m thrilled :D youtu.be/eP9NZFD86b4?...

Running my reincarnated Arthurian larp at a con and it's always nearly full by round 2 of signups... but not this time. D: Still 2 more rounds to go, it'll probably be fine. Getting nervous. Theoretically it can run with as few as 9 players. I've just never run it with less than 23 out of 24.

I am so, so excited for this documentary on Parrot Kindergarten and Jen’s fabulous work with her cockatoos! (And there are even some cameos from the non-parrot Pet Kindergarten group I’ve been participating in for the last couple years!) youtu.be/OT_sY-2eOIM?...

Knutepunkt dropped the sneak peek of their programme for attendees and I don’t know how I’m supposed to choose D: I wanna go to *everything* (this is my first KP and I’m so excited, the larp talks/workshops/panels all look so good!)

Feels like I’m going back in time lately, in my online activity, and I’m happy about that. Bsky feels like old twitter. Discord feels a bit like old IRC chatrooms. Tumblr is still Tumblr. Maybe I’ll get back to using Dreamwidth next, or even forums. Who knows?

Playing the new HSR patch and story, and honestly I think it would be straighter if phainon and mydei said 'i do' at an altar compared to what I am seeing here on screen

oh yay, reasonsforhope is over here! Have followed on tumblr for ages and I send therapy clients their way all the time. Anyone know if there a hopeposting/positive news feed on bsky? I haven’t been able to find one (and not sure how to create one effectively, tho I’ll figure it out if need be).

🧪Ooh, alert! Recent research looking at how a friendly (& long) maternal presence promotes maturation of brain territories involved in both social behaviour & physiological regulation IN HORSES, MY FRIENDS! Another paper to support rethinking premature weaning of 🐴. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Artificial intelligence has been almost criminally underused by insect taxonomists. See my ichneumon subfamily classifier for an example of how it can be done easily with museum specimens. #entomology #ichneumonidae #artificialintelligence #taxonomy

aaaand this is why deconstructing is so important. Gotta deconstruct all the ingrained messages and biases, bit by bit. It’s a lifelong process. If you *don’t* continually, systematically work on that… you just recreate your prev religious baggage in your next one or in your secular life.

s n o w (Starlight the mini says hi)

so so so so excited for this, I got to read it in early draft and it’s already SO GOOD, and it’ll only be BETTER with revisions :D

I have been scrolling videos, comments sections, tumblr recaps, etc on this for the last couple hours in utter astonished fascination.

This entire thread is FASCINATING. what. *what.*

how much do you like these tropes? enemies to lovers: 10/10 second chance: 7/10 fake dating: 6/10 friends to lovers: 10/10 age gap: 1/10 with caveats (see reply) found family: 10/10 grumpy x sunshine: 5/10 mpreg: -5/10 slow burn: 10/10 love triangle: 0/10 unless resolved by polyamory

It’s got the only up-to-date, community-sourced, community-reviewed info on *local,* *rare-disease-specific* providers. You can find years-out-of-date info elsewhere. Can sometimes find places with way fewer people sharing experiences. But your best bet for screening providers is FB. It *sucks.*