Playing in a game where we - by yes-and-ing each other - have all made and are playing our own real life fathers as characters

When the second playtest is much better than the first because of small tweaks you made after the first one

Don’t know why I’ve even bothered to set an alarm at this con, I’ve woken up at least an hour before it each day, out of a combination of anxiety and excitement

Hearing strange new reports that “games are good”, is anyone else hearing this

Lmao very reassuring when you order food from somewhere to pick up, and then all the staff seems confused by the prospect of “ordering online” or even “take-out orders” (I got my food! It’s good! Just very funny)

I have very little interaction with the board game contingent at this convention but it’s very fun to eavesdrop on them here and there like between panels and stuff lmao

going into my penance corner for getting on a soapbox at the zine-makers roundtable to decry the product-ification of zines, I literally told myself in advance that I wasn’t gonna do it this year and then I did it anyway

First playtest of the weekend down, with a resulting three full pages of notes 😂 good notes! The type of notes that mean the thing WORKS, with room for improvement!

Came out to the lobby early for coffee if there’s any other early birds around at Metatopia

had one (1) adult beverage last night and told someone that people who want to use D&D to do everything all the time should be flown into the sun

First night of Metatopia always a delight!!! My friends (new and old)!!! And tomorrow: games!!!

There’s a person at this convention who looks exactly like my brother and it’s really throwing me off, I know my brother isn’t here but every time I turn around and see this guy I’m like “Bill????”

vodka cranberry :)

I AM in my hotel room, I AM un-grossing myself from long drive sweat, I AM watching some nonsense on the food network, I AM annually baffled and enraged by a specific 10 mile stretch of route 380 south near Scranton, PA

Every year on this drive I stop around where I went to college, to get pizza lunch at the place I always used to like because it’s a convenient stopping point for this trip, and every year I think “I’m not sad about college anymore :)” and then I drive up and get sad about college lol

Greetings from the New York State thruway rest stop, I have already had a small misadventure (a light came on my dashboard and I had to pull over and figure out if my car was about to explode (it’s not, it’s fine, I am continuing))

Coffee obtained, time to hit the road!

I almost forgot the most important part of getting ready for a trip: making a big road trip playlist that is really just a bunch of my other playlists all dumped into one, but choosing WHICH smaller playlists to dump in, that's the art of it

I don't really know why I felt the need to do four loads of laundry before packing for a three day trip to be honest with you

The real must-have for conventions: apple sauce pouches to keep in my game bag in case of a sudden crash lmao I am no better than a toddler

getting ready for metatopia todayyyyy, cutting out bits of paper, sorting dice into little bags, making sure I have an appropriate assortment of pens and pencils and sharpies, trying to write down the rules of what I actually want to DO, it's good!

What I assume NYC is like right now

the vibe

looked at my untitled spreadsheets, this is from February 2018 and I haven't the faintest idea what it possibly could have been

I have also moved two projects into the “shelved” folder for when I haven’t finished them and don’t feel a strong pull to work on them anymore but MAYBE SOMEDAY it will be their time again

Yes! Vibe shift for the late 2020s is snobmaxxing. We're looking down our nose at the slop served up by cynical corporate tastemakers. We're demanding things be made for grownups. We're exercising our judgment and our media literacy.

Naomi’s vacation home theme was “the art cafe” and Agnes’ was “the artsiest museum” so I moved them in together as roommates and gave them a fancy lesbian apartment upstairs, obviously

girl me too, he's not special 😤

remember that funny early phase of ACNH, before 2.0, where you could only unlock other color variants of the same object by physically handling them in the game, so we'd have parties on each other's islands where we just stood around picking up and dropping hundreds of items? that was so funny

There’s a bit towards the beginning of GDT’s Frankenstein that they filmed in the double cube room at Wilton House, in case you were worried about the double cube room at Wilton House not being in enough movies

I have scrolled past this post like six times this morning and each time, my eyes have suddenly blurred and my brain has tried to protect me from thinking about it too hard lmao

Excerpt from my latest newsletter where I was talking about how much I hate writing the introductions to my games 🫠

my favorite ao3 kudos emails are the ones where 1) someone has liked every installment in a series except the ones with smut in them, OR 2) someone has liked ONLY the installments in a series with smut in them. it's about BALANCE

What logging in felt like this morning

My boyfriend responded to this section of the newsletter by attempting to send me a single gigantic file with the entire ASOIAF series pasted into one continuous whole, by the way

vaguely remembered an old tumblr post that I had thought about when I started working on Blood of the Covenant in 2018 and I was like "I should try to find that again" so I went back through a decade of my tumblr to find out it was from @prokopetz.bsky.social in 2016 because of course it was lmao

two old men just walked past me as they were leaving the coffee shop and I could just hear one of them say to the other "personal honor is very important, but you also have to find people to lean on, you know?" and man that's a mood

Thinking about this again (listening to Hey Ya)

totally unrelated to the thing I just posted, I found this bag of torn up wikipedia pages from this 10 month old prototype test behind my computer monitor on my desk today lmao I should get back to this concept

This week will mark 36 years since the Berlin Wall fell, and I keep thinking about the German archivists still doing the work of piecing together old partially-destroyed Stasi files, all this time later. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

yet again at a point where I open up the document of game ideas I haven't started working on yet but really want to and start breathing heavily lmao

I resent that the primary mode of "ooo I love you girl" music when I was a tween and teen was a lone dopey boy with an acoustic guitar. if you're not expressing your love with a full brass section and a quartet of perfectly harmonized backup singers, how am I supposed to know it's real? 😤

the thing about the Kansas City Chiefs is that Andy Reid looks like a football coach in a movie. like if I was casting the role of "football coach" in a movie or TV show, I'd be looking for the most Andy-Reid-looking motherfucker I could find. he has Archetypal Football Coach Face.

at a certain point of influence in a social niche, it's not becoming to do an "uwu I'm a nobody" act; I have a lot of respect for people who thread the needle of being aware of the outsize influence they have and being considerate of that, while never making you feel like less than a peer and equal

I don't know who needs to hear this, but windows space cadet pinball has emulators pinball.alula.me

experiencing biblical greed in the metatopia events registration (my schedule is fabulous again)

you know what's nice? going out to breakfast with your friends on a nice sunday morning

oh no uh oh

Cool news alert! I have added a playingcards dot io importable template and a google sheets character keeper to Dollhouse Drama! This makes it much easier to play 💖 the RPG with a passion for fashion 💖 online! I wrote a whole dev log about it even! jen-adcock15.itch.io/dollhouse-dr...

Newsletter time! Let's talk about 🫠 the mortifying ordeal of writing introductions 🤨 my skepticism about "immersion" 🎁 RPGs as merch