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Jan. 22nd, 2021 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- I am currently experimenting with putting less sugar in my tea. Tea is approximately 95% of what I drink all day every day and though I drink it hot (mostly) I was raised in a southern sweet tea tradition and therefore consume a probably unnecessary amount of sugar that way. Right now, I am adjusting to putting about 3/4 of my normal amount of sugar in my tea. It's not too bad so far.
- I recently started a new Ironsworn campaign and you guys, every time I pick up Ironsworn again, I am amazed at how good a game it is. Plus, I have a nice new notebook to record my game in that has fountain pen friendly paper, so every time I play I get to pull out a different pen from my collection with different ink and it's just such an enjoyable writing experience.
- In other solo rpg news, I recently realized that my tiny rpg is an excellent tool for both generating and continuing Stories*. I made up a couple of characters and a basic setting about a month ago and used The Adventure Crafter to give me a preliminary starting plot. I tell myself my Story the way I normally would throughout the day, but I occasionally pull out the dice roller on my phone (which has an option to make dice with a custom number of sides, so I can also use it for the oracle) to figure out what happens next. And when I had used up the plot points from the starting plot, I used the Adventure Crafter again to generate the next bit of the story. It's great - I still get to run through the emotionally pleasing bits as many times as I like until I have wrung them entirely dry of good brain chemicals (as is my way) but I don't get stuck trying to figure out how to get to the next good emotional scene because I have dice. Triumph, Galatea!
- The way the library works right now is obviously completely not ideal but I will admit to experience a certain smug pleasure whenever I get to tell someone that no, we are not accepting donations at this time and we will not take the 5 boxes of books you brought with you in your truck.
*I really need a better term for "my ever-growing collection of stories that are sometimes fanfic but sometimes about original characters; that I think about basically whenever I'm not focusing on something specific; that occupy my thoughts for anywhere from a month to upwards of 2 years depending on how long I can get those particular characters/scenarios to continue to produce enjoyable emotional content; and that, when I don't have one, I experience a sort of pervasive low-level depression," but I don't have one so we'll just go with capital-S "Stories".
- I am currently experimenting with putting less sugar in my tea. Tea is approximately 95% of what I drink all day every day and though I drink it hot (mostly) I was raised in a southern sweet tea tradition and therefore consume a probably unnecessary amount of sugar that way. Right now, I am adjusting to putting about 3/4 of my normal amount of sugar in my tea. It's not too bad so far.
- I recently started a new Ironsworn campaign and you guys, every time I pick up Ironsworn again, I am amazed at how good a game it is. Plus, I have a nice new notebook to record my game in that has fountain pen friendly paper, so every time I play I get to pull out a different pen from my collection with different ink and it's just such an enjoyable writing experience.
- In other solo rpg news, I recently realized that my tiny rpg is an excellent tool for both generating and continuing Stories*. I made up a couple of characters and a basic setting about a month ago and used The Adventure Crafter to give me a preliminary starting plot. I tell myself my Story the way I normally would throughout the day, but I occasionally pull out the dice roller on my phone (which has an option to make dice with a custom number of sides, so I can also use it for the oracle) to figure out what happens next. And when I had used up the plot points from the starting plot, I used the Adventure Crafter again to generate the next bit of the story. It's great - I still get to run through the emotionally pleasing bits as many times as I like until I have wrung them entirely dry of good brain chemicals (as is my way) but I don't get stuck trying to figure out how to get to the next good emotional scene because I have dice. Triumph, Galatea!
- The way the library works right now is obviously completely not ideal but I will admit to experience a certain smug pleasure whenever I get to tell someone that no, we are not accepting donations at this time and we will not take the 5 boxes of books you brought with you in your truck.
*I really need a better term for "my ever-growing collection of stories that are sometimes fanfic but sometimes about original characters; that I think about basically whenever I'm not focusing on something specific; that occupy my thoughts for anywhere from a month to upwards of 2 years depending on how long I can get those particular characters/scenarios to continue to produce enjoyable emotional content; and that, when I don't have one, I experience a sort of pervasive low-level depression," but I don't have one so we'll just go with capital-S "Stories".
