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123 episodes later. Im caught up

Very funny of me to say i was back in my f@tt era and then trip and listen to 80+ wtnv episodes instead

#timing worked out so i literally listened to half of all the extant episodes to catch up which is fun!

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my favorite part is how jack’s voice gets kind of mischievous & keith immediately jumps in on cue 

the context is: this photography studio can make their clients heads bigger or smaller to flatter their customers more

#obsessed with them #f@tt #bluff city

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Theia!Juno, but with flare

mmm shmexy Juno, my dearest

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel

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Its now over a hundred. Btw

Very funny of me to say i was back in my f@tt era and then trip and listen to 80+ wtnv episodes instead

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As an entire aro i must say do enjoy what wtnv did to valentines day

#wtnv

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Very funny of me to say i was back in my f@tt era and then trip and listen to 80+ wtnv episodes instead

#and counting

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freshly baked yaoi gif of the wtnv variety for all your needs and wants and posts

#wtnv #otp: perfectly imperfect

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(in a job interview) i guess if i had to say my one strength it would be skipping the ad break on a podcast episode on the first try. yeah there's no button i just guess the number of minutes and i'm always right. oh you meant like work strengths? none

#lmao yeah

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I've just started listening to the Welcome To Night Vale podcast, and I'm pretty sure that everyone in Night Vale only hates Desert Bluffs because they're the normal version of Night Vale.

#wkfkdk2kkd brilliant #wtnv

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the discourse on twitter for mesh is wild tonight

#counter/weight #f@tt

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Returning to my roots (sitting on the floor of my room listening to wtnv)

#truly incredible that in the last decade and a bit i moved out and then back in to this house so that i can. sit on the floor of the same #room and listen to wtnv

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A lot of people talk about Actual Play podcasts giving unrealistic expectations for TTRPGs (Surprise! Trained Actors improv differently from your average player, and even for indie APs, playing for an audience is completely different from playing among friends)

But I absolutely think that watching other people play CAN inspire new ways to play, in a way you can’t really get elsewhere.

It wasn’t until I listened to Friends at the Table and listened to how Austin Walker narrates the games they play that I considered the potential of treating a TTRPG less like the kind of collaborative improv we normally treat it as, and more like storyboarding.

The major difference being: Austin regularly talks about ‘the camera’. It is practically its own character with how much attention it gets.

“So I’m imagining this like one of those shots where everything kinda freezes in place, and the character is still moving to show the out of body experience they are having right now, and when the scene cuts back, these are the parts that are different.”

“Oh yeah, you open the box, and it’s like that scene in Pulp Fiction. Where we just see this golden glow from what’s coming inside. Your characters know what’s in there now, but I have no idea, we haven’t gotten to that point yet. We will come back to it.”

“Okay you see this symbol, and your character wasn’t there for it so they don’t know what it was, but we the audience can immediately connect it back to this one cult we were dealing with.”

At one point just blatantly goes “Oh man, actually should we change it to this, for a better thematic parallel to what happened in that other session? That might be a really good resolution for your character.”

It’s such an INCREDIBLE example of what you can do by treating the fiction so casually, and like the work in progress it actually is. Genuinely one of the best GM practices I have ever seen, and something that very quickly became a tool I make heavy use of in my campaigns.

The story isn’t a finished product, and it turns out treating it like a draft instead of a finished product makes the game able to do SO MUCH more cool shit.

#f@tt #i definitely picked up 'i think this happens' type of language from f@tt #< rebagling to the right blog this time

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friends at the table is a podcast but mostly its a brain parasite that makes you name your ttrpg characters shit like "Effulgent Candor" and "General Murph Dogsbody" and make the same dumb joke every time you hear the word "tarp"

#perhaps... #f@tt

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AP Pencils, the pencil shipping magnate, stops by the funnel cake stand to get a 3 cent discount in exchange for information on watch trucks

#this whole scene was great #bluff city #f@tt #audio

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sketching Orth while sitting behind him and whispering "gay gay homosexual gay"

(this is a first sketch though, i'm not decided on features)

#yeah #f@tt #counter/weight

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he’s literally my best friend in the world i don’t think you understand

#LEENIK IN THE WILD #campaign podcast

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what i would give to be at the Aria Joie whiskey bar show

#counter/weight #f@tt