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Jul. 9th, 2025 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omnia_mutanturI play in a lot of online indie ttrpgs. If an entire week goes off without a hitch, it might be as many as four. I can't remember the last time it was four, but there is a theoretical outcome that has me playing Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, and then either Friday or Sunday afternoon.
Mondays has been Brindlewood Bay every other Monday, but as of next week, the alternate Mondays will be taken up with Perils and Princesses. I have absolutely no idea how I got so lucky as to find the amazing human who runs both of them on start playing, but she continues to blow me away (and in addition to her regular job, she's a paid GM to save up for her girlfriend's engagement ring) weekly with both her skill and her kindness.
Wednesdays is a brand new game of The Between, by which I am deeply, deeply intimidated by. not to the point of it not being fun, just everyone feels very experienced in general, familiar with the system and some combination of competent and confident. J, who has been coming to Thanksgiving forever and who lives in DC now, said they were excited to play with me, which is both exciting and feels like something I can't possibly live up to.
Thursdays is Wanderhome and I'm absolutely in love with both the system and the human who runs it. I've been lucky enough to play with C for almost a year now, both Yazeba's and Wanderhome, and I think they're just a fantastic human being, and I think talking to him was the first time I really got to bitch about how toxic AA is with someone who was also sober and dealing with lingering feelings about how they fucked up so much of their past.
And sometimes there's a pickup game of Yazeba's, and I'm currently in a short run of Girls of Genziana.
So I'm playing a butch old lady with a marshmellow heart solving local murders and uncovering a cult, a Victorian Dr Frankenstein equivalent who is building a monster because someone told her she couldn't and someone else told her she shouldn't, an emotional damaged porcupine-person who is trying to help everyone else get where they're going, because for the moment she doesn't have anywhere to go, a superstitious maid whose version of being extremely charismatic is being blank enough that everyone just projects what they want on her. And sometimes an old woman who literally sold her heart who is trying to make the safe place for everyone else that she didn't have for herself, but also is too hurt to know how to engage with the people she's trying to help.
All a little bit on the nose, in the end, but even in the depths of the insecurity and anxiety, so much fun and so interesting.
Mondays has been Brindlewood Bay every other Monday, but as of next week, the alternate Mondays will be taken up with Perils and Princesses. I have absolutely no idea how I got so lucky as to find the amazing human who runs both of them on start playing, but she continues to blow me away (and in addition to her regular job, she's a paid GM to save up for her girlfriend's engagement ring) weekly with both her skill and her kindness.
Wednesdays is a brand new game of The Between, by which I am deeply, deeply intimidated by. not to the point of it not being fun, just everyone feels very experienced in general, familiar with the system and some combination of competent and confident. J, who has been coming to Thanksgiving forever and who lives in DC now, said they were excited to play with me, which is both exciting and feels like something I can't possibly live up to.
Thursdays is Wanderhome and I'm absolutely in love with both the system and the human who runs it. I've been lucky enough to play with C for almost a year now, both Yazeba's and Wanderhome, and I think they're just a fantastic human being, and I think talking to him was the first time I really got to bitch about how toxic AA is with someone who was also sober and dealing with lingering feelings about how they fucked up so much of their past.
And sometimes there's a pickup game of Yazeba's, and I'm currently in a short run of Girls of Genziana.
So I'm playing a butch old lady with a marshmellow heart solving local murders and uncovering a cult, a Victorian Dr Frankenstein equivalent who is building a monster because someone told her she couldn't and someone else told her she shouldn't, an emotional damaged porcupine-person who is trying to help everyone else get where they're going, because for the moment she doesn't have anywhere to go, a superstitious maid whose version of being extremely charismatic is being blank enough that everyone just projects what they want on her. And sometimes an old woman who literally sold her heart who is trying to make the safe place for everyone else that she didn't have for herself, but also is too hurt to know how to engage with the people she's trying to help.
All a little bit on the nose, in the end, but even in the depths of the insecurity and anxiety, so much fun and so interesting.
