alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

wait giancarlo esposito was in do the right thing??? huh. i guess he was a good deal younger at that time

soliciting movie recommendations as i am home alone for the next couple of days and want something to put on the telly in the background (and/or more attentively watch, we'll see)

criteria:

• no christmas
• mild preference for not in the past decade or perhaps even this century
• stronger preference for not in the past like five years
• not generally a fan of action films because i'm bad at following action scenes; willing to make exceptions for very good films or ones with especially comprehensible action scenes
• english audio is kinda essential for the background-watching stuff but feel free to suggest films without it anyway
• excellent or influential films and trashy drek both welcomed, mediocre stuff less appealing.

#DecRecs
continuing yesterday's theme of cute little ways to put things out there on the web, i now suggest:

listography is a site that lets you make and share lists about yourself.

one of the people behind it, Lisa Nola, said about it: «Auto-biographical list-making is a pathway to rediscover memories, preserve stories, kickstart creative projects, visualize dreams, and keep a record of books, films, music, and all the other experiences that have transformed you.»

It's kind of an atypical approach to like, self-recording, self-processing, self-expression, whatever. But I think it's pretty charming. Maybe give it a try!

i would make a #zonelet myself but i'm bad at feeling like i have anything to say

gonna pick up #DecRecs again with some fun little web self-publishing and similar recs.

today I suggest Zonelets!

Zonelets is a cute little (very little) #blogging engine, intended to let people easily make their own little zone, and make their little zone theirs. You can use it anywhere you can upload HTML and javascript files (for example, you can freely host your little zonelet on neocities, which the quickstart suggests as a good way to begin). It's HTML-based, but try not to let that scare you, you don't need to know much at all to post to your zonelet, really that's more a matter of allowing you to tinker with and customize it.

I linked the quick start guide, but do check out the home page and home page (and maybe the FAQ if you're actually gonna use it hehe), too!

Zonelets was made by Marina Kittaka, whom you may know from the indie adventure games Anodyne, Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, Even the Ocean, and Sephonie that she and Melos Han-Tani made. Also from some stuff she did on her own but I'm not as familiar with it ^;

se parece queles da palabras diferentes hoy a personas diferentes (o plataformas diferentes) ... yo usaba desktop web cuando yo lo dije

me molesta la palabra del día de hoy

es un nombre propio!! también no me interesan los deportes

not that lots of extremely ubiquitous social phenomena aren't very bad. just, like, if it's bad it's not because it's phrased in the terminology of fandom.

when people recast extremely ubiquitous social phenomena in fandom terminology to try to present it as bad because some peeps really hate fanfic... :/

what can i make with blueberries to take advantage of the good flavor of blueberry without the unpleasant texture of blueberry

i got a bunch of blueberries at the grocery store but i think maybe i don't like blueberries oops

there is more that i could have said and strongly believe about what Wisher Theurgist Fatalist is about, but that would be reaching too far into what is properly a question for you and the people around you to decide, perhaps with a Harmony roll. If you do give it a try absolutely do hit me up with your thoughts and I’ll share my own more personal thoughts and experiences with it.

#DecRecs if you're at all into weird roleplaying games, I highly recommend Jenna Moran's Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist & Weaver of their Fates. Some have described it as a self-aware joke about her games' reputation for esotericism. There's perhaps an element of truth to this: it is certainly true the game is named WTF&WTF, and I don’t know if there’s another designer out there who could write a game at all WTF not as a joke.

But, in addition to being a great read qua surrealist art project (or qua phenomenological analysis of role playing, for that matter), there’s actually I think a very approachable and interesting game in there. For that part, you mostly only need to read the beginning and end of each role’s book. As a games system, WTF is concerned primarily with how to resolve disagreements between players: especially about the setting, the rules, and how to play WTF, although it considers also such questions as “what if we disagree about who is playing” or “what if we disagree about whether I can [invoke the rules for resolving disputes about how to play WTF]?” (https://geostatonary.tumblr.com/post/162541011403 is a direct quote from the rules). It is an intrinsically incomplete rules system; this is true of every game, but WTF foregrounds and emphasizes and beautifully handles this fundamental tension of roleplaying games. It also does so in an easy to pick up and engaging to use way.

As a game WTF cares about what is, about what might be, about what we desire, and, above all, about who we can trust to know what it, to recognize what might be, and to wish for what should be. It cares about the moral implications of your journey as much as about the events therein. It is a game about finding the Jewel of All Desiring and remake the illusion of reality into something genuinely true, into something that has always been true, and, maybe, something that should be true.

http://hitherby-dragons.wikidot.com/a-small-gift-to-my-readers for downloading WTF&WTF.