I absolutely adore America Chavez's costume in the Ultimates. I am a sucker for a jacket and tights combo. That look works for everybody from Mr. Terrific to Dazzler.

Also, enjoying the mythic tone of the book.

It looks like our group's new game is going to start off with a prologue of several sessions set in our character's high school days. The idea is to get us seriously invested into the 'small town' feel, good and bad, and bond the PCs and NPCs with common experiences.

This is going to be fun!

After much negotiation, the all-queer gaming group I'm a part of has decided what our next campaign is going to be:

Small town modern fantasy set in rural California.

We're also switching systems from a Storyteller kludge to Savage Worlds.

I feel like I am the fringiest of fringe gamers now. :D

I love this. The DLC to Fights in Tight Spaces adds a fem-presenting agent to go with the masc one and the butch/non-conforming agent. I LOVE this. Everybody should get a chance to kick some action movie ass.

There are times I love being a nerd.

I was having a conversation with a friend about an old DC series called The Warlord and used Elizabethan politics to explain something. He got it. I laughed, he laughed, Walsingham laughed. (And took notes.)

(Also, in retrospect, that series was queer AF.)

I like making settings. The current one is 'pulp New York pulled into a pocket void and not bigoted.' Not as a 'side hustle' or home campaign. I do it because it makes me happy. Making for joy of making.

I respect/admire professional authors. But creating for fun is fundamentally human for me.

Playing a lot of Fights in Tight Spaces this week, which is a delightful action movie-themed deck building computer game. The strategy is deep and addictive.

This exchange cracked me up:
"I never thought I'd have to say this but Berlin has a ninja problem."

"Don't we all?"

Perfect action dialog.

Ah, a nice relaxing weekend, with just me, books, a fun video game and various beverages. I am renewed and ready to face the world! Let me just log ... oh. Oh dear.

Are there grants you can sign up for at any reputable hermitage? (No garden follies, please.)

I am getting why Outgunned is talked about so highly. It is remarkably good at being what it is. The game reminds me very favorably of the Feng Shiu and Wushu RPGs. And the little adjustments for various genres of action movie are perfect.

Also, as a layout/writing/art snob? Chef's kiss.

I hate that we're back to this. I hate that another generation of queer kids is going to grow up with the fear of being murdered for even appearing to support queer and/or trans people.

But they'll find strength in defiance and community, like we did. Fuck the toxic fantasy of mainstreaming.