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press.exe Talen Lee, Writ From The Hip
 * About Talen

March 9, 2024


T-SHIRT: AM CRAB!

I drew a cute little crab. I put it on a design.



Pretty happy with this. You can get a sticker of it here!


Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Making, Media
March 8, 2024


GAME PILE: TEN THINGS I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO KNOW WHEN I STARTED MAGIC ARENA



Watch this video on YouTube


Thumbnail and outline below the fold!

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Game Pile, Games, Magic: The
Gathering
March 7, 2024


THE YAWNING BOREDOM OF THE WORD EPIC

Good god this is a dull word, right?

Cancon was a fun convention, I liked it a lot. But while I was there, I saw this
word being worn into a groove in my brain. It was an all-purpose descriptor, a
vague and generic positivity, a detailer of scope and an encouragement for
engaging, and every time I saw it I felt a bit of my brain shut down in
response. I think some of this is just the normal overuse of meaningless words.
If someone described a game as being ‘lit’ I would probably also just as much
immediately ignore that descriptor. Packing peanut language, that kind of thing.

And I know it’s rich, coming from me to complain about overuse of cliche. I just
said ‘packing peanuts’ which is something I am very selfconscious about saying a
lot.

It’s not just the ungoogleable game Epic by Wise ‘Maybe We Don’t Want To Be
Called White Wizards Any More’ Wizards. It’s also games like Epic Spell Wars of
the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt Skullzfyre or Epic Resort or Tiny Epic and their
franchise of genuinely exciting little games, or Crafting Epic Dungeons or Epic
Scenery or Epicness Incarnate or Warhammer Epic or Epic Confrontation and you
might not know if I made any of these games up, or all the other things I saw on
the convention floor that just kept using the term, and every single time made
me realise that in so doing, I now knew less about them than I would if almost
any word was in that space.



What is ‘epic’ for?

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Media
March 6, 2024


BLOODWORK UPDATE 11

Oh snappers it’s another one of these, and yes, I have not forgotten about
Bloodwork even if I’m writing this two hours before it goes up!

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Making — Tagged with
Bloodwork
March 5, 2024


PLAYING FOR MONEY

Hey if a game is the consensual overcoming of unnecessary obstacles, are people
still playing a game if they’re being paid to play?

What if the game does not have money as part of the game?

What if being seen as playing the game is incentivised?

Is capitalism fundamentally violent?

Sure let’s start it off with some easy questions.


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Academia, Games
March 4, 2024


STORY PILE: SKIP & LOAFER

Why Talen, you may say, this isn’t smooch month any more. This is plain out
ordinary March! March is a time for pi day and references to ‘march forth’ and
more resentment of American culture for its permeating omnipresence! What’s with
this anime, which is obviously a smooch month anime, set apart from its normal
and natural habitat of the month where I talk about people doing smooches? It
is, after all, so very, very obviously, an anime about a pair of characters who
smooch, right?

Skip and Loafer | OFFICIAL TRAILER 2



Watch this video on YouTube


Right?

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media, Story Pile — Tagged with
Anime
March 3, 2024


VOX MAXIMA STORY SPOTLIGHT 2 — COLLEGE DAYS

What follows here is a discussion of what, if I had the means and writer tools
to make my Custom Magic set have proper story spotlight material, it’d look like
this, it’d be built out of this. This is basically about story mechanics
underlying a game system, and I want to present it to you so you can have a
handle on what it looks like when I’m trying to explain game narratives for the
presentation of conventional narratives.

This second section is about the characters travelling through the Kraivh
highways to the city that holds the Iacon College



Vox Maxima is a custom magic set created by Talen Lee. It’s composed of 187
cards, with 71 commons, 60 uncommons, 41 rares, and 15 mythic rares. Vox Decima
is a custom Magic: The Gathering set, with at least one card spoiled a day, on
Cohost, Kind.Social, and the r/custommagic subreddit.

WOTC Employees: This post in full presents unsolicited custom Magic: The
Gathering card designs, which I understand current employee practices forbid you
from looking at unsolicited. You shouldn’t be here!

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Magic: The Gathering, Making
— Tagged with Custom Magic, Custommtg, Vox Maxima
March 2, 2024


VOX MAXIMA GALLERY 2: THE KRAIVH EMPIRE

The world is broken; wounded, and one in seven in the entire empire expunged. A
billion are missing and amongst them were workers, guards, scholars — and those
missing people have left a wound across the entire world. Thankfully, the strong
leadership, the head of the Kraivh Assembly, have been able to hold the
institutions of the world strong in this great, yawning disappearance.

The armies of the Kraivh defend the borders. The Osteotheruges pick through the
graves and memorials, trying to find the truth that has been lost. And even
Emperor Kraivh, The Eternal Undying himself has assigned his closest blood to
the quest of solving the great question, beginning the quest meant to solve that
mystery, and in the process, bring back a satisfactory answer to be spoken in in
the Vox Maxima.



Vox Maxima is a custom magic set created by Talen Lee. It’s composed of 187
cards, with 71 commons, 60 uncommons, 41 rares, and 15 mythic rares. Vox Decima
is a custom Magic: The Gathering set, with at least one card spoiled a day, on
Cohost, Kind.Social, and the r/custommagic subreddit.

WOTC Employees: This post in full presents unsolicited custom Magic: The
Gathering card designs, which I understand current employee practices forbid you
from looking at unsolicited. You shouldn’t be here!

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Magic: The Gathering, Making
— Tagged with Custommtg, Vox Maxima
March 1, 2024


GAME PILE: GENSOU NARRATOGRAPH

I’ve spoken in the past about the sprawling storytelling tradition of the Touhou
Project. If you’re unfamiliar, the way I consider Touhou is not a series of
videogames or even a franchise as you might conventionally interpret it, but
rather a sort of communally shared storytelling space created by a large body of
uncapitalised creative sources. Despite the fact that Touhou is the product of,
initially, the work of one person (working in concert with an audience and then
a community), it isn’t really reasonable to call it a franchise or even a
universe. Those things imply a structure, a sort of coherence or an overarching
ownership, and that’s something that Touhou absolutely does not have.

What Touhou has is a community and that community connect with other members of
their community in almost any communication media you can find. It’s games, sure
but it’s also doujinshi, fanfiction, fan art and in pretty much every single
place people can create stuff, you’re going to see people creating something
Touhou adjacent. In this way, Touhou stretches from a source point out and into
pretty much every single other place people can be. I don’t have any proof but
I’m confident that someone on the Antarctic Research Station of some country or
another had a Marisa sticker inside their backpack or whatever.

Touhou is a lot of things, which is to say, I better watch my mouth. What I
think I can say, pretty unreservedly, is that Touhou is distinct. Touhou
material does not tend to look like or present itself as anything but Touhou.
There are other materials full of girls who look like they’re twelve and wear
numerous petticoats and ostentatious hats, but most of them succeed at looking
like Touhou and not so much like their own thing distinct from Touhou.

What Touhou makes tends to be made for an audience of Touhou fans, which is why
some of the games have a reputation of being brutally, comically hard. There’s a
sort of deliberate alienation at work: Don’t you dare ask Touhou to change for
you, you need to change for Touhou! Yeah the game is unfair and hard and you
can’t get the good ending if you can’t skate through these bullets right, that’s
how we like it! That’s how you know you’re a real fan!

(This is not really how they talk)

(most of the time)

(Since they left 4chan)

Anyway it’s this pre-existing weirdoscape that gave rise to what is, to my eye,
simply the strangest goddamn Tabletop Roleplaying game I’ve ever seen.



Content Warning: I’m not really a Touhou fan and this game doesn’t change my
opinion of it. If you’re heavily invested in this game being a good game and
want to see me praise it, you won’t, so it’s probably best to just jog on.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Game Pile, Games
February 29, 2024


FEBRUARY 2024 WRAPUP

Hey hang on, this month normally fits nicely into the schedule with standard
numbers! Who put an extra day in this Smooch Month? I guess that means that this
year, the year is just a little extra smoochy! But those four weeks and an
extra, they are past us and now it is time to reflect on what happened this
month, and what I wrote.

If you check this blog periodically, you might have missed all sorts of
interesting articles just because, you know, discoverability is hard.


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Diary
February 28, 2024


FUNDIE DIVORCE AND OTHER DRAMAS

What god has put together let no man put asunder, goes the line. And since
judges are men, and laws are written by men that means that divorce, if you’re a
Biblical literalist, seems? Bad? I mean a Biblical literalist might look at all
the times that people in the Bible married multiple women and also had
concubines as well, and there were laws about doing a divorce but Jesus said it
was only because of sin and then Paul said it’d be better if you never got
married in the first place but this is only useful for spherical christians in a
vacuum.

How do you think fundamentalist churches handle divorces? Setting aside the way
that, as human beings in a social setting may actually handle something like
this sensible, the fundie environment is one with a lot of its own special
traditions and rules. Rules like how to absolutely mishandle a complex topic
like a divorce.



And just to be clear on this one by the way, I am 100% pro-divorce. I think
divorces are good. They suck to experience, I don’t think anyone goes into a
divorce going ‘eff yeah, time to be divorced!’ but I think if a relationship is
collapsing or failing nobody should be trying to stick around and force it into
working when it doesn’t. Which is why an environment that makes this hard
decision worse uh, sucks. And it sucks because of techniques liiike…

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Fundie Stuff
February 27, 2024


REMOTE ROMANCE IS OLDER THAN BOOMERS

Have you ever seen the word Swalk?

If you read, say, Biggles-style media, if you’re interested in World War 2
period media, you might have seen it, S W A L K, somewhere, usually on a letter,
sometimes graffiti, maybe sometimes mentioned aloud. I saw it on a BC comic, by
Johnny Hart, which isn’t an archive worth diving for an example. I can just
imagine Hugh Lawrie saying it, in that doleful, soppy, romantic,
I-know-I’m-the-stupid-person-in-the-room way of a Blackadder or Jeeves And
Wooster episode, though I’ve no idea if at any point he says it. I know it came
up on an episode of QI — part of a technique that came up in World War 2 for
communicating a crude message to the recipient, in a way that looked deniable to
anyone overseeing it.



See, you might see, on the back of an envelope, the letters SWAK or SWALK. It
stood for ‘Sealed With A Loving Kiss.’ There were others like BURMA and NORWICH
– and they were, mostly, filthy. It’s a touch of human contact during a period
of extreme deprivation.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media
February 26, 2024


STORY PILE: INSOMNIACS AFTER SCHOOL

Introducing excellent things is hard. It’s hard for me because I naturally stray
towards the understated or the contrary. You’ve probably heard me call something
‘boringly excellent,’ for example, and that means when I call something
incredible or amazing, you might think that puts it on the same category as a
really good sandwich or a really interesting academic concept, as opposed to
here, where what I want to say is this romance anime is so good I find myself
periodically nostalgic for the childhood it depicts that I never had even though
it’s about kids with anxiety struggling to make a lot of friends.

This is an amazing story, it has lovely moments, it brings me joy, and I want to
share that with you.

Spoiler Warning: I’m going to disclose some facts about the end of the series,
and the nature of the kind of show it is, and what kind of show it’s not. Like,
if you think ‘this series doesn’t include a mech battle’ is a spoiler, then
yeah, you got me, it’s a spoiler, but I don’t plan on going deep on revelations
about the eventual plot, okay?

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media, Story Pile — Tagged with
Anime
February 25, 2024


T-SHIRT: STAINED HEART

Here’s the design!



Here it is on a shirt!



And here’s a link to go buy it!


Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Making, Media — Tagged with shirts
February 24, 2024


HOW TO BE: CASSANDRA AND RAPUNZEL FROM TANGLED (IN 4E D&D)

In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and
conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the
form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as
follows:

 * This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’
   like the source character
 * This isn’t meant to be comprehensive or authoritative but as a creative
   exercise
 * While not every character can work immediately out of the box, the aim is to
   make sure they have a character ‘feel’ as soon as possible
 * The character has to have the ‘feeling’ of the character by at least midway
   through Heroic

When building characters in 4th Edition it’s worth remembering that there are a
lot of different ways to do the same basic thing. This isn’t going to be
comprehensive, or even particularly fleshed out, and instead give you some
places to start when you want to make something.

Another thing to remember is that 4e characters tend to be more about collected
interactions of groups of things – it’s not that you get a build with specific
rules about what you have to take, and when, and why, like you’re lockpicking
your way through a design in the hopes of getting an overlap eventually.
Character building is about packages, not programs, and we’ll talk about some
packages and reference them going forwards.

You know the story of Rapunzel? The kid’s story about a girl with long hair in a
tower which you can tell as a bedtime story and it takes maybe ten minutes,
fifteen if you’re doing a lot with the voices and details and want to make the
witch’s end really grisly? Well, yeah, turns out that got a movie back in the
day and then that movie got a TV series and that TV series kicks ass, and so for
this Smooch Month, I decided to try and make an article about base-level
optimising choices for a pair of characters, a battle couple. In this case, one
of those Battle Couple members is Rapunzel, the hero of the story Rapunzel, and
the other is, uh

Her name’s Cass.

Original art by Nonadraws

And hey, I’m going to talk about some spoilers for a kid’s cartoon you probably
didn’t watch but I do like it and I think if you care about spoilers, well you
should watch it without me being the way you find out about the third story arc
of the TV series and what it means okay byeee.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Dungeons & Dragons, Games — Tagged
with cassunzel, DnD 4e, How to Be, tangled
February 23, 2024


GAME PILE: HINEDERE BEAT


Watch this video on YouTube



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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Game Pile, Games
February 22, 2024


THE GIRL WHO LOVED POWERGLIDE

Wait wait wait no this is about Transformers.

Transformers, in the 1980s, was a toy commercial. It was a toy commercial in the
purest sense; every component that made it up was made in service of its purpose
as a commercial material that was meant to frame commercials around it. It was,
in the way that modern creators are struggling to avoid mentioning,
hash-tag-content. There’s a standard opening, a standard ending, and three
bumpers for just before The Commercials (Transformers Will Be Back, After These
Messages) but those messages weren’t important. Those messages were other people
paying Transformers money for making Transformers, but Transformers was double
dipping. They were getting paid money to sell the space for these advertisements
in their advertisement, for their toys. These bumpers were so important that in
some episodes, the third bumper would appear, then an ad break and you’d wait
through the ad break to come back to just watch the ending credits of the show.
Got me again, there!



These toys imposed a material demand on Transformers as a cartoon. Episodes
wanted to focus on the toys that you could buy, and this meant that people got
attached to toys with certain trends. For example, while there was Fortress
Maximus, that toy had an original price tag of around $99 United States
Eaglebucks, and as a result, there were maybe four or five episodes of the show
that bothered to show you anything to do with Fortress Maximus despite him being
basically a city they lived in.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media — Tagged with Transformers
February 21, 2024


FFXIV: RIN STORMENNI

This is an explanatory writeup of one of my Original Characters (OCs). Nothing
here is necessarily related to a meaningful fiction you should recognise and is
shared because I think my OCs are cool and it’s cool to talk about OCs you make.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“If you follow this path, of this abyss of love, then you must do it knowing.
You will be bane, outcast, criminal, rival, sinner. All the world will hate you,
young one, and you will have no kingdom but that of strife.”

The young man beamed, dripping still with tyrant’s blood.

“Then I shall be the Prince of a Thousand Enemies.”

Self-made outcast. Valiant crusader. End of days. Bun goes hop.

It’s not arrogance if it’s justified.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Making — Tagged with Final
Fantasy XIV, My OCs
February 20, 2024


‘THESE TWO PROVINCES SHOULD KISS’

Let me talk to you about Cobrin’Seil, a big country, a big war, and something
gay.


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Dungeons & Dragons, Games — Tagged
with Cobrin'Seil, worldbuilding
February 19, 2024


STORY PILE: A TAIL OF LOVE

As is tradition here on press.exe, I feel it’s important that any consideration
of smooch media include something that’s complete crap. To that end, I watch a
Hallmark movie, a bottomless trove of skidmarks, and I bring along Fox to talk
about it with me. Since Fox needs a hook to watch a Hallmark movie, we
inevitably watch a movie that is about Dogs, because you can rely on Hallmark to
make dog movies that are completely bananas.



Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media, Story Pile
February 18, 2024


A MECHANIC FOR LOVE

Hey, have I shown you this already?

This is a card that’s meant to represent a piece in a worker placement game,
where the pieces also represent the places they’re meant to be placed. And I
think this might be a game where your workers can date other people’s workers.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Making
February 17, 2024


THE UNHINGED PERFORMATIVE HETERONORMATIVITY OF SHIKIMORI’S NOT JUST A CUTIE

Hey boy. Does your girl:

 * Change her gender presentation mid-volleyball match?
 * Demonstrate the kind of expertise in dire circumstances from a martial arts
   superhero story?
 * Deliberately change her gender presentation to become a perfect girl as
   represented in Shoujou Manga?
 * Take her rivals for your affection out on day dates where she gives her gifts
   and wins her prizes?
 * Flirt with your mom?

Then she’s not your girl. She’s Shikimori from Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie and
I’ve just been stewing about how unhinged that series is.

Spoilers ahead!


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media — Tagged with Anime
February 16, 2024


GAME PILE: THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS

I feel ill equipped to even examine this book.

I do not think I am considered aesthetically or in my presentation particularly
thirsty, I own no swords nor do I feel that that’s a deeply spiritual failing on
my part, and I am not in any but the most technically accepting and deliberately
broad definition an lesbians. I’m not asking for anyone to change the
qualifications on my part.



“Ah,” you may glibly say, “Talen, that doesn’t mean you have to be those things
to participate in this game,” okay, cool, great, thank you for explaining the
basics of fiction to me. I can understand that that’s something you may feel you
have to do with my demonstration of difficulty grappling with that.

Come along, and maybe you’ll learn more about me by listening to me, as I talk
about this book, and the game it ostensibly is about.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Game Pile, Games
February 15, 2024


MTG: WIFE GUY DECKS

There are 43 legendary creature cards in Magic: The Gathering that use the word
‘And’ in their name, which is used to represent a pair of creatures. For a
number of them, like Firesong and Sunspeaker, or Tibor and Lumia, these cards
represent relatives, and I have done my best to check for these, and also the
pairing with actual children in them. Here then presented are ten different
decks where your commander represents some measure of Wife Guyness.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games, Magic: The Gathering
February 14, 2024


HOW DO POKEMON BREED?

I’m something of an originalist in Pokemon. I think that the games are the core
of what the narrative flows from and everything else is flexible story that
builds on that. What’s more, in Pokemon, people can say things, but there’s
nothing saying that they’re right. People are wrong all the time in Pokemon, and
sometimes people even lie to the player characters, to themselves, or to one
another.  What’s more, the player character is a kid, somewhat, but also a kid
who is experimenting with and learning about Pokemon training and breeding, so
chances are good, people would explain the useful things to them.

But they don’t.


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Games — Tagged with pokemon
February 13, 2024


3E: THE LOVE POTION

We’re all kind of on the page that ‘love potions’ in stories are probably bad,
right?



Those things that you could buy in 3e as a cheap, disposable magical item?

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Dungeons & Dragons, Games — Tagged
with DnD 3e
February 12, 2024


STORY PILE: TOMO-CHAN IS A GIRL!

This time last year I wrote about the at-the-time meme-of-a-show, Shikimori’s
Not Just A Cutie. That anime was ‘renowned’, because it had a really good
trailer, and by really good I mean it made a bunch of lesbians sigh. Perhaps
because it was first brought to my attention by a bunch of women saying ‘I want
to be her’ or ‘I want to be hers’ I first approached that series wondering if
this was going to be an ultimately unsatisfying experience for y’know, queer
women. This meant I watched all thirteen episodes expecting or imagining
something else was going to happen, attentive and focused for some possible
insight into whatever this anime was doing that was a bit different, a bit
cleverer, and in the process, I wound up really enjoying the series. I liked it,
I liked the characters it showed me, I liked a lot of the jokes (even wound up
sharing a few of them) and I thought it was a really good launching off point
for some discussions. I still think that it’s one of the better articles I wrote
last year, and part of why was because I took an anime about a subject I’m
normally not interested in – romantic comedy – and gave it a fully focused,
critical look.



That was the lens for Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie, and it encouraged me to try
the next thing in the same genre that caught my eye, which is why I watched
Tomo-Chan’s A Girl, another anime that promised to be about relationships to
gender, relationships, and how difficult it can be for two completely compatible
people to get over their own hang-ups and actually talk to one another about how
much they want to kiss. This is a great follow-up to Shikimori’s Not Just A
Cutie, though, because it means now I have a point of contrast for Shikimori’s
Not Just A Cutie with a much, much dumber show.

Content Warning and Spoiler Warning! Tomo-Chan Is A Girl is a series that has
some low-key gender feels (a woman wondering about how she can be legitimised as
a woman) and some pretty lousy ways for people to talk about girls, and oh also,
an incident of sexual assault in the second episode.  I’m going to spoil things
in this series, as indicated by that mentioning of something from the second
episode.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media, Story Pile — Tagged with
Anime, RomCom, Smooch Month, Tomo-Chan Is A Girl!
February 11, 2024


HOMESTUCK 1/2

Alright, look, I made the banner graphic let’s tear the bandaid off.



I make fun of Homestuck and have no intention to stop doing so, but I do so
based on the series and interactions with its fans and the creator’s opinions
and – look I’m not doing a good job of setting this up, this is a very meta and
tortured introduction that doesn’t get to the point, and therefore, by Homestuck
standards, it’s good. But what I am trying to get to is that Homestuck is a
space that’s super important to people in a way that to me, an older internet
denizen, rings true of the Ranma 1/2 fandom.

You know, it was a space full of romance roleplays and weird sexy exploration,
and a bunch of queers used it to work themselves out and in the process learned
from one another about what it meant to be queer.

I think the overlap between these spaces is a synthesis of three ideas:
Isolation, Play, and Smoochiness.

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Media, Queerness — Tagged with
Homestuck, ranma 1/2
February 10, 2024


WHAT’S MARRIAGE FOR?

Marriage is a thing that’s so important to our culture and media that you’ll see
it in an embarrassing quantity of everything. Setting aside media genres that
are just dedicated to some version of it (and yeah, a lot of those ‘romantic’
things people are making are really just just about marriage things), there’s
still stuff in our language and everyday common existence that speaks of
marriage. If nothing else, consider we have a mode of address that specifies
whether or not a woman is married, and asking to not be treated with that
language is seen as a different dispensation. It is, to the audience of most of
this conversation, a thing that The Empire tells us

What does it mean to be ‘married?’


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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Making, Media — Tagged with
worldbuilding
February 9, 2024


GAME PILE: OUENDAN (VIDEO)



Watch this video on YouTube


Thumbnail and script below the fold!

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Written by Talen Lee — Posted in Categories: Game Pile, Games
February 8, 2024


THE RANMA 1/2 SUBREDDIT IS REPEATING HISTORY

When you get older you start to see cycles. Things that are new and horrifying
to you, later in your life, you can recontextualise those things compared to
other new things. I saw the Soviet Union collapse and I saw 9/11 happen within
ten years of one another, and uh, that prepared me for basically nothing. Bad
example. Oh the financial crash of 2007, which led to a financial crash of, uh,
you know what maybe I picked some bad examples. But you know one thing that’s
cyclical in a way that can be appreciated and not a huge bummer?

Fandoms.



Platforms come and go and when platforms are convenient to build on, fandoms
will form and reform on platforms. Old cliques and ideas be fled and new
societies will bloom around the same core texts and they will always differ,
they’ll always have their own varieties and peculiarities, but some things, some
things will endure.

Like Ranma ½ discourse.

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