#introduction (last?)
The last of the bullet points in my profile is one of the hardest to outline. Ludomantic Witchcraft is a theory I have been slowly assembling, the work of which I hope to share here as it develops. Simply put, I love games, almost as much as I love music. From the incredibly simple to the obnoxiously complex, simple acts with cards, dice, boards, pawns, et al. allow us to interact with what one might call fate or fortune. Rule sets are rituals. I have experiments and ideas to share.
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I also make mixtapes! It's been a minute since I've done so, but I hope to start up again in the near future.
Here's a link: https://www.mixcloud.com/hexwren/
All that's currently posted are what I call Community Mixtapes, done for the queer gaming discord I often hang out on. Everyone who signs up submits 3 tunes, and I pick 1 out of every set and string a tape together from them. I'll be going back to these soon, and am looking to see how Community Tapemaking works on the fediverse.
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I am a terrible music nerd. I will often speak in obscure references, suggest records you may never have heard of, and generally go nuts for good tunes. I consider myself an amateur pop music historienne.
However, if there's one thing I've learned in learning all I have about music, it's that there is always more to learn and to listen to. I absolutely want to hear what you're into and what is missing from my rotation. I love nostalgic sounds, but I don't want to be defined by them.
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I do many things, and this account is here to share them with you! I also hope to get more social with the fine folx of this instance, but as I work nights and sleep days, it's going to be a work in progress.
One of the things I do is write! I work mainly in prose, which is occasionally smutty, because I am occasionally a crass person. Any 18+ work will be labeled as such.
I have also begun writing my first computer game! As of "now," I am maybe 10% of the way to a finished product.
Hi! I'm Hex, or Wren, whichever you feel is best, it's all me. I like birds and bird puns, hence the name.
This is an account where I will be mostly posting the end result of Work. There will be personal elements, of course, but this isn't a personal/vent/AD/etc account. I'll have more (pinnable) introductory posts to describe what those are coming up soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to post something we can interact with while I go to my mundane job on the other side of the city.
replaying FONV, trying to get to stuff I skipped in my first playthrough, finding out that the game's design doesn't railroad you through the plot so much as it railroads you through making large portions of the map absolute death zones, so even if you have quests guiding you into certain parts of the wastes, you definitely won't be able to complete them until much later, when you start being able to one-shot everything that comes near you
television screenshot
Seen here, the 2006-8 Canadian sitcom Rent-a-Goalie. To the left, the character Mondo Bingo (who is so huge he is never able to fit onscreen with the other characters and only ever wears sweatshirts indicating he loves his mums), appears with his mums Sheila and Tracy onscreen for the first time in season two, episode eight.
I just really like that this gag paid off. Duder just really loves his mums.
this isn't even some kind of ironic "hurr, they're supposed to be playing pool, but they're fucking on the pool table" thing
no, the setup for this is that they're playing pool, and there's about two minutes of footage of them playing at the start of the thing and they're stunningly terrible at it
and it's a really small table, nowhere near tournament size, so it's not like you've gotta make these shots from all the way downtown
and they're still missing easy shit
ff14
I'm pretty tired of people, with absolutely zero recognition or irony, putting
"[that class]? it's easy"
and
"all you have to do is put flarhgunnstow on yourself or a tank, keep the noisy pink bubbles rotating when they come up (except when it's inverted because walking contradiction procced, skip them and devoid->complex until it resets and king for a day if it procs)
then just laser scythe until your grist mill is full and you moonbeam->delerium them. when the ham sandwich arrives, don't push the button immediately, save it for a rainy day. when everything is working, you'll be hitting either outside or inside every thirty seconds on the spot, but if you drop rotation, you need to move the flarhgunnstow to someone else and start the bubbles over."
in the same response
financial (-)
so I expected this was coming, but it officially came down today
so there was, just recently, a city/county-wide property tax reassessment
and, because this city is fucking demented and crammed full of shitty billionaires and tech firms and wannabe billionaires, property taxes went up an astronomical amount
this means my rent is going up a full $240 a month, because this is hell, and moving anywhere means paying a shitload of money we don't have and doing a shitload of work to pack up to go somewhere where either the rent or the commute is going to be even worse!
christ
-- Writer (usually 18+) at https://violetey.es/
-- Record nerd
-- Designer of Community Mixtapes
-- Ludomantic witch
Shy, sad, occasionally lewd (text rather than photos) transby who's trying to make friends and not lose their shit. See pinned posts for more details about the bulleted items.
(Cam D'Arcy, in another place)