#quarantimes

[sixohsixoheightfourtwo]

(x) SING IT

#truly i love it when there is an extremely on the nose psa in a television episoad. #abaab #covid #quarantimes #thai drama #bl drama #if you are wondering . AM i keeping a little list of media that actually acknowledges covid. ofc it's yes #a boss and a babe

[wellntruly]

Please I just watched The Lion In Winter (1968) and kept thinking throughout it “this is a film wellntruly will have opinions on” so if you do please share!!! 🙏

I have in fact never seen The Lion In Winter (1968). But it does still mean something to me, as when a former coworker of mine, prim & proper married mother of three, who had no idea I lived in that apartment complex, began and then continued to carry on an affair with my trench coat & fedora wearing next door neighbor for the entire year of Covid lockdown, AMA, I finally, finally figured out how they could even have known each other during one of the times they were sitting outside his door just feet from my open window talking on the abandoned kitchen chairs he had taken from beside the dumpster, and I heard enough identifying information about the micro-budget vampire movie he'd made with his friends several years earlier to find said vampire movie, and his full name, and his Instagram, to at last discover that they had met rehearsing a community theater production of: The Lion In Winter, which had been scheduled to open on March 19, 2020. They were playing the characters that are carrying on the affair.

#replies #bakingblues #The Lion In Winter #pers. #quarantime

[chamerionwrites]

Might embark on a reread of all those Trauma Books I picked up eight or nine years ago, actually. I think I would get new things from them this time around.

#quarantimes was if nothing else good for finding time and mental space to study the brain weasels #not pleasant tbh but productive. #absolutely open to suggestions if anyone has nonfiction or even especially incisive fiction they'd put on a trauma reading list #first time around it was the body keeps the score/trauma and recovery/achilles in vietnam/the body in pain #and some others but those left the strongest impressions #my posts

[akallabeth-joie]

That stage of intoxication where you just want to talk meta because you Love. The. Canon. So. Much.

#first party since the quarantimes started #it was something #also I've very drunk right now #and may have subject a distance acquaintance to a summary of my whole thesis #as you do

[themixxtape]

We back! MIXXTAPE TRIO! 14th Annual, but not 2018, MIXXTAPE Drunksgiving show! Live Streamed on Facebook Link in the bio 📼 • • • #quaranTIM #mixxtape #themixxtape #newhopepa #newhope #buckscounty #mercercounty #titusvillenj #lambertville #lambertvillenj @lambertvillenewhopeapp @delawarerivertowns #Livemusic #JamSession #LocalBand #acoustic #drunksgiving (at The Interwebs) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUosdrpOnr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#quarantim #mixxtape #themixxtape #newhopepa #newhope #buckscounty #mercercounty #titusvillenj #lambertville #lambertvillenj #livemusic #jamsession #localband #acoustic #drunksgiving

[pianosmasher]

it's been two years since we broke up and it hurts to realize that you only liked me when I shut up and was a good audience, or when I was a pretty thing to show off in a room to make you look better. I cry at night because I've been in relationships since you where I actually felt seen and respected for who I am and not for how much I could pretend to be what another person wanted. I don't miss being your girlfriend. I mourn the death of myself to become your girlfriend.

I’m glad you’ve since found people who treat you right. I’m sorry I made you feel the way. I did I have a lot of toxic traits I’m still working on, including my tendency to self-involve and crowd others out without thinking. I’m sorry that part of me continued to hurt you for so long, and I’m glad to know that hurt is over for you now.

I have been struggling with how to address this since I received this ask, but have probably waited too long, so this is my best shot.

The person I broke up with two years ago was not my girlfriend, not a girlfriend. They were not a woman. We had moved on from “girlfriend” to “partner” long, long before we ever broke up. While this person may not have been out to their immediately family by then, they were out to friends and had pronouns listed in social media bios, plus I had had the they/them conversation with my close circle of friends as well - it was a known thing among trusted people. And besides, you’re anonymous. What reason do you have to hide something else while you’re already hiding?

I don’t want to diminish any valid points this ask might be making about my conduct in the past as a romantic partner. I have certainly felt the same way in previous relationships (and have even ended one or two standing on the same grounds), so it’s difficult for me not to take feedback like this seriously. Still. I guess it’s possible that there’s been a return to a more feminine she/her place in their gender identity since the two of us broke up, though given what I remember of our conversations I really do doubt it. And also, I’ve been blocked on every platform, so you more than I would know that I wouldn’t know if that were the case.

It’s just been eating at me. I can’t imagine this person typing the word “girlfriend” onto a screen in front of their face without feeling that terrible pang of gender dysphoria, and here it is typed out twice, apropos of nothing. It’s such a cliche for one ex to tell another “this doesn’t sound like you,” but it really doesn’t. So I hope you are who you say you are, and not some stranger who only knows the barest sketches of the history of my love life. I hope you’re telling the truth, and not appropriating a situation you know nothing about to talk about something that is none of your business. I hope it’s actually you, and that I didn’t just waste my time and breath on someone only trying to hurt me.

#Anonymous #Ask Ross #I’m honestly willing to forgive a lot due to the quarantime #but I’m not willing to tacitly misgender an ex #not even on Tumblr

[walkingcontradiction42]

Best friend just brought over shopping and i have 10 pakages of cookies now and i don't know how to feel about that.

#roxy rambles #quarantime

[dazzleluminosity]

Every day I dream that Elliot Page will make a sequel to Whip-It. Show the world how absolutely goddamn easy trans-inclusivity in sports is, and write a tale of comradery and acceptance for a new generation. You gotta understand, the quarantimes hit roller derby hard. Leagues everywhere are basically a living, breathing bad news bears inspirational sports movie where we are scrambling desperately to rebuild our teams and keep from losing our practice spaces. This movie could save roller derby.

#roller derby #roller skating #elliot page #trans sports

[dicepunks]

New (Rest of an) Episode: 1.54B - Nightfall, Part II

So this one has already been in the feed for a couple days, but work has been so all-encompassing this week that there wasn’t bandwidth for both the editing/rendering/uploading process and the “telling people about the thing we worked so hard on” process. So, with apologies for the messiness of getting the finale all the way distributed to the listening public, we are so, so pleased to present to you…

Dice Punks Episodes 1.54A & 1.54B - Nightfall, Parts I & II!

I, Adam, am (figuratively) allergic to self-promotion or self-congratulation, so this is hard for me to say, but: I think this is good, that we did a good job with this campaign and this finale, and that it will be fun to listen to!

Nearly five hours of campaign-climactic listening, with a gratis Dice Peeks after-show in the main feed to celebrate! And atop that, our campaign-retrospective discussion/hangout epilogue episode will go live tomorrow evening.

So join us in all this actual-play audio-entertainment revelry, join one of our stalwart patrons over on AO3 for a delightful coda once you’ve listened to the finale, and also join me, Hollyhock God ordinaire, below the jump for some post-campaign musings, if that sounds like your thing!

So here we are, the end of our first full campaign. Perhaps unsurprisingly, looking back on our first full campaign to have wrapped has me reflecting on the origins of the podcast as a whole, so if that’s of interest to you, you’re reading the right post!

Our first episode, 0.1 - The Dice Punks Play Dicepunk, went live on 14 April 2021, but it was recorded well ahead of time in late 2020. It grew out of a Quarantimes diversion earlier that year, in which casual chatting online with friends who were also stuck at home turned into a weekly-to-biweekly campaign in a system & setting I’d been interested in trying out since 2009: Over the Edge.

It’s a very rules-light system with a very 1990s, conspiratorial edge to it, so I figured it’d be a good way to get Drew and Joanne into their first major forays into tabletop gaming, as well as giving myself a fun opportunity to try out a system and setting I’d wanted to play in for a while. And so it was! Every week, we spent a few hours just telling an amusingly absurd story together.

We conducted these sessions over Discord, and someone, I don’t recall who, eventually mentioned that we could use a bot to record the sessions for posterity. That suggestion then led to someone expressing an interest in participating should I ever decide to podcast a campaign. I responded that people should not joke about such things if they didn’t want to get roped into an ongoing podcast-recording commitment, and just like that, the kind-of-a-joke turned into starting a podcast.

Things moved very quickly and very slowly after that. I’d already been thinking of a mad, quixotic follow-up campaign to OtE in an ill-advised combination of the REIGN and Nobilis systems, using a setting of my own devising. This ill-advised idea was motivated by:

my desire to finally try playing Nobilis 2nd edition, after having read about it years before (also in 2009),

my love of the One-Roll Engine used by REIGN, and

the hundreds of hours I’ve spent playing Dominions 3, 4, and 5, and sharing the stories generated by those fractally complex systems with whoever I could rope into listening.

So I pitched the system idea to people, we played a one-shot to test the system, then we started drawing up characters. In the meantime, I had found there was a system out there already called Dicepunk, so I contacted its author to ask about the name we were considering. Between us, we decided our first episode would be a one-shot in a game using the Dicepunk system, and so our Psionics one-shot came to be!

After that, of course, Nightfall had taken shape, and we got started building a backlog ahead of launching the public feed. We started off recording in Discord (as a backup) and Audacity (for the higher quality, local recordings), but moved pretty quickly to Reaper, a digital audio workstation that didn't constantly lock up my desktop. And thus have we carried on through all kinds of things: Drew getting COVID just before some early recordings, Des getting brought into the main cast, Dask ascending, the campaign running a good 25% longer than I initially thought it would, and more.

Throughout Nightfall, our listenership has remained very modest, and our patron count has fluctuated between 2 and 3 people, but even in the planning stages, our attitude was always that if even one person listened to the fruits of our efforts, it'd be well worth it. And you know what? It has been!

So! I'm going to be trying to do a lot of promotion in the next month or so, since good jumping-on points aren't that common in campaign-based actual-play shows... but I'm not good at it, and we don't exactly have an advertising budget. (The awesome people who give us their real, actual dollars have bought TTRPG books and improved audio equipment for us, but no ads as yet!) If you're so inclined, we'd love for folks to share posts like this around, give us a listen, rate and review us, recommend us to anyone they think might like our stuff, maybe even check out patreon.com/dicepunks and dicepunks.com!

If you've read this far, we appreciate it, and we hope you'll like what we do -- coming up, we have more Extreme Meatpunks Forever, a mini-series in Unknown Armies, a Halloween special, and a new campaign in Hard Wired Island!

#actual play podcast #ttrpg podcast #actual play #nobilis #podcast #reign #ttrpg #indie ttrpg #unknown armies #hard wired island #extreme meatpunks forever #dominions #dice punks

[to-the-fishies]

My uncle (my mother's brother, the one who lost a leg as a young man) passed away last week; my aunt found him last Wednesday. Age 72. Pulmonary embolism.

All 3 aunts on that side are carrying on with what they need to do: addressing the bank accounts, passwords, death certificates, records.

They expressed surprise that he died sooner than them: "He didn't smoke, rarely drank, stayed fairly active, didn't need meds" - whereas each of them has diabetes, high blood pressure, weight issues, a joint replacement or 4.

"We figured he'd outlive us all."

I pointed out that they were V---- women, ergo of the L---- family, and therefore they could reasonably expect to live forever.

It just hit me today, looking through photos to find pictures of him (and, incidentally, pictures of my mom with styled hair), that Grandma V, who had dementia for 10 or 15 years before she passed at age 92...Grandma V died in 2019.

It's only 4 years later. He lived 20 fewer years than his mother did. Grandpa V. died at 81, so Uncle lived 9 fewer years than his father.

That IS startling, and will probably ache more later. Right now I'm still startled by the changes in my mother since quarantimes; my brother and I are trying to encourage her to get her hair cut for the funeral.

#cw: death #family #aging

[gankoukan]

quarantime was 4 years ago (head in hands)

[datubooty]

looking up gbbo 2021 (i’m behind) while i’m only on episode 4 because 🤷‍♀️ sometimes you want to see gifs of the cute brown girl 🤷‍♀️ and wow yikes there was drama during quarantimes

#the only thing i will judge is that her parents named their children way too similarly and one of them is a dishwear brand #fandom treating wocs badly? no one could have seen this coming

[deadlinecom]

[welcometoouranarchyhole]

honestly even tho quarantime kinda fucked me up i will constantly miss the start of my hxh phase...........

#hxh #Hunter X Hunter #ok but i remember i used to look up feitan fluff in incognito mode bc i was embarassed #and thats how i found one of my favorite writers fr #and thats when i first got onto tumblr too #just bc of them :> #theyre deactivated now but that was such a good time #i also remember all the tiktoks #and staying up real late to binge watch episodes #and my mom always telling me to go to sleep early #im rewatching hxh AGAIN like rn and every episode and moment i can still feel the emotions from 2 years ago 😩 #i miss that era sm #Admin Jay 🐸🦋

[cervidaedalus]

The people blaming Balmung for that billboard make me want to drop The History of Nightclubs in Quarantimes even more.

#balmung has nothing to do with it

[walkingcontradiction42]

The gender euphoria I got from some person on the phone saying that they thought I was a man, because my voice is so rough atm. I guess the constant coughing does have its advantages…somehow.

#roxy rambles #quarantime #i still would love for it to stop actually #it's making sleeping and breathing very hard