Tessa ✨️📖💕

Off to Last Firelight LARP 🔥

Playing a Post-Apoc Doctor so I stopped at Party City for fake blood which erm... stands out this time of year 😅🩸

The line definitely went something like:
Santa Hat Purchase,
Balloons,
Candy,
Xmas Balloons,
CLEARANCE FAKE BLOOD

Mike, Tacoma is much more boring without you in it 🖤

A shadowed, firelit altar sits atop a metal grate with a plaster bust in front of candles and a vintage radio. A sword and book lay on the grate as well.

The mood of the day is

Spotify Wrapped screen: My January "Scenecore Scratch Hyperpop" Listening to artists like 100gecs, SHARKFISH, and Dorian Electra

Spotify Wrapped screen: My September "Speakeasy Ballroom Big Band" Listening to artists like Micheal Bublé, Tony Bennett, and Marilyn Monroe

inside me are two wolves

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

This is prime Lovecraft academia mood board! Love the physical layering of papers here 📚💕

Have fun for me, I can't go to the new Miskatonic University US Run 2 dates

A Siamese cat sits on a table, precariously observing the sci-fi TTRPG terrain directly beside it. The game is Firefly themed, with elaborate three dimensional gritty industrial catwalks, crates, tanks etc made of printed cardboard decorating the table.

A miniature curved ship bridge display in the sci-fi style of the Firefly Alliance, made entirely put of cardboard. A small cardboard bridge chair sits on the terrain before it.

Various sci-fi machines, rusty and looking abandoned, make up this elaborate three dimensional cardboard TTRPG terrain. Miniature consoles and automated surgical tables stained with blood rest in a sci-fi room with round doors.

intricate cardboard TTRPG set pieces and the hyper-realistic kaiju figure (cat) that threatens them

Shout out to @rainbowrowell.bsky.social, my younger cousin Lucy is finally "into reading" and brought her library copy of Carry On to Thanksgiving- we both adore that book! It brought us together with a love of Baz, across an age gap.

I bought her the whole series for Christmas on Black Friday 📚💙

Are you in Washington? Near like Orca Con in SeaTac?

A fully gilt statue of Athena stands of 40 fert tall inside the Nashville, TN Parthenon. She is holding a statue of winged Nike, who is 6ft+ for scale. Her robes have fine sculpted folds, and she wears a golden helmet, carries a golden shield, golden spear, and beside her is a giant golden snake. For scale the image shows her against many backdrop columns implying her great height.

A pulled out view of museum go-ers in from of the Parthenon statue of Athena. This fully gilt statue of Athena stands of 40 fert tall inside the Nashville, TN Parthenon. She is holding a statue of winged Nike, who is 6ft+ for scale. Her robes have fine sculpted folds, and she wears a golden helmet, carries a golden shield, golden spear, and beside her is a giant golden snake. For scale the image shows her against many backdrop columns implying her great height.

Sculptural details carved from marble stone that line the top of the Parthenon facades. These depict recreations made to mimic the original casts of the existing Parthenon marbles by filling in gaps and composition by more contemporary sculpture. The East pediment— above the ancient entrance to the temple— depicts the dramatic story of the birth of Athena who sprang as a fully grown warrior from the head of her father, Zeus. The pediment shows Nike, the goddess of Victory, flying to place the victor’s wreath on Athena’s helmet, thus commemorating Greece’s recent real-time defeat of the Persians and making the Parthenon a votive, or offering of thanks, to their patron goddess.

Visting the Parthenon in Nashville is great because half the people there are admiring the meticulous handsculpted 1:1 gilt reconstruction of one of humanities greatest ancient temples to Athena

and the other half are going "omg this is where they filmed the Percy Jackson movie"

both are correct

YOU LIVE NEAR ME? 👀

Missed Eclipse LARP so straight up I might just go to Literal Space Camp in Alabama this Summer

They changed the dates on TWO of the EuroLARPs I was gonna attend 🥺😭😫

curse my specific US school vacation dates overlapping most everything this year

Yes, I'm religious, I believe in the holy trinity

Tessa sits in a leatherbacked hotel chair, legs up on the desk, with red tights, patent heels, and silk black dress. The room is warmly lit.

In desperate need of R&R today

Pictured is Darkly, a 2024 edition by Matisha Pessl. It's black cover is adorned with bright pink/blue pastel fillagree centering on an ominous hourglass into which the Darkly factory is sinking. A sticker denotes "Signed Copy."

Darkly SLAPS✨️

The Atlas Six meets LARP immersive murdery mystery boardgame scenario? Pessl wrote this for me, specifically.

Full review to follow later.
#booksky📚💙

"Legolas" digital, 2024

A gif of Sergei Razumovsky and Kutkh (dark bird cult deity) targeting Major Grom with a gun, in which Sergei says "Well... I'll have to do everything myself." and "Sorry Oleg, but rules are rules!" Kuthk assists him in shooting the pistol. Panel art is by Anastasia Kim, and has a unique ink composition with expressive faces.

Short thread of obscure #comics you should read: 3/3

Major Grom [Майор Гром] (2016)
by Artyom Gabrelyanov
+ Evgeny Fedotov

Arguably just a detective story with a flat Igor Grom facing off against the vigilante The Plague Doctor, it is SO much more. EXCELLENT villain. Anastasia Kim makes fine ART.

Variant cover 1 of Peter Milligan's Kid Labotomy #1. The titular kid rests disheveled in a hotel bed, mostly nude, surrounded by cigarettes, whisky bottles, a phone off the hook with cord threatening strangulation and his lobotomy gun.

Short thread of obscure #comics you should read: 2/3

Kid Labotomy by
Peter Milligan

You have to have read King Lear and Kafka (canon) to fully appreciate this psychodrama. The world's most unreliable narrator, his garish and sexy mental breakdown, roaches, in a Hotel California flavored mod shell.

Volume 1 cover of a two volume volume of Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005) by Grant Morrison. Characters pictured include Zatanna, Shining Knight, Klarion, the Manhattan Guardian, and villainous antagonists.

Short thread of obscure #comics you should read: 1/3

Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005) by
Grant Morrison

MASTERPIECE.
A compelling secret DC megaseries where 7 deep cut C/D-list side characters get full arcs/art, & unwittingly save the universe from evil fae. Gorgeous, gritty, unique, ...Klarion.

Unironically hmu for magical girl LARP

Success 💯

actually my love of RPGs comes from my weird little girl obsession with antiquated etiquette manuals. LOVE a behavioral script for how to act in increasingly esoteric situations

Here is an old #WIP of my #Merman armor that I made for a commission. These plates were all textured, dyed a variety of blues, sealed with wax and then laced together with a heavy leather lace. Eventually this creates a whole cuirass of my own design.

#LARP #Fantasy #Armor #Crafting

📸 @apocalypseviking.bsky.social !

If you see this, post a knight. ⚔️🥀👑

A man sits at a round donut shaped desk, surrounded by books in piles, stacks, and open on the table. His computers and cluttered notes indicate a creative process. He also faces maximalist wall art of mythic figures rendered in classical style sitting among a ring of clouds, mirroring the clutter on the donut shaped desktop.

Physically I am staying in my Aunt's minimalist home outside Nashville, preparing for Thanksgiving, staying for 5 days, antsy

Mentally I am home in my maximalist studio apartment luxuriating in my to-read book pile (I brought 3 with me though) and no obligations

❤️ family but craving downtime badly

We have released an English version of a Japanese indie TTRPG.

Pray by Letter is an epistolary tabletop role-playing game for 2 players in which you and your penfriend try to forge the future by exchanging letters.

now available on itch.io!

malstromrpg.itch.io/pray-by-letter

I imagine this would be used in terms of something like Lumen to essentially kickstart a Pavlovian automatic response to stressors (IG) being mindfulness (IG) through narrative RP of calming/magic neutral stimuli, so as to have players engage the same response on an OOG level in their daily thoughts