zedecksiew.bsky.social
Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers.
Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
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Thanks!
(Dude has been printmaking longer than I've been alive and has *no repetitive stress injuries* how is that possible???)
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In playtesting my home group said "ponti" instead of the full name---you know, just in case.
(For you, is it too scary because of the horror imagery itself or the subject matter?)
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Probably!
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I suppose I'm satisfied. My cute monkey turned sinister---but I guess that is what nighttime does.
I particularly like how he looks on the reserve of the print. Ghostly!
This print went to Amanda, from my regular game group, whose birthday it was last weekend.
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On the other hand:
Funasaka-sensei pointed out that the baren I made will serve me well for large-scale prints. "Look how solid the colour is! You almost never see this from an unseasoned block on the first pull."
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Like, why do you care about what the Iranian govt does to women and queer people? Why do you care that Iran is cruel? Your own govts hate women and queer people. Your own govt is cruel.
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Lubrication helps the baren's motion across the paper. Oil off one's own face and hair works!
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Printing with our handmade barens for the first time! Funasaka sensei says the bamboo cords we made were extra-large, resulting in large, textured barens.
"Gojira barens," Sharon suggested.
"I like this name!" Funasaka sensei replied.
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<3 <3 <3 Wouldn't have happened without you!
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CORRECTION: there has been *seven* public showings of #shrineshare .
Right now, the folio is on exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix Gallery, in the UK: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/shrin...
Art made to travel easily. Shrines made to be shared.
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It isn't just us planning and putting together exhibitions of the folio:
#shrineshare in Penang was organised by Jamie Oon, one of the artists in the folio.
The PJ / Klang Valley show was mooted / hosted by KL art collectives Rogue Art and 293.
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Yet there has been six public showings of #shrineshare, in five places across the UK and Malaysia, each happening more or less organically: "Hey this seems fun and easy, let's put it up!"
Sharon's post presents photographs from all these events: smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...
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We didn't plan any public exhibitions of #shrineshare when Sharon and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and I conceived of and put together the folio---
But the point was always to make a folder of art that would travel easily, explain itself, and invite others to take it still further.
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The world Mythic Bastionland generates is certainly focused on chivalric romance in tone. But the rules and procedures in the book support lots of things: you could play courtly intrigue; or cynical murderhobos; or questing knights; or demesne management; etc.
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This was my 2nd time playing Mythic Bastionland (the first was ages ago, when the game was still circulating as a playtest document). I vaguely remember my first Knight being shiny, serious.
This time, in @weirdwonder.bsky.social 's game, I smeared wyvern shit on my face.
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Genre not via emulation, but by invitation.
Mythic Bastionland isn't a game engine designed to run narratives of mythic, chivalric romance.
Instead, it builds a mythic, chivalric world, and invites you to tell whatever story you want---dark? courtly? political? farcical?---in it.
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