National Novel Writing Month is almost here, and it's one of the many reasons I love the end of the year! In just two days, beginning on November 1st, thousands of writers all around the world will band together to accomplish one insane goal: create a novel of at least 50,000 words by November 30th. … Continue reading (Writing) I’m A NaNoWriMo Cheerleader
Month: October 2017
(Writing) Writing and the Anxious Rabbit
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a mental illness that can be difficult to talk about, mostly because it looks like one of those 'special snowflake' disorders that someone claims to have in order to justify certain behaviors. Even with an official diagnosis and some significant time in a group therapy class, it's the aspect of my … Continue reading (Writing) Writing and the Anxious Rabbit
(Fandom) Goodbye, DNA
Over the weekend, the macrophile artist known around the internet as DNA closed up his FurAffinity page. This all but completes his steady withdrawal from the furry fandom, which was announced a few months ago. The announcement came suddenly, and ever since then I've been trying to sort through my feelings on that. Now that … Continue reading (Fandom) Goodbye, DNA
(Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #1: The Negotiation
"I do know ASL, so it's not necessary for you to be here." The man sitting on the other side of the booth, tall and lithe and poured into a suit it would have taken Bunkin two months to afford, stared with a raised eyebrow. He brought his hands together, sleeves pulling back to show … Continue reading (Fiction) Sergei & Bunkin #1: The Negotiation
(Personal) Moving Forward, Looking Back
The picture on the right is a sankofa bird, a symbol from the Akan art culture of West Africa. Sankofa is a word that comes from the Twi language, and it roughly means "Go back and get what was left behind." The sankofa bird has been a big symbol for a long time in Africa … Continue reading (Personal) Moving Forward, Looking Back
(Writing) A Future With Me In It
It's getting harder for me to look at the news these days without feeling like I'm staring into the void of our own self-destruction. The current US administration seems obsessed with assuaging the bruised ego of the President, making the lives of the poor and working class as difficult as possible, and letting the rich … Continue reading (Writing) A Future With Me In It
(Gaming) Meet Bunkin Johnson, the Devoted Squire
Last Friday I wrote up one of my characters for the Changeling 20th Anniversary Edition -- Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight. Now, meet his Devoted Squire Bunkin Johnson! I've had these two in my head for a very long time now; I had a vague idea for a Changeling-based TV show called "Sleepwalkers", where faeries … Continue reading (Gaming) Meet Bunkin Johnson, the Devoted Squire
(Gaming) Meet Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight
A friend pointed me towards Changeling: the Dreaming in high school when he was trying to sell me on the Vampire: the Masquerade game he was building. If you've got basic knowledge about the World of Darkness, you'll have some idea about how fundamentally incompatible the two games are -- the Kindred are active agents … Continue reading (Gaming) Meet Sergei Kolov, the Silent Knight
(Personal) What I Brought Back From Texas
After two weeks in Belgium, I flew to Dallas, TX for the final week of my training. It was a pretty wild swing from one place to the other -- Belgium is almost stereotypically European, with tons of small stores, few chains, narrow streets and close spaces; Texas, on the other hand, is wide and … Continue reading (Personal) What I Brought Back From Texas
(Personal) What I Brought Back From Europe
In August and September, work sent me one of their headquarters officers in Belgium for training on the product we support as part of an effort to foster more collaboration between the Support teams in Europe and the US. I was there for two weeks, with a "gap weekend" in Paris visiting a dear friend … Continue reading (Personal) What I Brought Back From Europe
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 