#boyd thinks thoughts

I watched Nimona last night, and it got me thinking.

This isn’t really a review.

Nimona is really good and you should watch it.

There that’s your review.

Instead this is where my mind went after watching it.

Spoilers ahead.

She's certainly been doing stuff on youtube for much longer than I've followed her, but seeing the first videos that are stylistically similar to her current work, it's a more recent shift than expected, and I feel like I can actually say I've been a fan for a comparatively long time.

I don't have a point I just thought this and wanted to express it. ... At this point in writing this post I wondered why I was on twitter and I never use tumblr anymore.

So I’m posting this random thought here instead.

They should have made it so that another side effect of the reanimation was that you became mute. Instead of dialogue skills you have empathy and expression. All the options are "you give them a look that says..."

I didn't become a vegetarian for any specific reason. I just decided that I don't need to eat meat, and if it's important to other people, why not?

But now, when I look at meat, I think it's kind of gross.

Why would not eating meat do that, if my reason for not eating meat wasn't based on already thinking that?

So as I thought about this it made me think of things we do, because they are normal, to the point where we don't even bother thinking about them. But if we were to step back and look, we'd realize they're kind of absurd. It's the normality that makes them okay in our minds. We don't even question them.

Modules are this form of fiction we don't engage with often, but they have the same potential as any other story to create a shared experience that extends beyond you as an individual.

The stories rpg's create tend to be exclusive to the group that plays them, and while that's cool, and special, it's also kind of lonely, in that there doesn't get to be this fandom space surrounding them.

Modules have the potential to be interactive fiction at its finest, where your version of the story is different than anyone else's, but the key elements are all still there.

A great example is how my old dnd group played Descent into Avernus, but the DM skinned parts of it to fit the campaign we were already playing.

So when Magic the Gathering had tie-in cards based on the Descent into Avernus module, I got to see characters, that I've personally interacted with. I got to engage in this shared experience, but also this unique experience, that is my table's version of those characters, at the same time.

I miss sharing my random thoughts, and media reviews here.

Now I just post them on discord, and while they're technically all still there, I'm never going to find them again, and anything worth reading again is lost in a see of general chat.

I should post on tumblr more often.