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im sorry this has taken forever to do omg you sent this in like last month, that’s my bad i promise

-grantaire isnt physical with a lot of people but being around jbm is different. he likes to let them touch and hug and pat his head. grantaire likes to nap w bossuet because he’s got strong arms and is very warm and comforting to sleep on

-all four of them are short. three short kings and a queen and it isnt even funny. joly’s about 5’8, bossuet and musichetta are both 5’7, and grantaire is 5’5. all of them have trouble finding pants that they dont have to roll up because they’re too long

-musichetta actually had her own experience with addiction when she was in her late teens and early 20s and because of that, she’s one of the only people who can take either side of grantaire’s face and make him believe that he needs help. talking with musichetta doesnt ever feel patronizing or anything because she genuinely understands what rock bottom feels like and she knows what to say and do to get grantaire to listen. they have a lot of late nights where grantaire is just sitting at the dinner table and she has a mug of coffee and she just let’s him talk and rant about how he aggravated he is with himself and how much he despises himself for being the way he is

-grantaire has everyone’s coffee orders memorized. whenever he pops by, he brings a couple over for his buddies (bossuet gets hot chocolate, joly gets black coffee, and musichetta likes a good latte)

-before moving in with jehan, grantaire also slept on their couch a lot when he got evicted from his apartment. they all like to joke that there’s a grantaire-shaped indent on the pull out mattress whenever he needs somewhere to stay

-they love going out to karaoke bars. the usual line up is jbg doing a three-man (awful) rendition of YMCA, joly and musichetta doing a really cheesy love ballad directed to bossuet, and grantaire nonironically doing wonderwall with his three buds giving him a thumbs up despite the fact that it’s wonderwall

-joly is a really good chef and the other three cant cook for shit but they help him in the kitchen the best they can. it usually ends up with bossuet and musichetta getting taken out by Onion Fumes In Their Eyeballs and grantaire is immune to onions so he just sloppily cuts up veggies for joly’s stews and the two have lil convos as musichetta and bossuet are flushing their eyes in the bathroom

-they all love drag!!!! they go to local drag bars and support performers and they LOVE it. bossuet and grantaire have actually participated in it too and joly and chetta went fucking WILD at their debut. god these guys love drag sm. they also get together on weekend nights to watch through seasons of rupaul’s drag race and it’s their lifeline

I am running a workshop for the Electronic Literature Organization 10th September 2024 over Zoom: bit.ly/elo-salon I will be covering inspirations and explorations, and of course campus induction games.

As luck would have it, Actionbound is running a beginner's workshop tomorrow night. You could be an expert within 24 hours! https://en.actionbound.com/academy/beginners-course-110924

"Let's create and play Actionbound with Liz Cable! bit.ly/elo-salon 4 pm UTC, noon EDT, 9 am PDT

Actionbound lets you create and share games based on your location with text, images, audio, and video.

Actionbound (https://en.actionbound.com/) is an app for creating location based games known as bounds, that players can play as individuals or in teams on their mobile phones. There is a free version for personal use, and a cheap(er) educational version that’s affordable for campus induction games. Both writer and players can add text, audio, images and video, with the option of leaderboards for different groups and customisable base games shared amongst different designers. The recent addition of logic-switches and time-released media opens up opportunities for interactive narratives and more elaborate storytelling. From scavenger hunts to psychogeography, poetry trails to wellness walks, come be inspired by the possibilities.

Liz Cable has been using and teaching Actionbound with undergraduates for several years, and has created numerous games and experiences, including summative assessments where students create a bound, and one where students work in teams to solve a bound over a week. It is a very easy to use platform – the creativity comes in how you use it.

Boston's @RosewoodBape Follows Up "Taxi" With The Equally Catchy "Miles" via @HITPmusic

Rosewood Bape‘s “Taxi” continues to pick up in the streets and on the Internet. With momentum, the Boston rapper unleashes its follow-up in “Miles.” His latest offering is sonically different from “Taxi,” but equally catchy. Produced by LBMG, Bape tacks on a bit of Auto-Tune and explains what he plans to do to a woman who catches his eyes (“I’ma go head and put some miles on her”).This will…