I have walked into D&D games and had some snarky asshole male gamer ask me where my chainmail bikini was, or give me shit for wanting to play a fighter rather than a cleric or a mage… Ren, Sexism in Gaming series I like drawn out, single-player RPGs with a bunch of side quests –Continue reading “Yes, a fighter and NOT a mage”
Category Archives: Dork-Out
Pregnant with a “patriarchal oppressor”!
(Officially confirmed by ultrasound. But I knew as much anyway.) If my instincts are correct, this one will be a boy’s boy. A bit of an Alexander the Great (or Alexander of Macedonia, as they call him around here) underneath it all. A combination of his father’s spirit and his mother’s dorkage, I think. OneContinue reading “Pregnant with a “patriarchal oppressor”!”
My hallowed Halloween tradition involves watching “28 Days Later”
Or some other classic. Which is predictable, but whatever. Too much upheaval in the world already. Do you have a hallowed Halloween tradition too? Last year, my cousin Solomia and I were at an all-night showing of Swedish shorts at the Molodst Film Festival for Halloween. We learned phrases such as “a turned-on pine tree”Continue reading “My hallowed Halloween tradition involves watching “28 Days Later””
LOST Season 6 quotes on my Facebook
For some reason, I started this tradition of updating the seemingly pointless profile box below my Facebook picture with my favourite quote from the latest LOST episode I had watched this season, and then taking a screenshot and filing it away in a separate folder. I figured out halfway through that this was some sortContinue reading “LOST Season 6 quotes on my Facebook”
The mandatory feel-good animated gifs post
Because I’ve been in trouble as of late – for serious this time – I thought I’d put together this post, both for myself and for anyone who has wandered by this blog in search of some sort of comfort (I have no idea why you’d look for it here, but it’s true that weContinue reading “The mandatory feel-good animated gifs post”
Natalia A. 