#homestuck nostalgia

[mushroomcryptid-art]

So I finally convinced myself to buy a tablet, and try to get better using digital. Here have an Aradia Megido, Aradia Makara, and an Aradia Captor. Blood swap! au's were something fun. Can only really start practicing now..

[histrionicscribbler]

i am not immune to homestuck nostalgia

[prokopetz]

It's actually kind of striking how tightly wedded most major genres of tabletop RPGs are to the decades when they were popularised.

Trad fantasy tabletop RPGs – even those that aren't positioned as revivalist – are so intent on emulating the sword and sorcery literature of the 1970s that the only reason they don't come off as quaintly nostalgic is because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore.

Cyberpunk tabletop RPGs are, at this point, essentially an exercise in retrofuturism, endlessly polishing a vision of what people in the 1980s thought the year 2015 would look like.

Urban fantasy tabletop RPGs might include smartphones and electric cars in their equipment tables and mention 9/11 in their lore chapters, but culturally and aesthetically, most of them are taking place in a world where the 1990s never ended.

I don't mean this as a criticism – I'm just fascinated with how this tendency is so strong that, for example, a brand new urban fantasy RPG written in the year 2024 is liable to end up being a 1990s period piece at heart even when that was 100% not the author's intention, simply through the inertia of the medium's well-established tropes.

I'm mostly curious what the characteristic tabletop RPG genre of the 2020s is going to end up being thirty or forty years from now, and I hope I live long enough to find out!

[nekurothings]

happy birthday homestuck!

[engravedlives]

misc purple graphics stamps blinkies

[ddoublefang]

rolal doodles

[dailyjadenep]

buri hamachi!

[nictelsm]

I was originally gonna include JonTron but he's not TGWTG enough.

[vile-wizard]

Reblog and tag with the song that pops in your head when someone mentions AMVs. Mine is a tie between "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" and "Angel with a Shotgun".

[woegothix]

>> dead daves are the enemy

[unnaturalbabe]

this is the worst thing i've ever seen and it's not close

edit months later: go follow my new account @autismexploder i promise there will be more cursed shit there and also lots of sapphic deviance and discussion of squids

[mushroomcryptid-art]

I'm cleaning out my bedroom, and found some old art. Some worse,some better. This was one of the better ones. Aradiasprite. Maybe one day I'll gather enough to make this a cosplay. Fucked up hands tho lol

[dreamingdeadly]

happy 413 to the kids of all time!

[ddoublefang]

[hellwurld]

childhood friends are like runaway cats. you can keep hanging up the missing poster, but they’re not going to come back.

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