I Cannot Get Enough Of This Look For Janet. I Am Deeply Psyched For This Book.

I cannot get enough of this look for Janet. I am deeply psyched for this book.

Janet Van Dyne and Victor Shade in Avengers Inc. (2023)

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

do you have any feelings on any of jenna moran's ttrpg systems?

yes! i fucking love them. i like chuubo's and nobilis for all the usual reasons people love them (i haven't had the time to check out glitch) but also what's so great about jenna moran's systems is that every last word of them is dripping with voice. every mechanic and piece of flavour text has a perspective, a clear perspective, usually a playful and fun one but sometimes a mournful or angry or wistful perspective too. it's what makes them masterpieces.

honestly though my favourite jenna moran game is one i haven't played and likely never will because it's not super playable and it doesn't really seem meant to be played: wisher, theurge, fatalist is a masterful and fluent thesis on game design disguised as a shitpost disguised as a tabletop roleplaying game. some highlights:

Those Who Declare Actamut Pombia a Wanted Criminal

• [x] declare Actamut Pombia a wanted criminal 

• [x] place prices on lives

• [x] would prefer that Actamut Pombia suffer

• [x] causes bounty hunters to appear and hunt for Actamut Pombia

• [x] has the power to mobilize the hand of the law

wait fuck if nobody loses an eye, are we just stuck having fun and games FOREVER

DEIMOS REMUS - THE KING IN YELLOW

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