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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Actually useful books for GMs

Recall how I've often said there ought to be a series of books " know how for GMs " vis a vis facts etc ? That series basically is call of cthulhu/chaosium books. Other than the mythos material, the series contains more than I've seen than any other of just simple much needed factual information for a GM ; such as the " transatlantic distances " chart, the " 100 yrs timeline of events " in the 6E core and " gunshot wounds " section in the keepers toolkit. The 6E core book is the best TRPG tome I've ever purchased at 10$. No other widely known game series I've read is so dedicated to an extensive reading of the literature concerned ; Ive discovered more about Lovecraft pastiches and etc than I thought I would *. I used to look down on call of cthulhu players who admit to having become familiar with HP Lovecraft's work through the Chaosium games, but I see now how committed of fans Sandy Petersen and co are. They're not watering the mythos down into a diluted game version of the literature I love , it really is designed as a serious medium for interactive story telling. I can see from my study of other common TRPG products how this game was a stepping stone and I see the influence it had in other games that came in decades hence. * And I've read my share of mythos pastiches, many of authors that have just a few short stories in the world of weird tales , like Pugmire and Miskatonic River Press and Hugo or nebula shorts that quietly wear the taint of the old ones on their sleeve ( so to speak ) . I hope this makes up for the fact that I haven't extensively read Lumley or Lin Carter or Ramsey Campbell. Ive read nearly every C.A.S story and many Robert E Howard ones, Robert w chambers horror shorts , Blackwood , Bierce , Machen , and Dunsany ( Not all of the Dunsany ones . ) . I have to admit I find Lumley and Derleth both fairly dry, I'm trying to learn to like Lumley , but I'm just not overly impressed by his work even if it is part of the Good Work of HPL mythos. Ive even read Vathek by William Beckford . Vathek was bad, but it was an important stepping stone for what the genre of bleak/cosmic horror would become ... etc etc. Recommended story for the day: The Deep Water Bride by Tamsyn Muir.

Elisa Carlson