TTRPGs, nostalgia
Had a great time at friends' house. We dressed up in Halloween costumes (I was a fairy, but I didn't keep my costume on for long because I found the sensations of it very irritating). My boyfriend was a house gnome and he looked very cute. At night we went over to an old building my friend's mum is renovating where has has a basement room he is making into a game room and there we played Barkhäxan. It was really fun.
My character was a 17 year old girl called Stacey who was scared of everything and would rather have been home in Stockholm with her friends, but had been dragged out to a cabin in the middle of nowhere to spend time with her brother, aunt and granddad. I liked this game because of the simplicity of the stats system and how easy rolling checks was. I also felt like we role-played a lot more than when we usually play DnD, which is always more action-filled. I like having moments where things are slower and there is time to role-play in character and really try to capture who the character is.
I played an older version of Stacey when we played Cy_Borg before, but in that game she was more of a twenty-something woman who was oblivious to danger and kind of judgemental. I guess she is a 80s/90s teenage girl archetype that I enjoy in movies. Funny because I would never get along with someone like that in real life, but I suppose that's the point of role-play.
I'm thinking I might make a page on my website to put the character sheets and stats for all of my role-play characters (there aren't many), for my reference and also maybe someone out there will find inspiration in it. I have been thinking a lot about character creation lately because we will probably be starting a new TTRPG soon once our 2 year DnD campaign comes to an end. I've played two characters through its duration, mainly because I have a habit of getting bored quickly if a character I am playing as doesn't fit my mood or have enough backstory. It has been immense fun, though. I'm really looking forward to role-playing in the future.
Since I started making my static website, I have gained this odd sense of peace. I realise that moving between social media sites has made me feel kind of homeless over the years, because nothing I ever posted there was truly mine. It feels different to have my own site where I can put whatever I want (within reason) and also decide how I want it to look (as far as my skill with html will allow, at least). It's a good feeling. I'm far from finished with it. I hope it will turn into a lifelong hobby, but we'll see about that. I have a habit of dropping hobbies after awhile, but then again, I do tend to come back to them.
Right now I am trying to figure out how I can integrate an RSS feed for my blog into my website and it is proving very difficult. The information spread over the web is complicated and I refuse to rely on AI to help me fix this. If anyone out there reads this and knows how to fix it, please do reach out.
This week is going to be a calm one because I don't have any Svenska lessons until next week. All I have is Maths, and that's fun. I am going to try to take things easy and rest my brain a bit by doing fun things and catching up on stuff I haven't had time to get through. The weather is terrible outside, which makes it feel even more cosy to sit and tinker with my website. I also need to reinstall the OS on my TV computer, which feels very cosy to me. Just tinkering with computers instead of endless scrolling really brings me back to my teenage years. Feels very nostalgic.
Signing off. Nem