Indigenous Digital Development Day Presentation

What follows is the copy from my artist keynote for the Indigenous Digital Development Day 2021, on October 20th. I’ll also post a link to the video recording when it becomes available. The main page of it all can be found here. Thank you to the folks at imagineNATIVE who …

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The Tomorrow That We Dream

What follows are my notes, which make for a rough transcript, of my talk to the University of Kansas’ Digital Storytelling Colloquium from November 4th, 2020. The video can be found here. Opening I’d like to first acknowledge, during the crazy times of this particular election, that we are still …

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Rambling Thoughts on Utopias, Speculative Fiction, the Matter of Black Lives

I’m sitting here, in this Covid world, experiencing its emotional ups and downs while I watch all the things that are shaken loose as the slowing down caused by the pandemic, beats the bushes. My mind wanders to my own design process and the things I think are important. The …

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Reaching

Time for a ramble. My rambling brain is rambling non-stop. It’s my observation that humans have such a wide range of biodiversity and neurodiversity and much of it is oppressed and pathologized by normative culture. Things like skin color, autism, intersex, sexuality, relationship patterns all fall within this. I think …

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Line in the Snow: Part 6

The storm had subsided a bit and the morning sun had begun to peek through the clouds. In this new light, Makkitu’q could see the the remains of shiver corpses scattered all around the WayMound. They had already began the process of dissolution before the sun. They dissipated, tuning into …

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Winters, Continued

Last time, I talked about this process that I call the “Winter Counts” which arose out of the character creation process found in Ehdrigohr: The role-playing game. I figured it was worth it to break down how this process actually works for me so that groups could try to do …

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Recounting the Winters

Ehdrigohr has been the beginning of many interesting discoveries and journeys for me over the last few years. When I set out to make it I was never quite sure what it would end up being. I didn’t know what I would end up finding in it. More importantly, I …

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Playing Ehdrigohr with the OneShot Podcast crew

There are a lot of new people discovering Ehdrigohr, and asking about the processes of playing it and a Fate game in general, so I thought I’d post links to this podcast, called the Oneshot Podcast, where I did last an Ehdrigohr session year (2014) in December.

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The Story Keeping Society of Rooks

In Ehdrigohr there exist numerous smaller orders, touched by the Graces and Songs, who serve the people in much the same way as the Great Societies. Though they may be smaller in number or access the things they do may, in some cases, be even bigger. The Storykeeping Society of …

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