An update, regarding some plans for the future.
After a long period of sort of floundering around trying to figure out what I'm doing with my life after a weird and intense impromptu career as a...
[AE.Personal, AE.ADHD] The title is this because I can't think of one, but I need to write something to send it.
I retweeted this on Twitter earlier today, the head of a thread about ADHD stuff that really resonated with me. People with ADHD are often crushed by the...
[AE.NiNoBilMa] As April gives way to May and I transition to different ways of being and doing...
So, you might be guessing -- based on the fact that it's not the first Monday of the month or even the second Monday but a Friday that happens to be the very...
[AE.Personal] Twit and Twitterability
So, this is not the newsletter I had planned to put out next, but events have continued to eventuate in a way that has taken up a lot of my time and...
[AE.Personal] Why couldn't Murphy be satisfied with a firm suggestion?
I've spent the past several weekdays working on a draft of a newsletter that was meant to be a basic catch-up/check-in message about what's going on in my...
[AE.Mailbag] When you twist, and then shout...
It's Friday, Friday, and as the song says, "gotta get in touch with community members, it's Friday." Yep, it's another mailbag. The topic I put forth for...
[AE.Personal] Mobile machinations.
Author's Note: I wrote this yesterday, got it formatted and ready to send out, and then apparently neglected to hit the confirm button when I tried to send...
[AE.Personal] Habits & Habitations
Content Note: This one's going to talk about alcohol use, and the reasons I found it useful. Feel free to skip if that's not something you need to read...
[AE.Personal] On taking it lying down.
Last night, throughout my dreams, I kept suffering minor accidents and small injuries, most of which seemed to be completely random and not particularly...
[AE.Mailbag] Obstacles & Opportunities: Select reader perspectives on tabletop RPGs.
When I came up with the idea for doing a weekly reader mailbag, it was because I'd moved to Buttondown, which doesn't have a comment section, and I noticed I...
[AE.Personal] No newsletter today.
Sending out a newsletter to say no newsletter today. Too much pain, not enough brain. Community mailbag tomorrow. -Alexandra
[AE.Meta] On the balance...
Last night, when I realized it was about a minute to midnight and I was still putting the finishing touches on my newsletter, I had a couple of immediate and...
[AE.Gamedev] Playing with the heart (and club, spade, and diamond) of the cards.
Pausing to note in a matter-of-fact and not actually apologetic way that I've been sending this newsletter out late at night this week. Things have been a...
[AE.Gaming] Questions on the subject of precisely when the wizard means to arrive.
I'd like to start by sharing a timely video I saw on Twitter today, from Amy Vorpahl....
[AE.Mailbag] Mailbag for Friday, 3/11/22: Journal games, Flash emulators, and more.
So, one of my ambitions since moving my newsletter to Buttondown has been to get a regular reader mailbag type thing going on the end of the weeks, in order...
[AE.Writing, AE.Gamedev] Writing as play, play as writing.
If you've been wondering why I'm so preoccupied with play as a concept right now, it's a confluence of two things: my ongoing attempt to recapture some...
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[AE.Personal] When you wish upon a book...
So, while I was thinking about the relationship between imaginative play and artistic creation recently, I realized there's a very strong connection between...
[AE.Gamedev] Optimization as Gameplay: "Your character optimized in 30 minutes or less, or your run is over."
So, there's a couple of casual games I've become very interested in lately that I think might form a micro-genre together, as they are both a very specific...
[AE.NiNoBilMa] March NiNoBilMa: Must be the Season of the Silly
Another month, another iteration of NiNoBilMa, my ongoing, year-long attempt to acquire or renew writing skills I was meant to have learned as a child and...
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[AE.Personal, AE.Food] Pannac at the Otta
If you follow me on Twitter -- and most of the people reading this do -- then you have probably inferred that my household is very much not on the "covid is...