@ProfessorLokiCaprion My mother (composition professor at the local U) is getting a small reputation as a Doctor Who fan, for recognizing a student's wallpaper as Eleven's TARDIS interior, and for saying "wibbly-wobbly" once.
@BESW I'm a massive Whovian! We had a big party at my place, last week, for the 50th. My wife made a TARDIS cake, we had Dalek cupcakes and Weeping Angel cookies... fish fingers and custard (which is gross).
(Most of the Whovians over there are exclusively New Who, and while there's nothing wrong with that, sometimes I just need to talk about the Cartmel Masterplan and why the Metacrisis Doctor should be the Valeyard.)
@Zachiel I was lucky to find the jacket at a thrift shop, then made my own silver cross cufflinks and constructed the cross out of the green floral blocks that fake flowers are shoved into, sometimes.
I'm friends with a cosplay fanatic; she was Black Cat at the last Otakon that came through, and now she's always doing photoshoots and such. In fact, she's the former Exalted player in my Torg game I was talking about!
Discovered I like having long hair (though between the upkeep and the heat it's too miserable now that I'm back home), and that when blue dye wears out of light brown hair, it turns sea green for a couple months.
@ProfessorLokiCaprion Shiny.
There's not a lot of opportunity for cosplay here.
I'm not as much into anime as I used to be, but that's not to say I'm anti-anime. Just mostly involved in other things. I've always been a bit of a nerd of all trades, never getting hugely into any one thing.
Sadly, that resulted in a lot of "true fans" looking down their noses at me, while "mundane folks" still thought I was weird.
Other facets of geek culture haven't really taken root much at all; our Friendly Local Gaming Store is owned by a man in his 80s who runs it at a loss so he has "something to get out of bed for in the morning," and is mostly funded by middle-schoolers playing Magic.
I managed to get a good bit of my Drama Club into my Torg game! I ended up with about 15 players, but they never showed up at the same time so I usually ran for about 5-6 per session.
Even worse... when I was trying to start a NEW game with the people I could tolerate... the female of the couple wasn't allowed to play with us, because her new boyfriend didn't want her associating with people who were friends with her old boyfriend.
One couple refused to play characters that had any connection with each other beyond what was necessary for being in the same party, because they knew that would be a recipe for drama.
@ProfessorLokiCaprion Long story short, last February (more or less) I was accused of metaplaying and bleed and asked to play in a different zone of the world, with another character (It's sort of a mmorpg with D&D 3.5 characters). I still have to find which character I want to play now.
Also, as for character art for characters you can't play, I'm lucky in that I run a game where pretty much any kind of character can be made, so I can make characters based on pictures I find!
@Zachiel I used to be that way, actually! I had to learn to detach myself a bit, but not so much that I do careless actions that no character would realistically do.
I had this session where I had just used scry to deliver a message spell to a merchant girl. I also had the bad idea of writing the actual message at late night, which she interpreted as receiving it at nighttime. She described me what I had seen and I really liked the scene. Next dai I discovered she actually roleplayed running down to her guildmaster's room scared, telling everything that happened, and I was in the middle of a diplomatic accident for unwarned scrying.
So next day I meet the young merchant for I had to buy a shield and she asks me "wow, I didn't know you could talk to me at a distance, what spell is it?" which quickly become "you used message, isn't it?" and "and this means you used scry, right?"
because her guildmaster is a knowledgeable wizard
so this level 2 wizard put me (a lvl 13 character) in a spot I couldn't come out with no losses
Oh it runs whenever at least 2 people are there to play. So yes, me being away from the game for 1 year means other people is probably 6 levels ahead of me. Or since the guild leader plays a lot, she's easily level 30 now
So my character just started telling the lvl2 merchant it's possible to scry without looking at the target, but couldn't tell she actually did it that way, because she feared of being accused of being a liar.
Meanwhile, her guild leader told my guild leader that she was really disappointed by me
In the game I was the provision buyer for my guild so I had to keep contact with the merchant guild, which was odd. I knew they didn't like how I was playing, yet when I tried to leave my guild my leader offered me to stay (it was an evil secret society so I knew their secrets)
And now, the worst part of it. My dream was to work in the merchant guild exactly because their leader is a sly fox managing to get things done the right way, never letting her pupils undefended and generally being cool and a great roleplayer. But she hates me in real life because of my inability to understand how much she was willing to help me with becoming better at that game ("I gave you a finger and you bite the ass"). So I want, badly, to play with her but I'm barred from doing that ever.
@ProfessorLokiCaprion Also the fact that this is only lightly moderated by multiple GMs who can be persuaded to condone or even encourage significantly imbalancing behavior and scenarios if it's presented eloquently and appeals to their sense of narrative.
