Category: The Gauntlet: Hail Satan

This is pretty great. The stories are a mixture of hilarious and skin-crawling. I promise: so worth a read.

http://io9.com/your-most-heinous-stories-of-role-playing-games-gone-wr-1728049438?utm_expid=66866090-48.Ej9760cOTJCPS_Bq4mjoww.0&utm_referrer=http://kotaku.com/

Is anyone following this mess with DriveThru? I thought Steve Wieck was supposed to blog about it today, but I can’t find anything.

Context, for anyone curious: http://jessicalprice.tumblr.com/post/127951942358/games-sure-are-classy

I’m a little out-of-sorts from heavy doses of codeine and A Song of Ice & Fire fan theories (they should really warn you about mixing the two). I’m pulling myself away, and instead wondering whether there is any ASoIF gay slash fic. I’m certain there is, but I don’t want to get flagged by the FBI as some sort of social degenerate who likes thinking about fictional characters getting it on. So, instead, I shall muse here about my ideal couplings . . . 

-Jaime Lannister plus anyone else. In this one, Jaime has just returned from a battle, and the other person is there to pour him a glass of wine, draw him a hot bath, and remove his armor gently and with erotic subtext. It proceeds with the other person giving Jaime a bath, drying him off when it’s over, and dressing him for bed. The entire time, Jaime doesn’t say a single word; barely acknowledging the other person. Not until the very end, that is, when, after being tucked into bed, he turns to the other person and says “A Lannister always pays his debts.” 

-Tywin Lannister and Ned Stark, engaging in some sort of psychosexual daddy/power thing. Their respective Maesters are also present, who occasionally chime-in with sage observations and wise council, and look at each other and nod approvingly.

-Robb Stark and Jon Snow. In this one, they’re in a plain stone room, sitting in chairs, facing Catelyn Stark, who is in the role of an Anne Robinson-style quiz mistress. Catelyn quizzes the lads one-by-one on various trivial matters related to the realm, like what is the symbol of House Such-and Such and who was killed in the Third War of Farfanel, or whatever. Whenever one of them gets one wrong, Catelyn screams at him “You are not my son!” and the other one has to give him a spanking. 

I have moved on from the online shopping phase of my illness (I think I accidentally deleted the post from earlier), and solidly into the Song of Ice and Fire reddit fan theories phase. This will probably take awhile.

Here’s one I like: Jojen Reed is actually Howland Reed. Boom! I just blew your mind, didn’t I?

Google has managed to interpret my searches for “old school roleplaying games” and “old school renaissance” as “old school hip-hop and R&B.” So, in my G+ stream, sandwiched between all the RPG people and right-wing lunatics (don’t ask) are posts about BoyzIIMen and Mary J. Blige.