Look! It’s gone all funny!!!

Yup, I think I’m done with a lot of the change-y stuff.  Really, WordPress is awesome for this sort of thing.  Please feel free to let me know what you think.  I loved my old template, but I really needed the three columns to be able to make this place anything like navigable.

In the ensuing days I’ll be giving you guys the rundown on the new link categories on the side and who some of these folks might be.  Well, hopefully, I’m still on the project what won’t die at work, and desperately busy afterwards, so we’ll see if I keep that promise.

Also, Friday I intend to buy this game:  The Path.  It’s a computer horror game (available on both PC and Mac) about girls encountering their own personal “wolves” in the forest.  Yup, it’s a Red Riding Hood hack, and I am all about altnerate fairy tales.  Several friends of mine have already downloaded it, after hearing about in on NPR.  And have raved about it.  I’ll be buying it next weekend.  I can’t wait.  Darn budgeting issues.

That’s about it for now.  Later on I’ll talk more about all these new freaks I’ve linked to and why.

Changes are a coming!

Do not adjust your monitor… I’m playing with the appearance and layout of things here at GGR, and hopefully it will be a touch more navigable, as well as including links to cool things I like and think you should see, read, support, what have you.  Soon to be listed is a “Buy Cool Shit from Cool People” link category, and other nifty things. 

I’m not sure how long this whole process is going to take as I’ll be doing a bit at a time as I can. 

May need to find a good header picture for this place.

 

ETA:  Ok, so I’ve added some link categories, and moved some stuff and added some stuff and deleted some stuff.  Will do more this weekend.

NEWS!!!

Yours truly is a guest blogger at the blog for the California Chapter of the National Organization for Women. 

Woot! 

http://www.canow.org/canoworg/

I would like to thank Elena Perez for inviting me to goob all over their website.  I get to be the edgy guest blogger.  Eeee!  I’ve never been “edgy” before.  I’m very excited. 

Some of the stuff I’ll be posting there is new, some is things I’ve adapted from here and from the Polimicks blog.  I just hope I don’t piss anyone off too badly.

Geek Girls Rule! #78.5 – What am I playing? and More News

I want to start off with a reminder that GGR now has a Zazzle store.  Buy stuff, and support my gaming habit.  It’s expensive.  Role-playing games don’t come cheap.  Well, some of them do, but I really want copies of Houses of the Blooded and Passages.

Also, on the news front, I want to welcome Fandom Savant to the Geek Girls Rule! family.  She is going to be your one stop shop for FanFic news, and also some awesome analyses of television and other media.  She prefers to publish here under a pseudonym, because unlike me, she’s still hoping to get a job in academia some day.  You’ll be able to hear her in the upcoming Geek Girls Rule! podcast 11, just as soon as libsyn let’s me upload it.  We talk about fanfiction, why it is so popular and the different tropes and such.  It really is a magnificent podcast, and really interesting.  And yes, that is Fandom Savant, even though I call her Frog.  We’ve been friends for about 16 or so years now, and you just don’t get through that many years without accumulating some entertaining nicknames.  

Now, what am I currently playing?  We have just started a game of Mouse Guard over skype, with my Geek Sisterhood co-host Sophie Lagace and her husband Edmund, and another friend of theirs, Jason.  I’m very excited.  So far all we’ve done is character creation, but I’m very pleased with my character, a very Aramis-like little mouse named Jasper. 

Also, the Sunday group is now playing two series of Prime Time Adventures simultaneously.  We’ve just started season two of “Mystic Palms” which is our Harry Potter/Beverly Hills 90210/Heathers cross-over.  And we’ve just begun a show about a Japanese chef, trained in France and working in a Cajun Restaurant an hour or two outside of New Orleans, called “Redneck Remoulade.”  We just did the pilot for that one, and it’s fun. 

Every other Friday or so, we have the Spirit of the Century Girl Genius campaign, theoretically.  We have yet to actually play.  Which reminds me, I need to look for our characters.  And the Girl Game, after a couple of month hiatus due to the insanely busy schedules we all keep, is gearing up for another run.  We’re getting ready to convert our Unhallowed characters over to GURPS because I’m more likely to USE the system since I already know it, and I think it will convert just fine. 

That’s about it.  Gaming Radio Network has the first Geek Sisterhood podcast.  I will post the particulars here once I have them.  We have recorded the second and I’m working on editing it this evening.

Other state of the Geek GIrl news.

Ok, well, I got 50 pages of THE NOVEL sent off to the agent I spoke with.  I am also working on two other novels simultaneously.  I know, most people don’t do that, but I have this weird ability to seriously multi-task.  Also, when I get blocked or fed up with one, I can move onto another and that usually prevents a full on case of Writer’s Block.

The NOVELS are:
1.  THE NOVEL is a “paranormal romance” involving different magical families, Seattle, the undead and werewolves.
2.  Novel 2 is a contemporary romance with a fat heroine.
3.  Another “paranormal romance” involving witches, the mafia, demons and stalker ex-boyfriends.

Ok.  I need to get back to work, just had to take a quick break from restraining self from strangling boss.