A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

  It really is an incredible piece, all jokes aside. There is something weird + cool about seeing Chibind Yirung as a venerable elder, since he tends to fade from Ruund versions of the Lunda foundational epic after the "Lueji has a new boyfriend" part and the "no woman ruler >:( " part.  Hey guys, hope y'all have been doin ok. Summer approaches! Been pleased with this past semester of grad school and v. pleased with my first semester of teaching! The SWN game I’ve been running for our HS’s freshly minted tabletop club is about to go on hiatus for the break after this next session + the grading period is coming to a close, so it’s like a sprint to the finish line rn. I’ll maybe do a retrospective post once things settle? Either that or finally get around to talking about PF2E’s Mwangi Expanse.  We aren’t doing any of that today lmao, just want to ramble about some weird shit I saw. There's a cool new Maya exhibition happening at the Kimbell, a nearby museu...

  ayoh kré Duchâtelet, Ornaments and Crimes Wanted to do a last post before the twin scourges of term papers and grading take me out of commission - a couple folks have expressed interest in my NooFutra campaign set in the Eastern DR Congo, so I thought it would be cool to write up a quick survey of some stuff I read (still reading in some cases) to prepare for this game.  Housekeeping A new friend, UnFuturism/Rachel, asked me if I plan to make  Volcano City Soukous into a setting guide or the like when the campaign is done. I honestly don't know. Not fully comfortable trying to codify stuff for this game. It's easy to read a bunch of books in prep; the real trick is being able to encode all that background reading + general knowledge in a text meant to be played. I'm also unsure of the boundaries : my position has long been that Afrodiasporic people don't have carte blanche to speak about the Continent without putting in work just by virtue of having another shared e...