Asukapaper

The real Asuka; the only Asuka

  • she/her

she/her, 29, low resolution brain goblin, prolonged Cinema-Media-Arts and Polisci undergrad, ongoing Gender Situation. Asuka for short, Asukapaper for long, and Jill for real

Discord ID: asukapaper (they took away the funny numbers, curses)


Got into an interesting conversation about paid GMing, unprompted but not unwelcome. I think I've said before that the paid hustle is consumed with the asset economy. I'm also worried it buries care as a pillar to managing a group of strangers. Because the second thing I noticed was after this jabroni of a GM showed me his widget in foundry, he utterly fucked through, rushed, and ignored the consent checklist process. I think that is something that genuinely takes skill and I wish was compensated, and, idk, maybe I'm being emotional but I genuinely hope one day I can live off making sure someone feels cared for and faced in these things. Like, so long as we're living in a capitalist system, that's what I'd like to do to feed myself. It feels like the most ethical thing out of the options available to me and leverages the skills I have


Like I simply dislike the idea that you're fucking people over, fleecing them, or doing something "that isn't actually all that hard" when you're putting in copious amounts of emotional labour for people who are complete unknowns. Maybe if you don't give a shit, most definitely if you're among friends and the bar isn't set in the weird ways it gets placed online, but that idea makes me sad. Because it's like from both wings of the argument, we're devaluing what I think is people's labour power. Well, okay, this is a personal thing so really it's a feeling that it devalues my own labour power.

Like I just want to see myself having a side hustle making the Ontario minimum wage. That is not a utopian vision well out of anyone's grasp. If anything the bar is set low when we have an industry of people supposedly devoting their all to the craft of running these things but in the end blowing their salary on whirlygigs. Neither is it taking advantage of people wanting a "valueless" activity, because being so desperate for a table you'll fork over money speaks to an alienation. That is quite literally what undergirds sex work so I don't think this is far-fetched. Not an alienation that capitalism fixes, but this industry would not exist if there wasn't a need people are chasing under the fallacy that if they spend the money it'll give them a better experience. Hence the whirlygigs and general dismal reputation paid GMing has

In short, time, devotion and care is the way I think paid GMing can be professionalised


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