Phosphor [&]

my issue is that I have no interest in playing farmsims these days in part because I think Don't Starve Together's whole soil nutrient balancing and complicated plant stress system complete with hateful weeds and bugs that outright try to murder you (while the rest of the world is also trying to murder you) is genius and fun and the most accurate representation I have encountered of being a gardener

some interesting thoughts from versegm on Pillowfort about making fandom posts more approachable to folks not in that fandom

this is, of course, a suggestion and not a commandment - it depends a lot upon who your intended audience is, whether that's other fandom folks, your pals who don't know the first thing about the fandom, or yourself. if you're just poasting for the sheer joy of poasting, then you are under absolutely no obligation to make your blorbo yellin scrutable to others!

...but I cannot deny that a form of this was more or less how I lured a bunch of my pals into first playing FFXIV, and then Fallen London

me, dangling characters that I think certain friends would be Really Into in front of them: "oooo, you want to play so you can meet the new blorbo, oooooooooooo"

some interesting thoughts from versegm on Pillowfort about making fandom posts more approachable to folks not in that fandom

this is, of course, a suggestion and not a commandment - it depends a lot upon who your intended audience is, whether that's other fandom folks, your pals who don't know the first thing about the fandom, or yourself. if you're just poasting for the sheer joy of poasting, then you are under absolutely no obligation to make your blorbo yellin scrutable to others!

...but I cannot deny that a form of this was more or less how I lured a bunch of my pals into first playing FFXIV, and then Fallen London