Edda

im always doing that thing where if i can fully unmask around someone to the point that we can just just drop all the conversational norms and scripts and start saying complete nonsense at each other, after 20 minutes or so i get a big emotional hit and take a sharp left turn into extremely earnestly expressing in full grammatical sentences my solemn thanks and gratefulness for having the other person in my life.

when will they makr rhythm game that's all slip jigs

Today I'm working on some improvisational shapes for the folk standard usually referred to as "Eighth of January". This tune was originally titled "Jackson's Victory", commemorating Andrew Jackson's routing of the British from New Orleans during the war of 1812. Sometime around the Civil War (1860s), it was decided generally that while driving out the British is very good, Andrew Jackson was a real piece of shit, so his name was stripped out to commemorate merely that great and enduring American institution: anti-British sentiment to the point of violence.

Of course, this isn't played as a museum piece, but closer to a modern country jazz (if you want to call it that). This isn't something that I would publish, but is a snapshot of how I'm developing and thinking about the melody!

Okay, I developed this a bit and have something closer to a real take. I'm quite liking this actually! It starts out with the sweet brightness of the melody and becomes more tonally complex, even ending on an (implied) minor, which I hadn't really intended (I ran out of time/space and grabbed the closest resolution I could think of, thanks brain)

imo if a ttrpg designer finds that she has tricked herself into writing a game that requires the manufacture of bespoke custom dice. she should at least consider going really old-school and making custom teetotums instead. for a few reasons:

1: you'd get to say the word "teetotum" a bunch.
2: spinny play oracles (tops, spinners, roullette wheels, bingo cages) are unrivaled when it comes to building tension. you get it, you've seen inception.
3: i think tops are easier to prototype at home from scratch than dice, and a homemade top is much more satisfying to spin than a print-and-fold die net.
4: fucked up dreidel. enough said