The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
C.W. Hills
The Naming Way, is 50% media/culture thoughts, 25% essays and personal whatnot that I try to keep relatable, and 25% nonsense and good goofs. End of percents! ZERO MORE PERCENTS.
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TIME FOR A NEW THING. That new thing is this thing: following the conclusion of our time with Outlaws of Alkenstar, Amy volunteered to run a homebrewed FATE campaign for us, which system she and I have experience with but William and...
Antecedently: A whole grip of grapplin’; the latest hit from Supergiant Games; ambiguously-sized wasps in an unknowably-sized wasphaus (Fair warning to the reader, this entire session—and so this post—was literally just this one fight,...
God you hate to see your clone-mom-sister-self get yoinked back into the Spirit Tree JUST when your visit was getting good ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ HA, KIRI’S SPOTS ARE LIGHTING UP LIKE AN ELECTROCUTED PERSON’S SKELETON, COOL ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Hey wait so—how...
Antecedently: Shootin’ dudes twice and puttin’ ‘em on ice; Murine Gear Solid; you can get surprisingly decent nachos at the Frightened Pirate We decide to kind of pre-introduce our characters to the table, then work them in organically...
“Na’vi kids younger than me do this [taming moidaboids] with their bare hands.”“Jake Sully did it the hard way?”“What do you think?” Okay now this is interesting, the symbolic significance that Jake has taken on in Quariitch’s mind, both...
Antecedently: The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine; you’re WELCOME for your new shed-skylight; we brooch Gattlebee’s compound We prepare to make our egress bearing our escort-mission burden1, whom we have made up like a courier; he...
SHE DESERVED IT, and had an amazing time! We got to hear all about it and catch up with her at D&D, where she was EXTREMELY NORMAL about America in comparison to Nippon, even moreso than her usual VERY REGULAR AND CHILL opinions about...
Jake, bud, I know there’s a lot of cultural context I’m missing here, but I don’t think “Please excuse my wife, she’s being emotional” is a good call in any culture ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ “We cannot let you bring your war here” is honestly a pretty...
Antecedently: Operation Let’s Steal A Guy; a new green homie appears; Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! We are outside the home of threatened weirdo Vashon Gattlebee, whom we are here to extract for his own safety and whom Amy insists on...
“Flank out!” shut up, God the way these chuds act and talk just reminds me so much of the guys in high school who were obsessed with the military and Stargate and fuckin Tom Clancy video games, who clearly saw all of this violence not as...
KACHOW WHAT’S POPPIN’ FELLOW LOVERS AND FIGHTERS AND HOPE-CANDLE LIGHTERS, IT’S YA BOI OL’ C.W. BACK AT IT WITH THE BOOKNOTES, and you’d better believe we’re doing another Mary Roach so TUNE IN, BUCKLE UP, DROP OUT, AND EXPLODE. These...
Fair is fair, as much as I hate Quaritch and Quariitch in equal measure, the look on the latter’s big blue punim when he touched the arrows sticking out of his dead clone-dad’s skeleton-bones was an incredible moment on every artistic...
I. The Day The Bubbles Popped A year and more done passed since last I cracked a Diet Coke, and the time has now come to shuck my damn corncob free of the Dr. Pepper that took its place as if it were a different Doctor altogether,...
In this citizen’s opinion it’s…pretty gross that Jake makes his kid call him ‘sir’; my parents tried to foist that on me but didn’t start until I was WAY too old and it went poorly. I know he was military but like—how’s all that military...
No, I have not insinuated myself into a new show, creeping like predatory mold on an unwary Senator; The 1940s Radio Hour1 in 2014 was the last time I trod the boards and my tippy-tappers will not know their wooden kiss again until I can...