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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Now and then I’ll remember my elderly co-juror who, in another life, had run an adult cinema and, in this one, disruptively corrected the prosecutor when he misquoted Star Wars. He was one of the last of the Porno Cowboys, maybe THE...
“The whole clan hates me! All they see is demon blood! When I asked Aonung what the five fingers said to the face he didn’t get it! I had to slap him like six times!” ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ CRAAAAAAAB MEEEEEEEEECHS ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ cool so now we’re just...
YO BACK UP NOW AND GIVE A BLOGGER ROOM, THE THREE FLOWERS OF VIRTUE ARE ABOUT TO GO BLOOM I started this book on my Palma while lying in a makeshift fort1 in my wife’s daughter’s family’s house, recovering2 from both the heat and an...
Alright gang WHO’S READY FOR SOME SEA-SPOOKUMS (it is me, I am ready to be saltily spooklepated) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Alright, legacy character in Elizabeth and Will’s son, whomst I guess technically we have seen onscreen (from when they did they...
I. Got A Dang Haircut I know—I am aware—that this is not the most exciting news, but gang you do not understand, I have been trying and failing to get my fucking top cropped every weekend AND SOME WEEK-DAYS for the past month, shit was...
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...