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27 Nov, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Introducing #NiNoBilMa 2022

A year-long public and participatory writing experiment aimed at breaking down my inhibitions around writing and (re-)acquiring skills I missed out on due to the intersection of ADHD and gifted child baggage.

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Don't let the currently outdated media preview card generated by Twitter fool you... the post is unlocked. And as it explains, all basic #NiNoBilMa materials will also be unlocked as I invite anybody else who wants to write along on their own to join in.

The same posts will also be crossposted to my newsletter, as this one was, so if you do want to keep up with them you've got options.

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What's #NiNoBilMa? It's my attempt to put into practice some of the things I have been (re-)learning since I started ADHD treatment, while kicking the learning process into high gear by going back to the most basic of basics and working my way back up.
How basic are we talking? Well, each month has a theme. December, the warm-up, is kindergarten. January is 1st grade. February is 2nd grade. And so on.

#NiNoBilMa.

New Idea? No. It's Billy Madison
As the introductory post explains, I'm not being quite as literal as the titular mid-90s Adam Sandler vehicle was about the concept of going back to school, nor being overly dogmatic in following its model.

I already know how to write in the sense that kindergarteners are learning how to write. What I'm going to be looking to learn over the course of the next month -- and what I invite anyone who is interested to join me in learning -- is how to do it with child-like abandon.
Signing up for my newsletter or my Patreon is a great way to keep up with all the #NiNoBilMa content as it comes out (starting in earnest on December 6th), but no sign up, registration, or purchase is necessary. Everything necessary to participate will be left unlocked.
And frankly if you think the idea sounds fun or interesting but you're not interested in getting writing exercises from someone with no teaching credentials who admittedly needs the same exercises herself, feel free to run with it in whatever way makes sense.
Anyway. I'm mostly just repeating stuff that is in the post that I linked to and QTed multiple times in this thread, and I'm doing that to make the thread and the tweets within it that have the links more visible.

You can find more details in the post. In either version.

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27 Nov
I am holding back a lot of specific squee related to Masters of the Universe: Revelation until part 2 has been out for a while, but... holy moly. I cannot recommend it more highly.
Even if you didn't watch He-Man growing up, I feel like part 1 does a decent job onboarding a new audience with the mythology as part of the recap/catch-up stuff that also helps the old audience. There's a lot of deep cut stuff that's there for the fans, but not necessities.
If you watch just ONE streaming show where @GriffLightning emotionally destroys you as an updated version of the comic-relief sidekick from a decades-old animated adaptation of the adventures of a nigh-indestructible muscle-bound hero... well, that's kind of a toss-up, honestly.
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26 Nov
Rewatching Part I in anticipation of watching Part II soon.
One thing I think the internet troll brigade missed about Revelation Part I is that the first episode was the series finale and heroic send-off that He-Man and his fans never got, due to the cranked-out toy commercial nature of the original series.
He-Man's already blurred-together adventures just kind of tapered off without any kind of resolution for the character or for the dangling plot arc(s) like Marlena knowing her son's secret or Teela's true sorcerous heritage when the suits decided it was time to sell She-Ra toys.
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25 Nov
Mashed potatoes aren't really mashed potatoes if you don't leave the bones in
Cornbread is better if you let the broth cook off instead of draining it.
Consider replacing your turkey's bones with chicken bones to make it easier to carve.
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25 Nov
Very thoughtful interview not just on NFTs (I especially appreciate the point about non-profits legitimizing the scam by participating) but about the nature of crowdfunded artistry, the difference between being paid for clicks vs. paid by people who enjoy your work.
As a disabled creator with ADHD that has only recently been treated, I've had long periods where I've struggled with the question of, "Am I actually providing enough value for the money I bring in?"

But at the end of the day, that's up to the people putting the money in.
And the correlation between how people value what I do and how much money they spend is much more direct in crowdfunding than with other payment schemes in between us, like if I were employed for fixed wages by someone who sells my labor indirectly through products.
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24 Nov
Working on nomenclature for abilities in my TTRPG project and after I found myself adding clarifying language to an opaque tier nomenclature that Tier III was specific things you can do, Tier II was stuff you can do, and Tier I was some bullshit...
...I dropped the references to numbered tiers and just called them Things, Stuff, and Broad Stuff.

An ability is a Thing if saying you're going to use it tells everybody what you're going to do.

"How are you dealing with this joker?"

"Roundhouse Kick." That's a thing.
It's Stuff if saying you're going to use it tells everybody what method you're using or outcome you're going for, but you still have to clarify what you're doing.

"How are you dealing with this joker?"

"Unarmed Fighting."

"Cool. What do you do?"

"Roundhouse kick."
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24 Nov
(Caution to bystanders: Do not @ me with RPG suggestions or "Have you tried...?", that's not what we're doing here.)

So, I enjoy D&D-style tactical combat and I've been trying to drill down what I like about it while moving away from what I see as the wargame fossils in it...
...which I think robs it of a lot of narrative richness and the actual dramatic potential of combat by basically reverting to the "all these characters are just *very small* units in a war game and they're fighting to the death" model as soon as combat is joined...
...and in between working on models of tactical combat that allow for more back and forth, more variety of win and loss conditions, more ways for the player side to lose and the game and story keep going... I keep thinking about things like the Kids on Conveyances system.
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