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Mar 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For my book history nerds: witness the materiality of #TTRPG actual play.
See also:
Seriously, somebody RIGHT now should try to do the same move that Texas A&M did with fantasy authors — convince them to donate their materials now instead of binning them.
I wrote about The Wall of GRRM’s papers here:

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Mar 18
It's Thursday! Welcome to the #CR7Years #CriticalRoleSpoilers -- now with... garlands? And whatever Sam is wearing.

(sequins. it's sequins)
The set is dressed with flowers, cloth, and at the moment, a bunch of fake cash. #CriticalRoleSpoilers
The finger-er-ing-er.

(lest you wonder why CR was discussed in a book called Representing Kink, I give you... this)

#CriticalRoleSpoilers
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Mar 18
As of tonight, @CritRoleBib has collected analysis of #CriticalRole in:
- 10 scholarly book chapters
- 10 peer-reviewed journal articles
- 4 academic conference papers
- 4 Undergraduate Theses
- 11 Master's Theses
- 1 Dissertation
- 1 Syllabus

And much more to come.

#CR7Years
You can find them all in the master sheet at aub.ie/critrolebib (or SUBMIT at aub.ie/submitcritrole…) but here's a highlight thread.
First, CritRoleBib co-founder @MariaKAlberto organized a #CriticalRole Week on @MC_IMR last December, including work by @jessb915 @jtloveridge @RaeLynFox and yours truly, on everything from fan art to Byroden's pie to ... well, go take a look: mediacommons.org/imr/content/cr…
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Mar 17
For @carolinethegeek & #CR7Years I *think* my first CR tweet is here. I’d gotten tenure the year CR started, my 1st book was out, & I was a lurker for a long time. But I’d respond to that call & write my 1st piece on #CriticalRole.

Now? I joke I’m the senior prof of CR studies. Image
I’d loved actual plays for a long time, but that chapter gave me “permission” to pitch a course on #TTRPG narrative, which plunged me into the community of nerdy-ass designers, players, fans, & academics.

That course will be followed by two more this fall.
Now I’m finishing up my 2nd academic piece on CR & narrative, & used CR as a “way in” to talking about actual play more broadly for broader audiences. My career spent telling the stories of emerging genres & hidden creative histories is now focused on the spaces CR has opened up.
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Mar 15
Good morning! Between meetings it’s time to read the first #CriticalRole *adventure* (rather than setting) book, CALL OF THE NETHERDEEP. I’m finishing a chapter about CR’s narrative structures, & Netherdeep is the final case study. Throughout the day I’ll post some notes here. 🧵
A note: I’m going to try to avoid specific *spoilers* here (no promises about the chapter). My interest is in thinking about how the book is set up for different audiences.
The prior CR supplement books (Tal’Dorei Guide/Tal’Dorei Reborn, & Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount) were settings, not adventures. So while they were neck-deep in worldbuilding, they were sparing of full-on narrative (until the end of Reborn, which recaps Vox Machina 20 years on)
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Jun 11, 2021
Just so my non-academic friends are clear: no one, absolutely no one, wants to be the chair of an academic department. ESPECIALLY an English department.
Reasons you might do it anyway:

- you’re in a decent dept that takes turns (uncommonish)
- your school calculates retirement based on highest earning years & the temporary bump will mean something (slightly more common)
- the alternative is a nightmare (often)
Also, it’s kinda like electing a Pope: you really, really don’t want to elect anyone who jumps at the “opportunity” quickly & without hesitation.
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Jun 11, 2021
Re-upping for the morning shift, partly to remind myself of today’s goal, but mostly to hype the work of my friend the late Bill Bradley. If you love writers who write movingly & hilariously about comics (hi @enthusiamy), soap operas, love, death, & more, you would love Bill.
Some of my favorites that I am turning to today with fresh, wet eyes: “Cathode,” a flash essay about teenage boys, #DnD, and all the things we don’t see until it’s too late:
sweetlit.com/issue-7-2/pros…
“Death of a Superhero” another devastating memoir in miniature. foliateoak.com/william-bradle…
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