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Lords:
* Elena
* Shannon
Topics:
* I went to Burning Man and now maybe I don't bite my nails?
* Pros and cons of vampirism
* Krista and Tatiana Hogan are conjoined at the brain. They share thoughts, senses and control of their bodies.
* "Gray cube, rectangular light"
* https://codewriteplay.com/2019/09/10/legends-of-gamedev-clarissa-darling/
Microtopics:
* Nominally saving everybody a big hassle but in fact completely failing to do the job.
* Checking the double secret server.
* Will Wood.
* Listening to music but not learning a lot.
* Biting your cuticles.
* The Burning Man dust/paste situation.
* Trying to get dust under your fingernails when you don't have fingernails.
* Getting rid of the textures on your face which just causes more textures to happen.
* A cuticle lab kit with fancy sticks and creams that you don't understand.
* Nail-buffing cubes.
* Losing some unpredictable aspect of your person at Burning Man.
* A man made up of all the aspects of personalities that he stole from Burning Man attendees.
* Leaving your nail biting behind in the temple.
* Cutting your nails short ever since you got that gardening gig.
* The weird traveling bruise you get when you hit your fingernail too hard.
* Every shovelful had so much danger in it.
* The perils of gardening barefoot.
* Wearing gloves but not wearing shoes because you like the mud between your toes.
* Dracula Daily.
* Starting a mailing list for someone else's diary.
* Couriers telling you that they delivered the boxes of soil and thanks for the shillings.
* Explaining what a vampire is after the vampire is already dead.
* Vampirism as a pyramid scheme.
* Leaving and returning to your soldered-closed coffin at will.
* God's meaner creatures.
* Vampirism as a recipe for seasonal affective disorder.
* What a bummer it'd be to discover that hell is real.
* Living a thousand subjective years and learning a bunch of skills.
* Getting up every night and finding a child to eat because that's all you have time for.
* Dracula the trainspotter.
* The Kirby dimension that his victims all go to and hang out together.
* Offering value to the world that compensates for the person you have to kill and eat every day.
* The guy in Dracula that is obsessed with technology and records his diary on wax cylinders but doesn't think to write the date on them.
* Doctor C-Word.
* The Blood of Manly Men.
* God Sends Us Men When We Want Them.
* Running out of manly blood but luckily a Texan shows up.
* Affixing small electric lights to your chest so that you can explore a basement.
* The spider that got so big that it was just a really big spider, you know, the really big spider everybody talks about.
* How our intuition for what makes a person can be thrown off completely by simple biology.
* Two brains that are slightly overlapped.
* A closed system that can answer questions about itself.
* Raising a child as if it is two people.
* Split-brain patients.
* Interpreting the two hemispheres of the brain as two individual people who are working in concert.
* The storytelling part of our brain that we call consciousness.
* Having control of three legs and an arm vs. three arms and a leg.
* Trying to relate your subjective experience to other people.
* What is the self?
* A dog that likes another dog but doesn't like a different dog.
* Cantilevered rainbows.
* Clarissa Explains it All.
* Clarissa Explains Indie Game Development.
* Processing events in your life by making games about them.
* Bringing out the special poetry lady to teach you poetry.
* Writing a book of poetry where the typesetter also has to be a poet.
* Writing a poem where you describe the scene from Fullmetal Alchemist where the two brothers burn down their house and your teacher is like "are you ok"
* Writing a poem from the perspective of the piece of paper you're holding up to protect yourself from the rain and your poetry circle is like "I'm so sorry about your sister"
* How to write a relatable poem.
* The extra fridge that holds the food that you don't ever actually eat.
* Who's got the tiger with the baseball bat?
* Fragments of different jagged shapes.
* Zero-Inbox Your Fridge.
