#homestuck aesthetics

[engravedlives]

black and white graphics stamps

[prokopetz]

It's actually kind of striking how tightly wedded most major genres of tabletop RPGs are to the decades when they were popularised.

Trad fantasy tabletop RPGs – even those that aren't positioned as revivalist – are so intent on emulating the sword and sorcery literature of the 1970s that the only reason they don't come off as quaintly nostalgic is because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore.

Cyberpunk tabletop RPGs are, at this point, essentially an exercise in retrofuturism, endlessly polishing a vision of what people in the 1980s thought the year 2015 would look like.

Urban fantasy tabletop RPGs might include smartphones and electric cars in their equipment tables and mention 9/11 in their lore chapters, but culturally and aesthetically, most of them are taking place in a world where the 1990s never ended.

I don't mean this as a criticism – I'm just fascinated with how this tendency is so strong that, for example, a brand new urban fantasy RPG written in the year 2024 is liable to end up being a 1990s period piece at heart even when that was 100% not the author's intention, simply through the inertia of the medium's well-established tropes.

I'm mostly curious what the characteristic tabletop RPG genre of the 2020s is going to end up being thirty or forty years from now, and I hope I live long enough to find out!

[cupid-tune]

For that one ask before, some of my Humanstuck headcanons! I tend to encompass a lot of different ones since people have such great ideas, so a lot of them are pretty interchangeable. A lot of my main hcs revolve around the characters I play, which I'll probably be making more posts involving them later! For now there's the Vantases.

One of the hcs I adore are the family ones, like where the Signless and Disciple meet each other after Kankri and Meulin are born. They have Nepeta and Karkat together! The Maryams also act like siblings to the Vantases and Leijons, but are more like childhood friends due to the found family aspect the Dolorosa and Signless have.

There's so much to discuss though! I love love love Humanstuck stuff

[wanderlandjournal]

moody and misty summer morning

[ddoublefang]

rolal doodles

[quasarjar]

Y2K Jade :)))

[itsmaats13]

🩷

[carciinogenetiicist]

[exaltior-a]

Father like daughter, Mother like son

[2myuu]

[engravedlives]

green stamps pt. 2

[salamander-crimes]

traditional 50's american dream housewife jane hurts my soul because that is so not who she is to me. jane wears jorts constantly in the game. jane would go on t and get excited when her mustache starts growing in. do you understand

[justck]

karkat and sollux drawn by memory Years ago I think I found a sequel game based on original comic?? But I still think that the story was finished by the final chapter and is fully complete, no continuing

[chrisrin]

emphasis on MAGE in MAGE of DOOM

(BLOOD) (TIME)

[ddoublefang]

[maretriarch]

Just in time for 4/13 here's the second line of my r63 dolls, this time CREEPover themed with bonus accessories! in an ideal world they would come in adorable recuperacoon shaped packaging. and probably a sopor slime making kit because kids love slime. which one are YOU picking up from your local Goreget today?