Joshua Alan Doetsch
@joshuadoetsch
Video game and tabletop scrivnomancer. Senior Writer at Funcom (Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles). Friend to corvids and cephalopods. He/Him
My good lady wife and I visited Woolly Mammoth, a curiosities and oddities shop here in Chicago. An impressive density of strange things.
My dearest, I am no crone or weather witch, yet I prophecy a tempest in your nethers of such savagely copious moisture so as to make Ben Shapiro afeared. Darcy
This, except I’m Homer, the demon is my 4-year-old son, and the donuts are playing games of Altered Beast in the Sega Genesis.
Playing with foam swords and squirt guns in the backyard. My 4-year-old attacking: “These are my Electric Diamond Swords!” The video game kid in me seeing what he’s imagining: “Nice…”
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Me going into a deep dive on some random weird subject, like necropants and Icelandic necromancy, to someone I just met.
The sandhill cranes that come to my parents’ backyard every season have made a tiny pterodactyl.
When my 4-year-old fully loads his pirate ship with weapons and puts on his pirate hat, it means I have to do the adult thing and put on my pirate hat.
(1/2) A few weeks ago, my wife had her art shown at 50th anniversary clock party of the Alley (speaking of Chicagoland icons).
For Father’s Day, I ran a little Dungeons & Dragons for my four-year-old (via the early 90s board game Dragon Strike). In the end, he (an elf) and his dwarf best friend infiltrated a castle and defeated the manscorpion.
I love this so much. Also “Byronic” remains one of my favorite adjectives. #LordByron #ttrpg
That time I went as Gomez Addams. #costume #cosplay #AddamsFamiky #GomezAddams
That time we did Sweeney Todd. #cosplay #costumes #SweeneyTodd
Just once, I want to bid someone welcome to a haunted mansion.