For anyone who missed my #GenerationAnalog2022 keynote yesterday, the VOD is up: https://youtu.be/VyztYP9sqkg
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Among the many other things discussed in the debrief after #generationanalog2022, @guyinblackhat noted the challenges of SCALE in #ttrpg. Even for folks who devote professional-levels of time & love indie, there’s just *so much* to absorb, both on game side & AP side.
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We end on the hopeful note of the ripple effect that spreads out from moments of people getting it, passing it on.
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Here's what I love about talking to @dreamwisp -- her rambles are chock-full of solid gold. It's a delight to watch her mind at work.
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Questions about facilitating change, unpaid labor, slow work turning "aircraft carriers," critical mass of audience demand...
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Thread of the three #GenerationAnalog2022 threads.
You'll be able to watch these presentations on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCBKDBJdpWDxTWmE...
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@mustangsart mentioned in Q&A! You should follow her.
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Untapped potential in community.
Different processes.
Access is essential.
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So much more to say, but key takeaways:
This can be a beautiful thing, important community
"disabled isn't a bad word, it's a descriptor"
Quotes @SFdirewolf "we are oracles" -- often ignored.
"Erasure in imagination is eugenics"
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Sustainable systems -- unionization, standardized freelancer rates, moving people to staff positions -- aid us all.
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Obstacles: most of this work is freelance -- which means no health insurance. Schedules & deadlines are a challenge with "crip time" -- things that need to be built into a timeline. Flexibility in process. Don't set people up to fail.
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Consulting is complex to begin with -- can be used as way to protect actually having to hire disabled creatives.
But when you DO hire creatives, the other designers realize "there are so many stories here"
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Note: folks need to be part of the team THROUGHOUT -- not just at the beginning or end, or work can get undone by editing, or miss intentional design choices. Subtleties can get missed in process.
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Who is creating these worlds?
Not a ton of openly-disabled #ttrpg designers. More now. Some at WOTC & elsewhere. Consultants becoming more common. In concert with/because of pressure from the community -- feedback loop.
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"These devices and tools can be beautiful" and part of personal expression. Named, bedazzled.
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Moving away from madness mechanics, status conditions -- "blindness" is a spectrum, for example.
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Avoid "narrative prosthesis" - disability as lesson to learn or motivation. Let people have ordinary motivations.
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"you can just imagine your world as accessible"
Worlds imagine cities that are accessible for Giants and gnomes, y'all!
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"disabled dongle" - term for inventions that design students create for disabled people without their input (stair-climbing wheelchairs, etc).
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Talks about enthusiasm about magic wheelchairs -- that in design don't actually meet basic function (of fitting through a doorway)
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You want a disabled person on your adventuring teams -- they have contingencies upon contingencies!
Assistive tech doesn't need to erase -- avoid "super crip" trope (a la Daredevil)
Cites @snarkbat's BEING SEEN
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"Curse" is different, but also consider what it means to imply something is a curse (tied to earlier presentation to @theiceberge)
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Thinking of disability as the trigger for a quest to change erases happy lives of many people.
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Reframe intelligence as "book learning" rather than intellectual capacity.
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Think INTENSELY about the ways that villainy gets tied to monstrosity or physical difference, assumptions of isolation. Also henchman tropes, tied to ideas around intelligence -- all those are disability slurs.
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Inverse: "pity porn" or "better dead than disabled" or stigmatizing mental illness -- especially in relation to violence, where folks are more likely to be the victims rather than perpetrators (important for thinking about villainy)
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Cites the taxonomy of kinds of "inspiration porn" catalogued by Emily Ladau
newmobility.com/beyond-inspiration-a-new...
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Be aware of:
"Inspiration Porn" (Stella Young)
www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_n...
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