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christine prevas

@cprevas.bsky.social

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phd on gender, architecture, and queer/trans horror // GM on The Unexplored Places // secret third thing

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · Aug 13

Introduction time! Hi all, I'm Christine (they/them), a horror enthusiast, PhD candidate, writer, and the host/GM of the actual play podcast @unexploredcast.bsky.social

I'm terrible at social media, but doing my best! See the following posts for more info on the stuff I do.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 13h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Space Leech @spaceleech.bsky.social · Oct 19

Re-Animator, Yutaka Abe.

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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia Crowdfunding Ends 10/17! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 16h

Over 90% of the way to our stretch goal with four days left to go! Let’s do this!

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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia Crowdfunding Ends 10/17! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 8d

Absurdia Update: meet the guest writers!

I’m beyond excited to announce Elliot Davis, Irving Benitez, Kendrick Smith, and Samantha Leigh as our stretch goal guest writers!

At $25k, this wickedly talented cabal will put together a kaleidoscope of ready to play one shot scenarios for Absurdia 👁️

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Boowellyn 👻 @llewellynrose.bsky.social · 8d

the first minute and a bit of a project i've been working on for several years now!

Or, the Modern Prometheus is my adaptation of the bookends of Frankenstein that i've made by cutting together public domain films and footage. it started as an experiment and i'm extremely excited to share it!

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 2d

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 2d

can we co-write this

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Jan 13

they NEED to teach CURSIVE in SCHOOLS so KIDS will KNOW how to WRITE ominous antiquated WILLS stipulating their SURVIVING RELATIVES must SPEND THE NIGHT in a HAUNTED HOUSE

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 8d

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
Michael McDowell, The Elementals
Mark Z Danielewski, House of Leaves

these lean mostly but not exclusively in the haunted house direction because that's what my dissertation is on — I have lots of recs for comics/graphic novels too if you want!

christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 8d

fuck yeah! here are a few of my all-time favorites

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 8d

oh boy I could list a hundred — any specific vibes you’re looking for?

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

thank you!! & yes, I'm collecting these for a conference paper I'm working on and LOGAN was a huge inspiration for the research project it's a part of

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

yes, thank you! please toot your own horn!

christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

and it makes the movement between GMed games and GMless games easier, too — when @unexploredcast.bsky.social picked up Kingdom for our finale, every player felt ready to make decisions about the world, in part because they'd all created and then been the "authority" for a key faction all season

christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

every GMless game I've ever played has actively made me a better and more thoughtful, intentional GM

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

the environment playbooks in Dream Askew, Dream Apart were really useful to me in figuring out how to do this, btw! the idea of players holding (lightly) onto a piece of the world and becoming responsible for it is directly responsible for me trying this in GMed games

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 13d

If you need vaccines (25-26 Covid booster, flu, pneumonia, etc), CVS is currently very much doing a “tick this box if you qualify for this vaccine” method of self-verification for online vaccine scheduling so GO GET YOUR SHOTS before this CDC stuff gets more insane

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

anyway, it's fun to think about how the problems we can come across in GMing and in teaching are often the same problem, or at least have the same root, and how we can use strategies from one to fix the other

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

I can step in at any time (if this particular temple is home to a heretical sect I might say, "[character name], it's strange — the symbology here is slightly different than you're used to") and adjust, but these adjustments prompt further conversation between the players, often in-character ones

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

my students become co-producers of knowledge; my players become co-worldbuilders. the second they stop seeing me as the seat of authority, they start feeling more comfortable and more inclined to ask those questions themselves, without including me in the process.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

I do the same thing when I GM, letting players become "experts" in locations, factions, or other aspects of the world. if a player asks me what the temple looks like, I might say to another player "these are adherents of the same faith as you, what do temples of your religion usually look like?"

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

it decenters me (the teacher) as an authoritative voice, and habituates students into asking each other questions, getting them talking to each other without using me as a conduit or a source of approval.

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

then, when someone else has a question about that topic/text, I redirect the question to our "expert" — eg. "Great question! [Name], as our expert, how do you think [author] would respond?" I build these pathways until students start to ask each other questions directly, bypassing me altogether

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

a teaching strategy I've found useful in GMing to address exactly the problem Ben outlines in the above post is the idea of "local expertise." I often ask my students to become "local experts" on a certain topic/text. they're responsible for one thing that they become a representative of in the room

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

I've talked a lot about how I feel like my GMing and my teaching pull on the same skillset, and that's true for many reasons (including my approaches to GM prep and lesson planning respectively, which are real "fly by the seat of my pants" affairs) & I think there's useful overlap

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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 13d

Been thinking about these posts about the "star pattern" of conversation in games because this diagram is identical to one we use when talking about pedagogy. the question is the same: how do you get the people in a room talking to each other instead of seeking approval from a central authority?

Ben Robbins @lamemage.com · 14d

Modern star-problems require modern star-solutions

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The Star-Pattern (part 2): Breaking Free

It's game night. Precious, precious game night. Everyone is ready to play and have fun. And then two hours later, you realize the players are all talking to the GM but not each other. Your game is stu...

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