Geoffrey Ramirez
@archiveddungeon.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Binghamton University | Modern U.S. & Honorary Medievalist | Public Historian | Games Historian
Working on a dissertation analzying race, sex, and gender in Tabletop Fantasy RPGs.
Also an oral history project!
Working on a dissertation analzying race, sex, and gender in Tabletop Fantasy RPGs.
Also an oral history project!
Pinned
I emerge from shapeless void to tell you all about myself!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
Over on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Discord we've been showing off and playing with our work-in-progress digital library (soon!), this is going to be such a great resource. I just asked it to show me every video game magazine in our collection in chronological order that says "Metroidvania."
January 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Over on the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Discord we've been showing off and playing with our work-in-progress digital library (soon!), this is going to be such a great resource. I just asked it to show me every video game magazine in our collection in chronological order that says "Metroidvania."
A young mother waiting for her sailor husband to return from abroad.
c. 1846 colorized
c. 1846 colorized
November 18, 2024 at 6:27 PM
A young mother waiting for her sailor husband to return from abroad.
c. 1846 colorized
c. 1846 colorized
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Unanswerable questions sent into The Dragon Magazine sometime in the 80s or 90s. I dunno if I have the time to fully explore TTRPG genetic and eugenic intellectual influences right now...
November 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Unanswerable questions sent into The Dragon Magazine sometime in the 80s or 90s. I dunno if I have the time to fully explore TTRPG genetic and eugenic intellectual influences right now...
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Oral history project capturing diverse TTRPG player voices
2) How space/place affected player dynamics & gameplay
1) Oral history project capturing diverse TTRPG player voices
2) How space/place affected player dynamics & gameplay
1) reading Muslim knights as being immersed/incorporated into a “game” of emerging nation that interpellates & physically changes them
2) spatiality of walled gardens in dream visions—the tension between planned/controlled space & chaotic/amorphous dream space and something about virtuality? Maybe?
2) spatiality of walled gardens in dream visions—the tension between planned/controlled space & chaotic/amorphous dream space and something about virtuality? Maybe?
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) the social implications of spatial organization within Mamluk mayadin
2) why does Mary cheat at games in the 13th c?
1) the social implications of spatial organization within Mamluk mayadin
2) why does Mary cheat at games in the 13th c?
November 13, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Oral history project capturing diverse TTRPG player voices
2) How space/place affected player dynamics & gameplay
1) Oral history project capturing diverse TTRPG player voices
2) How space/place affected player dynamics & gameplay
Part of my research is delving into medievalism in early TTRPGs. Players and developers looked to published histories, not just fantasy fiction, to build their worlds.
Here, Roger Daggs is possibly making reference to Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality c. 1981
Here, Roger Daggs is possibly making reference to Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality c. 1981
November 12, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Part of my research is delving into medievalism in early TTRPGs. Players and developers looked to published histories, not just fantasy fiction, to build their worlds.
Here, Roger Daggs is possibly making reference to Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality c. 1981
Here, Roger Daggs is possibly making reference to Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality c. 1981
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
The fun part of studying zines is finding the cultural connections tabletop RPGs have with other fan circles and fandoms.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
November 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
The fun part of studying zines is finding the cultural connections tabletop RPGs have with other fan circles and fandoms.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
I emerge from shapeless void to tell you all about myself!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
November 10, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I emerge from shapeless void to tell you all about myself!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
November 12, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
Hey folks, I made this to drop in all the orgs and scholars of #KoreanStudies (not just Korean Media, but history, politics, literature, everything). Please let me know who I forgot (especially if it's you). Starter packs really help you to get a bunch of cool accounts at once. go.bsky.app/8nRZ5tp
November 12, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Hey folks, I made this to drop in all the orgs and scholars of #KoreanStudies (not just Korean Media, but history, politics, literature, everything). Please let me know who I forgot (especially if it's you). Starter packs really help you to get a bunch of cool accounts at once. go.bsky.app/8nRZ5tp
The fun part of studying zines is finding the cultural connections tabletop RPGs have with other fan circles and fandoms.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
November 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
The fun part of studying zines is finding the cultural connections tabletop RPGs have with other fan circles and fandoms.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Here, a zinester is reporting on the 1990 LA ConFurence and explains what furries are to the older and more mainstream RPG players who read and contribute to the zine.
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded.
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
November 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded.
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.
go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
Reposted by Geoffrey Ramirez
Hi all! I made the starter pack to bridge together some of my own research interests. Reply here if you’d like to be on it, and DM me if you want to be removed.
go.bsky.app/PRLDDK8
go.bsky.app/PRLDDK8
November 10, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Hi all! I made the starter pack to bridge together some of my own research interests. Reply here if you’d like to be on it, and DM me if you want to be removed.
go.bsky.app/PRLDDK8
go.bsky.app/PRLDDK8
TSR straight up sold a pin-up calendar in the 1990s, by the way
November 10, 2024 at 6:38 PM
TSR straight up sold a pin-up calendar in the 1990s, by the way
The Chad Sorcerer v. the Virgin Wolf Fighter c. 1990
Origins of modern memes.
Origins of modern memes.
November 10, 2024 at 6:32 PM
The Chad Sorcerer v. the Virgin Wolf Fighter c. 1990
Origins of modern memes.
Origins of modern memes.
I emerge from shapeless void to tell you all about myself!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
November 10, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I emerge from shapeless void to tell you all about myself!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate analyzing race, sex, and gender in early tabletop gaming culture. I'm doing my best to focus on players over developers to understand how and why people played these games despite their problematic imagery!