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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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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 2d
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!
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
oh boy I could list a hundred — any specific vibes you’re looking for?
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
yes, thank you! please toot your own horn!
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 7d
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
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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?
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Ben Robbins @lamemage.com · 8d
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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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 7d
currently on the list are “LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game" and @toyourstations.bsky.social's "gender crisis" but I know there are more excellent ones out there
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 7d
looking for recommendations for your favorite trans lyric games (ie., lyric games that specifically address or are about being trans, or have key trans themes)!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d
You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Ben Robbins @lamemage.com · 9d
"Why not both??"
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Watch Well Games @watchwellgames.com · 9d
A "would you rather" styled question we're curious to know how you'd all answer. Bonus points if you give examples of #ttRPGs so we can check them out.
Main text says, Which would you rather play and why? a diceless tabletop RPG or a GMless tabletop RPG. In the upper left corner, the red, green, and purple tartan for Montgomery clan. In the bottom right corner, a set of seven polyhedral dice. In the backdrop, the faint image of a hedgehog.
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 10d
solidarity!! just got mine an hour ago and I'm already starting to feel it
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 21d
WOOOOO!
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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia crowdfunding now! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 21d
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Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in #TTRPG form.

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

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An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.
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christine prevas @cprevas.bsky.social · 22d
jesus D really does have an unfair advantage end to end here
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