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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy

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🏳️‍🌈 Latine 🇧🇴 woman in 🇳🇱. ❤s TTRPGs, marketing & content creation, POC representation https://aida-inthepan.carrd.co/ Co-Founder @euphoriaap.bsky.social Big Bad POC Scholar 2024, Cusco WebFest 2025 Video AP Winner

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · Oct 23

I'm Aida (she/her), a pansexual Latine woman of color and immigrant in the Netherlands

Started playing TTRPGs 6 years ago, but my happy place is producing actual plays, video editing, organizing projects, marketing, advocating safe, accessible and POC-inclusive game tables

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1st photo: Aida taking a selfie in front of two PC monitors. Text: May 2024: Roll For Good Charity Event, Player & Producer for "Stag Party" with Grant Howitt

2nd photo: May 2023: Roll For Good Charity Event. Producer & Interviewer with Jasper William Cartwright

3rd photo: May 2023: Roll For Good Charity Event. Guest at GEN CON Tabletakes Talk Show

Top: Screenshot of a D&D Charity game, players are in cosplay of their animal characters. Text: April 2024: Science & Sorcery Charity Event - D&D5e. Player with Khalil Thirlaway, Richard Perry (Dimension 20), Cai K (Transplanar), Alfred Carpineti (Pride in STEM).

Bottom: Red poster. Roll20 presents FIASCO FIRST FRIDAY. Text: February 2024: Roll20 FIASCO. Player with Jen Vaughn, DeAngelo Murillo, Stellaluna

Collage of photos, people of varying gender representation, ethnicities. Text: 2024 casts where Aida has been lead Producer or involved with Technical Production, Casting, Marketing, Safety

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Choc @chochy.co.uk · 8d

Super excited to be organising and running this Black History Month UKI Raid train, starting with my stream for Kickoff tomorrow at Midday, join me at /Chochyplays on @twitchuki and support Black streamers and black history from around the world all this month!!!

A poster in the British flag colours stating Celebrate British Black History Month October1st-10th (May be extended)

A Poster showing the first day of the Raid Train Lineup detailing it Will have Chochy from 12pm-3pm, TacticalGhost 3-6pm, Thee_RoyalTay 6-9pm, MochiChaos 9pm-12am, Teakii_ 12am-3am and LastBlackSpartan 3am-6am

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 8d

Solution: Re-encode chonky finals into more compressed versions and get rid of the raws/working files.

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 8d

The 2TB backup drive is full... It's mostly final edits and local copies of streamed APs from previous projects & channels

There's little reason to keep them. They're uploaded in other places...

*opens up a few and gets nostalgic*

I need to keep them but I need spaaaace 😭😭

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 9d

Here's a duck with a sunflower hat.

Also vibes. Lotsa good ones

a duck with a sunflower on its head .

Alt: a duck with a sunflower on its head .

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats congrats congrats!!!

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 12d

A million years ago when I used Google Meet for captions, joining via an incognito browser tab and thus not-signed-in let you choose a display name. Not sure if that still works

CaptionNinja & VDO Ninja both use browser speech-to-text. CaptionNinja is indeed less fussy, but less customisable

EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 14d

a black and white dog are looking at each other .

Alt: a black and white dog are hugging each other

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 14d

Roasted them until super soft and added them to a mixed salad with goat cheese. They were sweet and yummy. I saved the greens and I'll saute those next

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 14d

Harvested tonight's dinner from the garden 🌞

Uncleaned beets in a black bowl on a countertop

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 16d

Coyote and Crow!

As far as I recall, there's no official content for Latin America which in C&C lore is referred to as 'Azayang' and 'Abayang' (Central and South America respectively)

...yet! *manifesting increases*

EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 16d

Having produced this game, thus already seen it... it wrecked me

Seeing the drastic decisions that upped the drama... shocked me.

It's Ten Candles, so you might have an idea how it'll end for the characters. But you have NO idea what kind of ride it'll be.

Bring tissues

EUphoria Actual Plays @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 16d

TONIGHT!

Guardians of the forest race against environmental catastrophe. Can they preserve their grove for future generations to rebuild?

GM
@antiquehorror.bsky.social is joined by @samsighs.bsky.social, @drtalksalot.bsky.social,
@vengaboy.bsky.social & @shaghik.bsky.social.

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 18d

a woman with a surprised look on her face has her hand on her head

Alt: a woman holding up her hair behind her neck, fanning herself with her hand and mouth smiling and open

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, but 😛

For me, being the eldest child of POC immigrants felt like heaps of pressure and zero room for emoting or being human. Everything had to be perfect or it wasn't good enough. Everything was just OKAY AND GREAT.

I really resonated with Rei and Asuka.

EUphoria Actual Plays @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 19d

#MECHtember happened because we think mechs are heckin cool. They're badass machines, they're part of amazing stories and worlds. They're a unique extension of a pilot and their HEART-

*record scratch*

Shinji's crying AGAIN?

YouTube video by EUphoria AP

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 19d

My mech made a doggo-mech friend. 😭😭

EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 19d

Because nowadays, if I don't slot it in as content, I rarely have time or spoons to play for my own enjoyment. 😭

I'm LIVE now at twitch.tv/EUphoriaAP Join as I have some fun with my mech playing ION Heart by @parablegames.bsky.social

EUphoria Actual Plays @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 20d

TONIGHT!

Join @in-the-pan.bsky.social LIVE as she explores the edges of a post-war galaxy in a playthrough of Ion Heart, a solo journalling game about a lone pilot and their trusty machine.

www.twitch.tv/euphoriaap

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 19d

She boots! After some BIOS fiddling, she's running fast again. Time hunt out some memory leaks and get back to editing~

a man wearing a beret and a choker with his tongue out

Alt: Kandy Muse in a beret, exhaling. Caption: I can breathe again

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 19d

Finally in between video editing projects and doing all the terrifying things I've been putting off. Updating OBS, the GPU and this 🫣

A PC monitor showing a BIOS is updating. Knickknacks and Funko pop dolls on the shelf

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

SIIIIIIIII

I had the same fuzzies when I saw it in Encanto as well

a man in a yellow shirt is hugging a woman in a yellow dress in a cartoon .

Alt: Felix (heavy set, dark skin, thick textured black hair with a grey stripe) and Pepa (tall and lean, pale skin, long textured light brown hair) Madrigal, wearing yellow clothing

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

Su majestad 🧎🏽‍♀️

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

The costume represents European clothing/armor; the breastplate, tassets & silly handkerchief waving of the conquistadors. Nothing's intentionally Chinese here.

Colonizers WERE the devil for trying to wipe out or homogenize indigenous peoples. They've failed. And tell our stories through our dance.

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

Latines. You are beautiful. You belong. You are wanted. You have value. You have a history and resilience.

I know so many ugly voices are trying to snuff us out. They're insecure and scared. They're harming our communities.

They will not win. Not when we can unite around our hearts and capacities.

Aida in a Bolivian 'Diablada' costume. A yellow long-sleeved and knee-length dress with a fantasy breastplate and tassets with embroidered devil imagery. Black and white lace up boots to the knees. Holding a metal half-mask of a feminine devil with pale skin, blue eyes, red hair, horns and a winged serpent on the forehead

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

Happy Latin Heritage Month! This year I really reconnected with my Bolivian heritage through folkloric dance. It's grounded me and filled my heart.

Last week, I danced the Diablada. We're the prancing devils, in clothing and masks mocking our colonizers. It's how we find joy in telling OUR story.

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EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

Ultimately, I want a cool, accessible & welcoming TTRPG event that my friends outside NL could get excited about visiting. There's another NL-based TTRPG con in its 3rd?/4th? year, but its venue and location are big minuses for me

All in all, goed gedaan #MainQuestCon!

EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

Lastly, MQC should encourage participation from marginalised communities (like POC). That can happen by collecting demographics & offering those priority

And if they want a more international audience, their sign-up forms, etc. need to be in English. Dutch only forms didn't make it as inviting.

EmpanAIDA (she/her) the Stroopwafel Fairy @in-the-pan.bsky.social · 23d

A purposeful space for organic spontaneous play would be cool. Or inviting future vendors a space to model/test-play the games

I'd also like MQC to encourage vendors to advertise if their goods/stall advertisement don't use GenAI. Couldn't find if they disallowed GenAI products in the first place