My sleeping schedule is still crazy because of the summer break and because my classes are mostly late morning, early afternoon. I was writing a bit before I went to bed, drafting the first version of a essay due Friday.
I was thinking about writing about "rituals" we do everyday and I cared for the idea and tried to make it bloom for a couple of days until I decided the theme sucks. Well, at least I didn't felt like trying to figure out what approach I wanted to take. I wrote about my newfound obsession with the Medieval times.
On another note, why do random people keep following me on twitter? I mean, its fine. Its not like I write something secret in my not so secret mini blog (do people still think of twitter as a mini-blog? because that doesn't sound right, does it? I would say its much more like a texting program, but cooler).
Going back to medieval times... I guess I'm addicted to it now. Playing the Sims Medieval (thanks @joaofred!), reading A Song of Ice and Fire (or the Game of Thrones books, as most know it), taking two classes about medieval literature and wanting to play D&D real bad.
I think I feel like playing D&D ever since I stopped playing when I was 13. Is it really that long? Its a latent desire, I guess... It's always been there, I just don't pay too much attention to it because I have other things to do and I do enjoy me some jokes at my role playing gamer boyfriend (who is way to old to be playing RPG... not. RPG is for ever)
Next thing I know I'm gonna be wearing chain-mail and drinking mead... Blerg
I guess that roleplaying games can be played at any age, after all people do fantasize all the time (and they'll do it anyway, won't they?), be it through reading novels or playing video games. I think that roleplaying games can be a good choice of entertainment between friends, just as I do with mine every now and then. It's a game in which the whole thing/mechanism doesn't allow people to be passive most of the time, and that's what makes it so different from everything else. It's creative, actively creative, and I strongly believe that a creative mind can use it properly and have tons of fun (and tons of great ideas too).
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about the whole medieval lifestyle thing, though. When I say that I like medieval stories it's not like I want to bring it all to real life and spend my sundays forging a chain mail. That's a lousy idea, by the way (you have to be a registered blacksmith if you want to make it without losing a finger, or two). Instead, it's like saying I may enjoy writing stories or painting an arthurian landscape or playing an old (I mean really, really old) piece of music. That's sublimation at its best, for it at least serves an artistic purpose, for instance.
There's a fundamental difference (maybe a structural difference, although I'm not sure about that one) between enjoying something in an imaginary situation and trying to transpose it to the real world. I guess I feel a bit nauseated when I see that, when I see the chain mail people, and I guess that it's because I get this strong feel that they may be missing the point completely, and then all I want to do is to show them that it's precisely because these things won't/can't come to/work in the real world - because they forever stay imaginary - that they work, that they can keep the real world from falling apart, but hey... Maybe I just don't like it. Maybe I just don't see it working for me. Maybe that's when I see that I'm just more inclined to seek aesthetic pleasure elsewhere.
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