Category: from the author (page 1 of 1)

the introduction post | the complete tag

Hearts:
six of hearts (a letter) | jack of hearts (candles burning)

Clubs:
two of clubs (notes on a noticeboard) | jack of clubs (an excerpt from a letter)

Spades:
nine of spades (a nightmare) | king of spades (a prayer)

Diamonds:
four of diamonds (a letter) | five of diamonds (words, across the sea)

supplementals

link to the game (together we write private cathedrals by ben roswell)

sable’s first follow the leader appearances (arc four part one | arc four part two)
the prequel livestream (available for free on the ftl patreon)

i have been thinking about how to make my writing for my podcast more explicitly queer, since although all of my characters on the show are queer and those who are in relationships are in queer relationships, i haven’t been working hard enough to forefront queerness in any meaningful way. it’s not exactly that i feel like i need to in order to make their identities valid; we do, after all, have homophobia and transphobia as lines on the show, so pushback never becomes an issue. rather that i want it to be centered, sometimes, to be clear that this is an important part of my characters and it shouldn’t be ignored or forgotten.

those of our listeners who know me know that i hold a deep affection in my heart for sable the unfavored, an older wanderer who hasn’t had a home in 200 years, the last living acolyte of a forgotten god who knew them living, and the secret love of that same god. (these aren’t spoilers, this all comes up in their very first appearance on the podcast, in arc 4.) i have been wanting to center their centuries of wandering in a story somehow and i think i have finally, finally figured out how to do so. and, as is tradition with the podcast, it involves playing a game.