love this! love the writing and the art by you AND by T!
also excited to learn this: "The etymology for the word 'monster' is kind of interesting, as etymology usually is. It comes from the Latin monstrare (to show) and monere (to warn)."
did i tell you that when i was growing up, i drew a lot of monsters? sometimes just like a person with horns and fangs, and sometimes inanimate objects with horns and fangs. like "pencil monster" or "football monster." my friend wendy and i collected them all in a book we called "the everything book." it was mostly monsters. "everything."
I got into dnd as an adult and it made me so much more creative. Who says make-believe is just for children - I don’t! I can think of nothing better than a group of honest-to-god grown ups sitting at a table and making up a story together. We should all be more like children, I think it would make the world a much better place. I love the fact you used the monster manual as a kids’ book!
Congrats Sophie on the New Yorker shoutout! I love the diagram, it pretty much sums up all my responses to the feel people I am talking to at the moment hahaha. And I love your history with monsters and your current monsters. I think connecting to my own private monsters is exactly what is needed right now. Xxxxoooo
The sentence "it became clear to me that D&D could be whatever someone wanted it to be" gave me some strong nostalgia for that time you ran a custom D&D campaign for Ben in my backyard tiny house, which I had decorated with giant printouts of lemurs and sprigs of rosemary.
dear sophie,
love this! love the writing and the art by you AND by T!
also excited to learn this: "The etymology for the word 'monster' is kind of interesting, as etymology usually is. It comes from the Latin monstrare (to show) and monere (to warn)."
did i tell you that when i was growing up, i drew a lot of monsters? sometimes just like a person with horns and fangs, and sometimes inanimate objects with horns and fangs. like "pencil monster" or "football monster." my friend wendy and i collected them all in a book we called "the everything book." it was mostly monsters. "everything."
thank you for sharing (monstrare) all of this!
love
myq
This is one of the newsletters that I'm saving in the "special" folder in my email.
I got into dnd as an adult and it made me so much more creative. Who says make-believe is just for children - I don’t! I can think of nothing better than a group of honest-to-god grown ups sitting at a table and making up a story together. We should all be more like children, I think it would make the world a much better place. I love the fact you used the monster manual as a kids’ book!
Congrats Sophie on the New Yorker shoutout! I love the diagram, it pretty much sums up all my responses to the feel people I am talking to at the moment hahaha. And I love your history with monsters and your current monsters. I think connecting to my own private monsters is exactly what is needed right now. Xxxxoooo
The sentence "it became clear to me that D&D could be whatever someone wanted it to be" gave me some strong nostalgia for that time you ran a custom D&D campaign for Ben in my backyard tiny house, which I had decorated with giant printouts of lemurs and sprigs of rosemary.
I think I need to remember how to draw.