Mabel's Stuff

Description: The video game series Thief is arguably one of the first immersive sims, with an emphasis on using a suite of tools and its at the time revolutionary light-dark modeling to sneak past guards. Unless you're my girlfriend, who is so good at playing video games she does it professionally (youtube channel SB Plays Games), in which case things get more stabby and arrow-y. Very arrow-y, because the random arrow damage in these games sure is something. "I'm doing stealth, Amabel," she says as she throws another corpse on the pile. I love her very much.

Description: "A halfway life isn't good enough. Good enough isn't good enough." I said these words to myself when I decided not to be scared anymore, and to move toward myself. I've said them to others when they were scared of the same.

Description: Innocent Again In Each Other's Claws. Two kaiju playfully tussle. The six words were given to me by my dear friend Erin Escobedo, while talking with me during the creation of my board game Kaiju Table Battles.

Description: "In many ways, teeth are like the knives of the face. They are knives you are always carrying in your pocket. The mouth is like the pocket of the face." This is the extremely normal thing my girlfriend said to me in the kitchen one day, one of many extremely normal things.