Jaakko Stenros
Scholar of games and play, author or editor of eleven books, into comic books, role-playing games, queer stuff, literature, and art.
Website: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com
Email: jaakko.stenros (at) tuni.fi
- Oh hell. Let this not be true.
- Past: Dog ate my homework. Present: AI barfed my homework.
- Pet peeve alert: There is an interesting new book on game studies out, Epistemic Genres. But why does it say that it concerns "digital games" in the first sentence, when it includes stuff like solo journaling RPGs and larps?
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- I've finally started putting up the old reports from RPG Film Club on the blog. The first one is a six year old report that Facebook just reminded me of today. Might as well start with the one where we wrap up the D&D cartoon and are just getting excited about 3rd season of Riverdale.
- Hesari teki jutun seikkailukirjojen paluusta. Minuakin siihen haastateltiin. Tämä on maksumuurin takana, joten en itsekään ole päässyt lukemaan, mutta linkkaan kuitenkin: www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/ar...
- Our article on the general problem of indexicality in larp has been translated into French. Basically the article looks at the complications between doing and being in fictional things while in an actual body. ptgptb.fr/pb-general-d...
- Yesterday's thread on Queer Film Club as a blog post now: miscfilmclub.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...
- Last Queer Film Club of the year! We started with Finnish film Tuhlaajapoika (1992, Eng. The Prodigal Son), to my knowledge the first queer film from Finland, in the sense that a murderer isn't just revealed to be a crazy gay at the end, but that film actually addresses some queer themes.
- I have really been enjoying Leslie Scott's book-turned-into-substack collection of texts on all things play. The longer view on things is lovely, especially as game studies (where I mostly make my home) is so often just about the last few decades. boundlessplay.substack.com
- I'm co-writing a piece of role-play convention/festival history, and a question popped up: Did The Forge have a home convention? Did that tradition come together to discuss/play/sell at a specific event?
- With the amount of journal issues and academic books coming out, it really does feel like the latter part of December.
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- So proud of Aasa!
- Reposted by Jaakko StenrosMerriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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- Cool CFP on GAMES AND THIRST just out. This is going to be a book edited by Kristine Ask, Ashley Guajardo, and Tanja Sihvonen. And although it says "videogames" I checked that they actually do also include non-digital games. playstorypress.org/2025/12/09/c...
- If you see this, post a comics cover you love.
- Reposted by Jaakko StenrosTIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
- Reposted by Jaakko StenrosWorth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Reposted by Jaakko StenrosObviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
- I also watched the new episodes of Stranger Things and have spent some time online looking at reactions and hot takes. However, this is the first one I am sharing.
- Also, we watched the first bit of #StrangerThings last night - and, yeah - it's fun. It'll do. But. At one point in the show, set in '87, a character refers to another as a "sorcerer" because their powers are innate. Sorcerers didn't show up till 3rd ed in 2000, not as innate casters.
