Ellen Sophie Talks

  Let's Talk DND DND or Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop role-playing game which mostly takes place in a fantasy world with spellcasters and a range of imaginative foes to battle.  When playing DND, there will normally be a group of friends (in my case, there are 7 of us) who each create their own character to play as. One of these people will be known as either the GM (game master) or DM (Dungeon Master), and they oversee making the story run effectively, write the story, plan out each encounter and help to lead the players towards the ultimate goal of the campaign. Now, what do I mean by ultimate goal? Each game or campaign, as I’ll refer to it, has a goal that needs to be completed for the game to be over. For example, for the last campaign that I took part in, our goal was to find and defeat a dragon. This quest was given to us by an NPC at the beginning of the campaign, and we spent time navigating different obstacles to get there. DND is a fun game where you must use p...

  Let’s talk music. Specifically, the power that it holds. By power, I don’t mean it in a physical sense. Music can’t lift you or fix wounds. But mentally, music can do so much. Now I am one of those people who literally cannot function without some form of music playing.  I can be in the car for a short drive, ten maybe fifteen minutes. I still need music to occupy my ears. In a shop? I’ve got headphones on. It is very, very rare that I will be sitting by myself and won’t have some kind of music playing.  I recently sat down to think about why this is. Why do I need this melodic distraction all the time? I honestly believe it comes from a place of fear. I absolutely despise the quiet. If I can hear my own thoughts in my head, something is wrong. I fill every awkward silence in conversations. Normally, it’ll be with something just as awkward. Like I recently asked a date what kind of fruit they’d be. Absolutely stupid of me, but the conversation had ended, and I was not g...