About

This venerable blog has lived through many ages of the Internet. Here is some additional information about it!

About the blog

This blog is an annex of the Organisation Très Secrète ("Very Secret Organization") website, which was originally set up in 2009. I try to use it to build a bridge between my professional life and my hobbies. A kind of coming-out, in the eyes of people who take themselves too seriously.

The blog was powered by WordPress until the end of 2015, before being moved to Ghost for various reasons, explained in detail over here. As for web development and design, the policy of the "Archives d'Anubis" is to explore every modern feature offered by browsers - and sometimes even feature prototypes. In other words: if you are not up to date (and sometimes, even if you are but your browser lags behind), you may not enjoy the ideal user experience.

The title "les Archives d'Anubis" ("the Archives of Anubis") was chosen for two reasons:

• Because of my pseudonym: "Anubis" - "Anubis Vlad Tepas" to be more precise - is a handle I long used on the Internet and in my role-playing groups.
• Out of nostalgia: Back in the glorious days of the "Pantheon", the role-playing group of my teenage years, every member even remotely keen on web technologies had built their own personal website. We thus had Thor Industry, Ares Grosbill, Le Temple des Dieux and Yoshi Corporation. I figured "les Archives d'Anubis" would fit right into this landscape. Twenty years later, this site is still standing.

I invite you to read the blog's privacy policy and the few pieces of legal information in force around here.

About the editorial style

You will no doubt notice it as you read through several articles on this blog, but I try, within my means, to contribute to the fight against the harmful effects of the systematic use of the "default masculine" in the French language. Since these harmful effects now seem to be documented^[1], the question is no longer "is it legitimate for us to adapt?", but rather "how do we adapt effectively?". After trying inclusive writing in its most common forms, the fact is that the constant embedding of middle dots (lecteur·trice), parentheses (lecteur(trice)), slashes (lecteur/trice) or even plain dots (lecteur.trice) in a text makes it more complicated and tiring to read. Instead, I nowadays opt for a solution I discovered thanks to the two co-founders of Lapin Marteau, namely the use of the feminine as the default. Rather than a strict rule, I randomly alternate between the feminine and the masculine from one article to the next. So do not be surprised to read "les joueuses" and "le MJ" (the players - feminine - and the GM - masculine) in one article, and then "les joueurs" and "la MJ" (the players - masculine - and the GM - feminine) in the next. Only consistency within an article matters, so as not to lose the reader along the way.

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1. See, for example, Pascal Gygax's presentation on the subject. ↩︎