Books have always mattered. Only the imagination can challenge the fatalist mindset of capitalist realism. Only the impossible has the power to battle what power wants us to accept as the given. (I’m probably not making sense but yes books matter so much and always)

a game can be structurally risky (and if you doubt that, imagine my new larp "lets stab each other for real with knives") but this can be ok as lomg as everyone can consent and they have the tools they need to navigate that risk

absolutely the best thing in a recipe is when it tries to tell you do so some extra two steps in, like, cutting kernels from the cob. like...homie. no. your special multi-step kernel removing process goes down to the grave with you

daily meditation practice. do this, then do whatever, but do this first 1. Place finger on blue widget [post opens] 2. say aloud: “…I don’t think I actually have anything to say” 3. close post window

bath & body works? good for you my flexing pal. one for two on a good day over here

A mutual just DMed me six pictures of the inside of my mouth and deactivated their account. All power to my house just went out suddenly or I would say more. Gotta save juice.

all of us, at the same time

on the one hand language follows usage and policing it is futile and on the other hand I believe this p strongly & have a similar schtick about calling one’s work “content”

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

To expand a bit: There's a whole culture of noise around writing - cover reveals, giveaways, courting bookstagrammers, launches, awards lists, promo art - and none of it moves the needle more than a fraction. You know who gets attention? People who are already successful. Just write.

The reviews are in! Moonflow declared good by people in the know! You should really think about preordering your copy today 🤔

I don't care about the Paris Review anymore. Trying to get the ghost of Charles Scribner to recognize me is my new side quest

It Didn’t Say Anywhere That A Dog COULDN’T Play Basketball: a ttrpg about dealing with the emotional impact of being beaten at sports by a golden retriever

please read this painful, beautiful testimony I’m trying not to be a nag but it arrived on my TL below some editorial being shared for rage bait and like. we could share things like this instead. not “we can do both” miss me with that. trash smell will always overpower what’s good when we “do both”

Writer's Block is real only in the sense that sometimes writing is miserable and nothing about it feels intuitive. The work is figuring out how to keep sitting down and banging it out anyway.

happy to claim responsibility for the funniest bit of this transcript

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Shit's like trying to make a gig out of writing The Great Novel whilst Dickens is still putting out new work. Intolerable conditions. May he never stop producing gemstones, may he retire tomorrow.

Geller remains, frustratingly, a contemporary of every currently working essayist in the digital space. This is an issue, because he makes the rest of us look absolutely terrible in comparison. Watch his latest piece. Weep at his mastery of the medium.

if you don't mind my tendency to go on at length in big long paragraphs, this is really a very good interview

RPG that switches from a point crawl to a hex crawl as soon as you buy a compass

A few takeaways from my conversations with librarians at #ALAAC2025 last night: 📝 YES, journaling games are a great fit for libraries, because literacy 📝 YES, many libraries have D&D clubs but not enough DMs, and journaling games -- the ultimate GM-less game -- are a potential solution BUT... 1/▶️

Coffee is a universal language, even in space! Chk Chk lives out his brooding poet barista dreams in today's Starfinder Second Edition Iconic Encounters blog! buff.ly/z9uAiku

We need 40 people to back for a physical book to fund. Or, 18 people to back for a full set of the game. Or, 80 people to back for the PDF. It's doable, but I am running out of ways to promote it. #ttrpg #indiegames www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

the Democratic establishment is lining up to censure Zohran Mamdani because he’s done the one thing they can never forgive: winning an election

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.

Been saying this for years. Abolish the supreme court. Not reform it, abolish it. Lifetime appointments and a history of almost exclusively being used as a tool for radically curtailing the rights of people demonstrate it shouldnt exist.

A short intro to making your own solo TTRPG open.substack.com/pub/davidbla...

See what you miss out on when you don't attend local book festivals

Good thread here. To put this into more perspective, 10c/word is £0.07/word. UK minimum wage is about £24,760 for a 39 hour week. To make that entirely from writing at 10c/word I need to write about 354,000 words a year. And that doesn't cove pension, or holidays, or sick pay, or NI contributions.

Possum Creek's award-winning, pastoral fantasy roleplaying game, Wanderhome, arrives soon in a hardcover edition! Stunning color illustrations bring scenes to life as you journey through the world of Hæth with a cast of traveling animal-folk. Reserve your copy today! bit.ly/wanderhomehc

started reading YOU WILL DIE IN THIS PLACE by @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social‬ and realized i should be live-posting my reactions so im gonna do that while i go through (the game is currently available for PWYW, an absolute steal, and i recommend ppl go read) liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/you-will-die...

A lot of people don’t grasp that it’s possible for *The Entire Book* or *The Whole Email* to have important information, and that writing can be more than just tons of filler with 3 bullet points hidden in them, as if you’re searching for coins at the beach with a metal detector

Marched with the pups and furries in the Pride parade yesterday. Funny thing I’ve noticed with this outfit is a bunch of the traditional kink folks will be totally confused by it but a bunch of random passers by will be like “Hey Lucario can I get your picture?”

We need more sleek, modern book review platforms. We need a letterboxd for books

I can’t wait for everyone to hear this one!!

Our latest episode of Shelf Life @boxmastermcgee.bsky.social Skye has a fascinating conversation with @isaac-fellman.bsky.social about his new book, Notes From a Regicide. TBR list in show notes! #shelflife #isaacfellman #notesfromaregicide #bibliophiles #booksky open.spotify.com/episode/0PQx...

Put Kermit the Frog on Hot Ones

Anytime someone asks how to get started in game design, or for advice for working on their own RPGs, this is the absolute number one resource that I throw at them first. There's so much amazing advice packed into this little zine, and I am positively slobbering for the second one to come out.

Working on another flashy design

And they say the Dems don’t know how to party

I’m gonna make myself some tea and then I’m gonna post. Everybody be ready for that

Bill Cassidy ordered a banh mi from dong phuong with nothing on it

Thinking back to that one Ars Magica campaign (a pre-M:tg WotC product) where you would plot out two years of cloistered study by your PC wizard in between actual adventures.

nexts mountain goats album is a brindlewood bay actual play lfg

"What if I'm kinda over hitting people with a sword?" I say at the RPG brainstorming session. The menace of the ensuing silence is intense, and oppressive

Fatality card. Austin Osman Spare, ca 1906 strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/lost-...

still thinking about Lorwyn

you can't just try a thing like that once! most good things involve making it a habit and then seeing how you like the habit