Had an argument with a friend about whether the world has changed more from (roughly) 1946-1986 or 1986-2026. I still think the ‘60s social & sexual liberalism/liberation, civil rights (what survives of it after this year…) etc outweighs the last 40 years. At least in a USA context. Or am I wrong?

Hey #ttrpg folks! We’re doing a West Marches style (drop-in) online campaign of my game, Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Join us on Discord starting 12 noon PST, Sunday July 5! #dreamlands discord.gg/R5PPr6rf?eve...

Widow’s Bay was an enjoyable watch BUT man did these gravestones in episode 6 miss the mark historically. Most of the episode is set in 1702 on an island 20 miles off of Massachusetts. 1/

There was a period in the late 90s when I was like “Capcom is the future of 2D animation. When will someone make a feature film about handsome muscular folks in this style/quality” But this never happened sadly. Or maybe that particular style works best in sprites?

I do feel this but I also recognize this tweet is like “where have the soda fountains gone? Dont youngsters still feel the desire to take the guys and gals out for a nice refreshing soda”

Momentarily sad that fighting games dont exist in what is left of arcades anymore (ie kids arcades with maybe a few rides and gun games). I thought seeing super cool animated people punch each other was general-appeal enough? I guess it’s part of the general de-skillification of arcade games?

Modern #dnd take: if elves are depicted with like 10 imaginary skin colors, they should do this with orcs too. Why do orcs have to be gray, the saddest color (Also this will let me sneak my fave green orcs back in 💚)

Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza for 1000 days and faced no accountability. In that time, Israel has killed more than 21,500 children and has dropped 223,000 tons of explosives—16x more than what the US dropped on Hiroshima.

It’s hard for me to listen to 1-person podcasts (except fiction). There is something so much more engaging about the banter of 2 people even if one is leading

The great horror writer Ramsey Campbell said in some interview that he & his wife had kids because “he didn’t want to become disconnected from young people” and I thought & still think that is a good answer

I've posted a sample of the upcoming Dreamland RPG setting book! Art by me (revisiting my Dream-Quest graphic novel), text by the wonderful author working on the book with me (name TBA)! Please check out our vision of that unholy city, Dylath-Leen! #ttrpg #dreamlands www.dreamrpg.com/2026/07/01/d...

Today’s Toddlering: 1. Wanting to put poured milk from one bowl of cereal back into another bowl of cereal 2. Wanting to put cleaned-up spilled milk back on the table it was cleaned up from. Both of these are crying level requests of course

Like most Gygax, it's got questionable bits, but I can say that "Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names" (2004, Troll Lord Games, available on Internet Archive) is one of the most entertaining post-D&D things I've read from him. His philosophy of weird names!! #ttrpg archive.org/details/gary...

Computers are like dogs: we get them when they’re new & spry (ideally) and we outlive them to see them descend into feeble obsolescence

Randomly, I'm doing proofreading for this RPG project and I have to mark a bunch of name fixes. But in fairness to the person who made the mistakes, why would "Puramboo" be more obviously right than "Uramboo"?

Want to try out my upcoming #ttrpg, Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep? Come to Discord for a character making session, Wed July 1 at 3PM PST! Or Thurs July 2 at 7PM PST! We'll explain the game & set up an online West Marches Dreamlands campaign discord.gg/kXFENAWk3?ev...

This Turkish graphic novel “Spices and Sorcery” looks cool, and the Kickstarter ends in 24 hours! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bel...

"Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert." CGA - Mode 5 Palette (other than the background) #ScreedshotSaturday #CRPG #Dreamlands

The Cute Cthulhu (and shoggoth and whatever) in “Minions and Monsters,” even thought it’s not actually called Cthulhu in the movie (pretty sure), has got to be the new ultimate level of Pop Lovecraft Saturation. Plush Cthulhu has been surpassed

“Vincent Must Die” (2025): a man flees to the countryside when he contracts (?) a condition that makes people uncontrollably attack him on sight. Awesome ‘reverse zombie’ premise. YT calls it black comedy but despite early bits of deadpan absurdity it’s solid, bleak zombie-ish survival horror.

Whenever an author is revealed to be a creep or abuser, people rush to say “oh, you could tell cuz they wrote creepy fictional thing X.” But 95% of the time this is fake rationalization. Otherwise outwardly pious church & political figures wouldnt make up such a huge number of real life slimeballs

Only one way to find out!

Our 6 year old: “If you draw all over yourself with invisible ink, will you become invisible?”

Vaguely surprised & annoyed that the 1999 “Tarzan” and even the 1973 “Robin Hood” are off limits in the youngest-kids setting of Disney+ 🙄 They’re both G movies FFS! With no blatant offensive stuff!

Future junior Democratic senator for Michigan is an Arab Muslim who is pro LGBTQ rights to the hilt. 👍🏽

ProCreate is the iPad app I use now for most of my professional drawing. Since ProCreate is pretty damn good (I have 1-2 nitpicks but nevermind) and most importantly is not subscription based, I feel obliged to say, go buy ProCreate! 💪 It’s cool!

“Triangle” (2009) (as in Bermuda Triangle, I assume, tho it isn’t made explicit). A woman’s yacht cruise ends with storm & shipwreck, and the survivors are picked up by an uninhabited (?) ocean liner. More a 2-hour Twilight Zone episode than real scary scary horror, tho it has some emotional weight.

Waited till 10:30 when the summer-drunk kids finally went to sleep so I can watch a horror movie on my headphones

There is a certain age of toddlerhood when you dread them holding anything in their hands because they might just hit you in the face with it for fun

Can’t load up Facebook these days without huge “Backrooms” spoilers in a single image on weird film groups 😤

Edit: I forgot that the marriage part was quietly edited out in the English dub 😂❤️

I’ve never heard of this Palestinian artist before! I need to check out their work

I absolutely loved “Achewood” and I wonder what happened to Chris Onstad

Either the 3 year old got the camera or this is a clip from “Backrooms”

“Ponyo”: let our kids watch this and it is amazing. The kids love it. Better than I remember, deliriously weird, nice environmental message, with a ‘peaceful apocalypse’ on top of it all

To the 3 people who object to the ending of “Ponyo” because the two 5 year olds promise to get married: little kids have no idea what marriage means. Our kids have thought marriage meant a kiss on the lips, holding hands, practically everything. It works fine on Kid Level

Tom Gauld’s excellent “The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess” is sorta a Pinocchio update. But the two artificial siblings have each other, so it’s not as sad as Pinocchio, and it doesn’t have Pinocchio’s moralistic life-lessons aspect

“Pinocchio” is such a Dad story, which I mean literally, not as a diss. Gepetto wanting a son so badly he creates Pinocchio, and the whole story is about Pinocchio’s stop-and-start growing up into a Real Boy. Our son is weirdly fascinated with the Disney movie which I inappropriately let him watch

The easy fix to my complaint about Kindle 😅🙏

Is there a way in Kindle to disable the super weird thing where you automatically see underlining on the same passages other readers have underlined around the world? :/ (Who ever thought this was a good idea? Why do I want to see a crowdsourced ‘ooh, fhis passage was nice” in my personal book?)

Random woman at Quivera winery in Healdsburg with a Junji Ito “Tomie” tattoo

Note to horror writers: if you write a story of weird physical/mental transformation and it isn’t disgusting or scary or morally wrong, it isn’t horror, it is just transhumanism

Another Dreamlands themed game on Steam!! “Halls of Nyarlathotep,” a Lovecraftian fantasy themed FPS 🔥

Very cool looking Dreamlands themed game on Steam! Huge weird 3D environments and dialogue trees with cool vaguely manga-ish character designs (you’ll have to click the link to see the characters)

@annaleen.bsky.social hope you are well btw! I just stumbled upon your old review in the middle of reading it.

@annaleen.bsky.social hi! So I am reading “Breed,” this horror novel you reviewed ages ago… I love the premise but it’s way campier than I expected…de-evolved parents selling the furniture & eating dogs but somehow managing to get the kids to school, and I’m thinking “wow. They are making it work” 😂

Crunch-focused folk want new supplements, to give them more subsystems they can theorycraft on but never use. Storygames folk want new systems, to give them more genres they will turn into girlfailure yuri comedies. OSR folk want new adventures, to give them more rooms they will never dare enter.

@kennethhite.bsky.social Hi Ken! Have you listened to this podcast? @hellenisticpod.bsky.social

@hellenisticpod.bsky.social OMG! I have to listen to this!

A Hellenistic Era podcast exists!! 🤯