Strong start to the year.

These lil video essays are right up my alley vibes-wise and production-wise, but I found myself feeling thoroughly seen listening to this one. Broken Sky was an incredible feat of my creative, organizational, administrative, and production capabilities. But add all that on top of this 👇👇👇

I loved watching Damen Lindelof learn from this same mistake they made writing LOST through The Leftovers and then Watchmen, a case study in how to nail a series in one season. talk about a show with one hell of an ending, phew

We out 🤛🎤🧙‍♀️

One of the reasons I left political organizing and turned to publishing genre fiction podcasts as my personal praxis is because political organizing was a joyless slog. More joy in your politics gets more people involved and excited. Look at Zohran.

But they're not targeting the people sympathetic to this take with the AI slop. They're targeting Boomers and incels. They're targeting the loneliest people and the people least disposed to critical thought. They're running a scam, you can't boycott your way out of it. In 2026: Strategize better.

AI blacklisters and boycotters have sprung up all over the internet, full of self-righteous fury, and continuing to ignore the canary in the coal mine that is the Bay Area arts and culture scene.

As an artist living and working in the shadow of the tech companies, everyone else's vitriolic, censorious reaction to the rise of AI is five to ten years too late. Bay Area artists were the canary in the coal mine and y'all were cool to let us choke so you could keep posting and scrolling.

Baby's first ad buy is live.

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

I'm struggling with my fury with the left-of-center types who are so shocked, appalled, and outraged that the right is making excuses for what's indicated about Trump in the files. Our. society. HATES. children. girls. and women.

I'm running a Google Ads campaign for the month as an experiment and I'm a little bummed that only one week after it really kicked in, it's brought more traffic to my website than all of Broken Sky did. Paid advertising beats ingenuity and word of mouth, I guess.

2025 in review: Production company launched, first AP published, first ARG made, and yet none of that was as challenging as the year I had between July 2024 and July 2025. Here's to owning my own story in public, even when it makes me extremely anxious.

I swear I'm not playing favorites, but Sebastian's broken sanctum and @kobanya.bsky.social's Mousike were two of the most delightful games from Broken Sky because the mechanics were "draw" and "make music." I love games that challenge your perspective on storytelling and gameplay.

Wait. Wait. Let me go put this on my IRL resume lol Year one: Success. Year two: Pay me.

I know the reason DS hit these awards on Spotify Wrapped (fans listened longer than 78% of other shows, more popular debut season than 84% of other new shows, more shared than 94% of other shows) because the sample size is really small, but that's great actually.

If Santa wanted to get me a present, I'd take a 32TB preconfigured RAID 5 and either a new battery backup surge protector or an explanation for why mine keeps yelling at me and then shutting off.

You know her, you love her, you're about to see what she drops during D&D combat as our Witch of the Claw Nia, but Ashlyn Sparrow is a world-renowned academic studying games as educational tools. That's how I know her, from her several positions at the Weston Game Lab at the University of Chicago.

Who's got two thumbs and is editing for a YouTuber with 15M subscribers? 👍👍 This guy. ... ... ... 😱😬😅 no pressure at least they let me be a goofy dumbass in the edit

I maintain that this is one of the best intro title sequences ever made.

This video is a great synopsis, and observing artists around me devalue their work and others' has been ... depressing. I think he missed one key point about how we move forward in an age where we can connect directly to audiences and each other: we need to band together and support ourselves.

I live in the best place.

I am an old phenomenon.

I've had to process a lot about what happened with Broken Sky, including how I feel about the TTRPG space and whether I want to continue to work in it. (Spoilers: I don't.) But in wrapping up the remaining content, reviewing, and archiving, something cut through the noise of my disappointment:

🧿 #BlueskyCoven There is so much game in this game, gahtdamn. Everything that's publishable from Broken Sky is now on the website. That includes unseen puzzles and the multiversal, co-GMed, dual-system HEART, SPIRIT, and SOUL AP scenes. Check out the Stuff You Missed. www.brokensky.blue/missed

🧿 #BlueskyCoven Today in "Stuff You Missed": 3/5 scenes from Broken Sky, including one never-before-heard scene that @wederrakeep.bsky.social and I co-GM'ed, playing both D&D and Wickedness simultaneously where Charley from WWK and Emmett from OAW meet in the depths of their subconscious.

Nothing like a low-effort clip going viral and netting me, at this point, 1.5M views and 600 followers on IG to really confirm that Bluesky is not a good app for exposure or network expansion.

All hail our tech overlords. May they forever grant us their favor and their mercy.

Oops, All Witches Episode 4: Make Holy What Already Was, Part Two publishes in about 30 minutes. If there's anything egregiously wrong with the export, somebody ping me.

So grateful that I haven't had health insurance for four years, so I don't have to worry about my premiums going up.

I'm glad the white boomers are showing up for #NoKings ... ... but I'd like to point out that maybe if they'd shown up for #Occupy, #Ferguson, #MeToo, or #Palestine, they wouldn't have had to be out in these streets in 2025.

This is my hometown. ICE is a plague.

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A bunch of cops in Chicago got tear gassed by ICE and I can't decide how I feel about it. This is what you get when the government has a monopoly on violence and no restraint.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art #ai

For the first time in years, I browsed a dating app for about an hour and was instantly reminded why I call myself a heterofatalist. "Tragically heterosexual," as my queer femme friends say. Never mind, I'll just go read a book.

I'm in development on a short film, and I spent the weekend at the Alliance of Women Directors Back to Set directing intensive. I'm crewing the film with all women/femme folks and it's my intention to pay cast and crew as close to a fair rate as I can get ($500/day for everyone).

My post mortem of Broken Sky published today. #BlueskyCoven Over the last six weeks I've been recovering, reflecting, launching new projects, and working. But I'll be real, the things I mention in the episode - disappointment, exhaustion, an aversion to social media - have had me keeping to myself.

Aight, we back on our feet and back soon, folks. Episode Four: Make Holy What Already Was, Part One (of five) is out on October 3. Keep an eye out for episode two of Worldsbuilder publishing this Friday. It's my brutally honest post mortem for Broken Sky. #BlueskyCoven

Been thinking about "manifestation" - it's not nearly as complicated as woo-woo folks make it out. It's combining thought and action to realize something in your mind into the world. But that's why it's important to be mindful of what you're manifesting.

"Hello."

Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless. Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma. Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.

Coming down from Broken Sky and coming out of digital media publishing, my thoughts on audiences have only been confirmed -- but I'd be shooting myself in the foot to express them, lol. I'll just say it's fucked that artists have to both create brand new things and chase folks who don't to live.

#BlueskyCoven My warmest and most heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in Broken Sky. Special shout outs to: Jacob Mazey Jay Annette, Ash, & Tegan Sarah, Ariella, & Maricarmen Our Lorekeepers, Plants, writers, and players Check out a centralized archive of the game on the website:

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: In many of the stories of the Archivist's shelves, good triumphs over evil. As they watch the curse progress across the land and, in disparate pockets, succeed or fail as brave witches step up to confront it, they know the real world is more varied. ::

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery @anninakaski.bsky.social Do you venture to assist my counterpart in escape? Good luck. The walls of their prison are built from power, their chains carry the crushing weight of expectation.

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: She regards the silence of the Temporal Sea from a reflection in the waters of her domain. :: There they are. There it is. The coven won't face themselves and left this power unprotected. Now begins the fall. :: Ironically enough, it is nearly time. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery @wederrakeep.bsky.social -- What genre of story is this? Where and when is it set? Is there magic here? For simplicity's sake, I'm drawn to modern urban fantasy. 🧿

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: When she makes her way into his sanctum - quietly, through a weak point in the wards - she moves quickly. He hasn’t caught her out, but she doesn’t have time for anything beyond maximum impact. :: It’s time for the ending. Of everything. She casts. :: (5d20) 1/