it turns out that regular people want good things and not bad things, take notes

8 colors, pixelart

The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such

I would rather stand in the ranks of an army of fuckups than desperately try to keep my place in a dwindling clique of angels.

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂 So share some of my paintings??

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

Please please please share this as much as you can. My friend Rykka got pretty severely injured just recently and started a gofundme to help with medical expenses and keeping a roof over her head and access to the studio she uses for her business. Again, sharing is appreciated gofund.me/64e41efb

TIME FOR THE VERY RARE ACTIVITY: JOYSCROLLING

the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got

My wondrous friend @freydaelyn.bsky.social has released her first game! Go and behold a party game for 2-6 players about confidently making a persuasive case for dubious nonsense, with art by the glorious @staticsable.bsky.social. May this be the first of many.

Our first full-length D&D lore video went out today! And it's about Dendar, The Night Serpent! I'm excited to show it off! youtu.be/oOiRShWikeo

i'm so excited to announce that Possum Creek and all our full-time employees have become an imprint at Steve Jackson Games!

Everyone please stop arguing for a minute and listen to @margaret.bsky.social! #Solidarity is the only way out. None of us are perfect and all of us are needed. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/shoving-at...

Re: yesterday's posts about doomerism. Now is the time to help and ask for help. I know it's hard, but seeking out a conversation when you're scared or depressed is almost always going to feel better than screaming into the void and waiting for someone to notice. I know from experience lol

Ahh! ITS BIRD ME

Our lords spent so long dreaming themselves gods, they came to believe it. As they would have us believe, as they fly beneath the sun on wings of wax. As they make a foe of truth, as their blades chip and dull against her armor. They may spill an ocean of blood, to learn no king may rule the tides.

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

we vote cartoon evil out and blistering incompetence takes over, until everyone loses patience and decides evil wasnt that bad, which eventually loses its shine and people think well incompetence must surely have been better, but that quickly gets tiring and evil looks attractive again

If the purpose of a machine is what it does, is social media often not the gamification of recuperation - a slot machine that pays out whenever someone finds a novel antibody against sincerity? A mechanism by which radical solidarity is safely dissolved into the alkahest of drama and point-scoring?

One of the most important things about EP Thompson's work that is not often noted is that he chronicles the absolute annihilation of English and Welsh working class and peasant culture. Literally nothing survived the industrial revolution - everything left is a partial Victorian revival.

Sacrificial Violence and Retribution crimethinc.com/sacrificialv... In this analysis, we explore the responses to two very different extrajudicial killings in order to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society today.

Witches will see this and just think "hell yeah"

happy solstice. the light returns even as the cold sets in. there is always a space between cause and effect. we cannot reap seeds freshly sown.

Reject subtext Embrace Domtext Play Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain The first game I've played that has so bluntly called out so many societal issues that ruin the lives of millions & doesn't pretend that isn't what it's doing Thanks @fictionfactorygames.com for this amazing game

Save 33% on Goodbye Volcano High with the Steam Winter Sale, now through January 2nd! ❄️🦖☃️ store.steampowered.com/app/1310330/...

i know what you're thinking. You're thinking "I wish someone would write an essay comparing the charge of the light brigade to the modern class war, through four poetic interpretations including peter jackson's" well this week on substack, i got you margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/on-on-on-c...

We are living instead in the age of, as my friend @hypercalcium.bsky.social termed it, spam-punk. It's like cyberpunk but louder and uglier and everything's slightly shittier.

10 things scripted reality tv teaches us about role-playing. This is about games which foreground character drama (Monsterhearts) and those times you want a bit of character drama in your dungeon. 10 ways to create more drama and story in your messy relationship games. Enjoy! 1/11

This is plain evil and nothing else. It is a policy spurred on by bogus science that will cause irreparable damage to a generation of kids, all because an ideological crusade has gripped our nation's government and media.

Lots of folks who have presumably played a lot of Monopoly in their lives will insist that the exclusively correct response to such a game is to keep playing. Just be better. Work together. The player with almost all the sets probably cheated somehow. We just need to enforce the rules consistently.

Daily bunny no.2787 makes a new friend

I woke up thinking about language and jargon in tabletop role playing games. It’s easy to understand “playing pretend” or “making stuff up with friends”, or even “improv story telling”, but after that, how quickly does it become obscure?

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." —Watership Down

Days mean nothing in the maw of forever. I never left your side. Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut is out now.

So hello. Been a while. @staticsable.bsky.social has been doing art for my game I am working on, Monster Atoll. It is a love letter to early monster rancher games. I hope to have something playable eventually.

Corvid Day on Bluesky I hear you say? Here's a hot, humid and close-up American Crow near the Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park, Florida. (c)Adam Welz 2019 #corvidday

The influx of new people is dope but please don't let the alt text standard die. Most people will be on board if you say something.

I'm realizing one of the central narratives of the Arthurian cycle is that when the kingdom starts to decay the heroes start to ride out on a quest to find the magic thingie that will fix all their problems instead of staying home and doing the work, and that's infected a lot of fantasy fiction

Happy Birthday to Goodbye Volcano High, an indie game that has been stuck in my psyche for the last week and will probably stick with me for quite some time. It's super cute, incredibly heartfelt, and highly recommended. What matters in the absence of a future?

When people talk about how “crunchy” a TTRPG is, they’re almost ALWAYS talking about the cognitive load expected of the PLAYER, but not the GM. D&D 5E literally lacks rules for things it references and tells the GM to make it up, but is considered a low crunch game.

Would you like to join the Cult of the Crowned Raven?

It's fricking pride month, remember every crow person I paint is queer by default and they will curse our enemies in ways that cannot be comprehended

April 27th is International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day! My comic Crow time is pretty much stuffed to the brim with crows, so it's a good way to celebrate these goth little dudes. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/cr...

The Stardust paperback mockup is complete! It's going to be a unique white ink-on-black matte paper. The hardcover will have different art for its dust jacket, an embossed Voidfarer emblem, a gold headband, and a gold bookmark ribbon.

A piece I still really love from 2020

Big news! #pathfinder2e #warofimmortals