I'm nervous.

They captured your dumb ass in a bubble at the Gorodok restaurant in Ulan-Ude, the captial city of the Republic of Buryatia. They keep your simpering love in a bubble there, you dumb ass.

Jan Duursema: drawing sexy dirtbags since at least 1989.

Tuesday, January 6, 2025: Jerry's Map Section F.X jerrysmap.com

Patricia Highsmith was, by all accounts, truly awful.

y'all it's only yuri if it comes from the lesbian region of Japan

book I finished / book I started

William Faulkner’s as I lay dying has entered the public domain and already I’m playing a gacha game of sexy anime versions of the bundren family accompanying their mom’s corpse to be buried in Mississippi.

They're calling you Mr. Unpopular in their group chats.

No recollection of writing this.

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the AK Press 50% off sale! Get ALL of our published titles—plus all AK merch—half price, now through 9am on 1/1. Start the new year off with some new reads: www.akpress.org/published-by...

My day of data entry is redeemed.

It's still the old year.

Drawing of Zadie as birthday present to her dogmom.

Other October - December things I did with my hands

Routines.

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."

About time last year, @danhf.bsky.social posted about watching directors’ whole filmographies in order, and as a result I’ve now seen everything Fassbinder, Bigelow, Campion and Panahi made. Strongly recommend trying this out strikecuriousposes.itch.io/shanes-extre...

Fuck, I'm actually getting new followers now. Shit. Uh, check out my &c: erinking.itch.io

Great "how did we get here" RPG rundown. Definitely gonna be sending this to people who know what D&D is but aren't sure about wider medium.

Fleeing Ghost, by Paul Klee German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940 1929 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111664

Met my girlfriend's family today and found out her brother plays D&D3.5. Immediately asked if he'd seen the module that stats out Saddam Hussein.

The most problematic aspects of my mother’s second marriage, thread

I am pretending that I also have an influx of new followers. Hello, new followers. Check out my content & my IP.

Dynamic Disks by František Kupka, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137314

First mulled wine of the season.

I have no idea what the fuck you all are taking about, and I will fight to keep it that way.

Helmet, 1981 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5015

A few people asked me where they could get 3 by Kathy Joyce, mentioned in this zine. It's available now here! www.ristrettobooks.org/3byx

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

What is the game you played in 2025 that made you really go “wow, that’s what game writing can accomplish!” I spent a lot of this year in a tabletop fugue, and a lot of the video games I did play just didn’t work for me. So here, in the time of holiday sales, I ask for your recommendations.

The reason for the season: a three-pound summer sausage from a friend.

These assholes are buying all the cool old sci-fi books out from under me, a more superior kind of asshole (I got into these authors five months earlier).

"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!" Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year! I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year. Happy holidays!

This Christmas, I'm making turducken broth; a rare alignment of the stars has brought me the carcasses of all three birds. The thawing of the bones had begun.

12 podcasts (like, 50 total hours?) to listen to this Christmas so that you can say, "Mom, I'm busy!" and avoid your family engagements.

My mom got me a gift card for the crummy little sci-fi shop I get my cheap books from. They're always posting about how business is bad, so I told my girlfriend I'd feel weird about not making my regular little purchases throughout the year.

Got this picture from Brendan Albano at Pony Press, who printed out some of my games for a Christmas gift exchange (and made some rad envelopes). Very happy to see bootleg printings of my games. (Pony Press makes cool stuff here: ponypress.itch.io )

We're doing Smeer Jam in the RTFM Discord, where we populate this hex map of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard based on this article: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-my...

Been devouring these at work lately.

Fairy Tale Parade #1-3 Dell, 1942 Back cover/front border design by Walt Kelly, who also provided the cover art for 1 and 3. Fairy Tales adapted by L. Bing, Gaylord Du Bois, Arthur Jameson, Kelly, and Jon Small.

Overheard on the bus: "Polycule? Like polygons?"

I like that I was overseas when the first avatar movie came out and I read breathless descriptions of a movie so beautiful it was causing movie goers deep psychosis when they left the movie and couldn’t live in it, finally saw what it looked like and it was “racist final fantasy X made by Canadians”

First session of Moria: Doors of Durin using the Fallen Empire playbooks from Apocalypse World. Shitty Gandalf, Mutant Aragorn, and Pretty Normal Elf All Things Considered are captured by goblins.

kiss me quick apples, painted by m. strange, 1914

Doing a new version of this thread in the new year. Got my stock locked & loaded.

Where did the movement to call RPGs "TTRPGs" start? How can I fight them?