It's such a shame to see celebrity go to someone's head like this... (The kārearea are nesting and getting a bit antsy about people coming near their chicks, it's fine)

Unexpected Red Cross bookshop find:

When I went out to do gardening this morning I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I first thought, Is that fly carrying something? On closer inspection, it was a spider carrying the fly. (CW: spider, fly)

Apple, plum

Hi, we’re still needing assistance on this!! On my end, hoping to have some new writing content ready for this weekend to lure some people into helping us out!!

The president of our film society once asked a member, "Did you enjoy the movie?" And this little old lady replied, "I don't come to film society to enjoy movies." Anyway, I finally watched The Banshees of Inisherin.

#pointcounterpoint Point: Your house www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIwF...

Sir Mix-a-Lot Edicts: like big butts Anathema: lie #Pathfinder2E #Starfinder2E

Red orchid

Recent used bookshop finds:

Why does MacBeth have a painting of Elisa above his fireplace?

Arum lily (which is neither an arum nor a lily)

I wrote fairy-powered barbarians and a friendly druid for this.

Second orchid bloomed

Happy Smith Day! Since I'm no longer on FB, I'm inflicting my totally made up holiday on Bluesky.

What I got for my birthday: A hand knitted blanket; a used, wooden Cathedral board game set; a Manawatu Jets baseball cap; a can of boiled peanuts.

This Dream Council could have been a Dream Message. #Pathfinder2E

Mānawatia a Matariki!

Word of the Day: pogonotomy

We binged watched the first 8 seasons of Death in Paradise on Kanopy, a show I can only describe as, what if Doctor Who solved locked-room mysteries on a Caribbean island.

KiwiRPG Week is Coming! 🇳🇿 🎲 Starting Sunday 15th June through to Saturday 21st June. 7 days of live-shows, games and more, all from Aotearoa New Zealand, for people everywhere around the world to enjoy! www.kiwirpg.com/kiwirpg-week... #TTRPG #KiwiRPG #Aotearoa

#pointcounterpoint Point: London calling www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-...

The orchids have decided the beginning of winter is a good time to bloom.

Acquisitions from the Red Cross Book Sale: 🧵

I didn't write for this book per se, but it does bring several things I previously wrote into the second edition era.

Garden friends

You know why I love games? Love is about cooperation, and all games are cooperative. Even the most competitive games must be played within the matrices of agreed upon rules. No matter how cutthroat, ultimately the game is an expression of mutual understanding and cooperation. Love and play.

I picked up "A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories" at a sidewalk free book exchange and only later discovered that there were flowers pressed inside. Placed there by a Victorian ghost, no doubt.

Trans men are biologically men. Trans women are biologically women. The brain is an organ.

Now I'm definitely done with Into the Breach.

Hebe update

#pointcounterpoint Point: Satan sucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u3f...

#pointcounterpoint Point: You're delicious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak0Y...

#pointcounterpoint Point: Be my Yoko Ono www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YI...

#pointcounterpoint Point: I'm on fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpX...

Kia ora folks, we're got a ttrpg bundle for you! En garde is a bundle fundraising for Pride security in Aotearoa. Just $10 for 23 ttrpgs that goes to helping keep the rainbow community safe. 5e, MotW, standalone one-shots, we've got it all! itch.io/b/2898/en-ga...

I planted a hebe.

#pointcounterpoint Point: You don't love me yet www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCov...

“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.” ― Matthew Arnold

My first published game writing and my latest.

I am begging people to use alt text and peoples' actual names in posts because I have mute filters set up for people whose faces I never want to see on my timelines And yet! I keep seeing them!

Well, I've now watched all the original run episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 available on the Gizmoplex.

netflixed (verb): "There's this great show, you should totally wa... and it's cancelled." #cinenym

ben-hurred (verb): When you realize the movie you're watching is actually about Jesus. #cinenym

banana-splitting (verb): To turn a children's or family TV show into a horror movie. #cinenym

dragnetting (verb): To turn a dramatic TV series into a comedic movie. #cinenym

airbudding (verb): When a movie series starts with a ridiculous premise, but by the end of it the original premise seems downright mundane. #cinenym