I'm very lucky to be a part of the Emberlight Saga over at @d8dungeon.bsky.social, starting on April 20th :D

Ireland is complicit in genocide as long as the US military uses Shannon airport. 91yo Lelia Doolan - veteran peace activist, film-maker and firebrand - is leading a 16-day march from Shannon to Leinster House. You can join her at any point for any distance. www.instagram.com/walkwithleli...

My new book PIPER AT THE GATES OF DUSK is out today! A new Chaos Walking trilogy begins!

Worse is the idea that by making ourselves “normal” we will appease those who hate us. This has never ever worked. Never. They just demand more and more until you’re gone.

The obvious problem with AI is that it will never innovate any fiction. There will never be anything new that it writes. It’s autocorrect on a macro scale. I want to read new things. I want to read fresh things seen with fresh eyes. Not a remix of literally everything I’ve read before.

Finally beat the Helm's Deep chapter, after weeks of (happily) struggling - an epic battle for sure!

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

ai feature implementation strategy is essentially “how annoying can we make the ui” so people accidently hit ai features so these companies can brag about how “highly used” ai features are internally

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

Small reminder again to not give JKR any money, attention or power, or anything really. Because holy shit she is evil. She's not protecting women, her warped view is doing incredible damages to so many people.

Les gens de droite sont mauvais à leur job.

Another opportunity for to share my Free to Use Picture resources for writers highlighting public domain sources: world.hey.com/jordanacosta...

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

I know many we're hoping for a Sinners Sweep but it was always playing at a double handicap, given The Academy's bias against horror movies AND Black-led films... #Oscars

Saw an ad for a travel agency on youtube that was like "you morons, an AI has never been anywhere, how can it tell you where to go? Talk to us humans for your travel needs and stop being stupid babies." I'm paraphrasing but the tide is turning. Keep making that shit toxic.

I think about this a lot.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

It's official - AthVentureCon 5 is happening!!! Save the Date! 🗓️Loughrea Hotel & Spa🗓️ 20-21 February, 2027 Mark your calendars and book your hotel rooms! ☎️To get the following prices, you have to ring the hotel and tell them you're attending AthVentureCon

Are you a therapist or counsellor seeking more in-depth knowledge of trans experiences? We have spaces left on our March specialist two-day course “Working Alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People”. Find out more: https://ow.ly/U6eb50YrHJ3

Ici on tape sur LFI quand ils merdent (ce qui arrive malheureusement trop souvent) Mais on oublie surtout pas qui est le véritable ennemi et où est le véritable danger. Et oui : pourquoi la presse ne se jette-t-elle pas sur ça comme elle s’est jetée sur JLM ?

We were doing the fun "let's look at houses we'll never ever be able to afford" thing the other day and there was this mansion worth 1.5 Million that had the ruins of an old tower and... ...a very large sculpture of a creepy clown in the garden. Needless to say I'm putting that in a horror one-shot.

OH LA LA! Meet Bob, the character I voice in the new game Fading Echo! 📷 It’s a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG created by an indie studio. Mon accent est parfait! 📷 Learn more at bit.ly/fading-echo

Mike Flanagan has added a whole bunch of longtime collaborators to THE EXORCIST, including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Kate Siegel and more.

Anyways.

I'm GMing the 5e quickstart adventure next Friday, can't wait! Prepping it has allowed me to spend more time on the books, which are stunning and full of great ideas. I love the death/dying mechanics in particular.

RRRAAWWWRRR

ARE YOU LITTLE BUT FIERCE? Little but Fierce, the streamlined adaptation of 5th Edition for kids, is now live on Kickstarter! 

 Support the project to introduce TTRPGs to the next generation:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dcb...

 #TTRPG #LittleButFierce

Forever them 🪶✨ !! These two mean so much to me ;; #vaxmore #criticalrole #voxmachina

Just a reminder, Beyond the Woods is currently up on Kickstarter. I am proud to count myself as a member of the writing team on this beautifully realised TTRPG that is based on Irish Mythology. Some fantastic stretch goals we would love to hit on this one.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Mystery Snacks ends tomorrow (2/27)! Back this collection of bite-sized all-ages TTRPG mysteries before the campaign ends, and check out the discount bundles featuring other works by TTRPGkids! Find the project here on Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ttrpgkids/mystery-snacks

I got a super secret sneak peak at the full book and it is great. Dripping with theme and with easy to understand and clever rules. Definitely give this one a look #ttrpg

Resharing my free-to-use picture resource list👇

If you’ve never played Legend in the Mist and want to give it a try, we have a special digital bundle with all the PDFs or you can pick up the Twin Oak slipcase and get both the Beyond the Woods slipcase and the Legend in the Mist slipcase!

Beyond the Woods for Legend in the Mist is Now Live! We’re incredibly excited to bring the world of Tír Nascath to Legend in the Mist. Back within the first 48 hours to get the exclusive early bird discount on the gorgeous slipcase. www.kickstarter.com/projects/old...

Beyond the Woods for Legend in the Most launches TOMORROW! 😲 It feels like it's been a long time coming but tomorrow is finally the day. We'll have an exclusive early bird discount so be sure to follow the campaign and back early so you don't miss out! #ttrpg #irish #tabletoprpg

Session2 is a happening!! 17 game tables here in the Main Hall, 4 more in the Quiet Rooms and of course the Never Ending Gory table!!!

This one hits hard.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

This is the last evening before @athventurecon.bsky.social where both of us will be GMing and we are being Very Normal. (by "we", I mean "the cat")

It must have been preorder day at Libraries Ireland recently because I just got to reserve THREE books from my "to reserve as soon as available" list! Including Patrick Ness' newest! Which means I have a couple of months to reread Chaos Walking...

#AthCon4 has sooooooo many things to get excited about; RPGs, LARP, awesome vendors, creative workshops, mesmerising panels, talk, merch and so much more! It's hard to pick out one thing....but THE NEVER ENDING GORY table has me super-excited! What is this? I hear you all ask. Well attend I say..

WARNING WARNING WE ARE ABOUT TO TALK LARPS THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

So when the dust had finally settled on AthCon3 the committee members met and discussed #AthCon4. "Let's make it bigger and better!" they said. "Bigger and better then the greatest Con ever! Are you having a laugh??" I said. "No!" they shrieked, "but we are having a LARP!" Much hilarity ensued.