It’s so nice to be on someone’s best of 2025 list!

Also, it’s a standalone sequel to my story ASSIMILATION, my first story in @bafflingmag.bsky.social! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-six/as...

If any TV people are looking for more gay fiction to adapt for the screen: *frantically pointing to my entire body of work* Also HEATED RIVALRY is excellent television, just saying.

My new story in @khoreo.bsky.social is now out for non-subscribers! It’s inspired by a real wedding I attended! Plus aliens…

It finally happened. I got asked in the wild by a (self-described) non-gamer for a TTRPG recommendation. I have ascended.

I’m so excited for hockey-cottage night.

Hey gang, I put up 50 community copies each for solo games VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, and Lighthouse at the End of the World, AND for my two-player game Wayfarer 1. Grab, play, share, enjoy. bannerless.games/voidam bannerless.games/ntm bannerless.games/lighthouse bannerless.games/wayfarer1

a lot of writing advice is shit. magical results if you follow this 1-sentence promise. show! write every day! character driven! they're flat because either they're 1) focused on being glib instead of being 2) actionable, like, wtf does character-driven even mean 3) unrealistic. every day?

Ten highlights from my reading year! Short fiction has really dominated my mind in 2025, along with the Eternal Champion, blood-soaked operas redolent with perfume, and the Saints of Night. Plus some ecology, of course! Here's to another year of great reads!!

Must say I’ve been really enjoying all these adorable, straight hockey-bro podcasters enthusing about HEATED RIVALRIES. Quite heartwarming. “Wow, those yams on him!” “He is a beautiful man.” “I didn’t know you could have gay missionary sex!”

to everyone saying they want to play triangle agency in 2026: every copy will become blank when the year turns over. a y2k bug thing but it affects paper books also. so you have to play it now

It is your civic duty to freedom of the press to Streisand the heck out of this 60 minutes report about CECOT so here's another place you can watch it and pass it around www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

I’m a big fan of realism in depictions of sex. I also understand what different genres are.

Just watched the ending of HEATED RIVALRY episode 5 for the gabillionth time and teared up AGAIN

I’m really enjoying PLURIBUS but seriously: a fantasy writer should have a better boardgame collection!

The success of HEATED RIVALRY means I get to add another bullet point to my response when someone asks me why all my storytelling involves gay people.

I had 3 short stories, 1 poem, and 1 whole-ass book (novella) published this year. Not to mention a bunch of small game-writing stuff. Not bad...

Yeonsoo’s new game is absolutely inspiring me to get on with my writing.

Last minute shopping and too late for shipping? @plusoneexp.bsky.social has the perfect weird indie gift card for the perfect weird indie gamer in your life. plusoneexp.com/products/1-g...

Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D. Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D. Parlor games were feminized...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

This is a super-fun book - thanks @sharangbiswas.bsky.social for writing it and @neonhemlock.bsky.social for the Black Friday sale!

If you -- perhaps due to some recent television-watching -- are looking for some secret relationship-type content, that is also funny (those footnotes!), romantic, and contains fascinating fantasy worldbuilding/magic, I highly recommend this!

If you have a sudden, newfound appetite for gay fiction with upbeat, romancey vibes… Might I recommend my novella THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS…? Published by the awesome @neonhemlock.bsky.social

Software developer: “Beginning an inquiry [into an historical subject] by using AI to survey material is a very normal and appropriate use.” Me: cries in historian till I’m laughing at the absolute absurdity of that being either normal or appropriate behavior for any historian worth their salt.

With Christmas in just a few days, it's time for us to remind ourselves what this special time of year is really about. It's not about the presents, it's not about the food - it's about the final Heated Rivalry episode. Remember that.

I was kinda perplexed when I watched the trailer for the WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE game and they spent much of the video talking about combat mechanics…

Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025! The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of. www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

How is the episode of Heated Rivalry with the least amount of sex my favourite so far????

Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex https://theonion.com/hockey-players-blast-heated-rivalry-for-unrealistic-depiction-of-anal-sex/

Unavowed connects some of the most important lessons about game narrative in the past 20 years with the humble point-and-click adventure game, all with an explicit love for all the characters and creatures contained therein. If you needed something to do this holiday season, try it out.

3 hours remain. This is where I know there will be people who will find out tomorrow that they’ve missed this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

My current go-to RPGs when I have very little prep time (and I don't want a GMless game): -BRINDLEWOOD BAY by @jasoncordova.bsky.social -AGON by @johnharper.bsky.social -BLADES IN THE DARK, also by John Harper -PIRATE BORG by @limithron.bsky.social

happy holigays, you can pre-order my solo rpg. it comes with pages to journal in, so it's a perfect gift for the gay nerd in your life

I’m still up reading about, rewatching, and listening to HEATED RIVALRY stuff. There goes my morning meeting.

I watched Episode 5 back to back twice and teared up at the end both times. When I stumbled on the trailer a few weeks back, I had no idea this random gay hockey show was going to affect me so much.

For every direct sale of the World Wide Wrestling PDF, I add a free community copy to itch. So far we've added 487 since starting this last year. I'd love to get that to 500 by years end! Regular sales add +1 community copy, tips and bundles add +2. ndpdesign.itch.io/the-world-wi...

Teaching is the best. Students are awesome.

I bought @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social’s new game immediately. I’m ALWAYS excited by any type of story Yeonsoo puts out into the world. You should be, too.

For no reason whatsoever, gonna remind that you can support your local trans girl by buying my games directly from my lovely publishers! High Tide www.underdoggames.com/products/hig... Phantasmic buttonshygames.com/products/pha...

Playing games with friends always lightens my bad mood

No, I do not need a LinkedIn Year in Review.

i've said this before but genai frustrates me so much because art is the one transcendant thing we have under capitalism, and it's already shaped and deformed so much by capital. and you want to give away even more of your art-making to corporations??

Thongs embroidered with electrum thread.

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Honestly, I think my book would make a great limited series, or something... Like, not all my stories would work well on screen, but the boom would, I think!