OK Honestly, Dido is such a vibe.

Hunting for better jobs and thinking "Where are all the ones that'll hire any schmuck with a philosophy degree?" Then I remember that's the job I have. Shoulda double majored 💀

If I were rich, I'd eat only salads made with the little tiny leaves at the center of every head. Or, if anyone wants lots and lots of normal salads, I'm sure a mutually beneficial arrangement can be made.

Make 20¢, makes me a day trader. Go to the moon, it's gone a day later.

I've long suspected that I live in the liminal space between things, and you see me as you pass between the spheres that occupy your time and attention. I'm there as you come and go, strangely familiar, omnipresent and ephemeral, forever in transit. I may yet tithe to the messenger gods.

Holy shit, I get it. If I'm going to have a bad day, I might as well look cute.

My 🍿 is ready for the day a politician mistakes 'condone' for 'condemn'.

YT algo's been feeding me a lot of poker recently—probably because I've been enjoying it. I've been enjoying it because I realized it's pure theater. The people you remember and enjoy aren't the best or the wealthiest, but the thespianist.

What is Florafiora? It's my storytelling card game! It's a no-prep, one-shot generator where all 4 players get a turn as the Storyteller (gm). Create a backstory you all share, then explore the botanical kingdoms of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. More info about the game continued- 🧵

The Midnight Market shall offer games from worlds unknown, starting on November 7th, at 11:59 pm EST. It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . . Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket

Nature is wild. How it do it like that?

I've changed my take thanks to this: youtu.be/s8GbNPkxrlQ?... Narrative fields are non-mechanical yet non-superfluous. Or, is it narrative indirectly impacting mechanical? At some point I'll just claim convergence—all narrative is mechanical and all mechanics are narrative, but we ain't there yet.

I survived the pax west indie tabletop market and all I got were these awesome games designed by @emilyhancock.bsky.social and @jonathanbovee.bsky.social ! I can't wait to crack into some stories with Florafiora, and I think my dad is going to love Mast Year.

Lettuce poll! What're some of y'all's favorite lettuce? I think Iceberg is a nice snacking leaf; romaine has to be my go to for salads; butter lettuce is what I look for when I really want to treat myself.

How do you learn more about these games, get involved in their development, or sign one? Follow @lunarpunk.games. Join the @breakmygame.com Discord. Attend a @protospielo.bsky.social event. Talk to designers who hang out in those places. You're missing the games because you're in the wrong place!

Board game designers: what mechanics do I add to my game to stop a quarterback from bullying everyone? RPGs: have you all tried talking and setting expectations?

If you wanna see where all these weird little games are (cause there are a lot of them), check out your local indie market!

It has been so enriching coming into contact these last few years with designers who are kindred spirits, & it makes me giddy how many of them are trans Erin & I joked last night that all the interesting design is being done by a handful of trans people & also Cole Wehrle

That's right—I just cooked an egg without scrambling it. I'll see y'all on the next season of Master Chef.

Unfortunately I've finally encountered a job in which I must look busy. The question transforms from "how do I complete this task as quickly as possible?" to "How do I complete this task in exactly four hours?" Which, surprisingly, is a more interesting question.

So in October I’ll be launching my first ks! It’s a bundle of two spooky card games: Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit. I’ve talked about them before, but I wanted to finally do a proper introduction and talk about my goal for all this. 🧵1/6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

For being a relatively accomplished percussionist in high school, I don't know if it's sad or enlightening that my most relevant takeaway today is that dancing is just moving like paradiddles.

How the hell do people manage to keep social lives? I have to be up in 5 hours—this is unsustainable 😭

Join us as we chat with @vickilanger.dev all about designing games that break conventions in ways that help players learn. We'll also dig into what working on unranked games has taught them. Tune in right on our Discord tomorrow (August 12th) at 3pm EST: discord.gg/RUKkAUEQ6g See you there! ✨

youtu.be/3-s2jaN57is?... Fascinating look at player counts and why they matter from multiple angles. I'd like to put forward social deduction games as an existing category that supports large player counts, but aren't necessarily comedic like typical party games. BOTC can be very emotionally raw!

The hardest thing to explain about myself to people is that I'm both always serious and always joking. I never lie, but nothing I say is said with the full weight of action. If I speak with you, it's because I love you (no matter what I say)—only action has the weight of action (I am there for you).

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼 CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!! www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

dude i want a cat so bad

TRANS HEALTHCARE TROLLEY PROBLEM A runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people. However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track. Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

Hey folks. Today, I'm officially coming out as trans. You can read the blog post about it if you're interested: coyoteandcrow.net/2025/08/05/k... From here on out, please refer to me as Kenna Alexander. My pronouns are she/her or they/them.

Early playtests are always my favorite, when all I'm doing is getting the kachunk-a-chunks to kachunk without blowing up and everything else is held together with deus ex machina and ad hoc rulings.

Trans lives matter. I understand if maybe CGE can’t say anything critical about JKR or the HP license They *can* say that trans lives matter. But they haven’t.

Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support. Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️ protospiel.online/badges/

I got crossfaded last night so I forgot to release FAGGOT GAMES II: FAGGOT PHILOSOPHY, which I think is fitting. This blog explores what, on a design level, makes a Faggot Game. www.eclipse.gay/blog/faggot-games-ii-faggot-philosophy

The courage to be aware of oneself and act regardless is terrifyingly immense. Mad respect to anyone who does it daily. Anyways—posts with images get more engagement, so here's a cute bug I saw this morning!! 😍🐛

Gen Con is here!! Find me at table 45 in the art show! ✨ Lots of new items and participating in my first ever stamp rally!

During Gen Con, I will have 250 of these zines with me. The goal is to inform normies about what’s going on with CGE and a call to action to join the blacklist. No buying, pitching, or covering CGE games until they give the community a proper apology and response on how they plan to make good. 🎲✂️

The leadership of the Tabletop Game Designers Association was disappointed to see the publisher CGE touting Codenames: Back to Hogwarts, a new Harry Potter-themed version of Codenames.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

You're gonna make me say it: the death of the author is a loss of meaning. The fact that it's Trixie Mattel covering Video Games, a song written by Lana Del Rey, adds more to it—to me—than I, as an individual listener, could ever contribute alone.

Excited to share the BGG page for my upcoming indie release, Okay, Duckies, Now Let’s Get In Formation. This game has been so much silly fun to produce! Check it out! 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

Getting ready for the PNW Tabletop Game Market @ PAX West! All the boxes are completed and all the rules for Grunt Work are printed and folded!

🎲✂️ Design Diary 🧵 for 'Orange' A game about the relationship between a cat named Orange and their Human.

Any games with both bag building and deck building? Even though they're both random, the ordered nature of a deck seals fate at shuffle, and the unordered nature of a bag lets fate guide each pull. There's some meaning to explore there, also some math.

"The work I'm supposed to be doing is interfering with the work I want to be doing," said every creative person ever, all the time, since the dawn of history.

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Me waiting for the next Dialogues at Dusk to release on YT so I have something to think about at work.

Chauncey, our living room lurker, has moved on to greener pastures (hopefully). We now have a bathroom bud; I will name them Thomas.