You ever embarrass yourself in a dream so hard you wake up?

what’s this about the rapture? This week? what, de people dem making reservations with Saint Peter or something? Did these people forget it’s Jesus himself who say you will not know the da— you know what? Nevermind. I hope the bus comes on time, and I just want somebody’s PS5 when dey gone.

A very important piece. I have my own feelings about art initiatives being sponsored by CSR--at which point your longevity is only as assured as how loved you are by the brand. More important is the public & private sectors willing to be in it for the long haul, and for art's sake first.

I am now learning a little bit about the Bluesky guidelines issue, and this is yet another reminder that Platforms Are Not Your Friends. They will conform in advance to structures that hate you and tell you they were listening to your feedback the whole time. I need to figure out POSSE quick-fast.

"Ma! We just won the major league championship!" "But son... didn't your team drop two divisions three months ago?" "I don't do math, Ma—I just hit the ball."

Braincrack: Someone should invent a sport (or just a league scoring system for one) where it’s possible that both teams in a match can do so poorly in isolation regardless of who wins that match that the winner can gain tournament points but both teams may still get relegated from their league.

The instrumental on DONT LOSE by MIYACHI is reminding me I never actually put the outline note in Obsidian for my mecha space opera TTRPG I have to finish #HeroRevRPG first but… you ever hear a song and go ‘that would be to opening theme for the AP for this game I haven’t made yet?’ Yeah.

Loot this, Fleem that.. Fblthp is still the OG.

Random question for my mutuals with TTRPG graphic design and layout chops: if you could give only one piece of advice about the visual presentation of a rulebook to someone WITH ABSOLUTELY NO GRAPHIC DESIGN OR LAYOUT EXPERIENCE, what would you tell them?

Random question for my mutuals with TTRPG graphic design and layout chops: if you could give only one piece of advice about the visual presentation of a rulebook to someone WITH ABSOLUTELY NO GRAPHIC DESIGN OR LAYOUT EXPERIENCE, what would you tell them?

wait I got it Neko Atsume but you only get cats by setting a pomodoro timer and not touching your phone for its entire duration is this something

This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was TONIGHT. While I am on some level excited that the Peace Prize went to Renner et al. (for discovering that acute alcohol consumption affects language fluency!?), I kinda wish that the committee were more radical this year, given... you know... [gestures wildly].

- is responsible for one of the most nihilistic social media creations in modern history - made glasses running on the AI spec of the previously mentioned torment nexus - thinks he looks cool and badass but really looks like a dork with clout Zuck really turned into THOUSER I hate this timeline

I've thoughts on the things we're not supposed to talk about along with the stories we tell. How we must push back on the justifications people use to ignore or embrace the wrongs around them. I also wonder why we let Alexanders and incendiaries hurt so many people. www.patreon.com/posts/139194...

Tomorrow is the big day! #BIPOCVampDay officially begins on Friday, September 19th! But if you’re impatient and love #TTRPG - consider watching one of 3 games premiering today on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BIPOCVampDay First one starts at noon PST/3pm EST! #vampires

What the hell is #BIPOCVampDay? *takes a breath* It’s this annual fundraiser I run each year for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America celebrating vampires of color and the need for more of them in media and literature. And it’s hitting its 5th year this September. Spread the word.

I’ve only learned of Zephyr this week and the more I learn the more intrigued I become.

tfw a very cool idea comes to mind but in order to execute it you need at least two people with experience in running fundraising APs and with more executive function than you have (as an aside, apropos of nothing, I promise: you should check out my game The God of Spite and Violence 👀)

so I'm only halfway into this video, and I have yet to play Triangle Agency, but as a GM, Quinns describing some portion of its play as 'the small claims court of the imagination' is one reason why I want to bully myself into running it.

Kamen Rider Zeztz is very rad so here's a glorified toy advertisement to show you how cool the suit and the belt (sash? heart monitor?) is. Also: each Capsem colour having its own henshin pose is my jam in particular.

Every time a mainstream news article publishes anything Mace or Jackson or Loomer or Walsh says about trans people, the sentence should contain the clause, “despite the shooter’s roommate, only alleged to be transitioning, fully cooperating with authorities”. In each unique sentence, even.

We don't talk enough about how much of the work of writing is made up of Writing Things That Are Not The Story.

We’re hosting an artshare for #BIPOCVampDay! We want to see your BIPOC vampire projects all weekend long. Share your art, books, comics, films, games, etc using #bipocvampday or #bvd25 Curious about other ways to get involved during BIPOC VampDay weekend, visit bit.ly/bipocvampday #vampires #vtm

They really gave Fiddy the Balrog cut for that damn movie. I dunno if I'm impressed or mad.

There are few great and obvious ironies than insisting that it is in the defense of free speech that the government of a state has decided that people exercising their free speech should lose their jobs, be cast out of society, and be refused free passage into their space.

I am suddenly curious about something: TTRPG mutuals, especially designers and GMs: how do you think players do/can perform 'mastery' in TTRPGs? I don't mean the PC fantasy of mastery--I mean specifically how can a PLAYER in a TTRPG 'master' a specific mechanical set?

A reminder that if you like the work I’ve been recently making, you can support me via PayPal (paypal.me/brandonobrien), Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtithes), Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or Ko-Fi (ko-fi.com/therisingtit...)!

I am being suddenly reminded of how much I miss running APs. I need a new game to stream so badly. I should do something on my channel. 🤔

Just very clever stuff.

This is my favourite part of @therisingtithes.bsky.social's latest column. (continued in the thread)

Too much time has passed. I am craving those chocolate-covered cherries I had in Seattle. I will be indebted to anyone who can gather, like, twice my body weight in everything Chukar makes and send it to my location.

We are in the final moments of voting for the Rhysling and Elgin Awards! If you're a member of the SFPA, don't forget to cast your ballots!

Brandon O'Brien returns with another column for Rascal that turns the old question of are-games-too-violent upside down.

My problem is that there is a constellation of such shows for me, and I am prone to vacillate between hyperfocusing on at any one of them at any time: Touch. Believe. Traveler. John Doe. Zero Hour. Forever. Siberia. My very latest of these would probably be Blood & Treasure.

99.9 Criminal Lawyer is peak. That is all.

I don't know why this hyperfixation persists, but humour me: writer mutuals, what are the three features that would make whatever writing app you use right now a personal game-changer for your process?

three things that are true at once:

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me: oooh goodie Bluesky added bookmarks me: now I can actually keep track of permanently useful posts somewhere, i am very grateful me: ... me: I have entirely forgotten what those past useful posts would have been, so I guess they weren't *that* useful

📣#BocasAcademy’s Sept-Nov offerings: ✍ Workshop: Writing From the Archive 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Writin... ✍ Masterclass: Reimagining the Future through Speculative Writing 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Reimag... 🎙Performance Workshop: Page to Stage 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Perfor... #bocas2025

Look ting! 👀 I'll be doing a Masterclass in speculative fiction and poetry in October as part of @bocaslitfest.bsky.social's Bocas Academy!

TIL the Ig Nobel Prizes have a Peace category, & has awarded: testing if beards are an evolutionary defense to being punched in the face; theories on pigeon-guided missiles; & to India & Pakistan's high commissions, for performing a long-term ding-dong-ditch harassment campaign against each other.

[desire to reconstruct a weekly schedule for my personal Twitch channel intensifies] 🫨

From one of those accursed ‘here is a movie scene devoid of context’ reels on Facebook, I have now learned of the 1976 French comedy ‘Calmos’. I have also been reminded, via the comments of Trinidadian men under that reel, to one day write an essay about the pride of male sexual objectification.

If you're interested in Kamen Rider Zeztz and missed it, it's actually still going! They're just gonna keep rerunning this video until Monday, so you literally have all evening to get a chance to watch it 👀

Even when I like and agree with you all, sometimes the way we talk on the internet sounds so much like “your opinion tells me you do not read or read enough or read the things I think you must read”, and not more ideally “your opinion tells me you would gain great perspective from reading this”.

maybe in the bad guy, but as an SFF writer I think we should save the judgmental, hypercritical flyspecking about niche sub-narratives in litfic, whether they truly exist or do not or therefore disprove the value of our reading or critique, and put it back where it counts—HATING ON THE HOME TEAM

tfw revisiting your notes while already in the throes of writing a scene for your novel triggers in you a question that inspires *another scene* that wasn't in your outline before that you're now excited about

It’s tiiiiiiiiiiime

In just about a half hour, at 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET, Kamen Rider Zeztz will premiere--the first time a mainstream Kamen Rider series will be simulcast outside of Japan--including being freely available on YouTube in the US! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrWK...