The time has come to announce the official schedule for #ArvCon2026, our twelfth annual TTRPG actual play/concert/interview/giveaway/surprise/and more event to benefit @damonrunyon.org, beginning next week on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron! Please join us, spread the word, and share widely! 1/?

I even just figured out what we're going to be playing, too! I am very nervous but very excited

I still hold that the Dramatica THEORY, the one I've been using to freehand-Storyform since I discovered it in uni, is a remarkable tool for breaking narrative. But the Dramatica 'platform' that exists to let AI do the theme-imagination for you is a rotten addition to process, and this is why.

Yet another addition to my slowly expanding Obsidian writing setup: I still really like Radial Timeline, but it turns out that Storyline does a lot more of the things I want a longform prose plugin to do. Story grid & timeline tools! Robust scene detail tabs! Native writing sprint timer!

Sometimes someone literally has to remind me that a cool poem is in fact mine. I haven't thought of 'Shoretune' in a while, but I am pleased to be reminded.

I was in a state of mild confusion but not at all disbelief for several minutes until it dawned on me that they meant 'Closed Beta Test'.

This looks so damn pretty and i was already excited on that front, but also there are moments of pure goofiness in this trailer that are probably the primary reason I am curious to watch it.

This is perhaps the most revealing version of this taxonomy question ever: a square being a rectangle doesn’t grant specificity but often escapes it like, if someone offered to get me a sandwich & then came back with even the best burger on earth, I’d think I was in a TikTok relationship-test video

if we wouldn't accept 'I'm only being a threat to you because of your refusal to trust me' from incels, why should we accept it from an AI company?

I can only assume the morbidly beneficent version of this, the equivalent of 'the cost of buying takeout twice a week for a month is making us all buy groceries and learn how to cook' because the alternative fills me with sorrow

New newsletter alert. Where I talk about being nominated for the Best Poem Hugo (?!) and remind you that voting is now open. Plus some tunes and some TV thoughts.

Hey. It's ok. Like Kamen Rider Black Sun said,

{Snoop Dogg is in Stranger Than Heaven.} me: this game sounds like a hoot, I'm happy for you Yakuza fans {Tori Kelly is in Stranger Than Heaven.} me: hmm, okay, I am intrigued I think {Ado is in Stranger than Heaven.} me: 👀 {All three are on the game's theme song.} me: I NEED THIS. NOW.

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Watching this YouTube video rating ADHD life hacks has reminded me that a large portion of meeting adult responsibilities is made up of playing make-believe by oneself. Which means, I guess, that once I figure out the reliable way to convince myself I am a Kamen Rider, I'll get much more done.

The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers is now open!! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

One of these days I wanna ask @shaunduke.net about whether there is any crossover between the emergence of modern combat 'sports' like CarJitsu or slapfighting & patriarchy's desire for men to prove they can win in increasingly less likely contests of force for no legitimate sporting reason.

Today is GiveBIG, a day to rally around and support nonprofits! We’re proud to be a part of a rich network of organizations that make Seattle, and Washington state, a better place to live. Your support of @common-area.bsky.social and us means the world! Make a donation here: bit.ly/4eUfi6t

My new Genre Grapevine covers the partnership between Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social and Common AREA Maintenance in Seattle to establish a long-term, affordable space for artist residencies, classes, and other events. Includes interview with @marneechua.bsky.social on what this means for CW.

uuuhhhhhhhhh is the @ipr.bsky.social site down or something?

The Shelf app thinks it can shame me for really enjoying this song, and the Shelf app is mistaken.

happy star wars day we need more star wars media that are about anyone other than the jedi

a totally stupid thought that I am sure has an answer: if a Backerkit campaign stays in overtime forever, does it ever actually have to fulfill?

My whole of anguish when it reached 20 second and then someone backed some mega dungeon somewhere in the universe caused Iris to ask “what’s wrong daddy?”

"Alike, even in illness--Holmes and Watson." Now that we may never get another season of Watson, I have to delight in the fact that Craig Sweeny, just like Robert Doherty in Elementary before him, is fascinated with the same questions of camaraderie under the pain of brilliance.

In the middle of watching the latest Last Week Tonight, and now I kinda want a reason for a side-plot in something I write to involve someone replacing their friend's stash of gas station rhino pills with clean capsules full of pop rocks.

if I had the resources I would dress like this to a con in a heartbeat

me, caught up on Kamen Rider Zeztz: wait, does this mean that Baku taught himself engineering?

My Vorthos brain (and also the brain that is trying to consider this very question in a WIP) can't help but imagine that this is OBVIOUSLY MUCH WORSE AND FAR BLOODIER TO MAINTAIN than simply accepting the aforementioned past suffering which is to say I shall be seated for all of it

Today's tunes: MC Frontalot with something grimly cathartic for the people.

It’s happening! Day 1 of the 2026 Bocas Lit Fest is here and we’re starting off with a writing workshop and the high-energy BackChat! With 50 events over 4 days and 150+ writers, speakers & performers, what’s on your list?👉 bocaslitfest.com/programme #bocas2026 #altogethernow

This will now stick in my brain forever. Not just applying the lottery system, but having frequent conventions similar to the Irish system for debating the larger policy decisions of any region, would be a great deal better than needing to invest all our revolutionary energy in career politicians.

Thursday night! One of the first events of this year’s @bocaslitfest.bsky.social is BACKCHAT! Come take in some poetry, fiction, music and more from some of T&T’s incredible LGBTQI+ talent!

ZOOM had me in a chokehold as a yute.

I don’t get why so many mobile game ads can only resort to the marketing narrative of ‘the person portrayed playing this game is an absolute idiot—ARE YOU?’ It feels like the game marketing equivalent of shilling a game of three-card monte, and immediately puts me off from your game.

at the behest of one of the homies I have now seen a Utena musical and-- what the fuck dawg definitely enjoyed it, but damn

real talk I can take pitchfork's number system one way or the other but purely qualitatively I think The Kid Mero is the people's critic and this video perfectly encapsulates why

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. (It was either this or a gif of Love Machine, and Tenor doesn't have any of my favourite gifs of Love Machine.)

I'm still fundraising for the increased costs of my cancer treatment. I also need new glasses, which aren't cheap here. More details are at the link, but if you could toss a coin to your writer for my birthday next Tues, I'd be grateful. Thanks & please share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

ground floor bookstore, second floor tabletop game shop, third floor small black-box theatre

I really enjoyed our first roundtable discussion on labor rights in higher education on Tuesday evening, and it's now available to all on my YouTube channel--please check it out and share widely! @aaup.org youtube.com/watch?v=r7DY...

Player casting call is still open! We've got DIE RPG, Witch-Hood, and City of Espers being played 👀 and look at these lovely Storytellers hello??? ooooooohhh you wanna apply so baaaadddd tally.so/r/XxYdez

I was going to write a MUCH MORE INTENSE thread about a silly video about how yet again 'it's really feminism failing men because they want them out of the manosphere but won't give them solutions to their unmet social needs' and instead I'll reduce my answer as much as possible to the following:

Bastion of Hope, my campaign frame of defiant fantasy for use with the Daggerheart rules, arrives on retailers April 28th! Here's a free preview of some of what the richly illustrated pdf has to offer: www.patreon.com/posts/bastio...

I am very strongly enamoured of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, so learning they're remaking it does intrigue me. I hope adding more narrative content to the game also means even more Adéwalé.

I just love how the Scary Movie trailers are just the Wayans brothers constantly virtue-signaling that 'there are no safe spaces' and their movie is going to be edgy and risque and 'anti-cancel-culture' but they can't for the life of them equally signal that it will actually attempt to be funny.

turns out 'Ricky September suffers facial trauma and gets really mad about it' is actually a bit intriguing. I will probably really dig this one.

Everything I have learned about Nara Smith has been against my will, but now that I know she has four kids and named them like their 90s action cartoon characters, a reminder that YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT GODDAMN TOYS and they have to grow up with your accursed names for at least a decade.

- creates powerful digital penetration tool completely unprompted - hypes brand by posting about how 'dangerous' it would be 'in the wrong hands' in order to draw select stakeholders to view the product - GETS IN THE WRONG HANDS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY - ShockedPikachu.png

CONGRATULATIONS to the Hugo, Lodestar & Astounding Awards Finalists!!! locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...