(making cupcakes for the oldest kid's #Strahd session tomorrow, which means I'm actually disemboweling cupcakes and loading them up with enough cherry "blood" to blurt all over the place the second someone bites into one, with EXTRA BLURT in a syringe sticking out the top) #Dnd #ttrpg

put my partner in charge of the special effects for the second annual holiday one-shot, so now the kitchen is full of colored lighting and fog machine smoke

revisions aren't complicated, it's just sorting through 100K+ words so the story in my head ends up in your head but also your heart and your thoughts and your dreams no big deal, just doin' a magic while also watching tension, pacing, plot/character development plus grammar and spelling pfffft

WOULD REVISIONS BE EASIER IF I DID THEM IN A GARRET BY CANDLELIGHT WHILE SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE CONTRACTS TUBERCULOSIS AND WE WORRY ABOUT MARRYING THE PRETTY SISTER OFF TO SOMEONE OF MEANS

Leveling up in #daggerheart for the first time is a reminder that you have to be strategic about such things but also not get mired in the One Twoo Way of building a character (I remind myself as I scream into a pillow about needing more stress slots, go fig)

Miss Tish (short for Morticia, our black Chow rescue with a gargoyle underbite) just stole a revision Post-It off my window and started to nom it, so I don't know if the idea is delicious or garbage

one game was paused when I signed up for an online game to go with the other weekly game, then the 1st game fired up again right as I added a family game, but I still have three days of the week free, so really my ttrpg dance card is still half-empty and I should sign up for this game on Thursdays

...but did anyone smell your feet, is the question of the night HEY, I didn't say it was a GOOD question

me during character creation

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

having the kind of day where I am beyond frustrated that extremely creative people I know are struggling and all it would take to fix it is one Exceptionally Wealthy Patron funding a collective that takes up residence in a cavernous, crumbling estate full of ghosts and art supplies, OKAY?

pretty sure my #daggerheart character is going to die (expediently and spectacularly) so I spent five seconds conjuring a back-up and now the original character is Granny Weatherwaxxing me HARD Her: I ate'nt dead Me: YET Her: (glaring intensifies)

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Headed into my first #daggerheart campaign tomorrow, with custom art by @neralis.bsky.social (lightning fast commission and an absolute pleasure to work with!) <3

Playing with a new DM means stifling the urge to ask an almost-stranger to grade my character background like it's homework from an AP English class #daggerheart #ttrpg #awkwarrrrrrd

Go, go, gadget TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES! www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/the-bes...

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

session zero in a #daggerheart campaign today, so I'm having First Day at a New School jitters alongside the inclination to buy five new sets of dice <3

I knew this, but only because I crammed a printer's cabinet in my office. For reasons.

The Gift of Ghosts: 26 Reads for the Young & Young at Heart parnassusmusing.net/2025/10/09/k...

In between campaigns: (ten thousand glee-inducing character ideas) Session 0 rapidly approaching: WHAT ARE NAMES, PRECIOUSSS?

Sequim (go ahead and giggle, I'll wait)

💙📚 an ADORABLE picturebook about accepting all kids into a club "Strictly No Elephants" by Lisa Mantchev; ill. by Taeeun Yoo 🐘 ("The Trouble With Giraffes" is a follow up that recently published) #schoollibrary #bookrec #childrensbooks #readtogether #simonandschuster 10/10 GIFT THIS BOOK

Finishing Calamity and snotting so hard into the sleeves of this sweater that I'm pretty sure I should just burn it instead of trying to wash it. Worth it. 12/10, would snot again.

watching @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social embody Asmodeus in Calamity is gonna give me bad dreams for the rest of my life and also I think I might have peed my pants a little #worthit

Share your favorite black and white movie

gluin' stuff on other stuff. is it heavy? yes. will it probably give me a headache? almost certainly. will I wear it anyway? YUP.

CAKE O'CLOCK IF YOU LIKE CHOCOLATE, SPRINKLES, BOOKS, GIRAFFES, INCLUSIVE SPACES AND/OR FRIENDSHIPPPP #picturebooks #kidlit #strictlynoelephants #petclubseries

(drops this here, because publication daaaay)

Q&A with Lisa Mantchev about her new children's picture book, THE TROUBLE WITH GIRAFFES. tinyurl.com/y4598s88 @lisamantchev.bsky.social

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

(checks calendar) (checks watch) OUT IN A WEEK. Have you preordered your copy yet? <3 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Tr...

recording author-y things is an exercise in trying to keep four rescue dogs quiet while I forget I have old-school clocks that are gonna bing-bong 11 times but not until 11:15 because old clocks and also I hate the sound of my own voice and wtf is up with the faces I'm pulling, plus curse words

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

go ahead and crown yourself The Grand Poobah de Doink of All of This and That this morning, no one can stop you

Get ready for Skullduggery, Launching today at 10am! B&G’s first original 5E urban fantasy campaign companion. Kickstarter launches on Tuesday. Aug. 26th at 10am. Check it out now! shorturl.at/elHQa

I love how art can be a ticket to time-travel. <3

i cannot draw, so please to imagine me hunkered over a small but colorful collection of words, trying to arrange them in a pleasing order while holding the rest of the world back like a shield so you will have something to read that isn't the fuck-awful news

me to whatever poor bastards get stuck talking to me today

what i need: to do a thing what i need to do the thing: a modicum of quiet what i have instead: rampaging animal clown shoes

to reiterate: be more like Sir Terry in every possible way <3

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “Tomorrow, your job is to change the world into a better place. Today, my job is to see that everyone gets there.”

(steps over those vines and into the picture)

the insomnia ain't fun but I'm enjoying the sleep-deprived muses of my brain deciding the absolute best career option open to us right now is to build a tiny hut and sell sugar waffles to children

the urge to make something shiny whilst trapped in the nonstop barrage of shite sliding downhill, atop of, and right over the average creative right now is making my right eyeball twitch

(heavy breathing)

...I don't wanna talk about what it took to get IV and V, but I'm happy to see them join the horde

the amount of potatoes I just shoveled into the air fryer can only be described as "inadvisable" but also "to be expected"

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

“A Story For the Queen” 🐻📕 - A new original painting up on jameshance.com this afternoon ☺️ ✨🎨(Gesso / Acrylic Gouache on Canvas Panel)