Come join @karenpinchin.bsky.social and me next Friday, online at the Creative Nonfiction Collective, for playful ways to get that nonfiction manuscript off your desk and into the world! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/programming/...

Reminder—@jmstar and I made a short, wickedly comic larp about a crew of newscasters weathering censorship. sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast

@jmstar.bsky.social and I are designing a game with the tentative title “We Cannot Contain the Spider Baby.”

Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the US. My latest, in the Washington Post. #ovatures www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...

Six of Hounds (Me and @lizziestark.bsky.social) is looking for folks to playtest a small activism game called Slow Walk. It's for 2-9 participants/1-2 hours and requires in-person play. We need some external testing. Let us know if you are interested!

The price of eggs is high…but not yet gold rush egg high, as I reported a couple years back. #dozenovatures #egg lithub.com/how-a-war-ov...

@lizziestark.bsky.social and I are working on a new game and I got to playtest it at Larp Shack so that's pretty good. I always want a first playtest to be like "this is perfect and you are geniuses" but that does not happen, so I'll take "you learned a lot and have much more work to do".

No, no, no, no, no. Dorothy Allison can’t be gone. It is too soon. x.com/MsSapph/stat...

Ever wanted to attend a spooky surreal dinner party? Check out @jmstar.bsky.social and my new scenario, Sluga. sixofhounds.itch.io/sluga

Ever wanted to star in a romantic indie film? This fall in NYC you can, as Sinking Ship Creations brings Bjarke Pedersen and my two person larp To The Bitter End to NYC this November. Bring a friend, and dare to fall in love and lose it. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/bitter-end

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #949,532! Not too impressive, but I guess I’m one in a million (ten million?)

Did you miss #GenerationAnalog2024 panel with @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social? Lizzie and Jason discussed how the pandemic dramatically changed their design process, and how it continues to impact their practice and community. #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCl...

Sinking Ship is doing a whole season of larps this fall and it is such an interesting approach to presenting this material. @randylubin.com and I wrote a game that is invariably excellent and will involve a boat ride to the place where Hamilton got got. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/larp-se...

Get tickets for Sinking Ship's new season of interactive theater below. My two-person romance game, with collab Bjarke Pedersen is on offer this November, along with a slate of other great experiences. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/larp-se...

Enjoy an afternoon constitutional in Heddington-Goodge, and take a gander at this quaint offering from @lizziestark.bsky.social and @jmstar.bsky.social: The Gooseberry Marriage. Don't forget your old spoon!

Six of Hounds' new larp features romance, property lines, and of course, a coveted antique SPOON! Check out our new script for THE GOOSEBERRY MARRIAGE! sixofhounds.itch.io

TFW You're on the hunt again... www.tiktok.com/@w.w.norton/...

It's EGG season again. I'm proud to say the paperback hits shelves next week. Now is a great time to preorder! Today's egg fact: scientists believe that remote mountain lakes have fish in them because some fish eggs can survive life in a bird's digestive tract. bookshop.org/.../egg-a-do....

World's oldest intact egg subjected to MRI! www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

The Chinese edition of EGG has arrived on my doorstep, almost as if my dinner of tomatoes and eggs conjured it!

Excited and delighted to see that JSTOR named my chapter on San Fran's Egg Wars (excerpted in Lit Hub) one of the best reads of the year. #ovatures #eggblog daily.jstor.org/best-of-sugg...

Anyone have a VPN they adore?

Terrarium update…

Chuffed that Egg: A Dozen Ovatures is a Staff Pick for NPR’s Best Books of the Year! #ovatures apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

"Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts.

Will I be spray painting this Wardian Case black? Bless my gothic soul, yes! What is a Wardian Case? A terrarium developed by a mid-19th century doc whose love for plants also bordered upon a sickness, connecting us across centuries. Got painting tips? Call it an early birthday present...

Today’s exercise in self-restraint: I’m served Iron Man skeets, but decline to demand that everyone stop maligning my uncle Tony.

my department at UC Santa Cruz is hiring a teaching professor working at the intersection of games and performance with an emphasis on experimental and activist art. reach out to me if you're interested in applying: [email protected] recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01619

I'm headed to Westport CTfor StoryFest this weekend, to talk EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES & game design. Catch me Sat: 3 p Tiny Table Talk w/Cassandra Khaw & Kerstin Rao @ Brooks Place on Game Writing.   4-5 p The Incredibly True Adventures of…, Main Stage #storyfest2023 #ovatures #books

Today's the last day to submit! You can do it!

@jmstar.bsky.social & I have your fall larps here: Try We Are Not Vampires, a reality show for totally normal humans. Want more than blood? Eat pie & die dramatically in our brand new party larp Pie Trust. #sixofhounds #larp sixofhounds.itch.io/we-are-not-v... sixofhounds.itch.io/pie-trust

Come design a game this week! Maybe win an award?? Due Date: October 13th! Sssssssssssss goldencobra.org

Want to support our hard work finding you the coolest stuff while supporting other gender marginalized voices in ttrpgs and larps? Drop us a few dollars at patreon!!!! Thank you! https://www.patreon.com/moreseatsrpg

Star Crossed is my favorite RPG of all time. Every experience I have had with this game is one I treasure. If you haven't played it, you should. If you have, you know how special it is. An expansion is so exciting and you should support it! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Hello from the plague house, where everyone has COVID. (We are OK! Just sick.)