I love surfing BSKY and finding some crazy rad hot art like this.

Yeah baby

Go Play NW Seattle is right around the corner! It's time to peruse the Scheduled Games goplaynw.org/seattle/even... , or be awesome and Submit a Game goplaynw.org/run-an-event/ to facilitate! Game submissions close on July 17th! If scheduling isn't for you, we'll see you at the Donut!

Sitting at the Couth Buzzard in Greenwood, catching up on some writing and long overdue Patreon admin tasks.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

So many great artists on here! Just reposting some stuff today.

Remember, kids...

I’m so happy with how the glaze came out on my coelacanth dish! I was afraid I’d made a mess of it and it would be a disaster but it came out better than I hoped. I want to make more large fish dishes!

In 2003 I learned how to read the Daedric alphabet from The Elder Scrolls by having this map, which came packaged with Morrowind, laid out on my bedroom floor and decoding which letter matched to each on the placenames dotted around the island. I would not have done so with a link to a pdf.

Finished the big illustration! I started it on June 23rd. Though I had day job and stuff too. Will post the whole thing to Patreon within the hour.

Morning drawing time

15 years ago, I was hearing about how "information is scattered in emails, meetings, documents, and file shares. Now SharePoint brings it all together." Well now "information is scattered in chats, meetings, documents, and SharePoint sites. Now Copilot brings it all together."

NOT FOR EVERYONE open.substack.com/pub/seanaabe... "I have come to understand my work like a stinky cave cheese. Some people love it, but it really isn’t mild cheddar. However, it got me thinking, people are fine with & embrace exotic foods. What I go for is the visual equivalent of spicy food."

Beautiful and heartbreaking

Times I was gaslit today.

Just read The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods by @louisinglishall.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and it is a damn fine story.

I have only owned this HP printer for five minutes and I am already SO ANGRY.

This is my Westclox Dialite electric alarm clock that I got for 10 bucks at a thrift store. A thread.

In my happy place..

Morning pages

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Scribble

Fictional cartography is so cool! Check out his work if you enjoy fantasy maps!

There’s an excellent documentary about it called Let The Fire Burn, which is hard to watch but very important.

At this little coffee shop in Seattle, and Delicious in Dungeon is playing on the screen.

Incidentally, while the madness of the Neverending Megadungeon Month persists, why not take a look at @tonydowler.bsky.social‘s Salamander Mines and give him a well-deserved pledge, too? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

You make characters together, drawing the scrap-heap mechs you pilot literally on each others sheets. Gameplay ambles through wasteland maps illustrated by the great @tonydowler.bsky.social, where you start off kinda busted and get stronger as you overcome challenges, ending in blazes of glory!

Every once in a while you read a piece of writing that inspires and clarifies, sheds light on past events and dissipates the shroud of the present. J Michael Straczynski's introduction to The Last Dangerous Visions is such a writing.

Salamander mines progress so far! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

I haven't been showing this art enough! Funding now on Backerkit. The Crossroads connects the great stair to the deep mines and other dungeon regions. The once luxurious baths now play host to a variety of creatures and dangers, but also fabulous treasure. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

I haven't been showing this art enough! Funding now on Backerkit. The Crossroads connects the great stair to the deeps mines and other dungeon regions. The once luxurious baths now play host to a variety of creatures and dangers, but also fabulous treasure. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Salamander Mines timelapse: www.youtube.com/shorts/2IpjZ...

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Boy, I should really lay off the rants while I've got a crowdfunding project live, shouldn't I.

This is why Substack drives me crazy now. I like to learn. I like to understand things. I can't learn anything from a writer who has already picked the conclusion for me.

So the Catholic Church has um issues. But still: the American Pope is a global leader with a huge audience who is responding to Trump in public, without fear, and calling out the violence. There’s nothing they can do about it either. Neither bribes or threats will avail them. It’s lovely to see

We’ve just announced our first Secret Stretch Goal: The Brindlewood Bay crossover mystery! To unlock it, we have to beat what BBay raised on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

The Ghost Crest Peak map I did for @indestructoboy.bsky.social is now uploaded on my Patreon for personal use. 🧭 www.patreon.com/posts/155278... #ttrpg #dnd #osr

Launching today! I'm down sick today, so I'm not making quite the fuss I planned to, but come check out my megadungeon poster on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Excited for this! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sea...

So, going to have to limit my Salamander Mines poster to US/Canada only. I'm getting really contradictory information about shipping international--crazy prices, added taxes and duties. Unfortunately, it just seems too risky. Books I can still do using Drive-thru, but no poster is disappointing. :(