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for fucks sake 😭

i will have update on TSAU soon i prommyyy. the sicknesses and associated troubles are conspiring against me but i am gonna get this game into the world like a beautiful a5 staple-bound venus rising from her clamshell. you'll see

played another game of THE SEA AROUND US. don't go hunting for beached squids in the carnivorous saltmarsh, kids.

Here's some waves for aabody as needs some North Sea in this heat.

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 (Roman mosaic from circa 150-225 from a villa in Gargaresc in Triplolitania. Happy Cancer season, you emotive crabs).

They are calling her "the coziest cephalopod in the world" 🦑📷henrycarrick (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

i'm so tired and hot but also wine-buzzed and hyper and want to yap UH OH. tell me what you are working on rn or what your pet did today or your favourite hot weather dinner recipe or your most annoying literature opinion

if you buy my PDFs i will only spend it on 80s gaming magazines, dubious geographical journals, and cigarette cards with little paintings of amoebas on them, then cut them all up with scissors

NEW BOOK ALERT 28 page sci-fi bestiary styled as a vintage naturalist book. if you're a fan of Pikmin, speculative biology, or just looking at little beasties, you may enjoy Observations of a Small Boulder in Hantu Forest digital release only for now ordheist.itch.io/observations

O - The Fool #illustration #art #tarot I might make these in order but tell me your faves

Since 2013, researcher Mohammed Abu Daya has monitored fisheries' impacts on spinetail devil rays in Gaza. Operating from a displacement camp with limited resources, his ongoing work underscores the extreme conditions under which frontline marine data is being gathered. A interview by Lyse Mauvais.

museum sketching (fresnel light)

Do you like games? Do you like making games? Can you come to Sheffield on July 18th/19th? Come make Games For Crabs! An experimental game design weekend. Sign up at gamesforcrabs.co.uk! Do it now, before you forget. #gamesforcrabs #gamedesign

why is every fly and also every mosquito in london currently inside my living room

lord i am having an Evil Week. thank god love and friendship exist. also cats. also wine

allegory of the cave, "multiple personalities", cyberpunk god it sounds so bad, and so possible

announcing something this week but what???

I've just released my latest solo RPG, A Witch's Pilgrimage, check it out here! crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/witchs-pilgr... Play as a witch travelling between sites of spiritual significance collecting ingredients for a ritual to bring your familiar back to life.

here's a piece i don't think i've shared yet from THE SEA AROUND US 🌊🌞 wishing you all a kind solstice

Charm the Ferryman just released! A 3-5 player game of ridiculous storytelling on a romp across the underworld to collect items and stories to convince Charon to ferry you back across the River Styx. johnson-ofair.itch.io/charm-the-fe... All your stories are canon, make new underworld lore!

"genAI is really bad for the planet" "it's fine to collect dice endlessly forever and not even use them! you do you" i feel so insane here sometimes (as someone who fucking loathes genAI and does like dice as objects! i know they are on a different scale. there is still a point here. fight me)

he's making zines on the work printers

astoundingly good point Laurie. this extends to printing, as well. how can we prove, as consumers and publishers of books printed in countries with poor labour protections, that no forced labour, labour exploitation, or dangerous employment practices are happening at our printshops?

Which is saying a lot because I DON'T LIKE AI. I just like less the fact that for so many creators our solidarity and willingness to make a fuss to change things ends at... ourselves?

The events industry has a very high risk for modern slavery in general, as do merchandise supply chains. Bootleggers dont care to check their shit and a lot of independent artists don't know how, but I'd personally rather have an AI keychain than one made by a child or indentured person

i think about this all the damn time and i beg the rest of you to do the same. research your supply chain! campaign against AI and extend that energy to other destructive capitalist excesses too.

Need people to stop debating whether he is ultimately a "good man" while I drink this gallon of schadenfreude.

here's a piece i don't think i've shared yet from THE SEA AROUND US 🌊🌞 wishing you all a kind solstice

fell asleep and dreamed that to post on this site you had to etch your message into the blade of a knife. and the knives wouldn't work to attack anyone. UNLESS. a person tried to talk to you about your knife without first reading what it said

A mari places the sun - Hope everyone has a blessed Solstice

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tabletop unconference has not really helped with my ideas problem but rather left me contemplating a castle of otranto rpg and also a game with evolving mechanics somehow rooted in how people's knowledge of what dinosaurs look like has changed so vastly over time save me

collage game/game collage agenda advances play along at home with your latest thing + whatever the charity shop provides. it's a good time!

✨JUNETEENTH MUTUAL AID THREAD ✨ Here’s a thread with Black folks you can support in celebration of #Juneteenth. Do some good - even if you’re sending $3 to a Black person to treat themselves to a dessert or a coffee! Circulate & give to at least one person in the thread if you have the means 💜

Shimmering through the darkness 🦑✨️⁠ ⁠ This long-armed jewel squid (Stigmatoteuthis dofleini) was observed at 840 meters (2,760 feet) on the outer Monterey Canyon. This species is a close relative of the strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis), but sightings by MBARI's ROVs are much less common.

Folks, it is NOT from 1936. It's the World War 2 edition of Monopoly! There are a couple of wooden dice but it also includes a paper spinner 'owing to the difficulty in obtaining dice'. We've also got weird wooden tokens instead of the usual player pieces due to 'wartime restrictions'.

okay seeing this was the push i needed to start an itch collection of (mechanically) papercrafty tabletop things lmk if you have a game that should go in here itch.io/c/7672798/co...

This is really cool. A print, cut & play paper miniatures kit. johnny-faina.itch.io/dungeon-deco...

Nudibranch (2026) Watercolor and graphite on paper 7.5 x 9.5 inches #art #illustration #painting #nudibranch

MILTON IN MY TOLKIEN PODCAST jfc i need to hurry up my middle-earth re-read so i can listen to more than the first hobbit episode

[Pope's waiting room] Me: [chanting] schism, schism- Other Catholics: schism, SCHISM Cardinal Secretary of State: [pounding his clipboard] SCHISM, SCHISM, SCHISM!

slapping together an experimental games/collage workshop plan to bring along to this tomorrow, see you there??

added this to my reference site just now: toadrefs.carrd.co also ty @inkcapjournal.bsky.social whose news digest made me aware of this amazing new resource!

sick sick sick sick sick

order of the tender apple slice

Interesting jam!

the way to make this website bearable if not necessarily "good" btw is to follow a lot of artists, biologists and archaeologiests. the other way is to do literally anything else but i have zero self discipline so the first method is essential

An old drawing of mine, which I didn't have for very long. It contains something I am looking for, being slightly lost with my work for sometime, I am to revisit this again.

i like to collect animal teeth from the shores of the thames 🦷🌊 it's also meant to be a play on 'tooth and claw' because i love tennyson greatly; it didn't occur to me that it only works in non-rhotic pronunciations until after i made it the name of my game imprint