ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond

My Kingdom Hearts hood will be up for silent auction on November 18th! Which means it's time for my anxious imposter syndrome to kick into overdrive until then 😅 Get your early donations in now!

I honestly think it's the learning curve. You see the game on an actual play, or hear about it and you want to play so badly... only you don't know anyone to run it for you. And if your friends Are interested (getting a group together is another Thing) then someone has to hit the books.

I got my #twitchaffiliate email this morning! 🥳 Which means I now have some stuff to set up on top of some other deadlines I need to meet this week, so join me for a couple hours of co-working with crafting breaks while I try to get through it all! #coworkingstream #twitchstreamer

Hit credits on Hades 2 tonight! What a hecking game! And now i gotta keep playing because I haven't smooched anyone yet! And I guess to find the Fates or whatever.

It looks like we're maybe one stream away from hitting affiliate! 👀 Come hang out while I play some more Graveyard Keeper, and let's see if we can get there! #twitch #twitchstreamer #smallstreamer #graveyardkeeper www.twitch.tv/islanderscaper

Here it is! OCtober, all in one gallery over on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpg-...

take your noise cancelling earplugs out and hold them in your hand while you drift back to sleep, half awake me thought. it'll be fine. you definitely won't let go and wake up 3 hours later having LOST them.

If you canceled Disney+ because of Kimmel or boycotted Target or whatever, also please vote in your local elections, where you can make direct, clear change in your community.

This pasta can usually be made for under ten bucks and eaten over two meals: -Pastaroni (either garlic butter or the herb one) -Keilbasa or other sausage -A bag of spinach Make the pastaroni as instructed on the package. While the water and milk are boiling, chop up the sausage and cook in a pan--

I've extended my Halloween sale! Until midnight tonight, get 31% off all four of my games, including the hit Lasers and Feelings hack Hex & the City, or nab all four for 10 bucks! itch.io/s/163359/hal...

14 hours to go on the Halloween sale!

I got to play the game I wrote for the first time since I released it, and it's still some good fun! I played a secret occult society member who got to be suspicious af. In the end, a ghost got away with murder!

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

If you think Republicans losing their shit about Canada airing an ad with Reagan’s own words is crazy, let me remind you about the time that they lost their shit over NPR tweeting the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day.

People did warn me when I was younger to pursue high-paying fields, and I always shrugged them off. I thought, “I’m not a materialistic person, I don’t want to live in luxury—I’ll be fine making a modest salary. Money’s not important to me.” Turns out you need a shitload of money just to be broke.

I cannot believe I'm struggling to write 500 words. Grad school what have you done to me.

Spent this afternoon talking to some Girl Scouts about making comics! Met so many talented artists, voracious readers, and curious minds at their first ever mini Comic Con event. It was such an honor to be part of the fun! 💖🤘

Honestly "Book Lust" is the best name for the ravenous feeling of wanting to get your hands on a book immediately. Thanks Nancy Pearl.

I have only lived in two cities with trains as part of public transit, but i swear to god Chicago's L never had this many issues.

Publishers de-prioritizing children's books is just crappy, but it's also shortsighted financially: 1. Kidlit is recession-proof! Parents will always need to buy books for kids. 2. If you're not fostering the next generation of readers, then you won't have a consumer base 10-20 years from now.

Today would be the perfect day to curl up with a book between classes but I left all my books at home. I don't even have an emergency mass market paperback.

It's so gloomy outside and all I want to do is sleep but I have homewooooooork 😭

I (known hard cover disliker) have to wait a whole year to get my hands on a paperback copy of a book, and it is so annoying. Though it has made me use my public library more, it does make me spend less on books.

Any indie #ttrpg creators in the Toronto area down for an interview in the next couple of weeks? I've got a paper I'm still figuring out the parameters for (probably about creating and refining an indie ttrpg) and I need interviewees! Alas, it does have to be in person, so no one outside the GTA.

i'm starting to think hot dogs just aren't very good in canada

Why Are Your Poems so Dark? Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. - Linda Pastan #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

As I mentioned, I made a murder mystery Firebrands game. There's Been A Murder! has been out for over a year and I would love for more folks to check it out. saintguard.itch.io/theres-been-... #ttrpg #gmless

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new. What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

as someone who had to use the wayback machine to get some pdfs for their portfolio this summer, cosigned

I need the weather to stay in the mid 60s for a little while longer pls. You owe me this.

I think one of my love languages is having poultices applied to me.

of all the things to try and make "cozy," I don't think horror works. Or thrillers. The emotions those genres are meant to invoke are the opposite of cozy to me.

Fe wants to run a ttrpg or some really complicated board game (Mel secretly also wants that but is Too Cool for it). Celeste and Dom want to play card games (Celeste because her family taught her and Dom so they can cheat). Quinn makes them compromise with Red Dragon Inn.

In my latest newsletter, I discuss the work ethic of AI assistants, share a new story, and prepare for the launch of my new book. kenliu.substack.com/p/please-don...

why is my 1pm class harder to get to than my 7am one by all accounts it doesn't make any sense.

Last Light of the Icarus is out now! It's about an hour long and free (pwyw), and I'm in it as the voice of the ship's AI Melinoë! Please check it out! 🙌 inkmeteor.itch.io/last-light-o...

Lavender lattes make getting up at 7 am ALMOST worth it.

oh no i need this

There is no God, start a literary magazine

Hi #pretendpanel! I think my favorite might be Calista, but her project is currently on the back burner. In my current project, it's probably Dom.

I am starting to think 10 years of employment have worn my ability to write a coherent paper away to nothing.

My favorite part of the apocalypse has been the constant fatigue

Using ai for brainstorming is hilarious and pathetic, bro. What, you can't tap into your brain meat and whip up tornadoes of lore? Hurricanes of world building?? An amalgamation of tsunamis crashing weird scattered shit ashore??? Skill issue.

Any indie #ttrpg creators in the Toronto area down for an interview in the next couple of weeks? I've got a paper I'm still figuring out the parameters for (probably about creating and refining an indie ttrpg) and I need interviewees! Alas, it does have to be in person, so no one outside the GTA.

Good morning to everyone who had a major crush on Sailor Jupiter as a kid, and and good morning to those lesbians only.

I have given entire talks on why The Nightmare Before Christmas is, almost certainly in spite of Tim Burton, a fantastic educational tool on how cultural appropriation works. On how consuming a cultural touchpoint for your own, and then regurgitating it and missing the point, lessens the thing.

Well, hey, I could use the help while I’m job hunting 👀 ko-fi.com/islanderscaper