New to the #SoloRPG List: Midnight's Kiss by @sethanikeem.bsky.social Romance your perfect vampire lover. Paranormal Romance journaling game that embraces positive representation of LGBTQIA+ stories and where healthy consensual relationships take centre stage. LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

National Parks exist because people fought to stop logging, mining, and development. These places were protected on purpose.

That is a fantastic homage for those who know what that is an homage to 🖤🏳️‍🌈

Some words take us back immediately. Dallas. Columbine. Sandy Hook. And, Kent State, which happened 56 years ago today. We remember "Four dead in Ohio," but let us also remember their names... Allison B. Krause, 19. William Knox Schroeder, 19. Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20. Jeffrey Glenn Miller, age 20.

We won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting @chicagotribune.com! Our entire newsroom covered Midway Blitz with everything we had. I’ve never been prouder of the Tribune or its commitment to the truth. It’s an honor to be part of this team.

My Star Wars story #MayTheFourth

May the 4th When the first Star Wars came out (A New Hope) it was a few weeks before my final open-heart surgery - the one that would fix or end me I was four I desperately wanted to see the movie. My uncle took me as a last hurrah - just in case What a story to carry with me into the unknown ❤️

Today’s cat is having his bath in the sun #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

Mothman needs to harbinge its doom, stat

I will not turn the Plague Cruise into a story prompt… I will not turn the Plague Cruise into a story prompt… I will not turn the Plague Cruise into a story prompt… 🐀🦠💀

Run a massive V:tM LARP at Origins in Philadelphia Yearn for such a fine group of like-minded folk back home that I gather a cluster of Goths, queers & creatives outside the Arabica in the Coventry neighborhood in Cleveland that becomes so iconic, we inspire The Gothic Rainbow

So it goes So it always goes: The suits bleed the talent dry The suits get rich The talent dies

My brain will not take a break, so I’m already noodling about another genre-inspired journaling game Hard to resist having that much fun with favorite tropes Thinking Cosmic Horror next - unless there’s a pithy name for 80s Stephen King coded Kids-on-Bikes horror that has heretofore eluded me

Games are a unique art form. They are direct instructions, with an audience primed to follow them. They are unlike music. Unlike graphic arts. Unlike fiction. Game design is about how instructions focus us, inspire us, outrage us, motivate us, reveal us, help us connect to each other.

So... Do you finally believe it's a genocide?

So … what’s up with the bomb threats at zoos lately? They hit every major zoo in #Ohio today: Cleveland, Akron, Columbus & Toledo:

New to the #SoloRPG List: Help! I'm Trapped in a Gothic Novel by @sethanikeem.bsky.social All the tropes you love from Gothic literature with you at the heart of the story. LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Fresh community copies on my @itch.io at Darkheart Games #TTRPG More FREE copies have been added to the following games: 🌈Rainbow Bridge 🐦‍⬛Feast of Ravens 🪄Counterspell 💀Boneyard 🧛🏻‍♂️Midnight’s Kiss 📖Library of Blood and Bone 🦇Help! I’m Trapped in a Gothic Novel

The 2020s are the decade wherein we learn those TED Talk guys presented as Much More Intelligent Than You™️ are really quite dumb Blisteringly dumb Also selfish, petty, and cruel They sold Overweening Ego as a brand & pretended it made them special

Today’s cat is hugging her favorite human #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.

I love the way the cover for my latest journaling game came together I’m not an artist & this had zero budget. But I knew the look I wanted So many museums have made their collections available for use, there’s no excuse to slop it up with AI Fuseli’s work was easy to find And it’s perfect:

Food hack: When you crisp up your pierogis in a pan after boiling, dust them with a little Brady Street Cheese Sprinkle from Penzey’s

Had so much fun leaning into all the classic Gothic tropes to create this atmospheric journaling game for @gothhoblin.me ‘s birthday jam Already working on the lay-out for a print version to submit to IPR (would compliment Midnight’s Kiss nicely)

Today’s cat has an outdoor friend #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

🦇 Solo RPG 🦇 Journaling game 🦇 Gothic literary tropes 🦇 100% human made 🦇 Created as a gift for a friend 🦇 Vampires, curses & ghosts The game: HELP! I’m Trapped in a Gothic Novel Find it on @itch.io now: xoshdarkheart.itch.io/gothic-novel...

Many thanks to @alderdoodle.bsky.social whose Gothic design elements dropped at the best possible moment

Finished! Grab a copy of my new solo journaling game: Help! I’m Trapped in a Gothic Novel Brimming with tropey genre goodness. Grab a candelabra & escape across the moor! #goth #ttrpg #solorpg Free copies available for those buying nothing today xoshdarkheart.itch.io/gothic-novel...

I’m so tired of moral panics Could we have some immoral panics for a change? Something like, “The straights are boring. Oh, the horror!”

You know the thing that has always baffled me with US voting maps? Every state is already divided into counties (or parishes – the term may differ, but the concept is the same) We should simply vote by county and screw all this districting shit

This fuckers never stop

Today’s cat is not amused. #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

A glorious Walpurgisnacht to all who celebrate. May Chernabog come down from the mountain to carry off all the vile people ruining this world 🔥

PSA: Any of your friends who’ve done advocacy work for marginalized populations in the US over the past few decades – Black folks, especially – are having a very rough couple of days Hope feels like a cruel tease I don’t know how we fix this. I don’t know if it can be fixed. Be kind, please.

Today’s cat is from the archives: meet brothers Sugar and Cream with baby Isis in the background. My college cats. #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky.

Next project with an impending deadline: A solo journaling game Help! I’m Trapped in a Gothic Novel #TTRPG

This is in my neck of the woods. If you want to support kids in my part of Ohio, this is a good place to do it (yay, books!)

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

After seeing pics of @cultauthor.bsky.social ‘s presentation last night, you will have a hard time convincing me that he is not literally Odin the Wanderer come down to spread magic through story

Got a thing in ahead of one of my deadlines Given everything unfolding in the world, I think that outstrips one of the Labors of Hercules

If you belong to a marginalized community in the US, you know (and have likely known your whole life) that you do not live in a free country Rights & justice in the US are conditional and always have been The criteria for access have merely grown narrower Can we change this? We haven’t yet

I want to be sure folks understand this headass argument Federal courts held that Louisiana enacted a racist gerrymander, so Louisiana finally passed a fair map instead Now the Supreme Court says Replacing a racist map w/ a not-racist map is ALSO illegal racism ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

They are not rights & they are certainly not inalienable if a few well-placed cronies can write them away

Dreams last night #DreamJournal Skullduggery on a (nuclear?) submarine; keeping my intersex status closeted to avoid scrutiny so I could continue whatever infiltration adventure I was on (spy games!) Surrendered my phone to my handler so she could grab a video & she had Opinions™️ about my music

Today’s cat is black cat love #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

You ever see something so socially awkward it makes your skin crawl?

Lazy D&D mimic that appears as a magical suit of armor Doesn’t even have to open its mouth to swallow you