Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I think something the Christifascists misunderstand is that martyrdom isn’t meant to be sought. Christians are called to serve their neighbors unto the point of death, but the goal is service, not death. So this is Christlike behavior. This person is laying down their life, but I hope the keep it.

Good morning! We're diving back into worldbuilding prompts for Cosmic Century Knights! A question about long, distance communication turns into a catch-up on a couple deities and then we figure out who the greatest villain in history is (it's exactly who you think) cms.megaphone.fm/channel/OSPN...

@gamewoven.bsky.social adaptation pitch: A k-drama about the court of Ernette. You’ve got a calculating warrior queen, her two loyal knights (one who might be her father and another pining for her), her most loyal advisor (also pining), and a dude with a fucked up face lugging around a big scroll.

“I’m creating the wurst version of myself,” I told her as I opened the spice cabinet. “How did you manage to pronounce the ‘u’ in wurst?” she asked, accustomed to my shtick and infatuated anyway. “Just throw the fennel out, it’s not you and we don’t need it.” And then we made the best me together.

“Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice.” - Anne Lamott

Fun thing about @gamewoven.bsky.social lore is that this story was turned into WMD after someone ate a fish that had eaten it from the person who told it, and that’s not the first time something like this has happened. open.spotify.com/episode/18pM...

Another take at this: I’m LARPing every day with roles I’m deeply familiar with and know the expectations of, to the point that people just assume that’s me. The distance between my self and the character is a fun break and lets me say something instead of being something.

Bashing toys these days. Time was I was in back yards. I got embarrassed, and I hate that about myself. I miss the dignity of not caring about being respectable.

For the late crowd! We’re almost at a third of funding! The reverse sale runs until March!

I picked MM Link specifically because he has one of the most specific and adaptable skill sets. Also, hey, maybe, “A desire to escape things,” is a skill in its own right, maybe it’s not, you can judge for yourself.

Noble criminals, mass murderers and a young hero all meet on Fortnite Island. What terror is unleashed upon the world? *Not actually sponsored by Epic Games. This episode was recorded in mid-2025 before Epic’s AI push and the HP collab shows.acast.com/blorbobattle...

Watching Inside Out 2 with my kid and had this progression of takes: 1. Rylee has a crush on Val. 2. Val also has a crush on Rylee. 3. Oh wait, that’s probably not great, Val is too old for someone literally going through puberty. 4. They both preoccupied with what they represent to each other.

One time someone called me, “An architect of ideas.” I’m only reasonably confident I could explain what was originally meant by that, but in many ways it’s the thing I’m good at. I make things function, coherently when possible. I synthesize elements into something material.

Today is a 2 episode drop doing character building in CCK with @zadkielingreen.bsky.social then @call_me_they and @robbrolling.bsky.social. Character gen in this is a blast and doesn't require a bunch of math or risks making a bad choice. It's procedural and focused on backstory with

I don't like sharing listener numbers for the podcast but I do love a good metric. Bri and I looked at some listener numbers from last year (our first calendar year) and what jumped out at me is the ratio between ep 1 listeners and recent episode listeners is close to 50% What's that mean to me?

I’ve been in the early stages of recapping Season 1 for a few weeks so it’s easier to jump on. But folks, Season 2 is looking like a great season. We’re going to be doing our thing along side it, but we’re also doing the thing most people do with games. This is unexpectedly exciting to me.

Give em hell

Sometimes I feel like an alien for wanting to jump past the uncertainty of what a thing is and get into what you do with it. I’ve seen this several times and it’s maybe the most effective piece of advertising to me specifically for how it hands off a solid premise about the bit I want to play with.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thought I had today: The original intent of the 2A was to work as a sort of equalizer, to allow the weak to punch back against the powerful. In the US, gun culture and violence exists in the broad strokes to let the insecure pick on those weaker than them.

My dad was stocking up on canned and dry goods throughout ‘98 and ‘99 because he was worried about The Millennium Bug. I was 7 and didn’t really know it at the time, but he was basically right to do so and his preparism was motivated by the material prospects, not political paranoia.

As we prep for Season 2, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to recap season 1 of @gamewoven.bsky.social, an interconnected anthology of one shots that operate on very different time, territorial, and narrative scales. I also just read a thing about how Ancient Egypt did archeology on themselves*.

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finally, we're living through precedented times

Fun thing, if you break into his desk in a private study, there’s several volumes of unpublished poems called The Verse of Strahd. They’re bad. Not even unspeakably bad, just the usual kind of bad. His life of privilege has left him with nothing to say.

Gone in 60 Seconds riff set in Barovia where y’all are trying to steal the Hurst of Strahd.

Blades in the Dark mini campaign where you’re robbing Castle Ravenloft. Call it The Purse of Strahd

Circum Curre is canonically a bottom, which is a very funny thing to know given how little Gamewoven engages with sex directly. He’s bi as well, for what that’s worth, and it’s in his backstory that may never actually come up, but is in my head.

#RandomRyku for Disorder: Flowing randomly, Ambiguous, entropic Chaos is alive.

#RandomRyku for the last person I talked to in person Little unicorn. Full of smiles, laughter and joy. Growing up too fast. This almost had to be about a direct family member for me. Lol. Outside of direct family? Theater cleaner, The show is done, yet we sit. After credits time!

I called this “The Orville Peck Principle.“ I did not get on the Internet one day explicitly looking for a masked queer cowboy to start crooning at me, but guess what? It was exactly what I fucking needed.

TTRPG character feature pitch: The Debt of Fortune Your character has Fortune (a supernatural entity or conceptual force as genera appropriate). 1. You have terrible luck at games of chance. As fits the mechanics of your game, you lose about twice as often as you should…

Yeah, I’ve played MtG. You know, Manascrewed: Gathering a hand of cards that aren’t fucking lands.

“Cats in the Cradle,” “Slip Sliding Away,” and “Glory Days” are horror stories to me. They’re songs about people who left their best days behind them. “Thunder Road” is a hopeful song. About going and grabbing the good days ahead. I hope to never need a Thunder Road, but life happens.

When my kid was like a year old, I would put this purple bucket on her head and she’d wear it as a hat. Eventually, she started putting it on herself and walking around with her bucket hat. Eventually her head got too big and now all that’s left is pictures and we’ve moved on to different bits.

Another #RandomRyku for my most socially acceptable vice: The morning rises A fog lifts away from night Without, brain goes brrrrrrrrrr

Back at it with another #RandomRyku, this time for Something I'm proud of: Bone tingling crunch A Horror lurks in the dark Derry waits for you (This one is dedicated to @coffeedetective.bsky.social and the entire AHB crew for their LOSERS: A Love Story adaptation of Stephen King's IT)

Watching Knives Out again. I remember hearing LaKeith Stanfield being pitched to play Willie Wonka and I still want that. You remember how there was that Chalamet one that came out two years ago? Thinking about it for the first time in two years? Anyway, LaKeith Stanfield would have been great.

The best games we’ve featured on @gamewoven.bsky.social tend to be those that are the clearest and most singular, the ones that have their own presence and voice at the table. I am a big believer in what specificity in games does for storytelling.

Another batch of #RandomRyku readings over on the Tikky Tokkies, as @senda.bsky.social likes to say. These are prompts from @zadkielingreen.bsky.social right here on Bluesky: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrvaummW/

Hoard: stuff other people give me. I have willfully acquired very few things and mostly have gifts, hand-me-downs, and things that I’m storing. I don’t really need anything else, so I guess my weakness is being bothered, but if you want a favor you have to ask, so proceed at your own risk.

I’m always a mustache hater anyway, but mixing that with a haircut he stole from a lesbian while he uncritically and illiterately uses fascist apologia to justify his twee murder simulator captioned with an orientalist font… The mustache is the most authentic part of him and it looks stupid.

If you're wondering why creating faceless monsters you can kill without remorse because you feel you *have* to kill something is bad, please read this article I wrote ⬇️ & do read the *whole* article, not just what's available for free. www.rascal.news/ttrpgs-and-t...

The team behind Obojima not only don’t care about Ghibli outside of the aesthetic, they also fully do not understand it. They’re either complete buffoons or actively bad people and the truth likely lies in the middle. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrt9XWWk/

Strawman: “Sure, some disabilities are invisible, but some people do cheat the system.” Me, lighting the strawman on fire: “I recognize that, and I frankly do not care. You motherfuckers only ever bitch about the fraud so you don’t have to actually do anything to help, so shut up.”

I see this and imagine him manically sketching it out while explaining to a room of artists with furrowed brows, taking notes. Then it’s a month later and he walks on the set for the first time since it was finished.