im sorry but dungeons and dragons is not a game where you can "do anything". the game where you can do anything is freestyle roleplaying on the neopets message boards

we're about to be live on Howlround to launch the Book of Trans Plays Vol 2! come hang! howlround.com/happenings/m...

rolled a natural 1 on making a big sandwich at d&d tonight 😔

I love working in TTRPGs because I can be at a planning meeting dealing with a lore reconciliation issue and earnestly say to my collaborators, "would mech suits solve this problem?" (for the record: mech suits did solve it)

fearing the day that listening to Sean Kingston at an unsafe volume won't get me through doing last-minute article edits

it's just me and my talenti jar of peanut butter pretzels against the world

it's out, it's in the world!! tune in to our main podcast feed for the first two episodes of our season of @stillfleet.bsky.social — listen to our brief Explainer to get a sense of how the game works + why we were so excited to play it on the podcast, then dive into our first actual-play episode 👾

really enjoying the avatar selections on my family's shared streaming accounts

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

Me @percivalhornak.bsky.social and @nsorvis.bsky.social went on Why We Roll to chat game stuff! And it’s a back door promo for our UPCOMING SEASON of @dndramanerds.bsky.social, releasing to your podcast feeds on 9/10!!!

We're back with more lovely actual play friends! On this episode, we're joined by Percy Hornak, Nicholas Orvis, and Ben Ferber of ⁠Dungeons + Drama Nerds⁠! As we discuss the intersection of stage plays and games, improv, tiered authorship in TTRPGs, and more. #WhyWeRoll #Podcast #RPG #TTRPG

tonight at our d&d session I did say the sentence "roll to make a croquembouche"

sometimes writing stuff about trans art is just googling "[name] pronouns?" over and over

copiously weeping at the new episode of Game Changer, wysocki-heads are thriving in this chili's tonight

AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

had to be the hottest person in the audience for Prince Faggot tonight for some reason

in order to ensure maximum productivity while i'm writing i work for 25 minutes while my roommate's cat naps next to me, then i spend 5 minutes rumpling his fur, and work for another 25 minutes while he fixes what i have wrought upon him

if you call Twelfth Night Shakespeare's most trans play you have no imagination or understanding of what being trans actually is at all

rolled a nat 20 on developing a new civil infrastructure for the bottom of the continent of Issylra in the penultimate session of our d&d campaign today you better believe my artificer invented trains and public transit

my coworker brought me some Percy Pig candy back from Ireland and unfortunately they may be my new favorite candy (unfortunate only bc it seems like you can only get them in the UK)

what if I asked the panel moderator play to walk-up music for me when I present at academic conferences

the bonus of editing your own podcast is you can drink apparently the loudest drink known to man during your recordings

forgot how when you need to make dinner you can actually just put a bunch of stuff together in a bowl and you need not plan a cohesive dish

writing

I am washing my bedding and my roommate's cat will not be deterred from his habit of spending the morning laying on my bed but as more things go in the wash his nest is shrinking and I fear what will happen when I have to wash the final blanket

practicing queer vulnerability (finishing my greek yogurt bowl on camera during zoom writer's group)

Last night my roommate and I decided Snoopy would probably be a libertarian if he had the right to vote and it is eerie how many people arrive at that conclusion on their own when we've asked them about it

"brother" (affectionate) versus "bro" (derogatory)

something has happened to my tiktok for you page and now I desperately want to see Pitbull in concert

it was shockingly easy to assemble a closet cosplay of Pete Conlan for Gauntlet at the Garden tonight and that's on being a trans guy who's a little bit of a dirtbag

artificers are so so much fun to play that is all

boston rob has brought the fine art of the blindside to The Traitors and i cannot get enough of it

forgot how much I missed hearing Alan Cumming say the word murder

why did google put a national day of mourning for jimmy carter on my calendar without my consent

shouldn't have waited until the end of the year to transcribe my conference notes out of my bullet journal bc I have NO IDEA what any of this means

tonight my roommate and I made latkes and built gingerbread houses and it was immaculate

setting up my bullet journal for next year + am feeling grateful for the ways this practice has been with me since 2017 and how it has evolved since then :~) and for the spread of musicals I want to familiarize myself with that has lingered all these years that I have yet to really chip away at

someone took the crossword out of the newspaper in the café which is an extremely cruel action to take against me, the barista

I am generally speaking not a sci-fi guy despite many friends' efforts to sway me but damn Hyperion has me in its clutches

getting cozy and reorganizing my entire google drive

I had every intention of watching another movie but HBO Max successfully convinced me that tonight truly is my last chance to re-watch Goodfellas so I better seize on this opportunity

it's really crazy how a new relationship and working at a coffee shop where you are on aux for 20ish hours per week will warp your spotify wrapped

Hop on over to the feed for the finale of our campaign of Our Haunt, featuring a gathering of the Living's coven as the clock ticks forward into the beginning of the year 2000... Listen now: linktr.ee/dndramanerds

nothing convinces me more that human beings are instinctually inclined to help each other and work towards shared goals than unreliable public transit and confusingly numbered theater seats

my favorite part of Starlight Express trending on tiktok because of butch lesbian Greaseball is the musical dweebs who are annoyed about it as though there is a normal and objectively correct way to come to love a musical about sentient trains

as punishment for being out of town for a week my roommate's cat is trying to smother me

I think, if I'm honest with myself, the skill I'd most like to improve on is the Adrian Monk or Benoit Blanc style of speech in which he explains with great detail and panache who did a crime and how

seeing cole escola riding a beautiful flamingo in the parade made me emotional