Never enough time to stop feeling burnt out.

New on the blog: Why Solo RPGs? An invitation to find your fun wherever and whenever you can, especially if times are hard, and especially if you are busy. When we find delight in life, we can kindle the inner flame that helps us illuminate the lives of others. katrinaostrander.com/why-solo-rpgs/

Conversation came up around a gaming table yesterday about only seeing part 1 of a 2-part TV episode as a kid because of just never being able to catch part 2 airing, and how this is a struggle that probably seems totally alien to kids these days.

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“Sophie-Wan Kenobi…that is a name I have not heard in a long time.”

If I could make something official using any Nintendo property of my choice, I’d choose Star Fox and it isn’t close.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

What’s it like to have a brain that functions as intended?

i'm still injured and unavailable for any short-term projects, but if you're an art director looking to expand your roster of creatives for anything in Q3-Q4 of 2026, i'm your guy! #portfolioday

Okay. I need a boost here. Looking for artists. We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood. I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles. Links? Tags? Self-promo?

Dear Google, When I Google the term “palisade,” by itself, I promise I want to know about the fortification, not the Hyundai. Just give me Wikipedia.

The part of my brain that does thinking is just permanently broken.

As someone who had a lot of those Playmates Star Trek ships as a kid, and as someone who has a lot of models of Star Trek ships as an adult, Scholastic really missed a merch opportunity not making a 1:1 scale Helmacron ship.

I was so psyched about the new Divinity. Was. I doubt my opinion matters to @larianstudios.com but I’m not interested in a product made in the way that has been described, for a variety of reasons.

With almost a month now to chew on Wicked: For Good, I think the biggest missed opportunity of these film adaptations is the total lack of any meaningful comment on the gold standard. It’s like they don’t even have opinions on William Jennings Bryan!

So @wrenouttatime.bsky.social and I finished watching Signs & Portents (the first season of Babylon 5) last night, and…honestly it was better than I remembered! (This is my second watch of the series, and Wren’s first.)

Are you ready to rumble? 💪 Overcome the challenges in the Arena Rumble, and gain a new ally in Sacred Sand! Arriving in our 2.0 update ➡️ sflk.gg/2-0-deep-dive

It’s @itch.io creator day AND the start of the Black Friday Sale! Grab CHVLR for just $5 until next Thursday! susanahgrace.itch.io/chvlr #ttrpg #solorpg #gundam

I have told the Pioneer Press 5 times in the last week that I do not live in St. Paul anymore and I am In fact many states away. No, I do not want to renew my subscription. Getting to the point I’m considering subscribing and then letting them sort out delivering a copy of the Sunday paper to PA.

Hey social media, give me non-monogamous fantasy book recommendations. Not hard sci-fi, not love triangles, not something that is gonna make me depressed or have nightmares, just a frikken fiction where characters get to have relationships with more than ONE OTHER PERSON.

Finally got some interim brain meds after several weeks without. I used to just be like that all the time!

FNAF/Scott Cawthon should not be supported in any way. Don't buy/stream his games, give money to the franchise, watch the movies, etc. He uses his gains FROM FNAF to support harmful legislature and candidates on the right. Which is bad, yes? Stop supporting him. He deserves nothing.

Last night I played Descent: Legends of the Dark (2021) for the first time* and it was pretty fun. *with an actual copy of the game

My shiba (who is fourteen and a half now) has such a white face that it is visible in even fairly dark rooms, while the rest of her isn’t. She is also very quiet and likes to stare. This means I often look up to see a disembodied face staring at me from a darkened stairwell or from under a table.

I almost forgot! I've got some new art for y'all! I've been itching to paint the SNW Enterprise for some time and finally got around to it! Did I sneak a little bit of gay into this one? Yes. Yes I did.

18:00 - Realize it somehow took you 4 hours to eat lunch.

ADHD + WFH Freelance 09:00 - Take meds. Let dogs out. Play a mobile game til meds kick in. 10:00 - I will work after reading this chaper. 11:30 - Oh crap, nearly lunch. I’ll watch this last video and then eat and get to work. 14:00 - Oh no, I got distracted from lunch, should eat now…

help needed 🙏 i'm unable to properly work due to wrist strain (possibly the entire arm's out?) diagnosis + treatment are proving to be costly so to cover it + rest time, i'd appreciate any support. holding anything is difficult; it was already hard writing this ;; thank you ko-fi.com/inesvisual

Got my contributor copy of this over the weekend! Makes me want to run a Transformers game even more than I already did.

Thinking of making a bingo card for “recruiters who didn’t read your resume even a little and for some reason think you have spent your career doing mobile live-service games.” There’s gotta be a snappier name for it too.

Bluesky! I need a sensitivity consultant familiar with 19th century China and the British Empire's interactions with it, as well as East Asian mysticism (and British Orientalism related to it). Recommendations, please?

Another day, another recruiter wasting my time because they didn’t take 30 seconds to skim my profile.

Gonna start refering to Tokyo Mirage Sessions as Jpop Demon Hunters.

Heat like this should be illegal. Someone has to hold the Sun accountable!

TFW not one but two of your Star Wars RPG campaigns were going to involve an Imperial crackdown this week and you suddenly don’t feel like running that plot for some reason.

I’m watching Gundam AGE for the first time. I appreciate that the UE finally had the audacity to be the Gundam faction that said, “Fuck it. Dragons.”

Visser didn't need to go this hard.

I wonder if Marco still thinks TPM is cool.

LOOK AT MY SONS

For context, I wrote for this book.

I keep feeling low key ill off and on these last couple weeks and I am not sure why.

Look at my sons. tfwiki.net/wiki/Sneer,_...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, ir LOTR)

I know a lot of folks having game campaigns or releases really soon and I always wish I could support them more. I feel so bad when I bump into people later and tell them I am excited but that I haven’t been able to play yet. Sounds somehow disingenuous. But I seldom can afford to these days.

I could use like a ten-hour loop of “Free Churro.”

Pouring your precious time and whole heart into writing things that you’re not certain will actually be released because your leaders are burning your future away

Oh hey, it's me!

Here are the first details on "The Ophidian’s Nightmare", by @pikorito.bsky.social, one of the three included scenarios featured in Edge Studios' Arkham Horror RPG scenario book, Arkham Mysteries, releasing later this month. 🐍

I wish typing on a laptop keyboard was more fun.