a squiredom will have you 30 years old with a 50 year old best friend like damn where's Don Quixote today

We have discovered what was underneath the shed (I assumed it was all gravel) and I yet again have Questions for the previous owners of our house.

My toxic trait is that I think Drops of Jupiter still really slaps

In light of the latest "no, that Winds of Winter leak post is not true", a reminder that the way to deal with this is to Avellaneda him. It has precedent! It worked better than anyone could possibly have hoped! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Qui...

I'm excited to share that fellow TTRPG creator @gravityfail87.bsky.social is going live on TikTok later today from 2:30-4:00 PST to chat about my upcoming game: The Lost Toy Brigade! I haven't really shared much about this project yet, so tune in to get an early look at the project! ⬇️

I am good at making games and I enjoy it very much okay that's all thank you

there is a new regular guy at my coffee shop who is always speaking very loudly on zoom calls or something, he has been here the last four times I've been here, and I would like him to be different

My local IMAX will NOT be playing the one-night Speed Racer special IMAX event and this will be my villain origin story

guys finished up removing the shed detritus today, and one came to knock on the front door to ask me to move my car, but he got distracted by the dove lmao he was like "did you know there's a bird living up there???" yes thank you I love her very much

HEY! Did you know I’m currently Kickstarting Ballad Hunters with @pelgranepress.bsky.social, and it’s the best #TTRPG in history?* *For the subset of RPGs that are about parsing the text of traditional English and Scottish ballads

Last week in full moon joy mode, I went looking for a FINE TOME to suit the mood and I found Diane Ackerman’s The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, which has arrived today

I cut a really nasty observation from this about having been quizzed on minutiae by men who want me to "prove my love" for whatever media, who could not tell me their wives' birthdays. It's true, but, you know, it's getting a bit away from the point. I'm being so nice.

May I, briefly, brag about the very good mechanics I have made for this game? Okay good I would like to brag for a moment

#NowReading Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (not that Elizabeth Taylor)

Had a GREAT playtest session of Before the Season Ends today with @planesailinggames.com, @czamboni.bsky.social, and @sociable-turtle.bsky.social! It went so much better than I'd thought/feared/hoped; I'm so pleased with the way they've embraced the game! 💐

Just watched a couple grackles chase a squirrel away from the feeder they wanted to eat at, so I guess they can hold their own

Getting ready to play test @jenkatwrites.bsky.social 's "Before the Season Ends" in campaign mode. I tried it at Metatopia and loved our session, but looking forward to seeing how it has changed and how the characters develop! 🌷🌹

I don’t know if I liked A Marsh Island quiiiite as much as Country of the Pointed Firs (which immediately ranked in my favorite books ever, to be fair) but passages like this really cement Sarah Orne Jewett as a favorite writer for me

Thinking about the door that disintegrates shitty men again

Not to sound hyperbolic but I think all the podcasters my boyfriend listens to should have their recording equipment legally confiscated

thought for a hot minute in this week's Quixote reading that he was going to kill off Sancho's beloved donkey, Dapple, and let me tell you I was ready to travel back in time 400 years and yell at him about it (he did not)

Tried to sit outside and read for a while today but the windchill was a bit much and defeated me. Settled for a bit of a bird-eavesdrop and admiring all the new spring buds on everything

Implementing a "fog of war" like effect in a google sheets character keeper by grouping and hiding rows and columns. You're not allowed to know who's at this party until you go and find out. The NPC tab is shrouded to you. Go forth and mingle!

Tomorrow we're starting a playtest campaign for my game and I'm unreasonably nervous. There's no real reason to think something that has been promising and enjoyable in single sessions will suddenly be miserable and shitty 6 sessions in a row. In need of fine-tuning, sure! But probably not terrible!

I have a 1955 edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I believe intended for bulk purchase by schools, which includes a really fascinating time capsule of a preface

Was so intently staring out the window at the foundation where the shed used to be that it took me a minute to notice the squirrel perching on the feeder hook DIRECTLY in front of me 😅

Watching the helicopters circling the crew in their little raft like “wow this is just like the end of Pacific Rim”

We had OLYMPICS, we had MOON MISSION, what’s our next big world-uniting event? I think we should get a big boat stuck somewhere again

The NASA comms guy who shouted out Jules Verne at splashdown is one of my secondary favorite guys of this whole thing by the way

They’re back 🥲

My old gay spacemen are watching splashdown with me

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

it's been really beautiful to watch the earth slowly get bigger all day on the artemis II livestream

I am still very funny and cute by the way, don't want this to get lost in my day of grumpiness

The shed has lost structural integrity and is being torn down right now 😔 I'm sorry, bunnies of Redwall Abbey 😔 you can still hang out behind the garage. we can call it Salamandastron maybe

I think everyone should be 10% less annoying to me personally today. Also every day, but I’d settle for today!

A couple of bookworms 🐛📖

not to brag, but I have a fancy chocolate bar and a little craft project and star trek playing on the tv

new katseye song kinda sucks, and I don't like whatever shady business they're doing to manon, but I am not immune to hot women with swords and flamethrowers, so who can say what's good or bad

There's beauty in cooking up really crackpot ASOIAF theories, in the absence of a finished series. GRRM's never gonna contradict me. I might be right. You might be right. "Varys is a mermaid" might be right. We'll never know! Thank you for the many voids, George.

fuck me running

They already made “mantasy” or “romantasy for men” and it’s called A Princess of Mars and it was published in fucking 1912 😤

Realizing I have long-form thoughts on this that have to go in the newsletter if I am going to put them anywhere 😮‍💨

While doing some digging to answer playtester questions for Before the Season Ends, I remembered the great tidbit from Northanger Abbey where our heroine is disappointed her father just gives her some pocket money rather than allowing her “an unlimited order on his banker”

I have had the pleasure of playtesting this twice and it's a real delight! Get in there!

He is eating my daffodils, but I find it very hard to begrudge him. I wasn’t gonna eat them, after all

I was lucky enough to get an early read of this and it's fantastic! Definitely a campaign to check out.

I think I might've made my model horses ttrpg too ttrpg and not enough horses, so if you are a person who likes horses and would like to give feedback on a game, please get in touch.

Walking around my house for 10 minutes in a befuddled haze like “but what should I have for lunch???” before landing on the brilliant conclusion of “OH I should make a SANDWICH”. Unforeseen revelations here today folks, that’s what I’ve got