Oh no, it me 😅

Capricon 46 is around the corner! I love this Chicago SFF convention, and this year I'm on several panels. Come say hi!

A sudden Drinking & Dragons cancelation at Replay in Lincoln Park means there are 4 seats up for grabs for Sunday's game! Turn their loss into your gain and become the hero of the day! events.humanitix.com/drinking-and...

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Child: I am stealing your feet, just like I stole R's 😈 Now I have 6 feet Me: Awesome. Now will you please just walk over to your room and get changed? Child (slowly scooting): I must slide there, because of all these feet. Me: WHAT?? You've got 6 feet, so walk like an insect. Go. Goooooooooo 😩

And I helped! 😆

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Listening/watching now and it's a great convo. Highlights so far: - players becoming more confident outside the game because of being able to explore tough topics in-game - links to resources - really interesting modifications to safety tools

"I like people, I like the way they smell, I like the way they think"

When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point

new Clippings column is now up. written and illustrated by yours truly. this month, we take a look at the life and legacy of Peta, a two-spirit healer on the front lines of the AIDS crisis, and Therese Frare, a photojournalist who captured Peta's final years www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Helped a neighbor dig her car out of the snow today. The aftermath was a brutal reminder that I'm not in my 20s anymore. On the other hand, I'm not in my 30s either. Send muscle relaxers 🫠

If you haven't already, consider joining our email newsletter tonight! The December news scroll goes out early Monday morning, and we wouldn't want you to miss out. We even asked our little dragon to make a snowflake chain to decorate it! We'll see how they did 😜❄️🎲 mailchi.mp/roughmagicga...

TOMORROW ON @datafruits.bsky.social JAZZY FUCKIN' HOLIDAYS RETURNS FOR OUR 5TH YEAR i will be on the air from midnight to midnight, blastin' jazz and soul, hanging out in the chat, and raising money for @translifeline.org if you don't have anywhere else to go, now you do. come hang with us <3

Looking for a gift for a birding friend or a kid who loves nature? I have 10 books for adults and kids, some bestselling and some award-winning, and you can see them all here: rosemarymosco.com/books (Note: one of them, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, is out of print but a new edition is coming!)

Resist the Trump regime - give to support the people of Chicago! We've compiled a (non-exhaustive!) list of citywide resources you can reference. You'll find ways to donate, volunteer, or organize an event. Step up for Chicago communities: tinyurl.com/ICAmutual

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps. When the sales drop, please remember that!

I'm running a birthday game for my nephew later today and I convinced the kids to give my Magic of Friendship Warlocks a try. Each get a different flavor to their eldritch blast, and the more warlocks you get blasting at the same time, the more powerful they become as a group.

We have loads of games coming up! Sat Nov 22 - Quester's Guild: Minions Guild @loavesandwitches.bsky.social Drinking & Dragons Sun Nov 23 @ Spiteful Brewing Tue Nov 25 @ California Cookies dispensary Wed Nov 26 @ Revolution Brewery Get your ticket at events.humanitix.com/host/rough-m...

@seventhink.bsky.social i saw an email pop up about a new design with my "favorite skeleton" and was dubious. Opened it up to see that yep not only is it my fave, but I'm currently wearing the Mapled shirt 😂

Nobody asked, but: I think the biggest pitfall of sci-fi/fantasy storytelling, especially for worldbuilders, in the infodump. You're (rightfully) just so proud of all the work you put into creating a cohesive setting that you just wanna PUKE it all over readers/watchers on page one. (thread)

Hello! today is 🎂🎉MY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂 For my birthday, plz read what is up of my webcomic/signal-boost this skeet? It would mean a lot to me! Only 50 pages so far. It hasn't updated in ages, but I'm still working on it. Updates will resume when the backlog reaches 50 pages. blikada.com?pg=1#showComic

A little winter-loving monster doodle to celebrate the first snow this fall in Chicago

Oooooh friends. It’s that time of year again. Cut Amazon out of the equation! My publisher is doing the Year 4 Backerkit RIGHT NOW and THE DRAGONSCALE COMB is part of it. Help support small press AND get more dragons, feral pegasi, and princess kissing www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Alice is cool and you should take a look and maybe even support her awesomeness!

And this is a great thread about the article, LotR, and racism in fantasy.

Illinoisans are FURIOUS at @durbin.senate.gov Screenshot of Senator Dick Durbin's (D-IL) Instagram page, his Bsky is much the same. And the fax I just sent to Dick's DC office bc the phone number no longer goes to voicemail even.

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From tonight's game: "it's like the power of friendship, but more the power of 'WTF, guys?'" Turns out when your players all play as ex-minion dungeon monsters, there's a lot of wholesome interactions with an undercurrent of unsettling horror 😅

1. 4 of these 😅 2. Quiet Year, Eat the Reich, Daggerheart 3. I'm a fan of rules-light systems that put emphasis on creative storytelling (bonus points for humor, too). Stuff like Lasers & Feelings, Shenanigoblins, and my own Tarot RPG!

I got to be substitute GM for a @roughmagicrpg.bsky.social event Saturday! No prep time, just grabbed Tarot RPG & ran. We had a wild, gay time with: 🫂 Siblings saving their adoptive parents who had turned evil 🍑 A twerking bard w/ backup dancers 💩 A tormented druid learning all the wrong lessons😅

Happy #NationalAuthorsDay ! Celebrate by helping support #IndieAuthors! 📚#WritingCommunity

This is why I regularly let people know how awesome I think they are. We often think that awesome people must naturally know they’re awesome, but they don’t. And letting them know could be the little push that they really needed that day.

Happy Halloween! Have some pets in costumes of their d&d characters 😸

Did you know we have a newsletter? And it's getting an upgrade! Join tinyurl.com/RM-newsletter for monthly: ✨ Upcoming event info ✨ Intro to venues where we run games ✨ Interview with a new GM every month ✨ Campaigns & 1-shots to join ✨ Stories from our games ✨ Ask a GM section

What happens when they burn and ban our books, and offer only misinformation and disinformation in return? We turn away and read what we've saved from them

I love this so much. One of the greatest lessons one can learn playing ttrpgs, how to gather up enough courage to try.

Make silly art, make messy art, make ugly art, just make art. It’s always worth it 🫶

Overheard and misheard a tech support call. They did not, in fact say "if it's extra delicious, eat it." It was suspicious, delete it. I... I may be hungry.

If you're immune to spoilers, I made a WIP post about a new campaign I'm working on with a couple of the Rough Magic folks. I love putting my city into projects. This whole game will be full of Chicago references, and for this section I got to put it into puzzles! www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

Want to play some sci-fi horror tomorrow? Sign up for Brunch and Barbarians!

All of this, though I fear I'm preaching to the choir here... Actually, no, no, I'm not. I know how few reviews my books have and alla that, lol. So yeah, do the things! It's easy and free!

Day 1 of GameHole Con has come to an end, and the stories from today's Tarot RPG sessions were so delightfully unhinged 😂 - A cult of dragon-worshipping barbarians high on mushrooms - A heist to reacue an animal from a wizard's zoo but it turned out all of the animals were polymorphed people (1/2)

If you want to turn that around, why not buy a book from a trans femme lesbian creator? ME! www.jbgarnerwrites.com

Up on Nebula now: I went to Chicago to ground-truth the “crime-ravaged third world hell hole” allegations. You will NEVER GUESS what I found nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

During last night's session, the party rolled 5 nat 1s. Cindy Lou Hoo (in Feyrun via exchange program to become an adventurer) was looking for a monogrammed towel in the BBEG's guest house. BBEG is charming af, and she wanted to get something signed. But rolled a 1. "It's cursed!" she moaned. (1/5)

I doodled the dragon with my non-dominant hand for this 😂

Home now & safe, but I apparently had my worst PSVT attack yet this morning. When I tell folks that I am poorly built, I mean it 😅 What is PSVT u ask? Electrical feedback loop in my heart, usually not harmful, just gives me attacks of rapid heartbeat. A firm cough can trick it into correcting (1/3)

Come one, come all to this special edition of Gumbo Fiction Salon - Tina's Farewell! We are bidding farewell to our incredible leader, Tina Jens, as she prepares to move to New Orleans where a new chapter of Gumbo Fiction Salon will be born!

It's International Lesbian Day so, as a lesbian who often writes about lesbians being lesbian, celebrate and support by taking a look at my most lesbian of books, THE POWERS THAT BE! #lesfic #superhero #romance #booksky 📚🌈🪐