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Alex Nicholson

@allpunandgames.bsky.social
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I write things, I run games, but mostly I spend too much time on the Internet.

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Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org · 03/10/2026
We all know 6 was afraid of 7 because 7 8 9, but why did 7 do that? Because it knew you should have 3^2 meals a day.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me too, buddy
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’d be quite impressed that I had multiple goth girlfriends. Probably disappointed that I hadn’t published a novel yet. Surprised at the living in Los Angeles part. Probably surprised at the living at all part, 20yo me wasn’t confident I’d live past 30.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My friends @tftbd.bsky.social heard about D&D in a Castle and decided to do it Los Angeles style. Magnificent conclusion to the Rise of Tiamat campaign we’ve been playing for over two years. Sixteen players. Three DMs. A dozen NPCs. Concluding in an epic fight in a volcano/dragon boneyard.
A bizarre, six-storey castle-like home in the Hollywood Hills, with faux-portcullis garage door, multiple turrets, crenellations, a conservatory, and more. It’s kinda hard to describe. Someone said it was like if Howl’s Moving Castle sat down. A 6’x10’ battlemap of a volcanic caldera with a chasm containing a dracolich. The battlefield is dominated by a five-sided temple with green, white, red, purple, and blue light streaming into a central tower even spikier and more evil looking than its radial buildings. The battlefield is strewn with boulders and dragon bones represented by painted foam and acid-treated chicken bones. Multiple large chromatic dragons lurk around the battlefield.A gigantic model of Tiamat with a three foot wingspan looms menacingly over the battlefield, having destroyed the central tower of her temple. Alex sits in a Taskmaster-like black leather throne flanked by tall electric candelabras.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This pun delighted me so now I have to share it with y’all.
Two photos of New York City and Minneapolis. Text: New York is the opposite of Minnesota because New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where the Minneapolis
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Similarly you should call PMS by its full name, PMS Eindhoven
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love Roz. One of the best things about rewatching Frasier.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Finished putting together the first draft of my novel. Very proud! Excited and nervous to send it out to my beta readers!
Phone camera shot of a Google Sheet, detailing chapter word counts and the total (53,600 words).
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Directionless twentysomething gets dumped, goes to the pub a lot, loses some friends, works things out with his girlfriend.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Haven’t found any good full photos of my LOJ costume yet, so here’s my car selfie. In the name of Hades!
Alex is clean shaven and sitting in a car. He has a short black wig, an autumnal laurel, and is made up pale with black eyeliner and eyeshadow and stark bronze cheekbones. He is wearing the black, bone, and red toga-like garb of Prince Zagreus from the game Hades.
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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Did you know that Wolverine is canonically a Mars Attacks fan? He's a huge ack man.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In my defence, I didn’t grow up here. Might be expanding on this soon?
whereidlive.com
Visited states map: United States
How much time have you spent in each state? Color all 51 states and share the map.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Supermassive Attack
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
"Is this lens better, or this one?" - Optometrist "Is this lens worse, or this one?" - Pessimetrist
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: *totally calm after throwing a hit man over a railing into a mall atrium, where he smashes through a table where people are playing d&d, causing them to scatter in fear* encountah table
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I didn’t agree that Taylor Swift wasn’t the worst billionaire emphatically enough
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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
some novelists are like what if there was a girl kinda like me and she was amazing. and some novelists are like what if there was a girl kinda like me and she absolutely sucked shit
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It would be portraying Jabba the Hutt that earns me my first instance of being told I have aura What am I supposed to do with that exactly
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our Vampire Regulations are written in blood, which is particularly bittersweet.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
theguardian.com
More than 400 actors and industry figures sign open letter backing trans rights
Eddie Redmayne, Katie Leung and Nicola Coughlan among those expressing solidarity after supreme court ruling
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
when you have big titties in a farming game they’re milkers
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is tomorrow, we still have a couple of tickets left if folk are interested!
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Downplay a book or movie: Love In The Time Of Mild Diarrhoea
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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
LA nerds! You don’t want to miss out on what’s going to be a truly elevated D&D event this Saturday. And not just because I’ll be one of the DMs lol (although we do have some amazing pro DMs running tables) Newcomers to #dnd welcome!
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Corruption in Kryptgarden - an immersive D&D event
YouTube video by Tales From The Brass Dragon
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* “We’re no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do— *immediately shot by air marshal*
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The panel was so much fun and I can’t wait to record more of the AP with the rest of this incredible cast! 🤩
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie from the year you turned 18? (I’m counting the Western release year)
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Howl's Moving Castle: I Was Looking Everywhere For You
Alt: Howl wraps a hand around Sophie’s shoulder and says “I was looking everywhere for you.”
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Tales from the Brass Dragon @tftbd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We handed out dice today to promote our SDCC panel tomorrow at 10am at the Omni. Come watch us play D&D! www.tiktok.com/@talefromthe... #SDCC #SDCC2026 #DungeonsAndDragons
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We handed out dice at San Diego Comic Con 2026, and it was a blast. #sdcc #sdcc2026 #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #wizards
TikTok video by TalesFromTheBrassDragon
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honestly no one of my generation should be allowed to act like gender and sex aren’t able to change because every single goddamn one of us has seen Jurassic Park.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Oliver Nipple Twist
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m at San Diego ComicCon! #SDCC
A ComicCon panel: TaskMaster LA @ San Diego ComicCon
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A comparison:
Scott Pilgrim vs Angel (pictures of Michael Cera as Scott and David Boreanaz as Angel)

Two lists of green checks to the following points:
Dating a high schooler
Big fighter
Heartbreaker
Comparatively immature
Mooches off gay friend
Dark alter-ego
Not over his big ex
Emotionally a mess
Gets girls anyway
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I came up with a joke about Hector but it dragged on
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Did you do the lighting for the Newsweek cover shoot?” “Yeah boss, real sinister like you wanted.” “What?”
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just accidentally-on-purpose joined my work’s feminist book group. They’re reading the Ill-Mannered Ladies series by Alison Goodman. This works out actually, I’ve been meaning to read more contemporary women authors. A book group will be an excellent motivator. Regency shenanigans let’s goooo~
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’ve never known anyone to be as graceless in victory as the Argentinians. Very unpleasant.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Don’t know why but was suddenly overcome with a powerful yearning to be back in Oxford. Haven’t lived there in about thirteen years. I just know it’d make me feel better about now. It’s funny, the places you miss. I spent so little time there compared to other places I’ve lived. Precious, though.
The skyline of Oxford, city of dreaming spires.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
00s: What if boob but at angle Teenage me:
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Whistle Wolf Cartoon Reaction
Alt: A cartoon wolf in a dinner jacket losing his entire shit about something. His eyes boggle out of his skull, he beats himself about the head with a wooden mallet, he howls, he goes entirely rigid in mid air, there’s some sort of complex steam whistle configuration, it’s a whole thing.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
gif that describes you as a writer:
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A litter of cats skid across a polished floor to get to four bowls of kibble. The first one begins to eat but the others slide into it causing a pile up, sending one bowl flying and causing a complete mess.
Alt: A litter of cats skid across a polished floor to get to four bowls of kibble. The first one begins to eat but the others slide into it causing a pile up, sending one bowl flying and causing a complete mess.
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I hope that Pierce Brosnan’s grandma got that nose ring she wanted.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. These movies, Underworld, and Buffy were my vampire canon as a teen. I still haven’t found anything that surpasses them. Eggers’ Nosferatu and the Castlevania animé come close.
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Blade Turns to Face Camera
Alt: Zoom on Wesley Snipes as Blade who looks over his shoulder and says “What the fuck?”
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Thinking inside the box ❌ Vibing inside the box, head empty ✅
Dorian, a handsome young grey tabby, looks blankly at the camera while sitting inside a grey Kallax cube
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Myself and a bunch of other talented pro DMs will be running tables at this. It’s going to be a spectacle, get your tickets fast!
Text: 6 tables, 36 players, live NPCs
$75 to play, lunch included

Tales from the Brass Dragon presents
Corruption in Kryptgarden 
Saturday, August 1st
12:00pm-6.30pm

Join 1 of 5 factions and work against the Cult of the Dragon
Harpers, Order of the Gauntlets, Lord’s Alliance, Emerald Enclave, Zhentarim 

Spellbound LARP and Games
11399 Magnolia Blvd #7, North Hollywood, CA 91601

Catering: to be announced
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Alex Nicholson @allpunandgames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
On California girls:
I wish they all could be California girls.

The flesh within them bubbling, puckering, reshaping into supple, sun-kissed skin and toned muscle honed by countless urban hikes and beach volleyball games.

The fabric of their garments tearing asunder and re-stitching a thousand-fold, transmuting the humble knits and natural fibres of their homes— now clad in figure-hugging sports bras and leggings.

Women, men, children, all— the power of the wish seizes them and sculpts them in a symphony of variations upon a single spectacular theme staggering in scale, eight thousand million UCB improv classes spinning off fractally from one glorious archetype.

The sound of eight billion iced matcha lattes tumbling from eight billion hands, and a tear rolls from my eye as if I heard the voice of God. But He is not the creator of this world, it is I, and I survey the glory of what I have wrought, my hands aloft to the sky exulting its transcendent beauty with triumph.

I wished they all could be California girls.
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