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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 12/09/2026

you stupid bastard. fuck you. i love you. i’m sorry.

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 05/05/2026

there is a throwaway visual gag in the show Widow’s Bay where there’s an old 60’s era tabletop game called TEETH and the only thing inside of it is a pair of pliers and idk how to explain it but that is exactly the vibe i’m trying to capture with my games

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 04/05/2026

this is the most Brindlewood Bay (the setting part not the little old ladies part) show I have ever seen it’s so FUCKING GOOD

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 27/04/2026

Subjective? Author-centered? Use of the first person? Close enough, welcome back gonzo journalism

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 27/03/2026

tried to do one of those timelapse videos showing where the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth is at PAX East but my boomer ass messed it up. Go to booth 10097 and pick up a copy of The CryptID Show! It’s vaguely here

Imagine if finger pointing at a convention floor

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 20/03/2026

aaaaAAAAAHHHHHHH IT’S HERE. @plusoneexp.bsky.social did such an incredible job bringing this game into the physical world, it all turned out so GOOD oh my GOD

Laid out on the table is three notebooks, three bumper stickers, and a moth man plushy. The spiral bound notebook says the Cryptid show on the cover. The other two notebooks say collar, journal and host journal.

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 15/03/2026

the Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 17/02/2026

IT LIVES. The CryptID Show is now available on the Plus One Experience site! Snag my silly little storytelling game inspired by 90’s drive-time call-in radio shows. Think Scooby-Doo meets X-Files meets Coast-To-Coast AM. Grab your copy today through the link in my bio!

Image depicting, a retro blue, yellow and orange background with the silhouette of moth man in front of it. There is an outline of an old-fashioned microphone in front of the moth man. The text at the bottom of the image says “the Cryptid show”

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 06/01/2026

painted a land raider for my salamanders

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 03/01/2026

paused Return of the King at the perfect time

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 27/12/2025

ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ ˡᶦᶻᵃʳᵈ

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 26/12/2025

sorry man didn’t mean to sex bait (?) you on this most refreshing of platforms

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 22/12/2025

the facehugger emerging fully-formed from its pod-like egg

photo of cat in a felt pod cat bed that has been flipped upside down

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 16/12/2025

time to parade this one out again

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 02/12/2025

need someone to come to my house and do this to me thnx

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 15/11/2025

I haven’t had the time or headspace to do the seasonal shoot I’ve been wanting to do this winter, please instead enjoy this mockup of what my holiday smut WILL look like when I get around to it

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 13/11/2025

and so begins the annual tradition of the cats slowly figuring out ways to fuck with the tree

Cat hiding under Christmas tree skirt with face peeking out

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 12/11/2025

bonus glow-in-the-dark stickers featuring amazing alt cover art by Geoff Tice that we’re including in all the BackerKit copies of The CryptID Show. we maaaay even have some available at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at #PAXUnplugged 👁️👄👁️

Photo of a mothman and Fresno nightcrawler plushie holding stickers depicting mothman behind a microphone

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 05/11/2025

if you are a person living outside NYC going “why should I care who the NYC mayor is???” that’s totally fair, no hate to you! here is a very good comment from u/current_poster that helps explain why it matters, and why Mamdani’s win is notable

There's about 8.5 million people in New York City. There are 38 whole states that have lower population than that.

-Its GDP is about $1.3 *trillion* just for the city itself. The one city carries about half of NY State's economy. It makes 60% of Canada's GDP in an average year. (Including the metropolitan area, it handily out-earns Canada)

It also takes in about 57 million tourists a year, in a good year, from here and abroad (so when the tourism industry takes a nosedive due to, say, COVID or international boycotts, it matters.)

There's also a less-obvious thing: When things go sour economically in NYC, people stop spending money. with THAT many people, even small changes in spending habits are going to make a difference, and just through 'that group of 8.5 million people is spending less, we're gonna have to start laying people off' or "a lot of people moved here from NY because they can't afford to stay there", that affects the entire US.

-If, instead, you're interested in the Democratic Party, NYC is a good indicator of where at least part of that party's head is , right now. (NYC politics is so in the 'blue column' that the party's primary is considered an unoffical mayoral election unto itself- that is, since it's assumed most people will vote Democrat, the contest then often becomes "who will the Democratic candidate be?"- Cuomo losing and then running Independent was news.

(Because the Democrats are so dominant on sheer voting base, there have been open attempts by actually-Republican candidates to run as Democrat just so they get any sort of attention. Like, they weren't even making a pretense.)

Mamdani became candidate up-and-over the Democratic leadership's wishes (everyone they had for endorsements seems to have backed Cuomo- Bill Clinton came out to endorse Cuomo, back in June. And even after Mamdani won the primary, the Democratic leadership were lukewarm at best toward him ('vote blue no matter who' being disabled for this one apparently.) This signals something's going on with the Democrats' base vs the party leadership, which is also news.

-There's a bunch of little things that tie the President to NYC. Not just that a lot of his history, legal record and buildings are here, but that he endorsed Cuomo, not even Sliwa (the actual, official GOP candidate for Mayor)- but I'll leave that for someone else.

This isn't to say you should be interested in New York mayoral politics if you're not. (I actually get it- while I live in NYC now, I grew up in New England and somehow knew who NYC's mayor was by osmosis... doesn't mean I liked that or cared, at the time!), but there are reasons that other people might.

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 30/10/2025

getting an ultrasound to figure out where my IUD wandered off to. i say let the girlie roam, she’s a free spirit 😠

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 30/10/2025

longer post tomorrow but thank you all so so SO SO SO much for the support and for believing in this wonderful little game. it means the world to me

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 29/10/2025

only 12 hours left to back this little scene-building game about cryptids and 90’s drive-time call-in radio shows. easy to lean, fun to play, a low bar of entry for anyone looking to hone their improv skills, and SICK CRYPTID ART. back it here! ttrpg.link/cryptidshow

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 28/10/2025

don’t miss your last chance to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit! i’d love to try to break 250 backers, so please consider supporting this silly, spooky little game if you haven’t yet. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 27/10/2025

55 BIGFOOTS 55 MOTHMANS 55 GOAT SUCKERS 55 FLATWOODS MONSTERS 55 FRESNO NIGHTCRAWLERS 55 NESSIES 55 JERSEY DEVILS 55 SKUNK APES 55 OGOPOGOS 55 DOVER DEMONS 55 MICHIGAN DOGMANS 55 HOURS LEFT TO BACK THE CRYPTID SHOW ON BACKERKIT

Imagine of Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave’s drive thru/pay it forward sketch

Screenshot of the BackerKit page for The CryptID Show

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 27/10/2025

The first recorded sighting of the Fresno Nightcrawler was in 2007, when an unnamed witness reported seeing a walking pair of legs standing approx. 60 inches high. And if you’re looking for the height of 2-player TTRPGs, you only have 60 hours left to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit!

GIF of CCTV footage showing two pairs of disembodied pants walking on a trail

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 26/10/2025

In 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin set out to find evidence of the elusive Bigfoot, and on October 20th of that year, they succeeded in capturing the most iconic cryptid video of all time. Much like that fateful day in ‘67, you have only 67 hours left to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit!!

A still from the famous Patterson-Gimlin film showing Bigfoot walking across a creek bed

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 24/10/2025

picked up 270 lbs of trash on the side of the highway with this cadre of cuties as my first outing as a Parks Canada volunteer 🍁

photo of volunteers standing behind large white bags full of trash

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 24/10/2025

only five days left to back The CryptID Show! i’d love to break 200 backers, so please check it out/back it/share it with friends and family and frenemies and enemies and enemies-to-lovers and just regular lovers and colleagues and collaborators and coworkers and co-conspirers and

A screenshot of a backe kit page for a game called the Cryptid show, being published by plus one experience & friends. It shows that there is a total of 169 backers who pledge $7285, and that there are five days left before the backer kit page closes.

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 22/10/2025

MORE STRETCH GOALS MORE STRETCH GOALS MORE STRETCH GOALS Featuring expanded game book art from @choochoobear.bsky.social, a companion website with more prompts and SEVERAL SOUNDBOARDS, and at $10K, a whole ass foundation to help support other game designers?! 7 days left to back The CryptID Show!

An image featuring Randy Milholland’s head shot in a frame composed of severed hands holding each other. The text says “ my next stretch goal guest is… $75,000… More art! A picture is worth 1000 words and to help illustrate these illustrious critters. We’re adding even more art to the book. Courtesy of the singularly talented Randy Milholland not only will you get to see an all new array of abominable animals you’ll also be able to feast your eyes on some beautiful scenes with hosts and callers galore and even a conspiracy board keeper or two.”

An image depicting, a humanoid creature made out of rotting vegetable matter. The text says “ my next stretch goa is… $10,000… The Cryptid foundation. To show our gratitude for the amount of support we’ve received to reach an incredible $10,000. We’ll be creating a fund called the Cryptid foundation which will allow us to help financially support other indie game designers to bring their dreams to life.”

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 22/10/2025

self promo is exhausting so i’m giving myself a break by PROMOTING THE CRYPTID SHOW by playing a terrible janky video game called Bigfoot that i love very much. anyway WE ARE LIVE NOW

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 20/10/2025

this was about 1/4th of the total amount donated by one family who ran a food drive in their apartment complex! it was at least 200 pounds of food!

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 19/10/2025

went apple/squash picking today. made butternut squash soup with red curry paste and coconut milk and an apple crumble. not the most interesting life update but do you guys remember when that was all we used social media for? god i miss those days

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 18/10/2025

STRETCH GOAL TWO UNLOCKED I am beyond overjoyed to announce that we’ve officially unlocked @catieosaurus.bsky.social as our second guest cryptid crafter on The CryptID Show, and we’re already fast approaching our third guest writer, @ifycomedy.com!

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 17/10/2025

BREAKING NEWS, an anonymous source close to McConnell reports that his recent fall was due to his shock at how good The CryptID Show is. while this story is still developing, you can learn more at the link below

image of Mitch McConnell falling, with a person holding a phone in the foreground. The phone screen has been photoshopped to depict the BackerKit page for a game called The CryptID Show

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 16/10/2025

if you back both Black Flies and The CryptID Show on BackerKit, you will get EXCLUSIVE content, sneak peeked (snuck peak? snuck peeked?) below.

An image that says “a very Cryptid crossover: a brush with the black flies. Something foul is a foot or afly in the town of Evergreen Maine. The townsfolk are torn; some are fearful, sensing an evil writhing just under the surface of their sleepy mountain town, while others drift peacefully through their daily routines, a look of rictus euphoria on their face. A shadow flickers at the corner of your eye… an eye that will remain securely non-compounded. If you’re lucky.”

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 14/10/2025

STRETCH GOAL NUMBER TWO: I’m overjoyed to announce our next stretch goal writer, the truly incomparable @catieosaurus.bsky.social. I’m so stoked to see Cate put their cryptozoology degree to good use in the creatures they come up with if we can hit $3,500!

Stretch goal announcement image depicting Catieosaurus and their credits

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 14/10/2025

just finished writing the exclusive encounter characteristics for anyone who backs both The CryptID Show and @goosepoopgames.com's Black Flies, and let me tell you, they rock! don't just back both games to get these sweet exclusive cryptid sighting scenarios, but also because Black Flies is so COOL

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 10/10/2025

We are less than $100 away from unlocking our first guest writer: the incredible, charming, talented @latinosagainstss.bsky.social. Jonathan is AMAZING and he is going to cook up some wild cryptids for us. Help us reach$3,500! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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