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Ennie Award Winning TTRPG design and writing. anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io and patreon.com/c/isabelleruebsaat. Wrote Girl Frame and Most Bloody Devotion Available for freelance writing or editing. work email: ruebsaatisabelle@gmail.com

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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 18h
adding rules for jerking off and cutting yourself to SUZi
Modify
To modify your SUZi model’s software or hardware, choose a Landmark where you’re performing this action and delegate 1+ Software cards and 1+ Hardware cards. Mark RAM and Check Shelter for each Software and Hardware. On a 1, dust, debris, or contamination impacts the modification. Take 1 Damage (if Hardware) or Black Out a Node (if Software). Then, delegate cards to options below.
Sleep, in your own way. Unmark all RAM and Skills on the associated Software and create a Memory. (1+ Software.)
Cuddle with a stuffed animal, comforting object, or another SUZi. Adjust one Emotion to the left or right and (optionally) create an Affect. (1 Hardware.)
Masturbate. Move all Emotions to the left. (1 Hardware.)
Self-Harm. Move all Emotions to the right. (1 Hardware.)
Integrate or uninstall processors from Hard Drive. (1 Software.)
Plug in or unplug newfound parts from the Chassis. (1 Hardware.)
Download any number of Drivers. (1 Software, Check WiFi.)
Charge Battery. Increase Battery die size by 1. (1 Hardware, Check Electricity.)
Restock Coolant Tank. Increase Coolant die size by 1. (1 Hardware, Check Water.)
Recalibrate Gyroscope. Increase Gyroscope die size by 1. (1 Hardware, Check WiFi.)
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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 12h
All characters depicted in this story are real.
Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead is intentional.
You have seen them, they have sat next to you at the movie theater, they have been stuck behind you in traffic, they have come through your lane at the grocery store.
You will know them by the look in their eyes.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 12h
Final count I think
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Given the last 2.5 weeks I think I'm accepting that I might be a workaholic (this is only about 60-75% of what I've written overall but a lot of the other stuff is in the drafts pile still)
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2022 / 2026 an artistic growth mesured in Asukas
old fanart of Evangelion, part of a triptych, showing Asuka all in red in front of her Eva, with a green cloudy sky and full moon backgroundsame drawing as in original post
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Meanerva McDanger 🔜Metatopia @minahoneybat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
do it scared and learn some things about fear
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Agathe, fille de salope de la pipousaferie Tumblr 2010 @agathemidian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This! I wasn't scared per say, but I was apprehensive as I feared not being able to put distance between my character and me. It all went away at the first session! And now I'm expecting every session like that void is not only corrupting my girl but me also 😌
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you are too scared to play girlframe or PtHK or any of those other games like that you should just do it anyways
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
rpg safety tool: any time something you dont like is happening plug your ears and go LALALALALALA NONONO
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“How did you get into ttrpgs” My dad ran D&D 4e for me when I was 8 so tbh my conscious memories from before ttrpgs are fairly (extremely) limited
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What the fuck
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have unfortunately realized that my ADHD meds might be suppressing my hunger to a detrimental degree which kinda sucks because they have been *somewhat* helpful in other areas
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hey im having a horrendous day/week, if you wanna support my work it might be a good time to back my patreon and be nice to me patreon.com/possumcreek
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briar, duke of dykes @weregazelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
indie ttrpg design is hard because a lot of us are very beautiful and it's really distracting
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone who all my partners and friends keep insisting is "the most cat-coded girl ever" I feel insanely called out by this
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dungeon Master/Storyteller/Referee is at least as useful a taxonomy as GM'd/GMless/GMful.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My tboy and its teenage roommate/pet (/platonic) were bickering in their kitchen last night over dishes or something while I worked and there was a brief pause and then I heard the teenager confidently say: "You're really bad at this whole parenting thing." and then dead silence
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Lyra and 1 other @muzzlesbian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as someone with little to no ttrpg experience before running into girl frame last year, the idea that "GM" and "player" are fully separate groups has always completely baffled me. sure, the GM may be doing things differently to the rest of you, but you're all still playing the game, are you not?
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The split between player/GM and GM'd/GMless hurts our understanding of player roles in ttrpgs, and our design. They are false binaries that we sort games into based on what "feels right," without actually being very useful terms for understanding dynamics in play beyond a base level.
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Koh @lobotomeigh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did a comm for an oc from a lesbian mecha ttrpg - Girl Frame! #girlframe #ttrpg #mech #oc
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Auric // Glimmer 🏳️‍⚧️ @auricglimmer666.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More from from a different Cadre, here's my girl Clover and her fellow Pilots #girlframe #ttrpg #myart #digitalart
A black girl with a distressed smile and scared eyes. She has curly locks on the top of her head, with the rest of her hair gathered into space buns about the size of her head. She has on pink lipstick and eyeshadow, and a big purple ribbon on the left side of her head.

She has on an ornate purple, white, black and pink plug suit, with several changes made to make it more fashionable. She has a small cloak over the back of her outfit from her hips, a crop top jacket and high heels. She has long nails colored pink.A picture of four girls in black and white. On the top left is Astra, a nervous girl with her hair covering one side of her face. She wears a jacket and is gripping her arm nervously. On the top right is Julia, a wild girl with a big smile and sharp teeth looking right into the camera. She has a jacket on over a shirt and a collar, and she's saluting with two fingers. On the bottom left is K2, a robot girl. She's got blunt bangs over her face shadowing her eyes. She has a smug smile and crossed arms, and her hair has four cybernetic, prehensile tendrils. Lastly, on the bottom right is Clover. She's described on the last image, and she looks into the camera particularly annoyed and incredulous.
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Quinn! ΘΔ🔞 @canisumbralis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More Girlframe stuff, this time for a character of my own. May I introduce you all to Revenant. #art #canidart #girlframe CW: Slight blood
Revenant, Casualty and Red Queen Pilot (It/ It's) standing in front of a mirror, in a mech plugsuit, it's fist bleeding, The reflections of all it's artificial minds behind it in a mirror it broke with it's fist.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New #GirlFrame is gonna be kinda sick ngl: some new Handler mechanics
Take Charge
When you take charge of a disastrous situation, roll +Modifiers.
On a 6-, all you can use is force. Someone in the scene gives you a Tag, and choose 1:
Pull out your Personal Firearm and kill someone.
Have your Guards beat someone unconscious, restrain them, or drag them off, rendering them Helpless.
Swear loudly and gain 2 Heat.
On a 7-9, you must choose 1 of the above to establish your position, but you may also choose 1 from below:
Everyone freezes at your presence. Take +1 Control and decide how you’re going to play it now, before anyone else gets a chance to act.
Your presence is commanding, even to your enemies. You can take control of any NPCs for the rest of the scene.
You’ve already made some preparations; the doors are locked, there’s a sniper on the roof, there’s bombs under the flooring… everyone is Helpless against you until the scene ends.
On a 10+, you can choose 2 from either list.
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Sporian Games @sporian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everyone play A Most Bloody Devotion NOW!! @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social has made a game that clearly takes ideas from multiple design sensibilities, and as a result it soars. It's also really fun to make custom classes for! Give it a read, at least, if you haven't
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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Asymmetry in games is the absolute best
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry when I said "I don't fuck dogs" that wasn't a warhound reference. No I'm not into petplay. Yes I think putting your clothes back on is probably for the best.
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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 27/09/2026
even hawkmoth’s fans are like “i love this game but nobody should play it” everyone should play it. the entire world should be conscripted into discrete 4-5 session hawkmoth games and we’ll all learn some things about ourselves
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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my favorite review of praise the hawkmoth king so far
Praise the Hawkmoth King is certainly up there for me.
"A dark erotic PBTA game about undead teenagers fucking devils to save the world." Is how it describes itself. And thats not even scraping the surface.
Nonconsent is a core element of the game.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hekate’s Call by @malachiteos.bsky.social arrived mid-girl frame session yesterday lol
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ribbity robbity isabelle ruebsaat is known for her lesbians misunderstood everyone thinks that she pilots erotically but she prefers to write games that are good ( @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social )
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is my thread of double dactyls ive been writing while i procrastinate on other work
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I ran a girlframe session for the local parts of my polycule yesterday which was really fun, like half the scenes were just the newgirl getting beat up
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congrats to rats for winning alberta's war on rats
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Was checking my finances and I've made a living wage this year for the first time in my life. Feels really surreal
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've been doing actual game design so here's some theoryslop to try and explain the basics of ttrpg play cultures to my girlfriend to balance it out
A venn diagram with Play to Find Out, Strict Player/GM divide, and OOC player control over the story

OSR is play to find out and strict player/GM divide

Neotrad is strict player/GM divide and OOC player control over the story

Pbta design legacy is OOC player control over the story and play to find out
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i helped @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social with developmental editing on girl frame, and i shared some of my notes on my work on my patreon! www.patreon.com/possumcreek/...
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Dev Editing Girl Frame and Information Hierarchy | Jay Dragon (& Friends)
Recently I started working with Isabelle Ruebsaat on her award-winning TTRPG Girl Frame, providing developmental editing for her work. A lot
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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rounding out my Summer Reading posts on Quinns Quest with an absolutely electric final brace of releases. I've been reading Infinite Revolution, City of Espers, Asher's Ridge and Girlframe. They are all SO GOOD. www.patreon.com/qquest/posts...
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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026
[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...
The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcistsThe beginning of character creation rulesThe center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of playThe 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character
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Haunted Table @hauntedtable.games · 22/09/2026
THE HOUSE EDGE is coming to Kickstarter on October 20th. Beat the odds and break containment in this endless dungeon crawl through a paranormal vault hidden beneath an '80s casino! FIST ruleset with a Triangle Agency story, made by the creators of both games. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hau...
The House Edge, coming to Kickstarter October 20th. The character Nobody, with blue skin and a body dissipating into sparkling smoke, holds two cards between his floating hands. He's wearing a casino dealer's outfit incorrectly, an old ratty cloak placed over it. Above the House Edge logo are three cards featuring strange people--a four-armed drummer, a crying guitarist with a guitar made of flowing water, and a powerful figure in a dancer's outfit with an icy disco ball for a head.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Something really interesting to me about femininity in mechsploitation is the element to which it kinda sidesteps a lot of the masculine history of warfare, which definitely has some similar themes but is easily co-opted into narratives about glory, brotherhood, etc etc (1/2)
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have mixed feelings on a few of these tbh but I would say they're clearly the most influential to my work and the anime I THINK about the most even years after watching them
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#GirlFrame
A discord message from Isabelle (girl) that says "I have a normal and serious job," with a screenshot of rules text that says "your Mouth is an Asset."
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hekate’s call is worth checking out, it’s about the worst set of lesbians ever being awful to each other
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Might come by and give this a look, seems cool
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm thinking about this set of posts again but very much in the context of how much people conflate body types with butch/fem. Aka some of the most fem-presenting girls I know being called butch because they're not 'skinny enough.'
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SplashZone @splashzone.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Extra details
Drawing of a simplified human spine and brain, fitted with mechanical casing and fittings for plugs that slot into the spine. Labels on the diagram say "Plug 1 [Control]" and "Plug 2 [Sensory]"
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was so stoned last night that while my gf was having a shower I got some paper towel and started dabbing at her to "dry her off" and then we both nearly drowned because we were laughing so hard
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
"Drymouth" a vampire oracle who can see the real future when she is starved of blood. The organization keeps her in holding to make use of her prophecies. Agents are instructed not to act directly on any of her visions. She will try to get you killed.
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
She’s forcing me to not work rn
My cat grabbing my arm
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I used to think 5 hours was barely enough time to play a ttrpg session and then I realized I was just playing with 5 people with unmedicated ADHD. Turns out you can pretty easily do a 2-2.5 hour session where just as much stuff happens.
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