iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Applying this logic to RPG books and zines

The legendary Italian writer Umberto Eco had over 50,000 books in his private library.

When asked why so many, he had this to say:

It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

It just requires a little reframing to think about books differently. What if we thought about them as medicine? Then, suddenly:

we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Asking for me who is ringing in 30 at a jazz club.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

You think the equivalent of “Play Wonderwall” at jazz clubs is “Play Megalovania”?

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Had so many feelings about it that I wrote some notes for the next session and I might make myself, the DM, cry while RPing this. (But in a good way)

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Sometimes I regret the way I end a session and wish I could just go back and retcon it. But I also know it wouldn’t have the same impact 😭 it’s fine. Everything is fine. I’ll just make the payoff that much sweeter next week.

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James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

For the past few months @superdillin.bsky.social and I have been collaborating on something really exciting! It's a new book in the Ultimate RPG line all about villains. Full of exercises and tools to make them more interesting and easier to play. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ul...

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The Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide

Enter your villain era with this indispensable resource for game masters and players eager to breathe life into their campaigns with captivating vi...

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Cave Bear Games @cavebeargames.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🌿Win a Steam Key for Plantasia, our upcoming cozy idle game! Join the Discord: discord.com/invite/pRJSQ... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gaming #game#games #cozygaming

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary.

Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I went clothes shopping today and came home with two new TTRPGs instead because apparently shorts don’t exist anymore unless they’re beige and some weird, uncomfortable fabric.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Me, seeing a motivational quote definitely intended for 20yo white men doing their MBA: Alright @thymbraeus.bsky.social it’s time to create a gay horror audio drama to traumatize ourselves and our 5 friends that will be the only ones to listen to it.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Why give your BBEGs a single static lair when you can give them a JJK style domain expansion? Anyways I almost killed two of my players last night.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

We’re building a skeleton of The Hero Is Dead for playtesting next weekend, I swear.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I have never felt so seen and yet so called out.

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Putting words on the page is the last 10% of the work at most It is vitally important to get the ideas out of your head and concrete too, but getting to the point of having something to put down and play with is the writing

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

a picture of a book text. The text says "Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute'. It literally means 'You too, child', but what Caesar may have intended by the words isnt clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russel points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggest that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk'.

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Anica Cihla @anicacihla.com · 13/03/2025

BIG NEWS: I’m absolutely overjoyed to announce that Sin Eater is being published by Hunters Entertainment!! We’ll be launching our Kickstarter in May, so please hit the “Notify me on launch” button on the link below & share this with all your spooky goth TTRPG friends!

Red image showing a drawing of a bloodstained person and the text “Sin Eater.” In the background is various recipes written in different handwriting

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 14/03/2025

Hey gamedev friends, just wanted to say I'd love to be sharing your posts about your games, especially while they are on sale, but y'all need to get better with alt-text It's there for accessibility, context & search-ability Turn on the reminder in your accessibility settings, and get on it please

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm going to do my best not to keep checking this page all day because I have actual work I need to do and also mental health I need to protect, but if we can hit £4k on Blood In The Margins today I'll be happy

A screenshot showing Blood In The Margins on Backerkit with £3,900 of funding.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Working on a new #TTRPG and decided to use book quotes/song names as placeholders for skills until I could come up with actual names, but honestly I might keep some of these. Because who doesn’t want a skill that is just « Exit, pursued by bear » or « Welcome to the Black Parade »

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 24/02/2024

Artists & Creatives, there's a browser plugin to remove AI sites from your search results. (Good for getting real references.) Get the plugin here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/d... Then add the AI blocklists here: iorate.github.io/ublacklist/s... 🔁 Please Boost 🔁

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Introduction | uBlacklist

uBlacklist is a Google Search filter for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I spent two years training myself to not respond to my deadname. One night undid all of that work. 🙃

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I know what I'll be reading over winter break 😍

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Dan Armstrong @historydan1066.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Applications are now open for the Mellon Fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for 2024-2025. Can really recommend applying 👇

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mellon-fellowship-applications-2023 – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

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Dr. Megan J. Daniels @meganjdaniels.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Excited to share this call for proposals for a new books series through Bloomsbury on ancient mobility and migration! Please get in touch with any interests and/or inquiries.

Image of a call for proposals for a Bloomsbury book series on ancient migration and mobility

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’m supposed to be writing a midterm right now, but it has disappeared from the course site so RIP I guess?

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy is now out for purchase in book or e book form, or as a free open access piece online (!!): www.cambridge.org/core/books/t.... Hoping the book will spread token appreciation - they may be small and poorly preserved, but they are still great. ;-)

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Same with sticky notes! The adhesive can turn into an absolute nightmare, especially on photographs. Staples are not your friend, but plastic paperclips are. If you need to divide stuff within a folder, or keep records together, fold a blank piece of paper in half around each record/document.

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Paladin Jane @paladinjane.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Don't put rubber bands or metal paperclips on things you want to save forever. They will get gross and damage your stuff if you leave them on. (Sincerely, an archivist who regularly has to pull rusty paperclips and crusty rubber bands off things like irreplaceable photographs and original records.)

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Or I could go for that sculpture of St. Bartholomew with his skin coat... 🤔

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

I need to find an absolutely off-the-wall piece of Italian Renaissance art to write an essay about. Maybe a really fancy/ornate/bordering on gaudy and absurd book binding? Like yeah, I could go for something famous. But I wrote my city essay on the Republic of San Marino, so....

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Not me now wanting to translate medieval Christian hagiography in the style of either a. A celebrity tell all memoir or B. Reddit AITA posts.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/11/2023

There is never money for people drowning in student debt, can't afford housing, or are having to crowdfund their medical bills. But there is always money for war.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I'd like to go one week without feeling self-conscious and anxious after opening my mouth in class, please and thank you. Hell, one day at this point.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

If you ever need a reminder that you know nothing, write an exam about Kant and Hegel in your second language.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 15/10/2023

#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com

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Collins Literary Guild

The Collins Literary Guild functions as a specialized firm, providing a comprehensive array of representation services to authors who are at various stages of their publishing journey.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

If y’all don’t think I’ll find a way to work medieval murder into at least one paper this year…

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 06/10/2023

Warning: a very, VERY addictive website detailing medieval homicides in London, Oxford and York - maps, stories, stats and all. Such a beautifully executed (pun intended) project. medievalmurdermap.co.uk 💀🗡️🎓

Map of medieval Oxford with a marker stating "playing football near the East Gate turns fatal".

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

Elon Musk can eat dirt and break his little toes on door jams at night for what he has done to small presses and artists and journalists and scientists and readers and and and

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Hearing from a prof that they think you (and your research interests) would be a good fit for grad studies in their department is honestly what I needed as I’m staring down the barrel of trying to navigate applications

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Book history people! I'm organising an ECR seminar on diasporic networks in the long eighteenth century. We need to recruit 5-6 senior scholars to take part over 5 days, and deliver a lecture. I would like *one* of them to be a #bookhistory scholar active in #18thC research. Who would you invite?

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Well I got the fall weather I wished for. But I might need to finally buy an umbrella 😅

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

You could only graduate to boot making 101 after you spent 10 years walking uphill both ways in the snow barefoot! Then, if you could do that by the time you were 7, you could move on to making the straps!

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

😂 “back in my day, we made our own bootstraps!”

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Addendum: if your syllabus is a PowerPoint and you don’t supply at MINIMUM a PDF of the slides, I hope your pens run dry and your cat chews on your print outs.

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

The sheer empowerment you feel when your shoes sound like you’re on your way to kill a man is just *chefs kiss*

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Élias-Mikael | 黄妙秀 @archivalcrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I may or may not have certain opinions about different departments based on how their syllabi are named and designed 🤣 In related news, I’m almost to the E’s

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