iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I forgot to post these, but months ago I did some tests for stylized dialogue in POTBRR. My goal is to make this visual novel feel as much like reading a 70's Showa-era manga as possible! 🖤

Chihiro having dramatic inner monologue, "She can have the role... over my dead body!" with spiky text balloon.

Chihiro being shocked agaisnt a black background with a white shock shape behind her. The black, drippy text box reads, "No... it's not possible!"

Chihiro in her dressing room, looking neutral. Her cloud-shaped word balloon reads, "Finally. Some nice, calm, normal dialogue"

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arisia s @arisia.work · 28/09/2026

Traveller continues. The crew breaks into the house of a sector security agent suspected of colluding with the party-crashing terrorists. Bunny and Noi reaffirm their friendship by judging her tacky furnishings. Job and Noi manage to hack her phone logs, but not her bank details...

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lady Knight Rei Lineart:

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 14/09/2026

Traveller continues with little travel as the squad is still stuck on the station, maintaining their charade as art dealers while having collectively 0 points in Broker. Bunny's conviction that the space pirate Fiore is a robot has influenced at least one other crew member, despite scant proof.

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another 100 yuri vns upon you @esschaostwo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hey. you ever want yuri recommendations accross varied mediums? dont know where to look? you want to find weird yuri visual novels? look at my fucking spreadsheet rn. 90+ entries and growing. GO. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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arisia s @arisia.work · 12/09/2026

last Saturday was Thirsty Sword Lesbians who were all sword and no thirst. Today it was sword & sorcery in Conan 2d20 except it was all sorcery and no sword. (A pacifist run in Conan??) Not complaining. These are interesting GMing experiences to be sure.

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Playtest Zero is back next week, if you even care! For our US-friendly session, join us next Thursday, 10 September from 6 pm (PT) / 9 pm (ET) to late over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

A urinal, with a laminated sign of animated Lex Luthor next to it saying "Yes! I care"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10/09/2026

decent chance I take this down; my broader complaint is that media coverage treats transphobia as an organic social response and not what so much of the "trans sports" backlash is: engineered by transphobic individuals with too much money on their hands, targeting a league that largely disagrees

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arisia s @arisia.work · 10/09/2026

showing me a GM having to work with two digital monitors and a GM screen is about the most surefire way to turn me off whatever RPG stuff you're trying to sell

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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

we need to start considering "playing and running ttrpgs" a high stakes trade. we have recurring discourse because no one is taking on apprentices. there should be competing schools of thought that are explicitly taught. oral tradition only. posting secrets of your sect to argue gets you banished

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...

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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?

A survey on campaign length and lethality

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arisia s @arisia.work · 07/09/2026

Traveller campaign continues. After the attack at the party, the crew is confined to the station. They've managed to uncover a mysterious audio bug in the ship, as well as certain anomalies among the other party guests, which they decide to investigate...

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明星菫青 @akeboshikinsei.com · 23/08/2026

To all artists around the world. Don't forget the OC you created when you were 12! Remake them! Give them a modern update! That character is practically your firstborn. So dig up that fossil and polish it.

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.

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galette official* @galetteweb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🎉 Galette Special English Edition Vol.6 is now LIVE on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal... The campaign runs until September 3, 9:00 AM JST. Physical books, the special SP booklet, acrylic stand, and other special rewards are available. Thank you so much for supporting Galette! 💕

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Vol.6 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition

We have created a special English edition of the Japanese yuri manga magazine Galette, bringing its stories to readers around the world

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The current era of transfeminine sword & sorcery began in Issue 2 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social in 2023, with the publication of “How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?” While not the first of my kind in this space (see Jessica Amanda Salmonson), I’ve paved the way for all those after me. Read it below:

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FREE STORY: How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?

For a limited time, please enjoy the full text of my short story, “How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?” Originally published in New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #2 (2023).

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Chewing my arm off, bloody foam speckling my lips, screaming. Just screaming, forever.

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sebmal @mrdo.pro · 20/08/2026

awesome way to explain the concept of money

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Lyn’s art corner! ✨ @sleepysnoot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dysphoria busting makeover before work 💕 #petraparker #spiderman

Mary Jane straddles Petra parker, lovingly putting mascara on her while she looks up mesmerized. She says: Go get 'em, tiger <3
Original amazing idea for trans Parker by @0trebot on X

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying it doesn't HAPPEN, but "all weird indie TTRPGs are a kink thing" is reductive. There is also "designing RPGs to publish your worldbuilding bible", "designing RPGs because you invented a neat dice trick", "designing RPGs to win an argument", and "designing RPGs as an act of self harm".

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arisia s @arisia.work · 17/08/2026

I've played two sessions of Traveler so far and have been rather enjoying it. My character, Primavalia "Bunny" Buonarotti, flunked out of space college and fell back on being a noble dilettante. She has +3 to carouse and little else, but owns our crew's yacht and more money than the others combined.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 14/08/2026

I keep wondering what I'm missing with Pillars of Eternity. People seem to have amazing experiences w it, but after three tries, I just cannot get into it. The main quest isn't compelling, my story choices never feel significant, and combat and progression are too janky to hook me on their own.

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Sandy Pug Games Gaiden @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm not saying this place or any other is vital to your success as a designer but i think its a mistake to pretend like social connection and social clout and the sort of networking we do here is valueless in terms of sales or reach. Much of my success stems from fucking around online

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arisia s @arisia.work · 13/08/2026

Probably the solution is to just *combine* the interest in urban-fantasy mahou shoujo (plus plus) with late Spanish-colonial Philippines into a single TRPG.

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feef @feefal.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Doomed love between a fresh and rotten strawberry🍓💔

Doomed love between two strawberry women. One is tragically infected with mold, and is trying to push away her partner so she doesn’t get infected, but her partner clings onto her.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 12/08/2026

"Cut your prep time down to 1-2 hours per session" I sure would love to cut my prep time down to twice what I spend prepping for NSR games! Stop playing games that hate GMs.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 07/08/2026

been catching up on reading lately, so this seems timely!

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arisia s @arisia.work · 06/08/2026

This book provides a decent overview of women's occupations in the titular milieu, substantiating this with various historical records. It's an easy, well-organized read, though the prose is rather awkward. Indulges in some editorializing toward the end, but nothing egregious.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Chain Story Project has just released a new story by Luana Saitta, Why Crimson Cora Hates Wizards. You will love it. Please read, enjoy, like and share. (Sharing makes it possible for us to bring you free fiction!) And thank you. www.chainstorycore.com/blog/why-crimson-cora-hates-wizards

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Why Crimson Cora Hates Wizards — The Chain Story

Everyone fears Crimson Cora, save her captor, who is eagerly awaiting her death—for her to be nibbled to pieces by foul denizens of the sea. This is a delightful tale by Luana Saitta which you shall t...

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arisia s @arisia.work · 05/08/2026

A close look at a printing press to examine the intellectual life Spanish colonial Philippines sounded like something right up my alley. Unfortunately, this book is little more than a list of titles, authors and editors, with no serious attempt to connect it with the time's intellectual movement.

Photograph of the book "Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier: A Story of Late Nineteenth Century Philippine Intellectuality" by Lino L. Dizon

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arisia s @arisia.work · 02/08/2026

Ran The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh in Shadowdark again. There's got to be some way to lure players toward the charlatan instead of having them run away from them. Anyway, I forgot to mention luck tokens till later and wound up with a TPK. Gitz the goblin henchman reprised its role.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 20/07/2026

Got to run Conan 2d20 again over the weekend. It was my second time running The Pit of Kutallu, but cleaving closer to the original adventure this time. Scenario's still thin on logic, but genre-compliant enough to get a pass. Players had some brilliant uses for their Fortune Dice...

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bubblegum Goth girlfriends

A digital drawing by Yamino, featuring teenage Chibiusa Tsukino and Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon posting together in pink sporty clothes, and slightly goth academia clothes, respectively.

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026

are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 12/07/2026

Got to run another game of Best Left Buried yesterday! Mostly people new-ish to OSR-style play (broadly speaking), but some whom I'd run Shadowdark for. Reception was positive across the board--one even wants to grab a copy of the game now mehehe

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

[𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍] Has anyone never published a short story before, in any language, and would like to submit one to @asiancha? We'are looking for stories that are set in Asia or explore Asian themes. This is a one-off invitation. Deadline: 10 July 2026. Email: editors@asiancha.com ❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦

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arisia s @arisia.work · 05/07/2026

booked a tabletop gaming venue for my bday and played - Love Letter - Dixit - Magical Athlete - Poetry for Neanderthals - Maid the RPG - MtG (Commander) not a bad way to commemorate the inexorable progress of time ^-^

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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This would not have been possible thanks to a wonderful community that has supported independent RPGs and endorsing something that is thematically off the beaten path! Thank you for your endorsement and your trust!

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arisia s @arisia.work · 01/07/2026

back in the day, if I brought up Maid: the RPG, people would look at me askance in the past couple of years, I've offered to run it thrice and each time found several people eager to play I wonder what's changed in the circumstances

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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cutting to the quick. Giving what you have. Ascending to plead with the gods. MORIAH: Final Cut. Catch the campaign on June 16. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for MORIAH: Final Cut

From Plus One Exp & Friends - Get Ready for MORIAH: Final Cut

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's true, I wrote a Jirel of Joiry novella and if you want to read it, sign up here! The story is for newcomers and existing Jirel fans alike, because Joiry needs to be on more people's maps, so to speak. Click to learn more!

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arisia s @arisia.work · 12/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop) Dungeons & Dragons Orbital Blues Daggerheart Shadowdark

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 10/05/2026

i haven't made a proper steam announcement yet (will do so when this releases tomorrow!) but i made a fan pack for A YEAR OF SPRINGS to celebrate the 5th anniversary thank you for 5 years of A YEAR OF SPRINGS 💐🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/4654570/...

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A YEAR OF SPRINGS - Fan Pack on Steam

A fan pack for A YEAR OF SPRINGS with concept art, digital stickers, wallpapers, and an exclusive thank-you art message!

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Ferne Milton, CobbleSprite (She/Her) @cobblesprite.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The sheer confidence of people who do not understand that the justifications within the fiction are part of the ideological tapestry is disheartening to say the least. Like... you know that the writers decided it would be that way right? Right!?!

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