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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

Through all this, the crew learns that both the party host and one elite client have been conspiring to throw them (and robot pirate Fiore) under the bus--and also that the attack's target was Provost Baird. (You know it's fiction because academics wield political influence.)

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arisia s @arisia.work · 28/09/2026

Noi and Job go right to sector security, working with the chief investigator (via sympathy with the "our boss [Bunny] is unreasonable" card) to get the captured terrorists to talk. Meanwhile, Bunny plays to old strengths by buying out a journalist (rolling with a boon cause she's done this before).

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arisia s @arisia.work · 28/09/2026

... while Bunny snoops around her room to find her stash of illegal drugs (and a chip connecting her to suspected robot!pirate Fiore). A mysterious informant tips them off that the party host herself is trying to frame them for the attack, so they redouble efforts to find links to the attack...

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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

In order to infiltrate the local underworld, they have made contact with dealers of questionable character to buy... substances for livening up parties. This cost 15k credits, which is probably more than Bunny pays the crew monthly.

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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

I realize belatedly that I have been playing Bunny as a Thirsty Sword Lesbians character all session, perhaps because I was GMing a game of that on Saturday. Ah well, still in character for a dilettante who has no notable skills except Carouse +3.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 07/09/2026

though to Bunny, "investigating" these leads largely means flirting with the other dignitaries' secretaries and adjutants, while also trying to suss out of the spice pirate is a robot (an offense against Ludd) on the flimsiest of reasons.

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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

...distracting the enemy gunners by making a fool of herself, and coincidentally getting one of the guests out of harm's way by getting him drunk enough to be sent back to his room before the terrorists showed up. Am I properly leaning into the genre? No idea. But curious to see where things go.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 17/08/2026

She's also part of a Luddite religion which disdains the use of anything more advanced than simple electronics. (The leisure yacht itself is an antique spacefaring vessel.) So far, we've thwarted a terrorist attack on a party, in which Bunny's only contributions were...

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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

3) fantasy adventure (and related: sword & sorcery) by which I mean the sort of tie-in fiction you get for things like Forgotten Realms (RIP) and Warhammer. A lot of it is pretty bad, but also some that's quite good! And either way, I keep coming back.

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arisia s @arisia.work · 12/08/2026

2) Off the top of my head Battle Royale (Koushun Takami) Kokoro (Natsume Soseki) The Heroes (Joe Abercrombie) Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guangzhong) Levels of Life (Julian Barnes) I realize I've reread BR and am partway through reread for RotK (different translation).

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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

1) I almost never reread anything. I think twice is the most I've gone all the way through any book so far. Off the top of my head: The Hobbit Pachinko Eragon The Pearl (ugh)

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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

There was a pretty even spread of "take another action," "get two successes," and "add a narrative detail." The last ones were what really shined: flipping a weapon over to a disarmed ally as part of a whip attack, and adding a giant statute to kick down some stairs at a group of monsters.

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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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