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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating

@aster-in-july.bsky.social
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20 / she/her / queer + trans / Aotearoa Amateur gardener, poet, cider maker, and TTRPG writer!! Find my weird lyric games at asteriian.itch.io 🍂🌙🪲🌿🪐

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chaosium Con NZ is a unique international convention dedicated to the fans of our games. On Nov 21-22, the iconic Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, will become a gathering place for investigators, storytellers, and dreamers from across the globe. sites.google.com/chaosium.com...
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why has no one told me i have to put mustard in potato salad. hello. is anyone talking about this. this feels like the sort of old person thing you use bsky for announcing , right
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
notice how the jigglypuff still succeeds with no brain to speak of
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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everytime i read a book and theres like talk of "gruesome" Inca sacrifice its like oh ok so ritualistic killing is talked of like this but European Country # 25 committing massacres over religious difference does not get spoken of in the same orientalist language
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2026
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO
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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​in more than a century.
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Sylvan Lawrence Is Long Hauled Again @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure who here heard already, but Nic from IPR was in a really bad car crash two weeks ago, and his car is completely totaled. Anything you can give would be immensely appreciated, and even if you can't, please please please spread the word on this! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
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Donate to Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement, organized by David Gales
I'm raising funds for my dear friend Nicholas, who was recently in a ter… David Gales needs your support for Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement
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𓃡 @doginyard.ca · 14/09/2026
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a whale fall lies at the bottom of the ocean. The bones are covered in a variety of bottom feeders and ocean critters. Panel 2: closer up, the group of bottom feeders are holding red solo cups and chatting with each other. Among the group is a tiger prawn, who thinks to himself, “I needed this…”
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when u adventure with friends, it's important to keep a maniacal glint in your eye at all times
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.patreon.com/isabellerueb... the first look at Alley Girls, my grungy urban fantasy Forged in the Dark game, is live on patreon. Hope y'all enjoy!
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Alley Girls First Look | Isabelle Ruebsaat
This is a little grungy forged in the dark game I've been working on for the last few weeks. This is a first look, so it's missing downtime
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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
witnessed something at dragon con I can’t get out of my head
Sketch of a Mike Myers cat in the hat cosplayer staring intently at a poster of a sexy Ring lady
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
my ass is the tool of big farts
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spectral seasonings for a new instance @o-c.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, smoking a cigarette and glancing to his right (apparently being interviewed by an offscreen figure), and saying "Action films are for women. They like the bloodthirsty stuff."
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Paradox 🫀🦐 @corrodedparadox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Close enough #art
A small white cervinae standing in the middle of a rainy window. There is an outline of a bigger deer around it that looks like rain streaks on the window
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
anxiousmimicrpgs.itch.io/girl-frame/d... #GirlFrame 2.1 is out! Handler Bonds, 2 new Gorgons (Parasite and Growth), a rewritten AM, and director rules
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2.1: Handler Bonds, AM rewrite, 2 new Gorgons, the Director
Smaller update with a lot of fixes and a couple new things :Added Handler Bonds Rewrote the AM playbook. The original one had a bit of an “escape” from its torment nexus. The new AM is already-fre...
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Omivel @omivel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New game? Sculpture? Object? from yours truly. Please enjoy! And if you end up printing out and constructing Object For Play 01 I would be overjoyed if you sent or tagged me in a picture with it 🩷
Object For Play 01
An object with rules by Omivel

The center of the 8.5"x11" page is the net of a cube with tabs to make gluing it together easier. Four sides of the cube depict close up and grainy photos of skin touching skin. The last two opposite sides have the words "You may not touch anyone who can see this side". The four grainy photos are respectively: a nondescript limb wrapping around another non-descript part of a body. A hand holding another hand to the point of crushing it. A hand firmly cupped around a breast. And teeth biting and pulling on a lower lip.

Off to the side of the cube the page reads:
In order to properly experience Object For Play 01 I ask that you cut out the net of the cube, fold along the thick lines, and use the tabs provided to glue the sides in place.

I invite you to think on the bounds of the object and how your body moves through its space. Bring other people into its presence and navigate it together. I encourage you to manipulate and move the object about, throw it, hide it, move between rooms, or deform it. I encourage you to bring it into unexpected and public contexts.

Enjoy your play
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Nos @summerwoodgames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People are so mad in the replies saying things like "it's brilliant satire" and "it's the best criticism of capitalism I've ever read" WHICH IS ONLY PROVING THE POINT !! if this mediocre white man's half-ass attempt at satire that isn't even good is the BEST you've read?? READ BETTER BOOKS 🗣️🗣️
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
arguably the most compelling reason to back 7PP just dropped!!
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
HEY HI HEY !! a reminder that 7 Part Pact is in its final hours - if you like 1) games with theses 2) baroque, maximalist game design 3) art with soul and personality and little medieval people 4) board games. many many board games it's 100% worth checking it out!
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birdposting @motoyuuri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Extremely onion tier line in this article
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i hope my friends know that when i post mean comments under their bsky posts that it's my way of telling them i love them , just with a lot of extra steps and a mild amount of misdirection
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🕸️ƊǗƝƓĘƠΝƁÏƬƇΗ🕸️ @dungeonbitch.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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scene_FEAR 🔜 PAX Unplugged! @scenefour.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT date ANY of the wizards of the seven part pact
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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey friends, the Dark Ages playtest by myself and @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social is now live on my itch page. You are invited to download it for free and play it. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/dark-ages
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Dark Ages by Seven Crows Games
A post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed and rights denied.
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victoria rose, paws-ta pass catte 🍝 @riningear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
omg hiii, ok so I wrote a whole piece last year about the silly "bestiecore" name I offhandedly came up with around then and how, in contrast to AAA multiplayer titles, these indie games actually provide a really good map for what makes a good multiplayer title!! tl;dr these are NOT slop!!!
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Smaller 'Friendslop' Games With Friends Highlight What Big Live Service Games Get Wrong | MMORPG.com
Live service games are losing the plot, and Victoria is here to tell you why.
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eskie @skcb.itch.io · 29/07/2026
hey folks! i'm available for work; i do all sorts of editing, i write and design, and i like drawing funny girls & creatures to boot! i have negotiable pricing, especially for personal use or small-scale projects, and i've been told i'm a pleasure to work with and produce great stuff on deadline :>
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
cold sunny winter's day and im making soup!! diced celery, garlic, and enoki mushrooms in a pan, then grated ginger and soy sauce, then boiling water and long grain rice. im so so excited ^-^
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
the fact that all my hobbies and degree related work - and indeed almost all forms of work - require me to be on a screen makes me aware of the choice architecture behind everything in life. but man i wish they let me have better choices
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
how it feels being a girl named sage who makes ttrpgs in philly
tweet from Zaid @sparkmelee that says "None of you will ever know what it's like to, after all these years, not even be the best Pakistani melee player who started in 2014 with a four-letter first name that begins with the letters z, a, and i"
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A photo of a nutria on a beach and the text: if you are seeing this the curse is lifted. have a good day
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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An account with this avatar was just blocked.
Avatar of an account that was just blocked.
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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Having completed the Jane Austen reread (unless I get to the letters), here is a little gem, ‘Jane in Vain’ by Paul Jennings (1957) (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc
JANE IN VAIN by Paul Jennings (1918-1989), published in the Sunday Observer, 1957
I often get lost in the works of Jane Austen
For Jane is my favourite writer:
Suave and satirical, Jane is a miracle,
Who subtler than Jane and who lighter?
With eloquent diction unequalled in fiction
Her characters meet and commingle,
Unlike, say, the martyrs of Camus or Sartre,
So anguished, so lonely – so SINGLE.
Though nil is the ration of bedroom and passion,
When Crawford runs off with Maria
Their sex-life, off-stage in that elegant age,
May still be assumed to have fire. Such art, with such breeding, makes beautiful reading
But let me confess my dilemma;
I'm only safe when it's Bingleys and Bennets
I mix up Persuasion with Emma.
I've read them all thrice, I recall Fanny Price
Beneath old Sir Thingummy's aegis
Was it this Cinderella, or some Isabella
Who fell off a cliff at Lyme Regis?
I can't recall rightly if Mr. John Knightley
Resided at Donwell or Randalls,
My memory's flabby, is Northanger Abbey
The one with the Willoughby scandals?
I am quite in the dark, is it Mansfield Park
That begins with the Dashwoods all greedy
And planning what cash would be left to John Dashwood
If kept from some relative needy? No! THEY lived at Norland – with Catherine Morland
Or Rushworth, or Bertram, or Elton,
Or perhaps Marianne, or Miss Elliot (Anne)
In scenes that all Janeites have dwelt on...
 
 Mistress of clarity, what a disparity
 Between my response and your art!
 But Jane, don't complain, I shall read you again
 And again, till I've got you by heart.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
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Kendra P @hagofbolding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
new cryptid just dropped
A doodle of the famous short spined raccoon Jimothy
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 19/07/2026
there will always be a jimothy
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 17/07/2026
i think about gerda wegener and lili elbe all the time
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/07/2026
Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South
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Riwhi @takataapui.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
and they are the cutest things I've ever seen!!!!!!!
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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 13/07/2026
You heard it here first, folks.
A red poster with a thick black line running around the border. In the middle, in all caps, black text reads 
“Jay Dragon’s
about to make
your mum a
wizard.”
At the bottom, smaller black text reads
“Seven Part Pact”
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
i wake up. i order a box set that is a fifth of my weight. i try not to think about what it will cost to ship a fifth of me across the entire fucking world to a small island nation. i make a cup of tea. check out the wizard madness engine NOW or else !!!
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eskie @skcb.itch.io · 14/07/2026
want to specifically call out the thumbnail i made for my friend/editor/lawyer lemon's new playbook collection because i think it turned out very noice
a thumbnail titled 'ASSIMILATION ENGINE: Three Playbooks For Girl Frame', overlaid on a deep-fried renaissance drawing with repeating text in the background. the overall vibe is grim and apocalyptic.
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Aster is writing poetry and hibernating @aster-in-july.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
ugh this is my worst dinner in ages i say as i panfry radishes in butter and salt and pepper and add edamame, soy sauce, and grated ginger right at the end, sipping my mug of miso soup while cooking
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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
HEY THERE
A lady from the billboard looks at the lonely driver
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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
two cool guys tbh
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Isabelle Ruebsaat -> paxu @anxiousmimicrpgs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ Seraphina would be my #1 choice for an Ennies Judge, she has incredible thoughts on ttrpgs and I highly recommend voting for her
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