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AYolland

@ayolland.bsky.social
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Game Designer (mostly journaling games) & Seller of oddities (mostly ttrpgs.) 1/2 of @knaveofcups.com . I used to make Bitsy games. ✨he/they linktr.ee/ayolland

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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 7h
i walk into the crystal shop, buy a one wish willow, slap a 50 on the counter. I wish for the death note, i’ve got my pen ready to go. i’m writing for like 15min solid in the middle of the store. sirens are going off, ppl are telling each other to turn on the tv. i’m still writing.
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 04/09/2026
GREETINGS FELLOW HERMITS! IT'S SOLO SEPTEMBER! Journaling, gamebooks, solo+, boardgames - we've got a wealth of finds for ya. Fight monsters, make monsters, or date monsters. Explore the Zone. Do an Arthurian Quest. Deliver the mail! Fight a book! Start a restaurant! 🧵⬇️ #solosept #soloseptember
A smorgasbord of new stuff in the Knave of Cups online shop, including games like HOME, Out for Delivery, We Shall Be Monsters, SPINE, Eleventh Beast, Ruin in Bloom, Trespasser, Rillem, Cyberpunk: Augmented, and Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard. There's a Knave of Cups logo sticker in the center of the shot
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is very sad for everyone involved but unfortunately an extremely aesthetic photo. violence and serenity in equal parts.
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 24/07/2026
JULY DROP IS HERE! WORLD BUILDING GALORE! Solo+ RPGs, oracle decks, & volumes of illustrations & finely-crafted tables! Be a jam magician, a soda jerk, a Greek Hero, a dwarf exorcising a space mine. Travel to the 90s and defrag your desktop USE CODE SUMMERY FOR $5 OFF THRU 9/2 Discover it all ⬇️🧵
A smorgasbord photo of a variety of items now in the online shop. TTRPGs like Exquisite Biome, 100 Strangers, Midnight Muscadines, The Conservatory, Cryptobiosis, Stoneburner, and Unworthy. Oracles like The Rock Oracle Deck, with lots of its individual rock cards scattered about (azurite, silver, mercury, topaz, selenite, onyx, and septarian). And board games like Isle of Night
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Kaden 🥩 Stranger Still - Out Now!🥩 @kadenramstack.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#KadenPlayed 120 Welcome to the Habitrails #SoloTTRPG by @ayolland.bsky.social  a Tarot game about living in a strange neighborhood. Everything is provided for you, food, shelter, neighbors, but something isnt right and you don't know how you arrived and you cannot leave. ayolland.itch.io/habitrails
Welcome to the Habitrails by AYolland Instruments: Tarot Deck
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the nintendo shamecube @futuresushi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
this comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now
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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 30/06/2026
a commission for @jmaq.bsky.social its garfieri #roseart
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 26/06/2026
JUNE DROP IS HERE! Welcome TWO art-forward divination decks. SOLO tactical fantasies WYRD & REAP, songwriting, gamebooks, and VOID_SHIFT, the cyberpunk gig economy deck builder STORED IN A CASSETTE CASE. Tiny board games, multiplayer fantasy/scifi/mech battles, DICE DUELS +more Discover it all 🧵⬇️
A smorgasbord of games and divination cards. Games like WYRD, REAP, A Dragon Walks Into a Village, VOID_SHIFT, NULL_SPACE, A Song For A Serpent King, Rigged, and APOCALYPSE FRAME. Cards like The Tower, the Page of Cups, The Hierophant, and the Ten of Cups are from the Crimson Eye Tarot. Gold and black shield cards are from the With Your Shield or On It oracle deck. There are also small board games like Slambo and a variety of interplanetary Riso zines
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I really like this album. Instrumental, driving modular synth with traditional (?) Chinese percussion. Great, textural “get shit done” music.
Bandcamp screenshot:

Album cover for “The Endless Dance” by Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang. Solarized collage of women’s faces and strange textures. Grainy, bold, Chinese characters spell out the title.

Highlighted track: “Awaken the Insects”
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
sheepstealer
Peanut, 2014 winner of “The World’s Ugliest Dog.” An alarming and burnt snout and eyes protrude from a mop of hair. Peanut has the look of a gremlin who lives each day to spite god and death.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
dino tools
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Art director: Mmm that mango just doesn’t look… tropical enough. Isn’t it a tropical fruit? Like you cut it open and it has the delicious tropical juice inside? Illustrator: I… wh… Do you mean a coconut? AD: Exactly. Make it more tropical. I: … like a coconut? AD: Great talk.
A can of wildwonder®️ Mango Gold Prebiotic + Probiotic Sparkling Drink. A teal can with a fantastical yellow and orange polka dot fruit cut open to reveal a thick white rind and a hollow orange center. A real dr seuss ass fruit. Maybe it’s supposed to be a bizarrely stylized passion fruit? Idk wtf happened here.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
this morning the 7yo has failed to create a monorail in minecraft. as punishment, the sulfur cube involved has been filled with iron, left at the bottom of the ocean, and sealed in an iron tomb with glowing red eyes.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
sex is great but have you ever pulled out a blackberry bramble and got the root THAT’S RIGHT I GOT YOU MFer PERENNIAL THIS BITCH
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version: humaniterations.net/imposedonline/
humaniterations.net
Zine Imposer
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Me: So the reason AI keeps generating stories about a lighthouse keeper is that many generated stories were considered “unsafe,” and discarded, whereas the innocuous and clean lighthouse keeper stories were retained. Robert Eggers: I don’t follow.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
extremely rude to journaling games that AI loves to make up little stories about lighthouse keepers
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Does anyone have metal recommendations that are like this King Gizzard album? So, polyrhythmic speed/power metal?
Album cover for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s album “Petrodraconic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation”

A surreal painting(?) of dragon/lizard creature in front of a fiery industrial complex.
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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 11/06/2026
bad comic
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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
everyone who makes a little game or a little comic or a little zine or a little website is beautiful in my eyes.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
hard agree. crushing cinematic-style dark ambient
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
just had a vicious flashback to watching my grandmother play solitaire for windows 95 as i was booting up slay the spire II
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I think this an interesting, well-thought out manifesto. Written by a designer with experience in AP. Definitely worth a read. I hope to not catch anyone reacting to this without reading it first.
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I'm sitting here while my 20 or so aborted projects whisper to me like I WOULDVE LOVED TO BE PLAYED BY 4 OR 5 PEOPLE MAX ON ITCH.IO. IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD FINISHED ME.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I bet the guy who invented chess was very annoying. “Did Raj make you play his game?” “Yes, it was very complicated and he beat me.”
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
gritty grimy weird chunky scanline spaceships! my art pack for ttrpgs! 10 spaceships of all shapes and sizes with swappable backgrounds. 100% human idiot made for your human made #ttrpg! :-) carlydraws.itch.io
spaceships in scanline style
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I bet the guy who invented chess was very annoying. “Did Raj make you play his game?” “Yes, it was very complicated and he beat me.”
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Porkon Cows @porkoncows.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
6 Concepts of ixpert catharsises 1 - Croggly poteons 2 - Essential design 3 - Encourage masculine wizard 4 - Game directialat witches 5 - Lousy cliffhanger design 6 - Croggly poteons 7 - Reward game curating 8 - Coffeeat beefs 9 - Seek game crafting
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
balatro🃏
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I am *hopping* mad
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Portland Indie Game Squad @pigsquad.com · 05/06/2026
Summer Slow Jams dates & themes are live for June, July, and August! Learn and collaborate with the community to make games every month this summer 😎 🍀 Luck 💼 Inventory 🔍 Mystery pigsquad.com/summerslowjams Time to make games together 💖 Thanks to @marlowedobbe.com for this year's art!!
Summer Slow Jams 2026
June: Luck - A slot machine scrolls between CubePig, Jamwolf, four leaf clovers, and sevens
July: Inventory - Jamwolf is featured in an item management menu very similar to Resident Evil 4
August: Mystery - The Truffle Hunter Cubepig is startled as a crack of lightning lights up a spooky mansion

"Join us for a Summer of Game Jams! PIGSquad.com"
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I don't remember who posted about this sdtk, but thank you, it is 100% bangers made for locking in, a lost techno classic
cover for Playstation 1 game "Ghost in the Shell," featuring a manga drawing of Major Matoko wired all to hell and holding an assault rifle
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haunted birdy! c: @justbirdy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
rt if you love entering, unveiling, and being changed by The Zone
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AAGGH NO ONE NEEDS AI DATA CENTERS not as in "no one needs to use ai" but as in "the ai companies bankrolling the data centers do not need them" THEY ARE PURELY PERFORMATIVE PROJECTS TO MAKE NUMBER GO UP 🤡🤬🙃
Blue sky screenshot:

Ariana Niko
@ariananiko.bsky.social

Data centers have become the railroads of the digital age. Everybody uses them. Nobody wants one built near them.

8:31 AM • Jun 4, 2026
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
me playing a game of mine that i shoved in drawer and never finished: "hey wtf, this game is good??"
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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Demonic Diplocaulus A4 private commission for an illustration to be included in a new Silent Oracle RPG book. It shows a giant Diplocaulus that has fallen through the roof of a cave. In a nook on a stalagmite is the skull of a gorilla (it all makes sense in the game!)
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Don’t try to define what a ttrpg is. And definitely not what a game is. I see lots of people try to define their past experiences and work backwards from the boundaries they set. Grocery shopping is a ttrpg if you want it to be.
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bagbosse.bsky.social @bagbosse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Windswept worlds wreak havoc on the servos, but blessed is the machine which preserves where flesh would wither
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
spend your precious night out to go see an old band you love, do not look up the opener because whatever, SURPRISE it’s a different old band you love they just changed their name HELL YEAH i’m old HELL YEAH
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
these fukkin people, i swear to god
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t-shirt graphic featuring quote from the film Anchorman (2004)

Sex Panther: 60% of the time, it works every time
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
oh right, I forgot to post this here. fiddling with stuff for reasons. #textmode #MRMOTEXT
ilustration made from 8 bit textmode tiles in bright pink, purple, blue, and white. a skeletal white figure in a respirator against a pink and purple ruined city, with a white star in the sky
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
oh right, I forgot to post this here. fiddling with stuff for reasons. #textmode #MRMOTEXT
ilustration made from 8 bit textmode tiles in bright pink, purple, blue, and white. a skeletal white figure in a respirator against a pink and purple ruined city, with a white star in the sky
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Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
for most people my age/younger he's known primarily for being sampled a ton but this is one of my favorite pieces of music, full stop
youtube.com
Dexter Wansel - Rings of Saturn (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DexterWanselVEVO
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
gotta say, a LOT of folks seem uninterested in fixing their hearts
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It is 10:30am. So far today I have - Listened to the new Boards of Canada (good, recommend) - Cut my thumb open and fainted (bad, do not recommend)
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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 28/05/2026
2 DAYS LEFT And we’re creeping up on $12,000 raised Help us get there! #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...
Fundraiser graphic. Top is text “Typhoon Sinlaku Relief” in red over a painting of a cyclone storm as viewed from satellite imagery, white swirling clouds over a blue ocean. Below is a red rectangle with logos for itch.io and the Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In light of recent events, I am sharing this shitpost bot I made a week or so ago
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
using ai to make the cover for your bitsy game?????? are you for serious?????? what is the point here?????? what are you doing????????????
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Quick thoughts on AI cartoons: - Heinous that buzzfeed fed that creator’s work to the slop machine. - It sounds like it is essentially a very complicated filter that animatics get fed into. - Those shows are all hella doomed. Most new cartoons on streamers are doomed, these are super-doomed.
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AYolland @ayolland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This is an incredibly helpful skeet-length summary of The Forge. Very helpful as someone who A) has really only encountered second and third hand accounts and B) would much rather read a game over theory. Some quick googling found me PDFs and I started reading.
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