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Tan Shao Han

@bigprawn.bsky.social
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Gold ENnie (2024) TTRPG writer, designer, consultant. PhD Research Scholar (Communications and New Media), National University of Singapore. Interests: Games, SEAsian studies, cultural heritage, labour, orality, magic, religion, political economy, presence

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Nine Heavens Press 🇰🇷 | Support Black Market Guide!! @nineheavenspress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did you know the secrets of immortality are right at your fingertips! All you have to do is pick up your copy of Black Market Guide to Immortality! #dnd version is out for review before we start print black-market-guide.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... Illust: @blazemalefica.bsky.social
Illust: Blazemalefica
Dark skinned, long haired, masked figure looms over, lounging in a bed of clouds, resting their face on their hands while their elbows perch atop blooming hands. An old man with his knees on the ground stretches his arms out in rapturous praise. Flames surround the divine figure in a twisted vision of nirvana.
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Tim Popelier, Tankhead Text Typer @tim-popelier.com · 18/09/2026
You know, I thought I understood how deep the 3.5 DnD OGL rabbit hole went. But then occasionally you find an ebay listing that makes you do a double take. This was made in 2002?! Hey, want to play some Afghanistan? it does require the dungeons and dragons players guide though...
Cover of "Afghanistan d20 system" rpg bookBack of "afghenistan d20 system" rpg book.
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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖊
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ending week 2 of my first semester of my PhD journey; a lot of things I'm feeling and experiencing, but all good! it's complex and too much to articulate and process in one go, but I feel at peace with my past, challenged to go forward and further, and generally ready for stuff. I'm really grateful!
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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
OK this is incredibly cool. A gamer has created floppy disks of his Steam collection and they act as executables to launch that game.
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momatoes @momatoes.com · 22/08/2026
What Dust Remains is a finalist at the CRIT Awards. Community copies are now available at momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re... so you can try out the game—and explore legacy and sacrifice in a unique GMless experience.
A faded photography partially obscured behind paper. On top of it is the text "What Dust Remains is a CRIT Awards Finalist".
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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
putting myself out there for work and i've suddenly realized: this is quite the little TTRPG resume, wow!
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s true! I’m also accepting tips via my Ko-fi. I don’t have a job yet & I have huge bill (1700) to my school plus rent. I lost my SNAP while I was bedridden in the spring & I’m still having focal seizures daily. Plus periodically I get very sick. ko-fi.com/acidlich
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Buy Learn Math with an Artist a Coffee
Become a supporter of Learn Math with an Artist today!
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Eva Soulu 🌿 @soulu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today is my birthday! If you like my art, would you share it, please? That means the world to me.
A portrait of Hyth from FF14, a beautiful blonde man in black robe with silver mask on his chest.An illustration showing Warden and Witch of the Wilds standing before Eluvian before crossing over. A dark shadow of the Dragon looms over them.An illustration of the girl in light dress and big white wolf resting near underground spring.An illustration of Warrior of Light and Alisaie, visiting friend's grave  (FF14).
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I've bought, played, and read too much Mothership stuff! What do I recommend out of the mountain of available books? This blog explains. injectorseat.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/t...
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Thursday’s Mothership Recommendations
My opinions on where to start and what to buy for Mothership.
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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thank you, @legalizegoblins.bsky.social ! I'm in Lake County, Indiana, which had a direct hit from the storms this week. So far, NWS has confirmed a derecho and some tornadoes up to EF-2. Over 300,000 folks are without power, including most of my town. The view from my living room after the storm:
A massive, entirely uprooted tree flat on the ground.
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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
very excited to be hosting a panel with Malaysian TTRPG, video game, and board game creatives on the 22nd August at Tsutaya Bukit Jalil! also I guess now is the time to say I went back to school to do a PhD in video games 🫠
Poster for Malaysian games panel with Aaron Lim (TTRPGs), Sophie Azlan (video games), Poon Jon (board games)
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Ghost Festival is starting today! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_F... It's an important festival for Buddhists, where we offer generosity and compassion for spirits of the dead and hell-beings released momentarily from the underworld for a month, when they try to seek reprieve to their suffering.
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Ghost Festival - Wikipedia
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Ghost Festival is starting today! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_F... It's an important festival for Buddhists, where we offer generosity and compassion for spirits of the dead and hell-beings released momentarily from the underworld for a month, when they try to seek reprieve to their suffering.
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Ghost Festival - Wikipedia
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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The year is 2026. Extreme heat is threatening the cheese banks where thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. kumada1.itch.io/cheese-squad...
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Cheese Squad: Stay Sharp by kumada1
Tactical cheespionage action. TTRPG.
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Tomas Gimenez Rioja @ Crypt of the Nekrolych 💀 @tgimenezrgm.itch.io · 11/08/2026
Let's make this happen It looks phenomenal and the premise looks very original And we need more Latino American stories in media
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ok I'm sorry (Probably an ancestor displeased her) Get a longer list of Singapore Daoist gods at www.instagram.com/p/Db0RBgUk-D...
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Remind self; some PF2 work I enjoyed Lost Omens (Goka, Songbai; Alkenstar, Dongun Hold) For PCs (Aloof Firmament, Resurgent Maelstrom, Unfurling Brocade; Triggerbrand; Yakshas; Read the Air, Thousand-Blade Thesis, North/South Wind swords; Hedge Mage lore) Monsters (Hellbreaker devils, jiang-shi)
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Paraphrasing a friend, about shitty AI slop movies released in time for Singapore's National Day... Friend "We don't have to watch it, even if nobody watches it." Me: "ah, but what about the extremely libidinous large river reptile? Who believes in Super Ero Gatory duties? You Kant dispute that!"
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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...
"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" A simpleton looking peasant yells as they smash the wooden machine.

The standard narrative goes that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. (But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.)

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. 

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.
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✨WoofMeow 🏳️‍⚧️✨ ANE 27” @jamesdraws.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Doodles of my son because I miss him
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey frenz! Unfortunately class numbers fell and my main source of income disappeared until September. If anyone can help out a casual academic I would be super grateful! Bills are mounting up. Love you! 💕 #MutualAid www.paypal.com/paypalme/mar...
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Pay Mark Stefan Bahnisch using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/MarkBahnisch and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Luke Wildwoods @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dark Ages is a post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game by Andrew Gillis and myself (adopting the Bakers' draft). It is about personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed & rights denied, in an age of our real Earth but not our real history Now in playtest! sevencrowsgames.itch.io/dark-ages
Something terrible is coming.
The Empire of Eagles left us. The eldest among us still remember the shape of imperial rule. Their children, only the garrisons’ backs as they marched away. We knew not where they were headed, and no news ever came. Empty forts fell into decay. Kin serving in distant legions did not return. Imperial faces faded from silver coins. Bridges crumbled, and no engineers arrived to make them whole. Did the Empire burn? Withdraw? Simply collapse? Whatever the cause, we were abandoned to our fate.
In its absence, a rupture. Long years of chaos and upheaval, but amongst the ruins, possibility. 
Now we stand at the precipice of the ungiven future. A resurgence of old ways vies against the advent of new crowns. War hangs in the air like a bloody knife. Dragons stir in the earth, and dream of the world’s breaking. In distant lands, converts kneel to a bloodless corpse-god. This age is a broken thing, ours to make anew—time now for the plunge.
Dark Ages is a post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed and rights denied.
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This is a playtest document. It is the third draft of Dark Ages, formerly Apocalypse World: Dark Ages, which Meg and Vincent Baker developed and abandoned back in 2014. 
After a fruitful and compelling experiment in archaeological playtesting, we (Andrew Gillis and Luke Jordan) have adopted it with the Bakers’ blessing. It is our intention to bring the game to publication, incorporating recent developments in the PBTA design scene while honouring the unique, original DNA of the game that captivated us in the first place.
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Christopher R. Rice - The Raven Maniac @ravensnpennies.com · 09/08/2026
My little brother sent me this and I just bawled like a baby.
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Paizo @paizo.com · 09/08/2026
The collab of the year is just about to start at T-Mobile Park with our adventure Pathfinder: Operation Salmon Run! Cheer on the Seattle Mariners as they go head to head against the Tampa Bay Rays!
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
(1/5) Excited to start (this week is week 1!!) on my PhD with the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore! I'll be studying TTRPGs in Southeast Asia, formally as games/artefacts/processes on their own as well as particular cultural industries and products.
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hello we have a pop-up table at Tsutaya Books Bukit Jalil showcasing and selling RPGs and accessories from a group of local designers and creatives. The Imaginary Friends exhibition runs from 4 August - 1 September 2026, featuring: me, @munkao.bsky.social, @najmizes.bsky.social, & Nightshade Tavern.
Table displaying a bunch of tabletop RPGs and accessories for sale at a bookstore.Display of a journal and sticker set for What Should We Have Tomorrow?Table displaying a bunch of tabletop RPGs and accessories for sale at a bookstore.Display of a map, character sheet, pencils and dice.
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Over last weekend, visited 2 events; first was Ambin Ubin Open House, a festival to showcase and celebrate the lives and lifeworlds of the Orang Pulau (island people) and Orang Laut (sea nomads) of and around Singapore, and the other was Table Con Quest (TCQ), a convention focused on tabletop games.
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our annual union negotiation meeting with the President of the Soggy Dogs Union (Significant Others of Game Designers) aka Jeannie, over shiopan courtesy of Mel and @bigprawn.bsky.social.
Photo of Jeannie, Valiant and I eating shiopan.
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Nine Heavens Press 🇰🇷 | Support Black Market Guide!! @nineheavenspress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're at 50 preorders!! Just halfway there till it's fully unlocked! Then we get cooking on releasing this
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Nine Heavens Press 🇰🇷 | Support Black Market Guide!! @nineheavenspress.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A preview of our upcoming Kamaitachi species/ancestry! We'll soon be releasing bite-sized playable material very soon #dnd #pf2e Illust: ZONE_MAN
Lanky weaselfolk man wearing a straw hat, dressed in a cloak, pants, and rope belt. Scars over his body, smoking, wraps around his wrists and ankles. A menacing scythe stretches out from his left elbow.

Illust: ZONE_MAN
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Nine Heavens Press 🇰🇷 | Support Black Market Guide!! @nineheavenspress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
barbarian: path of malice subclass preview Art by @maeters.bsky.social #dnd #pf2e
Burly man covered in paper talismans with limbs covered in the inky tar of malice, red eyes growing from his multiple tails. Open robe, torso half exposed, horns having grown from whatever mutation took place. Black tar forma into claws around his person
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trying to awaken is so hard when so much wants to be asleep.. years went past in fugue of crushing depression and endless anxieties, worked to the crack of a whip into a sliver of a bone, and ...abandonment, I suppose. No wonder I can't? Couldn't? Speak or see clearly? For so long? Let's try again.
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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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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What a guy
4 panel comic

Panel 1: a wizard in blue robe and white beard sitting with small forg at a desk behind the computer. “Click, click” is the sound of the mouse to be heard
Panel 2: close up on the computer screen. There’s a green check mark and a full loading bar on it. From off screen someone, probably the wizard, says “boom, there it is”.
Panel 3: forg is left behind alone at his desk. There’s an open door in the background. Forg says “thanks installation wizard” and a little pink heart appears, showing his affection.
Panel 4: we see now that the wizard has already left the house after a job well done. He replies to forg watching him go from his window: “it’s what I do”
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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I appreciate everyone who has been rightfully not blaming Paizo as a company for this turn of events. The creative department had a tearful meeting with Erik Mona this morning to talk it through as a team. Erik cares about us just as much as we care about each other. He didn't want this; no one did.
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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I guess I can say it now: I'm one of the folks hit by the Paizo layoffs. My last day will be in early July. I'm devastated. I love the folks I've worked with the past three years. I love the fans. I love the games we made. If you have an opening for a remote editor, I'd love to hear from you.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo This is really about Helen of Troy allegedly being cast with a Black actress. And Elon Musk not understanding the Iliad or the Odyssey LET'S TALK HELEN OF TROY from memory, while high.
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Regret to inform you but a pencil is technology, it is just not the cutting edge anymore
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Running a Werewolf 5e game set in 1990 Singapore (making sense of the "new" setting vis-a-vis the "old" has been quite an exercise in, Zizekian sniff incoming, dialectics haha). Like I'm fond of new non-genetic determinist approach to Garou, for e.g. even if other new troubling implications pop up..
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you're in Singapore during June 13-14, drop by Lion City Faire! I'll be running #RPGSea games (Nutmeg wars political horror for Ithaca in the Cards by @ehronlime.bsky.social, Snakes and Cleavers for Kala Mandala by @munkao.bsky.social, and shiny new rules for Gubat Banwa by Sword Isle Studios)...
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lioncityfaire on Instagram: "Time for TTRPGs with a Southeast Asian spin! Lion City Faire brings together 12 different local GMs, with a variety of games to sui…"
Time for TTRPGs with a Southeast Asian spin! Lion City Faire brings together 12 different local GMs, with a variety of games to suit high stakes adventure, narrative and roleplay heavy and investigation and mystery. 🧩 GM Shao Han is an award-winning TTRPG designer, writer, and consultant for many projects including Pathfinder 2e. As a founding member of the RPGSEA community, he also designs and writes his own games based on SEAsian history and culture.He will be representing the following Southeast Asian writers and game developers to run the following games: 🎲: Sword Opera, Pathfinder 2e, Kala Mandala, Gubat Banwa, Ithaca in the CardsGMs Jason Koh, Charmaine Ong, Shane Yeow are no strangers to TTRPGs, havung run introductory games and epics at multiple conventions, including Doujin Market, TableCon Quest and GameStart Asia. Jason Koh is also the co-founder of D&D Adventurer’s League Singapore Community and RPG Day Singapore.They will be running a variety of systems, some number crunchy, some hilariously unhinged.🎲: Daggerheart, Cain, Lancer, Goblins with a Fat Ass, D&D 5eGMs STEVE and Mori are bringing easy to learn, narrative-focused and rules-lite games to the table. Prepare yourself for shenanigans, and let the dice tell the story. P.s If you’re lucky, you might catch both of them co-GMing your game!🎲: Masks and Chasing AdventureGMs Ace, Aden, En Sha, Zach, Jojo and Lanzi bring a creative streak to the table with varied skills to create immersive worlds and challenge players in game and above the table. The GMs present a collection of original stories woven from myths, spirits, and legends of Singapore – from the founding of Temasek, to the sacred rituals that hold the world together. Each adventure invites players, new and seasoned alike, to play and experience a story that feels both fantastical and deeply familiar.🎲: D&D 5eEach game is $30/per pax for 2hs of adventure.#lioncityfaire #renfaire #singaporeevents #sgevents #dm
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Amazing work! This is so helpful.
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dragonkid11 @11dragonkid11.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Songbirds, by Snow, is an OSR and storygame traditions inspired ttrpg about you being the canary (adventurer) in the coal mine (dungeon), you go where others won't trying to help spirits find rest, since the god of death is slacking.
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Intro to Songbirds, Canary in the Mine
YouTube video by 11dragonkid
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
More TTRPG about me: Running: Pathfinder 2e (Hellbreakers AP, Season of Ghosts AP) Reading: War Story: Occupied France, Spectres of Brocken (@ehronlime.bsky.social) Working on: Da Xia / 大侠 (pulp, noir mix with gong'an, and wuxia, set in 1940s occupied Singapore; blending PF2e and FitD mechanics)
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Kelly McKernan @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I didn’t create over 200 paintings in the last 15 years just to see 1/3 of them scraped for training data & my name abused as a prompt thousands of times. These companies are blatantly laundering copyrighted artwork, displacing the artists they stole from, & devaluing the arts as a whole. FUCK AI.
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
TTRPG about me First game: AD&D Latest game: Salvage Union Longest game: D&D 3.x Favorite game: Band of Blades Favorite mechanics: Nightmares (The Nightmares Underneath, @chthonstone.bsky.social) Favorite setting: Chronicles of Darkness Favorite art: @munkao.bsky.social, @brianyaksha.bsky.social
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thank you again @silentinfinity.bsky.social for covering Hellfire Dispatches! I really like how the whole book worked out, and enjoyed reading it. I wrote the Fangwood section, and that chapter's POV character, Sir Kieran of House Graytree, is probably the fave NPC I've made! Check our work out!
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Tan Shao Han @bigprawn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thank you @silentinfinity.bsky.social for your praise for Hellbreakers! I'm glad you like the Hellhusk Shroud and Lazybones Pendant; I enjoyed writing those items, and am also glad you felt so strongly about the devils we made. I definitely mined my nightmares for my contributions to rhose designs!
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