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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/09/2026

I had to come back on here to share the Spotify playlist I made for my Blades '68 game. So here, in no particular order, are all of the Billboard Hot 100 from 1968 open.spotify.com/playlist/5AF...

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Blades '68

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/04/2026

Started playing Persona 5 and my husband asked what it was about. Me:“So it’s like magical girls, but not just girls, and it’s like Final Fantasy VII because they summon these personas in battle, but also it’s a high school relationship game that’s about taking down a pervy teacher.” Didn’t help 😂

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 02/04/2026

Went to an elementary school event and the kids had some time out on the playground. There had apparently been a battle fought with chalk about whether the 67 meme needs to die. “67” written and crossed out, over and over again, on the basketball court.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 03/03/2026

Watched Bob Roberts hours before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. It was a prescient gut punch when we watched it, doubly so now. Someone ask Tim Robbins his predictions for the next 40 years of U.S. politics

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 25/02/2026

I counted at least 70 standing ovations and 5 chants of “USA” during last night’s State of the Union. It sucked to watch, it was infuriating, but I think everyone should hear it. It was frightening and we need to know what their priorities are.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The Bloggies 2026 submissions are closing this Saturday night! Please submit your favorite blog posts, blog series, and newcomers on this year's official web page: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/ (And please, share this far and wide 🙏)

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The Bloggies 2026

A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/12/2025

Played Daggerheart again last night this time @dngnclub.itch.io running his homebrew setting on a time-traveling train. Highlights: - Jack’s Owen Wilson impression - Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger - NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 17/12/2025

TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV” Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17/12/2025

Starbucks workers are STILL striking. Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

resharing this little award I made for everyone who is "ruining" the #TTRPG space 🤭

A golden award plaque with an engraving that reads "Single-Handedly Ruined TTRPGs - For improving the community by making it more inclusive and diverse (and making bigots mad)"

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/12/2025

Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends: Jazz is back? Almost pop punk Dance moves inspired by David Byrne

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Just finished playing Citizen Sleeper. That last choice I had to make had me sitting and thinking for 10 minutes, no joke. Love it when a game does this. Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying: I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 05/12/2025

Ok hear me out: Moana but when they find the coconuts that are black inside it becomes cosmic horror.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 05/12/2025

Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 03/12/2025

Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/11/2025

If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 20/11/2025

My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got. But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu. www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...

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Dare to Play it Straight

The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 18/11/2025

I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂 Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two! Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 18/11/2025

Playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, which I thought was a cute little game about being a kid and making friends in space but actually it’s one of the most profound experiences I’ve had gaming. 1/3

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 13/09/2025

There’s a melancholy that comes from finishing a book for the first time. I just finished a 9 book series, over 5000 pages. It’s overwhelming. I wonder why that is.

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NPR @npr.org · 28/07/2025

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 21/07/2025

Listen to me make a character that I would definitely interview myself about if that was possible.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 10/06/2025

I’m a former Angeleno - my parents were both raised in Westchester, I grew up in the Inland Empire, went to UCLA, and spent most of my early adulthood living in Westchester and West Hollywood. I still root for the Dodgers. I refer to all freeways as “the…” I’ve never been prouder of LA.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 04/06/2025

TikTok needs to have a report option for sugar baby messages because apparently they aren’t a scam.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 02/05/2025

Gonna toot my own here: I did 99 points of damage in 2 rounds of combat in my D&D game as a 4th level wizard.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 02/05/2025

Who names their kid Pizza? It takes moxie to earn a PhD and become a scientist without using another name. I applaud you, Pizza!

Screenshot of Scientific American article about squirrels’ nut hoarding with quote from scientist Pizza Ka Yee Chow

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 23/04/2025

This episode of MBMBAM is the Platonic ideal of McElroy content: ✅ a TMI moment ✅ a highly specific catch phrase is created ✅ how to navigate a public social situation with increasingly ridiculous solutions ✅ Munch Squad devolves into a tangent about snack history youtu.be/uGO2MZR80OM?...

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MBMBaM 759: Face 2 Face: Mommy’s Special Sweets For Good Business Boys

YouTube video by The McElroy Family

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 16/04/2025

The way Amy Goodman welcomes Juan Gonzales with such evident warmth on Democracy Now every morning gives me the warm fuzzies. Which is good coming after the rest of the broadcast, which routinely makes me cry.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 16/04/2025

Just watched this for the first time in years. This style of design is my jam youtu.be/sy1dYFGkPUE?...

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Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Official Video)

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/04/2025

Picked up Leviathan Wakes and couldn’t put it down until I finished all 561 pages in 3 days. Corey writes a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter, it’s no wonder it worked so well for TV

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/04/2025

Explaining to my 7 year old that there used to be a ton of shows about groups of friends or families that were basically “here’s their life.” Here to ruin your day if you grew up in the 90s with “Innnnn West Philadelphia, born and raised…” Good luck getting that out of your head

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 04/04/2025

Dear Discord, When I mute a category, that means I don’t want to see when a new channel has been made in that category.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 01/04/2025

Anyone excited Hilary Clinton is on Bluesky is delusional. Looking at history through rose colored glasses. She’s just like Biden and Schumer

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We hate fat. We will do anything to get rid of it. And our hatred not only makes people in larger bodies miserable. It makes us incurious. What do we lose when we don’t ask questions about fat? www.scientificamerican.com/article/fat-...

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Fat Doesn’t Deserve Its Bad Rap

Fat is one of the most active, dynamic organs we have. Why can’t we learn to love it?

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

used to not have toilets, shade or drinking water cause bosses said it was too expensive. With pesticides we would work too close to the spray. Thanks to Cesar Chavez they changed those things. Join us in marching for Cesar Chávez - Francisco, CA farmworker, 28 yrs #WeFeedYou

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Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 30/03/2025

I would have loved to have made my Adventures in the Unknown game a "plain old regular game" and not delved into politics, but then the world happened and to me regular old escapism seemed weird. Does playing games change the world? No, but they do change people, and that's much more important.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/03/2025

Once again today I was daydreaming of my cross country train TTRPG convention, an entirely improbable but enticing idea

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