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storyteller through games, short fiction, and journalism. he/they.

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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haven't posted the fundraiser in a bit. There is a new fire I need to put out quickly, so I am attempting to raise $500 ASAP (i.e. tomorrow morning) to avoid significantly more fees down the line as I leave this apartment complex. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haven't posted the fundraiser in a bit. There is a new fire I need to put out quickly, so I am attempting to raise $500 ASAP (i.e. tomorrow morning) to avoid significantly more fees down the line as I leave this apartment complex. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I'll tell you there are people that, when given a penny for their thoughts, would owe you change."
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Six years today at Tribal Business News. A few months into my first year there I wrote about what it was like being a disaffected Native man suddenly centering Native culture in my day job: chezdispenser.com/2023/11/16/o...
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the featherless indian.
My first Lumbee-adjacent assignment during my early days at my current gig — staff writer at Tribal Business News — turns out to be an entrepreneur profile on Moore Brothers’ Beef, a North-Carolina…
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fundraising for Going West Young Man is entering its next phase - having survived September, my next steps are: - closing out my internet and electric accounts, the latter of which involves deferred costs - handling shipping of several important items, though most of my stuff is being sold/left
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
T-minus 26 days until I leave the state I've been living in for 16 years toward what I hope is my best shot at improving my circumstances. I've raised about 20% of what I ultimately need to be safe and to get both feet on the ground in the new place. ko-fi.com/chezdispenser A short thread.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
T-minus 26 days until I leave the state I've been living in for 16 years toward what I hope is my best shot at improving my circumstances. I've raised about 20% of what I ultimately need to be safe and to get both feet on the ground in the new place. ko-fi.com/chezdispenser A short thread.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Need to raise about $400 toward this very quickly (e.g. tonight or very early tomorrow) to avoid a Problem.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hi, I'm Chez, and I'm an Indigenous journalist moving into a more stable financial situation after supporting myself and another adult on a single income for four years. I think my work is valuable and worth doing well, and I do it better when I am stable and safe. I'm raising money to do that.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hi, I'm Chez, and I'm an Indigenous journalist moving into a more stable financial situation after supporting myself and another adult on a single income for four years. I think my work is valuable and worth doing well, and I do it better when I am stable and safe. I'm raising money to do that.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Gorm the Witchfinder still finds purpose in his faith after abandoning - and now working to thwart - his old organization. It's just that he worships a god that abhors torture and incarceration now and goes to every length possible to stop magical disasters without killing anyone else.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
...that is a fairly baffling take on PF2e and has not remotely been my experience, but okay.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm hoping to raise the first $1,000 of this by Sept. 9 to avoid some issues with my current place that would, in turn, impact my potential new place in Oregon.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So - I'm doing a big thing: planning to move across the country into a safer situation that stands to improve my health and financial wellbeing. Moving is, of course, expensive. I'm trying to raise money for three things: keeping myself safe in the lead up, the move, and starting over.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So - I'm doing a big thing: planning to move across the country into a safer situation that stands to improve my health and financial wellbeing. Moving is, of course, expensive. I'm trying to raise money for three things: keeping myself safe in the lead up, the move, and starting over.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
cannot for the life of me clear ascension 9 on the necrobinder just CAN'T get my head around how to keep this character alive and i don't vibe with osty builds
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“I take my compliments the same way I take my coffee. I don't drink coffee.” --Rudy Francisco
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the talkative leader of a militia of musicians, poets, storytellers, and other ne'er do wells call that a yaptain of the bard
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
cw: pet loss I had to say goodbye to my cat Saber today after 6 six years of owning her. She developed some severe infections due to a flea problem that we didn't catch in time. I loved her more than I've ever loved any pet and I'm gutted straight through.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Everybody gangster until you're six turns deep in a kobold warren and the traps start going off.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Introducing ChezGPT, where instead of wasting six gallons of water to get a badly researched and half-assed answer you can instead give me a can of zero sugar Monster and get the same result
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"oh no death cab for ugly? ugly has to walk?"
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"I call this one the philosopher's stone," said the bounty hunter, patting a large, complex pistol on her hip. "Why's that?" "Because it turns lead into gold," the hunter said, grinning.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Going to share a thread of my work as an Indigenous journalist over the past week - work that I need support to continue after the electric co-op that runs my utilities made an error that has put me at risk of disconnection. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Going to share a thread of my work as an Indigenous journalist over the past week - work that I need support to continue after the electric co-op that runs my utilities made an error that has put me at risk of disconnection. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
An error on behalf of my electric company has put me at risk of disconnection due to late fees and due offsets I didn't expect to pay. Disconnection would mean eviction per my lease and threaten my job. ko-fi.com/chezdispense... I need to raise this by Monday to avoid the payment bouncing.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i'm in a chronicles of darkness game and playing a malkavian vampire currently serving as van princess while the crew does a little breaking and entering we have a discord channel we treat as in-character texting group chat
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A screenshot of a Discord chat between two users, Malcolm Murdoc and Blaidd, shown on a dark background. The conversation is timestamped between 11:03 PM and 11:10 PM and features humorous, surreal exchanges about mind control, demons, and being left on read.

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Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:03 PM
do i have mind control
does anyone know if i have mind control
i know i can make people look at other stuff and not me
but that could just be weird introversion powers

Blaidd — Yesterday at 11:04 PM
i feel like youd know if you did

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:04 PM
i feel like your optimism is both appreciated and not justified
YOUDIDITYOUDIDITYOUDIDITYOUDIDIT
oh goddammit the madness network got into my burner phone
sorry
am i allowed to say goddammit? i feel like i really need to reckon with my swears right now
are you guys okay?

Blaidd — Yesterday at 11:08 PM
👌 theres a lady here and she definitely a demon or smth
but its fine shes insane or wtv

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:09 PM
what

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — 11:10 PM
listen i appreciate our rapport but this is the wrong time to leave me on read
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Isis Woz @wozenstein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I have to work today because I still can't land a full-time job after years of looking but if anyone wants to support this poor black woman after losing grad school financial aid and not being able to finish an MA I leave the link here. Ko-fi.com/wozenstein
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
what do you call a library of out-of-print yaoi ahem a seme-tery
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
hey @moderation.bsky.app the dude over at @schizanon.bsky.social is harassing multiple people behind a block by adding them to lists. this is a wildly unsafe thing for your service. someone should not be able to interact *period* with a blocked account.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
starting a game of final fantasy tactics is not for the weak of heart. while the game doesn't tell you this, it involves much more than hitting "new game." you see, final fantasy tactics' characters are defined by their classes (of which, i note, you have none.)
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cozzymandias (Comms Open) @cozzymandias.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Unfortunately, I've been laid off as part of Paizo's recent restructuring (paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...). I'm reopening my public commissions while I look for what's next; if you've been looking for an excuse to get your TTRPG character illustrated, please reach out!
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Every time I want to go back to Octopath Traveler 0, since I really enjoyed the gameplay so much, I find myself remembering just how *foul* the story is. It's just a misery parade that involves a lot of horrible things happening primarily to women characters, and it puts me completely off.
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Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled and available for hire @lynnemeyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I'll say more when I can focus a bit, but for now ... While I'd love to stay in games, I'm also open to editor positions elsewhere in the publishing world. Fiction would be lovely. Before joining the games industry, I spent a decade and a half in higher ed roles that inform my work today.
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Lynne M. Meyer: TTRPG Editor, Writer, and Consultant
Hail and well met! Here you can learn a little about me, my TTRPG work, and how to get in touch. Let's create together!
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I am roughly $400 away from safety. I just filed some contract work that pays out by the end of May, meaning I should be safe through the end of June. I gotta get there first.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
and what Damocles never tells anyone is that every night he gets a little stepladder and he climbs up to the top of it and he feels around the blade, the hilt, the pommel, to that little knot of sinew and he loosens it a little more just so he has a say. just so he has a say. #poetry
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
After fracturing my ankle last Friday, I spent everything I had to get equipment I needed to move, medications I was prescribed, and so on following some insurance claim denials. I am now in a position where I need to raise my rent money and electricity bill payment by Tuesday or face eviction.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
and what Damocles never tells anyone is that every night he gets a little stepladder and he climbs up to the top of it and he feels around the blade, the hilt, the pommel, to that little knot of sinew and he loosens it a little more just so he has a say. just so he has a say. #poetry
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
After fracturing my ankle last Friday, I spent everything I had to get equipment I needed to move, medications I was prescribed, and so on following some insurance claim denials. I am now in a position where I need to raise my rent money and electricity bill payment by Tuesday or face eviction.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Friday night I fractured my ankle and I'm looking at potentially two weeks in rehab because I can't *not* use my left foot. This is going to be expensive, on top of late fees for early monthly bills + co-pays and medication. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Almost completed the prologue for Banquet for Fools. Really fascinated by the Vagrant Story-adjacent combat system and the aesthetic, as well as the weird, dreamy logic of the intro - then I got stuck in a bit of geometry with no way out of it and it just killed the momentum. Ugh.
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Keter-Class Kobold @koboldred.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Shodan: l-l-l-Look at this hacker, I want to crush them like a bug Durandal: look at my cyborg, I can make them go in a circle for hours. I can give them shotgun shells and they go apeshit
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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A 5-by-4 collage titled “About Me: Video Games,” showing twenty game box arts, each representing a personal category.
Top row: Super Mario RPG labeled “Favorite Game,” Final Fantasy Tactics labeled “Best Story,” Vagrant Story labeled “Favorite Art Style,” Dark Souls labeled “Biggest Personal Impact,” and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth labeled “Best Combat.”
Second row: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 labeled “Overhated,” Red Faction labeled “Underrated,” Marvel Rivals labeled “Overrated,” Bloodborne labeled “Needs a Remake,” and Roboquest labeled “Criminally Overlooked.”
Third row: Tales of Vesperia labeled “Favorite Protagonist,” Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver labeled “Favorite Antagonist,” Undertale labeled “Best Soundtrack,” Halo 3 labeled “Best Multiplayer,” and Resident Evil Village labeled “Not Usually My Thing, But…”.
Bottom row: Balatro labeled “Turn My Brain Off,” Monster Hunter Wilds labeled “Best With Friends,” Breath of Fire III labeled “Best Retro Game,” Brave Fencer Musashi labeled “Nostalgic Childhood Game,” and Phantom Dust labeled “Game Everyone Should Play.”
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Every time I play FFT I discover new and exciting things. For example, if the guest character meant to help you with the extremely difficult battles in a 4-battle gauntlet has his sword stolen midway through the first fight, you are now stewarding a useless, sullen bastard who likes to punch.
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Slammed Poet™ @chezident.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
starting a game of final fantasy tactics is not for the weak of heart. while the game doesn't tell you this, it involves much more than hitting "new game." you see, final fantasy tactics' characters are defined by their classes (of which, i note, you have none.)
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