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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 19/12/2025

Arrived this morning. In this horrible photo I was trying to show the Alyson inflation of Book 1 to Book 2. But I am bad at photos, and decided to show everyone my incompetence.

A photo of the new Alyson Greaves book All The Way. Book 2 of the When You Fell From Heaven series.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 01/12/2025

Further to my earlier post about the work on Whispers, here is the current draft of Maggie's character card design (with placeholder stock photo for the moment). The Tension Track at the bottom is design so that a small paper clip can be used to track the current position.

An image of the character card for Margaret "Maggie" Green in the game Whispers in the Coal Dust. It looks like a stylised Clock-Card from the Lilac Mills where Maggie works. It is an aged yellow card with Places for Employee details in a monospaced font. The filled in values look like Handwritten entries in blue bic ink. The Entries in the time card columns are filled in with handwritten red bic ink. Lying across the columns at an angle obscuring them is a black and white photo of a 1950s British woman at the seaside wearing a formal blazer and pleated ankle length skirt (this is placeholder stock photography). Across the bottom of the card vertically aligned are two tracks of numbers one from 5 to 0, the other from 0 to 5, labelled SAPPHISM and RESPECTABILITY respectively, this is the Tension Track. Above the column that represents SAPPHISM 3 and RESPECTABILITY 2, is a small handwritten blue ink word saying "Start" at a slight upward angle, representing the characters starting position on the tension track.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 30/11/2025

Made lots of progress this weekend, on what I hope will be the final draft of Whispers in the Coal Dust. I am getting a little carried away with the format it will be available as, but at least it will look amazing. If I am super on the ball, I might have it available for sale at Con-Tingency.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 21/11/2025

Just received my print copy of @floaker.bsky.social's Mum Chums. The final product and play sheet are great. This is my number one game released this year, you all owe yourself a chance to play it. I will definitely be running it again at Con-Tingency.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 01/11/2025

Another year nearer to 50. I am an old woman.

A selfie of me. A trans woman with curly dark red hair, smoky eye shadow and colour changing green and purple lip gloss.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 27/10/2025

Letting the strong trans aunt mask slip a bit. Everything I do for the community, the help with hormones and voice, is because I know I missed my chance to be happy by refusing to transition for 25 years even though I knew I was trans. And some days its just hits me like a truck. Do not be like me.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 12/08/2025

*sigh* I get its important for people to be able to recognise AI generated content, but speaking as a person who has always used em-dashes—possibly a little too much—can we please not just see an em-dash and say AI. Thanks.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 18/06/2025

We need to remove the taboo around DIY. There are trans people in your area who can help you, making your own HRT is very simple and viable for trans women (sorry trans men T being controlled is a bitch). There are people who can teach you. A lifetime supply of raw ingredients costs at most $200

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm probably the only person glued to this, but...there are 40 minutes left and I genuinely have no idea whether we'll make Scott's stretch goal. There are slightly less than £400 to go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Nelle from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hey! This Sunday at 6pm Irish Time, I'm doing a charity stream for Trans Intersex Pride Dublin! We're raising funds through a GoFundMe to make this the most epic and defiant Trans Pride Ireland has ever seen. Hence the title: the Trans Rage Fundraiser!

A thumbnail of a defiant and mean looking Neilly (actually I probably just look silly) in front of a red-monochrome image of the Trans Pride march. The thumbnail text reads "Trans Rage Fundraiser"

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 17/06/2025

You current biological sex is clearly defined by what gonads you used to have but don't have now, unless you never had any in that case it's what ones you would have had if you were born differently, and unless you had both or ovotestes in which case stop asking questions you don't exist, but also

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

And I'm so happy we got @mytholder.bsky.social and @gejwatts.bsky.social 's goals. Ella's goal was £71,835, i.e. how much Cthulhu Dark raised in its Kickstarter. Cosmic Dark just went past that! Scott's goal is £74,618. If you wonder why that's significant, change your currency to US dollars!

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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green-eyedgal.bsky.social @green-eyedgal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Hi We still need help My partner Jo just managed to get a job starting on the 19th. They'll only get paid starting next month. So we don't have enough to pay for rent this month It's due on the 25th We're trying to find money elsewhere too Any bit helps Thank you so so much ko-fi.com/greeneyedgal...

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Quick plea: we're getting close to @sdorward.bsky.social and @planetx.bsky.social 's scenarios, but there are 6 hours to go. This would be an amazing time to increase your pledge (and get The Glitch Files or Cryo) or get a new add-on (hardback Cthulhu Dark/Stealing Cthulhu). #kickstarter #ttrpg

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Today, I'm running Invasive, an extra scenario for the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter, set in a factory that wants to make you happy. Meanwhile, the Kickstarter is counting down in hours not days, and close to @gshowitt.bsky.social and @mytholder.bsky.social 's goals. #kickstarter #crowdfunding #ttrpg

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

THE SISTERS OF DORLEY A closeted trans girl exploits an underground forced feminisation organisation for free healthcare. 45: KINGFISHER This is the free release of this chapter! AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/353945... Scribblehub: www.scribblehub.com/series/42187...

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The Sisters of Dorley

Stefan Riley worked hard to get into the Royal College of Saint Almsworth for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to try and get...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 14/06/2025

Well, fuck. A Bangladeshi lesbian friend has been issued an ultimatum on marriage by her family. She was, in the past, subject to religious conversion therapy to try to 'cure' her, and now will be married off against her will unless she can secure the funds and documents to escape. Please help.

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Donate to A Lesbian Escaping Arranged Marriage, organized by Lotus Kinsey

Fundraising for a lesbian in Bangladesh. Hera is at risk of being married off she ca… Lotus Kinsey needs your support for A Lesbian Escaping Arranged Marriage

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Ella Watts is making Camlann Season 2! @gejwatts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ooh look it's my stretch goal! Please back Cosmic Dark and spread the word, I would very much like to write fucked up horror space whale fall.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Cosmic Dark, my weird space horror TTRPG, passed 600% funding on Kickstarter in its final days! Amazing. Next up, stretch goals by @jon.inkle.co and @gshowitt.bsky.social. Please do what you can to spread the word! It helps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #ttrpg #kickstarter #crowdfunding

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 06/06/2025

In finally admitting that they're trying to take away our rights, they're also admitting that we have exercised these rights for years -decades- and there hasn't ever, ever been an issue with it

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 06/06/2025

No trans person, or any other person for that matter, is just going to "accept a reduction in their rights" Absolutely get fucked you rancid cis supremacist

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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Ey oop! New letter/petition launched by cis women fed up with all these gender crits presuming to speak for them. This is NOT for trans folk to sign, so please don't. But if you have cis friends and allies, do point it out to them: www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

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Sign the Petition

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 27/05/2025

Still struggling to find work on TERF island and completely out of savings, so linking my stuff. If you are able, please consider buying games, booking voice lessons or just donating to help out a struggling trans creator. Thanks for listening and maybe if you can't help you could at least repost.

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Alyssa Griffiths - Trans Goth Wine Aunt

Links to support queer game designer, voice coach and software developer Alyssa Griffiths.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Here's what Jeeyon Shim (@jeeyon.bsky.social) said about their Cosmic Dark stretch goal: "How intense do you want it to be? I've been looking up the worst things that can happen to the human body as research." It's next up on the Kickstarter. I'm so excited to work with her. #ttrpg #kickstarter

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And there it is. You've invited @juliansimpson.bsky.social, @kierongillen.bsky.social and @damwaingames.itch.io to play in the Cosmic Dark universe. What have you *done*? It looks like I should announce another stretch goal. Who do you want next? www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Anya @lalionnecosplay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hey friends! I'm ISO a TTRPG layout designer for an ambitious project later this year. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ prioritized, must be okay with psychological horror elements/monsters. I normally do my layouts myself, but this is something that I want someone dedicated to for the project. DM me/tag people!

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 19/05/2025

I like to think I am a good person. I help people whenever I can even if it's a detriment to myself. I am intelligent and good at what I do. So why does this country want me homeless and starving. I just want a job, but transphobia says no.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've got a surprise stretch goal author for Cosmic Dark this weekend. They're probably the most original writer working in Lovecraftian horror today. I'm so excited. Here's a mysterious graphic too (which I'm very proud of). www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you want the rewards for backing Cosmic Dark in the first 48 hours, back it today. We're about to hit Alyssa Griffiths' stretch goal (@damwaingames.itch.io) and then it's Kieron Gillen (@kierongillen.bsky.social). www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here are the first stretch goals for Cosmic Dark! If we hit £30,000 (spoiler: we will), Alyssa Griffiths will write The Chorister. If we hit £40,000, Kieron Gillen will write Umbilical, which I gather is "Superman-meets-Annihilation". www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 13/05/2025

Its going well so far and we are nearly at the stretch goal for my scenario. Go, pledge, so I can introduce you all to the identity horror of "The Chorister"

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Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 13/05/2025

Cosmic Dark kickstarter is now live, and my scenario is one of the early stretch goals. Its a great game, Graham is a great designer, and it is really worth your time to back it. Plus I really want people to be able to play my scenario, as its been living in my head since I came up with the idea :P

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 12/05/2025

Graham's new game is going live on kickstarter very soon, and I will be writing one of the stretch goals, along with a load of other amazing game designers. You can follow it early here.

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Coming soon: Cosmic Dark

Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 07/05/2025

My copy of @lackingceremony.bsky.social Going For Broke has just arrived, as a form factor its great, its exactly what I have been planning on doing for Untold Secrets, but you know, yet again just Avery pre-empitvely stealing all my ideas (this is a joke, this is very much a case of great minds)

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Going For Broke - Buried Without Ceremony

Going For Broke is a fast-paced sitcom roleplaying game about a collective house scrambling to get enough money together. Choose one of twelve house members, pick an episode, and dive right in.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/05/2025

gofund.me/55248dfa Former England International, Red Rose 191 and Barbarians rugby player Sasha Acheson is raising £1700 to cover costs of a match between cis and trans women playing rugby in protest at the world rugby ban. If you have a spare quid burning a hole in your pocket please help.

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Donate to Ruck You Match - Team Support, organized by Sasha Acheson

A coming together of Cis Women and Trans Women. Ruck the Ban, Ruck You Match. We are doing… Sasha Acheson needs your support for Ruck You Match - Team Support

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jess @jessfrom.online · 05/05/2025

ANNOUNCING: the 2nd annual unofficial 5/5 @itch.io rating day! today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io! star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay

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1. go to the game’s itch page
2. click this button in the top right

3. give it 5 of 5
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star ratings give games a huge bump
in the itch algorithm. it’s a great way
to support creators!

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Kate 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @itskateactually.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you vote UK Labour, you’re a direct threat to trans people.

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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It turns out that starving kids, freezing pensioners, attacking the disabled, the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since section 28, genocide and telling everyone to the left of Wes Streeting to fuck off isn't a great vote winning strategy. If only someone could have predicted this

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 01/05/2025

Graham writes great games, go follow the kickstarter.

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 29/04/2025

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

Emergency motion on the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' from RDC conference 2025

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 28/04/2025

Just to try and distract myself from the impossibility of getting a job and all the shit going on in the country, I am back to working on Whispers in the Coal Dust. If its a game you like the idea of, you can support me on Ko-Fi, which will also help a trans woman who is really struggling at the mo.

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Become a supporter of Alyssa Griffiths today!

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 25/04/2025

Ghosted by some more companies for jobs I am more than qualified for after they found out I was trans. I think its just not possible to get hired in the UK in the current climate as a trans woman.

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Vexx and Death at Camp Miasma @thenoirgal.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I just had a wonderful voice consultation with Alyssa. She really knows her stuff and gave me a lot to work on. It's worth helping her out if you're at all considering voice training!!

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Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io · 21/04/2025

Lets give it another go. Hi everyone, I am Alyssa (or AJ) I have over 20 years experience as a developer in many languages and environments, due to current transphobia and pretty shit job market, I am desperately looking for work, so if you want a senior level dev at knocked down prices, DM me.

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