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Jennifer Kretchmer

@dreamwisp.bsky.social
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Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️. DM/Dungeoneer. Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines. Art Description: Draw Steel. twitch.tv/dreamwispjen linktr.ee/dreamwisp Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: bit.ly/3QSqfJE

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is, has been, and will forever remain a @latiajacquise.com appreciation account. She is one of the kindest, most caring, hilarious, brilliant, and talented people I’ve ever met, and there isn’t enough room on the internet to sing her praises highly enough.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate making pitch decks. That is all.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can’t begin to explain what wonders eight weeks of PART-TIME work on a non-games/geek sphere project has done for my mental health and financial stability. A few observations: 1/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Poor Cape Cod is never going to live this down.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 15/09/2026
sometimes there is justice in the world!!!!
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Kate O’Flynn Wins Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy for ‘Widow’s Bay’: ‘This Is a Role of a Lifetime’
Kate O'Flynn has won the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her role in Widow's Bay.
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The horrors persist but so do books, flowers, animals, the ocean, sunsets, trees, libraries, iced coffee, spooky season, the word ‘fuck’, and the moon.
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A huge relief, at least in the short-term
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Guess who replaced the all of the fixtures, repairing the dripping toilet, while producing six video podcast episodes and navigating a super-duper broken healthcare system, all in 108° heat? Hello, I was PRODUCTIVE today.
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Kit @a11yartificer.com · 09/09/2026
This is a fancy way of saying don't cause active harm. Don't Autoplay rapid movement/animation, & flashing. It can trigger dizziness, migraines, but also epileptic seizures.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this is going to drive SSPX banoonies "asking people of other faiths what they think gets you more comprehensive information" is not a concept they handle well
The third chapter offers some practical guidelines and principles for “ecological conversion,” organized around different fundamental relationships of the person with God, with oneself, with creation, and with others, highlighting the importance of mindful consumption, balanced rhythms of work and rest with the Benedictine idea of “ora et labora,” respect for life, asceticism, reverence for creation, and listening to the cry of the Earth and the poor. It also surveys the contribution of other world religions to ideas of environmental stewardship.

“From the standpoint of the Christian faith, the doors are open to interreligious cooperation in the common task of respectfully caring for all Creation, in the service of the flourishing of life and communion with the Transcendent, who is at the origin and is the foundation of all life,” it says.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thread.
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today, America’s two largest school districts sent a message to the rest of the country that AI in schools is far from inevitable. When we organize and fight back, we win.
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This comes on the same day that @mayor.nyc.gov announced a 1-yr moratorium on AI use in NYC elementary & middle schools, following a tireless campaign by the heroes in @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social. It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start.
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today, members of @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social showed up at the first meeting of the LAUSD AI Ad Hoc Committee to reiterate our demands for an immediate moratorium on student AI use. But District staff stunned us by announcing that all standalone AI products are now blocked on student devices TK-12!
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some recent adventures from set.
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Jennifer Kretchmer on Instagram: "From the project I’m currently producing. Doing the producer thing in real time, in the requisite tall chairs. [Jen, and a man holding a tablet dig in director’s ch...
0 likes, 0 comments - dreamwisp on September 2, 2026: "From the project I’m currently producing. Doing the producer thing in real time, in the requisite tall chairs. [Jen, and a man holding a tablet...
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
fans of Mackenzie Crook’s wonderful series The Detectorists (who also have AppleTV subs), rejoice! 🤓 His new series, Small Prophets, is coming.
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Jesse Heinig @jesseheinig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As you note here, too, it's important to keep eyes on the fact that this just what we know so far. For ppl who are interested in seeing where the new incarnation goes, we are far from having a finished product to review. But clickbait drives view so there's incentive for ppl to create controversy.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Jesse nails so many of my thoughts as someone who truly loves Dark Sun as a setting and is passionate about the meaningful stories you can tell there.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Truly, this.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.
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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My first topical Critical Bearings post is up... here are my thoughts on all-white Actual Play feat. bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and a little Pierre Bourdieu.
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Fighting Phantoms
On All-White Actual Play This post was written by a human. This blog will never utilize generative AI. You can pry my em dashes and semicolons from my cold, dead hands.   “It’s important, therefore...
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just woke up signing an impassioned, rage-filled rant, still half in a dream. I’ve never awoken to realize my hands were fully signing in my sleep before. Weird. (Also, to the jerks in my dream who I was ripping a new one…you deserved it, assholes.)
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m getting seriously spoiled by having so many really nice days on set where I leave feeling good about our whole team. And I’m going to be floating on a genuinely lovely compliment for weeks.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
YES. Everyone who had this phone did this party trick at least a thousand times, and it never got old.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bless “Furious” for using its title in the mythological sense. This show is spectacular and unapologetic on so many levels. (Please, please check CWs first on this one if you are sensitive to certain narratives.)
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m so, SO exhausted from filming today, but my brain is also WIRED from all of the incredible things I am learning about and amazing people I’m meeting on this project. I REALLY should sleep & stop getting up to add more potential guests to our list. (I can’t elaborate, but not TTRPG-world.)
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I love it. Crip time in practice.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hey, body? Prep crunch time the day before a shoot is not the time to get cranky, please and thanks. Not. Ideal.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
YAY!!! I’m also onboard for more Woodcreek!!! I’ve been solving the incredible puzzles Deb & Co. have been crafting and I CANNOT WAIT to see what they have in store for Season 2!!!
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
omg I found the picture ❤️
An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve)

Arrival
< 100 milleneuves
(normal particulate levels)

Prisoners
200 milleneuves
(chimney smoke and rage)

Sicario
300 milleneuves
(gunsmoke and drugs maybe?)

Enemy
600 milleneuves
(C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool)

Dune
750 milleneuves
(stillsuits are a must!)

Blade Runner 2049
900 milleneuves
(omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??)

[each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]
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Ethan @glyphtide.games · 04/08/2026
Going to Gamehole Con? If you're a POC and make TTRPG content, join @lyla.bsky.social and me at the POC Industry Dinner, sponsored by @montecookgames.com and @brotherwisegames.bsky.social! Meet creators, find mentorship, grow our industry. 🌽 Apply by 8/23: bit.ly/ghcpoc26 🌽
Gamehole Con 13 Logo, Monte Cook Games Logo, Cosmere Roleplaying Game Logo, Plotweaver Logo, with advertisement for the POC Industry Dinner Open Application that reads:


POC Industry Dinner

Gamehole Con is hosting a POC (people of color) Industry Dinner! This dinner is an opportunity to meet other amazing creators, find mentorship, and grow our diverse industry.

Seating is limited. If you are attending Gamehole Con, are a POC, and have created tabletop content of any size-including self-published work-please apply: https://bit.ly/ghcpoc26

Apply by August 23
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Had one of the rarest kinds of work days today: we made our day on time, but more importantly, the work was the kind of thing that lightens your heart and reminds you how much good people are doing in the world, no matter how much awful stuff others are doing. Small acts of courage and community.
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Thank You for Masking! @thanksformasking.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Pretty sure I leave my apartment less as someone with long covid than most of these people did during the supposed "lockdowns"
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A thread (starts further up, but this feels particularly relevant amidst the string of “Why aren’t you at [Convention]?” messages that inevitably arrive the last two weeks of July with a cascade of unmasked photos, followed by three weeks of “I’m so incredibly sick with *something*…”
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Experiments with cooling patches: It feels like tiger balm and didn’t stick to my neck initially bc it’s so hot and sweaty. But I’m now definitely feeling *more* comfortable, even if I do feel like I leaned against a blob of Icy Hot. So…meh. They’d prob be great if thrown in the fridge first.
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Telly Visions @tellyvisions.org · 31/07/2026
For people who saw Hadestown and are looking for more pro-shots of live theater, may we direct your attention to National Theater at Home?
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Michael Sheen’s ‘Our Town’ Arrives on Streaming
If you couldn't swing tickets to the first production from the Welsh National Theatre, you can soon stream it online.
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Ben Rowe @cineastbenrowe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Whereas in Dark Sun, things are already as bad as they are gonna get. Your goal is to survive long enough to fight to fix it. In other words, the goal is to change the setting, which is I think why each time they have reintroduced it they have reset its timeline to the same starting point.
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Ben Rowe @cineastbenrowe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One fundamental difference between Dark Sun and, say, my beloved Forgotten Realms is that in the Realms your goal is often to restore and maintain a status quo. Something bad happens or will happen, you must undo or prevent it.
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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Dark Sun for 5E? Dark Sun confirmed for 2027! Let’s look at the products they will release and what makes this campaign setting so awesome and unique! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7d... #DnD #ttrpg #DarkSun
Teos holds up the shirt he is wearing, revealing a Dark Sun logo and art of a gladiator.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DRAW STEEL!!!
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Alphastream @alphastream.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Removing slavery is easy and not disastrous in any way. Also, it’s good to talk to your fan base and explain the why.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
There are a bunch of really interesting conversations in these threads. Like Teos, I love Dark Sun. I think it’s incredibly relevant right now and it is made for some truly beautiful stories about what victory means. I also think there are many, many valid, important concerns about its legacy.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today in "Mo is using the Battlestar Galactica book to Yell About Some Stuff," an excerpt from the work in progress below. Am I still fucking annoyed at how annoying some people were in the Watcher comment sections during BSG's final season? No idea what you're talking about, hmm, will ponder:
understood the anticipatory grief about the show ending, and wanting more of some things and less of others. But to say that the characters on the show about people confronting emotional and existential crises in space should not have a lot of big emotions near the end of the story… that was, in a word, silly. And Moore has always disliked the attempts to turn “soap opera” into an insult. 

“I always hate that comment. Not just about the final season, but I hate when people say anything that’s a really character-focused or about relationships is ‘just a soap opera,’” Moore said. “Soap operas are a legitimate form in and of themselves. They’ve been for around for a very long time, and people love them.” They do, but the core viewers of the traditional daytime soap operas were typically women. Any time anything is coded as female, certain terms get turned into slurs, including “romance novel,” “soap opera,” “melodrama” and so on. Using words like that as insults is not only about sexism, but there were times I had to turn comments off because the misogyny and abusive language in those comment sections were off the charts. Also, in decades of covering the industry, I’ve found those who throw around the “soap” term usually mean one of two things: “This is about people’s feelings in a way that makes me uncomfortable,” and/or “too many women are talking in this.”
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hadestown has yet again so engulfed my brain that yesterday, I read “Working on a Song,” Anaïs Mitchell’s book about the evolution of writing the lyrics, and it’s a fantastic treatise on writing and poetry and art and drama. Bonus: she sings throughout the audiobook.
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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well, all of you who insisted that the Hadestown proshot is miraculous were indeed correct. You all owe me a box of tissues, though. This show always WRECKS me.
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