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edavanhalen

@eda.daelightstudios.com
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graphic designer • illustrator • halfling rogue

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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG I've just realised what Google's AI search interference model is: An automated mansplainer. Think about it: Unsolicited ✅ Confident ✅ Frequently wrong ✅
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 24/09/2026
I was so obsessed with being a Harper in our PF2e campaign that my husband created this archetype for me. And I must say that it’s really good! daelightstudios.itch.io/follower-of-...
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Follower Of The Lyre by Daelight Studios
An evil-fighting organization/archetype for Pathfinder 2e
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 24/09/2026
Drawing has come back around in my hobby cycle. Let’s see how long my hyperfixation lasts this time.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 10/09/2026
a beautiful contrast.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 30/08/2026
I haven't tried it yet, will give it a chance! My personal favorites are uni ball one p, leuchtturm drehgriffel (fancy-looking ones) and sharpie s-gel
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 30/08/2026
You're absolutely right! You have to press it against the paper so hard, making it impossible to write long paragraphs. That's why I hated it, but it comes in handy for quick notes, like on the train. Ofc it's not as smooth as a fountain pen. I'm starting to think rollers or gel pens are superior :D
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 30/08/2026
Don't get me wrong, I still use my fountain pens daily. I don't think I'll abandon them anytime soon.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 30/08/2026
I’ve been using fountain pens every day, but I recently started using a ballpoint pen and I understand why people were so mindblown when it first came out. It dries instantly, you don’t have to constantly refill it. It’s wild that I’m having the exact same reaction people probably had in the 1940s.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 23/08/2026
I was reading "Huzur" (A mind at peace) alongside Malazan and thought it balances Malazan's depressiveness. It did that for the first half, then it turned out it wasn't very peaceful at all and actually pretty peaceless. And now I'm a peaceless person trapped in between two peaceless books.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 23/08/2026
like, I just want to quietly search for my books without having to talk to anyone. Am I weird for that?
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 23/08/2026
not-so-great-library diaries #3: the library now has a database browser system, which is great. the problem is that only the librarian can use it, so I'd rather scan the shelves with my eyes then give someone a list of 40 books from my to-read list and ask them to look them up for me ONE BY ONE.
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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
78. Pickpockets of Purgatory by @ali.daelightstudios.com A heavenly museum heist for Cairn 2e ⚖ A very fun, heavily annotated, trifold pamphlet adventure where the PCs are hired as agents of Chaos, to rob artifacts from the colonialist Museum of Heaven, who have recently pilfered Purgatory
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Pickpockets of Purgatory by Daelight Studios
An extraplanar heist module for Cairn 2e
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 23/08/2026
Man, looking back, i’m really proud of this coat of arms we collab’d with @eda.daelightstudios.com for our high level #pathfinder adventure.
A shield coat of arms with a broken chain in front
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Polaris @polarizepolaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 08/08/2026
I cheated and hacked my own game for a one-page game jam. Presenting: Barbarian, Thief and Sorcerer - Lite Edition! A sword-and-sorcery action game
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Barbarian, Thief and Sorcerer - Lite Edition by Daelight Studios
A one-page sword-and-sorcery game
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 07/08/2026
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 07/08/2026
you'd think that in a labor-intensive field like TTRPGs you wouldn't run into entitled people like those saying "it's just a simple drawing, why are you charging for it?" but life keeps finding new ways to surprise you.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
Sam Altman: cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:

connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.

every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 02/08/2026
not-so-great-library diaries #2: yesterday I stopped by the library to renew the books I borrowed two weeks ago. It turned out they had never registered the books under my account, so I get to keep them for another two weeks. I guess I accidentally hacked the system?
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 01/08/2026
Reading Malazan makes me depressed nowadays. But it says "Malazan Book of the FALLEN" in the title so I think I literally signed up for this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 31/07/2026
I am proud to say that I drew each tree individually. (Did I stop halfway through the work and think "Why am I doing this?" Yes. Am I satisfied with the result? Also yes.)
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 31/07/2026
also, i have to say, this jam had some crazy good works. we (me+ @eda.daelightstudios.com ) were a mix of impressed ("that's so good!"), jealous ("how is it that good?!") and worried ("...are we that good?") checking them out. kudos to all the participants.
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 31/07/2026
talk about cutting it close! just 14½ hours before the end of #appxnjam, our entry, Pickpockets of Purgatory, is up! apparently July was a busy month for us. it's a small #Cairn heist inspired by Moorcock's Law and Chaos. #ttrpg #osr #oneshot daelightstudios.itch.io/pickpockets-...
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Pickpockets of Purgatory by Daelight Studios
An extraplanar heist module for Cairn 2e
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 21/07/2026
Today I was looking through my playlists and realized it's been 8 years since I made this one. It's still one of the best. Good job, Miss "I was born in the wrong era" open.spotify.com/playlist/3Wf...
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 21/07/2026
I just read a paragraph in Malazan #2 that I think might be foreshadowing, and even the possibility of it gives me goosebumps.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
it's sooo funny that the marvel movies eventually replicated the exact thing people disliked about the comics and preferred the movies for: overstuffed event crossovers that intimidate readers, demand you look at a whole bunch of other shit to know the story, and don't even tell a good story
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 17/07/2026
But come on, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear were in DIFFERENT SHELVES. And there was a sad and alone Witcher #5 trapped in between some YA books. How could I stop myself?
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 17/07/2026
I stopped by the local library. The shelf arrangement was a complete disaster, and I couldn't resist to urge to rearranging the books. Then I was like "Wait a minute, I don't get paid for this" and walked away.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 16/07/2026
july '26, first half
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 16/07/2026
MEAN DESIGNERS
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Mean Girls Rachel Mc Adams
ALT: Mean Girls Rachel Mc Adams
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 08/07/2026
I'm only logging in to this platform for 3 reasons -retweet my husband -complain about not doing art -retweet our ttrpg related works (1 and 3 are technically the same thing)
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 07/07/2026
i hate living in a world where my reaction to every longish writing, to every drawing is asking "is this AI?" first. AI kills sincerity merely by existing.
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 07/07/2026
if you regularly play low-level #pathfinder 2e games, you may enjoy our sheet. it folds into a booklet, has ample space for relevant info and tries to introduce some quality-of-life changes how the info is organized. #indie #ttrpg daelightstudios.itch.io/simple-sheet...
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Simple Pathfinder 2E Character Sheet by Daelight Studios
Foldable character sheet for lower level PF2 games
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 04/07/2026
my therapist: Swole Surfer isn’t real and cannot hurt you. meanwhile, Swole Surfer: #Marvel #SilverSurfer
A panel from Marvel’s Infinity Crusade (1993) #4, depicting a Hulk-like Silver Surfer coming straight towards the reader.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 27/06/2026
I had fun drawing those tetrahedrons. Also the eureka moment of "OH THEY REALLY FORM A D4! NOW I SEE IT" was priceless.
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 27/06/2026
released our entry for the Byzantine Dungeons jam. especially pleased with @eda.daelightstudios.com 's "Elemental gems, apart and united" piece. oh, also, it's PWYW for the duration of the jam, but in ~18 days i'll set it to $4. be sure to grab it before then! daelightstudios.itch.io/d4d
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Dungeon of Four Dimensions by Daelight Studios
A byzantine 5-room dungeon for 4th level OSE characters
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 16/05/2026
Today my InDesign's Undo command stopped working and today is the day I learned that a designer simply can't live without it.
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geyik @ali.daelightstudios.com · 16/05/2026
I almost forgot about #SelfPromoSaturday! If you’re starting your first #Pathfinder 2e campaign and wish the original sheet had more space to write on, you can check our take on it daelightstudios.itch.io/simple-sheet... #indie #ttrpg #character #sheet
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Simple Pathfinder 2E Character Sheet by Daelight Studios
Foldable character sheet for lower level PF2 games
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 16/05/2026
1- Don't draw for weeks 2- Pick up a pencil 3- "Oh I can actually draw?" 4- Repeat 40 min vs 5 min sketches below.
An open sketchbook with a gouache croissant painting and a pigeon sketch on its pages
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 10/05/2026
And yes, I recently learned how to write an em dash on my keyboard, so I sound even more like chatgpt now
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 10/05/2026
I wanted to update my portfolio this year, and that’s fine. The problem is that I chose today to do it — a day when work is so busy that I even have to work on a Sunday. I woke up this morning and decided TODAY was the day to update my portfolio. I don’t know why my brain works like this.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 06/05/2026
and it’s the best decision I’ve made this year. God, what a book. And they say it's the worst book in the series.
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 06/05/2026
Before starting Malazan #2, I thought I needed to refresh my memory, so I watched a video summarizing the first book. Then I realized that wasn’t enough, so I read a 300-page summary PDF. Guess what? That wasn’t enough either, so now I’m rereading the first book
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I see no lies here
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edavanhalen @eda.daelightstudios.com · 06/05/2026
- I'm listening TOOL's best song right now + Third Eye? - No + *realizes it's not the best song, it's THE BEST song* Hooker with a Penis? - YEEEEEEEES
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
To celebrate Star Wars day I write up what lessons you can learn from Han Solo when wanting to play a character who really doesn't want to go on this adventure, thank you very much.
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Why Han Solo Was An Amazing TTRPG Player And TTRPG Players Of Han Solo Characters Mostly Aren't - Old Men Running The World
It's Star Wars day, and while I haven't time for my Let Me Show You How Star Wars Actually Operates Via PBTA Moves, let's try something else. There's a lot
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