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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

my Fae in Monsterhearts promises out of context

a list from a roll20 character sheet of Promises that reads: "have a threesome with Jessica and Chad again, Beau will keep my secret of having magic, math tutoring in exchange for music video with Pidgeon, Temper will never forget how dangerous i am, Beau won't murder anymore, i won't suck phone ice again, Nollie said Pidgeon is Bigfeet, and Temper promises i'll get what i want"

Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

haven't played dnd in like 6-7 years and am now running it with irl friends and our first session was a marathon of 8 hours that went beyond my prep so half was entirely improv'd i am wiped

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

"you're in a runaway Trojan Horse bus!" this session is fucking bonkers

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

late post but yesterday was my ten year anniversary of going by Elliot!!! big milestone

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i love my irl friends. i've been craving a regular in person ttrpg group and i managed to organize an oops all trans group in less than 24 hours

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

it’s fine i’m fine none of us are sobbing

Picture of a spreadsheet of a Masks playbook with several advancements filled in. Highlighted is the checkbox on the advancement “Retire from the life or become a paragon of the city”

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Sticky Doodler 🔜 PeopleCon 3 @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It feels like most TTRPG enthusiasts have some kind of theater background, so I've long felt a bit of an imposter in the space. "The Show Must Go Wrong," by @elliotylen.bsky.social, is like a "documentary game" of backstage life, giving me a first-hand glimpse... 1/▶️ helliot.itch.io/the-show-mus...

helliot.itch.io

The Show Must Go Wrong by helliot

A short game about surviving tech week

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 26/11/2025

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

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Evan🏳️‍⚧️ @namesequipped.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Oh hey, did you know I made two new games last month for the @gshowitt.bsky.social game jam? No? That's because I'm super bad at social media! But hey, here they are.

saftware.itch.io

Gattai Sentai Konranger! by Evan Saft

Chaotic Super Sentai Robot Action!

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

had a great PAX Unplugged this year! played in some great games at Games on Demand. ran a tense playtest. and did lots of short demo playtests with Unpub. highlight was definitely the family of four that had never played a ttrpg before that had a blast betraying each other over the last bagel

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

how to get paid to design ttrpgs life hack: work on your game at work lmao

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

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Angela Lambsbury @ the Weekend of Dogs @choob.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire. Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice. It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

classically i have written part of my game in the lobby at Metatopia to bring to my last playtest tomorrow. fingers crossed!

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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Etaoin Shrdlu @filamena.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If you backed that Avatar game a while back, you need to back this. Possibly at the pay-it-back level.

kickstarter.com

Apocalypse World: Burned Over

The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

one more day til i arrive for Metatopia!

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

first playtest at Metatopia next weekend already sold out 17 minutes after tickets went live woooo 🎉

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 28/09/2025

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment! Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game. Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run. Like a game? Comment away!

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marn s. lastname @corpserevivers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

CAN WE ERASE OUR HISTORY is a two-player, diceless hack of Time To Drop in which you relitigate a toxic relationship (or situationship) while listening to The Beths and being thrown across other realities in which it might have gone differently marns.itch.io/can-we-erase...

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Lady Anastasia White @anastasia.housewhite.art · 22/09/2025

Hilarious. My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you. What you do with this information is between you and God.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

looking for a game for labor day? how about this one i recently released about the toxic labor cycle of regional theatres that will only be fixed with a union

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I’ve finally released my first completed game on itch: The Show Must Go Wrong. It’s a card game about surviving tech week in a regional theatre. Players deal with complex problems and take on stress as they race to the end of tech week towards opening night. Can you get this show open and keep

helliot.itch.io

The Show Must Go Wrong by helliot

A short game about surviving tech week

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

helliot.itch.io

The Show Must Go Wrong by helliot

A short game about surviving tech week

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

i am going to release this tech theatre game today and finally have a released game

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

Legal documents same-sex
couples should have in case marriage equality is overturned
Revocable Living Trust
Last Will & Testament
Healthcare Power of Attorney
Durable Power of Attorney
Living Will
Hospital Visitation Authorization Form one for your partner & one for your Chosen Family
Agent for Disposition of Remains
Pet Care Directive
Tangible Personal Property Memorandum

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Harbinger of Doom @brandesstoddard.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Let me see if I have this right. GenAI will not only do your job badly, it will also make you less cognitively capable of resuming your job once you learn how badly it has done your job, and it can't ever be held accountable for its errors, no matter how costly. very cool, very nice, very normal

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Aboorrent Abby @abhorrentabby.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I have never played a game of Masks A New Generation where everybody was cis

Meme comic.

Panel 1: Person in trans pride shirt: "Mom, I'm trans"
Panel 2: Mom: "Is that because of that game you play?"
Panel 3: Trans person: "Oh yeah, lemme check if I accidentally played the fucking game that makes you trans"
Panel 4: Looking at a copy of Masks A New Generation: "Oh fuck"

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Should we ever be so fortunate as to get a Dem Trifecta again, one of the immediate actions needed is DC Statehood. The people want it, it is smart politically and sound morally, and it would make it much harder for presidents to do what Trump is doing today.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

i love living in dc i love living in dc i love living in dc 😬

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause." Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries - hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf - art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Apocalypse World all-sex no-MC speedrun: aaronsrpgs.tumblr.com/post/7405129...

aaronsrpgs.tumblr.com

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Your subscription also supports the nyt’s undisguised racism and anti-trans hatred. The nyt hired a freelancer to partner with a Nazi to produce a racist hit piece on Mamdani. It churns out mounds of anti-trans disinformation ripped straight from the ADF’s press releases.

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Elliot 💖💙💜 @elliotylen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

it’s been nearly a year since i was last able to do any game design but i finally had the time and energy (recovering from burnout) to do a lot of work on my tech theatre game. hoping to get it on itch by the end of the summer

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Camp @campfireharve.st · 11/07/2025

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.

When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers.

Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is a budget for a declaration of total war on the population. It's the building of an army of blackshirts and the creation of a massive system of concentration camps. A crystallization of everything lurking below the surface of the American project.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

“Borders are made up but people are real. If you imagine the violent killing of a person you know, nobody has to explain to you that this atrocity cannot possibly be justified by the machinations of faraway politicians that you have no influence over.”

Wars are waged against people. Yet we judge them by their impact on governments. This is a profound moral error. It causes you and your friends and neighbors, nice normal loving people, to countenance the most grotesque violence on earth with little more than a momentary shake of the head at "unfortunate civilian casualties." Governments, of course, work to create this conflation of enemies in public opinion. We do not have to give into it, though. All it really takes to avoid this trap is to always hold in your mind a picture of people. The people in your own family, the people that you love, the people at your school, the people you work with, the people you see at the grocery store, the people at the Little League game, the people at your Christmas celebration. These are the same as the people who we decide to drop the bombs on in a different place. Borders are made up but people are real. If you imagine the violent killing of a person you know, nobody has to explain to you that this atrocity cannot possibly be justified by the machinations of faraway politicians that you have no influence over.

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