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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 08/09/2026

I've been dumping "lo-fi beats" style music from my rotation, and lately @tottomori.bsky.social has been helping me keep focused. Feels like I'm sitting in the Sleeping Dragon Inn in Mistria and getting some work done.

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Tottomori ~ Shoreline Mistward [Full album]

YouTube video by Tottomori

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 07/09/2026

Cover reveal for A Feast for the Boneslake, the intro adventure for Boundless written by @youngking45.bsky.social with art by @nightjargames.bsky.social You’ll be able to read it super soon as we prepare for the campaign this February!

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 07/09/2026

Whoops, the Little Library on my walk yesterday convinced me I didnt already have a copy of Ender’s game. So now I have two. Guess I should probably finally read it, at this point 😅

A photo of two paperback copies of the book Ender’s Game on a desk

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 04/09/2026

I can never find a gif of the mom from 7th Heaven saying she's done pot, and that is a true shame. It would come in useful a lot more often than you'd think.

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 30/08/2026

God bless a gay bar, where else besides my own home am I going to have a beer while Sneakernight by Vanessa Hudgens blares across the speakers

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 30/08/2026

I’m so tired of getting political fundraising spam texts from other states. You don’t even represent me, I have almost no idea who you are. I’ve unsubscribed from Talarico’s text fundraising like 10 times, at this point.

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 29/08/2026

Listen, Carly Rae Jepsen has GOT to make a new version of the Tonight I’m Getting Over You remix without Nicki Minaj. A Cardi B version would blow it out of the water.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 29/08/2026

When they asked if I wanted my beer a regular or a large, it was an easy choice. I was unfamiliar with the scope of “large” lol

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 29/08/2026

It’s a very strange, bittersweet moment to find hairs from my late dog Luna on things I haven’t worn in a while. Memories of when she was here, reminders that she’s gone. I miss her a lot.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 28/08/2026

This point of book design, where I'm quickly iterating and playing with the presentation of the art, is one of my favorite parts of the process. Shifting around how the Specialization spread artwork will look, and this full page presentation is going to make the builds a bit easier

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 27/08/2026

Been having a lot of fun doing some small diorama-style builds in #Minecraft for some of the book pieces in my work-in-progress game. Build in Minecraft, pull into Blender, get nicely set up and rendered. Works pretty smoothly, and I was pretty proud of the purple glow I added to the portal

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 26/08/2026

I was tickled that I was almost at 4k followers on here (more than I’ve ever had on one platform before) and realized my last few followers were just AI feeds All with more followers than me somehow lol

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 26/08/2026

I had no idea this was a thing! I’m not much of an audiobook fan, but this seems a delightful exception

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 26/08/2026

I’ve officially listened to the first 400 episodes of MBMBAM, which I think contractually obligates me to donate during the next @maximumfun.org Max Fun Drive @justinmcelroy.bsky.social @travismcelroy.bsky.social @griffinmcelroy.bsky.social

A screenshot of the cover art for Episode 400 of the podcast “My Brother, My Brother and Me”

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 22/08/2026

Doing some design work for Waywright, and learning how to make these little standalone diorama style builds using Mineways and Blender. I'm sure there's a LOT that this kind of setup would enable, just figuring the basic workflow out so far.

A screenshot of a small campsite from Minecraft. The grass square the camp is built on is floating over a transparent background.

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 22/08/2026

I have just started One Piece, and if Luffy is at that level all the time, I can’t imagine being stuck on a boat with him

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 20/08/2026

Same here, baby. Same.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 18/08/2026

I’m rehabbing this ponytail palm (spoiler alert, I’m the reason it needs said rehabbing 😅) and I’m very proud of my solution for keeping its old leaves out of the water while it gets a drink

An image of a ponytail palm sitting in a bowl being bottom-watered with two paint stir sticks helping keep its leaves out of the water

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 17/08/2026

Spent some of my Mistrian hours this weekend pulling together a list of solo tabletop games that give some of the same cozy game vibes. Iron Valley, particularly, looks like something I'll be checking out ASAP to get some of those deeper farm sim mechanics in a solo #TTRPG.

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10 Solo Tabletop Games for Fellow Fields of Mistria Fans

Ever since the 1.0 update was released I’ve been playing… a goodly amount of Fields of Mistria. And as I always end up doing, my thoughts turned to how I might get some of this good storytelling, farm...

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 13/08/2026

Some of the songs in this game give me strong Sim City 2000 vibes and I’m here for it

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 13/08/2026

Up to 76% of the public Internet scanned, almost 5 billion pages. Got a loooooot of data to parse through, a lot of Terry Pratchett’s name

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 12/08/2026

Rarely am I as disappointed in my teeth as a collective part of my body as I am in the minutes between “finishing a corn on the cob” and “making it to some floss”

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 12/08/2026

I've officially parsed through almost 60% of the entire public internet's worth of webpages, almost 4 BILLION webpages available in the most recent Common Crawl archive. Some really interesting findings for the usage of the Terry Pratchett-inspired x-clacks-overhead HTTP header internet-wide

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 11/08/2026

Zeus in "God Games" from the Epic musical is such a dick. Zeus: "Let's play a game, convince any one of the other gods Odysseus should be released, and I'll release him." Athena: convinces all of them with style. Zeus: Haha jk ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 11/08/2026

Fields of Mistria, you know exactly what you're doing 🥵

Screenshot from the video game Fields of Mistria featuring the NPC Hayden in a sleeveless shirt unbuttoned very low

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 10/08/2026

I think that when I die my Obsidian vault will probably be the best approximation of a record of my life that I’ll leave behind. It’s a panoramic view of years of my life. The things I’ve chosen to record. More journal entries than any physical one I’ve ever kept.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 06/08/2026

Picking featured images for my blog articles (the rare ones I actually write) is always something I forget about and don't enjoy. So instead I added a function to my Wordpress theme that just creates a social-ready image of the blog article's title as a styled headline.

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GNU Terry Pratchett and x-clacks-overhead: The Internet’s Hidden Tributes to the Honored Dead

Across the internet, select websites are silently transmitting the names of deceased they wish to honor in their headers, a system inspired by an invention in Pratchett’s own Discworld: the clacks.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 06/08/2026

Still really love the Chrome Extension I made that shows the memorials to the honored dead that people include in the headers of their websites. Always so amazing to see Sir Terry Pratchett's work continuing to echo and inspire in new ways. Gone too soon. GNU Terry Pratchett

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GNU Terry Pratchett and x-clacks-overhead: The Internet’s Hidden Tributes to the Honored Dead – Graycastle Press

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 04/08/2026

I'm so far removed from D&D being my #TTRPG of choice that I still have no idea what's in this new WoW setting. It will be cool to flip through, I'm sure, but I can't remember the last time I played.

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 04/08/2026

Gotta say, so far just shy of the second badge (of 18 total gyms, plus an Elite 8) Pokemon Rejuvenation is a lot of fun. Tons of fun Pokemon to catch, a storyline that's a bit more adult, and pretty challenging gameplay. Most Pokemon games you sort of breeze through the first gym, not so here

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When I say this plant is PINK…

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Got to see guttation on my aglaonema today!

A closeup of some pink aglaonema leaves and one still unfurling. It has a drop of water at its tip.

Welp, we've now watched seasons 7 and 8 of Love Island USA, and just started 6. 7 felt like a bit of a slog where 8 was more fun, so I'm hoping this one feels a bit less heavy

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 31/07/2026

It feels really nice to be enjoying book design again. The whole visual language for Waywright is finally coming together. I can't wait to share this book when it's finished.

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I've had "Starlight Sickness" by Helico Tele stuck in my head all day, and created a modified version of the classic "Hello, Dolly!" plugin for Wordpress. Pops a random lyric from the song onto the admin panel every time I change pages

Screenshot of the Wordpress admin panel that shows a lyric from the song "Starlight Sickness" by Helico Tele on the top right-hand side:

"We erode, helical patterns of human code"

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 30/07/2026

With the updates to the Graycastle Press core theme done, made some progress on the new version of the Etherscouts website. The registration card all done in #CSS (with custom validation on the Scout ID format in the back end) is maybe one of my favorite #webdesign pieces I've ever made.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 29/07/2026

Made a lot of progress with the new Graycastle Press website redesign, and really happy with how it turned out. Much simpler design, far fewer plugins and other things in the background. Still have some pages and all of the blog to go through to fix the styling on, but happy so far!

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 28/07/2026

Yeeessss blog article table of contents, sing to me!

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 28/07/2026

I'm so tired of the bloat that Wordpress plugins carry, so I'm challenging myself to do as much as I can with the redesign of the Graycastle Press website without using any of them. So far so good, and this core theme can get re-used with child themes across my few other websites pretty easily

Screenshot of a website titled Graycastle Press, showing a product page for a solo TTRPG named Journey. The design focuses a lot on white space and contrast.

A screenshot of a website page that has some layout bits for callout cards, a call to action, and product testimonials.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 27/07/2026

I dumped my email marketing tool subscription last week after the cost jumped from $12/mo to $33/mo (!!), and honestly much happier with my self-hosted solution. Rather than paying monthly for a service I use infrequently, I just pay for emails sent via Amazon's SES. Saved ~$400 a year!

Screenshot of the dashboard of a simple email marketing tool showing the title "Graycastle Press" and various options. Honestly, if you're using a screen reader, you aren't missing much 🤣

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 26/07/2026

My inner child is absolutely paralyzed for choice. Was hard enough when it was just three 💀

A screenshot from a Pokemon game where every starter Pokemon is available to be chosen

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 24/07/2026

Washing machines should have built-in fans that run after you unload your wash to dry the damn things out versus just staying damn and getting musty.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 24/07/2026

Really happy with how the design for the Waywright Badge has turned out! Each Etherscout Handbook has a digital badge that you can earn by completing the game, and these are going to look great when I can eventually get them produced as physical patches. Making good progress on this game!

A screenshot from a book design featuring a membership card with some fields for the name and other details, as well as a green patch with an icon of a compass on it and the word "WAYWRIGHT" across it. The patch is designed to look like a physical, embroidered patch.

Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 23/07/2026

Why yes, the final rewrite of my game Waywright is going swimmingly. Why do you ask?

A screenshot from a text editor that reads “What the fuck do I put on this page?”