iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

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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

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

Loving being able to pretty easily drop and pose my character skin into scenes, too. I've loved my Etherscout skin, and getting to include it in the book is a fun nod to the amount of #Minecraft time I've spent with it since starting this project

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

Definitely not the final versions of these, I think I'm going to shift my approach and use a vanilla world instead of my superflat template world

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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

Also neat to think of what else I might do with this ability to export builds into Blender, and how that might feed into the Waywright book and other marketing stuff.

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

I've been playing with how these will be presented in the book, and finding more ways to use the Etherscouts purple against the green. I just can't get enough. Being able to build pieces like this for the book (allowed for in Minecraft's Usage Guidelines) is going to change the design a LOT.

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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’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.

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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

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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 · 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 · 04/08/2026

My shiny purple Trubbish has also gotten a lot of screen time so far, as has the Maschiff that I managed to save in one of the many interesting side quests and optional encounters throughout the game.

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

Shinies apparently appear slightly more commonly in this game than the originals, though I've only found two so far. My little green Pidove grew up so fast 😢

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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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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 01/08/2026

When I say this plant is PINK…

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 01/08/2026

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.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 01/08/2026

This embroidered-styled Waywright Badge is one of my favorite things I've put together so far. Really looking forward to ordering physical patches one day.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 01/08/2026

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

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

My dog Luna, who passed away, got included as well. It seemed right to memorialize her on the page for Good Dog, a game all about remembrance and grief. My first game I ever put on paper, and one that I didn't realize would become really important and helpful to my own grief.

A screenshot from a website featuring a photo of a brown and white corgi in green grass, looking intent. The page is titled "In Memory of Luna, my Best Friend" and includes part of a memorial statement.

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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!

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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

This whole process had the added benefit of forcing me to simplify and standardize my email templates for both the Graycastle Press list and the newer Etherscouts list, and I'm pretty happy with how they've shaken out too

A screenshot of a simple email with purple tones and a purple paper header with the Etherscouts branding on it. The email is an automated notification for the user to download the free preview version of my game Waywright.

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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

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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.

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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?”

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 12/06/2026

Took about 25 days, but just completed my re-read of books 1 through 7 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series Finally ready to start “A Parade of Horribles!”

A screenshot of a reading list, showing records of each book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and the dates they were read

A photo of a Kindle sitting on a desk showing the cover art to “A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 03/06/2026

I miss you, Luna. And I will love you for the rest of my life. 🌙

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 21/05/2026

This Justice card from the Aquarian Tarot looks an awful lot like Q…

A screenshot from a webpage showing a Justice tarot card. The figure in the card is wearing a distinctive red headdress that is reminiscent of the character Q in Star Trek: The Next Generarion

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 22/04/2026

Yes! I was fighting with fonts on this insert for my upcoming game, and all it took was finding the right flowery font for the "Frog's Pawn" panel in the bottom right and it all snapped together

Screenshot of a magazine page of random, wacky ads

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 20/04/2026

There really just aren’t good companion-style devices like these out there right now. Most options are gaming form factor versus simple personal or productivity uses. I’m just going to have to find a kit or build one myself, aren’t I?

A photo of a ‘06 Sony Vaio handheld device with the screen slid up to show the physical keyboard

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 16/04/2026

But good lord the notifications

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 14/04/2026

Trying to talk myself out of the idea that I could accomplish ripping one of these open and turn it into a cyberdeck

A photo of two old cell phones sitting on gray felt. One is a Sidekick 2 and one is a Sidekick 3

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 11/04/2026

The clouds were really showing out, stunning

A photo of big white clouds illuminated by the sun against a backdrop of dark rainclouds

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 10/04/2026

This is already going to get me emotional, THIS is what I thought the future was going to be. Working together to explore, to ascend. Continuous improvement and a drive towards balance. We live on an absolute paradise, and all we do is bleed on it.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 05/04/2026

Made an update to the first journaling game I ever made, Good Dog. Some folks over the years have shared names of pets they've remembered through this game, and I wanted to memorialize them. Always amazing when people have interacted with something I created. graycastlepress.itch.io/good-dog

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

Struck it big at the little library on my walk today!

A stack of the books in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 29/03/2026

Came across this little fairy pool while walking the dogs this morning.

A photo of a tree root piling up through some grass. The root has a hole in it that has been filled with water.

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 27/03/2026

While I've been bounding around, distracting myself from life stuff with random projects, my #Minecraft companion game Waywright has been languishing. No more! The final version of the game is making it into layout, and I'm figuring out where art and diagrams will be going. We're getting there!

screenshot of a few pages of a book layout, designed to look like natural paper. Headings include "Purpose, "What You Need to Play," and "About the Etherscout Handbooks"

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Luke 🌙 @graycastlepress.com · 23/03/2026

Some web developers memorialize the dead in the `x-clacks-overhead` response header, inspired by Sir Terry Pratchett. A peek at something I've been building, an attempt to map out the entire landscape of the internet's Clacks-based memorials. 157 million pages scanned, 83 unique names memorialized

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