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emma 🌙✨ gothHoblin @gothhoblin.me · 13/02/2026

My motherboard died due to stealth bios-reboot-update-itis and I’m finding it miserable to be unable to open my beloved and too fraught for half a decade of development projects I am going to finish this year (surely!) so I can ignore them while playing games. Had some good ideas to work on too.

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Waiting for your one true love this Valentine's Day? 👨‍❤️‍👨 How about yearning while cursed to wander an ever-changing fae castle in the form of a cat? 😻 The Cat in the Castle is a solo journalling game inspired by a 17th century fairytale - PWYW over on itch 💘 gothhoblin.itch.io/the-cat-in-t...

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The Cat in the Castle by gothHoblin

A solo journalling game

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I write each first draft in thirty days. Kinda (not). 30 days is misery, unsustainable, but doable. I read somewhere King said drafts should take three months. So I commit to 30, aim for 60 and am happy with 90. If you look at it that way, it’s one month’s work spread across three. Easy. #amwriting

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Woke up uninterested in the current project (irrelevant, finish the outline anyway). Everyone’s posting about sci-fi (you can brainstorm one at 50% in this project’s draft). But this genre doesn’t allow sex scenes (halfway point!). Those are all excuses not to do the hard stuff. #amwriting

Things done today. Ate glow in the dark sour patch hearts. Hit 33% in the cozy mystery plot structure. Too much social media. Wrote up a new soloing oracle. Eked out 5% more. More candy. Changed fonts and then back. Realized I still don’t have an actual mystery. #amwriting or just #vacuumingthecat

I didn’t buy a new keyboard, if you were wondering. It’s going slow, part focus, part indecision. Still early enough all the possibles are crowding out the path. And I need to commit to a core mystery (obviously). Is anyone else working on a cozy mystery? #writing #cozymysteries #mysteries

Tony Tran @tonytranrpg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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𝓖𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓷𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮 @seedlinggames.bsky.social running KS! gettt on this .... TrAiNnnn 🥁✨ #TTRPG #BackThisProject #SmallPress www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

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The Sierra Express

An Adventure for Knights of the Road or other OSR-ish modern-ish game systems

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I swear to Tod if you guys don’t say something entertaining soon I’m going to have to wiggle my mouse and go back to work. I don’t know why my autocorrect is like this but I stand by it. #writing also adding a hashtag? Very satisfying closure in a way. Almost bored enough… almost…

Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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Especially if you need help with layout or design for a #ZiMo26 / #ZineMonth project, I want to hear about what you're working on! Hit CONTACT on lonearchivist.com.

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Okay I know I said I was working on putting this pile of vibes into a coherent structure but what I meant was “I’m checking social media and looking at keyboards and reading r/charactertropes for movies I’d never voluntarily watch” okay? #writing

#writingcommunity I just roughed in seven books of a cozy mystery series. Am plugging #1 into a story structure. Not feeling blinding infatuation with it, just a warm affection; too early to tell but I think this has some legs. With a bit of focus I’ll be Actually Writing by tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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SoulWrought releases this Valentine’s Day! A spiritual sequel to SwornHeart, this two-player romantasy game is about a soul bound into a sword and the stubborn human who carries it. Journey toward the Soulsmith who shaped your fate and decide what your bond becomes. #TTRPG

Steel and stubbornness collide in SoulWrought, a two-player storytelling game of cursed blades and complicated affection, and the spiritual sequel to SwornHeart.

Play as The Bound, a soul forged into a sword, and The Wielder who carries them as you travel strange roads, confront dangerous magic, and hunt the Soulsmith who bound your fate.

Will you break the curse, bargain with it, or choose each other instead?

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I’m still alive. Last year was focused on the NSR discord, a silly amount of Sims 3, dealing with being diagnosed ND, and writing another 100k. Every day, five words, a hundred, whatever. Just very day. So hey all!

Tam @hedonic.ink · 03/02/2025

Just doing my thing. Writing daily. Carpool. Just keep on. #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 28/01/2025

Stayed up too late reading a real page turner. I was supposed to be editing it but I knew there was a sex scene coming up. Also at least I like my work. Win (coffee pls) #writing

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 20/01/2025

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Just a reminder, apropos of nothing going on today, that you can mute words here on bluesky and set timeframes for when they will be unmuted. 💙

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 18/01/2025

Only halfway to goal and demotivated as heck. I’ll get there. #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 18/01/2025

Apple updated my iPad to slide nasty little llm tentacles into everything. I had to manually turn it off. Who wants this nonsense, that they’re jamming it in like we’re begging for it? Send feedback when you hit “no”

Tam @hedonic.ink · 18/01/2025

I hate when I can feel something is wrong. Light headed. Dizzy. Sweaty. Coughing. But can’t really do anything about it except wait it out.

Tam @hedonic.ink · 17/01/2025

Ok, I figured it out. Just need to entirely rework the ending and ramp the scope up to eleven. Make the characters messier and bigger screw ups. #writing

Tam @hedonic.ink · 17/01/2025

The whole middle turned out to be nothing but flab and vibes, and not only do I feel called out I now have to figure that whole 150 pages out. Oh, I’m writing a new thing, btw. #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 17/01/2025

“Why am I so tired I could die? I had coffee, and an energy drink, and another coffee, and then I ate— um…”

Tam @hedonic.ink · 16/01/2025

It’s startling to read back and find parallels and callbacks I didn’t explicitly intend but my subconscious did. All those years of practice paying off, I think. Today I reinforce some #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 16/01/2025

Still laughing after realizing my main characters went through their big ultimate conflict with the great evil one while smeared with frosting. It’s fun to go back and work in those little nuances once you realize them. #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 15/01/2025

Some days it don’t come easy. Some days it don’t come hard. Some days it don’t come at all and those are the days that never end #writing

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Tam @hedonic.ink · 14/01/2025

I hit 112k in that indulgent thing and now I’m writing a different thing. It continues #writing

Tam @hedonic.ink · 14/01/2025

Today I managed to get out of the car in between songs instead of just sitting there crying or singing. Win