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norgad.psd(*) 🗕 🗗 🗙 @norgad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Peep my newest module, Heartless Eternal! A pitcher-plant dungeon where you can leave whenever you want — all it costs is a lifetime. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just released Pills., a break-in for @lukegearing.bsky.social's Violence. If you're looking for a little wholesome adventure, this is the scenario for you jayhawking.itch.io/pills

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Pills. by Jay Hawking - Fiction Writer, Historian

A break-in for Violence, stealing someone else's estrogen

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Got to play in the first playtest for GODWING earlier today (The Motion of Light ftw), shit absolutely fucking slams- things change on a dime, in the final stretch I flipped back and forth from being a frontrunner at least three times over and just *barely* dropped down to fourth last second.

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The dog is fully related, Luke had him hunt me down when I visited (also I'm doing some Violence in July stuff as well, prolly by the middle of the month it'll be done)

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus.

An illustration inspired by a scene found in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun-- Severian, in his black cloak, emerges from a staircase and chances upon a group of characters; a giant flanked by three strange cloaked figures.

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Orders for physical copies wrapped a few days ago, but you can still grab the PDF! Immense gratitude to everyone who supported this, we raised *a lot* of money for the El Paso Food Not Bombs Chapter, they've been immensely thrilled- might do a blog post about the whole project as well, stay tuned!

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just 3 more days if you want physical copies folks!

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

10 more days for physical copies!

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Tidal Wave Games | TURTLE TIME 10/23 @tidalwavegames.com · 27/05/2026

WOW. In just the first day we raised over $1100!

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Howdy! A bunch of folks who were in #over/under have been cooking up a 92 page zine for #mothership, and we're happy to announce that "Exit, Pursued by a Dream" is available! All proceeds go to the El Paso Food Not Bombs chapter, and preordering is until June 9th! theember.itch.io/exit-pursued...

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If you were curious what #over/under was like a few months back and missed it, good news!

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Agonizingly sick, please give show and movie recs to combat understimulation

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Helped consult a bit for this one as well, Luke did a great job of handling a *very* grim subject matter, and it goes to a good cause.

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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

a new adventure for violence is now for sale. all proceeds are being donated to @cosmic-chill.bsky.social to help her relocation efforts. if you already donated, lmk and i'll hit you with the pdf. it's a very horrible adventure. lukegearing.itch.io/glass-men

Glass men front cover. Scratchy writing, and something indistinct in a high-contrast scan. donated by juniper h lark

the first page, outlining the situation.

"The city tears out the old, filling the wound with cement and rebar and glass and steel. Locals call this wound The Med. Workers build towers for young professionals. They will never be able to afford to live in these buildings. The smiling face of a white man in a suit watches them from a billboard. Above him is the legend "NEVILLE DEVELOPMENTS". As the workers finish each day, the girls come out. Some hurry home to wives and girlfriends and children. Others do not, and trade a days wages for company and attention.

Hannibal runs a string of eight girls out of the Cannae Tower. They stay in a pair of apartments he rents out to them. Both are filled with single mattresses. The rooms used for work are clean, and have double beds. These rooms are just opposite the apartments they live in. In addition to rent, Hannibal collects half of their take each week. He holds seven of their passports; the other two are citizens. In addition to paying rent, six use him as their dealer and illegal pharmacy. He has a cousin, Mago. Mago provides prescription pills and HRT for a free fuck once a week.

There was a ninth girl. Everyone called her Honey. None of the girls use their real names. Two weeks ago, she vanished. She had not said anything about it to the other girls, and Hannibal has done nothing to look into it. This has all of them worried; when Sofia tried to flee, she returned bruised and shaking."

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Dispatch's making the rotations in my friend group rn, all finding it to be deeply baffling: lotta Obama-era casual racism, has a faux-leftist rehabilitation stance while treating you as a monster if you push back against sexual harrassment, deffo written for straight guys while also being preachy

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Juniper's pretty damn good at art and game design shit, been real lovely watching DQ&D take form, check it out

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Dredge Quick and Drown is a project written as a joke attempt at recreating the OSR from first principles. It has unsprisingly failed to do that but I'm very happy with whats come out of it. Enjoy Design Diary #1: covering stats, checks, skills. and equipment. thegardenbelow.blot.im/dq-d-design-...

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DQ&D Design Diary 1 - The Garden Below

An introduction to Dredge Quick and Drown

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I repost this in the hope that this is how people find out

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Amber Macfarlane @amby.navy · 08/01/2026

I wrote a game in ~8 hours. It's not fun, but it exists. Experience being a young person in the alt-right pipeline, and what it's like getting out of it. Content warnings listed on the page. ambynavy.itch.io/black-ice

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Black Ice by Amber Macfarlane

An exercise in becoming and unbecoming.

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Reading Tanith Lee and Michael Moorcock while I fly into the UK, *deeply* fucked up that I've only just started reading the both of them given how much their shit rocks.

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J.D. 🤯 @ratbastardgames.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Buy HyperMall - 5e compatible, winner of the Dorpo Award for Best RPG, designed for found family mercenary stories, Ghibli-inspired anime setting, you play as cute gay animal people just trying to get by, if you don't like that it also has an undercurrent of Christian puritanism, wait come back

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/12/2025

disney says it's okay to make videos of mickey fucking dracula

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I only play the most normal and hinged TTRPGs

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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

every single goddamn time i see somebody mention N. K. Jemisin i think about her criticizing the story and then tweeting “well I didn’t read it but”

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter wasn't actually that intense. A lot of the "queer community" pilloried a trans woman and ran her out of society entirely and buried her literary future because they felt like it and they could taste blood in the water, and that's how all this works.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all. thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr

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What is an OSR? - The Garden Below

a post about not knowing what the OSR is.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Another big style test, this time a double spread at the actual dispatch size of the publication. Trying to thread a needle on collage style and legibility. Could still do with a little more of that overwhelming full text claustrophobia some of the best mothership zines have though... #over/under

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Kyle Ferrin 🧙‍♂️✍️ @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Over the course of the month I drew a portrait or 2(hundred) in #over/under and called them 🩸HEADSHOTS🩸 And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol drive.google.com/drive/folder...

black and white portrait of triangular robotic head

black and white portrait of a man with a heavily damage left side of his head.

black and white portrait of robotic eye hanging from wires and tubes.

black and white portrait of woman with big eyes and swooping hair

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Turns out, I got one last post in me about #over/under- kind of, anyhow. Moreso about its impact on me as a person, absolutely none of which I expected going into the game.

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The Wasteland of Reality

Over/Under as a Volumetric Shit Compressor

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We've hit the end of #over/under, so here's blog post #10- cried a bit and I'm sleep deprived, but here it goes.

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Living the Dream (Redux)

A (Final) Summary of the Over/Under Game Experiment

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Posting a bit of @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social's art of my silly little guy that he did for #over/under, once again: big ups to him, thanks for betting on me due to your cat's gambling addiction 🫡

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We're on the final full day of #over/under and. There just isn't enough time to do everything. Which is weighing on me in a slightly existential way but we ball.

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Time in a Bottle

The Rush to Get Everything Done in Over/Under

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In which I write about how #over/under has *a lot* of information games flying around- and how it lead to the game having its own corrupted blood incident.

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The Information Game

Over/Under and Info/Misinfo

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Turns out #over/under is still doing horrific things to my brain, got another post about it despite consistently thinking I'm done till the end (turns out: I'm grieving it, fuck).

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One Blow After Another

The Domino Effect of Over/Under

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm almost freed of my burden of writing #over/under blog posts, but apparently my brain decided to hit me with another idea before the end, so here's #5; it's all about emergent game mechanics rather than the sad girl shit I've been on about

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Patterns of Play

Emergent Game Mechanics in Over/Under

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Doing these back to back, since there was a fourth #over/under blog post I just finished writing, with a throughline of "Luke Gearing has made me intensely emotional by way of the devil on his shoulder."

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Flowers in Bloom

Why I've Cried Over Over/Under

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Forgot to link it on here, but did a third blog post about #over/under a few days back, all about dreading the end of this bizarre fucking game.

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The End is Near

Another Set of Ramblings

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Was actively avoiding looking at anything related to the Steelers-Colts game today because I knew in my fucking soul the Steelers were gonna eat shit. Anyway this is how I found out they won, football rocks actually

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Continuing to be in the pits of essay writing because of #over/under, so take this: art is by @arca-de.bsky.social. jayhawking.substack.com/p/tears-in-t...

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Tears in the Rain

Character Death and Departure in RPGS

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Been having a *lot* of tears in the rain moments with #over/under these past 24 hours, finding that I'm immensely and deeply moved constantly; sometimes with it only *really* hitting hours after the fact. Fantastic shit, no notes (actually I may write a post about death in rpgs, so stay tuned).

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

irving study

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Continued to be in the pits of an utter brain rewiring, vomited out over a thousand words about #over/under last night and finally set up a blog just specifically so I could post about it, so I inflict unto you: jayhawking.substack.com/p/living-the...

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Living the Dream

Life Within Prospero Station; A Summary of the Over/Under Game Experiment

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Last post about #over/under for the night: adding onto that aspect of completely separate gameplay experiences, barely learned: 1) A writer for mothership's actually playing 2) Image not related

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Actually, gonna post more about #over/under: there've been parallel play experiences that simply don't *interact at all*. While I was in a fighting tournament (and betting on myself) people were doing shit like setting up fullblown ARGs, submitting art grant proposals, all kinds of wild crap.

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Been playing #OVER/UNDER for several days and: 1) Actually chill as hell 2) I really wanna run Mothership again 3) Turns out, when players are left to their own devices in a freeform-ish game, a solid 50% of all activity they'll come up with "how do we come up with a new way to gamble"

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 04/10/2025

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

David Bowie Ween St. Vincent Nine Inch Nails Utah Phillips Lupe Fiasco Fiona Apple Daniel Kahn

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