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Jay Hawking

@jayhawking.bsky.social
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They Meadmaker, Historian, artist, writes random genre fic, literary, and non-fiction bullshit. Against "AI" """Art""" Art by an unknown student. Stories and gaymes for sale: jayhawking.itch.io

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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I still hate that Luke managed to make me cry with a simple "love ya pal" from the stink
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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I read that as "what if he came back. as a threat" and didn't question it at all
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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 · 17/07/2026
MILF Manor was peak late-stage heterosexuality, it gave us perfect images such as this (for context: this guy just learned his mom had fucked one of his best friends *before* the show)
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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
*Highly* *highly* recommend, even with some of the jank with the rules (which is to be expected when the first ever session was today lmao); easy to pick up and play, the adrenaline was so high that we still had an audience of like 40 people just *watching* all the way through to the end.
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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 · 11/07/2026
Bless, it was insane going from backline to frontrunner and then all the way down to fourth in a manner of minutes
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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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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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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
Some of the headshots did, in fact, make it in!!
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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Credits can be found here: www.reddit.com/r/mothership...
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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The video was put together by the wonderful @deer.stream, and we're all very thrilled to see the labor of months upon months pay off!!
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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 · 26/03/2026
I'm a little halfway through the titular Gormenghast, the passages about the schoolboys' flying game, the meeting of Bellgrove and Irma, and Steerpike's shadow are plainly fucking *gorgeous.*
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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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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Paging through O/U as we speak, trying to find the dook's most cancellable offense
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J. Dracula @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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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It's a pretty awesome thing to have: I was giving my students a lecture on why Kissinger was a rat bastard, checked my phone after class and had twenty million messages going "Kissinger's dead."
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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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Jay Hawking @jayhawking.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Been watching the debate devolve into weather the grinch has a cloaca and I feel insane (but also: I am glad absolutely nobody's tried to argue that Benedict Cumbergrinch is fuckable)
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spooky halloween 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 headblack 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 · 11/11/2025
It's genuinely baffling; literally everything and anything ranging from the "horse" incident I showed you earlier to the stuff at the bars to all of the gambling or the old man yaoi or the clusterfuck of lesbian drama or the conclave is all just. It's surreal. Especially now that it's almost over.
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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
Blog Post #9 for #over/under, less sad girl stuff, more "here're the websites and other things people put together for the game, along with some other blogs about the whole game."
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The Paratext of Over/Under
Alright, we’re moving past the sad girl shit that was in my last blog post (for now, at least, we’re gonna be all about that again next go around) and instead focus on a very interesting topic: the ma...
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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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