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I‘m mostly here for civilised discourse on literature. Much obliged.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A woman at a recent event shared with me that how the Area X novels deal w living with unknowability helped her thru her daughter getting leukemia twice. She showed me a photo of her daughter now, 3 years clear of leukemia. I told her how meaningful that was and how glad I am her daughter is better.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What a blech stupid take on the movie. No, you are just a terrible analyst and thinker. theconversation.com/an-overlooke...
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An overlooked sci-fi movie shows how disruption by AI could be positive for society
The message in the film Annihilation is that disruption by AI needn’t be disastrous for humanity.
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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is there a coat of arms more suited to the Halloween season than this one?! This image comes from a German manuscript made up of a collection of coats of arms which relate mainly to the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably written in southwest Germany or Switzerland, around the early 16th century.
Full-page allegorical representation of the arms of Death. The arms are supported by a skeleton and a female figure, surmounted by a helm, hourglass and clock as crest, over which two arm bones hold a rock.
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dead Channel marked my first foray into coming up with custom hit point tracks and death moves for every character. It's rather neat
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As you can see (ought to have posted this myself really) we programmed a horror movie narrative into our injury/trauma results as determined by which archetype you’re playing
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some new rules summaries for Cairn 2e courtesy of @maximlowe.com and me! I'll make them public shortly.
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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wonderful news. Up the workers!
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The first 3 Cairn adventure series adventures are now available as markdown with image support! You can run them from the browser! cairnrpg.com/adventures/f...
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First Party
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Highland Paranormal Society @n8hps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please comment with any Tunnel Goons based games that are not on this list!!!!! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Tunnel Goons Based Games and supplements
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The Story Engine @storyenginedeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only 48 HRS LEFT to enter the Story Engine Microfiction Contest! Two days is plenty of time to write 100 words. But at this point, you're cutting it pretty close. The submission deadline is Wed., Sept. 30 at 11:59pmET. Enter for a chance to win $250! storyenginedeck.com/pages/microf...
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote a little post about how this new adventure came to be, and how my little OSR show played a small part. www.patreon.com/betweentwoca...
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Another Kickstarter! And it's all our fault! | Between Two Cairns
Hello patrons! It's your old buddy Yochai here. I'm launching another Kickstarter today on behalf of Cairn Press: A Sliver of Evidence. But
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The World of RPGs @theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Episode 30 - Québec is out now! with @joueursansfromage.bsky.social and many more open.spotify.com/show/0z4WwX6...
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The World of RPGs
Podcast · Moritz Botts · This podcast is about tabletop role-playing games around the world. In every episode, I interview RPG enthusiasts and professionals from a non-English speaking country about w...
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I take the time to actually compensate sufficiently to talk to regular people about game stuff, I end up concluding that whatever I want to tell them (often, exactly why I am laughing whilst staring at my phone) is probably not worth the explanation.
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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
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turnip max @turnipmax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Turnip28 Core Rules V19 is finally complete! Make sure to check the changelog for the new rules and balance updates. - Max
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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 22/09/2026
It’s Tuesday so that means a new blogpost. 8 more odd npcs for Liminal Horror! www.patreon.com/LiminalHorro...
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d8 Odd NPCs pt. 4 | Liminal Horror
This summer I drafted 110 NPCs for a future issue of Nemesis. One of the constraints I created for this project was a streamlined NPC templa
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looking for someone who can do 90’s point-and-click style pixel art for a commission. Short notice but it’d need to be done in the next two weeks. Lemme know if that’s you, and share your portfolio please!
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hexxmap by @stevencolling.bsky.social now supports Linux! Do we finally have a contender to replace the aging Hex Kit? stevencolling.itch.io/hexxmap/devl...
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Version 1.3 - Linux & more
After releasing Mythic Hex Tiles a month ago, I focused on Hexxmap again and added some cool stuff and a bunch of fixes, including the native Linux support you all pressured me into, I mean inquired a...
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Tea Vampire @stras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you write a game you never know who will play it or what it will mean to them. It can be someone's first game. It can be someone's last game. And if you're very very lucky, you'll sometimes get to hear about it.
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Map Crow | Kyle Latino @mapcrow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gotta Bosch 'em all! #Boschémon
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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I drew a comic strip.
a comic strip. The first panel shows a goblin in a long coat approaching a guard. The second panel has the goblin saying "we're just normal men!". The third panel has the guard replying "what do you mean normal men?". The fourth panel shows both the goblin in the coat and the guard. The coat is beginning to open to show many goblins within. The guard looks suspicious and a goblin emerging from the coat is saying "We're just innocent men!"
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The World of RPGs @theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Picture Monday: This might just look like a German translation of a Werwolf 5E sourcebook, but I want to point out that "storyteller" is in the feminine form here. We discuss the issue of gendered nouns and pronouns in many episodes, especially for translations (depending on the language of course).
screenshot of Instagram, showing Ulisses Spiele's Werwolf: Werkzeuge der Erzählerin
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Mike Sterling, A Halloween Comic Shipping First Week of November @mikester.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So this video with Dolly Parton doing "That's The Way I Like It" with KC and the Sunshine band contains more cool per performer than is normally medically allowed. I mean holy crow www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRU...
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Dolly Parton with KC & The Sunshine Band "That's The Way I Like It" (Dolly TV Series 1976)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 07/09/2026
Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky!!
3 people in religious garb with bags over their heads with nuclear symbols on them stand before a triangle and a shocked looking spherical head.
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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
trying to level up my illustration skills, so im learning to make dioramas - both to use as reference maquettes and as art pieces in their own right very wip, of course! just started on this one a few hours ago
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 01/09/2026
Saying goodbye to summer
Someone walking out of the ocean with a bunch of some type of bird flying around and their head is turning into a bird.
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Skullboy @betterlegends.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Clayton makes a great point here that I think a lot of people dont realize. People pay attention when all you have to say is negative. You are digging yourself a grave made of your own discontent- the internet isn't actually a good place to complain.
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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 18/08/2026
This was a really fun one to pull together. d228 backgrounds with equipment (for Liminal Horror) www.patreon.com/LiminalHorro...
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Hundreds of Backgrounds for Liminal Horror | Liminal Horror
228 to be exact. Hope you enjoy this expanded list of backgrounds (with equipment): Academic: heavily annotated book, planner, sticky notes,
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If I could own any piece of art in the world, this would be a contender. I think about it a lot. More in the alt text.
A painting of two polar bears in the arctic. They're picking over the remains of a failed arctic expedition, it features nautical debris and skeletal remains. Apparently the bears have eaten the corpses of the dead men.The painting is called "Man Proposes, God Disposes" and was painted in 1864 by Edwin Landseer. It was inspired by the lost Franklin expedition of 1845. It shows the effects of humanity defeated by nature, and reflects on British imperialism. The painting also is supposedly cursed, and dooms students who sit before it during exams to fail. The legend has evolved to students committing suicide because of it.
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MÖRK BORG @morkborg.com · 11/08/2026
I have no MÖRK and I must BORG
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️
As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A thread on "Theories about why TTRPGs are so cheap", with notes, including Oversupply (x2), Satiation, Non-Distinction, Production Purchases, Exemplar Pricing, and Confidence Pricing. Notes at end. 1/?
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「 ✦ Jd🎃g ✦ 」 @jdogtoocool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Good morning everyone!
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Wind Waker Link Sailing Pixel Art
ALT: Wind Waker Link Sailing Pixel Art
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Bertdrawsstuff @bertdrawsstuff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mage hand!
A black and white bust illustration of an adenturer, with half long, light hair. Padded armor, gorget, crossbow on the back, quiver at the belt, hand axe in the .. hand. The perosn points to the left with a gloved hand.  From a round pallette covering th armpit, a ghostly green appendage sprouts (with a grasping hand at the end)
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
i went to a Luddite festival in NYC that was organized entirely off social media to prove you don’t need captive tech platforms (yes, including this one!) to hang out and have a good time. @404media.co 📵
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Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Literacy’s not going to die on my watch. Had a lovely time speaking on @kjzz.org about the ways in which I’m fighting back the brain rot and helping myself and others read more.
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Fight back against 'the end of reading' with these tips to focus and finish more books
The Atlantic’s latest bombshell headline is a stark one: It says “The End of Reading is Here.” The theory is we could be entering entering a postliterate society.
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Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Kris Kosaka writes about the literary influences on Studio Ghibli (including Grave of the Fireflies). #translation #booksky #studioghibli #graveofthefireflies
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How Hayao Miyazaki’s love of books influenced Studio Ghibli’s stories
Hayao Miyazaki lists books as direct sources for a number of his films including his latest, “The Boy and the Heron.”
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 23/07/2026
Secret comic WIP
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The World of RPGs @theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Continuing with reports from @the-kraken.bsky.social: I was Foret, a defrocked priest who tried to organize a peasant rebellion against Lord Haffir's tyranny. I banded up with a bunch of crazy lowlifes and it kind of sort of worked out for me. Game: Trophy Dark GM: @burnafterrunning.bsky.social
character sheet from Trophy Dark
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
At the moment I post this, the bear cam is REAL BUSY: www.youtube.com/live/J7ZrIDv...
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LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
for 404 media, i wrote about video game clones—who makes them, how they make them, and where the line gets drawn between inspiration and cloning
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hauntedhomes @jenshaus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Finally found appropriate socks for #PirateBorg
Photograph of two pairs of sock. One showing sharks and one showing a sailor‘s skeleton and tentacles.
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What makes an rpg cover great? Lots of things! We are spoiled for choice in rpgs. So, this week, I thought I'd show off 15 recent and lesser-known favorites w/ commentary. Let me know your favorites! I want to do a part 2. www.explorersdesign.com/great-book-c...
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Great Book Covers '26 #1
Cover inspiration from across the tabletop rpg industry.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 25/06/2026
Amazing to see my books (among others, check out Into the Odd and Mörk Borg) in the #TTRPG section in the International English Library in Düsseldorf. I donated a couple at UKGE; always happy to donate books for libraries! Tag yourself if you see your books here too! www.international-library.de
Runecairn Wardensaga on a display table in front of other TTRPGs
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What’s the right page size for your rpg project? What options are there? What are the pros and cons? I have some favorites. www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-pick-...
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How to Pick a Page Size
There's more to an rpg's format than cost and page count.
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