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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Got my copy of my latest game with @japanimegames.bsky.social today! Excited to show it off @breakoutcon.bsky.social in a few weeks! Designed with @senfoonglim.bsky.social

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

What this does to those of us with even the thickest of skins is pretty traumatic at the best of times. It wears you down and out.

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Schedule is up! I have a few demos for upcoming (Grendel) and new (Lupin III) on the schedule 💖 Plus a panel on diversity 🌈

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Breakout 2027: It just gets better every year! @breakoutcon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The Event Schedule is LIVE! Sign up now! Remember you need to create a separate "Sched" account to sign up for any of our amazing events! Visit breakoutcon.com/event-schedule #Breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames #rpg #ttrpg #TTRPGcommunity #boardgamecommunity #rpgcommunity

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Breakout 2027: It just gets better every year! @breakoutcon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Alara @lavendergames.bsky.social is a board game designer and developer, who often works with intellectual properties & strives to provide players the opportunity to explore & experience their favourite worlds. breakoutcon.com/articles/202... #breakoutcon #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #boardgames

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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

currently trying to play as many unplayed and lesser played board games of mine and broke out the legend of korra pro bending arena by @senfoonglim.bsky.social and @lavendergames.bsky.social incredible dueling game, forgot how good this is. fast, intense, cinematic.

legend of korra pro bending arena in play

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Last push on this one :) A few more hours! Thanks to everyone whose backed and supported, and to everyone who shares (or has shared) links about this one. Proud of both all the asymmetry we put into it, and the work I've done specifically on making that asymmetry shine through in the solo mode.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Did a Q&A today and talked about how Grendel came to be. I've really missed doing promotional stuff for my games 💖 gotta remember that I enjoy podcasts and talking design and development!

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Something worth smiling about 💖

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's live!! Really excited for this one. It's been a labour love for a few years and it's finally coming to life -- give it a look if you're into Grendel, asymmetry, and/or very aggressive board games 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...

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Grendel: The Game of Crime and Mayhem

Highly approachable and asymmetric gameplay

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Grendel, being demo'd at Origins 💖 I'm SO excited to see what y'all think of this one

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Things I helped make, in the wild!!

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This goes for game designers too ✨

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@ithayla.bsky.social The propeganda finally worked !! (My amazing girlfriend got it for me for my birthday 🎂) Can't wait to dive in!

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's announced! And soon to be alive!!!! ⚡

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Something's happening! 👀 ☺️ (A thing I made is being announced soon!)

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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hey y'all, remember when @deuxdel.bsky.social, @airy.bsky.social and I created a fun, powerful trans superhero in GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR? And it was the first time a trans character from the Big Two was a title character? And she had a awesome girlfriend? That was cool.

GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher

A panel from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher, where pre-transition Taylor says "It feels impossible to be your daughter."

A page from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher, where Taylor sees her true self in the mirror for the first time.

The narration reads: I can do this.
I can do this.
I can do this.
I did it once already. I can do it again.
Don't think about what could happen.
Don't think about what people will say.
Think about what you want.
Wow.
This is me.
The jewel. It doesn't hurt.
I didn't realize how much it hurt until it stopped.

A panel from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher where Kat and Taylor kiss.

The narration reads: As good a definition of love as any I've heard.

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Alara ✨ @lavendergames.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

After almost 5yrs away from academia, the urge to deep dive resurfaces:

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

You have, in fact, alienated yourself.

This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women. The whole picture is, if I may say so, curiously "un-American." It is a perfect baboon patriarchy, with the Alpha Male on top, being respectfully groomed, from time to time, by his inferiors.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Please read this by @morganmpage.bsky.social on trans death "Reframing our very real proximity to death as a fit of manipulative hysteria is one way to inure the public to our pain and ultimately make our destruction seem not only possible but necessary."

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Shroud Waving

On trans death, callousness, ancestors

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 23/11/2024

Currently working on a Bluesky starter pack re: trans & queer (and adjacent) activism and activists in Canada! Let me know if there’s anyone — folks, groups, politicians and journalists — who I should add to this list! go.bsky.app/5AN8t5U

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/11/2024

tired of watching cis people discuss trans issues like trans people aren't even in the room

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

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Matt Forbeck @forbeck.com · 19/11/2024

Gamers! DriveThruRPG.com put together a package of amazing TTRPG PDFs to raise money for James, the young son of my friend Amber Cook (who passed away last month). It includes a copy of my Brave New World supers RPG, plus many other great games.

The title reads "In Memory of Amber Cook," and the image shows Amber's son James running to her arms.

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