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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY

@lizziestark.bsky.social
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Writer, game designer, mutant, future crone. Author of BIG CRONE ENERGY (out soon!), EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES, and other books. #ovatures #brca #larp #bigcroneenergy lizziestark.com sixofhounds.itch.io pic: Adrianne Mathiowetz

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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was absolutely incredible to see two masters of their craft at work with a large group and in the proper setting. Expect more pictures soon - this was pure magic! ✨ Thanks to @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social for being wonderful human beings and inspiring creators.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had such a blast, and even heard rumors of a larp club being formed. If I were a student, I’d use the heck out of that beautiful space!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've been working on BIG CRONE ENERGY: A LOVE LETTER TO FIERCE ELDERS for three years. It's got dissident nuns, flexible 103-year-old ballet teachers, activist grannies, and lesbian performers in it, to name a few. I'm proud of it. Pre-order below! #bigcroneenergy bookshop.org/p/books/big-...
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Big Crone Energy: A Love Letter to Fierce Elders
The average cis woman spends a third of her life postmenopausal. If you believe the cultural messages women receive, that's a long time to survive past one's expiration date. When Lizzie Stark underwe...
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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So @jmstar.bsky.social's talk at Wesleyan on 09/23 got even better because the amazing @lizziestark.bsky.social will come down from Boston and join us! So here's a new poster! Join us on Wed 9/23 at 12:00 pm in RLL Common Room (300 High Street) at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social and please share!
A poster with images and text, advertising a talk by game designer Jason Morningstar in conversation with participation designer Lizzie Start to be held at Wesleyan University on September 23 at 12 pm.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's Double Starks next week at the Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells with scream queen Taylor Stark as guest judge and me and @itskellian.bsky.social hosting. Boston, come design with us! www.imagineerdowells.com/Boston/?fbcl...
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Imagi-Ne'er-Do-Wells — Boston
The kooky creativity game for makers of experience and other artsy weirdos — Boston chapter.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the most fun aspects of collaborating with @jmstar.bsky.social is when our designs go in unanticipated, new directions. I did not see this one coming at all!
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's a larp built around desperately trying to avoid being the most innocent person in the room when the clock strikes midnight. Because it's going to go Real Bad for the most innocent person. @lizziestark.bsky.social and I making a game for a friend. Also: Mars, Venus, Saturn, just imagine.
Placard explaining the Chiffonier of Jupiter, where everyone is full of greed and envy.
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@lizziestark.bsky.social and my vaudeville audition game, Crabbing the Turn, is ready for playtesting. It's a 5-6 player, 2-3 hour larp. Probably a little funny, a little sad, a little intense. Just reading the sides will be a delight. If you have a group and are interested please send me a message!
Some terrible vaudeville jokes:

JINGLES: Aren’t you a window-dresser?

WELLINGTON: Yes.

JINGLES: How would you make a Venetian blind?

WELLINGTON: Punch him in the eye. Jingles, you know your dog bit me the other day. He bit me right on the ankle. 

JINGLES: Well, that’s as high as he could reach. You wouldn’t expect a little pup like him to bite your neck, would you?
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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
LOVE this story! www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g...
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The Austrian nuns who fled their care home are now in Rome and visited the Vatican
The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter's Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It's an eggcellent time of year to put this dozen into a gift basket. It's got clowns, space travel, and Jacques Pepin. Also your writer friend--me. Hey, Mary Roach and Jennifer Egan liked it! bookshop.org/p/books/egg-... #easter #egg #ovatures
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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
A Dozen Ovatures
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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A very relevant (and very good) game from Six of Hounds @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social - now available! I am going to use this in my class next fall! Grab it here: sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
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Slow Walk by Six of Hounds
Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious party game.
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
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Slow Walk by Six of Hounds
Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@jmstar.bsky.social and I have a new game out, about cute animals committing SABOTAGE in a way that maintains plausible deniability. Check it out!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Come join @karenpinchin.bsky.social and me next Friday, online at the Creative Nonfiction Collective, for playful ways to get that nonfiction manuscript off your desk and into the world! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/programming/...
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Webinars – Creative Nonfiction Collective
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Reminder—@jmstar and I made a short, wickedly comic larp about a crew of newscasters weathering censorship. sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast
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The Broadcast by Six of Hounds
Tell the truth and you'll doom yourself, but maybe save the nation. An absurd larp about journalists and dictators.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@jmstar.bsky.social and I are designing a game with the tentative title “We Cannot Contain the Spider Baby.”
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the US. My latest, in the Washington Post. #ovatures www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the state of the United States.
A national shortage means more than just sticker shock. Eggs feed our collective soul.
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...
SECRETARY RUBIO:  Well, I think there’s a little bit of common sense here.  You come to the States and then you decide you don’t like those paper straws that some of the stores are selling and you start protesting or complaining about paper straws – I mean, we’re obviously not going to yank a visa over that.  I think it crosses a line – think about it this way.  No one has a right to a visa.  These are things that we decide.  We deny visas every day for all kinds of reasons all over the world.  We deny visas because we think people might overstay.  We deny visas because the country they come from are people that historically overstay.  We deny visas every day, and we can revoke visas.  If you have the power to deny, you have the power to revoke.
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Six of Hounds (Me and @lizziestark.bsky.social) is looking for folks to playtest a small activism game called Slow Walk. It's for 2-9 participants/1-2 hours and requires in-person play. We need some external testing. Let us know if you are interested!
Ominous icon of a wolf with the words "Slow Walk" beneath it.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The price of eggs is high…but not yet gold rush egg high, as I reported a couple years back. #dozenovatures #egg lithub.com/how-a-war-ov...
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How a War Over Eggs Marked the Early History of San Francisco
Egg dishes are a flavor of home. We want them the way our fathers or mothers or grandparents made them. An egg conjures memories of learning to cook for many of us, since making eggs is perfect for…
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I are working on a new game and I got to playtest it at Larp Shack so that's pretty good. I always want a first playtest to be like "this is perfect and you are geniuses" but that does not happen, so I'll take "you learned a lot and have much more work to do".
Cards from a larp in playtest, designed to look like ID cards for forest animals.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
No, no, no, no, no. Dorothy Allison can’t be gone. It is too soon. x.com/MsSapph/stat...
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Ever wanted to attend a spooky surreal dinner party? Check out @jmstar.bsky.social and my new scenario, Sluga. sixofhounds.itch.io/sluga
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Sluga by Six of Hounds
A dinner party with (Baba) Yaga.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Ever wanted to star in a romantic indie film? This fall in NYC you can, as Sinking Ship Creations brings Bjarke Pedersen and my two person larp To The Bitter End to NYC this November. Bring a friend, and dare to fall in love and lose it. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/bitter-end
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To The Bitter End| Events | Sinking Ship Creations
Everything has to end sometime. A role-play experience coming Nov 2024.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #949,532! Not too impressive, but I guess I’m one in a million (ten million?)
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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Did you miss #GenerationAnalog2024 panel with @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social? Lizzie and Jason discussed how the pandemic dramatically changed their design process, and how it continues to impact their practice and community. #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCl...
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GENERATION ANALOG 2024 PANEL 2C: EMOTIONAL DESIGN
GENERATION ANALOG 2024PANEL 2C: Emotional DesignJuly 25, 20243:00-4:30 PM (GMT-4)Moderator: Megan Condis (Texas Tech University)• making it up as we go along...
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Sinking Ship is doing a whole season of larps this fall and it is such an interesting approach to presenting this material. @randylubin.com and I wrote a game that is invariably excellent and will involve a boat ride to the place where Hamilton got got. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/larp-se...
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Our 24-25 Larp Season - Coming to New York!
This fall, Sinking Ship Creations returns with a six-event season, showcasing top designers from around the world. Each larp will be staged
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Get tickets for Sinking Ship's new season of interactive theater below. My two-person romance game, with collab Bjarke Pedersen is on offer this November, along with a slate of other great experiences. www.sinkingshipcreations.com/post/larp-se...
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Our 24-25 Larp Season - Coming to New York!
This fall, Sinking Ship Creations returns with a six-event season, showcasing top designers from around the world. Each larp will be staged
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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Enjoy an afternoon constitutional in Heddington-Goodge, and take a gander at this quaint offering from @lizziestark.bsky.social and @jmstar.bsky.social: The Gooseberry Marriage. Don't forget your old spoon!
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The Gooseberry Marriage by Six of Hounds
A comedic larp of romance, property lines, and ancient rivalries set in an unspeakably quaint English Village.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
Six of Hounds' new larp features romance, property lines, and of course, a coveted antique SPOON! Check out our new script for THE GOOSEBERRY MARRIAGE! sixofhounds.itch.io
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Six of Hounds
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
TFW You're on the hunt again... www.tiktok.com/@w.w.norton/...
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
It's EGG season again. I'm proud to say the paperback hits shelves next week. Now is a great time to preorder! Today's egg fact: scientists believe that remote mountain lakes have fish in them because some fish eggs can survive life in a bird's digestive tract. bookshop.org/.../egg-a-do....
A cracked egg in a blue and white bowl sits beside several brown eggs, the bright green book EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES by Lizzie Stark, and a small brown box with an egg sticker on it.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
World's oldest intact egg subjected to MRI! www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Scientists reveal secrets of world’s oldest uncracked egg
Archaeologists scanned the 1,700-year-old egg discovered in a suspected Roman wishing well
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
The Chinese edition of EGG has arrived on my doorstep, almost as if my dinner of tomatoes and eggs conjured it!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Excited and delighted to see that JSTOR named my chapter on San Fran's Egg Wars (excerpted in Lit Hub) one of the best reads of the year. #ovatures #eggblog daily.jstor.org/best-of-sugg...
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Anyone have a VPN they adore?
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Terrarium update…
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Chuffed that Egg: A Dozen Ovatures is a Staff Pick for NPR’s Best Books of the Year! #ovatures apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2023 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
"Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts.
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Will I be spray painting this Wardian Case black? Bless my gothic soul, yes! What is a Wardian Case? A terrarium developed by a mid-19th century doc whose love for plants also bordered upon a sickness, connecting us across centuries. Got painting tips? Call it an early birthday present...
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Today’s exercise in self-restraint: I’m served Iron Man skeets, but decline to demand that everyone stop maligning my uncle Tony.
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mattie @mattiebrice.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
my department at UC Santa Cruz is hiring a teaching professor working at the intersection of games and performance with an emphasis on experimental and activist art. reach out to me if you're interested in applying: mattie.brice@ucsc.edu recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01619
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Performance, Play & Design: Assistant Teaching Professor of Art, Technology & Play (initial review N...
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I'm headed to Westport CTfor StoryFest this weekend, to talk EGG: A DOZEN OVATURES & game design. Catch me Sat: 3 p Tiny Table Talk w/Cassandra Khaw & Kerstin Rao @ Brooks Place on Game Writing.   4-5 p The Incredibly True Adventures of…, Main Stage #storyfest2023 #ovatures #books
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Andy;-- @dragontologist.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Today's the last day to submit! You can do it!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
@jmstar.bsky.social & I have your fall larps here: Try We Are Not Vampires, a reality show for totally normal humans. Want more than blood? Eat pie & die dramatically in our brand new party larp Pie Trust. #sixofhounds #larp sixofhounds.itch.io/we-are-not-v... sixofhounds.itch.io/pie-trust
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Come design a game this week! Maybe win an award?? Due Date: October 13th! Sssssssssssss goldencobra.org
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More Seats at the Table @moreseatsrpg.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Want to support our hard work finding you the coolest stuff while supporting other gender marginalized voices in ttrpgs and larps? Drop us a few dollars at patreon!!!! Thank you! www.patreon.com/moreseatsrpg
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More Seats at the Table | Patreon
creating an email newsletter about games by gender-marginalized
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James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Star Crossed is my favorite RPG of all time. Every experience I have had with this game is one I treasure. If you haven't played it, you should. If you have, you know how special it is. An expansion is so exciting and you should support it! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Get Ready for Star Crossed: Love Letters!
From Bully Pulpit Games - Get Ready for Star Crossed: Love Letters!
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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Hello from the plague house, where everyone has COVID. (We are OK! Just sick.)
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