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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Catch me on November 1 at Sarah Lawrence, talking about memoir, BRCA, and writing at the Institute for Genomics.

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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 · 24/09/2026

I went to visit them, and the Madres in Argentina—an amazing experience I wrote about in the book.

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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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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thanks for the lovely write up and the kind words. I assume that your water-drinking skills are as normal as they come!

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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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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You do the most awesome side PhDs with m between our meetings!

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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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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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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Maybe also a word or two on the prep/space required?

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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thanks for playing them. There is a deep bench of games like this by other amazing designers if you ever want more suggestions! (And please share if you find more; we’re always interested in standing on the shoulders of giants!!!)

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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

PS. Pretty sure that the Algonquin Round Table was famous for its games of Mafia. There's a tradition at the Yaddo Colony, at least, that supposedly dates back to Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote's time there, IIRC.

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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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LizzieStark 🍄 BIG CRONE ENERGY @lizziestark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We're honored and delighted. If games about dictatorship interest you, we've got another one called The Broadcast, a satire about press censorship. It's quite funny to play...but also brutal. 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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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 · 31/12/2025

Wish I did. There is, of course, Atzor in the early 1900s. I sometimes wonder where Mafia first popped up too. But the historical antecedents run real deep and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were many more to discover!

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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 · 17/04/2025

A herd of goostifs. Magical goodness flock with the butt of a mastiff.

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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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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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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 · 03/11/2024

Sam Liberty has an awesome Shakespeare tabletop called Forsooth! My class loved it.

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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 · 04/10/2024

Ha. I'd love to. What kind of high budget romance character would you be?

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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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