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Marsh Davies

@marshdavies.bsky.social
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Writer & illustrator in Ann Arbor. Occasional videogame dev, now making horrid TTRPGs about cursed pies, hogmen and worse. teethrpg.itch.io

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A captcha that is a reference to the opening scene of Master and Commander
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Jacob van Loon @jacobvanloon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Window to Window Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 8x10” 2024
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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"OWL RLY" Acrylic and paint marker on birch panel. My piece for the Hoot art show, part of the Ottawa International Animation Festival this year. It's up right now for another 2 days at Beyond the Pale Brewing in the Byward Market. Painting is also for sale! #art #owl #retrogaming
An acrylic painting of a snowy owl character playing an original game boy. Bright retro colours and an abstract background. Perhaps a resemblance to an ancient meme.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All things in nature evolve towards a single inevitable form: meringue
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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just in time for my birthday – TERMINUS has been awarded 5 stars by @gonzohistory.bsky.social in the @forteantimes.bsky.social ! 🥳 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 To celebrate this happy confluence of events, I'm offering 15% off both Darkened Hill & Dale and TERMINUS on my web shop this weekend. ☺️ shop.patchworkfez.games
A close-up of the final paragraph of the review of TERMINUS in the Fortean Times. It reads: 'In its evocation of a specific kind of contemporary British urban strangeness, Terminus creates a unique and memorable setting for a story of a liminal space brushing against cosmic horror. ★★★★★'The full text of the review of TERMINUS in the Fortean Times magazine, held by me. It's unfortunately too long to fit in this alt text.
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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
couple of local kids staked Dracula. he turned into a cloud to get away and they vaped him. most fucked up thing... they straight up vaped him man. i don't even know if it was malice, it was like they were just operating on instinct. weren't filming a tiktok or nothing. #OctoberScaries #nonsense
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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snake or worm like fantasy creature is black on top, blue and red in the middle, and yellow on the underside. it is laying on the ground
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Best Of 2000AD cover what I did #dayofdredd
Digital painting, cover illustration for Best Of 2000AD book. A scene on the mean streets of Mega City One
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly, we just want to sell our little books about goblins and I am thinking about where I sign up to lobby the government over EU membership.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The absolutely state of this. (Also I found myself thinking this morning about how I have become someone who worries about international trade conditions, fml.)
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also worth dusting off Nifflas' other superb platformers, Within a Deep Forest and Knytt Stories - which has one of the great all-time game soundtracks by Nurykabe, maybe now better know for the Stray OST.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great writing on a perhaps perfect game. But I think I disagree that Knytt is parodic or reductionist in the way that Flanderisation implies, or in the way that Survivor-likes burrow into a faddish mechanical loop. It's minimalist, but only so as to elevate its aesthetic purpose above the noise.
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What if we played show tunes off tempo and with all the wrong instruments loudly enough to be heard for several miles? - the inventor of the marching band, consigning themselves to Hell
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes! As much as I enjoy people's revulsion/fascination with beans on toast, black pudding etc, curry has been a part of my life, and British food culture, for as long as I can remember. (Also, right now, you can't move for "hot honey" in London restaurants. It's pissing out of the walls.)
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An Grianan from Fasnacloich, Glen Creran #Scotland #Invercreran #Appin #Argyll www.damianshields.com
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vangers is one of the weirdest games ever made - an alien racing game that is truly alien in its setting, logic and language - and you should play it if you haven't.
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Seán Lynch @naes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Would love to see an episode of How To with John Wilson filmed in the New York of Control Resonant.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Likewise!
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vitalis Benevant, from the Plague Tale games, issuing a speech bubble encompassing the quoted bsky post. He's also surrounded by a tornado of hairless albino rats, which is nice.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We should have put this argument to bed in the 90s: green is for cheese and onion flavoured waste only.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI billionaire: I'm pissing and shitting myself right now. There are 4 people on staff that need to clean me. The future is pissing and shitting yourself and crashing your car Ezra Klein: Wow!
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nothing like a truly demented list feature to get the blood flowing. My compliments to the NYT.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow, apparently I have a powerful recollection of that Incubation box art but no memory of the game whatsoever.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yay! Thanks, mate. Hope you have a fun time with it (and apologies for the shipping cost to Sweden).
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haha. This is such a good joke it's genuinely tempting me. Not sure if I could convince the printer to go for it...
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also had an incredible and incredibly expensive meal at La Réserve de Nice after stumbling down Mt Boron, soaked in sweat, and going inside for a much needed drink before realising we'd committed ourselves to something we were not nearly classy enough for. They were very polite about it though!
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Le Bédouin chez Michel! Amazing food, massive quantities, low prices, seemingly operated by one extraordinarily energetic old fella. Also, you'll love the Cimetière du Château. A tougher hike is the battery up on Mt Boron. Not sure if the observatory has public access but that's also got Views.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hehe, I perversely enjoy the controversy over spine orientation. Question is, what will we do with the text if we reprint Teeth?
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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Daughter just had the classic British train experience of hearing the announcer make a long statement, of which the only discernible words were 'wartime bomb'.
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Mark Wallace, so-called @markwallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The journey of a thousand TTRPG sessions begins with a single one-shot.
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026
It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
The inside of a council flat.A brutalist concrete shopping precinct.A block of council flats.A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Look at the pen work on this Alex Raymond RIP KIRBY strip! My gawd.
Rip Kirby and a woman walk through the fog.
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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Priestess ~~~ #art #worldbuilding #ttrpg
Drawing of a woman profile portrait, wearing an ancient garment, with a strange Gaudi-like tasselated sculpture on her head.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Haha! There was much debate over whether to stick with the original's orientation or adopt the standard (at least in the UK) of the spine text being upright when the book is placed face up (which displays better at, say, conventions). If it helps, you can imagine the two titles as clenching jaws! 😬
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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Killer Kites Possessed by wayward wind spirits, these untethered kites hide in clouds, preying on birds and lone travellers.
Southeast Asian Fantasy: A girl running away from a Wau-type of kite, but morphed into looking pretty demonic, with evil eyes and fangs.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This article is a really powerful insight into the changing definition / decline / corruption / corporate capture of AI research. This line particularly: "Modern AI products are not scientific achievements, they are, at best, engineering ones if not purely infrastructural ones."
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow, we might have to hire you as our official promotional photographer! Now, if you could just blag your way aboard a historic sailing vessel...
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seeing the book in people's hands just doesn't get old. My own copy, meanwhile, has taken an unexpected 1300km detour to Tallahassee, Florida, according to the tracker. A place which is, by multiple measures, the exact opposite of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Love to see it in folks' hands. Really hope you enjoy it!
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you. May I say that I appreciate both your splendid kitchen surfaces and appropriate book orientation!
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Jamorobo @jamorobo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gosh what a treat and a fitting surprise after returning from a seaside weekend away! This book looks like an absolute labour of love from @rossignol.bsky.social & @marshdavies.bsky.social. Well done chaps, my eye is totally not twitching at the decision to flip the spine text for book 2!
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𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 @strangehouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Despite reading and writing about this stuff for the last couple of years, I'm still amazed by new, horrifying details. All of which makes me angrier at the omission of this history in British schooling and the cultural milieu.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think this is my favourite glamour shot of Gold Teeth so far.
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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you! And love your terraria btw!
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Chris Thursten @cjpt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Massive congrats to @marshdavies.bsky.social and @rossignol.bsky.social on GOLD TEETH! Which I guess is out now, because I have it. The book's come out beautifully, and I'm a big fan of Marsh's decision to disembowel himself on page 44.
A big red pirate roleplaying hardback called GOLD TEETH. There's a skull and crossbones on it. Its teeth are gold.An illustration of a grotty little sailor getting disemboweled by a cannon. He looks surprised that this has happened to him, which is honestly out of character for Marsh.
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