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Megan Kearney @spookymeggie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow Too Hot to Tango is coming OUT (intentional phrasing)

Graphic novel cover, a dark skinned teenage girl in a red ball gown is dipped by a pale skinned teenage girl in a soccer uniform. They are dancing on a dock at sunset.

Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mustered the energy to walk the dog and was treated to the bike-chain sound of katydids! Spotted one taking off and followed it for a picture.

A green Katyid on a tree trunk lit by camera flash.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been sick the last few days and I'm sick of it. I'm getting really bored of being cooped up in bed, but I also to have zero energy and can't do stuff.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just heard my front door creak and my dog and I went over to investigate. It was quite breezy outside so I said to the dog "must have been the wind." I'm getting fus-roh-dah'ed, aren't I?

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate when I start looking at reddit or youtube shorts and when I look up ten thousand years have passed and I'm sitting in the mouldering ruins of my castle. I like to think the algorithm can't fool me but obviously these tumbled heaps of mossy stone say otherwise.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I sometimes think about how many people are running home games with incredible house rules or full on homebrew systems that only one single table will ever experience. I bet there are tons.

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Witch-King of Angmar. My son's tatt is complete. I didn't do the needlework but I drew it. He loves Tolkien!

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AW HELL YEAH!!! Fucked up stop motion movie night incoming!

Two physical bluray cases: Junk Head and Mad God. The photo is crispy as hell from all the filters I put over it.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our little dog is apparently still fully functional, reproductively speaking, so we are gonna have an interesting couple weeks, followed by an expensive one.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The most exhausting part of making a game is definitely the part where you have to make the game

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've decided to deliberately practise more tolerance in my life. I'll admit I've been surprised at the negative reactions from my family and coworkers just because I've started with lactose.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've been working hard for some time now prepping for this arts fair next weekend - if you're in toronto, I would love it if you stop by and say hi, I have never had a whole tent to exhibit in before and I am going to have an awful lot of fun with it!

a sign that reads "I'm exhibiting at the DECA arts fair, Saturday September 19th and Sunday September 20th, East Lynn park, 1949 Danforth Avenue. food vendors! live music! kids activities! over 60 artists and artisans!"

a sign that reads "Danforth East Arts fair, September 19th and 20th, Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., East Lynn park, 1949 Danforth Avenue, and a long list of sponsors."

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Christian Hendriks @cerhendriks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A guy I roll dice with has just started a new Patreon, Mostly Boring Battlemap Theater, with his partner: mostlyboring.network/collection/2.... This is a great service the hobby really needs, focusing on the scenes nearly everyone can use: the path through the forest, the mine entrance, etc.

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Free Launch Release Series | Collection from Mostly Boring Battlemap Theater | 7 posts

To celebrate the launch of our Patreon, we are providing 6 full content releases for free to all followers. Enjoy this example content and be sure to check…

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Christian Hendriks @cerhendriks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I now have a blog post up about Mostly Boring Battlemap Theater, for which this Bluesky thread is here to act as the comments: advantageonarcana.bearblog.dev/roadside-enc... If you use a VTT to roll dice, I highly encourage you to take a look. #ttrpg

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Roadside Encounters: Mostly Boring Battlemap Theater

Before a game of Falling Tides, I was complaining about the difficulty of getting a decent battlemap of a road in the woods. If I had a combat encounter in a crystal palace floating through space...

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Worked on my post-apocalypse animal character classes this evening. I've decided Opossums – who faint when scared – are innately connected to The Dreaming and can use it to astral project when fully attuned. There's a burgeoning opossum cult which claims to be able to use it to see the future.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My coworker - surrounded by dice nerds all day - has never played a TTRPG before. He told me he isn't interested in fantasy as a genre but mused that he'd be very interested in a game set in a post apocalypse. I tried to stay chill. He told me he'd prefer the rules be light. I failed to stay chill.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After making lunch for my kid's first day back at school I got carried away and also roasted up six sweet potatoes (now mashed and freezing in silicone muffin cups), and a dozen muffin-sized apple crumbles for snack tonight and breakfast tomorrow. Successfully using up our produce!!

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have been invited to join a game of Pendragon! I am very excited to give it a try. I'm not overly familiar but everything I've read seems really cool, and different from the stuff I've tried before. I've never played a game with a structured timeline of that sort.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ooh hoo hoo I'm excited for this double feature evening.

A shipping confirmation showing that two blurays are on the way: Mad God and Junkhead.

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Franek @franekk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wizard outfits

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My brother @cerhendriks.bsky.social showed us the Tolkien exhibit at the Stratford museum. It was great, but the chrome mannequin wearing the Gandalf outfit immediately conjured to mind this excellent meme.

A dummy wearing a gandalf costume. The face is just chrome.

A three panel meme made from screenshots from the Lord of the rings.
Panel 1 shows gandalf standing outside a hobbit hole door with a caption " no thank you. We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations."
Panel 2 shows gandalf's face except it's been replaced with Macho Man Randy Savage's face with a caption saying "What about the cream of the crop?" He's holding a little creamer.
Panel 3 shows Bilbo stepping out the door with the caption"Macho-Mandalf!"

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Megan Kearney @spookymeggie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just in time for the end of summer, look what arrived in the mail!!

A box of hardcover copies of Too Hot to Tango by E E Salo and Megan Kearney

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm reminded of a game I picked up many years ago called Warbirds. The setting was sky pirates on sky islands. Some of these sky islands are on elliptical orbits that bring them withing fuel range for short windows, making them temporarily accessible before they arc away again. It seemed really cool

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Five years ago we were fortunate enough to be able to buy a home with a friend. This spring he let us know that he was ready to go his own way (amicably), so we had to quickly figure out if we could afford to buy out his half. It's been a heckin' stressful summer, but today we closed the sale!

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Frodo in front of mount doom saying "it's done"

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Gabriela Rhinier @gabalut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love adding highlights to my paintings! always seems to give them more life :) Painting is "Brassica oculus", watercolor on paper. animated digitally with Photoshop and after effects

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Researching for #fluxgate, tonight I watched Forbidden Planet! What a wild movie for the time. I'm not sure why the poster features Robby carrying Altaira. As far as I recall that never happened in the film. Just an homage to other classic pulp planetary romance I guess.

Forbidden Planet poster featuring a clunky robot carrying in its arms a blonde woman with a form-hugging outfit.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 19/06/2026

Artist! Drop something creepy!

It's sunset. The sky awash in orange lit grey clouds also reflected in a brown apartment building's windows. In the foreground, a black kid is hopping a wooden fence, but hesitating as they spot something glowing green on the other side. Behind him an Asian and South Asian girl cling on to a ladder from a fire escape that's come to life as a centipede. Up near the top of the ladder a white kid is trying to stay on the centipede stairs while its tail comes down from off panel in a menacing way.

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Guillaume Bonnet @zazb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders! - I don't draw many of them, but if things work out the way I want them to, I'm about to get a whole lot of practice!

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders !

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My kid is out of the house this week, so I have more free time (kinda). I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to spend this time on some creative pursuits, but we will see how well the brain cooperates with this plan.

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Will Kirkby @chamonkee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mister Petrichor Tibbs, the kind of bard who will leave you penniless.

A cat man in a daper suit holding a fiddle.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This was such a cool listen!! I know so few people who played Majesty, but it was so fundamental to the way I think about games and procedural systems. Very fun to hear others discuss their experiences with it.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm so lucky that a mortgage is a thing I can even think about. By my god, it is so stressful it makes me want to curl up into a ball.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trying to come up with some knock-off robot designs for #alloutapocalypse

A series of drawings of clunky robots with ball joint limbs and tin can torsos.

A protectron from Fallout 3. It has a chunky lozenge shaped body and sticky limbs.

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There’s been a drought of book holds coming through for me. I’ve been sitting with nothing to read for over a week! I need some recs that might be available from my local library now 👀

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Going through an old sketchbook and posting some stuff I don't think I ever posted before.

A pencil drawing of a medieval fantasy peasant house with smoke billowing from the chimney

Some kind of French goblin, maybe? A small black toque and a striped shirt. He looks smug.

A really rough sketch of a bugbear with a club. It's just kinda standing there.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Going through an old sketchbook and posting some stuff I don't think I ever posted before.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's important to build a whole new TTRPG system from scratch every time you spin up a new campaign, and saying "oh, fuck, I forgot you guys might try to do that, there's nothing in the system that handles it so let's take a 10 minute break while I think about this" is actually the best part.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very fun experiment on a rainy day today. The neighborhood girls wondered if it would be possible to make a potato substitute somehow with the ingredients we had at hand. We ended up trying to make cauliflower croquettes, subbing boiled cauliflower for the potato. Verdict: unconvincing but tasty!

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ooh, Neuromancer movie? I'm down. I read it for the first time recently, but I maybe ought to read it again. I liked a lot about it but I found the writing style really difficult to digest. I think I read every paragraph twice, just trying to parse it out.

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Gareth Davies @spudonkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Gregor the taker of skulls and his mount Nibbles.

An illustration of a dark knight riding a capybara.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Normally I try to separate my personal and professional presence online, but I'm going to make an exception. My team is hiring! We are small and restricted to hiring Canadians (to adhere to grant requirements, among other things), but we need a Unity pro! www.workwithindies.com/careers/the-...

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The Kobold Collective is hiring a Unity Gameplay Developer

We're seeking an experienced Unity Gameplay Developer to join The Kobold Collective.

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Nick Hendriks @nickdrawthing.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ran my first game in a while tonight! All-Out Apocalypse for some friends / former colleagues. Tasked with securing the last known tub of Cookies and Cream from the Ben & Jerry's Flavour Experience, they led their refrigerated robot buddy Yeti into the strangely fortified ice cream lab.

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Roberto "Sunglar" Micheri @sunglar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Having shared the Deathbringer campaign, here is a critique. We can enjoy nostalgia without dismissing modern RPG fans. This offers valid food for thought regarding the game's promotion and creative details. https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-thoughtlessness-of-deathbringers.html?m=1

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