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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fall in Love with Walla Walla

A surrealist collage poster with a nose mountain and two eyes in the skies. A yeti with skis running up the beard and it says “fall in love with Walla Walla” with a seal of Washington on top of it, and a woman in a camping chair reading a book. Idk, it’s hard to explain

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Currently healing myself with some old tech

A JC Penney Solid State from 1977 hooked up to a little security camera guy. On the TV is your boy taking a selfie with an iPhone.

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Laying out my kits to air dry while doing laundry and realized how insane I’ve been wearing them all the time recently

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Only one way to watch the World Cup… Telemundo on a J.C Penney Solid State

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Played "i'm sorry did you say street magic" by @seaexcursion.itch.io while kayak camping in the San Juans. Had a lot of fun with it and built an incredibly rich city with lots of fun neighborhoods, landmarks and residents. Highly recommend for any city-building you're looking to do! 10/10

Lots of index cards in the dirt with leaves strewn all around and tiny branches holding the cards down. Two pens, i'm sorry did you say street magic the book, a bottle of sunscreen, a Nalgeen, and the corner of the camping chair make up the rest of the objects. There should be index cards bent and tented to represent events but we were running out of index cards so we just wrote events on the back of cards. Much fun had by all

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Randomly found The High Crusade at @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social and it looked so wild I knew I had to watch it. Let’s watch

For some reason I found an international version of the movie poster in German, but it says “High Crusade” and a bunch of stuff in German. There’s some knights riding a sheep’s skull or something over the earth… idk

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Ran LORDSWORN by @marrensmusings.bsky.social with my online group tonight and can’t wait for the next session. We’ve all GM’d before but this was our first GM-less game and it was incredible watching everyone’s creativity working together. Definitely play if being a sad knight is for you 10/10

The cover of LORDSWORN. Red lettering on a beige sky. Light red mountains and a dark red chipped sword in the ground

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Ran a game of The Quiet Year by @lackingceremony.bsky.social with some brilliant people and had an incredible 4 hour experience of hope, heartbreak and laughs along the way. Gotta love the feeling when people tell you “this was my favorite RPG experience ever!”

A picture of my dining room table with the Quiet year three quarters of the way played through. There’s a map that’s filled in, The Quiet Year cards, dice and contempt tokens and pencils and drinks

The finished Quiet Year map with some insane drawings that don’t make sense. Some dice, contempt tokens and index cards

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Know nothing about knitting but this is what my knitting plug who works at a yarn store had to say

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"Nolan tries and fails to grapple with the morality of a billionaire who dresses up and spends billions of dollars to beat up teenagers for shop-lifting snickers bars" was my favorite quote from this section

A PowerPoint slide breaking down Post-Modernism and using the Dark Knight and Dunkirk movie posters as example of a Post-Modern approach to the orange and blue theme. The conflicted identity of the batman poster and the self-referential horrors of war in the Dunkirk one

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Had fun talking about how the themes in the Bourne Identity are very post-modern even if the movie poster itself is a modernist approach to the blue and orange theme

A PowerPoint slide breaking down a modernist approach to the blue and orange color theme idea. The movie posters for The Bourne Identity (2002) and Jumper (2007) are used as examples. I had fun talking about how the themes in Bourne Identity are post-modern, even if the design choice on the cover is modernist

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

They let me host the All-Hands at work this month for some reason and there's always a five minute random presentation that the host gives at the start... Usually something like a "Summer Book Suggestions!" or "Things I know about Bees". I went a slightly different direction

A PowerPoint Slide with a picture of a collection of movie posters that all have an orange and blue theme with a title that says "The History of Modernist Movements through Blue and Orange Movie Posters"

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Was so sad I couldn’t be there at the Brighton game, but have the best friends #COYS

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Got to work with @evilhat.bsky.social and @deadlyfredly.bsky.social on producing some visuals in a dashboard to show their Distribution trends over the last 15 years. Was really fun to work on this project and I hope people get some cool insights into the #ttrpg publishing industry.

Main dashboard page showing Distribution Insights for Evil Hat Productions. we can see 545k in total Volume, 2,279 orders, 105 titles released and 43 unique distributors. There is a pie chart showing the top five distributors: Alliance Game Distributors 28%, Flat river Group 26%, ACD Distribution 18%, Asmodee UK 7%, BNW Distribution GmbH at 2% and Other at 9%. Finally there is an area chart showing change in popularity of systems over time with Fate dominating the period of 2010-2017, Forged in the Dark and PBTA taking over from 18-25

Two charts showing a breakdown of system by year for Evil Hat Productions. We can see that Blades in the Dark is their biggest single title and that Fate is their biggest system of all time

This is a Forged in the Dark dashboard to show its impact on Evil Hat Games.

They've sold 66,411 titles over the years, accounted for 14.8% of total revenue and 19.7% of revenue since release. Flat River Group is the biggest distributor of FtD games with 40% and 2022 was its biggest year with 27% of EHP's revenue

This is a Paragon dashboard to show its impact on Evil Hat Production.

They've sold 6,006 titles over the years, accounted for 1.2% of total revenue and 2.9% of revenue since release. Alliance Game Distributors is the biggest distributor of Paragon games with 23% and 2024 was its biggest year with 5.5% of EHP's revenue

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Message to Levy for next season #COYS

A parking sign that says “Back-in Angle Only” but I’ve blacked out the “in” and “l” in Angle…

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just got the Mission Impawsible box set in the mail. Can’t wait to play as three raccoons in a trench coat!

The Mission Impawsible box set opened on the table. There is the zine, some raccoon coins, raccoon needles, bingo cards, GM tool cards and mission templates

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

London Fog the obvious choice for the commute to watch the game #COYS

Man wearing a Tottenham Kit holding a London Fog cause Tottenham is going to win the Europa League Final

#COYS

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Went for the @joshruben.bsky.social repost… Stayed for the “Holy shit, someone call 911!!!” 10/10 😍😍😍

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!” *Drowning noises* RIP Carol Thunderfoot You will not be missed by many… #Valley100

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Carol Thunderfoot picks up a pump and starts pumping to show he's a changed man while trying to look over at the rest of the group with desperate kind eyes. He probably just looks pretty deranged #Valley100

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"I guess I'm kind of a shit" - Carol Thunderfoot #Valley100

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Carol Thunderfoot, a muck raker with a glass eye, who was arrested for breaking curfew. SWEET SPOT: 53–72 LUCK: 2 ALIGNMENT: Odd STARTING LOCATION: 17 #VALLEY100

A muck raker with a glass eye, who was arrested for breaking curfew. Green scratch of a man with a beard

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Found this idea online back in 2020 and using an index card as a bookmark has really been a game changer for me on keeping track of my reading. (Besides 2022, RIP) #booksky

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

And two more that couldn’t fit on the first post…

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Paul Olson @paulolson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I have the best players a DM could ask for. Check out these sick character sketches #TTRPG

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