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Sickhouse @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Inspiring! In September Colliders brought @pearseanderson.bsky.social and Didre Schutte to talk about their experiences. Pearse about building media attention for your projects and Didre about finding her voice & her summer at @schoolofma.bsky.social in Berlin! Thanks for sharing!

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 29/07/2026

15MIN's back and he brought you something from the store

sketchbook page of a knight holding a plastic bag; there are detail studies of swords and food items
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#kimgakaku

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 28/07/2026

Also this reminds me of the sticker sheet I CANNOT bring myself to use (from @bouletcorp.bsky.social I think?) (this was a while ago) I love ALL of these cheeses yes even the ones that look a LITTLE BIT SHADY

two sheets of unused stickers featuring many, many kinds of cheese, personified into little guys with eyes, hands, and legs in most cases. they are very expressive.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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has anyone else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? That's pretty problematic of the author

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the main character eventually recognizes the torment nexus is bad but by that point I had already stopped reading the book because I don't condone the torment nexus, the narrative really should've condemned it outright :/

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Really it's also problematic that you started reading it, at all. I mean, good on you for stopping when you realized but if you were *really* a good and decent person you would have read reviews first and known not to even buy it in the first place.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Having to develop 20 unique rooms in a few days feels like a bit of a challenge, but when Jay Dragon told me the Wanderhome picklists got built over one weekend (I might be OVERestimating), I felt confident I could do something for this that'd be enough for the game night.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

⏳Next Saturday, 18/7, 19:00 - 21:00ish 📍Part of DE GROTE WONINGNOOD SHOW bij @s.a.c.59 , Rechtstraat 59, Maastricht 👻 A spooky collaborative roleplaying game for 1-24 players. We will be rooms of a haunted house. No experience required, comment if we can expect you there! #maastricht #ttrpg #larp

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WangleLine @wangleline.com · 08/07/2026

This is rabbit ears! A free web tool that lets you search for words and phrases in youtube captions. I developed it specifically for finding vocal samples, so you can download clips as mp3s right from the interface. All free & hosted on my skrunkly little server :3 🐇 rabbitears.wangleline.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Buy a rice cooker

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'd love to present this again if there are more PowerPoint parties I'm invited to! This is 10 minutes and still needs a bit of work, but might take over the slot currently covered by "MarioKart characters as breakfast cereals" I've done before.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This was a joy to make and explain why people shouldn't order frozen drinks (they'll melt on the way to the cult lair)

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If I get invited to a PowerPoint party I AM going to spend 3 hours preparing the slides and making a whole in-universe B-plot inside this.

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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

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Lex @glitterstrands.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Is there an option yet on the site to mass-download bundle contents?

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Added 3 to my collection from this thread, wonderful!

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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the kids are alright &c

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Where are you reading your analog gaming news these days? How do you see what's happening in the board game or TTRPG space?

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I'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 23/06/2026

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

But we can! And we should! And there's long traditions of playful art, game-adjacent performances, collaborative storytelling, and zinemaking in modern art. Showing up in those spaces and adding our rulebooks, session schedules, and painted miniatures not only continues that, but enlivens it.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It seems like very few people have charted this path before me, despite the Towering Mass of Art in TTRPGs (in terms of art, design, narratives, indie spunk, and philosophy). That's a double-edged sword, but it does make me look unique to organizers. I've been told "I didn't know we could do this"

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I've had to switch from discussions of "mechanics", "bleed", and "worker placement" into the art-world-language of "situated and pluriversal approaches to socio-ecological challenges," which takes getting used to. You have to sell yourself on 2 registers at once (or 3?) But practice makes perfect!

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This event gave me a proven record to go to the local anarchist French-fry-snackbar to see if they want to run my anti-AI tarot game in July, and pitch a Lost & Found ghost game to a Maastricht exhibition opening. It also alerted the art world to me: I got a message about museums yesterday! Eeek!

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now I've been pitching game sessions as one-off workshops with Dutch art collectives, organizations, or anti-squats, and that's going well! I had my first art workshop, a "seasonal craft event" where I was able to transform my culinary TTRPG into a game about midsummer feasting rituals.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So far this has gotten me into an ART RESIDENCY as their first game designer (see short doc below). I lived in rural Finland for 6 weeks in a former sickhouse, gaming. That got me the confidence to do it again. That was weird, not from my medium, but the place. www.instagram.com/p/DRra6o9jXs6/

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I talk about mirror neurons, community-building, wisdom of the crowds, and agency as art (thank you @add-hawk.bsky.social for that bit) to argue for the importance and power of TTRPGs, then list how I need the art world: - for collaboration - for hosting play - for multimedia work - for community

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For this argument, I usually need to start by explaining what a RPG is, why mine don't exist on a computer but in the heads of players, and how expansive the medium is compared to the hamburger-meat of Hasbro. Then, I place TTRPGs as a combination of performance art/fiction/design/sport/drama

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One of my sidequests in the last year has been to argue for indie TTRPG's inclusion in the art world, partially so that I can apply for arts funding, display work in artistic spaces, and potentially make space in a new(er) niche. It's been..interesting! Needs more practice. But the idea is solid.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Where are you normally based? I thought you were Amsterdam-based when I saw your work at the indie game dev meetup in liiiiike April

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 25/05/2026

Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf

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Simi draws things @simiofdoom.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Over the past few weeks I did some fantasy architectural warmup doodles just about every day, wich was fun and good practise. If you have any use for these, they are up on itch under a Creative Commons (BY-NC 4.0) license! Happy mapping everyone! #rpg #osr simiofdoom.itch.io/mapping-assets

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Mapping Assets by SimiOfDoom

Illustrated Fantasy Assets

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I frequently describe ttrpg theory as people extrapolating the Wright Brothers' plane into space travel and I won't stop. We don't have a collective theory of what a roleplaying game is but we're very confident we know exactly how many entries in a roll table is ideal.

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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Third Edition of Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design is releasing in July! New mechanics have been added, but more importantly we expanded many entries, included more pictures, and now have questions at the end of each chapter to help game educators. Third time's the charm? 🎲✂️

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thank you Sam, it's lovely to hear from you again. I've kept a small substack but that's only covered 6 months. Not the meat factory smells, the brothel side-gigs, the attempt to enter the video game space, y'know. I hope you feel you've been living just as full a life alongside my journey!

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Quentin Vijoux @quentinvijoux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thank you @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social for letting me present "BEWARE OF THE CARTOGRAPHER!" in Amsterdam yesterday 🤗 It was a real pleasure to be so well received and to get such a warm welcome from the public! 🥰 [ last photo by @yancong.bsky.social & @pearseanderson.bsky.social ]

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thank you Yash that means so much from you! I think you've been following along on IG, where I've been posting-through-it-all at some extremely new locales. I just love realms! Big realms guy here I guess!

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don't know yet how to get my Bluesky feed to look like my Twt feed originally did. It probably never will, but I feel like I'm still on the outside of the indie analog game community. I feel like there's a door or community "starter pack" or ??? I have to join that'll reconfigure this feeling.

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"And it doesn't have to be an amazing game either ... But if you find yourself struggling with getting an audience, try to look for the audience close to you. And when you consider this, keep in mind that it's not just about numbers, but also about people you know." by @sheepolution.bsky.social

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Give me maps made for your world's inhabitants, not for your game's players. ... Give me abstract maps, embellished maps, inaccurate maps, incomplete maps. ... I want to find my way again by learning to understand its space from within." by @m-enderbug.bsky.social

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"♡ I HAVE 132 GB OF PERSONAL GAME PROJECTS ON MY COMPUTER ♡ ♡ SOME OF WHICH I HAVE SPENT YEARS DEVELOPING BEFORE CLOSING THEM FOR THE LAST TIME ♡ ♡ THIS FACT DOES NOT FEEL BAD BECAUSE THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING THEM WAS THEIR PURPOSE ♡" by @celechii.itch.io

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"The number of games on Steam does not matter. How many guitar performances were done in London last year? Is it up or down on a decade ago? Should that influence my decision to learn the bass guitar over the piano? " by @mtrc.bsky.social , one of the most perspective-shifting things read this June

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Our duty as creatives is to resist this. Not by creating saccharine escapist fantasies, but by climbing into the sewers, clutching your claws around the filthiest, most piss and shit-covered nugget of joy and hope you can find, and saying: “this is ours. they will not take it..."" by @cmddx.itch.io

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"It turns out there's a very easy action you can do in order to take steps to renew your relationship with the internet: DELETE YOUR BLUESKY ACCOUNT! ... BLUESKY CAN'T BE TWITTER BECAUSE TWITTER IS NOT EVEN TWITTER ANYMORE!" from emmadaues.itch.io/delete-your-... who is not on Bluesky, I think

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GAMEDEVS: DELETE YOUR BLUESKY! by Emma Dee

You'll thank me later! #manifestojam2026

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some fav bits from the MANIFESTO JAM "The point here is that there are many actual players still scared of what a perceived audience will think of their art if they transgress... This is not how art works. That’s commerce. We aren’t making the money to justify commerce." by @jellyfishlines.itch.io

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If you have any questions about that, lmk, I'm all ears! If you're in Rotterdam/Netherlands and in these spaces, I'd love to connect! I have no idea how I'm going to like this platform, use it very regularly, or connect with folks, but I'd like to try. I hope you've been well! Truly. <3 9/fin

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Pearse Anderson @pearseanderson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Now a landlubber working at 2 restaurants in the city, trying to jump back into freelance pitching, iterating all of my game ideas, joining Holland's analog game scene, leading LARPs, and falling in love with both a Dutchie, my neighborhood, this life. On Bsky, expect mostly game/journo stuff! 8/x

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