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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SoupTober #2: Loaded Potato Soup and a Pull-Apart Rosemary Garlic Bread

Two bowls of soup, a loaf of bread, and some additional toppings (such as shredded cheese).

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Okay, I lied! Here's yesterday's souptober for the chili prompt. All ready to be frozen for meals down the line.

White chili chicken in a 1 cup souper cubes tray.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm ready for #SoupTober. If you want to cook along with me, this is my prompt list. TY @tgi.bsky.social for turning this into an image for me.

A prompt list for Souptober 2026 by Rigby Bendele and Art by TGI. A bowl of soup is next to the title.

The prompts are:

Week One: Chili and Loaded Potato Soup
Week Two: Beef and/or Veggie Barley Soup and Tomated Soup
Week Three: Tortellini Soup and Roasted Veggie Soup
Week 4: Stew and Pumpkin/Squash Soup

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cyborg66 on Tumblr posted a document on how they plan on using SF2E and Lancer in the same game. It'll be SF2E for much of the exploration area, and then Lancer for mech combat. Can't wait to play around with this. www.tumblr.com/cyborg66/822...

A screenshot of a Tumblr post with the lancer and starfinder logs at the top. It includes the introduction of the post, explaining that it's about using Lancer for mech combat alongside SF for everything else.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Another notebook for the stack.

A stack of four campus notebooks from my doctoral studies.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our Labubu and our mini possum Pinkynose are fighting over this outfit from @campmustelid.bsky.social

A grey labubu wearing an orange bandana and green apron

A mini build a bear opossum wearing the same orange bandana and green apron

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My Anthrocon artist alley haul... Well.... By @beachw00f.com

A tattoo of a grey seal with a rainbow over it. It is incredibly happy and cute!

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Still one of the best gifts that my partner @tgi.bsky.social ever made me.

A linocut book stamp next to a set of library sleeves. The stamps design is a possum holding a book that's says 'This Book Belongs to Rigby Bendele'.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Because it's focused on just writing, I'm using it as one part journal, one part noting due dates. No due dates this week, so mostly reflections on the work that I've been doing. Part of this is to help me visual progress, while another part is to stay on track.

An open hobonichi weeks. The left has notes about each day's work, while the right includes two progress bar (start and end).

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A Peppy for your rough week.

A brown tabby curls up on a cat bed. She looks so soft and so little.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Repeated words, redundancies, cliches, sentence length, proper nouns.... Load-bearing.

A screenshot of a drop-down menu listing different edit report options.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Doctors hate this one writing station.

A laptop on a tiny, rickety tray table in front of a couch. There's at least a nalgene full of water and a notebook to relieve the pain and suffering from writing this way.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I had a similar peak when I read Delicious in the Dungeon, and then back down.

Screenshot of a storygraph mood map, showing a bump up in May, then a decline through the rest of the year.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Writing sprints at the library today.

A laptop is open on a black table next to a tote page. The screen shows an empty word document and a scrivener folder.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Probably have one or two more books in me, but this was a very good reading year!

Screenshot of the Storygraph annual challenge page, showing 62/60 books read for 2024.

Actual text:

2024 Reading Goal

🎉🎉🎉

Reading goal of 60 books met!

103% (62 books)

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Finished up Crown of the Kobold King tonight... and already making plans for the next adventure.

A black background with white text that reads "The Kobolds will Return in Curtain Call".

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thinking about the Third Terror in the Spear Cuts Through Water again.

One of the things I realized at 90% in is that I strongly relate to #minotaurs, in part because they are so strongly about the assumption that binds us with family ties. When I think about how I genuinely want to write about family, trauma and represent my own experiences, the maze seems like ample ground for that. It also allows for space to function in ways that work for my flavor of cycles of family trauma - for fleeing and fear and danger to be interconnected.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Book 4/20 is There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job.

The cover of There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. It is a pastel pink and blue cover with a woman laying face down on her desk in the middle.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Book 3/20 is Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison

The cover of Meander, Spiral, and Explode by Jane Alison. The cover is a brick-like pattern overlaid a wave,

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Today's book is Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh!

The cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

(Copying Kendra's lead!) Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The cover of Lirael by Darth Nix, circa 2001 when I found it in my middle school's library.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Current reads! Bonus points if can guess what reading challenge I'm doing currently 😅

A stack of books showing their spines. The books are The Skin and Its Girl, He Who Drowned the World, It Lasts Forever and then It's Over and Steering the Craft.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I made the stew! I added maybe a few too many peas.

A big pot of beef stew with beef potatoes, onions, and a field of peas over the top. Truly, it's mostly peas. Oops. Lots of peas.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I'm Rigby, an author/ttrpg designer interested in the strange, fantastic and embodied. My work is mostly with Pathfinder and Starfinder, where I've specialized in adventures. The third volume of Mechageddon is my baby, but I've worked on everything from ancestries to subsystems!

A mock up of Mechageddon!, a Starfinder adventure path. The cover shows a mech swinging a weapon down toward a kaiju.

The cover of Claws of the Tyrant, as Pathfinder adventure. A paladin stands on the center of the scene, with an image of the Whispering Tyrant appear ghost-like on the side of the scene.

The cover Spore War: A Voice in the Blight. It depicts the elven queen Telandia holding a staff.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

If I didn't have to take my cat to the vet this month, I would be SO tempted.

Screenshot of an listing for a thriftbooks tote bag. It's designed like the bright green mailers that thriftbooks uses. It's very distinctive looking and would let me info dump about thriftbooks regularly.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Okay with a lil bit of workshopping...

L in the Chat <:Reaction:807312541818683453> **Trigger** You critically fail a Diplomacy check to Make a Request to touch that W gyat; **Effect** You appeal to chat, who spams L in the chat in commiseration. You receive the results of a failure instead of a critical failure.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

hello fellow teens. have you heard about starfinder?

a snippet formatted like a pathfinder 2e character stat block for the ohio rizzler. the only work yet done is giving it the unique medium and fey stats. will the children flock to it? will they not? only time will tell

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

How it started v how it's going

a black journal with the silver words 'the thirteenth hour' next to hardcover copy of the Starfinder Mechageddon adventure path

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I use translucent sticky notes for keeping track of errata in my rulebooks as well - honestly, these tools have been game changers.

The alchemist class from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. A translucent sticky note at the top of the page highlights known errata.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

I love these index highlighter tabs for prepping ttrpg adventures. I feel a little worried about highlighting in books, so this is good middle ground. I can remove the highlights when I'm done! This is me prepping Mechageddon for the Starfinder RPG.

A page of text and a set of index highlighter pop tabs. A set of the yellow highlighters tabs have been used to emphasize parts of the text.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

WOW, the packaging for In the Belly (by Emmett Nahil, published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social) is so nice. Felt like receiving a press package! Can wait to dig in.

A red cardboard box with the words "New Weird Horror" and "Tenebrous" surrounding an elaborate ink illustration that features anatomical drawings of humans and quite a few squids.

A copy of From the Belly in the box from the previous picture. An assortment of prints, stickers, bookmarks and a pin are displayed to the left of the book.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

May I present my case: why YOU should play Mechageddon, the final Starfinder Adventure Path. I wrote volume 3 (of 3) and I need people to play this so I can talk about what I wrote!!!!!!

"You should play Mechageddon!" is written over a firey burst. It includes such comments SF1E's Magnum Open, Mechs v Kaiju, Generations-Long Conflict, Third Act Reveals I'm Dying to Talk about, Literally, Let me Talk about the evils of capitalism and the complexity of having a body, relationship-focused and tiny text that says "mommy issues lesbian". The cover for Mechageddon is on the right, which has a sick red mech jumping down at a kaiju.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

At least on desktop, Pathbuilder has an "Actions" tab that you can filter for just that use.

A screenshot of Pathbuilder showing off the "Actions" tab and its filter ability.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Finally about to hit book 3!

A copy of Hurricane's Howl by Michelle Jones on a black table. Highlighters surround the book, showing that it's about to be read and dissected to actually be played.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

My final recommendation: If you want a queer space opera that has explicitly LGBTQIA relationships and is VERY interested in character relationships as a driving force for the plot, I loved Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.

The Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. A white, blond woman in a military uniform stands in the open doorway of a set of golden doors. A planet shines from behind the doors.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Second: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. This book was so good it redefined what a "5 star" read means to me. Epic fantasy, but focusing on ordinary people caught up in the flow of legends (which feels very WicDiv to me!). The writing is beautiful.

The cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. It is a blue and green cover with two men fighting in the center. There's a cutout of a hand, leaves, and other vaguely abstract designs.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Okay, so! Three recommendations. First up: I haven't read it, but Die by Kieron Gillen + Stepanie Hans. It's another Kieron Gillen-written graphic novel about adults being transported to their teen tabletop campaign, a la goth jumangi. You can read the first issue here: imagecomics.com/read/die

The Image Comics webpage for Die Vol 1 (Link is https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/die-vol-1-fantasy-heartbreaker-tp). The cover is a geometric cutout showing the main cast of characters from a fantasy setting over a cityscape.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Mechageddon! comes out in May as Starfinder 1st Edition's last adventure path. The mech pilots on Daimalko take on the colossi that wander the planet. It's rad as hell - anyone who likes to think about the fragility of bodies, celebrities during war, or big stompy robots should check it out!

The cover of Starfinder's Mechageddon! adventure path. A large red mech swings a two-handed blade down on a kaiju while combat rages in the background.

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