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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

oh yeah i published the first chapter of this! i’m pretty excited about where it’s going, so go check it out if u like scemma or my vision of noir ❤️ archiveofourown.org/works/90823521

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

look i understand that genre is malleable and neo-noir has existed for decades but i hate when i open up a piece of “noir” fiction and it’s just gritty hardboiled crime/gangster fiction. is it too much to ask for some elegance. some restraint. some hays code compliant erotic vibes.

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jess @jessfrom.online · 22/08/2026

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty ttrpg editor: here you refer to the cup as half full, but in the next chapter, you refer to it as half empty. for clarity, we should standardize on one of them in the rules text, even if players might use both descriptions at the tabl

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ok, i’m finally at a point where all the pieces are in place and i just have to finish the writing process. so! coming soon: the final dream, a noir x-men fic. private detective emma frost is hired by scott summers to solve the murder of his mentor, charles xavier. mystery and melodrama ensue.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's Time For The Left To Have A Conversation That Has Already Happened Multiple Times But I Didn't Care Then

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

started new x-men vol 2 last night & it’s killing me that their super scary street drug is a literal hfa inhaler called “hypercortisone”. like, that is an inhaled corticosteroid. an asthma medication. it’s not gonna ruin ur life it’s gonna give u oral candidiasis if u don’t swish & spit.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

btw i’m happy to take comic recs, with the caveat that i am weird and picky and definitely not actually built to be a comic reader so u can’t take it personally if i don’t like or ignore it.

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some news: I'm starting a blog dedicated to critical writing about Actual Play! It's called Critical Bearings, and my first post is up. I talk about my relationship to criticism, AP, the shape of current critical landscapes in Actual Play, and my hopes for this project. :)

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Getting Our Critical Bearings

Welcome to Critical Bearings, a place for critical engagement with the art form of Actual Play. I’m Esther, and I love Actual Play and media criticism. My relationship with criticism began to take sh...

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

kinda funny how good of an employee i am. like, i wasn’t expecting that either

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The One Day A Year It’s Legal To Mention An Indie Game On r/rpg

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

in my continued comics speedrun, i have started watchmen. um i think moore was maybe kinda cooking a little bit with this one guys.

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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hey friends, the Dark Ages playtest by myself and @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social is now live on my itch page. You are invited to download it for free and play it. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/dark-ages

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Dark Ages by Seven Crows Games

A post-apocalyptic, historical fantasy game of personal ambition, community strife, rights claimed and rights denied.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

finished e is for extinction! the problem with comics is too many fucking things are happening all at once and i want 5k words of emma grieving genosha. it does feel like morrison has the same issues with the dark phoenix saga as i do and i’m looking forward to seeing how their jean develops.

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James D'Amato @oneshotrpg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I don't feel the need to note it often, but One Shot predates Critical Role by almost two years and The Adventure Zone by just one. I say this merely to emphasize the show about touring hundreds of indie games was popular and successful before the most prominent D&D shows even began.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the worst part about getting into superhero stuff again is seeing power-scaling bullshit. it feels like a stain upon my soul. i hate it with a religious conviction. i would join some sort of temperance-style anti-power-scaling movement.

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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Media Club Plus is back, this time covering episodes 7 and 8 of The Sopranos. It's flashback time, baby!!! mediaclub.plus/the-regularn...

A young Livia Soprano threatens someone offscreen with a serving fork.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

today i’ve been reading new x-men! um. mixed bag so far. some interesting mutant metaphor things, and also some shit that probably sucks. but i love emma frost so bad.

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Moonshot Podcast Network @moonshotpods.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This month, we begin a labor of love: We're rewriting Star Wars. Every trilogy. As an exquisite corpse. Each movie has its own writing team, who get to keep, cut, or add whatever they want. Their choices become the next team's foundations. Welcome to the first ever REWRITE RELAY on moonshot.mov!

an ms paint style poster
STAR WARS: REWRITE RELAY
This time we nail it

(a little picture of either yoda or baby yoda saying "they're going to kill me :()

I August 10th | 7:30 EST 6:30 CST
II August 21st | 9:30 EST/8:30 CST
III August 25th | 8:30 EST/7:30 CST
IV September 3rd | 7:30 EST/6:30 CST
V September 9th | 9 EST/ 8 CST

More to come

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

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The Illegal Fanfiction Death Games Of 2011

YouTube video by Sarah Z

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

huge for me bc in 2011 i helped a friend write her syot fic. it’s gone forever now & all i remember is we were VERY proud of the humor (?) & it was gonna end with a proto-rebellion which the capitol makes everyone forget & sends the rebel tributes to districts 11 & 12 to become katniss, peeta & rue

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

today i’m rereading fraction’s hawkeye 😊 one issue in i’m like yeah ofc this is the one comic that stuck with me from my time in 2014-15 marvel fandom (along with young avengers ofc)

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

continuing riley’s adventures in reading the comics my dad’s friend gave my brother for his bar mitzvah: i liked batman year one a lot! still don’t really care for batman/gotham tho.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

it’s cool how christopher nolan is trying to court me specifically fsr with his last two movies being “jewish communist scientists in the 1940s” and “greek mythology starring matt damon”. excited to see if he makes the hat trick.

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Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · 31/07/2026

If you're interested in 2 TTRPGs 🎲 that: - Use bespoke mechanics actually suited to tell Star Wars-style stories - Are made by indie creators instead of WotC - Are award-winning games - Don't require a GM WOW do we have the exact Kickstarter for you: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

Galactic & Going Rogue Late Pledging on Kickstarter, with art of a bunch of rebels in space

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jess @jessfrom.online · 31/07/2026

what @shoebill.moe's incredibly kind words here aren't talking up is how drop-dead gorgeous HIS art for the upcoming book is. it's been UNBELIEVABLY cool to see these characters come to life in such beautiful detail. see see more of it on the Kickstarter here! 🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

a woman in robes meditating as two people look on

a woman pointing a blaster at an upset man

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

read kingdom come by mark waid and alex ross today and i think it maybe gave me the ick for all of superhero comics a little bit. i think it’s made me think less of the medium as a whole. lowkey.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

why did no one tell me that apparently the new minions movie places film’s transition to sound (1927) BEFORE the passage of the 19th amendment (1920)??????

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

i’m not totally out of the woods yet but i have a story i feel pretty good about and it’s kinda neat that my strategy was basically “outline a way too complex plot based on all the ideas i have, then narrow it down to the most essential beats and come up with a new outline based on just those”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hey, look, Mamdani speaks for Americans while his many critics… do not.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

say what you will about supergirl (2026), this did happen

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 24/07/2026

I thought this was a pretty interesting take from Codeberg's announcement of their anti-LLM policy They argue that many developers using LLMs are essentially heaven-banning themselves where they don't realize they're developing for a nonexistent community

# The development team of none

Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code.

It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don't realize that they don't actually have a community around them. They build projects as if they had, and spend resources accordingly. We see projects having a lot of code activity, heavy CI/CD testing, frequent and large release binaries. Sometimes, it feels like the amount of supported platforms exceeds the amount of actual users.

To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg, which operate frugal with CI/CD and storage resources. We do not believe it is reasonable for Codeberg to invest our precious donation money into hosting of large ghost projects.

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Hot Pink Bitch Named Breakfast @daingertmadelyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

everyone is bringing up very solid critiques of the utility of this script and i'm here to repeat "why would you make X the most boring nothing character in your X-MEN LANGUAGE"

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

spent all day thinking about this godawful writing system from an x-men comic. just spend like 5 seconds imagining trying to hand write with it, i implore you

a chart showing the letters in the krakoan alphabet. every letter has like 5 different lines and there’s both square and circle dots.

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

it’s so annoying that ever since the war, the tsa (trojan security administration) makes you empty your horse before you’re let inside

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

people always say “i thought i knew everything when i was a teenager” and that’s crazy to me. is this a situation where i’m taking it too literally or did i just have way more perspective than the average teen? ok actually i bet i did but still

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i’ve been working on a fic lately that actually requires formulating a Plot (it’s a noir au, so it’s got a murder mystery) and i truly don’t know how anyone has written one of these ever this is so fucking hard

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Friends at the Table @friends-table.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Enter to win one of four copies of our special edition Marielda soundtrack! One drawing will happen at the end of the stream tonight, while the other three will be announced on August 14th! tinyurl.com/winmarielda

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Marielda 10th Anniversary Vinyl Giveaway

As part of our celebration of Marielda's 10th Anniversary, we're giving away four copies of our extra special anniversary vinyl edition of its soundtrack, illustrated by Elemei from a concept by Annie...

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

<—— girl who has to work on her birthday (today is my birthday)

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have a book coming out later this year! Roll on charts, do jobs, live life, write stories, and do all that other interesting stuff that happens before the first day of your fantasy adventure (and if it sells enough we'll do a sci fi one). Preorder now!

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“the studio” is a ridiculously fun show about hollywood inside baseball with one episode that tries to imagine what non-film people think of the industry and completely fumbles the ball

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

there is an epidemic in our era of people thinking noir is from the 1930s

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy #FreeRPGDay! QUICK QUICK GET THIS FREE STUFF BEFORE SOMEONE SEES STEAL EVERY QUICKSTART THAT ISNT BOLTED DOWN 🧵

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/06/2026

FUN MOVIE FACT: your eyes did not deceive you if thought a key location from MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003) looked familiar! It's appeared in many classic Hollywood films for decades. True fans of cinema recognize it immediately as: "The Ocean."

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riley rethal @rileyrethal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

it’s actually kind of incredible how every jean/scott moment i see that’s supposed to be romantic is the reddest flag ever flown

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

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