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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/07/2026

I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”  I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.

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A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout

Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

happy (belated) doppeldäy (03 april) to the ever-growing doppelgäng (my friends who share my birthday)

meet the artist
dani (scareoset)
28; she/they; aries sun, cancer moon, taurus rising
angel of yuri, number one horse hater, queer gothic scholar, lesbian vampire expert, cringe girlfailure incarnate
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scareoset.itch.io
@scareoset
the background is a repeating tile of the chinese word for horse: 馬 (mǎ)

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Lady Andrea, Vampire Lord @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

reminder that posting on social media is not "activism". if you people really want to support trans women you need to become dark knights clad entirely in black and crimson armor and take oaths of fealty and pledge your mortal blood to me. girl's gotta eat

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i miss the panera death lemonade

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the treachery of "the treachery of images"

"the treachery of images" is a painting by René Magritte. it features a pipe and the text "ceci n'est pas une pipe" [english translation: "this is not a pipe"]. this painting is presented on a white slide with text annotations that read: "not a pipe!", "you thought this was a pipe but actually it's a *picture of a pipe*!", and "lmao get wrecked, nerd!"

the previous slide now has an overlay with the text "you just got prank'd"

"the treachery of images" is presented on a white slide. beneath it is the text "this is not a painting of a pipe."

"the treachery of images" is presented on a white slide. overlaid is text that fills the whole slide that reads: "this is not a painting of a pipe. this is a picture of a painting of a pipe."

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

doodles from a quiet evening shift at my retail job

miscellaneous overlapping sketches and doodles in black ink and in red ink (i was working a quiet shift at my retail job)

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

These games have been nominated for Best Student Game: @echolane.bsky.social’s BubbleBeast DigiDungeon @jackmorehart.bsky.social’s Kiloton Micah Boursier and Whalefall’s Poco @herdek.bsky.social’s Prší Syphon Software’s Sip Fisher @pesiidom.bsky.social’s SPRKLS.exe

A collage of the IGF Best Student Game Nominees, listed above.

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Studio T12 @studiot12.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Log 1....is this on? Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games! Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW! studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe... #indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel #gamedev #gamedevelopment

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:

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Breaking Water - Reactor

Krishna is quite unsettled when he bumps into a woman's corpse during his morning bath in Kolkata's Hooghly River, yet declines to do anything about it--after all, why should he take responsibility fo...

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Jordan Minor @jordanwminor.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, my book, is one of the best video game history books around linktr.ee/jordanwminor

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 22/07/2025

It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you

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lesbian al-gaib 🇵🇸 @unethicalcoffee.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

hi folks 👋🏽 i'm Sara (they/she), an angry brown dyke writing political analysis of media, mostly games. my latest video, which i'd love you to watch, is "Navigating Palestine in Assassin's Creed" 🇵🇸 check my articles here: muckrack.com/sara-khan-9 & video essays here: youtube.com/@gameassist?...

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

visdev 2 part 1/2 i wanted to focus on simple geometric designs that were inspired by the both Bauhaus design and the fascist Italian Futurist movement's ideals of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry. i needed to create simple building blocks that felt more fluid and dynamic than squares

Design Methodology (1).

a single square with an arrow pointing from it to a 3x3 grid of squares

Design Methodology (2).

the nine squares of the 3x3 grid have been spaced out and a tenth square has been added underneath them
an arrow points from this formation to a modified version of these squares where any corners on the outside are rounded.

Design Methodology (3).

individual rounded square pieces from the previous slide are now being merged and/or divided to create second- and third-order composite shapes that are still relatively simple

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/07/2025

Fantasies of Nuremberg On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU

thumbnail of youtube video. Hermann Goring with "to hang" written over his eyes," red background

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

thinking about the right to revolt and what happens when the State refuses to protect the rights of the People and instead prioritizes the wishes of Oligarchs and Tyrants.

'...when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their ***duty***, to throw off such Government."

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Personally I think reading old books ('classics' or not) is good, actually, as is reading new books, and you can and should read both, and not make a virtue out of not reading one or the other. Art is contiguous with history, and readers/writers should have an awareness of what came before.

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Strzyga, Flesh Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 10/08/2025

Hey btw you can hire me to do layout on magazines and rpgs. Here is just a small collection of my works. More examples in the thread to come.

A mockup of a trifold pamphlet with a bold yellow black and red cover with an industrial look about it.

A spread displaying a piece timeline of events as well as descriptions of locations formatted to look like posts on a social media site.

A incredibly dingy looking map and key, it looks as if it was scapbooked together with typewriter texts and torn paper

A bombastic page showing bright red distorted hexagons and text describing locations

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

yay here is something very cool i can finally announce!! i’m part of a book project that explores liminal spaces in popular culture, especially horror. the book is a collection of essays. i’m talking about video games! it’s currently only being teased on instagram www.instagram.com/p/DM75ojjtlf...

a screenshot of 1428’s instagram page showing a screenshot of PT and announcing my chapter.

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NettaKnight @nettaknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hades style Harrow, maybe I'll do some more of these. #tlt #harrowhark #harrow #thelockedtomb #fanart

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

i'm working on a prototype of a game about corporate horror, fascism, and bureaucracy. here's some preliminary visual direction and style guide documentation

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Cara Cadaver <3 @dirtlord77.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

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Rosa 🍊 @purecelain.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Now on bluesky: the ✨game design wiki✨! It includes: 🌱 The career progression of a game designer 💼 How to hunt for game design jobs 💡 Detailed run through of the game design process 🖼️ Many handy resources And more! rosacarbo.notion.site/Game-design-...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Available to download for free, Full Spectrum Resistance is the radical’s guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize against the fascist creep and fight against the increasingly militarized industry of repression. sevenstories.com/blogs/377-fr...

FULL SPECTRUM RESISTANCE
FREE EBOOKS
VISIT SEVENSTORIES.COM TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPIES

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

got called a “yuri angel” today at my bookstore job because i was determined to get yuri in the hands of the people

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

here’s a small curation of games that exist outside the urge to be understood. “Digital art: I want to be confused. I don’t want to understand. I want to see something for the first time again. Rarely a game does that, and when it does it’s a precious thing.” www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/not...

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Not Quite A Game (Games that go beyond the need to be understood) – The Candybox Blog

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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

"Your life should not be a museum." "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."

An image of three screenshotted tweets. The original from user @hell_doe: "Thinking about the girl who bought me coffee from Texas and joked that I would have to ration it out for special occasions. My friend, I do not save my good things. Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."

User Mike Hamilton, RIV tweeted a screenshot of the original tweet to say: "being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" fundamentally altered my brain."

User Oliver Darkshire quote tweeted Hamilton to say, "Ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but "my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died and I don't want this stuff" has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum."

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 01/05/2025

✨ 1000xRESIST is the WINNER of a PEABODY AWARD ✨ This is an honour of a lifetime. We took a lot of risks in the storytelling and we are so proud to be recognized. We are still digesting this. We cannot believe it... HEKKI GRACE EVERYONE 🥹

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 16/04/2025

"[...] code [is] 90% logical reasoning [...]" "basically drawing a flowchart in your head" my head:

a flowchart labeled "programming". the flow is "computers" → "bad"

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

apropos of nothing, I think the two journalists who reviewed the video game about wizards and said that you could be an ally and still buy it have a lot to answer for docseuss.medium.com/if-you-say-y...

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if you say you know something’s bad and do it anyways, are you a good person?

Alright, here’s a quick hypothetical for you.

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Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hey there, it's time for a #TTRPGintro! We're Dinoberry Press, the dynamic duo of Jam and Nevyn, two game designers & artists based out of Texas. Together we make games inspired by the stuff we love with a focus on fostering creativity in all its forms. You can find our stuff at dinoberrypress.com

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Dinoberry Press

Dinoberry Press is a queer-owned business that focuses on developing, designing, and publishing tabletop role playing games inspired by the stuff they love.

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Ángel 🦠 @plutomaris.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

just remembered this. I think everyone needs needs needs read this in the age of AI and become intimately aware of the link between the obsession of aesthetics and fascism

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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

As ladies act to secure their futures in the countryside of Regency England, love is a luxury some cannot afford. #Aldsworth1811 is a no-prep, GMless #TTRPG by @tenpenjenn.com. The game uses the #DesperationRPG engine, created by @jmstar.bsky.social and waiting for you!

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Aldsworth, 1811 by Jenn Martin

a no-prep, GMless roleplaying game of duty & desire

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

love this rubric

Evaluation rubric
Work will be evaluated according to the following criteria: compliance, gregariousness, and stubbornness.

An assignment is compliant if it meets the brief.
An assignment is gregarious if it makes connections between course content and the rest of the world; e.g. your own interests as an artist, designer, technologist, etc. and/or other fields of research and practice.
An assignment is stubborn if it provides evidence that its maker was opinionated about what they wanted to accomplish and did not let small setbacks (whether conceptual or technical) deter them this end.
Each assignment will be assigned a score of 0, 1 or 2 in these categories, in accordance with the extent to which the assignment demonstrates the properties described.

0: No evidence of quality
1: Meets expectations
2: Shows exceptional effort
Each category will be weighted equally when assigning a final score to each assignment.

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janel ⚔ @janeljpg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

4. turali travel agency 🐳

painting i did of the turali travel agency in from ffxiv's dawntrail

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Ale @alepresser.com · 31/03/2025

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

came across this video on my youtube home page and i’m still watching but Expy says that some people agreed with O’Hara and that was surprising to me because he is so clearly wrong; the movie even thinks he’s wrong

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Miguel O'Hara Was Never Right

YouTube video by Expy

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sisi jiang @six6jiang.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

remember that things are bad but you’re also able to talk to more gay people online than at any other time in human history and i think that’s beautiful

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dani >:3 @scareoset.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

cw: animal death my bookstore coworker/boss, max the cat, passed away last week and i am devastated

max the cat staring straight into your soul

max the cat looking for pastries (but this time he’s on the ground)

max the cat hiding in a nook under a counter and sleeping on an employee’s jacket

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janel ⚔ @janeljpg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

3. urqopacha 🦙

painting i did of urqopacha from ffxiv. you can see mablu riding an alpaca and worqor zormor in the distance.

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janel ⚔ @janeljpg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

2. xbalyav ty'e 🌮

a painting i did of xbalyav ty'e in tuliyollal from ffxiv. you can see wuk lamat, krile, and erenville seated at a table

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