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This Vorpal Coil

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Was describing herself as a living doll before doll fiction was a whole thing. Author of fiction and tabletop RPGs. linktr.ee/vorpalcoil

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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 23h
Spice melange got me posting in mirabhasa placative mode
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After an extended bout of insomnia, getting a few decent nights of sleep unlocks an extra, secret hour of the day you forgot existed.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Master origami architects build elaborate looming edifices of folded paper, almost weightless yet standing with precisely balanced tensegrity poise. Each one a unique creation that droops and tumbles when the rain and wind come.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Solar System is encased in the Grand Orrery, a megastructure of translucent gluonic metamaterial spheres around each planet. The Orrery simplifies maintaining terraformed environments and allows interplanetary travel by magnetic rail network.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accidentally saw an ad for an AI boyfriend app vibecoded by Satan himself. It was so precision engineered to extract infinite money from lonely women that I couldn't even be mad, just impressed at its hellwrought craftsmanship.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite the replacement of priests with therapists, we've yet to synthesize a secular replacement for saints. We have heroes, but only scattered examples of celebrities known for virtue and sacrifice. Someone should work on that.
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leo 🦈 @darlingthresher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we could hit 400 before the end of the month. it could happen... you never know. tell ur friends. get perforated today
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dark Meditation Prompts • Don't sleep, stay awake until reality cracks open • Concentrate one-pointedly on your conspiracy theory • Auto-samadhic asphyxiation • Pure, focused hatred • Get in a car crash
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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Speaking of space games, SOLARCRAWL, my system-neutral campaign of "what if NASA did an OSR" is printed and on its way to backers! That means we can sell it to the rest of you all as well! Copies will soon be available from pandiongames.com/products/sol...
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Solarcrawl
Solarcrawl is currently in production. Once the Kickstarter campaign is fulfilled, the game will be for sale here. Click the "Notify Me" button to get an email when it is available! --- Our homeworld ...
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tardigrades have survived all five mass extinction events, because whenever things get rough they just curl up and sleep for a few decades. Aspire to be that unbothered.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Planar harmonics dictate that a heavier copy of our cosmos exists at a lower octave: identical in form, but so much more massive that we could not coexist with the humans living there. An octave above: an Earth as light as air, peopled by ephemeral sprites.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The real infohazard is the knowledge of what every human being on Earth is capable of. The human self esteem mechanism evolved in small tribes where you could be the best at something in your peer group, not for constant, excoriating exposure to the 0.001% upper limit of talent.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The great tower in the city's center generates a hyperbolic spacetime sinkhole effect around itself: if one enters the city from the outside, they can travel countless kilometers towards the center without reaching it, passing block after block as it remains on the horizon.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey, if you're reading this, I'm so proud of you. I know how hard you're working and how difficult existing is, but don't let it embitter you against the possibilities of the future. I love you so much, and I know you're going to do amazing things.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dead persist as brain scan upload shades in the computronium subterrane. Shades constitute the overwhelming majority of human minds, and must be placated as ancestral spirits by building shrine terminals that allow them to interface with the physical world above.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everything after the 1970s never existed: it is merely a steampunk-esque thought experiment of taking technology from that time period and extrapolating it into an imagined future. In truth, the singularity happened almost immediately after the invention of the computer.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When faced with a crisis, the unconscious extended phenotype of a species population will automatically generate a hero to allow them to operate on a higher scale: a legendary general, a great prophet, et cetera. For guinea pigs, this is the capybara.
Capybara hanging out with guinea pigs
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
May your sleeping mind rise into the ionospheric ELVES skywave dream layer.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have, from an early age, been fixated on the idea of sapient beings made to optimally perform a particular task and derive satisfaction from fulfilling that instrumental purpose. I can't stop writing stories about it. I ought to have been a machine rather than a human.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They should have ended The Odyssey at the lotus eating scene and released the rest of the movie seven years later.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I regret to inform everyone that they removed auto-jump from the Ocarina of Time remake and replaced it with a dedicated jump button. I for one will mourn it.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ethics has been solved, and the answer is more coral.
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
23 hours and counting in the KS campaign. Our first stretch goal is unlocked. Final countdown time. 2 new AaN anthologies + add books in our catalog as free shipping add-ons. 86% to SG2. Info - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... RP/QP #ks #kickstarter #booksky #sff #fsf
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Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies: One Campaign
Two Anthologies: "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings"
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I was struggling to write a science fiction novel set in the near future because from where I'm standing the "near future" looks to be a precipice between recognizable civilization and something already science fictional (either cyberpunk or post-apocalyptic) before I even add my novum.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think what causes the negative reaction to this is less the actual time passage (20 years is a pretty fair age for "retro") but rather that "retro" originally indicated the shift from 2D to 3D, whereas now there's no decisive technological break to give these consoles a justifyingly "retro" feel.
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Could use a KS surge win or two today - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526.... #ks #kickstarter #sff #fsf Help bring exposure to up and coming writers with the stretch goals. 8 campaign days left.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Things are happening in LitRPGs that the classical genre fiction mind cannot comprehend
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Author of Accidentally Legendary
[rant] Every "reborn as" book should have a baby on the cover art
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Every book of this genre shows a teen/adult dressed in WoW raiding gear and doing some kind of epic magic.

But the book is 400 pages of a baby meditating.

The cover is a lie. The only way it could not be a lie is if the baby part lasts ~4 chapters before time skipping to when the adult mind is matched with an adult body and is no longer super creepy.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Getting in to Georgian cuisine and realizing it's one of the most tragically ignored national food cultures in the world. A synthetic confluence of Middle Eastern and Eastern European styles that does amazing things with walnuts, grapes, and cheeses.
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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 14/08/2026
Some parts of this game may be considered
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There are people here so radicalized against "worldbuilding" and "lore" that they reflexively disdain a book having mysteries and dramatic reveals. I know you're traumatized by Youtube analysis video essays or whatever, but you're allowed to enjoy fiction on the level of plot.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's good practice to avoid immediately attributing an author's philosophical assertions to their personal tendencies, but when I read Lacan talking about jouissance or Bataille about the accursed share, I cannot help but think "oh, so that's how you experience being alive".
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"...this game is just too big. It's impractical. It's silly." — Quinns "I have no idea what people will make of this." — Kieron Gillen "Completely unpublishable." — [publisher name redacted] SEVEN PART PACT HAS 24 HOURS REMAINING 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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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The urges and sensations of sexual reproduction are well known, but what about asexual? Does mitosis feel like stretching out fully for the first time after living one's whole life in a box?
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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Woke up hungover after winning gold at The Ennies for Best Kiss. Anyway, here’s this month’s Explorateur. Only the freshest links from July. Two really fun reviews. My new favorite podcast. And three thoughts on layout from me in the upfront. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...
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The Explorateur: Issue #22
Monthly jams, critique, theory, and resources for rpg designers.
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giant robot tackler @giantrobottackler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@gamesrobin.com and i are coming at you live with our #appxnjam entry: The Gravity Plague! an adventure about monks ripping themselves apart to reach Heaven and failing utterly. made for cairn 2e. enjoy! ⛪ giantrobottackler.itch.io/the-gravity-...
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The Gravity Plague by giantrobottackler, Robin
unrepentant yearning for cairn 2e
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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...
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Honeybees is officially The Wax Marches - Alpha Playtest Live on Itch!
Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...
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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
An argument for human connection masquerading as a book review. valerialoves.com/why-didnt-si...
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Why Didn't Silent Titans Change the World?
Apprehension is worth the effort
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 28/07/2026
You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon
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Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Developing an indie video game about anthropomorphic cats and nuclear semiotics. For those who read my previous posts about Deep Time, this is the further evolution of that concept, a hymn of the Anthropocene.
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Ray Cats - This Vorpal Coil
In 1993, Sandia National Laboratories released a report addressing a problem that wouldn’t matter for thousands of years: once you’ve built a lead-lined nuclear waste disposal bunker, how do you convi...
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This novel is rapidly becoming "what if PKD wrote a cultivation story" and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing yet.
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Objects contribution for god's warehouse game
What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...
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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 19/07/2026
Voting for the ENNIE Awards ends some time today!! If you haven’t gotten around to it already, please head over to the website and vote for which nominees you want to win- and if you missed it, check out this thread where I present my case for why you should vote for me to be a judge next year!
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Windmills of Your Mind is a kinder, gentler version of Everywhere at the End of Time.
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In which I list some things about myself that even some close friends didn't know about.
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The Skye Epoch - This Vorpal Coil
A month ago marks the most recent rotation around the day of my birth. This means that today, you receive the knowledge of ten certified Rose Facts: Rose is more than three apples tall. Rose is a prim...
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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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elmcat @elmc.at · 11/07/2026
official update of rootring state elmc.at/rootring-mon...
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rootring months later
rootring has grown over the months. Here is what's new, what's changed and where it's going.
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
SPINE is nominated for Best Solo Game in this year's ENNIES, and voting is now live: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ Please help spread the word and consider giving it a vote. And if you haven't heard of SPINE, here is a thread. SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book... 🧵
You are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative… Image: Print copy of SPINE
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Making your own dungeon can feel intimidating, but it's just a series of discrete steps. To help make the joy of writing your own dungeon available for everyone, I wrote the Designing Dungeons Course. Please vote it #1 for BEST ONLINE CONTENT in this year's ENNIES! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/
Designing Dungeons Course: Or how to Kill a party in 30 Rooms of Less. Nominated for Best Online Content for the ENNIES: Tabletop RPG Awards. dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games.
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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 10/07/2026
Voting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/
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This Vorpal Coil @vorpalcoil.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Brain waves" almost sound like a science fiction thing but they're real - and in this post, I do science fiction things with them. The first post in a series, developing a psychic cultivation novel I'm calling "Godmind".
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Soul Frequency - This Vorpal Coil
In spite of the distinction typically drawn between flesh and machine, the human brain is, in fact, an electronic computer: it uses electrical impulses transmitted through logic gates (neurons) to pro...
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