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Alex Kelly

@voyager3.bsky.social
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Theatre & games maker with Voyager 3. 'The Thin Places' touring autumn 2026. Previously: Co-AD of Third Angel. Espresso drinker. Reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds School of Arts.

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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really looking forward to Open Works Festival at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social next couple of weeks. I'll be trying out my new show The Thin Places in the work-in-progress strand: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/the-t...
The Thin Places at Open Works Theatre Festival Fri 9 Oct - text over a photo of hand drawn 'standee' icons: Balmoral Castle, a Mermaid, a Dagger.Sheffield Theatres' OPEN WORKS 26 typographic logo in blue and yellow.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 26/09/2026
Friends - we are soft launching our It’s a Superpower?? season 2 Crowdfunder on here before we release it into the wild next week so our most dedicated listeners have a chance to make us look a lil popular first. If you have the means, we can’t overstate how helpful your pledges are.
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It's a Superpower?? Season Two
To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really looking forward to Open Works Festival at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social next couple of weeks. I'll be trying out my new show The Thin Places in the work-in-progress strand: www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/the-t...
The Thin Places at Open Works Theatre Festival Fri 9 Oct - text over a photo of hand drawn 'standee' icons: Balmoral Castle, a Mermaid, a Dagger.Sheffield Theatres' OPEN WORKS 26 typographic logo in blue and yellow.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This article opens by saying there's a 'surging demand' for 'diagnoses of neurodiversity'. I'm sorry to inform you the neurodiversity rate amongst the population is 100%. What you probably meant was 'neurodivergence'. This is not just me being pedantic... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Very much enjoyed Scarred for Life Folk Horror Special with @scarredforlife.bsky.social @bobfischer.bsky.social at Strange Days Festival.
Two performers in 70s garb on stage either side of a projection of the covers of the three Scarred For Life books.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Btw, I'm offering a service for bands/musicians, creating TTRPGs based on their music. Great for promo material. Would be awesome if you could spread the word
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Simon @adieuanamcara.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New from Ari Berkowitz Prof of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. The UK Supreme Court got it badly wrong. Biological sex is NOT binary but multidimensional… theconversation.com/biological-s...
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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 19/08/2026
Judging by my timeline we much prefer this documentary thedailytism.com/podcasts/its...
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Podcast: It's a Superpower??
It’s a Superpower?? is the first sitcom made by a team of autistic creatives for an autistic audience. The show follows Norah, Pix, Wilder, Sophie and Bums – five autistic people who meet at an autism...
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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 1979, a woman named Martine Rose bought a run-down terraced house in Walkley, #Sheffield. It had no electricity or running water. For the next two and a half decades, that ordinary terrace was one of the first dedicated safe spaces for trans people anywhere in the UK. ✍️ Naomi Abel-Hirsch #Trans
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A safe house in Walkley: writing Rose's House back into Sheffield's queer history
Naomi Abel-Hirsch is the director of Rose's House, a short documentary that premiered at Sheffield DocFest in June. Here, she tells the story of a forgotten corner of the city's queer past.
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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You can pick up a copy of my solo game Lie To Him from the stand, alongside loads of other indie games from brilliant creators!
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the sad reality of so many small businesses now. While billionaires are propped up, red tape and surmounting costs are only hurting indies.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
London pals. Some of my just-graduated students are bringing shows to @thehopetheatre.bsky.social in August. I was lucky enough to get to mentor both of these shows - really beautiful, distinctive works of new writing: IF NOT TOMORROW (13-14th) & THE BRIDALIA WITCHES (14-16th)... 1/3
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
General reminder to anyone working at a digital company: If you cold call or try to schedule a meeting with the Head of Digital at a UK university two weeks before A Level results day, then I am NEVER buying your product or service. As you've clearly not bothered learning when UK HE is busiest.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Theatre, Folklore and TTRPG pals... Voyager 3's THE THIN PLACES, is part of @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social's Open Works Festival on 9 October. 'A conversational storytelling show exploring folklore and the stories hidden in the landscape around us.': www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/the-t...
Five hand-drawn 'standee' icons: a stags head, two ivy-bound trees forming the letter H, a mermaid, an iron dagger, a tower in Balmoral Castle.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Theatre, Folklore and TTRPG pals... Voyager 3's THE THIN PLACES, is part of @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social's Open Works Festival on 9 October. 'A conversational storytelling show exploring folklore and the stories hidden in the landscape around us.': www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/the-t...
Five hand-drawn 'standee' icons: a stags head, two ivy-bound trees forming the letter H, a mermaid, an iron dagger, a tower in Balmoral Castle.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
But of course, read the whole thread. Grateful for Cory Doctorow, and grateful he writes about Silicon Valley with a flamethrower....
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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote
 

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George R.R. Martin
“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”

― George R.R. Martin
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M.R. James’ The Mattzotint 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Imagine writing the sentence “Amnesty International is on the side of the persecutors” with a straight face.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is a fundraiser supporting displaced families in Beirut, recommended by Lebanese friends working in Beirut: chuffed.org/project/1778...
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Emergency aid for Lebanon
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My Vaesen mystery, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Christmas in July sale... The Society is contacted by a young businessman who is suspicious that everything is his life is going so well... tools.drivethrurpg.com/product/5262...
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Vaesen: The Man Who Was Too Lucky - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG.com
The Society receive an enigmatic Invitation from a wealthy young businessman in the village of Olsnäs on the shores of
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Posted again with alt text, apologies.
Please don't run my characters through Al, or put my work anywhere near it. This year especially I've seen a LOT of Al Bunny Vs Monkey characters being used without permission to promote businesses, events, and absolutely worst of all, child literacy schemes.
I've worked hard to make the things I make, and so it's pretty disrespectful for others to then mangle those things through the half-arsed machines.
Children deserve characters and stories from the heart, hand crafted by humans. I believe this so deeply. Please support artists.
(I have a lot more opinions about Al and the devastating effect it is already having on artists, especially the next generation, but this is a small space, so for now thanks for listening)
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This movie rules
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm visiting the Isle of Mull this week, hosted by the brilliant @atandmt.bsky.social, researching for my Thin Places project. I'm sharing some stories from the show on Wednesday afternoon: www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/whats-on/0zb...
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Thin Places: A Theatre Research Workshop — An Tobar and Mull Theatre
Want to contribute to new work? A free one-hour workshop exploring folklore, place, and the meanings that connect them. The Thin Places  is an intimate storytelling performance exploring the f...
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm looking forward to talking about playable theatre and my make-a-show-in-a-day devising kit/game, The Investigations, at the Digital Innovation & Storytelling Network conference in Leeds this week. It's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-st...?
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Digital Storytelling and Innovation Network (DSIN) 2026 Conference (2&3/07)
A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring contemporary storytelling through interdisciplinary practices, and emerging technologies.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
National reviews of healthcare for trans children have been conducted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan, Holland and the state of Utah. None of them have concluded that gender-affirming healthcare should be banned. Cass is a total outlier.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm looking forward to talking about playable theatre and my make-a-show-in-a-day devising kit/game, The Investigations, at the Digital Innovation & Storytelling Network conference in Leeds this week. It's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-st...?
eventbrite.co.uk
Digital Storytelling and Innovation Network (DSIN) 2026 Conference (2&3/07)
A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring contemporary storytelling through interdisciplinary practices, and emerging technologies.
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Carsten Schmitt @carstenschmitt.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Can you help a brother out? UK TTRPG fandom: I‘m looking to get in touch with the makers of „Tortured Souls“ magazine for a gaming history project. Any help or signal boost much appreciated. 🙏 @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social @wyrdscience.bsky.social @dailydwarf.eurosky.social
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What John said.
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Some interesting questions for the EHRC… translucent.org.uk/translucent-...
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TransLucent Letter to the EHRC dated June 14th 2026
TransLucent Letter to the EHRC dated June 14th 2026
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Lizi Patch @lizipatch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
See also: direct young people’s theatre and move on to ‘professional’ theatre. When you can deliver a professionally made show, on time, with a cast of 60, rehearsing for 2 hours a week you can DEFINITELY rehearse with circa 4 paid actors, full time, for 4 weeks with a full time production team 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'll be talking about my Thin Places project at Between Now & Then: Performing Archives at @rxtheatre.bsky.social in Manchester, next Tuesday. It's free to attend, and a great range of talks, presentations and performances: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/between-th...
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Between Then and Now: Performing Archives
The conference will interrogate the role of the archive in shaping, capturing, echoing, and contextualising performance.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The prize for being the richest person in the world at the end of each calendar year should be 100% confiscation of all assets and living out the rest of your life in a dungeon. Good healthy reverse-incentive.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Anyway if you want to read the full statement without the bigotry in the comments section, its here - www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quaker response to draft guidance around definition of sex
Quakers in Britain statement on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft code of practice around the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act, which is currently bef...
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some of this week’s work: three Scottish thin places marked on the map.
Three hand-drawn ‘standees’ that are, I like to think, like the Dr Who cutouts from boxes of Weetabix when I was a kid. These three show the tower of Balmoral, a mermaid and an iron dagger, standing on a map of Scotland.
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Alex Kelly @voyager3.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’m in residency at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social this week, developing my new project The Thin Places. I brought some of my research reading pile in with me…
A collection of books related to folklore in general and thin places in particular. Some of them read, some of them ‘next on the list’.
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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
3. Art is process, not product. You never stop acquiring technique, and you never stop deriving new ideas from new skill. Experienced artists are a living library, a resource of embodied know-how. If they have to stop working & teaching, that knowledge is lost, to the hobbyist as well as the pro.
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I have a big announcement: I'm leaving my corpo job to work full time on TTRPGs. A scary step but one I think will be worth it. So, from August I'm available to hire as a writer, editor, or marketing consultant (15 years in marketing). Here's how you can help...
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
More dystopia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Over 80 clinicians have signed a letter raising "serious concerns" about NHS England's recent evidence reviews of gender-affirming hormone therapy for trans youth. www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
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80+ experts slam NHS England's hormone therapy ban for trans youth
Over 80 clinicians have signed a letter raising "serious concerns" about NHS England's recent evidence reviews of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) for trans youth
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Patchwork Fez Games @patchworkfez.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm hosting a selection of horrible/weird games by other creators! Including: @whodo.bsky.social @planesailinggames.com @michellicopter.bsky.social @ratinasuit.bsky.social @rolistespod.itch.io @comradebubbles.bsky.social @rosspayton.bsky.social @lymerpg.bsky.social Grab your copies at stand 4-912!
A showcase of books in a tiered display stand. A pair of books – The Night Clerk, and Fear and Panic – with accompanying signage.
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Patchwork Fez Games @patchworkfez.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to post, but I'm at the UK Games Expo! Come visit me on stand 4-912 (in hall 4, between Games Workshop and the ice cream van)! I've got TERMINUS, Darkened Hill & Dale, artwork, plus a bunch of the original TERMINUS artwork on display! Also...
It's me – wearing a red dress and black corset – waving at the camera from behind my stand at the UK Games Expo. There's a lot going on in the picture, but books, artwork, and a tall flag are visible.
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Rapswell @rapswell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I wish more people understood the nature of our current dilemma and that the conversation around the situation we’re facing was framed in the context that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social outlines here
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SFMuse @sfmuse.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
God if everyone had just listened to Sarah in 2015, 2016, 2017, and especially 2021, we would not be in this mess. Things she described ten years ago are occurring regularly now.
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Later this year I'll be offering affordable 1-1 video consultancy for ttrpg design. Whether you need to brainstorm new ideas, figure out mechanics or need help getting it seen at launch. If you would like to register your interest DM me 💌
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