iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I have just been destroyed by Daniel Mason’s North Woods, a book with so many things I love including the inevitable passage of time, the land and landscapes being essential to the story, maybe ghosts, yearning, beetles, a story told in many ways, yearning, trees, ugh it was great

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

i can't believe i share a birthday with spectres of brocken 🥹😂this game is fantastic and this edition looks so good!! the art! the layout! everything put together!

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

i simply am a fiend and will not stop adding bagoong to things i am sorry tiny shrimp but u are so tasty

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 27/10/2023

The Games for Gaza bundle is now live! It's 256 games (48 video games, 197 tabletop games, and more) from 140 different creators! All proceeds are going to the organization Medical Aid For Palestinians. My microgame of rebellion against empire, A Sunless Space, is included! itch.io/b/2120/games...

Screenshot of the Games for Gaza bundle page showing $1500 raised out of a $10,000 goal, 256 games from 140 creators, and a wide variety of game thumbnails.

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 18/10/2023

“Growth” but it’s just a TTRPG player making their favorite character more and more fucked up.

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Congratulations to me, my friends successfully hurt my feelings with my permission in our accidentally annual marathon in-person game of Once More Into the Void 😭😭I love to be sad and yearn

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inhumanist marxist hegelian maoist 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

The time has come. Raise the sails, sound the horns, bang the gongs! Glory awaits. It's time to sail the sky and seize heaven's thunderclaps! Gubat Banwa's KS is LIVE NOW!

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Gubat Banwa - Southeast Asian Fantasy Tactics RPG

The War Drama Martial Arts Tactics RPG set in the Sword Isles: a Fantasy setting inspired by the refulgent stories of Southeast Asia.

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

get ready for a new set of ttrpgs: GRAND GUIGNOL & HARVEST by the fantastic @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social — two historical horror games about monstrosity, community, and the Gothic www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Harvest and Grand Guignol
Two sketchy illustrations of a woman in a field with blood-red berries, and a woman collapsed on the ground. Underneath is the tagline:
A historical Horror Double-Feature about Monstrosity, Community, and the Gothic

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

help i have discovered that i enjoy putting mechanical keyboards together and don't even mind soldering... i do not need more keyboards... but i just... want to build them...

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

It is cold outside and I have sinigang, happy filipino american history month to me

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Between my big bad con game haul and storybrewers rpg’s fight with spirit arriving in the mail today… my game shelves are having a little cry 😂but I am so happy about all the cool things people make that I get to play

A haul of game zines and books on a floor!

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

I think Lotus… likes me? … maybe…

Maria looks at the camera from behind Lotus the cat who looks away

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Rina Sawayama confirmed as plane boarding bop: the line might be long but This Hell at least made it entertaining

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Music: downloaded! Things: in bag! (Is it all the things? Hopefully!) Three alarms: set! Questionable amount of sleep: about to be had! Tomorrow, we fly!

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

i do not want to sleep i want to stay up way too late writing little stories about my terrible little ttrpg characters for the like five? other people who will read them

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

It’s cool if I’m just listening to Hozier’s “Butchered Tongue” on repeat now, right? 😭

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Deeply, tragically, horrifically back in my mechanical keyboard obsession phase so now I am tormenting my partner by saying “I love a creamy thock”

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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

i have a short game in this zine! the theme of the issue is "negative space", which is such an amazing theme for game design and writing. mixed-success.itch.io/issue1 check it out!

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Mixed Success Issue#1: Negative Space by Mixed Success Magazine

First issue of Mixed Success, a literary magazine/gamejam hybrid.

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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Alright, the bundle has finally launched! The Blue Skies bundle is $20 for 50+ games from some of the finest creators here in the blue skies! We'll be advertising on here without the aid of X/Twitter, so I'm curious to see how it goes! itch.io/b/2007/blue-...

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Blue Skies Bundle by Urania Games and 53 others

Blue Skies Bundle: 53 items for $20.00

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Maria (she/they) @yayforbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

I’m rereading Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun and I thought I could be normal about Ouyang and Esen this time, but I can’t. What if I just make this complicated yearning everyone’s problem?

He put Esen's armor on the side table and took the fresh clothes from the clothes tree while Esen finished undressing. He came behind Esen to settle the garment on his shoulders. When his hands touched Esen's shoulders, the familiarity of that old gesture stunned him. After leaving behind his time as an attendant slave, Ouyang had only served Esen once again during his whole long rise from guard to commander to gen-eral. He remembered that time in flashes: Esen's surprise as he looked down to see his armor and flesh laid open by the spear.
How in the physician's ger, Esen's blood had coated Ouyang's hands as he struggled to strip the ruined armor off, not trusting anyone else to do it. He remembered his desperate urge to ease Esen's pain, as intense as if it were his own body bleeding. And even then, in the moment that their bodies had been joined in a kinship of suffering, a smaller part of Ouyang had remembered his fate.

for all that Ouyanf was a general of the Yuan, he didn't fight for the empire. His efforts had only ever been for Esen. He suddenly felt a deep longing to be back on campaign. Campaign was his and Esen's world, where the only things that mattered were the pride of carrying oneself honorably in battle, and the love and trust between warriors. The only place where Ouyang was ever happy.

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Kira Magrann @kiraserpentine.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Meg, @megueyb.bsky.social amazing game designer of several things but especially APOCALYPSE WORLD, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and this meal train is to help out through surgery recovery. Send some support please! mealtrain.com/lk908w

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Meal Train for The Baker Family

Meguey Baker was diagnosed with breast cancer on 7/17, with a surgery date of 8/30. She has lost one week of work so far due to appointments, and expects to be out of work for a couple weeks recoverin...

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TTRPG Safety Toolkit @ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com · 18/08/2023

The TTRPG Safety Toolkit has officially landed on Bluesky! This account will be used to post any updates to the toolkit, and to also share related toolkit work (e.g. interviews, articles, consultation projects) Website: ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com Google Drive: bit.ly/ttrpgsafetytoolkit

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TTRPG Safety Toolkit

The home for the TTRPG Safety Toolkit

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Lauren Bryant-Monk @starvingsoubrette.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

One of the neatest things about Thinly Veiled is how it changes the patriarchy slider in the collaboration phase to include other systems of oppression and how present they are in the story. A really neat thing I hope to see more Penned to the Good Society games do!

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