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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👀 let’s fight over what music to play and have our car break down at the worst rest stop in the country together 🚘

Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Donations and applications are now live for the Place to Play Grant! This is the first grant in the United States specifically created to help LARP creators bring their games to life. I’m so excited for this resource to be available for LARP designers. www.playabletheatre.org/grant

A graphic that reads “Somebody’s got a new LARP in their head. We want to help them get it out. Place to Play Grant. Donate.”

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Scryptid Games @scryptidgames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very excited that our official announcement for BLOOMFALL — a school days portal fantasy TTRPG — is live today on @rascal.news. Such an exciting project designed by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in collaboration with @labx.org! 🍃 www.rascal.news/scryptid-gam...

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Scryptid Games to Publish Bloomfall: A Storybook Roleplaying Game

A school days portal fantasy TTRPG designed in partnership with LabX, a program of the National Academy of Sciences

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This has been a huge project and I’m super excited to share Bloomfall with everyone soon! Writing and doing research for this game has really transformed my relationship with nature and I hope that players will be able to experience something similar.

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Scryptid Games to Publish Bloomfall: A Storybook Roleplaying Game

A school days portal fantasy TTRPG designed in partnership with LabX, a program of the National Academy of Sciences

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I have been working with some friends to take care of the local colony of feral and semi-feral cats and there remains one scary-ass tortoise shell lady who refuses to fall for the standard trap. I would really like to get her spayed and vaccinated, so any tips on tricky cases greatly appreciated!

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Didn’t realize it would look like a goblin was whispering in my ear, but found our 2 player version of Home at Dragon’s Lair’s Free RPG Day set up.

Awkward picture of me holding up two copies of Home for Free RPG Day and also there’s a big goblin statue thing on the table

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Free RPG Day is this Saturday, and @douglevandowski.bsky.social and I have a special two player version of Home that @wetinkgames.bsky.social is contributing this year! If you’re into creepy cult stories, this one is for you.

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’ve become the poster child for analog summer between this and my “new” boombox that sounds like ass but makes me happy

Ocarina of Time on an ancient CRT TV with Darunia going “Yahooo!!”

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I think my keynote talk at @narrascope.org went well this year! I put a good deal of thought & research into a big theoretical concept, and hey, maybe an article will come out of this too. See this thread for the games and authors I included!

The title slide of my keynote talk at Narrascope: "Speculation by Design: Refocusing Imagination & Storytelling within the Analogue RPG"

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I had a great time talking about narrative design, horror, my weird writing quirks, and interactive fiction. Thanks for having me on!

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Phantom, one of the community cats we try to help out, has a very badly broken femur and needs surgery. We want to try to get him adopted by someone since he’s so friendly and we don’t want him to get hurt like this again, but first he needs his leg fixed up. gofund.me/909997ff4

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Donate to Help Phantom heal up so he can find a home, organized by Jules Kim

Howdy! I’m Jules, but the individual I really want to introduce you to is Phantom… Jules Kim needs your support for Help Phantom heal up so he can find a home

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

More Magical Kitties supplements coming your way! I contributed to the Trouble in River City adventure compendium this time. I think all my Magical Kitties writing may have made me a magnet for cats because I'm also now taking care of a colony of feral cats IRL. www.kickstarter.com/projects/atl...

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Meowtropolis

Who IS that masked kitty? YOU ARE, in the superhero setting for the Magical Kitties Save the Day RPG!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excited to be running three games at Dreamation this coming weekend! 1) @darringtonpress.bsky.social’s DAGGERHEART 2) @johnharper.bsky.social’s BLADES IN THE DARK 3) BLOOMFALL, the game @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social & I are making for @labx.org at the @nasonline.org!

A screenshot of the webpage showing the three hames I’m running

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

What a nice way to close out the year. My story “I Think She Is Starting to Suspect Something” is in the latest issue of Baffling. This one is the result of me spending a lot of time thinking about doppelgängers (and probably honestly from playing a lot of anomaly detection games).

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

For anyone who’s interested, I also wrote about the music I listened to while writing Undying Fortress. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot of dungeon synth. open.substack.com/pub/yeonsoon...

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The soundtrack to my Undying Fortress writing sessions

In case you want to bring your headphones into the fortress

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Undying Fortress has been released into the world! During the worst of my long covid I really didn’t think this day would come so this is super surreal for me. It’s been a long, long journey. The game is 40% off until December 25th. youtu.be/ix1iH1rnrrE?...

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Undying Fortress

YouTube video by Choice of Games

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The release date is coming up really soon now on the 19th! In the meantime, you can wishlist Undying Fortress on Steam (it’ll also be available on iOS and Android or you can play on your browser).

Screenshot of the Steam page for Undying Fortress with description that reads “Wield your magic sword against the monsters that fill a mysterious tower, and uncover the secrets of the past!”

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

My interview about Undying Fortress is now on the Choice of Games blog! This is my second interactive novel with them and it’ll be published on December 19th. I’ve been half-jokingly referring to it as an academic dungeon crawl. www.choiceofgames.com/2025/11/auth...

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Author Interview: Yeonsoo Julian Kim, “Undying Fortress”

Can you and your magic sword save the kingdom from death herself? Infiltrate a tower full of skeletons, decipher its secrets, and escape with your team! Undying Fortress is an interactive dark epic…

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Any of you over on Substack? I need to start doing a newsletter or something but I’ve been so unengaged in social media the last few years I have no idea what’s what anymore 😅

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

in the lead-up to the Art & System kickstarter we'll be announcing the authors who contributed to the new Princess with a Cursed Sword bound edition! starting with @sharangbiswas.bsky.social who actually gave Tavern at the End of the World its name!

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’m doing two events for my (first) book THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS in May in NYC! On the 14th, I’ll be doing a reading at @wordupbooks.bsky.social in Manhattan, and on the 17th I’ll do a reading plus a live game set in the world of the book at the Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn!

A flier for the event at Word Up Comminity bookstore, at 2113 Amsterdam Ave & 165th St, New York City, on Wednesday, May 14th 2025

A flyer for the event at the Twenty Sided Store at 280 Grand St, Brooklyn on Saturday May 17th at 3:45 PM

Copies of THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS at a bookstore

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Send me your best sinus infection + bronchitis remedies. I’m currently sipping on boiled coke with lemon and taking antibiotics the size of horse pills.

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Jabari Weathers (they/she) @goblinprincete.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... Keep the faith is now being funded! This game is really cool and a wonderful fiction building aide, so please check out the campaign and consider backing it! #boardgames #ttrpg #storygames

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Banana Chan 🔜 Portland Retro Gaming Expo @bananachangames.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

In 2024: 🗡️ 3 of my games were released (Chucky board game with @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social and Eric Slauson, Exquisite Crime, The Revenant Society both with @senfoonglim.bsky.social ) ♥️ I crowdfunded 1 game: The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio

Banana holding Chucky board game | Banana holding Exquisite crime | Banana holding Revenant Society

Cover for The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

I’m running Women Are Werewolves and Pass the Sugar, Please at Big Bad Con and Butternut has eaten a small part of the materials for both games already.

A copy of the game Women Are Werewolves and character sheets for Pass the Sugar.

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

It’s Monday which means it’s time to start asking in advanced: what have we forgotten to pack for Big Bad Con?

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Yeonsoo Julian Kim @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Super pumped that my story “Bluebonnet Season” found a home in Neon Hemlock’s The Crawling Moon anthology. This was the last thing I wrote before getting long covid so I’m a bit weirdly emotional about it. www.neonhemlock.com/the-crawling...

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