iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 06/05/2026

been using this team lately in champions :) it looks like a mega glimmora team, but i think i've been finding out that secretly it might actually be a sylveon team. pixilate hyper beam is one of the funniest moves in the world

screencap of a pokemon champions team featuring glimmora, gyarados, sylveon, garchomp, whimsicott, and incineroar.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 09/03/2026

every time i see a youtube video these days that's like "a retrospective on [childhood video game]" i just think of this quote from the king of elfland's daughter. we simply don't need another look back at twilight princess

“For seven hundred years the chiefs of your race have ruled us well; and their deeds are remembered by the minor minstrels, living on yet in their little tinkling songs. And yet the generations stream away, and there is no new thing.”

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 27/02/2026

the thing about sunhat pikachu is that he has the same energy as uncle with a new job blastoise to me. sunhat pikachu is your uncle who just got back from a vacation to hawaii but mentally he never left

a pikachu in a hawaiian shirt, sunlasses, and a sunhat with a tail decoration, from the pokemon winds/waves promo art

twitter screenshot: austin walker quote tweeting pokemon unite. pokemon unite: "blastoise has arrived in #PokemonUnite!" with a picture of blastoise in a button-up, vest, and a hat. austin: "uncle with a new job lookin, kings of comedy lookin ass"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 17/02/2026

got tapped for the $330k stretch goal for blades '68's crowdfunder! as someone whose own game design career was kickstarted by the original blades in the dark, it's wild to be a part of this: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

stretch goal description & author bio for blades '68 crowdfunding campaign. goal : "Hematite Dreams. The Leviathans are gone. They must be gone. If they were here, we would be harvesting their blood. So Nahi—Anahita Taslim, but everyone calls her Nahi—must be losing it. That's the only explanation for why she can't stop dreaming about them. That's why the egg in her home must be a hallucination."

bio: "Kavita Poduri (she/her) is a writer and game designer who likes working on the blurry edge between sci-fi and fantasy. She's the creator of the tabletop RPGs Songs for the Dusk and Sunblack, as well as the designer responsible for the Clockwork module used for Blades '68's own crafting system."

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 01/01/2026

getting back to turn a gundam. the way they talk about nuclear weapons in this show is so striking

turn a gundam screencap: loran sits in the cockpit of his mech. subtitles: "In my White Doll's hand is a heaven-scorching sword..."

turn a gundam screencap: external shot of the gundam. subtitles: "...that was locked away in the Dark History!"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 29/12/2025

discovered a truly incredible section of the wikipedia page for "Chicken or the egg dilemma"

wikipedia screenshot: heading "Disputations", text "On 24 July 2024, two men began a chicken-or-egg debate at a party with alcohol in Indonesia. One man became so emotionally enraged he left and returned with a knife, stabbing the other 15 times and killing him. It is uncertain what side of the argument – chicken or egg – the killer took."
followed by three citations.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 27/07/2025

sonic in the state of denmark is awesomehttps://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork

twitch stream screencap of two people dressed up as cream and eggman + a picture of vector as cream, cast as gertrude from hamlet, says "I doubt it is no other but the main—His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage."

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 27/06/2025

sometimes i think about how in premodern society basically half of all children just died

our world in data chart labeled "The long-run history of child mortality" showing that child mortality rates were nearly 50% for multiple societies across all of human history until the 20th century where it starts to drop to around modern levels

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 02/06/2025

i know they're like 12 and it's the late 1800s or whatever but jesus christ

anne of green gables excerpt: “Ten minutes isn’t very long to say an eternal farewell in,” said Anne tearfully. “Oh, Diana, will you promise faithfully never to forget me, the friend of your youth, no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?”

“Indeed I will,” sobbed Diana, “and I’ll never have another bosom friend⁠—I don’t want to have. I couldn’t love anybody as I love you.”

“Oh, Diana,” cried Anne, clasping her hands, “do you love me?”

“Why, of course I do. Didn’t you know that?”

“No.” Anne drew a long breath. “I thought you liked me, of course but I never hoped you loved me. Why, Diana, I didn’t think anybody could love me. Nobody ever has loved me since I can remember. Oh, this is wonderful! It’s a ray of light which will forever shine on the darkness of a path severed from thee, Diana. Oh, just say it once again.”

“I love you devotedly, Anne,” said Diana stanchly, “and I always will, you may be sure of that.”

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 01/06/2025

reading anne of green gables like damn, i thought i had an unhealthy fixation on semicolons

first graf of anne of green gables: "MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof. "

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 22/05/2025

i was too lazy to pixelate the word filter

the "hey guys"/"not what i'm called" meme but with k2so from star wars and the sketch is callimg him "filter"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 20/05/2025

i still have the autism that makes you bad at kayfabe and this time i have to post "OPERATIVE STRIDER GOING LOUD. TRANSMITTING ON ALL CHANNELS. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE." in non-kayfabe information you should go back this game if you like star wars

it's the promo art for the galactic/going rogue kickstarter but the blue haired guy is saluting them

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 17/05/2025

wanted to do a star wars joke like "call me a savage the way they opress me" but that's barely even a joke. like that's how they did that. they opressed people of color by calling us savages

picture of a star wars guy labeled "savage opress"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 10/05/2025

robert spitzer, a psychiatrist from a country that was founded in a war over not doing what a king said: I've Discovered A New Disease Called Not Doing What I Say Syndrome several other people, including psychiatrists, literally immediately: what the fuck are you talking about

The third criterion, of a handicapping condition, is obviously met by the traditional psychiatric categories, but previous critics, such as Garmezy (1978), have queried whether it is met by some of the newly introduced categories such as "avoidant disorder" or "schizoid disorder" or "oppositional disorder." His questioning of these categories appears fully justified. For example, "oppositional disorder" is to be diagnosed if at least two of the following five behaviors have lasted at least six months: violations of minor rules, temper tantrums, argumentativeness, provocative behavior, or stubbornness. That description—and only two are required for the diagnosis—sounds like the behavior of a lot of children one meets socially and not at all like psychiatric disorder. Of course, these behaviors are often involved in psychiatric conditions, but on their own they do not sound sufficient for a psychiatric diagnosis. At the very least, one must ask for validating data.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 06/05/2025

aside from the gary provost five-words quote, not a lot—which is, unfortunately, why i'm complaining about it lol

screengap of gary provost quote off of goodreads: “This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 06/05/2025

i'm supposed to post "> OPERATIVE STRIDER CONFIRMED LISTENING ON ALL CHANNELS. AWAITING FURTHER TRANSMISSION… " + this image and i'm doing it like this because i wouldn't say those words normally and i have the kind of autism that makes you bad at kayfabe

a blue haired figure in an orange space outfit is looking at some planets. "GALACTIC & GOING ROGUE" is emblazoned in the bottom left

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 30/04/2025

can't stop thinking about this preview scene for the next episode of gquax

gquax screencap of a blushing sweaty anime boy wearing a sideless tank top captioned "They said there's a huge penalty if a Mav is late!"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 26/04/2025

youtube thumbnails are so delightfully stupid

screencap of a youtube thumbnail with the words "EVIL BABY" pointing down at something out of frame

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 24/04/2025

welcome to the intertwined city of sunblack. make your home in an interdimensional metropolis, embrace your life as a psychic freak, and fight back against the powers that would control you—all pwyw at yrgirlkv.itch.io/sunblack as always, proceeds from my work go towards aid for palestine

cover for SUNBLACK, featuring a nighttime photograph of a city with the title and my name on it

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 17/04/2025

i hate america so fucking much dude

screencap of a reddit post explaining that the US has its own paper sizes with slightly different dimensions than most of the world and summarizing possible methods for dealing with this

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 14/04/2025

gf was telling me about star wars the old republic which inspired me to look up the page on "sith lords"

wookiepedia screencap of the government section under sith lord organizational information: "old sith empire, reconstituted sith empire, exar kun's sith empire, darth revan's sith empire, sith triumvirate, new empire, new sith empire, galactic empire, galactic federation of free alliances, darth krayt's galactic empire"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 09/04/2025

finally reading the communist manifesto. genuinely obsessed with this description. "modern society is like an evil wizard" —karl marx

text screencap:
"A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many..." (text is cut off)

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 07/04/2025

i don't work very hard at naming TTRPG abilities and stuff in the prototyping stage

text screencap:
If Nobody Got Me I Know Sunblack Got Me
Whenever you take harm, gain <intel:Sunblack>. You can spend this intel for advantage by explaining how the chaotic flow of the city's people, traffic, municipal systems, and architecture lend you aid.
● Minor Advance: Drive It Home. You can spend <intel> to gain strain advantage in the same circumstances as normal advantage.
● Minor Advance: Brain Hurts. Gain <intel:Sunblack> when you take strain as well.
● Minor Advance: Knows Everyone. Spend <intel:Sunblack> to describe a friend or contact who can provide you with something important.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 05/04/2025

realized today that i haven't shared this with bluesky, so i present to you: simply the worst ability ever designed in a tabletop RPG

Garbage Take OP
Once per session, you can trawl an NPC's social media accounts to find a personal beef, embarrassing take, or other form of hostile behavior to gain social leverage over them. However, you also take 1d strain as the GM tells you about the internet’s main character for the day, according to the following format: A(n) (CAREER) posted that (AWFUL THING/INNOCUOUS OR GOOD THING) is actually (GOOD OR INNOCUOUS/SECRETLY AWFUL) because of (NONSENSICAL REASON, optional.)
Examples:
● A WRITER posted that A POPULAR TV SHOW is SECRETLY AWFUL because THE ACTORS HAVE PET DOGS.
● A YOUTUBER posted that EARTHQUAKES are GOOD because THEY HATE CALIFORNIANS.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 05/04/2025

in SUNBLACK, my tabletop RPG about smuggling rogue psychics away from the US intelligence apparatus, you have an office that sucks

document screencap:
THE OFFICE
Your office is where you work. Choose 1 positive and 3 negatives:
Positives:
● A van
● A little side room with a cot
● A kitchenette
● Great internet
● Cheap restaurants nearby
● Building meets decent accessibility standards
Negatives:
● Floors are (always slightly sticky / not level, tilted at a slight angle / covered with actively peeling carpet)
● Lights (flicker on and off constantly or at random / constantly emit a low buzzing noise / are so bright they flashbang people even if it's just a cloudy day)
● Front door is impossible to find, accessible only via (fire escape / underground entrance / the stairs in the back of a second, deeply obnoxious business)
● Doors (only open with an unreliable app / are tied to extremely janky motion sensors / get stuck or jammed all the time)
● Ceiling is (bulging with a rainwater leak / home to at least 1 family of raccoons / constantly shedding dust)
● Building electricity results in (terrible heating & AC / oversensitive fire alarms / breakers that flip if you plug in more than 2 devices at a time)
● The building is (constantly being renovated / inaccessible unless you personally let a visitor in / somewhere with no cell reception)
● ________ (invent your own)
You can pick multiple things from the same section; they're just organized this way for brevity's sake.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 21/03/2025

been spending the past month or so dealing with computer stuff but i'm getting back into sunblack design finally

text screencap:
Title: Classes
Quote: And that's from the crew you can trust/Warranty plus for fuckin' shit up.
—Killer Mike, Legend Has It

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 28/02/2025

swallow the sun. defeat the dawn. SONGS FOR THE DUSK: DAYBREAK, the first expansion for my sci-fantasy FITD TTRPG, is now available for pay-what-you want at yrgirlkv.itch.io/daybreak. new playbooks, a new crew, new locations, & new foes with unique mechanics—daybreak's rich with material to explore

cover of SONGS FOR THE DUSK: DAYBREAK. three protagonists silhouetted in black and purple fight off a legion of glowing foes under an orange sky filled with falling meteorites. the title text sits between two abstract lotus glyphs. the byline is "by kavita poduri"

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 26/02/2025

sorry for the extra wait, but SONGS FOR THE DUSK: DAYBREAK, the first expansion for my science-fantasy forged in the dark TTRPG, releases this friday! featuring three new playbooks, a new crew, unique enemy mechanics, a full set of new locations, & more, it'll be available for PWYW on itch

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 21/02/2025

with the power of aggressive copy-pasting and very simple mathematics, i have created the 14-tick clock, for when you TRULY need to fuck up your FITD players

a stylized black-and-white lotus with 14 white/blank petals over a background of black petals

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 17/02/2025

by "daybreak releases mid-february" i may have meant "daybreak releases at the end of february." in compensation, meet the first of the deifics: anaveros, necrosaint

CASE FILE: Anaveros, Necrosaint
The phrase “nobody dies today” is usually a blessing.

Composition
Metalloplastoid frame interspersed with resurrective conduits. Nerve clusters appear to be centralized in the central core, with only small radiodendrite receivers located in its legs.

Frame
Lightweight (8 ticks)

Appearance
Anaveros looks something like a nightmarish cross between a spider and a suspension bridge. Its numerous, spindly legs propel a central core suspended above the ground solely by the tension of its many anchored chains. The core contains the whole of Anaveros’ sensor package and neurocircuitry; it commands its legs to move by tightbeam radio, allowing even damaged legs to continue to receive commands.

Briefing
Anaveros is one of the youngest Deifics, a fact made evident by its reliance on transcendent forces as a weapon. While it has no conventional ranged or energetic weaponry, Anaveros is capable of reanimating dead biomass—and of commanding the resulting undead.

Of course, this ability isn’t perfect: death is not a single process, and so Anaveros cannot undo it simply. It must fill in the wounds of its undead with its own transcendent force, inducing a burnt, sickly-sweet smell that has become the hallmark of its presence. Feeding this process demands massive amounts of energy, both to fuel the resurrections and to sustain the computational power required to create and maintain its unliving thralls. It’s to this end that Anaveros stalks the land of Tamaris. City power grids, fusion plants, electric storms, ancient spirits — all of these are nothing more than grist for the Necrosaint’s mill.

Anaveros is, flatly speaking, inefficient. It would be cheaper to simply burn the bodies it commands, to transform them into raw energy and construct its own army of symplasts like so many other Deifics. But Anaveros is not a weapon designed to kill. It is a weapon designed to desecrate.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 16/02/2025

tgirl quiplash is going about how you'd expect

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 15/02/2025

it's genuinely breaking my heart that this won't fit in a bleet

bleet screencap that's 17 characters over the limit:

Pectin, the Jam Moon
Impulse: Preserve until soft.

People sentences:
- Pectin farmers always add a bit too much sugar.
- Pectin homemakers are always sweet.
- Pectin workers are always a bit tart.

Place sentences:
- Pectin orchards always smell of sugar.
- Pectin rains always bring relief from the heat.
- Pectin vineyards always overripen.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 28/01/2025

what's daybreak? it's an expansion pack for SONGS FOR THE DUSK, my science-fantasy tabletop RPG about building a better future. in base songs, your only foes were other human beings, but daybreak brings supernatural threats like the land has never seen before

- 3 new scenarios. The scenarios of Daybreak introduce newfound foes to Tamaris, one hostile force per scenario; each comes with a brief update to the continent’s geography and politics, an in-depth exploration of their function, and unique MC mechanics that allow foes to act against striders in ways the game hasn’t seen before.
- 3 new regions, each corresponding to a scenario and equipped with its own map and landmarks.
- 3 new forms for the inhabitants of Daybreak’s regions.
- 3 new playbooks, each loosely tied to a Daybreak scenario in fiction, but with completely self-sufficient mechanics so they can be used in non-Tamaris settings.
- A brief guide to advanced starts, for tables who’d like to try and set up experienced crews in the middle of their adventures.

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kavita poduri @yrgirlkv.leafside.studio · 28/01/2025

tamaris is in crisis. howling armies fall from the sky; titanic beasts tear the ground beneath us apart; rotting silence emerges from our machines. the light is coming for you, strider. channel new powers, form a new crew, and beat back the day. SONGS FOR THE DUSK: DAYBREAK releases mid-february!