Malin Ryden

if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!

Our series begins on March 5, 507 years ago.
Spaniards have arrived a couple weeks previous, and Mexica messengers are delivering daily reports to Motechuzoma.
Read this epic for FREE on our website. Here's the first page:

I need to find a way to get more people to watch silent films, they're missing out. There's a lot of German Expressionism that's incredible, but maybe a good start would be Filibus (1917), starring a literal queer sky pirate.

Cover of (I must remain) The Glad Cowboy, by me. It's a freeware bit of cowboy art with a smiling emoji over it.

I just released another short ttrpg zine.

(I must remain) THE GLAD COWBOY is storygame where one player plays a Glad Cowboy and the other player plays The Repressed Horror At The Thing They Did. #ttrpg #indiettrpg

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'They set a standard so difficult to achieve for most grown women, that it’s naturally, and most conveniently, “easier” to just put teenagers in the spotlight'

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
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a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face . Alt: a close up of a pikachu with a surprised look on its face .

Americans: is there anyone who can stop this

Universe: A saviour has emerged

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My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.

"The US has its arse lined with noodles"

YouTube video by Crunchyroll Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Opening | Easy Breezy

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YouTube video by TRUNKS298 [Aoi Honoo / Blue Blazes OP] - Sakuga References

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Aoi Honoo (Blue Blazes) and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! are essential viewing for any creator who wants to do something. Seriously. I feel like I became a better writer just by watching them.

Aoi Honoo is literally one of the best pieces of TV ever.

It never got an official English release, and I don't say this often, but it's worth digging up the fan sub version. ANY creative professional can benefit from watching it.

Love your review! Agree with most of it, especially the tone, but it really is eminently hackable. I have intentionally been doing it more rules based (chained sequences ftw) but it really feels so natural to play. Character forward!

And this is a good review of why I like this system so much!

I’m fascinated by the annotations. Was someone collecting the set?

Check out a preview of 'TANKHEAD - Mechanical Encyclopedia Artbook' by concept artist @emersontung.bsky.social and writer @tim-popelier.com

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#mechs #worldbuilding

First reported by @decaturish.bsky.social, GA State Sen. Elena Parent will not seek reelection.

In 2025, Parent, who represents one of the most progressive districts in the South, east of Atlanta, dared a trans parent to find someone to challenge her for reelection in a recorded anti-trans screed:

You can use several different ttrpg systems over the course of the same campaign to better handle various parts of it. Many specialized indie games are perfect for this. Explore the possibilities!

If you use generative AI willingly, if you engage in cryptocurrencies willingly, if you need ChatGPT to type out your emails and live your simulation of an actual life then you have compromised your soul unblinkingly and are someone who simply chooses to feed the beast for your own convenience.

Little white puffballs with yellow ears snuggled together under a green leaf.

Flying home from Costa Rica tomorrow. In the meantime here are some Honduran White Bats sleeping under a leaf. #wildlife

A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in).

The ship was, by any definition, defenceless.

Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown.

Infamy.

Fever gone. Writing has resumed.

what the FUCK?? holy shit! this is so extensive!!!
the absolute amount of features already is crazy!!

Oh it is the latter! Just not enough in depth for me I suppose. It's charting climate's effect on human civilization over the millennia. (I don't think I have ever read a romantasy...)

This is good advice for journalists too. You need both

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime