Lyarrah

If you lead with anger, if your politics is built out of grievance, then you’re always looking for a target for your anger. But the path to liberation is one built out of love, out of wanting to no longer feel hatred in your heart.

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

I love the idea but I hate how easy it would be for it to become an exclusive club, or for people to claim people clearly must use AI cuz they aren't on the list when they simply don't know the list exists, problems like that.

We hit 90 downloads overnight!

Thank you all so much for your support on this, I seriously did not expect to hit 25 total let alone all this.

The game is avaliable for free if anyone else is interested in rolling some dice to ponder their orb!

A cute drawing of a witch hiding under a blanket playing with a crystal ball. Above her is the Doomscrying logo and a pile of dirty dishes.

I'm proud to announce that my first ever TTRPG, Doomscrying, is now avaliable for download!

lyarrah.itch.io/doomscrying

I'm new to this so I would love if people could give it a try!

Games take about an hour and only need a few dice and something to write on!

#TTRPG #tabletop #Doomscrying

(also special thanks to the two people who even paid me for it! I am definitely happy to be giving it away but I will take your payment as a massive compliment!)

We've crossed 60 downloads??
Thank you so much everyone, this has been such a wild ride!
I'm really proud of how this turned out and can't wait to hear about the fun others have with it!

I don’t know who needs to hear this (me), but you still gotta eat and take your meds. You can’t help anyone if you aren’t taking care of you.

The recurring line from execs right now is that AI will remove jobs that “nobody wants to do” because executives have never experienced the joy of caring about something enough to pay attention to the details.

Bluesky has as much bad news as X but over here, we're against it

thank you to all the people who take the time to tell me when they like something I do, or even just let me know they like having me around.
I often feel like an outsider to all the groups I'm in, so it's a nice surprise when someone reaches out just to be kind.

Just woke up to find there's already 40 downloads?? which is literally double what I expected to ever get grand total on this???

thank you all so much for the support, I am too stunned to even react right now!

A cute drawing of a witch hiding under a blanket playing with a crystal ball. Above her is the Doomscrying logo and a pile of dirty dishes.

I'm proud to announce that my first ever TTRPG, Doomscrying, is now avaliable for download!

lyarrah.itch.io/doomscrying

I'm new to this so I would love if people could give it a try!

Games take about an hour and only need a few dice and something to write on!

#TTRPG #tabletop #Doomscrying

Doomscrying will be out later today so I'm already trying to come up with my next idea

(okay I've been trying for a couple weeks but everything i come up with is card games!)

Chat suggested a silly shopping game, but they meant "Magic Costco" while I pictured "90's Mall" - any opinions here?

(I will be filling in any blank spots on my own, but I wanted a variety of art styles so it feels more like a communal whiteboard, hence looking for volunteers)

a simple doodle of a gnome making a :3 face

a simple doodle of an overflowing cauldron labeled "clean the cauldron OR ELSE!!"

I am on the home stretch for getting Doomscrying complete! Mostly just some formatting to go!
the one other thing I could still use is a few more silly whiteboard doodles for the play mat
so if any of my artist friends feel like spending 3 mins on a magical little thing like these let me know!

If it's actually that goddamn important and it's waited this long, it can wait another day.
I can add it to my to do list so I don't forget it again but then it is leaving my attention once more and making room for what I already said I was going to do with that time.

This is for all those times I want to write or have fun and then feel violently guilty over something I was "supposed" to do six months ago and then sit there and stew in the guilt instead of getting either thing done.

trying to create a new rule for myself

"if it wasn't important enough for me to remember until my brain needed ammunition against me, it's not important enough to be a bullet either"

Unclench your jaw.

Drink some water or have a nice soothing cup of tea.

Listen to that audiobook you wanted to finish.

Curl up with your pet and tell them how much you love them as you give them cuddles.

Make it a habit to find ways to treat yourself kindly in spite of a world that refuses to.

There are so many things wrong with this metaphor, but equating human learning to manual animal labor is an incredible way to admit you haven’t done much learning.

I need to stop trying to nap at dumb hours because i keep waking up at even dumber hours when there's no one awake to stream to

I ask my students to imagine sending a robot that looks like them to gym class to do their pushups or laps or whatever. They understand practice in the context of physical work, and somehow the analogy to mental work makes it click.

(This also explains why it's not OK to resubmit old assignments!)

I am once again begging my mutuals to use their platforms to talk about the art censorship happening around the world, especially those who always tote the line about "respect your artists" and "pay artists better". You have to fight for our rights to even exist/post, too. Please.

To end the stigma of "no politics or else I'll lose my audience :(" you have to be brave enough to break that stigma yourself.

Otherwise the people around you and the people looking up to you are going to follow in your footsteps and stay silent, too.

And frankly, you deserve a better audience.

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout Keep your ID in your pocket, for now.

Discord delays age-verification roll out after backlash, releases new policy saying it will NOT partner with any vendor that doesn't perform the verification entirely "on device" — meaning biometrics are not shared. 👏👏👏

Persona, which did not meet that standard, has been dumped.

I used it to mean "I live near SF, but not in SF, but I know none of you have heard of even Oakland let alone anywhere else, so I'll just say the whole area" but then again i knew to call it "the SF bay area" when I was talking to anyone outside California sooooo

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📢 INDIE DEVS WHO ARE IN NEXT FEST!

If you're participating and would like your demo/store page reposted to 37K+ Bluesky followers then drop it in the replies below*

*No games that use Gen-AI please and thank you.

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

my friend outside NY asked me the other day why she hasn't heard about zohran much since he became mayor and my honest answer was that it's because i think he's just doing his job which is actually inherently pretty boring?