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Wow, an Instagrammer created Cretaceous Rails nail art! Undoubtedly, the coolest CR-inspired thing I've seen! I love it so much! Go give _belleoftheboard_ some love! www.instagram.com/p/DPlXsxtjf01/

Glass Road Clear the land, hire specialists, build and gather to make your own trade empire.

Played Glass Road on 2025-10-10. I got to teach my mom group my favorite Uwe game yesterday! Tile-based tableau-building, the resource wheel, and psychological card play - I love it! Glass Road was a big inspiration for the pacing of Cretaceous Rails too! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14...

You’re going to love it!

Cretaceous Rails Reprint and Cretaceous Seas Expansion by Spielcraft Games - Gamefound Travel back in time to the Cretaceous era, build a rail network into the jungle, take time-traveling tourists on safari to see their favorite dinosaurs in the wild, and build a resort full of attracti...

Cretaceous Rails Reprint and new Cretaceous Seas expansion launches on Gamefound next Tuesday! Follow along with the campaign here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Oh, I've got one of these too. I'm a trans woman and the opening number of Xanadu, "I'm Alive", hits me so hard. I get up and frolick about in my flowy skirt every time I watch it!

Glow Build your company by recruiting new traveling companions and combine their power.

Played Glow on 2025-10-08. I've been meaning to try this out since it released a few years ago and it recently connected with me in a trade. Clever dice-manipulation game with stunning art and what may be a queer-coded theme of restoring color to the world. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27...

Creature Feature As an agent, land monster film roles for your clients!

Played Creature Feature on 2025-10-08. I'll try anything by Richard Garfield and this was worth the $15 at Half-Price Books. I love psychological bluffing games like this and the seasonally-appropriate theme is a cherry on top! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34...

Cretaceous Rails conquers another Harry Potter game on the overall BGG rankings!

Crokinole Flick discs and make trick shots in this traditional Canadian dexterity game!

Played Crokinole on 2025-09-28. Enjoyed a victory for the first time in awhile during Sunday night family Crokinole! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521

MonsDRAWsity Paranormal sketch artists draw the monsters a witness says they saw.

Played MonsDRAWsity on 2025-09-28. Tried this out for the first time last night and enjoyed this delightful take on the voting genre. I need more than 2 minutes to describe my monster incorrectly, though, lol! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28...

Spielbound in Omaha does and has it in stock!

Tramways Engineer's Workbook Run trains to deliver passengers in this solo game of growing difficulty.

Played Tramways Engineer's Workbook on 2025-09-22. Figured out the puzzle in this neat spiral-bound game book and it was a legit challenge! Very satisfying, very engaging! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24...

Depressing, but accurate!

As someone who grew up Mormon, I consider the 1820’s and 1830’s, which is also when rapture theology was invented, the Golden Age of Con Men. A truly staggering con of the same time period I love telling people about is the story of Gregor MacGregor and his fictional country of Poyais.

I don’t see how you could have any sort of a meaningful art department with those guidelines. My board game design class would be right out for sure. I wouldn’t alter it or my teaching methods anyway to comply with any of that nonsense. Educators must take principled stands!

Oh no, that sucks! I’ve done that more than once, *sigh.

Rehiring Jimmy Kimmel is not good enough. I wrote to Disney and ABC that I won’t resubscribe until they introduce a trans character to replace the one they cowardly scrubbed out of Win or Lose cause I’m still pissed about that.

Almanac: The Dragon Road No two journeys to Dragon City are the same in this worker placement adventure.

Played Almanac: The Dragon Road on 2025-09-17. I've had this on my Unplayed Shelf for awhile and finally tried it out the other night. This is a cool system! Had a great time with this one and am looking forward to another play soon! Underrated delight! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27...

Designer Diary: Cretaceous Rails | BoardGameGeek News

My designer diary for Cretaceous Rails was published on the front page of BGG today! It would mean a lot to me if you checked it out! boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

My bank has a bunch of posters up celebrating Hispanic heritage and I wound up at the teller window with Sylvia Rivera. I was there to deposit a check made out to my deadname! I was feeling uncomfortable about the situation and immediately started smiling instead. How serendipitous was that?

Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed Cretaceous Rails!

Janice Lester doesn't even get a fun outfit - except for that cute scarf she loses right away. And as a trans woman, I can't get over that line towards the beginning of the episode: "It's better to be dead than to live alone in the body of a woman." Disagree!

Appropriately, my youngest son and I finished our TOS watch today on Star Trek Day. "Turnabout Intruder" is such a bad way to end the series. It's my least favorite episode. The sexism is such a bludgeon! We are going to have to dive right into TAS to get the taste of this one out of our mouths!

A little tidbit from Trump's address at the Museum of the Bible today. Who is "ours?" Is Trump using the royal "we" here? But more alarmingly, evidently acknowledging trans people exist is immoral.

How do we know that prayer doesn't work? Because Trump isn't dead.
(Excerpts from speeches at the Museum of the Bible today posted by the White House. )

Yeah, the Supreme Court said racial profiling is just fine, but also happening today: Trump gives a speech at the Museum of the Bible promoting not just any fascism, but Christofascism!

President Trump’s Top 100 Victories for People of Faith Promises Made, Promises Kept. Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump has made history again and again for the faith community. Since the founding

Don't let this article posted by the White House today fly under the radar. A full 25% of the so-called "victories for people of faith" (most of which have no direct correlation to religion) listed here have come at trans people's expense.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

I'm convinced the reason Tony Vargas came up short against Don Bacon in the NE 2 election is that he tried to sound tough on immigration. Here's this Latino Dem with right-wing talking points about illegal immigration and he just came across as incredibly disappointing and false to his base.

Crokinole Flick discs and make trick shots in this traditional Canadian dexterity game!

Sunday Crokinole! My wife is now on a three-game winning streak! She also won A Place For All My Books today - she is on fire! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521

Thurn and Taxis Seek help from postal officials to build your delivery routes across Central Europe.

Played Thurn and Taxis today. Enjoyed an online game with the BGG Women's and Non-binary group. Always enjoy this one and never gets old! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21...