Hardy Tales

Hardy Tales

@hardytales.bsky.social

Writer, game designer, storyworld architect. Mostly TTRPG work these days (Savage Worlds, 5e, etc.), but digital and other tabletop games too. aka Darrell Hardy. darrellhardy.com

281 Followers 447 Following 1,329 Posts Joined Sep 2023
12 hours ago

Friday runs past, chased by a screaming, feathered cloud. "A flock of seagulls is only good in theory, not practice!" #dailyaffirmation

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1 day ago

Children on the street fall silent and stare as Thursday passes by. #dailyaffirmation

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2 days ago

Let's collect Wednesday's tears and sell them on eBay. #dailyaffirmation

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3 days ago

Tuesday has entirely too much arsenic in its water. Oops! #dailyaffirmation

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4 days ago

Let's stub Monday's toe with this coffee table. #dailyaffirmation

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1 week ago

Friday comes in with a 1000 gallons of water, a half-ton of loose soil, and a hose. "Let's make some quicksand!" #dailyaffirmation

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1 week ago

Thursday is obviously a children's toy, but labeled as "not a children's toy" because of all the broken glass. #dailyaffirmation

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1 week ago

Let's scrape Wednesday against the wall until it catches flame like a kitchen match. #dailyaffirmation

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1 week ago

Tuesday is a mysterious block of cheese with a smell politely referred to as "earthy." #dailyaffirmation

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1 week ago

Monday has the grace and dignity of a one-legged elephant on meth. #dailyaffirmation

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2 weeks ago

Friday selects the wormiest, smelliest, softest rotten apples. "Take one. We're heading up to the C suite to lodge some high-velocity complaints." #dailyaffirmation

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2 weeks ago

Thursday's too smart to run with scissors, but running with a knife, ice pick, or sword seems like fun. #dailyaffirmation

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2 weeks ago

Wednesday is getting wrecked in this tag-team match, but its teammate is too distracted to be tagged in. #dailyaffirmation

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2 weeks ago

Tuesday's poorly-insulated windows cost it billions of dollars a year in heating and cooling costs. #dailyaffirmation

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2 weeks ago

Let's hold Monday's face in the scalding water until it looks like a molting lobster. #dailyaffirmation

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3 weeks ago

Friday addresses an audience of shrimp-eating shareholders in $3000 suits. "You're monsters." They applaud. #dailyaffirmation

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3 weeks ago

Thursday will fit perfectly in this crate if we just lop off a few limbs and stick 'em in sideways. #dailyaffirmation

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3 weeks ago

Wednesday rusts at the bottom of the lake, its toxins slowly seeping into the fish. #dailyaffirmation

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3 weeks ago

Don't look Tuesday in the eye, or it will think you are its mother, and come hound you for food. #dailyaffirmation

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3 weeks ago

Let's double-dog dare Monday to eat that thing on the floor we found when moving the fridge. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

"Eh, forget about work," says Friday, patting the couch beside it. "We're watching this now." #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Thursday is as essential to the week as toothpaste is to a chicken. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Wednesday has eaten all its crayons, and now has nothing with which to write its manifestos. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Tuesday is just a little too enthusiastic about sticking live bait on the fish hook. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Let's force Monday to smoke a whole carton of cigarettes - not as a lesson, but as a vector for lung cancer. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago
A photo of a tabling set up at a zine festival - featuring booklets in abolition, consent, counter-narrative masculinity, spoken word poetry, getting ICE out of MN and more. Also: whistles, stickers, MPD150 reports and poetry chapbooks.

All set up at the Twin Cities Zine Festival at MPLS central library. Zines on abolition, consent, ICE OUT resources, counter-narrative masculinity and more, PLUS MPD150 reports, whistles, and some surprises. All free.

If you can’t be there, digital versions of my zines are at guante.info/zines

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1 month ago

Friday skids to a stop in front of us. "Get in! We're going to eat popcorn and watch the drama unfold!" #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Let's make Thursday assemble 1000 Ikea shelves using a miniature allen wrench and no instructions. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Wednesday stands behind a podium and disdainfully lies to the press, but no one's buying it. #dailyaffirmation

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1 month ago

Let's wind Tuesday so tightly, a sudden jolt will snap its springs. #dailyaffirmation

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