Tera

Fuck ICE.

I'm helping with writing the module for this event and GMing for it! I'd love to see anyone I know there!

Not Stranger Things 5 setting up a generational bury your gays moment

I've been reminiscing on this year a lot the last couple of days, and I cannot even begin to describe the degree to which transition has saved me. This has been the best year of my life so far by such a substantial amount. Plenty of things still suck, but being authentic is amazing.

I finally picked up Triangle Agency and WOW I am excited to play this game.
Players getting commendations for snitching on each other and identifying that another player should get a demerit is the best flavor win of all time.

This series has become my go to recommendation to sneakily get people to read social commentary. It's fun and easy to read (most of the time) while still hitting some really serious topics really well.

salonsinister.com salon sinister Excerpt from That Little Seam by Your Left Ear "I felt weird afterwards-unsettled, I later decided. But I stopped looking at you for the remainder of the shift. The next time I saw you I was back on my bullshit: longing gazes and loaded glances galore. I sat beside you while we counted our money, and without really thinking about it, I looked for the cut by your left ear. At first I didn't see it, but then you tilted your head to answer a question and I watched your skin ripple. Right by your ear." Christine Makepeace is an editor and writer of weird fiction, horror screenplays, and morose poetry. She currently resides in the Southern California desert. Links to her work can be found at www.christinemakepeace.com. salonsinister.com

We were so proud to print, "That Little Seam by Your Left Ear" by @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social! Her piece is dark, thoughtful, and rich.

If you haven't read Salon Sinister yet, consider this a small taste of what you're missing... Grab your own copy to read this and more amazing queer horror.

I love a day of nerdy convention at Dragonsteel Nexus immediately followed by the local trans meetup. So ideal

Thank you so much for writing this. I've never read something so resonant to the risk aversion I felt while growing up. I'm only now figuring out how stunting it was in so many places. I really needed this framing of choosing risk for the outcomes that can come from it, both in roleplay and life. 🩷

This is probably my favorite Rascal article of the entire year. Had to hold back a lot of emotion in the office this morning.

Please please please do it

I haven't been in school for years now, and I guess I can still occasionally get the nightmare that I'm taking a class that I've just forgotten about entirely

Getting Outer Wilds: Design Works by @lostincult.co.uk today has had me obsessing over my favorite video game all over again.

I agree with the foreword that the one flaw of the game is that you can never play it for the first time again, but this book helps.

A book titled Cain's Jawbone. The gimmick of the book is that it is printed out of order and you're supposed to reorganize the pages to be correct. It's also super elaborate and confusing and old.

I loved the video and all but I also spied this in the background through that camera there and I need to know how much of it you've cracked if it's yours because WOW is it complicated.

As of today the count of trans people I know about from my Mormon mission (including myself) is now four. I love hearing about this every time and studies need to be conducted about why these conditions turned us.

This video had a lot of really interesting things, but the one that's gonna stick with me is the reminder that Capitalism will not hesitate to create a facade of a dead person to advertise nostalgic virtues that the real person might not even have really held when living. Big ick

Every other Saturday I go home at 1 AM and just lay in bed for an hour processing my emotions about the session

I genuinely feel like I'll be losing a piece of my soul when this 6 year D&D campaign finally ends

I've been playing the same character through college graduation, buying a house, transition

The last 10 sessions the whole group has been so locked in. I'll never be this fortunate again. Pure magic

“you must do Something so you can get a good performance review and this UI change is Something” is the bane of many software companies

love my nephew but his birthday is really cutting into my Noah Caldwell Gervais Alan wake video viewing time

Spirit Island
Arkham Horror
Ark Nova
Terra Mystica
Carcassonne
Compile
Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition
Sidereal Confluence
Agricola
Hansa Teutonica

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

SALON SINISTER Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.

Dear Queers,

Today is the day. You can order your ✨Physical Copy✨ of Salon Sinister RIGHT NOW on our website! Just in time for creepy season, we're your one stop shop for queer horror stories, poetry, and art! Grab yours today and support queer horror! 😈☠️

www.salonsinister.com

Text on the right side of the image reads, "Welcome to Salon Sinister: A Queer Horror Lit Mag" ""The work featured in this issue is a look inside the minds of those directly affected by the fascist regime in the United States. The contributors in this issue are strong representatives of a population that not only faces daily persecution, but still finds ways to exist boldly and beautifully under threat." Below that reads, "Contributors: Abigail Waldron, al dsym, Amber S., A.V. Shurling, Bee Delores, Christine Makepeace, Ciaran Flake, E.L. Rey, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Ell Huang, Garrett Emerson, Genevieve Hugenbruch, Jay Zimmerman, Jaylan Salah, Molly M., Odin Meadows, Tera Freeman, Trevor Kassis." The right side of the image is the cover of the new free horror lit magazine "Salon sinister" which features a figure cloaked in black with a pale hand emerging within the folds that has pink painted nails. Instead of a face there are big, unnerving teeth seeming to break through the paper. The words "Salon Sinister" are written across the front of the figure in either lipstick or blood. Hard to say which...

The Salon is now open...

The first issue of our queer horror magazine is official live and ready for you to consume.

Step inside. Lose yourself. Find your new favorite writer or artist within. We have such sights to show you🖤

t.ly/MGy-2

Wow the scope of Silksong is insane

A pale hand with pink nails reaching out from a cloak. The text reads "Salon Sinister" in neon red lettering at the tip. Below that it says "A queer horror lit mag", "Issue 1" "Read for free online 9/9" "Paperback available 9/16"

Queer horror comes home tomorrow!
Our editors and contributors bled into these pages, and now those pages are ready to bleed all over you. Free online tomorrow (9/9) and available in print on the 16th.

Tell your peculiar queer friends; they're gonna want to get their claws on this 🖤

So many things to gush about in Silksong, but the thing I've been stuck on all day is how clever it is to use prayer beads as the currency.

It's thematically perfect, satisfying to see in the world, and it allows for a great way to preserve currency between deaths by stringing them together.

I've been anxiously awaiting this all summer and it's happening!!

Huge thanks to everyone who put this together and contributed, and I'm so happy to be here for my first published piece of writing. I can't wait to see everyone else's work.

Issue 1 cover by Trevor Henderson for Salon Sinister, featuring a cloaked figure with teeth for a face revealing a pale hand with painted finger nails from beneath the dark material

working with the beautiful @salonsinister.com editors to bring you issue 1 very, very soon 🖤 keep your peepers peeled

creating this has been a fever dream in a nightmare landscape, and i couldn't have done it without my brilliant team and our outrageously talented contributors.

thank you so much 🖤

I am so incredibly impressed at how fast your group is playing this game