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She/Her. If you enjoy books, TTRPGs, attempts at humour, welcome. PFP by Raya S. https://linktr.ee/poornamakesthings Writer | Editor | VO | Project + Process Management

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Latest posts by pmakesthings.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Not Yet, by Taylor Navarro and Poorna M. , by and , is a duet game about love, near-misses, and destiny. It's a game that feels like a romantic comedy in the vein of a Richard Curtis film, and, un...

after a long hiatus, there's a new review up at Hark At Them!

this time, it's NOT YET by @taylorannnx.bsky.social and @pmakesthings.bsky.social, a duet game of near misses and romantic interludes. spoilers: it's very cute, and i liked it a lot. go out and buy it!

24.09.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If Dialect has a million fans I am one of them.
If Dialect has ten fans I am one of them.
If Dialect has only one fan, that is me.
If Dialect has no fans then I am no longer living.
If the world is against Dialect, then I am against the world.

17.09.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Grants for writers facing financial difficulty As our research into authorsโ€™ incomes demonstrates, a career in writing is often financially precarious. If youโ€™re currently facing financial difficulties, whether that be due to an unexpected bill or...

The Royal Literary Fund are offering grants to writers facing financial difficulties. If you're currently experiencing difficulties, such as an illness or unexpected bill, you might be eligible to receive support.

11.09.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My friend deciding to write a game and roping me into it as a playtester!

But, Vampire deserves credit for opening my eyes to the glory of dice pools, and @evilhat.bsky.social ยดs Fate really opened my eyes to how games could express themselves.

13.09.2025 12:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bluesky friends, assemble! ๐Ÿ“ฏ

I'm looking for TTRPGs that are:

๐ŸŒฟ By Irish creatives, writers or designers
๐ŸŒฟ Set in Ireland
๐ŸŒฟ Exploring Irish culture, history, language, and/or folklore.

If any of the above applies to you or someone you know, please get in touch or comment below!

Mรญle buรญochas!

09.09.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 126    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Inspired by the painting, The Kiss by Klimt, of my two ocs embracing. These two characters are inspired by a Carnotaurus and Microraptor.

A red character with horns, a big tail, curly hair, jewellery, and a dress with large flowy sleeves is kissing the other characters cheek, while she rests her hand on the others shoulder.

The other character being kissed and held has her eyes closed, as she holds onto the others hand. She has blue skin, a thin tail, wings/feathers on her arms and feathers in her hair.

Behind them are flowers and grass

This art is for an exclusive print for ko-fi members (March 2025 only).

Inspired by the painting, The Kiss by Klimt, of my two ocs embracing. These two characters are inspired by a Carnotaurus and Microraptor. A red character with horns, a big tail, curly hair, jewellery, and a dress with large flowy sleeves is kissing the other characters cheek, while she rests her hand on the others shoulder. The other character being kissed and held has her eyes closed, as she holds onto the others hand. She has blue skin, a thin tail, wings/feathers on her arms and feathers in her hair. Behind them are flowers and grass This art is for an exclusive print for ko-fi members (March 2025 only).

The kiss ๐ŸŒŸ (the original colours, because I ended up liking them more than the other version)

18.05.2025 13:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1513    ๐Ÿ” 376    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Casting Call: Be Thou My Vision, an O Nata Nox Actual Play We call them angels. They blot out the swollen, red moonโ€“larger again than last she rose. They blot out even the ashen planet she winks over, that derelict remnant of a past age before the Song, bef...

Hello again, Nightborne. It has been some time, but the moon is singing once more.

I am casting for the first ever O Nata Nox Actual Play.

Will you answer the call?

forms.gle/Dc5E2tpvKaen...

04.09.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment๐Ÿ‘‡ Please RT.

02.09.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1312    ๐Ÿ” 1410    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94

I've been experimenting and having fun illustrating some mysterious locations with the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social crew...

Join us for a journey through a selection of weird and wonderful #ttrpg locations for your games. Funding now!

#art #ttrpg #ttrpgart

02.09.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Far Horizons Guide to Mysterious Locations A system-agnostic tabletop supplement to add strange and magical locations to your game worlds.

once again i am asking you to go and back the @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social GUIDE TO MYSTERIOUS LOCATIONS, a system-neutral collection of extremely weird, definitely occult, and probably cursed locations in an unnamed city.

(if you can't back it, just spread the word, 'kay?)

02.09.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join our small but mighty team as we continue on our journey to celebrate and connect people to the world of indie RPGs and solo games!

Tabletop Bookshelf is looking for a hospitality-minded, tech-savvy tabletop RPG enthusiast to help build our audience and community (link in comments)

30.08.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Okay, so I've seen this happen several times now. Person A says "hey, Covid is surging, maybe wear a mask again, okay?" They try to word it to cajole, not shame. People react poorly to being shamed.

30.08.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 448    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

When I say "could you do me a huge favor" what I mean is "this is a very minor task that would make my life much easier but my mind is messed up so asking for anything I could technically do myself feels like a huge ask"

29.08.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Jesโ€™ YouTube has 937 subs and 3771/4000 watch hours

Jesโ€™ YouTube has 937 subs and 3771/4000 watch hours

I uhhhโ€ฆneed 63 people to sub to my YouTube and then watch 4 hours of content to make YouTube partner. Thats 4 episode of Tabletop Humans with amazing guests and kickass advice on role playing, DMing, and building immersive worlds.

youtube.com/@jesthehuman

29.08.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, friend! I love how dramatic my hair looks!

29.08.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man is sitting in a red chair with his arms outstretched and a cigarette in his mouth . ALT: a man is sitting in a red chair with his arms outstretched and a cigarette in his mouth .
29.08.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
South Asian woman, black shoulder length curly hair, looking at the camera. Background is a yellow building with some potted plants in evidence.

South Asian woman, black shoulder length curly hair, looking at the camera. Background is a yellow building with some potted plants in evidence.

Felt cute, might delete later.

From a trip with some favourite people.

29.08.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Omg this art!

29.08.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Indian edition cover

Indian edition cover

International edition cover

International edition cover

Zoting
In the folklore of Maharashtra and along the Konkan coast, a Zoting is
the ghost of an unmarried man who dies an accidental death with no living
heirs.
Zotings are notoriously untrustworthy spirits. They make promises in
return for various offerings (young goats, chickens, clothes) but then donโ€™t
hold up their end of the bargain. They are more bothersome than they are
fearsome, harassing people for food or money for no real reason other than
a cantankerous nature.
A Zotingโ€™s favourite target is a pious person who is very meticulous
about observing religious rites. The ghost will find ways to snip the personโ€™s
janeu thread, steal his pooja items, blow out all his diyas as soon as
they are lit, put worms in his kumkum powder, and replace his sandalwood
paste with feces.
Zotings usually haunt old empty houses. On the rare occasions that
they are found outside, they stand with their legs spread apart, with one
foot on each of two trees.

Zoting In the folklore of Maharashtra and along the Konkan coast, a Zoting is the ghost of an unmarried man who dies an accidental death with no living heirs. Zotings are notoriously untrustworthy spirits. They make promises in return for various offerings (young goats, chickens, clothes) but then donโ€™t hold up their end of the bargain. They are more bothersome than they are fearsome, harassing people for food or money for no real reason other than a cantankerous nature. A Zotingโ€™s favourite target is a pious person who is very meticulous about observing religious rites. The ghost will find ways to snip the personโ€™s janeu thread, steal his pooja items, blow out all his diyas as soon as they are lit, put worms in his kumkum powder, and replace his sandalwood paste with feces. Zotings usually haunt old empty houses. On the rare occasions that they are found outside, they stand with their legs spread apart, with one foot on each of two trees.

We haven't plugged this one in a while, and we're coming up on Ullambana next week... so:

GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA is an encyclopedia of folkloric fiends, creepy cryptids, and malevolent mythological mischief-makers from all over the country

www.blaft.com/products/gho...

29.08.2025 12:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: 
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

28.08.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7438    ๐Ÿ” 4001    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45
Male vampire digital art portrait from vampire the Masqurade (vtm) game. Itโ€™s a close up image of his face, his hands adjusting the collar of his coat.

Male vampire digital art portrait from vampire the Masqurade (vtm) game. Itโ€™s a close up image of his face, his hands adjusting the collar of his coat.

Elijah, a vampire from my 1927 VTM game

28.08.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2291    ๐Ÿ” 556    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

...asking for a friend.

28.08.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone know if old fridges sometimes make a low consistently creepy noise that an anxious mind may liken to a creepy zombie-type sound?

28.08.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘€

28.08.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always so sad when a typo causes a zombie apocalypse. :/

28.08.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm so sorry. Orange peels are usually good for keeping pests away

28.08.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The news from your part of the world defies all logic :(

28.08.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

May the world heal from the orange disease. ๐Ÿ’™

28.08.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Always a good idea (the coffee, not the live brains. What even ate brains.)

28.08.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hang in there, friend!

28.08.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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