Sen.H.H.S ➡️ Easing back into writing...

As the TTRPG media sphere contracts, we're expanding -- Rascal is hiring a news writer!

We're running a short 2 week pledge drive, offering a 6 month, 25% discount, celebrating our Diana Jones Award... nomination... in order to support this new hire.

After some private donations, I am $300 away from my goal. I am nearly there.

Considering the word count limit, I am actually a bit thankful that I didn't need to write about the 50 redundant prefectures. It would have taken us out of the Shining Kingdoms region, after all.

There is something about a fire though-- *burst into flames*

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My calendar is wide open, with the exception the week of August 4, because I don't work during my birthday week. 🥰

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Congrats!!!

This had me screaming when I was writing for LO:SK. 😵

A reminder for anyone going to Gen Con next week:

Please MASK on the plane there, in the convention, in bars, restaurants, anywhere that isn't well ventilated!!!

Advice for people calling Visa & MasterCard to complain about their censorship of sexual content ⬇️

The tldr is call at least twice on different days and keep them on the phone for longer.

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go!

Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.”

Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

An image advertising the details of jess' GenCon signing at the Roll For Combat booth. The image background features a leshy dragon tasting soup. The GenCon logo and Roll For Combat logos appear in the upper left corner. A picture of jess appears beneath them. Text reads "Freelance game designer Jessica Redekop Author signing & place to find me Thursday 2 PM - 4 PM at Booth 1949"

Hello I will be at GenCon. Specifically, I will be at the Roll For Combat booth (booth 1949) Thursday from 2 PM to 4 PM to meet up, sign things, and whatever.

One way to tell if you've got too many mannerisms, hand movements, sighs, and the like in a scene: Have your friends act out just the physicality of a scene. If they're all doubled over laughing by the end, you know what you did.

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 56, “Resurrecting Venus" by Galen Dara: In the background, two planets overlap. A large red one is eclipsed by a blue one, the surface is decorated with waves. At the forefront, a woman's face is split in three pieces that are slowly coming together. Spread throughout the motif of sea waves are present in shades of light blue, dark blue, and purple. The outline of koi are spread throughout too, accompanying the woman. The quote reads: "Bloodsoaked and grinning, the Soldier climbs to the summit of the ruins. The wind is mountain-top fast. It grabs the strands of her hair that have escaped her ponytail and sticks them to her ecstatic mouth: the slick surface of teeth, the gloss-wet of lipstain."

Congratulations to Arkady Martine! “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction! You can read it here! buff.ly/4k22c1g

Big news! I reached out to team at DE last year and we were able to come together to make something very exciting! Looking forward to sharing more about it very soon!

Holding up my book "Mastering Community Management: Chaos, Compassion, and Connection in Games".

Picture of me in between shelves of books, holding up my book.

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨

"Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭

Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces!

Shares appreciated. AHH!!

Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

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Community managers! Check out this gig below from @redcandlegames.bsky.social !

I am not affiliated and therefore cannot answer any questions.

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Alexander Skarsgård and David Dastmalchian, in a scene from Murderbot, looking at each other awkwardly.

Caught the final episode of the first season of Murderbot last night. The whole first season was just lovely, and I'm delighted that it's gotten a second season. Congrats, @marthawells.com, and everyone else involved, both for the season that's wrapped up, and for what is to come.

📣 Hey #TTRPGfamily! We're looking for a skilled copyeditor and proofreader for our upcoming release, Mystified.
If you're interested—or know someone who'd be a great fit—drop us a message here or email us at wanderers.tome@gmail.com!

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

There's an interview with me in Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

Strange Horizons 2026 A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

If you want to get a fungi in sff issue... as well as issues like sff and the working class, *and* the issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of Strange Horizons...

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The cost of cancer isn't over once it's in remission.
Between paying for procedures from months or years ago to ongoing testing and check-up, the medical bills keep growing.
Every dollar helps.
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A Bsky settings panel, in the Notifications subsection, Listing options for what to receive notifications for. "Likes of your reposts" is highlighted.

Pre-emptive PSA, cause it's popped up and immediately raised a flag.

Bsky has just implemented receiving like and retweet notifications *on retweets you've made*

Since I know some folks would not like this, yes, you can disable it, and here's where you can do that.

You'll need to update the app.

We have a stretch goal where I run a role-playing game!

You can see me get flustered when you go off plot! You can hear me forget NPCs' names and just call them all "Bob"! You can witness me draw a map with a mouse that looks like the Will Graham encephalitis clock from Hannibal!

Back it now!

2025 World Fantasy Awards Finalists The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2024 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2025 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2…

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Launching August 2025 Black Market Guide to Immortality: A 5e/PF2e Sourcebook Role-Playing Games by Nine Heavens Press Join the Launch Party 571 followers

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We're at 571!!! 29 until 600 followers! The Black Market Guide launches on Backerkit mid-August, please follow us for early perks like!!! Cute jiang-shi sticker!! #dnd #pf2e

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You're in for a journey. Enjoy!

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome t...

You can play test a new video game 🎮 📖 called “Scriptorium” and in it: “Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations & items.” Gimme two Isidores & an Augustine.

RTs appreciated:

Is there anyone in the ttrpg space who offers "handwriting services"? In other words, folks with excellent handwriting skills that can help me produce some physical documents for a game that I'm working on. (Paid work with fairly detailed specifications)

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

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