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Eric Zawadzki

@ericzawadzki.bsky.social

Deviant: The Renegades writer and developer. Regular project updates at patreon.com/Dayzdark. Shallow Graves, a Deviant Player's Guide, is now available on Storyteller's Vault. Currently working on Black Vans, a Deviant Storyteller's Guide. #CofD (he/him)

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I do, too, & it's b/c of fans like you who brought it to my attention when issue 1 came out - even if not quite the way they intended!

(@ericxyz.bsky.social & I share an uncommon name, so folks get us confused on SM all the time - no big deal, but I want to direct your love to the right guy. πŸ™‚)

23.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s one helluva metaphor.

23.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely not a problem. We're both creatives working in geeky spaces who share an unusual name. People get us mixed up on social media all the time. πŸ™‚

22.10.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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22.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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22.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If it doesn't involve three separate trips to the hardware store to complete one routine maintenance task is it really home ownership?

21.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would the fact that we seem to have mostly moved past every Spider-Man movie needing to include his origin story be the equivalent of the ACA - not socialism but at least less bad than what existed before it?

20.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A few shots from No Kings in Minneapolis. Perfect weather for a nice walk with my neighbors.

18.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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This is a series that certainly invites discussion. There's a lot going on in each issue, and I'm looking forward to the next one.

16.10.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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15.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all like trying to cut back on heroin by taking cocaine (or vice versa), isn't it? I don't know how people who don't use Advanced Punctuation Marks get through their day.

12.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: β€œNo one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

11.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16322    πŸ” 4995    πŸ’¬ 286    πŸ“Œ 727

I traded in most of my semicolons and parentheses for em-dashes. It’s a serious problem.

11.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

you know what fair

10.10.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3927    πŸ” 924    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 36

Good choice.

11.10.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

10.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1631    πŸ” 291    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 10
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

09.10.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12641    πŸ” 6701    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 223

Whenever it comes to my attention, I'm always delighted that the Ig Nobel Prizes are a thing that exists. It's good that we have people making Important discoveries and innovations, but anything that increases our understanding of how the universe works is worth celebrating.

09.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ICE experiment has failed catastrophically. Not only should the agency be disbanded, anyone who has held a position there since the start of 2025 should be barred from ever holding a job in fed government. ICE is a magnet for the worst & most lawless people in law enforcement. It needs to go.

08.10.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven't lived in Indiana in 25 years, but I still full-body cringe when someone (especially a politician from another state) refers to its inhabitants as Indianans (or whatever they come up with) instead of as Hoosiers. Does anyone know why they're called that? No. But that's what they're called.

08.10.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like we dealt with this discourse before. "You wouldn't have wheelchair ramps in a dungeon!" Do you think the goblins bringing booty back to their lair want to carry it up & down *stairs* all the time? No, they've got a ramp & hand carts, at the very least, if not a block & tackle elevator.

08.10.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I walk into the shelter

They say the cat is fixed

I ask if it's a scheming eunuch or submissive tgirl nullo

They don't understand

I explain the difference between a scheming eunuch and submissive tgirl nullo

They laugh and say it's a good cat

I look inside

I'm stabbed and my empire is seized

07.10.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

This Amazon Music playlist is utterly ridiculous. It's called Metal Heaven, but a more accurate description would be Every Song Goes as Hard as Humanly Possible. Half the tracks oscillate between sweet melodies & anguished shouting (but not, importantly, metal growling). I'm so here for it.

05.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The box describes this contraption as a "detailer", which makes it sound like something you use on a car to restore it to like-new condition. Somehow I don't think this device is going to achieve a promise of that caliber.

Getting old is certainly interesting.

05.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My beard/mustache trimmer finally gave up the ghost. The battery hasn't held a charge in years; I just left it plugged in when in use. It served me long and well, though - so long, in fact, that it never crossed my mind when I bought it that it lacked a nose/ear hair trimmer. New one has one, tho.

05.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

a bumper sticker which reads "Proud Parent of the Omelas Child"

04.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1028    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9
Preview
Curseborne Player's Guide An expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game, full of roleplaying advice and new mechanical content for players.

The Curseborne Player's Guide is live on Kickstarter. I worked on the cool powers chapter that will be previewed on 10/17, but previews are available throughout the month to anyone backing at the $5 level or higher.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/200...

02.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least that's a theory that is consistent with my experience trying to feed both myself and my kids without any food going to waste. It's basically impossible to achieve both. They'll refuse even their favorite food if there's plenty of it for everyone.

02.10.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The goddess of family demands one of two sacrifices: If a parent makes enough food for the whole family, the kids refuse to eat it, offering the excess as a sacrifice to the deity. If a parent makes just enough for themselves, kids demand it, & parental hunger sates the goddess.

02.10.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Alejandra does an incredible job here breaking down how the NYT presents itself yet again as neutrally documenting a β€œcontroversy” in a way that legitimizes bad faith actors, all while following a very familiar playbook. This is how epistemological violence gets laundered as β€œjust asking questions”

01.10.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 341    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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