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@straynerdboy.bsky.social

they/them. 26. some nerd you found drifting through cyber-space. Actor, AP Performer, Photographer, sometimes πŸ”ž

417 Followers  |  130 Following  |  401 Posts  |  Joined: 18.10.2024  |  2.1166

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Andrew did an amazing job working with us on The Home We Remember. let's help him and his family figure out a housing situation in this difficult time! we must have each other's backs as systems fail us.

πŸ’•πŸ’Έ #MutualAid // #HelpSky

03.08.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still looking for help! Please please share if you can!

31.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is rubbing her nose with her fist while another woman looks on . Alt: a woman is so proud she's crying, but still trying to cheer so she's alternating between wiping tears away and fist pumping
03.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YEEEAH

y'all should check this out and maybe unlock the 8th day of the week

03.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover page of the game "8th Day of the Week" with no title text. The art has a person colored in red falling under a bed colored in white against a black background. A white light is silhouetting the head of the person

Cover page of the game "8th Day of the Week" with no title text. The art has a person colored in red falling under a bed colored in white against a black background. A white light is silhouetting the head of the person

1. INTRODUCTION

You don’t know how the legend came to your knowledge

EIGHTH DAY OF THE WEEK is a game about escaping the grind,
and staying awake for 7 days while enduring everyday life and a
specter of sleep debt you leave behind, all to get a taste of
unlocking the secret eighth day of the week.
This is a game of long term sleep deprivation, complicated
relationships with the self, fluctuating debt of the self, of sleep, to
an entity that is too vindictive to be considered a force of karma.

Content Warning section x
This game deals with themes such as insomnia,
degenerative mental and neurological states,
psychosis, delusions, hallucinations, unreality,
supernatural forces and the occult, death,
capitalism, debt, punitive justice, stalking, drugs,
self harm, and purgatory.

2.HOW TO PLAY SECTION


This is a solo journaling ttrpg where you document your journey of
sleep avoidance for 7 days in order to potentially unlock a secret
eighth day of the week. You play the game by rolling for a prompt
that will color the next 24 hours(?) of gameplay, and keep track of
DEBT which is a negative currency you owe to the LENDER, and
REROLLS for the day that they're assigned to. At the end of each
day, there will be a mechanical change that you incorporate into
your character's resources. You will be directed to either roll for a
prompt in a table or pick a single prompt.

Unless otherwise prompted, roll on the MUNDANE
side for each consecutive day
You will need:
– a six sided die.
– something to write with to journal the game.
At the start of every day, before reading your prompt, write down
how many DEBT you have.

But before that...

1. INTRODUCTION You don’t know how the legend came to your knowledge EIGHTH DAY OF THE WEEK is a game about escaping the grind, and staying awake for 7 days while enduring everyday life and a specter of sleep debt you leave behind, all to get a taste of unlocking the secret eighth day of the week. This is a game of long term sleep deprivation, complicated relationships with the self, fluctuating debt of the self, of sleep, to an entity that is too vindictive to be considered a force of karma. Content Warning section x This game deals with themes such as insomnia, degenerative mental and neurological states, psychosis, delusions, hallucinations, unreality, supernatural forces and the occult, death, capitalism, debt, punitive justice, stalking, drugs, self harm, and purgatory. 2.HOW TO PLAY SECTION This is a solo journaling ttrpg where you document your journey of sleep avoidance for 7 days in order to potentially unlock a secret eighth day of the week. You play the game by rolling for a prompt that will color the next 24 hours(?) of gameplay, and keep track of DEBT which is a negative currency you owe to the LENDER, and REROLLS for the day that they're assigned to. At the end of each day, there will be a mechanical change that you incorporate into your character's resources. You will be directed to either roll for a prompt in a table or pick a single prompt. Unless otherwise prompted, roll on the MUNDANE side for each consecutive day You will need: – a six sided die. – something to write with to journal the game. At the start of every day, before reading your prompt, write down how many DEBT you have. But before that...

The reveal πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ:

8th DAY OF THE WEEK: my first game (not self) published and distributed by @plusoneexp.bsky.social

plusoneexp.com/collections/...

CWs in the alt text introduction page

03.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

Bimonthly reminder, put me in a mech game. I’ll show off my Gunpla to prove I’m cool πŸ₯Ί

25.07.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to raise at lease $100 by tomorrow for the heatwave so I may get to a cooling center to work. Anything helps, sharing does wonders. Thank you.

24.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Help one of our producers escape the heatwave. Donate or share, every bit helps.

24.07.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'M FINALLY BACK!!!!

24.07.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is standing in front of a microphone with the words `` help me '' written on it . ALT: a man is standing in front of a microphone with the words `` help me '' written on it .

2 full calendar weeks and the @moderation.bsky.app team still has my account suspended for security reason despite my 5 or so messages requesting reinstatement. I’d love if some other people helped put some pressure on this situation

23.07.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

pls help fabs beat the heat in this awful fucking summer

22.07.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

having a job that works me til I wanna cry and still having no money for fun sucks. gonna have to put my last dollars for the week into my gas tank again, I wanna kms

22.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My phone bill is actively behind and cut off. If you could please share and donate I really need it

21.07.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

I need a win so bad rn...

18.07.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forcing yourself to engage in tropes you genuinely don't care about bc "that's how you do [genre]" is how you make something shallow.

Being "intentional" is more than just knowing what's popular and what's problematic. It's knowing *what YOU want* and not shooting yourself in the foot.

18.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

- and there's no reason why mech stuff should stop growing beyond Gundam. If your mech stories fall into the Mazinger Z / Super Sentai style Super Robot or it your stories fall closer to Gundam, that's fine so long as that's what you want. Just don't act like those are the only 2 boxes.

18.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mechs don't need to be hefty tanks given out by the hundreds to an army in a narrative about dehumanization, imperialism, and warfare. Gundam is just popular. You don't need to force your mechs into those themes if you don't want to. There's like a full decade of mech stuff that came before Gundam-

18.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Free yourself from your preconceived notions of "the correct way" to approach fictional concepts and genres. There is no right way, there's just paths that have been proven profitable so people keep going back to them.

18.07.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

struggling to not give up

17.07.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Fabian Lelay Support Fabian Lelay

This summer heat has been ROUGH. Even reminisced with my brother how NY summers weren't that bad 10 years ago. That brings me to asking for help. I live in a space where an AC unit has no place for installation but need help with Cooling and just catching up in general.

ko-fi.com/rocketsandpe...

17.07.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 8

I feel like a glass of delicious juice that got tipped over before someone could sip from it. Now I'm empty and my content is undrinkable.

17.07.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Buy Dare Hickman a Coffee Become a supporter of Dare Hickman today!

On top of the everything else, from struggling to pay for rent, for food, for therapy, I also got pulled over and need to pay to get my car’s insurance and stuff updated before the 5th of August so please if you can spare anything I really need it

ko-fi.com/dare2dream/g...

15.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

YAAA

16.07.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SNP Presents: Talks Underground Ep 10 Secret Nerd Podcast Β· Episode

Our finale talkback for Ghosts Underground is available now! For the 1st time, we got the whole crew together for a talkback!

Big thanks again to the brilliant @straynerdboy.bsky.social, @cleric34.bsky.social, @agonethetic.bsky.social & @scarydogfriend.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/5bCZ...

15.07.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ive worked multiple customer service jobs, but god corporate retail is a specific circle of hell

15.07.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”΄ We’re live in a few minutes! Cycle in, Dreamers! πŸ”΄

twitch.tv/badhouserpg

14.07.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

remember this photo from the last episode of Slumber??

Anyway we're about to go LIVE with a talk back for the series RIGHT NOW

14.07.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TONIGHT

The Dreamers are coming together one more time to talk about the horrors they faced in Slumber!

If you have any questions for the crew, there is still time to ask them!

Catch'em tonight 4pm PT/7pm ET!

14.07.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A screenshot of part of the ashcan of the TTRPG, The Home We Remember. It features a plum background with large text reading, "WHO ARE YOU?" repeated along the edges. Overlaid on the left side of the border is art of Eira, a character from the TTRPG Actual Play podcast, Laurie's House. To the right is yellow text that is cut off. The visible parts read, "Once anchored, tie your Tethers. Decide to... each Tether is attached. What does it say... character and who they are? Whether loosely... bound, pick one for each of the following to... FLORA (e.g., ivy, mullein, pine, etc.)".

A screenshot of part of the ashcan of the TTRPG, The Home We Remember. It features a plum background with large text reading, "WHO ARE YOU?" repeated along the edges. Overlaid on the left side of the border is art of Eira, a character from the TTRPG Actual Play podcast, Laurie's House. To the right is yellow text that is cut off. The visible parts read, "Once anchored, tie your Tethers. Decide to... each Tether is attached. What does it say... character and who they are? Whether loosely... bound, pick one for each of the following to... FLORA (e.g., ivy, mullein, pine, etc.)".

Laurie's House is an Actual Play, using The Home We Remember as its system. THWR is an introspective lyric #TTRPG of magical realism. it is a game about imperfect memory, identity, and community.

what if you could play the game yourself soon? do you want sneak peeks of the ashcan? πŸ‘€

14.07.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

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