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Ernie Roby-Tomić

@somnbody.bsky.social

Lali-ho! I'm Ernie, an Appalachian audiovisual artist and musician currently based in the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. I make work and do research around gaming media and folklore!

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When you (me) enjoy the creative works someone (you) makes and then find out one of their (your) touchstones is also something you (me) love then some tiny sliver of the world makes sense for once.

03.03.2026 06:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster featuring several arctic animals rendered in a flat 2D illustrative style participating in a Game Jam. Two kittiwakes share fries, an arctic fox makes vfx, an orca is belting a song, a moose is playtesting, a husky is drawing a poop ninja on a digital drawing tablet, a lynx is petting his chin dreaming of concepts, another husky is spacing out in the back, urchins are eating pizza and stabbing electronics and energy drinks with their spines. A bold title at the top in retro slanted metallic font reads TROMSØ GAME JAM 2026. In the background are arctic mountains and pink AI monsters that are just geometric six-fingered hands are flying around and shooting lasers.

Poster featuring several arctic animals rendered in a flat 2D illustrative style participating in a Game Jam. Two kittiwakes share fries, an arctic fox makes vfx, an orca is belting a song, a moose is playtesting, a husky is drawing a poop ninja on a digital drawing tablet, a lynx is petting his chin dreaming of concepts, another husky is spacing out in the back, urchins are eating pizza and stabbing electronics and energy drinks with their spines. A bold title at the top in retro slanted metallic font reads TROMSØ GAME JAM 2026. In the background are arctic mountains and pink AI monsters that are just geometric six-fingered hands are flying around and shooting lasers.

Drew up this poster for Global Game Jam in Tromsø 2026! Arctic party animals roooooooooo

Come hang with @toothgames.bsky.social and we dang arctic buttoners end of January see you there RIGHT?

It's free, it's fun, and yall learn a ton

@globalgamejam.bsky.social

12.01.2026 17:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock

I make RPGs with elegant mechanics and strong themes and they're all on sale for September only! GETTEM jen-adcock15.itch.io

19.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 40    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 4
A pixelated game sprite of a mechanical horse galloping through smoke, impaled on a longsword. The front half is an armored and decorated horse in mirror-finish metals and gold ornaments and purple gemstones. The back-half is that of a hovercraft. Draped over it is a banner depicting an up-side down tower with an open window and a single drop of Eyalet Sky, or a cerulean blue, water.

A pixelated game sprite of a mechanical horse galloping through smoke, impaled on a longsword. The front half is an armored and decorated horse in mirror-finish metals and gold ornaments and purple gemstones. The back-half is that of a hovercraft. Draped over it is a banner depicting an up-side down tower with an open window and a single drop of Eyalet Sky, or a cerulean blue, water.

Custom Karrakkin House of Smoke Taraxacum chassis token for our Shadow of the Wolp campaign.

The base chassis is a Retrograde Minis Taraxacum with the additions of the impaled, Dolly'd-up energy horse.

#lancer #ttrpg #pixelart #sprites #lancerttrpg #vtt #karrakkin #Taraxacum #massif #eyaletsky

31.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Any idea of when?

09.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Four metal printed photos of paintings from the video game Disco Elysium representing available stats to specialize in during the game. From left to right: a boney, yellowed torso with no head and many limbs, electricity crackling through the nervous system of a red bust, a darkened figure in blue and green spiraling white from a dot and a square at its fingertips and it's eyes affixed on the viewer, and lastly a chromatic explosion of texture in place of a head on deep purple torso.

Four metal printed photos of paintings from the video game Disco Elysium representing available stats to specialize in during the game. From left to right: a boney, yellowed torso with no head and many limbs, electricity crackling through the nervous system of a red bust, a darkened figure in blue and green spiraling white from a dot and a square at its fingertips and it's eyes affixed on the viewer, and lastly a chromatic explosion of texture in place of a head on deep purple torso.

Savoir Faire
Shivers
Conceptualization
Inland Empire

01.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...

When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.

One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...

15.05.2025 23:54 — 👍 864    🔁 281    💬 8    📌 17
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Sinners and Seamonsters Indie TTRPG Horror Jam A game jam from 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-01 hosted by BrewistTabletopGames. Welcome to The Sinners and Seamonsters Jam! The Sinners and Seamonsters Jam is an indie TTRPG game jam celebrating the specific...

itch.io/jam/sinners-...

05.05.2025 20:41 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3

Ahhh okay thank you!

06.05.2025 09:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How can I follow-up? Will this jam be on itch ?

06.05.2025 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy International Workers' Day!

Ya boy on the sousaphone and shout-a-phone for this cover.
I am a container for disaster ballads and workers' rights songs, so I am really thrilled to contribute to this release. J. is an inspiration to me and helped grow radical dreams from Appalachian seeds.

01.05.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Preacher & the Slave, by J. Marinelli track by J. Marinelli

Happy International Workers' Day! To celebrate, I'm releasing May's single, a cover of Swedish-American activist, labor organizer, and songwriter Joe Hill's "The Preacher & the Slave," written and published in 1911.

01.05.2025 07:55 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

It's not okay you don't have access. Just reach out!

20.04.2025 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just bought a copy. I am very excited for this! I grew up in WV and have a great interest in the labor movements. Absolutely thrilled to see your game! And I will definitely leave a review after I get a chance to try it out.

20.04.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Whoah! Very cool! I'm kind of obsessed with the WV Mine Wars/labor movement of the 1920s so uh...spot on!!!

20.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can confirm, Jenkat's games are good as hell.

If you're looking for a starting point absolutely try Thief Healer Arcanist Warrior it's extremely refreshing.

20.04.2025 02:08 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I think the next new season that was just announced is Dropout exclusive, actually. Let me know if you need help viewing! It looks really really good...

19.04.2025 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Character illustration of an androgynous, light-skinned human wearing a greenish-blue tinted mask of gel, like a sleep-gel mask. There are wires and electrodes hooked up to their face and a breathing tube in their nose. They have mid-length wavy brown hair on one side and buzzed closer to the scalp on the other. They are wearing a sort of puffy yellow jumpsuit.

Character illustration of an androgynous, light-skinned human wearing a greenish-blue tinted mask of gel, like a sleep-gel mask. There are wires and electrodes hooked up to their face and a breathing tube in their nose. They have mid-length wavy brown hair on one side and buzzed closer to the scalp on the other. They are wearing a sort of puffy yellow jumpsuit.

Evening character sketch!
It's basically a self-portrait, plus and minus.

#krita #illustration #Lancer #TTRPG

19.04.2025 23:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Travesty. Is it banned on YouTube as well?

17.04.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Smash the patriarchy; your work is amazing and if this is the void then I'm a voidling and the voidlings hear you. Hope we live to see those changes we always seem to be holding our breath for.

16.04.2025 21:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, so cool! Love your take !

16.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gobs in a trenchcoatoadmech is awesome!

16.04.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
15.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Illustration of mech chassis "Calendula" from the Lancer Tabletop Roleplaying RPG. A full-body character illustration of 
 a humanoid mech swiping and floating in fog. It has ornate, silver armor with decorative motiffs which is peeling off and disentegrating from the feet up. On the right arm is a black sword beam which has its armor fully intact. The left arm is totally stripped of armor, reaching backward through the fog. It's head resembles a metallic calendula flower with an insectoid face nestled deep in metal pedals. A little fluorish of warm yellow and orange color contrasts the light and dark cool blues and turqoise in orbs seated into parts of the armor on its chest and face.

Illustration of mech chassis "Calendula" from the Lancer Tabletop Roleplaying RPG. A full-body character illustration of a humanoid mech swiping and floating in fog. It has ornate, silver armor with decorative motiffs which is peeling off and disentegrating from the feet up. On the right arm is a black sword beam which has its armor fully intact. The left arm is totally stripped of armor, reaching backward through the fog. It's head resembles a metallic calendula flower with an insectoid face nestled deep in metal pedals. A little fluorish of warm yellow and orange color contrasts the light and dark cool blues and turqoise in orbs seated into parts of the armor on its chest and face.

Have really fallen in love with Lancer TTRPG! Just finished my take on Calendula, inspired by and taking core design ideas from @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social 's illustration in Field Guide to Karrakin Trade Baronies published by Massif Press.

#LancerRPG #calendula #krita #illustration #TTRPG

13.04.2025 16:10 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Do something, anything else. Inspiration comes from *out there* [vague hand motions]

18.03.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Surprised it isn't Key Lime

17.03.2025 06:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel dumber, for sure

16.03.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0


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That's intrinsic, magxcessive, and to be seen everything by everywhere!!

14.03.2025 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love that Daft Punk song!

14.03.2025 06:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I couldn't include images with video in my previous post, but here is the photograph looking out from Olson Tower over the Monongahela National Forest. I doctored a shitty little sticker someone had put on the window with lyrics from Hasil Adkins's 'Shake That Thing'.

13.03.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0