Marissa

BG Stats Aug 2025 Plays: 16 H-index: 2 Games: 12 New: 4 Players: 7 Locations: 4 Silver & Gold: 3 Horrified: American Monsters: 2 Skip-Bo: 2 Ascension: Curse of the Golden Isles: 1 Azul: 1 Azul: Queen's Garden: 1 Botany: 1 Everdell: Newleaf: 1 The Isle of Cats: 1 16 designers: Michael Kiesling: 16% Amy Droz: 8% Dusty Droz: 8% Frank West: 8% Gary Arant: 8%.

August 2025 recap #boardgamesky

Poverty isn’t a moral failure—it’s the product of a broken capitalist system designed to funnel wealth upward. When the top 1% hoard resources while millions struggle, it exposes systemic greed, not personal shortcomings. Blaming individuals distracts from the real injustice.

The board game “horrified: American monsters”

The travel version of Azul

Everdell with the new leaf expansion

Botany the board game

Hail long weekends #boardgamesky

Poster for the movie Buffalo ‘66

Now watching #filmsky

Right!? 😭

We’re all aware that capitalism is the root of the issue, right?

The movie cover for “get shorty”

Now watching #filmsky

That’s what I hear! Excited to try it out sometime

Space Base!

The philosophy book, big ideas simply explained. A book with a highlighter on top.

A book I’ve been *slowly* reading. It’s only added fuel to the fire tbh. 🔥

BG Stats Jun 1, 2025 - Aug 1, 2025 Plays: 39 H-index: 3 Games: 13 New: 5 Players: 8 Locations: 8 The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game: 15 Space Base: 5 Fluxx: 4 Welcome To...: 3 Lost Ruins of Arnak: 2 Machi Koro 2: 2 Qwixx: 2 Dominion: Prosperity: 1 Dominion: Renaissance: 1 13 designers: Donald X. Vaccarino: 15% Elwen: 15% Mín: 15% Andrew Looney: 7% Benoit Turpin: 7%.

June-August recap #boardgamesky

Playing magic the gathering mtg commander with thalisse, shows my war zone of cards with dice on them

Playing legends of arnak finally, shows my tableau and cards

Played roll player finally, too! Shows me building my human champion wizard street urchin

Space base was a great time!

Sorry Bluesky, I fell off the face of your earth for a bit. Here’s some recent board game highlights #boardgamesky

Graphic with a cartoon bald eagle carrying an upside-down crown over a banner reading "NO KINGS." Now in glorious color with a bit of 35mm film clouds at sunset as the background. NO KINGS logo and nokings.org URL at bottom right.

#NoKings in America. NO KINGS.

Find a rally near you and go this weekend, friends.

nokings.org

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

The monkey movie poster

Now watching #filmsky #horrorsky

Nope! 🫨

You got it 🔥

The remnants of cardboard punch outs to a board game.

What did I just finish punching? #boardgamesky #sologames

Billie Eilish album sitting on my “now spinning” shelf

Now Playing

BG Stats May 2025 Plays: 38 H-index: 2 Games: 17 New: 8 Players: 6 Locations: 4 Next Station: London: 12 The Taverns of Tiefenthal: 3 Azul: 2 Imhotep: The Duel: 2 Jaipur: 2 The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire: 2 Namiji: 2 PARKS: 2 Patchwork: 2 20 designers: Henry Audubon: 11% Michael Kiesling: 11% Antoine Bauza: 5% Austin Foss: 5% Bryan Bornmueller: 5%.

May round up is here, lots of last station London solo on an airplane 😆 #boardgamesky

BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 4: Next Station: London; 2: Azul; 2: Imhotep: The Duel; 2: Jaipur; 2: The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire; 2: Namiji; 2: Patchwork; 2: The Taverns of Tiefenthal; 2: Trails; 1: Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra; 1: Carcassonne; 1: Everdell; 1: The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game; 1: Fire Tower; 1: PARKS.

Had a lovely trip to MA, played 26 games with 5 new to me 🤓

The game namiji on a table

The game taverns of Tiefenthal on a table mid-play

Next station London on a table

Trip to MA day 1 vibes #boardgamesky (not pictured: energy empire)

I think I don’t like metal #musicsky

The movie poster for manhunter with William Peterson, a take on the red dragon story

Now watching on VHS #filmsky

A photo of the menu for Hessen haus’s german specialties and a beer on a table

Me pretending to be in the painting American gothic, at the house from the painting

More Iowa highlights: Hessen haus & the American gothic house

Me standing on the street eating a Dutch ribbon

Myself and my friend sitting in front of some yellow and orange tulips

Myself and my friends standing in front of a “hello from Pella” sign

Had a lovely day at Tulip Time in Pella Iowa this weekend 🥹 🌷

Billionaires didn’t build this country—workers did. But somehow the people who hoard wealth get tax breaks, and the people who hold it all together can’t afford rent. That’s not just unfair—it’s violence dressed up in policy. We deserve better. And we won’t stop until we get it!

This is about all of us. Never forget that.