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You've seen right through me, Thomas!
markwallace.itch.io/garbage-in-g...
I teach a class like this on To the Lighthouse, and every time it kills me and everyone else that it's only 6 weeks long.
10.02.2026 04:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0hahaha I have heard all about the Magic but not about the queer is all.
10.02.2026 03:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My OVER/UNDER hack of Lasers & Feelings (it's called Garbage In / Garbage Out) is in there!
10.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Amber Glenn is cool, but it's true, these two data points are treated differently by the media in a really... interesting way.
10.02.2026 03:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0post a banger that isn't in English
youtu.be/ye1dgqDANWg?...
Either way, there's nothing very male about boy kibble, trust me. Unless you identify as he/deranged.
10.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No lights- The floor is littered with beams, plaster, ash. The western pile of rubble will open one eye, and then another and another, deep beneath the ground the water the chamber awaits its victims.
I've been playing around with creating a poem cycle describing a dungeon, constructed as centos using text from old adventure modules and sourcebooks. Here's one of the poems I'm happiest with so far.
09.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 54 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2Somewhere in this bundle I have a game. But that's not why you should buy it.
09.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0fantastic story
08.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
08.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 364 🔁 147 💬 19 📌 23Waiting for Amber Glenn to skate before I take a walk because apparently she plays Magic and even though I don't I am just a big dork that way.
08.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0looking forward to this one
08.02.2026 01:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Super-fun evening intro'ing 3 RPG virgins & 2 RPG veterans to Mausritter. Treasure map lost to squabbling Dedratz, war hero paraded around on vagabond's shoulders, TicTac the cat driven off by a flaming arrow & a tiny beehive stuck in his ear, village guardmouse survived, and everyone got home safe.
07.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OVER/UNDER fanfic. Outstanding.
07.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0After all, we have learned through much misery that the supposed guardrails of democracy have been nothing more than a series of polite suggestions written on post-it notes and heartfelt pinkie swears for the last 250 years.
06.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Maybe you can take the characters from Blades in the Dark and just play them in Blades in '68 to achieve a similar effect?
05.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tanya is awesome, check this out
05.02.2026 04:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(generative used loosely)
04.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love generative shit, so I am excited to check it out.
04.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0just updated my Mac to the new OS (Tahoe? tawdry city), and now I want to pluck my fucking eyes out. I mean, come on. It was bad enough on my iPhone, now this? Sorry for having an opinion about this, but I suffer Windows all day long at work. I'm down with suffering for my art — but not this badly.
04.02.2026 07:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stoked to be able to back Twisting Unseen, a build-the-dungeon zine for Mothership RPG from @chrisair.itch.io ! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/5...
04.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1what a treat
04.02.2026 02:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0East River x Gowanus Canal
03.02.2026 07:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great thread from Tim Denee on the type and graphic design of Blades '68 and Blades in the Dark.
03.02.2026 07:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the teeth!
01.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Compulsory repost: thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
01.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🫂
01.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is why I turn off that feature. I don't want to know what everyone else finds interesting, I want to find my own.
01.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The two actors together on stage
Judi Dench & Bill Nighy in the National Theatre production of Chekhov’s The Seagull
📷 Robbie Jack, 1994