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Mark Smylie

@marksmylie.bsky.social

Occasional illustrator, writer, and TTRPG game designer, former comics publisher (founder of Archaia once upon a time) and editor. Feeder of cats, birds, deer, possums, raccoons, and foxes. Not necessarily in that order.

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In the Company of Still Life - ArtYard

By chance about a dozen small Gorey still life pieces are in this very fine exhibit at ArtYard in Frenchtown: artyard.org/exhibitions/...

07.03.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Torchbearer: Middarmark 2E Preorder
YouTube video by The Burning Wheel πŸ”₯ Torchbearer: Middarmark 2E Preorder

Adventurers, wanderers and outcasts,
There is a center to all things, and the crossroads of all is the Middarmark: a harsh land of stark beauty concealing the crumbling bones of countless civilizations that have sought to tame it and failed. Preorder yours today: www.burningwheel.com/collections/...

05.03.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To switch to Affinity you have to save indd files as idml files which can open in Affinity (either Publisher or the new Affinity suite). But yes it makes it impossible to work with Adobe folks except by swapping PDFs.

05.03.2026 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

04.03.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6035    πŸ” 1813    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 39
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of Kurdish fighters launch ground offensive into Iran against regime, official says - i24NEWS The report comes as Washington weighs support for Kurdish groups and Trump speaks with Kurdish leaders about the war with Iran

Whoops, never mind, it’s up now.

www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...

04.03.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Curiously as of five minutes ago there’s nothing on the i24 English-language site about this.

04.03.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the most influential publishers in the modern history of comics has left the company he helped found.

Mike Richardson out at Dark Horse after 40 years

04.03.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6

Finance bros gonna finance bro.

04.03.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Voyages - Chaosium | Jonstown Compendium | DriveThruRPG.com ThisΒ  book collects together many of the pictures by Mark Smylie created for Ships & ShoresΒ of Southern Genertela

It's taken a while, but Voyages, the Gloranthan Art of Mark Smylie, has now delivered Copper. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5122...
#Glorantha

04.03.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chaosium creators nominated for four 2026 Origins Awards We're delighted that four Chaosium titles have been announced as nominees in the 2026 Origins Awards. Congratulations to the creators involved in these works!

We're delighted that four Chaosium titles have been announced as nominees in the 2026 Origins Awards.

Congratulations to the creators involved in these works!

The winners will be presented on June 19 at @originsgamefair.bsky.social in Columbus OH.

04.03.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Well this is insane.

03.03.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a non-zero chance that Hegseth et al are so enamored of the Rumsfeld Doctrine that they have convinced themselves that a handful of SOF β€œwarfighters” can seize all of Iran.

03.03.2026 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people β€œrecover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

23.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2733    πŸ” 1783    πŸ’¬ 235    πŸ“Œ 1039
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"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnΓ‘ch. πŸ‘

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

01.03.2026 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 773    πŸ” 294    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 31
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NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran.

In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack.

So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera].

The US has just committed a war crime.

(πŸŽ₯ Ary Jeay)

28.02.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1624    πŸ” 940    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 165

Nice to see Kevin Taylor get a mention!

26.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trans Continental Pipeline Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

26.02.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1013    πŸ” 812    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 28
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Teenage Ninja Fighting School - A Shonen Anime RPG Zine Teen ninjas, big feelings, and bigger fightsβ€”a narrative-first anime TTRPG of friendship, wild named attacks, and saving the world!

Teenage Ninja Fighting School by @brennanrtaylor.bsky.social needs less than 1k to fund!

A narrative-first shōnen-inspired #RPG #TTRPG where battles escalate, emotions matter, and your named attacks become part of your legend.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pet...

25.02.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It couldn't be more clear that this was a premeditated act by the BBC, intended to cause the maximum possible harm to both Black people and disabled people.

Burn that organisation to the fucking ground.

25.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œThe people who warned first were not prophets. They were observers. They noticed tone. Pattern. Escalation. They recognized when politics stopped being disagreement and started being elimination.
They were dismissed because they were inconvenient. Because they disrupted comfort.”

25.02.2026 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sherrill transitions to rolling back environmentalΒ protections Democrats using Trump as cover for developer and corporate polluter agenda

Sherrill transitions to rolling back environmental protections

25.02.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here you go:

24.02.2026 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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El Mencho was the last of the old guardβ€”the final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayoβ€”now fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime.

This is a developing story.

The latest: lataco.com/mexico-viole...

By @theglutster.bsky.social

22.02.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 335    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11

The French horror film Martyrs.

22.02.2026 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely. Though like other beta readers response time might be hard to pin down…

20.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You keep going ✊.

20.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The enemy knights are fighting under the banners of King Lot (white banner with red corner) and the Centurion King (purple cross on white) but are I believe otherwise generic knights as opposed to named knights from Arthurian canon.

20.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To Arthur's left are Kay (dual keys) and Pellinore (blue crosses on yellow); to the right are Brastias (raised fist) and Roderick (blue & yellow stripes), under the banner of Leodegrance (lion with raised paw on black). The other knights have random heraldry to stand in for possible Player knights.

20.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Middarmark 2e Preorder For all of your RPG needs.

Pre-order link here: www.burningwheel.com/collections/...

20.02.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0