Amabel Holland

📌 I'm Amabel! - designed City of Six Moons & ~90 other board games - wrote Cardboard Ghosts, about using board games to make political arguments - research focused on crediting designers of the 20th Century - make videos re: history & future of games - I also talk about sex, kink, trauma, politics

"my child turned out fine" sir your child thanks people for not being mad at them even when theyve done nothing that could merit them being mad

ah, october, when both pop music youtuber @shadowtodd.bsky.social and board games youtuber @amabel.bsky.social release videos that feature the same clip from 1995's The Ice Cream Man

Reskeeting because I made the genius decision to release this while everyone was at essen lol

came to a stop on a rural road to let a family of Canada Geese cross and after the mom-goose and the baby-gooses got across the dad-goose tried to bite my car

depends on the species of goose no one I know who has tangled with a canada goose felt like they won the exchange

Reskeeting because I made the genius decision to release this while everyone was at essen lol

(I dont want to hijack this threat, but bg box sizes- history are a very nische special interest of mine and I even wrote an article -in German abut it: www.spielbar.com/wordpress/20...)

the jingle for "smack-it" has been stuck in my head for the last six days after I made the unfortunate decision to include it in the video about the Itchy and Scratchy board game

This morning @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social woke up next to me, reached out and put her palm on my face in greeting, then asked me what time it was. me: six-thirty Samhain: Ridiculous. me: what Samhain: That's a ridiculous time for it to be.

One of the things I've found the most rewarding about researching the authorship of board games is how often things interact with film, tv, comics, animation - by talking about board games I also get to talk about the Disney animators strike, Don Adams's career, shitty horror movies, doo-wop albums

I actually just saw the Todd video earlier today and pointed at the screen when Ice Cream Man showed up

First up was "Who invented the Itchy and Scratchy board game?" by Hollandspiele. A delightfully odd trip down a rabbit hole of unattributed "facts" online. Next was the latest "One Hit Wonderland" by Todd in the Shadows, about the long-forgotten disco hit "Makin' It" by David Naughton.

Last night I watched two YouTube videos, both uploaded within the last couple days, by totally unrelated channels, about totally unrelated topics, that both included clips and references to the Clint Howard movie "Ice Cream Man" (1995), which I had not heard of before last night.

An educational psychologist and an adult film director both claim they invented the Itchy & Scratchy board game. Who's telling the truth? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg--...

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

saw a political ad where some republican had a list of vague accomplishments and instead of ending with "vote for this guy", it ended with "you should call him and THANK HIM for all he's done" and jesus what a weird giant baby

finally, a new type of chaser who focuses on Alex Macks.

Burn this shit down

The bad thing about @amabel.bsky.social's videos is they immediately put the itch in me to go hunting on ebay for copies of the games from the amazingly louche 70s ads she excerpts.

saying that what he said was racist was one of the things people gave me the most shit about from that video - almost as much as people being mad I dunked on the dice tower

"why are so many trans people poly?": transition is an act rooted in agency & bodily autonomy, & requires us to question the assumptions & cultural norms we were told we had to follow "why are so many trans people bad at being poly?": trauma, abuse, self-loathing, & insecure attachment

the good shit

guys the only way I can run this business is if I cook rats and the children I snatch from the playground behind my house why do you want me to fail? Why do you want to crush my dreamsssssss like thissssss 🥺