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a lifelong student of play; a dabbler; a lover of lichen, sunsets & side 2, track 8 “monk” from ghost quartet. believer of fairies, life’s inherent worth and old trees & clean water // 30s // any pronouns, but especially any you’ve wanting to practice
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when it’s 1am and you’re feeling heated about your breakup 3 months ago but you can’t even get fun sexy vampire catharsis about it yet because it’s still crowdfunding. trying to bottle up this feeling to pull out when i draw a hunger card
To Feel Your Warmth is LIVE on BackerKit! A tragic duet vampire TTRPG about two people in love, one of which has been cursed with vampirism, in the final hours before sunset. A conversation about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. 🩸🚪🌅
the reason why In & Of Itself by Derek DelGaudio is so good is we get to see the exquisite craft of his sleight of hand but at its heart is A PRESERVATION OF WONDER!! (and it’s hot bc it’s also about the weight carrying it)
If you try to tell me how a magic trick was done I will kill you dead in the street without ceremony
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it’s SO hard being patient about this one and the backerkit literally just launched
To Feel Your Warmth is LIVE on BackerKit! A tragic duet vampire TTRPG about two people in love, one of which has been cursed with vampirism, in the final hours before sunset. A conversation about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. 🩸🚪🌅
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well really i just re-listened to today’s episode of @projectecco.bsky.social and was thinking about the efficiency of its storytelling, and its capture and distillation of moments and realized how much of a poets soul this show has (hence why i love it so much) podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
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For me the interesting part of theatre and RPGs is not comparing scripts to games, but how we analyze and prepare a script for a performance versus a game for playing (and arguably also performing) Loved reading this first thing this morning and making me a little late lol
The first interview in the Mousetrap design series is with @newmadras.bsky.social on Theatre and RPGs. Did you know Thomas is not only an accomplished journalist and RPG critic but also an award-winning playwright?
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NEW Dildorks: Our 500th Episode! thedildorks.com/episodes/our... Can you believe that we’ve done this 500 times?! This week, we reflect on the past decade in our sex lives, reminisce about our favorite guest interviews, and help a listener stock a hanky-code-themed piñata!
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the way i gasped the DOOR is OPEN
🩸The Open Door🩸 The biggest and most obvious difference - the door is open. The Time We Have was all about playing with the idea of separation, isolation, and the difficulty of being vulnerable, with the door acting as a literal manifestation of those challenges. In To Feel Your Warmth, this...
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New article by @nsorvis.bsky.social Theatre is an art of re-presentation, of displaying a world... for a spectator; RPGs are about inhabiting one. By disentangling the way the two forms are like and unlike, we can expand the horizons of possibility for both." playtestmaterial.org/spectating-p...
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A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
instructions for a great friday night 1. listen to this ep while dressing up in silk and leather 2. meet up with your bff for live jazz that takes you someplace, but that place is exactly where you are 3. finish the ep on the bus home and nod when Kate says her pull quote is “sex is a place you go”
NEW for all patrons at the $6 level or higher: Bonus Episode 58.5: The Invite www.patreon.com/TheDildorks/... We’re both obsessed with the movie The Invite (2026) right now, so here’s an extra bonus episode where we talked about it in great detail!
got caught in a time storm and briefly became one with a pilgrim who was known as Mrs. Leavitt before her time with the Agency— she smuggled me the scents i was tasked with finding and encouraged me and my lost love to fight ECCO X Time War
“There lies a victim, surrounded by loved ones. What about them have been changed, taken, or controlled?” new pages from my collage playthrough of Project ECCO with This Is How We Lose The Time War
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CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
so incredibly well deserved, i’ve never had a book capture my heart and earn a spot in my favourites with such force, efficiency, and by god style.
Last night was extraordinary & I’m still dazed from it. THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won a Hugo award! Huge congratulations to all the finalists & winners—it was such an honour & a joy to get to celebrate with you!
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