Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BETTER STRANGERS by Tyler Crumrine (illustrations by Ellie White): a stack of playing cards peppered with expressive cartoon figures. Text on the card reads, “Don’t be a stranger, valentine!”
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game A LAND ONCE MAGIC by Viditya Voleti (illustration by John Gagne): a vivid, technicolor castles cape with a heroic-looking figure standing in the foreground. Text on the card reads, “Your magic never fades”
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game FIGHT TRUCK: 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by Crows Danger (illustration by Samwise Lastname): a technicolor U-Haul truck, surrounded by white flowers on a black background. Text on the card reads, “Valentine, nothing worth doing is safe”
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game GIRL FRAME by Isabelle Ruebsaat (illustration by MossAndTwigs): a girl in a mechanical flightsuit with a neural jack, standing in front of a massive mech hangar. Text on the card reads, “hey girl / i mean frame”
you know what time it is. another valentines day right around the corner, another set of indie tabletop rpg valentines
A peaceful illustration of a young witch (Samar from the game Spirit Swap: Lofi beats to match-3 to) with pink horns and over the ear headphones, sitting on their bed in front of a big window. The window is surrounded by pothos vines and witchy knickknacks, and her Familiar, a pink round Frog with a unicorn horn, sleeps happily loafing next to her.
What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...
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oh no
actually that'd be kind of cool with what i'm thinking of....like someone basically half on the ground clutching onto a rope kind of vibe.
huh. noodling on a snippet of text and my brain conjured aerial silk choreo to go with it. that's not my medium in the slightest.
With one vote today, LA elected officials moved the region closer to realizing a 40-year dream of a public transit line operating between the San Fernando Valley and the Westside.
lapublicpress.org/2026/01/la-m...
did you know that you can read the first two chapters (or over 200 pages) of my queer fantasy comic, TIME WILL DEVOUR HIS CHILDREN, right now for like 9 dollars, and join the large crowd the size of a small crowd that's saying this comic's the bees knees: claystorks.itch.io/time-will-de...
Yellow honey drips on a pink backdrop
beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
beestungmag.com/about/
I show up, or volunteer, for at least one or two Tom of Finland events every year and it is one of those spaces I go into knowing I'll be a bit of an outsider in (for a lot of reasons, including being asian, pre-hrt trans guy, etc). So I appreciate Carta's thoughtful and compassionate article.
I wrote an article for @readlux.bsky.social about my time at the Tom of Finland Foundation and the complexity of Tom's legacy.
Here's a gift link:
lux-magazine.com/article/tom-...
If you want to share safe paths through your city or neighborhood with your neighbors, Route Scouts is an obfuscated map-making system whose routes can be shared visually, shorthand, and via a coordinate system.
As a bonus, it teaches ciphers and code-making.
pandiongames.itch.io/route-scouts
pssssst look what's finally available again
I am so excited to share our first mutual aid panel of 2026, A Jumu’ah Conversation With Muslims In TTRPGs. This is genuinely my favorite ttrpg-related panel I have ever watched, and I hope you will consider carving a little time out of your day to engage with it.
SCRIDDLE #24 (207⨯ - 51:03)
I think it actually took me somewhere in the range of 350 since my first attempt reset. I did brute-force the solution.
SCRIDDLE #25 (90⨯ - 55:36)
I got there in the end.
Was talking music with a coworker and realized I’ve never actually listened to a Beatles album full-through. I grew up on their best hits album.
“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”
I did, in fact, get to 45k!
I'm watching some horrible phone game ad with surprisingly good animation, whose style I can only describe as OK K.O. meets Hilda.
I swear the kaki fry bento from nijiya fucking haunts me. I’ve never seen it since. I want it so bad.
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I see that I’ve already liked this post but I didn’t register the Lizard until just now
I’m really good at this and I‘m Never even intentionally playing
for every $5 you send me i will endorse your ruling. bigger numbers win ties.
Haha this is a fun game. Ivehad 3 hours of sleep.
Awwwww
blep :p
This is just a transcript of a highschool game I used to play
