Tim Clare

I remember there was an ad for a fake poo that went 'Richard the Turd. Nice little pile. Brown & horrible'
Marketing copy at its best

Thanks @severalseals.bsky.social for the digital RPG questions!

I’ve just finished The Game Changers by @timclare.bsky.social. A must read. Loved chapter 12 the most. It’s got me very excited for his talk at Airecon next week!

Honestly I'm finding it a bit difficult today after a welter of articles from people claiming autism is a meaningless term & autism & ADHD are overdiagnosed, pushed by right wing media & mostly from people who struggle with the idea that science advances in light of new information

Thank you

The problem with working on a book is that I can't switch off. I can't stop thinking about it all the time. I experience it as pretty stressful & it disrupts the rest of my life. I know this probably sounds stupid & oversensitive but that's why AuDHD is a disability not magic brain sprinkles

Tabletop roleplay can be therapeutic, but it's not therapy. It actually needs the plausible deniability of pure play to do its best therapeutic work, in fact. Your goofy joke character is where the stinging self-satire & deep vulnerabilities come out to play, & you can't force that.

A bit freaked out that it's nearly Airecon. Life has felt so full on recently that I almost can't imagine what it will feel like to be back there, focusing on games. But I definitely feel like one of the best mes is the one who just ingests games like a blue whale guzzling krill

A Psyduck plushy, clutching its head

I am thinking a lot about Psyduck this morning. I'm going to write about him a bit in my new book. He is a noble avatar of overwhelm.

Like, Mario isn't a frog but he can enjoy & benefit from being Frog Mario for a while. Each costume is another room in the mansion of self.

I feel very out of place in a suit. I think the thing with clothes is that they're all costumes, really, & they sort of unlock different reactions from the world around us and different usses. So as long as we feel the dressing up is consensual we can enjoy the different powers they confer.

Oh yes I know I used it in a ttrpg I made!

Also it features in Ducktales 2 on the NES and Gameboy! You can make Mu rise out of the ocean!

I like how they've made the katakana ムー look like a pyramid with a laserbeam coming out of it. The 'Mu' the magazine is named after is kind of the hipster lost continent, less famous than Atlantis and Lemuria. 'Oh, you probably wouldn't have heard of it.' Also, it's closer to Japan.

The cover of 80s occult magazine Mu. A topless woman, her lower half wrapped in a toga, stands on an island of yellow dirt in the middle of a blue-red sky, on top of a blue human eye set into rock, which is splitting into fragments by the tear duct. A narrow promontory of land curves away to another, similar island.

I've been looking at covers from Mu / ムー magazine in the eighties, during Japan's occult boom. They are so great, if occasionally a little saucy.

I can send you the chapter - suffice to say I have a *lot* of thoughts & have discussed them with a bunch of archaeologists

I was trying to describe this dice tower to my daughter & why the poem has six words of six letters each & why it was probably made & what it suggests about the Romans' love of dice & understanding of probability & I nearly bored her to death, but then I saved it with the dice tower from Wingspan

Remember the Americans only measure these things in farenheit

Ha ha. I'm avin a laugh with me mates down the pub

This article has made me seriously consider going this year. It will break me, but gosh. That's a lot of American Rugby meadows

the Beagle Boys, not 'the criminal dogs' come on man

Aerial photo of crowds of people inside a huge hall, which is full of booths exhibiting board games. Spiel Essen Hall 3 from 2025.

A human-sized mascot of a yellow, white and purple cat stands in front of a crowd held behind a red and white tape barrier inside a large hall. The crowd behind are smiling and laughing. Meeps the cat, the mascot for the Spiel Essen board game fair, and attendees waiting to enter the show from Hall 8 in 2025.

Giant board game fair Spiel Essen has expanded again to ‘max out’ its venue space amid “overwhelming interest” from exhibitors. The show's exhibition floor is now bigger than 15 American football pitches:

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Ok some clown has to write about monsters & autism this morning & since none of you lot are getting off your tuchuses looks like it's going to be me

Yeah, I'd feel quite lonely if the pinnacle of literature was me. But also - often it's awesome & also in a totally different style with different subject matter than you'd ever aspire to. But I still enjoy when something is *annoyingly* good

Lots of great reasons to read, but as a writer, books can offer either Type 1 & Type 2 inspiration.
Type 1: wow! This is amazing. I will spend my life aspiring towards these artistic heights
Type 2: wow! This is rubbish. I can easily do better than this. Maybe being a writer *is* a realistic goal

The job is not to appease the median consumer, it is to light a beacon so the lost & scattered freaks who fuck with your shit can find you

It is my greatest creative pleasure to gob off excitedly about things in print (or audio) & to transfer some of that love & wonder to someone else. I think my task is to flag that intent early & loudly so anyone who isn't up for that can bow out & anyone who is can find me.

Peach is in Super Mario 2 but both are predated by Ms Pacman, very obviously

For World Book Day tomorrow, my daughter is dressing up as Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. I've ended up writing a bit about the movie for the start of my book because I seem to be just grasping at the nearest object at this point

Oh man I love saying to people getting off the train at Diss 'it looks like Diss is your stop'