CRAFT WARS is a Hugo Finalist! I'm very grateful to be nominated, and extremely pleased by the company!

I would KILL to adapt Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST novels to comics!

eXistenZ (1999, dir. Cronenberg)

I'm very excited for this conversation, and EUphoria con in general! It's a bright spot in a bright future for European TTRPGs, so come join us!

Hodgson mention! Also, top drawer thread

Alternative answer:
make the niche-IP-no-one-cares-about-but-you that you want to see in the world

I kind of already did it with my Carnacki the Ghost Finder play 🕯🦅🕯

'Gay' and 'teen' DO meet the arts council's definition of 'communities'...

I loved Crime Traveller! They should absolutely let you at it

I feel like I got over the hump of this application this morning, though 💪

Anyone else thinking of going for Arts Council funding in England, The White Pube's database of successful applications is a very useful resource airtable.com/app8wkVSW9zy...

How will I make sure my audio drama 'benefits people and communities'

Somehow I don't think just writing 'more art in the world is a public good' is going to convince them to relax the purse strings

Good to know! What are the particular skills you'd say it calls for?

This looks like a fun RPG con format! I might apply to run something next year

Coming soon: Beck's End - A Folk Horror Audio Drama An atmospheric folk horror audio drama set in a remote English village, where something ancient stirs beneath the water.

Just want to share the pre-launch for our Kickstarter for Beck's End an atmospheric folk horror audiodrama set in the Lake District, by @mostlymarknixon.bsky.social and @shadowsatthedoor.bsky.social Productions: becksend.com - please share to anyone who might be interested!

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

can't spell representative without resent

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

Write the words "this is shit and I'm fine with that" at the top of the page and then carry on writing

Spider-verse, Nausicäa, and FFVII: Advent Children.

I think I'd try writing some more music. I've dabbled (quick themes for podcast episodes) but a funded year to experiment, write longer pieces, and just luxuriate in learning to make nice sounds just for me would be gorgeous.

Eskew Productions mining new (to me) veins of body horror every day

From what I knew of Our Wars Have Ended pre-launch (undead royalty will rule forever) I was already hooked, and then the first thing they hit me with in episode 1 is "by the way, the kingdom exists in the armpit of a gigantic cosmic Man"???

I just saw a car with a Gengar wraparound decal. Gencar

The Arts Council project grant application process really makes you stare hard at your art and ask who benefits from it being made, or existing

Selfie by Keeper Matt of players around the roleplaying table, including co-Keeper Alex looking incredibly pleased with himself

About a third, maybe less, of the finale of Merely Roleplayers: Vigil is recorded. Tackling big questions like "what do when your misunderstood demon comrade turns out not to be misunderstood after all" and "how do you persuade your brother he doesn't belong in the Omelas hole"

You merely adopted the gravel pit. Hire Mike to play characters who were born gargling gravel.

Russian sci-fi: Everything is awful, everyone's dying, you have no control over or understanding of any of it, might as well make a buck before your skeleton dissolves without warning

Pronouncing gf like chief

You haven't truly lived until you've rapidly flicked a row of toggle switches on the console above your head #Lander23