I'm looking for some extra work and would be very interested in any part-time or contract gigs that could make use of my writing, editing, and project management experience. Creative work, research and reporting, consulting; I am happy to do it all.
Email: chasewritesthing [at] gmail
DMs open here!
It's a good one if I say so myself!
I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:
Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
12 hours over a weekend sounds fair to me. I probably wouldn't be able to do more.
22 in 1.5 days is a lot, wow.
(Also lol at Hardcore Mode 💀)
This GoFundMe is ssooooooo close to getting its goal. Only around $4.1K left
If you can’t donate, share
It’d be real neat to help them get to their goal after all this time! Away my (30) followers!!!
How long do you think a game could go if you had the whole weekend? 2 sessions per day? So like 12 hours total across the whole weekend?
Some BLOOMING AWESOME stuff in this issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social 🏵️ so much to get absorbed in. This is the first Wyrd Science I am not in and it's an absolute banger. Hmmm! ;)
shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
a cover page with the title 'Monsters ate my homework'. It is a drawing of two teenagers, one in a wheelchair peeking inside a room while a blob monsters smiles in a creepy manner behind them.
Listen, I wrote a game which I'm pretty proud of. Yes, it IS another teens-fighting-monsters RPG but the title's pretty good, yeah? Anyway, it come out via @plusoneexp.bsky.social 's Zine Club soon. IF YOU HAVE SPACE TO TALK ABOUT IT PLEASE HAVE ME ON. I can run games for you too! 😗
I am floored to say that The Time We Have has been nominated for 5 categories in the indie groundbreakers!
Best Graphic Design
Best Art
Best Rules
Most Innovative
Game of the Year
Check out all the nominees! Honored to be among so many sick games
Love to see it!
Congratulations!
front cover art for Knock's folklore bestiary, OSR version. it shows a trio of adventurers facing a tentacled monster which coils around the edges of the frame, bristling with eyes and pincers. the adventurers - a hooded rogue, a burly knight, and a short, haunted-looking wizard all group togehter, looking daunted.
ink drawing of a figure stabbed through the back by a sword. the sword is in red ink, the figure in black. the figure has a wizened, anguised face, and wears a shaggy cape and hood made from ragged reeds. they have long-nailed hands moving as if to clutch at the blade run through them.
An illustrated map, bisecting several interwoven grass basket buildings clinging to the side of a tree. Small animals like rodents, shrews and hedgehogs bustle around a busy market and show ground, while larger animals like birds peer in through skylights above. Smaller floral chambers are attached to the main hall, overflowing with wild flowers and each occupied by a colourful pageant competing butterfly.
a page of black and white illustrations showing multiple artefacts and depictions of tombs and burials of many kinds, including a bog body, terracotta warriors, an air burial and an ossuary.
Hi #portfolioday I'm an illustrator maily working in games and narrative art, shedule currently clear so give me a bell if you want some weird monsters or obsessively detailed greenery!
portfolio: toadlett.com
contact: email is in my profile, please don't dm I can't see it cos I'm UK based.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Ahh, sounds awesome
Fourth in-person session of Apocalypse World Warriors of the World Ablaze just happened and I'm starting to think that this face-to-face idea might have legs.
also what was the event!
have you tried not getting owned
The fabulous, if, yes, somewhat idiosyncratic, 1979 Hungarian movie poster for “Star Wars: A New Hope”, by András Felvidéki.
A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
A really interesting essay-- worth a read. It points at other kinds of fandom in rpgs: where you dig a particular setting but want to run in that world with a different set of rules. I've done that for L5R, Changeling the Lost, Coriolis & others. It's an associated form of rpg curation.
Me: [idly looking up info on popes]
Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.
Me: wut?
Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
We just started a new automated system so we're still figuring out the details. If we can get it to pull the alt text from the source, we'll do it.
This is a really good interview with some great historical anecdotes. It also fits really well with the conversation with Peter Adkison last year.
I, for some reason, really like asking people about the '90s.
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.
Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
Haha, I'm not sure what to do with a resume but feel free to reach out if you want to talk about something!
fantastic piece
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
An incredible thread on the History of Call of Cthulhu