huh for me doughboys are cooked on the end of a stick over a campfire and filled with honey / butter / some filling

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

🎉🎉🎉!

What game is most likely to ruin a friendship?

Oh shit, I blinked and we funded!

Thank you to those who kicked us over the line, and particularly @snaxwell.bsky.social and @aaronmfking.bsky.social as your RTFM episode definitely brought traffic 💚

So I can confirm #LyricalLudology will be coming to your ears this year!!

Stay tuned nerds 😎

Particularly! Airports! and bus ports and all these public areas where huge crowds come through, why remove all of the good hygiene we had in place during COVID?

We need a new Pokemon Pinball. It’s time

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Paper Pushers Print Shop, Grand Opening Sunday 04/26/2026, 11AM - 5PM 1200 5th Ave, Seattle, WA Drinks, live portraits, zines, art books, and more!

it's here! we're opening a ZINE SHOP in downtown seattle -- stop by april 26th to browse books, try tasty drinks, or get a live portrait!! and also after april 26th, but minus the drinks etc

Definitely. I’ve been idly looking at ereaders for this purpose for a while.

Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md

to people who cant use DMs and don't wanna give in to the age verification shit... there's an adblock rule for that.
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

Absolutely!

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

Honoured to be in great company at the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards! What Should We Have Tomorrow? Has been nominated for Game of the Year and Graphic Design, and owes a lot to @lostwaysclub.itch.io who was responsible for the graphic design and game consulting. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

Play games of every kind. Spend a day with friends just playing card games. Read widely. Play and redline edit all my previous games. Learn how to shuffle better. Return to active watching / reading: taking notes and pausing to research, or to test how I would do it. Do more running and bouldering

Be a sponge. Go on walks, give games to & run games for kids in communities and spend time in the Kimberly and Arnhem land and Alice Springs. Visit peers over east and in Malaysia and Guam and the Pacific and the Philippines and SEA. Go to conventions. go on bush walks. Read widely. Observe.

Yeah

Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship - Centre for Stories The Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship is open to writers living outside Australia. It is a residency based at the Centre for Stories in Perth, Western Australia.

If you’re a writer living outside Australia dedicated to cross cultural understanding and fostering ideas, apply for The Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship. It is a residency based at the Centre for Stories in Perth, Western Australia

centreforstories.com/writing-prog...

Unfortunately it’s fairly often that the game design is the reason why I can’t sleep…

Oh also, #LARP folks.

You got a parlor larp?
Something compact?
A game to trick folks into larping?

I want it.

Playing Alone Together My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.

Last week, @the-soloist.itch.io published my essay "Playing Alone Together" about my experience running solo rpgs for groups at Breakout Con. With permission, I'm reposting it in my own newsletter plus a little nugget of my own, where I give my "nutshell" take on how solo RPGs are never truly solo.

March 2026 TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective Zine events are done, which means it's time for big-huge crowdfunders to sweep in again (as though they were even really taking a break duri...

A brief respite from awardsposting to return to crowdfundingposting: the March TTRPG crowdfunding retrospective is here!

ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2026/04/marc...

Job Interview with a Cat    Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?  The warmth, perhaps? The security?  Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless?  Feel free to expand if you wish.    I see you have had experience of similar positions.  Can you talk about a time when you got somebody’s tongue?  Or were set amongst the pigeons?  Tell me about a time you’ve had to deal with a difficult situation – for instance, have you ever found yourself in a bag? If so, how were you let out of it?     How would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks?   What about a tin roof of similar temperature?   With reference to any of your past lives,   has curiosity ever killed you?    Finally, where do you see yourself in five years’ time?  In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight?  What’s that? You would like to be where I am now?  Oh, it appears you already are.  Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Job Interview with a Cat’.

D2089.5
Books illegible
as result
of curse.

Joie it's so big!!!

Games With/Out Art by SmallRedRobin13 A triology of ttrpg experiments.

My next trilogy of games, Games With/Out Art, is out now!

For this, I decided to try to make a series of games completely without visual art, loosely inspired by some discussions that took place on TTRPGsky.

smallredrobin13.itch.io/games-withou...

Look as an Aussie I think Wisco is a perfectly good abbreviation of Wisconsin.

💔 (been there!)