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Charu "Ru" Chandni Patel @cherrydrop.bsky.social · 1h

This is SO GOOD

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Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 9h

Ghostboy is a tabletop role-playing game for 2-3 players about the beauty of moving on.

Gather your friends and tell the story of a ghost learning about who they were as they come to terms with their death.

www.dinoberrypress.com/shop/p/ghost...

forktwenty.itch.io

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Nova, but spooky @diceynova.bsky.social · 8h

Have y'all played Ghostboy? It's my favorite game I've made

Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 9h

Ghostboy is a tabletop role-playing game for 2-3 players about the beauty of moving on.

Gather your friends and tell the story of a ghost learning about who they were as they come to terms with their death.

www.dinoberrypress.com/shop/p/ghost...

forktwenty.itch.io

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Jess✨Commissions Open @angryartist.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!

I'm Jess, I'm an illustrator, and I'm available for new work at this time! Hire me to draw pretty pictures for you <3

✉️[email protected]
✨https://jessicakuczynski.com/

The cover of the TTRPG Motel Spooky Nine.

An illustration of a hand reaching down into a massive sea of yarn balls.

An illustration of a woman snuggling a pillow on a soft nest of blankets.

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 1d

I set myself a goal of finishing Silksong before Pokemon ZA comes out. Can I do it? (probably not) But let's try anyways!!

Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames

Nonbinary streamer FaunAndGames, a tan skin femme perceived person with brown, blue, and purple hair, is wearing gaming headphones with antlers on them. Fawn is smiling and making a peace sign at the camera. Around them are Twitch stream decorations and a ton of nerdy video game and Pokemon memorabilia.

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck it.

Scheduled my pro-masking version of lyrics for the tune of the classic pro-union song “Which Side are You On?”, originally by Florence Reece.

They’ll be free on my Patreon tomorrow morning!

Mask up for your community— and for yourselves, cuties. 😷💜

Patreon.com/TheAilingWitch

Red text on a black background reading:

Original Lyrics for the Classic Civil Action Song
Put a Mask Back On!
(Which Side are You On?)
Patreon.com/TheAiling Witch

An image of an N-95 and KN-95 face mask in the upper corners.

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · Jun 30

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

Digital art Illustration of two women in a tender embrace in front of a arched window. Both women are Palestinian and wearing elaborately decorated traditional thobes. The woman to the left has a deeper skin tone and a tender smile. Her braided black hair is decorated with silver ornaments towards the bottom.

The woman to the right is wearing a heavy coin headdress that has chains leading down to her waist. Her face has subtle tattoos that match those on her hand.

In the arched window behind them there are palm trees in the distance and foliage that coveres the bottom of the window.

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 2d

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone🇵🇸🫶

سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · Jun 30

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 16d

hey y'all!!

my artist-sister-friend has created a BEAUTIFUL card deck & dice set rooted in the liberatory practices and guidance of our ancestors.

i had a chance to use a proto & want a set real bad, so please support this kickstarter!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit

Playing cards, dice and dynamic Black study... guided by the legacies and practices of freedom-seeking ancestors.

www.kickstarter.com

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Charu "Ru" Chandni Patel @cherrydrop.bsky.social · 2d

Birthday

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 5d

Very ill, need groceries, got EBT today but need non-food items and delivery+ tip.

Raising funds to see dentist Monday & for rideshares if I need to get to ER again.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

Food wishlist - www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨🚨
URGENT HELP NEEDED!

Seriously, please help Wylder with anything you can!!! A few bucks and reposts can really add up and make a difference:

We NEED to be here for him. NOW.

♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 5d

Very ill, need groceries, got EBT today but need non-food items and delivery+ tip.

Raising funds to see dentist Monday & for rideshares if I need to get to ER again.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

Food wishlist - www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Charu "Ru" Chandni Patel @cherrydrop.bsky.social · 13d

Just in time!

Day 1 - Free Space

Stuck in Line MMORPG

Play when you are waiting in line, waiting for food/order, waiting for transportation.

You are in a mmorpg and the place where you are waiting is the lobby. You need to find the your Quest, Side Quest, Supplies, and change Outfits/Armor

Diwata! ÒㅅÓ) @diwatamnl.bsky.social · 14d

#Promptober is here! This time I included two free spaces, for people to make whatever they want (or to even take that day to rest). As usual, please use the #promptober or #ttrpgpromptober tags when you post! please also don't feel shy about tagging me in them so I can reskeet.

promptober list of prompts on a light orange background. here is what it says:

Promptober 2025
Use #promptober or #ttrpgpromptober when you post!

Create a pitch for a game, design a mini-module, draw a quick map-- anything ttrpg related, according to the prompts!

1. Free space (do whatever)
2. spells
3. potions
4. Dark woods
5. masquerade
6. myths
7. secrets
8. spirits
9. thriller
10. moon
11. Thalassophobia/thalassophilia
12. Liminal space
13. Abandoned locations
14. stars
15. Free space (do whatever)
16. hauntings
17. blood
18. sorcery
19. Wizard’s tower
20. Lost book/lost knowledge
21. Sword in the forest
22. Summoning circles
23. aliens
24. Colossal beast
25. cryptid
26. Trail cams/found footage
27. Dreams/nightmares
28. Gods/goddesses
29. flowers
30. harvest
31. halloween

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Viditya + Voleti @vidityavoleti.bsky.social · 8d

This book is so gorgeous I'm stunned. I'm showing it to everyone I can, I brought it to school and showed my students

PLEASE look at the update and then come back and tell me how cool the book is (also you'll see a very happy pic of me at the end!)

Elliot Davis | TTWH Out NOW @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 8d

What if I told you that you can see pics of the first ever copy of A Land Once Magic by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social in this update??

We have made a really special little book for the sickos

Check it out!

A Land Once Magic - Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG Project Update: The First Ever Copy of ALOM

A BEAUTIFUL Little Book! We are so thrilled to share photos of the first ever copies of A Land Once Magic! We've received the first copies of the book and the notebook and t...

www.backerkit.com

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Charu "Ru" Chandni Patel @cherrydrop.bsky.social · 6d

Peak is a normal game with normal things happening in it

(I love @dinoberrypress.bsky.social discord's Midweek shenanigans)

Screenshot from the video game Peak: A 3d cartoon of an orange camper character floating above an orange ocean with two horizontal lines attached to their head that veer off screen. Two ghost characters float in the background

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Elliot Davis | TTWH Out NOW @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 8d

What if I told you that you can see pics of the first ever copy of A Land Once Magic by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social in this update??

We have made a really special little book for the sickos

Check it out!

A Land Once Magic - Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG Project Update: The First Ever Copy of ALOM

A BEAUTIFUL Little Book! We are so thrilled to share photos of the first ever copies of A Land Once Magic! We've received the first copies of the book and the notebook and t...

www.backerkit.com

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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy" @thedovetailor.bsky.social · 9d

I have gotten some exceedingly generous donations to this that - not gonna lie - I teared up over a little. It often feels, weirdly, like I'm yelling into nothing despite all of my work in and with ttrpgs spaces.

Still a ways to go! Please repost and donate if you can.

Buy Pammu a Coffee

Become a supporter of Pammu today!

ko-fi.com

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Alix @capefoxalix.bsky.social · 9d

Day 6 of #birdtober is a Forest Owlet!
There are less than a 1000 individuals left in the wild ( as per a 2018 survey )
Threatened mostly by deforestation

#birdtober2025 #birds #owls #forestowlet

A vector Illustration of a Forest owlet perched upon the Letter F.
Below the letter is its English and latin name as well as its IUCN status which is Endangered.

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Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) @aaronradney.bsky.social · 10d

This is in line with a thing I noticed. If you start calling out bad behavior it gets easier to keep doing it. When I started I got easily flustered when patrons would get aggressive with me.

Now I roll my eyes and restate policy and actively remove problem patrons with little heartrate increase.

Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 27d

Hey, so something I've learned while getting more involved with our union is that it is very hard to convince people to go from inaction to extreme action. In fact, it is difficult to go from inaction to a /small/ action. 1/2

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 27d

There's psychology around this, but tl;dr, ask yourself everyday how you're training yourself to dissent and defy. Because if you can't even be bothered to do the small stuff, those in power know you won't do the big stuff they're actually scared of. 2/2

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 10d

Look around and you’ll see people rising up everywhere.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

It doesn’t feel like it, but we’re in an era of uprising and resistance. The horrors and bad news can be overwhelming, but born out of necessity, born out of horror at genocide and disgust with fascism and being fed up with poverty and oppression, people are rising up around the world. In Greece a general strike this week against a 13-hour workday proposal brought the country to a halt. In Nepal a Gen-Z led uprising recently overthrew the government. An August wave of mass protest in Indonesia against corrupt elites shook the system to its core. In Madagascar protests against the government’s inability to provide basic services like water and electricity currently have the President on the verge of stepping down. France is, once again, wracked by huge nationwide protests against austerity.

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Charu "Ru" Chandni Patel @cherrydrop.bsky.social · 10d

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Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 11d

There are a few games we really want to play this year that need to be purchased, so we've put together a bundle of our spooky, haunted, and weird games to help cover the costs!

Any funds we raise over our goal will be donated to Fund Texas Choice during the stream!

itch.io/b/3315/make-...

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 11d

After a complete computer crash and loss of lots of content I finally have a new video on YouTube today (hopefully more soon)!

It's also my first time using YouTube's new A/B testing! This means there's a few different version of the thumbnail and title!

www.youtube.com/@FaunAndGames

Thumbnail preview for a new YouTube video. Layered over the image are three big question marks hiding a lot of the content below. Underneath you can just make out Twitch streamer FaunAndGames is laughing at something. Underneath that is the promo art for new TCG indie game My Card Is Better Than Your Card!

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 14d

🎃 Happy Halloween you freaks, I made a discounted bundle of digital horror ttrpgs for ya itch.io/s/161155/hal...

🧛🏼‍♀️ You can also use the code SCAREDSTUPID for 15% off orders over $31 at Worldchamp.io/store all of October.

Halloween 2025 by World Champ Game Co.

A bundle by World Champ Game Co., $25.00 for 7 games

itch.io

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