Shay (they)
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Angry fucking Native🦉They/Them 🏳️‍🌈 Decolonize TTRPGs 🎲 Pathfinder Society Developer for Paizo 🗡 Welcome to the Year of Battle’s Spark! 🎨 Opinions are my own 🍉🍉 ENnie Nominated Developer 👑
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Hi, I’m Shay (they)! I’m a queer two-spirit Native ttrpg creator 💖

I post a lot about leftist politics, including Native and disability rights, along with millennial queer thoughts

To support me, find me on Patreon, making 3pp content for my favorite systems!

www.patreon.com/spellsinsugar
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"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port."

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Forty-Eight Hours in Israeli Captivity
A journalist captured on a flotilla mission recounts treatment at the hands of the Israeli navy, border police, and prison guards.
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Hi if you’ve never sobbed profusely over a historical fact do you even love history
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
Me: starts crying about Ötzi’s shoes
Also me: oh shit I didn’t take my meds
But also, I survived an eviction that was purely centered around ableism and anti-Indigenous sentiment. I’ve continued to write, despite the terrors.

I’ve watched my Indigenous family grow and succeed.

That is what this day is for.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Outside of the Paizosphere, I wrote on Welcome to Night Vale and was overjoyed at the reaction to it and some of my inventions 🥰

I did a wonderful interview at GalaxyCon Raleigh and had a great talk about Indigenous liberation at Nuke-Con in Council Bluffs.
Kiwat is a love letter to my youth in a way that I’ve never really gotten to write it before. The citizens work at night and rest in the day, there are moth, javelina, and bat ancestries, there are divinities that refuse to acknowledge who they are, and there are lots and lots of different citizens.
I wanted to build a space that feels like it centers SW Native culture and history. The towns and languages are named with the Caddo language in mind, the citizens of the nation primarily worship nature versus standard gods, the mythos is written to our standards and morals.
On my own, I’ve slowly been building up my own personal Pathfinder 2nd Edition 3pp setting, the world of Kiwat through my Tumbleweed project.

I haven’t spoken too much about Kiwat, but it’s the culmination of a lifetime of writing and experience put to paper.
Through PFS, I was able to offer an Indigenous view into the prairies of Arcadia, and through AP #208 I was able to breathe new life into the Shoanti.

In First Edition SFS I was given the chance to explore Indigenous sovereignty and repatriation through the strix and pahtra struggles.
Over the past 4 years with Paizo I’ve not only been able to put MY unique Native voice into various projects, I’ve also been able to work with and bring other Native voices into the fold, ensuring that we have a diversity of Indigenous thought throughout our product lines.
It’s Indigenous Peoples Day!
And instead of recentering it by talking about one of our many oppressors and how bad he is, I’m going to celebrate my own personal Native achievements!!
Good thoughts and lit candles requested!
Hoping to hear good news from the new apartment in the next day or so! 🤞
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Over here writing like I'm running out of time!

Check out my Final Girl skin for Monsterhearts 2!

spellsinsugar.itch.io/the-final-girl
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NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING:

SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.

In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…
You are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative… Image: Print copy of SPINE
Over here writing like I'm running out of time!

Check out my Final Girl skin for Monsterhearts 2!

spellsinsugar.itch.io/the-final-girl
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Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...
Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6
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Just published two Small Towns for Monsterhearts 2 on my itch.io, check them out!

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Shay (they)
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Just published two Small Towns for Monsterhearts 2 on my itch.io, check them out!

spellsinsugar.itch.io
Shay (they)
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i will not give up hope and neither will you
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Hi today’s donations were a total of $5
It’s appreciated, but also we still need help
My spouse and I are both disabled, queer, and native. We are beyond behind and need help badly. We need rent for August paid ASAP. Any help is appreciated. Rent with late fees is $2200.

www.paypal.me/jnwampler
V: KajiW
C: $kajiw
Hi today’s donations were a total of $5
It’s appreciated, but also we still need help
My spouse and I are both disabled, queer, and native. We are beyond behind and need help badly. We need rent for August paid ASAP. Any help is appreciated. Rent with late fees is $2200.

www.paypal.me/jnwampler
V: KajiW
C: $kajiw