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Dan LK, Living Deliciously
@2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
Editor/instructional designer by day, funny dice enthusiast after hours. Sometime DMs Guild author, forever DM. Horror fan. Gourmand. Salty descriptivist. GenX, bi, enby, polyam. He/him, more or less.

Here for elfgames, horror, & occasional leftism.
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If you've ever been tempted to buy something I've made, now is a great time! I'm following up this post with a bunch of links where you can do that.

Feel free to share!
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How I imagine the pitch meeting for SINNERS:

Ryan Coogler: What if you could have two Michael B Jordans?

Producer: I have imagined this frequently, yes.

Coogler: But wait—they're also wearing matching 1930s suits.

Producer: I HAVE THE VAPORS *passes out, money rains down from ceiling*
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Just a reminder that when Nightmare Magazine opens to subs again in January, we are VERY EAGER to read your dark creative nonfiction! We're the place to send that creepy list or micro research project about something awful.
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Moksha
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December 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Good people, good stories, a good cause.

LIVING THE SCREAM, this Saturday at 7 PM EST

Where: www.youtube.com/@Pippinacious

Please consider donating through Tiltify here: tilt.fyi/Y2j2GlnGat
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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11 eBooks for £9.99!

If you want to get gifts in ePub and PDF format, check out my work yourself, or keep the ones you want & gift others from the box set, you can grab all these in one go!

#BookSky #ChristmasSale #Christmas #HappyHolidays
#HorrorBooks #FantasyBooks 🌈📚💙😱

ko-fi.com/s/811fa7d3b0
Complete eBook Box Set: Complete Book Bundle (epub/pdf files) - CM Rosens's Ko-fi Shop
This is a bundle of my books - minus THE CROWS and THIRTEENTH which are both now being sold by Canelo Books! FANTASY: YELEN & YELENA - Gothic Dark ...
ko-fi.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Speechless...
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Like yeah, working out how to relate to other conscious beings that you can’t fully control is hard.

It’s also *necessary.* Trying to make human interdependence invisible doesn’t actually make it go away.

And vulnerability, while it can be scary, is the port for human connection.
December 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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also, by the way

a lot of us process our grief by making art

they're trying to replace that process with AI from both directions
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Thinking it's "Solved" makes us miss the knife in the hand of those who *really* like the status quo— makes us less likely to push back when they shift their presentation. Because we're so conditioned to want to believe that We Solved That Which Makes Us The Best & Since We're The Best, We Solved It
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
MacReady_YouGottaBeFuckinKiddingMe dot gif
behold. the turktopus
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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you cannot just guilt the public out of hating and fearing AI
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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literallllllyyy sitting here having a nervous breakdown because we're only $515 between us and him being seen. please, anything at all helps
Alright, we are live and currently sitting in the vet's office.

We need $500 down for surgery to start. The sooner that happens, the sooner we can go home and sleep before picking him up. Thank you

gofund.me/09586f40d
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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As "is it a Christmas movie?" season batters us, a reminder that THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT is unapologetically a Christmas movie and also just unbelievably peak.
there should have been at least 16 of these made
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This is so interesting. With all those massive personalities up there, I mostly think of myself as the straight man! I can't "perform" in the classic sense, but I do like to play games and I have done so publicly as long as anybody. Someday I'll learn to take a compliment without writing a novel.
The #PaxU Acquisitions Inc game went up on YouTube this past week, so I'd like to take this opportunity to point out some things @ghostyghosty.bsky.social and I observed at the time - in particular, what makes @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com an excellent player & worth paying attention to. 🧵:
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.

A signal boost would be a colossal help.

www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...

bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot

- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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FRPG Player Tip: It’s the GM’s job to create a setup for how your character engages with the dangers of adventuring. It’s your job to create the reasons why your character wants to adventure. Figuring out how the setup and the reasons reinforce or oppose each other is what brings the game to life.
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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If you're looking for...

Trauma bonded besties? The Ungodly Duology.

Stoic protector/unworldly ward? Threads of Ash: South.

An independent woman shirking societal standards? Inheriting Her Ghosts.

A family haunted? Bottling His Ghosts.

A lone woman trapped in a strange land? Reap, Sow.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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God, I can relate to this so hard
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The #PaxU Acquisitions Inc game went up on YouTube this past week, so I'd like to take this opportunity to point out some things @ghostyghosty.bsky.social and I observed at the time - in particular, what makes @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com an excellent player & worth paying attention to. 🧵:
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I watched The Red King this week and found it really satisfying. It's definitely in dialog with The Wicker Man and is in some ways an interrogation of it; I think it does this in some really interesting ways. Worth your time if #FolkHorror is your jam.
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes

every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Not being porn won't protect you, so it's time to protect porn
A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Gruß vom Krampusnacht. Merry Krampus night, hope y’all been good or you’re going in the bag.
December 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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People shouldn't have to protect their neighbors from being disappeared off the streets by masked and unidentifiable thugs, but the thugs aren't gonna stop, so the fact *so many* people are putting their bodies in between the thugs and their neighbors, all over the country, is beautiful.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM