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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders

@ghostofcinders.bsky.social

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I write about monsters & myths, sometimes for work. Onyx Path freelancer. I'll geek out about books, movies and RPGs.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · Nov 11

I suppose I should introduce myself but barring a couple exceptions my followers around here know me so, well, it's a bit awkward.

Let's see.

#ttrpg

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Chant "Jumpscare Sexy" | Ex Stasis Games @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 13h

IT'S SPOOKY SEASON, BUCKOS.

Who's got spooky stuff?
WE'VE got spooky stuff!

- Free survival horror quickstart
- Animal Crossing x Wicker Man adventure
- Trophy adventures
- Zombie horror RPG
- Solo horror RPGs
- System-neutral anthologies

"SCARILY GOOD DEALS" - me

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Ex Stasis Games

exstasisgames.itch.io

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 22h

Rob Wieland was a hobby ambassador, a game designer and a family man.

Let’s do what Rob would have wanted us to, and help out his family. Please pitch in.

Share the link if you can.

Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill

Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland

www.gofundme.com

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꒰ᐢ..ᐢ꒱颖琦Gwyn @gravenmyth.com · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay ✨ I'm Gwyn, a digital artist from southeast asia. I draw OCs and fan art. 🐇💜
#oc #art #illustration

⊹ Portfolio ⊹ Vgen ⊹ Ko-fi ⊹ Xiaohongshu

Art of my Elden Ring OC, Grave Goddess Megaera. A leporine woman with amber eyes, long golden hair and purple fingertips dressed in purple, gold and silver. Miniature versions of Base Serpent Messmer’s winged serpents are curled around her hand and head. A spectral winged rabbit flies beside her. Grave Violets and Skeletal Flowers bloom around her.

Elden Ring inspired artwork depicting Godwyn, Prince of Death wielding Death Lightning. Facing away from him is his sibling Megaera, Goddess of Graves (my OC) in her Twinbird transition form. Both of them have a hand hovering around a golden aura of Grace. A faint image of an eclipse sits behind them.

Art of Revenant from Elden Ring: Nightreign with ghostly skeletal arms around her.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 1d

sic semper tyrannis

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, I'm here for it.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 1d

I'll take a passionate character with catastrophic flaws and moral failings over a bland one any day of the week, forever.

In this house, I raised myself on Kain and Raziel. Of course I'm into that.

Besides, I support women's rights *and* wrongs.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 1d

Me: "Damn, I love Ranni & Needle Knight Leda."

Someone, inevitably: "You do know they're characters who committed crimes and atrocities in pursuit of their goals, right? They're not right nor pure!"

Me: "Wasn't I clear the first time?"

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 1d

Someone got a copy of the book they developed.

Here the local ambassadors pose with it.

Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 2d

Hehehe, I quoted that post nominating myself earlier, so this truly validates my hubris :D

Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 2d

We're even from the same region, easier to switch stuff.

Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 2d

Myself.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 2d

I'm tired of being used, abused, exploited.

Consumed, emptied. To have my fire snuffed out, again and again.

I'm tired of being dying embers. So, so tired.

Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 3d

Sad about this. I never had the chance to interact with Rob. I hoped I would, someday.

By all accounts, even for a stranger like me, he was a beacon of passion, ideals, and kindness in our tabletop culture and beyond.

Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 3d

I am absolutely gutted to hear of the death of Rob Wieland, literally one of the greatest tabletop reviewers and commentators we had. Tirelessly tracked industry news, omnipresent in our collective circles and communities. I am so sad for his young family. These are dark days, friends.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 3d

We are at $2898/$3000 (our first goal, to help James recoup most of the money they've already spent on his care). Thank you all so much! 😭😭😭

GFM has a $5 minimum - to send a smaller donation, hit up the link below & put "for James" in the note - I'll add it to the total.

PayPal.me/vaspider

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 3d

Eh, it's very niche. I've heard the authors are best avoided too.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 3d

Scion: God 2e arrived!

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 3d

"Michele, stop going on a deep dive for Arcane AMVs to add to your playlist!!"

Me:

a man with a beard is saying no in a blurry photo

ALT: a man with a beard is saying no in a blurry photo

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AliveWake - Commissions Open @alivewake.bsky.social · 4d

Elden Ring art I made this year

#eldenring

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 3d

Of course the one Nightreign character I get attached the most to is the one weaker than everyone else and that can't keep up against harder bosses and modes.

Of course.

Sigh. I just wanna play Revenant in peace.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 3d

We were also at a point where lots of new tech was being created to make things easier for artists, and suddenly that's all being wiped away in favor of an anti-artist AI fad.

"Oh, artists don't need tech that works, because ChatGPT will lie to you and say that it can do things it can't! Eat sh*t!"

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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SCAREon - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 4d

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Chant "Jumpscare Sexy" | Ex Stasis Games @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 5d

Step 1: read the primer
Step 2: pre-order DIE: LOADED
Step 3: grab the RPG Quickstart at the same time

Step 4: ...Take your friends on an intense but cathartic emotional journey in your own personal fantasy world?

Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 5d

October 20th is the order cut off for DIE: LOADED, sequel to the three-time Hugo-nominated DIE. I've pulled together a short primer it with all the info you need on it - what it is, previews, full cover details (check out our sketch variant!) and more. Go nose! Join our party. It's an experience.

DIE: Loaded

The sequel to the three-times Hugo-nominated, award winning dark fantasy comic, DIE.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 4d

Saved this, because I need her in my house.

Rashuu | Meowssmer plushie on pin!! @rashuu.bsky.social · 17d

Aside from the harp version, there's also option for her to hold the giant crusher! ^^
She'll be available to pre-order in 21st November and I'll keep you all updated if there's anything! 🙏
#NIGHTREIGN #ELDENRING