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she/her. YEG. Stew Princess. I like TTRPGs and horror movies. Tell your pets I say hi! https://sprigsandkindling.com/ a "very well-adjusted and balanced individual" - Wes Franks a "strange creature of I don't know what!" - Gabe McCormick

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 8d

Sprigs & Kindling sprigsandkindling.com is actively seeking pitches:
Vol 6: Endings & Beginnings. Any Carved from Brindlewood-related creation. Due Dec 1, 2025
Vol 7: Gods & Monsters. The Silt Verses TTRPG and Arkham Herald. Due Mar 1, 2026
Vol 8: Short-form CfB. Due Jun 1, 2026

DM me with pitches!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 6h

As the days shorten, a reminder that I'm an excellent editor of #ttrpgs and I would love to work on your next project. I also offer a no cost, no obligation editorial summary of your work, to see if we're a good fit. Why don't we talk, yeah? dorklordcanada.ca/need-an-edit...

Need an Editor?

I provide editing services for TTRPG creators and speculative fiction writers at reasonable rates. If you are a self-publishing author, small press publisher, or indie role-playing game write…

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 3h

A friend-of-a-friend who is furloughed because of the US government shutdown is doing some professional GMing. If you’re looking for someone to run Cairn, Shadowdark, Mothership, or other OSR-adjacent games for you and your friends, give his profile a look!

startplaying.games/gm/cmgfmd6kn...

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 5h

As well as colourful art, I like textured grotty black and white too! I'd like to illustrate a novel someday. These are inspired by illustrated old novels, pulps and gamebooks

#art #portfolioday

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Taproot Edmonton @taprootedmonton.ca · 7h

O-day'min: Where the candidates stand on the Taproot Survey edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/... #yeg

O-day'min: Where the candidates stand on the Taproot Survey

Taproot asked candidates to complete a 30-question survey covering a wide range of topics relevant to Edmonton's next city council. It was informed by the more than 900 responses to our election question,...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Mars ✨ @paladinosaur.bsky.social · 8h

I hear it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Mars, a non-binary lesbian and cartoon-y illustrator!

I’d love to do work on more ttrpgs, and I’m always open for commissions!

I also always use alt text!

A drawing of a blonde woman walking through a forest. She is bathed in yellow light and holds a silver long sword. She is wearing a white cape, brown gambeson, and brown pants.

A drawing of two women, seemingly posing for a picture. The woman on the left is a light skinned black woman with blonde hair and bright teal dress. She leans flirtatiously on the other woman, who is a dark haired butch white woman. She wears a long brown coat and has her hand on the back of a chair. She smiles, somewhat wearily, at the woman in the teal dress

Fanart for the tv show “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury”. Miorne, the princess, stands over suletta, the knight, who is on her knees, bowing. Suletta is wearing a suit of armor modeled after her gundam, mostly white, with accents of red, blue, black, and yellow. Suletta is wearing a princely outfit of blue and black. Sunlight streams through the doorway behind them.

A drawing of 3 characters. On the ground lies an orange tiefling in a sun and moon themed jester outfit. They are looking up at a small black tabaxi standing on a stool, proudly wearing a jester outfit with a Star on the chest. Next to them stands a drow woman with a long white braid, leaning on her spear. She is smiling at the tabaxi.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 8h

94) From Dusk Til Dawn (1996)
Another rewatch for #hauntalong!

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Blaine Martin (he/they) @notalonehorror.bsky.social · 11h

It is a fact long held that in a western the bad guys wear black hats. In Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 vampire flick, From Dusk till Dawn, the Gecko brothers trade black hats for black suits but Rodriguez wastes no time in proving that they are BAD. (1/10)

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 14h

People don't realize their impact but since you all have shared and donated funds to our move, I've been able to put my earnings from contract work towards putting dents into Student Loans & other debt.

I haven't had to worry about us paying utilities and getting pet food.

Thank you for 40% 🫀

𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 21d

We're at $3,152 out of $15k and that's amazing! We have just been conditionally approved for a new apartment pending background checks and we're steps closer to getting our family in track to leaving DC! Please share this wherever you can and thank you so much!

gofund.me/6ae338dd2

Donate to Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed, organized by Wesley Franks

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. It feels like more … Wesley Franks needs your support for Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed

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The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 13h

Hi #Portfolioday I'm Amanda, I make art for lots of #ttrpgs !

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 1d

93) Prey (2022)
a rewatch for following along on the #hauntalong! bsky.app/profile/sass...

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 1d

Token by @glowingroots.bsky.social for sure!! It's so good - "TOKEN is a game about a hero and monster circling each other in a haunted forest, offering gifts and signs of their intent—the story ends when they meet and face one another at last."
glowingroots.itch.io/token

Token by Glowing Roots Press

A duet game of tragic fates entwined in the dark woods.

glowingroots.itch.io

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🔪b. narr🔪 @sassylich.bsky.social · 1d

heyyy everyone! it's my first ever #hauntalong entry, and it's indigenous peoples day, so we're gonna talk about PREY (2022), the coolest movie in the predator franchise

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12d

Weeeeeee're baaaack.

#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.

This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.

Come haunt along with us.

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𝖏 𝖆 𝖈 𝖐 @jackofficer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the game that changed everything for me in a lot of ways—the first time a publisher liked something I wrote enough to buy it from me—but beyond that it’s just a really great game that deserves more attention.

Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 1d

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 1d

and when you just can't get enough Public Access (it's so good!) you can check out Volume 4 of Sprigs & Kindling for even more Analog Horror! Two whole issues of it! sprigsandkindling.com

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Night 12. Dave Made a Maze … To get out, you’re going to need someone who knows about cardboard.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

Happy #hauntalong! Today I have a movie for you that isn't really that scary (unless you are a creative person who starts a lot of projects and then never finishes them... but we don't know anyone like that do we, pals?)

Dave Made a Maze (2017)

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

that's the proper way to read CYOA, in my opinion XD

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

it's SUPER dark!!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

oooh I think one of my siblings had those!

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like they could skip a lot of drama and go straight to making Tron soundtracks.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

Mine was King's Quest IV. You were a beautiful princess on a quest to save your father, and you have to go into a haunted house and deal with ghosts and dig up graves. I was like 5 years old when I played this and I LOVED IT. It was scary, but fun!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

We're chatting about gateway horror in discord. Movies/books you experienced as a young person that got you into horror. Or maybe you experienced them as a not so young person! What was your gateway horror?

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

where do you stand on meme stealing? XD

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

lmaooooo

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

gonna start sneaking these into S&K submissions