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I create a cocktail of art, weird fiction, design, poetry, and table top gaming. Free Newsletter 👉 keithsenkowski.com Books, Art, & Magazines 👉 shop.keithsenkowski.com Support 👉 thetrevorproject.org

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 17d

I think my favorite part of working on this zine has been redesigning the visual language with each issue. When I set on to do this, I originally thought of it as a sort of "rinse and repeat" model so I could focus more on writing as much material as possible. That quickly went by the wayside.

All six issues of Yggdrasil MGZ laid out on the table.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 2h

Hello #PortfolioDay !

I am an artist & writer in Illinois. I don't work digitally, but otherwise have no fixed medium. Most of my work is in service of my own writing & occasionally the writing of others.

You can check out my work & free newsletter here: keithsenkowski.com

Testament. A handmade book. Linocut prints. Acrylic and gouache painting. Handwritten poetry. Coptic stitch binding. Stained and painted wooden covers.

Flooded room. Markers on acid free paper.

Swepnos. Ink and markers on acid free paper.

Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 15h

I love that movie… And hate it so much because of the feels it makes me feel. So good.

Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 1d

Back on my bullshit writing about Ravenloft. Today I look at the Forbidden Lore boxed set from 1992. At this rate, I might be done with this material by next spooky season. #ttrpg #rpg

Forbidden Lore

When I was a kid some of the first novels I read were from Poe, Melville, and Dickens. My great grandfather at some point had acquired this "great works of literature" set of books. Published in the e...

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 5d

I have had Dr. Doom on my mind a lot lately. I am of the opinion he is the most gothic of the marvel characters when written well. It makes him a good template to create a gaming villain that can conform to the needs of a game vs trying to conform the game to the needs of the villain.

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Enter the Citadel

Designing a useful villain for any party

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 6d

This is the one time I agree with Kirk in this scene...

"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry"

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a man in a red uniform says " let them die ! "

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 6d

Bears... Beards... Whatever....

Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 6d

It doesn't help that we just had that speech by their adderall addicted boss talking about fitness standards and bears and shit a few days ago.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 7d

I don’t care if the movie doesn’t hold up to the comic. The opening of Valerian hits all my “why space exploration is important” notes and is done to Bowie.

Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 7d

I hate that every time you bring that up I ponder if that is bad because shit is so fucked.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 8d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 9d

You can learn more over at unwrittenearths.com

Unwritten Earths Symposium

Genre Defining Play from Nathan D. Paoletta & Epidiah Ravachol

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 9d

I got my 2025 annual yesterday from @epidiah.bsky.social and @ndpdesign.com and it is really something. I'm looking forward to reading through it and adapting the adventurous scenarios for my own games.

The map by @tonydowler.bsky.social is stunning. He really has no peers.

Unwritten Earths Symposium 2025 Annual and Perpetual Library map

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 9d

Continuing to refine new ways to present my work since it doesn't translate well into the typical online book advertising models. I like these walk ups as they show what is inside the books, which is kinda important for a handmade art project.

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#booksky

Testament is an origin story. A memory. A memory of a place that isn’t. A memory of a place that could be. A memory of a life lived and all the lives that life touched.

Heusos is a story of gods, demons, frustration, fear, and defiance. The first myth learned before the fire.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 11d

In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks.

But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.

People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.

We visualized it:

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 11d

So, we are paying federal taxes for what exactly in California, Illinois, and New York amongst others?

White House freezes $2.1 billion in Chicago projects, Vought says

The U.S. federal government has put $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said on Friday, in another jab at a Democrat-led city during the U.S. government shutdown.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 11d

I liked it a billion years ago. Curious if it still holds up. I expect a full review. 1000 words at least.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 11d

Just...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartment building: 'They just treated us like we were nothing'

YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 11d

An AI "actor" is really just CGI placed on top of a chatbot. I mean, come on people. It isn't fucking Skynet.

Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 11d

The concerned citizen in me is worried about Ellison's views on the surveillance state and his relationship to the big gourd. The technologist in me is giggling because his firm hasn't been relevant in a long time.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 12d

The photos are just awful...

Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 12d

Each detail from each article covering the event continues to reenforce that particular picture...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 12d

For some reason, I keep thinking about those nighttime apartment raids in a certain movie set in Germany by Stephen Spielberg...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 13d

Spent some time futzing around with my store last night and working on better images for the books. Trying out some new ways to stretch those 5 images per product. Here is the 9 page walk up for my latest book, Swepnos.

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Keith @keithsenkowski.com · 13d

I mean, if you are going to pick a Dr. Seuss book, how do you not pick Cat in the Hat? Thing 1 and 2 are clearly Galleanisti.

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