Lin Codega
@lincodega.com
writers room assistant IWTV S3—journalist, co-founder rascal news—debut novel: MOTHEATER, !!!OUT NOW!!!—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy
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Rascal News! Rascal News! Rascal News!
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rascal News! Rascal News! Rascal News!
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Great article about the experience of living in such an RP heavy world for 30 days.
"Players reported dreaming about Over/Under, losing sleep, even forgetting to eat."
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
Thirty Days of Bleed
Within a high-pressure, nonstop roleplaying game, denizens of Over/Under found it difficult to extricate their character’s emotions from their own.
www.rascal.news
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Great article about the experience of living in such an RP heavy world for 30 days.
How many more Blo/ugs do I have in me? At lest four and possibly six!
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
How many more Blo/ugs do I have in me? At lest four and possibly six!
this touches on a lot of the aspects of play i talked about! a really great piece that also works really well in conjunction with Thirty Days of Bleed
The latest TEETH newsletter features a guest essay on OVER/UNDER by prolific journalist and role-player @markwallace.bsky.social
It's really good. Have a read!
It's really good. Have a read!
Guest Post: On OVER/UNDER, by Our Man In California
Ahoy! You probably know what this newsletter is, since you signed up for it. But if you don’t, why not come by the Discord and ask someone? Perhaps Marsh or...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
this touches on a lot of the aspects of play i talked about! a really great piece that also works really well in conjunction with Thirty Days of Bleed
No safety tool would have been able to prevent the extreme bleed that O/U induced in many.
But the whole community took care of each other, and, more than that, the constant bleed led to incredible moments of roleplaying, storytelling, and out-of-character connection.
The bleed was the game.
But the whole community took care of each other, and, more than that, the constant bleed led to incredible moments of roleplaying, storytelling, and out-of-character connection.
The bleed was the game.
"Players reported dreaming about Over/Under, losing sleep, even forgetting to eat."
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
Thirty Days of Bleed
Within a high-pressure, nonstop roleplaying game, denizens of Over/Under found it difficult to extricate their character’s emotions from their own.
www.rascal.news
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
No safety tool would have been able to prevent the extreme bleed that O/U induced in many.
But the whole community took care of each other, and, more than that, the constant bleed led to incredible moments of roleplaying, storytelling, and out-of-character connection.
The bleed was the game.
But the whole community took care of each other, and, more than that, the constant bleed led to incredible moments of roleplaying, storytelling, and out-of-character connection.
The bleed was the game.
2026 is going to be my year
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
2026 is going to be my year
sent off Pasha the Storm to my editor yesterday for the final round of copyedits! we're so close to having arcs and a cover and a map and a real book!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
sent off Pasha the Storm to my editor yesterday for the final round of copyedits! we're so close to having arcs and a cover and a map and a real book!!!
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Also had a nice phone yap today with @lincodega.com and this is a reminder to reach out to the people in your life cause it's cool and good to catch up and talk about things like being haunted by the ghost of Anne Rice on Tumblr
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Also had a nice phone yap today with @lincodega.com and this is a reminder to reach out to the people in your life cause it's cool and good to catch up and talk about things like being haunted by the ghost of Anne Rice on Tumblr
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IYKYK.
SEVERED IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.
death to the wizard kings!
SEVERED IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.
death to the wizard kings!
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
IYKYK.
SEVERED IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.
death to the wizard kings!
SEVERED IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.
death to the wizard kings!
hear me out... realis play by post discord... every moon has its own GM... every month the GMs play a round of microscope to determine big moves... factions get their own sentences that they can enact on behalf of the characters in real time -- which might be too late for the character
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
hear me out... realis play by post discord... every moon has its own GM... every month the GMs play a round of microscope to determine big moves... factions get their own sentences that they can enact on behalf of the characters in real time -- which might be too late for the character
listening to caleb describe this game made me feel like i was living in a borrowers world but i just hadn't looked hard enough yet. this will be incredibly cool.
Surprise: we're working on something new! A game called Tiny Wizard.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
listening to caleb describe this game made me feel like i was living in a borrowers world but i just hadn't looked hard enough yet. this will be incredibly cool.
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You absolutely definitely should preorder this book, it is very very good
OR if this isn't your bag: PASHA THE STORM, a deeply queer swashbuckling magical action/adventure I've been calling "the adventures of ice bitch and mega slut" is also available for preorder!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818155...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818155...
Pasha the Storm by Linda H. Codega: 9781645661825 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Moby-Dick meets The Bone Shard Daughter in this swashbuckling queer fantasy adventure packed with piracy, political intrigue, and the eternal souls of the drowned, for fans of The Adventures of Amina ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
You absolutely definitely should preorder this book, it is very very good
I received this beautiful Chinese calligraphy set for my birthday but have no idea how to use it properly. Anyone got any ideas on where to start learning?
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I received this beautiful Chinese calligraphy set for my birthday but have no idea how to use it properly. Anyone got any ideas on where to start learning?
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
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The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
Desperately sad to be missing pax unplugged this year.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Desperately sad to be missing pax unplugged this year.
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In the first of what will likely be a series of blogs, @lincodega.com unpacks how @samsorensen.bsky.social's month-long realtime Mothership larp/megagame #over/under ended for their character, High Gardener Otso, and also, for themselves.
How to find an ending in Over/Under
After a month of emergent story, scheming, and bleed, it all ended with a gardener and a clown.
www.rascal.news
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In the first of what will likely be a series of blogs, @lincodega.com unpacks how @samsorensen.bsky.social's month-long realtime Mothership larp/megagame #over/under ended for their character, High Gardener Otso, and also, for themselves.
Bourdain might be the only outsider who really understood what the church was in #over/under.
Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
Over Under Anthony Bourdain Compilation
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bourdain might be the only outsider who really understood what the church was in #over/under.
Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
"THE WORLD IS FUCKED, BUT PLAY ENDURES."
Very pleased with how #MothershipMonth25 shook out! All On Red is moving into its final draft stage, we’re starting on stretch goal writing, got some plans for Glue Trap Games going forward, and made a bunch of new pals from #Over/Under. The world is fucked, but play endures.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"THE WORLD IS FUCKED, BUT PLAY ENDURES."
i kept seeing the tempest (merc/soldier) faction in #over/under use the words "mercy" and "consequence" and i was like... that seems... familiar.
It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i kept seeing the tempest (merc/soldier) faction in #over/under use the words "mercy" and "consequence" and i was like... that seems... familiar.
It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
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Just another beautiful interaction on the After Party for #over/under
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Just another beautiful interaction on the After Party for #over/under