TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
writer (fiction & ttrpgs), enthuser | formerly a fist that was tiny | Toronto
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TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
· Aug 16
how does our library go? by tfgrognon
You're a library & you're in motion. A travelling library game for one or more.
tfgrognon.itch.io
Anyway. I wrote a one-page ttrpg this summer, the first one since that disastrous experience.
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I need everyone to appreciate this depiction of a Mayan _way_ in the form of an incredibly stylin' jaguar
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayob ]
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayob ]
November 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I need everyone to appreciate this depiction of a Mayan _way_ in the form of an incredibly stylin' jaguar
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayob ]
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayob ]
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Updated the post with a verified Venmo link! It's in the blog post, or you can go directly to it here: linktr.ee/sinijay8#230...
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Updated the post with a verified Venmo link! It's in the blog post, or you can go directly to it here: linktr.ee/sinijay8#230...
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Hi. I’m almost 25 with no license.
My dad is blind. My mom is unsafe to teach me. I need to get driving if I want work at all or to move. Please help.
Please note that kofi takes 5-10% of everything donated. $700 is the low estimate.
ko-fi.com/jellyfishlin...
My dad is blind. My mom is unsafe to teach me. I need to get driving if I want work at all or to move. Please help.
Please note that kofi takes 5-10% of everything donated. $700 is the low estimate.
ko-fi.com/jellyfishlin...
Support Jellyfishlines
Support Jellyfishlines
ko-fi.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Hi. I’m almost 25 with no license.
My dad is blind. My mom is unsafe to teach me. I need to get driving if I want work at all or to move. Please help.
Please note that kofi takes 5-10% of everything donated. $700 is the low estimate.
ko-fi.com/jellyfishlin...
My dad is blind. My mom is unsafe to teach me. I need to get driving if I want work at all or to move. Please help.
Please note that kofi takes 5-10% of everything donated. $700 is the low estimate.
ko-fi.com/jellyfishlin...
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everyone hates Nazis until it’s time to quit Substack
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
everyone hates Nazis until it’s time to quit Substack
sometimes I read the Cozy Fantasy subreddit (because apparently I need more reasons to get sad) and holy shit. Those ppl get VICIOUS about whether something "counts" as cozy
I’ve seen a worrying number of readers angry when a book is not exactly what they expected, which is a way to trap yourself permanently.
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
sometimes I read the Cozy Fantasy subreddit (because apparently I need more reasons to get sad) and holy shit. Those ppl get VICIOUS about whether something "counts" as cozy
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Lots of people took the embrace of pop culture as a legitimate object of critique in the completely wrong direction. Rather than treat something like standup seriously as an object of criticism and study, they treat it as though it was itself serious and it’s practitioners were themselves critics.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lots of people took the embrace of pop culture as a legitimate object of critique in the completely wrong direction. Rather than treat something like standup seriously as an object of criticism and study, they treat it as though it was itself serious and it’s practitioners were themselves critics.
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"What is art when it doesn’t communicate what the artist is experiencing, only that they are experiencing it and want you to bear witness? Selfish is one word. Insufferable is another."
#ManySuchCases
#ManySuchCases
ICYMI, Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) on HAMNET from Telluride. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
Telluride '25: Hamnet - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwynscreenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s noveldirected by Chloé Zhao by Walter Chaw There is so m...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"What is art when it doesn’t communicate what the artist is experiencing, only that they are experiencing it and want you to bear witness? Selfish is one word. Insufferable is another."
#ManySuchCases
#ManySuchCases
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Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Kara Walker's stunning "Unmanned Drone," a deconstructed & reassembled statue of Stonewall Jackson that was originally located in Charlottesville, Virginia until its 2021 removal. A fascinating & complex artwork, now on view at LA art space The Brick as part of "Monuments" exhibition the-brick.org
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I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
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This is correct (aside from not caring about genre, imagine!!). What is weird fiction without weird poetics
I don’t know or care about genre, but I strongly agree with this article’s thesis that people need to get back to writing sentences that evoke ideas and feelings rather than merely explaining them to the reader/that SFF and surrealism should be written with as much attention to style as premise
This was an interesting essay on this kind of zany marvelous writing; with no conception at all of “weird fiction” as a tradition or mode then there’s no expectation of the ontological unsettlement at its root clereviewofbooks.com/marvelous-wr...
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is correct (aside from not caring about genre, imagine!!). What is weird fiction without weird poetics
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there are a lot of brain-rotting ideologies that can twist a liberal without moral guide-lines into a vicious, miserable reactionary but transphobia and zionism really are something else in the social media age
as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
there are a lot of brain-rotting ideologies that can twist a liberal without moral guide-lines into a vicious, miserable reactionary but transphobia and zionism really are something else in the social media age
This piece is phenomenal.
In addition to the contrast it draws b/t stories of power vs those of "the many", one of the most useful aspects to me is the contemporary "big tent"/diverse cast of heroes vs the totalized not-Muslim Other
In addition to the contrast it draws b/t stories of power vs those of "the many", one of the most useful aspects to me is the contemporary "big tent"/diverse cast of heroes vs the totalized not-Muslim Other
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This piece is phenomenal.
In addition to the contrast it draws b/t stories of power vs those of "the many", one of the most useful aspects to me is the contemporary "big tent"/diverse cast of heroes vs the totalized not-Muslim Other
In addition to the contrast it draws b/t stories of power vs those of "the many", one of the most useful aspects to me is the contemporary "big tent"/diverse cast of heroes vs the totalized not-Muslim Other
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Not related to anything but I sometimes think abt how one of the stated reasons why Kaizoku subs left nakama as this untranslatable word with no appropriate English equivalent was because "comrade" sounded Too Communist
Fan Subs that Fan Stuck: How Anime Fans Embraced Fansub Terminology: Red Bard examines how Western anime fandom's historical embrace of fansubs led to a unique community jargon, powered heavily by terms discovered in those same fansubs.
#anime #manga #history
#anime #manga #history
Fan Subs that Fan Stuck: How Anime Fans Embraced Fansub Terminology
A huge thanks to our Negikitsu for requesting this article! We can't do it without you. All fansub images are used as demonstrative aids; Anime Herald
hera.fyi
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Not related to anything but I sometimes think abt how one of the stated reasons why Kaizoku subs left nakama as this untranslatable word with no appropriate English equivalent was because "comrade" sounded Too Communist
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Black bear
Bald eagle
Woodchuck
Salmon (probably Chinook)
Moose
Black bear
Bald eagle
Woodchuck
Salmon (probably Chinook)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
bighorn sheep
green sea turtles
north american porcupine
ravens (friends)
grey whales
bighorn sheep
green sea turtles
north american porcupine
ravens (friends)
grey whales
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Black bear
Bald eagle
Woodchuck
Salmon (probably Chinook)
Moose
Black bear
Bald eagle
Woodchuck
Salmon (probably Chinook)
does anyone know if this claim has merit? And if so, where I could learn more? (Cursory wiki research is not turning anything up, but I don't know what keywords to use.)
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
does anyone know if this claim has merit? And if so, where I could learn more? (Cursory wiki research is not turning anything up, but I don't know what keywords to use.)
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The people who say there's no ethical consumption under capitalism are just quitters
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The people who say there's no ethical consumption under capitalism are just quitters
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The artist only got his proper credit in 2023, too 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/solving-the-...
Solving the 1976 'Wrinkle in Time' Cover Artist Mystery
I've been posting the same uncredited cover to a 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf edition of A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, for years and years.
I always get the same response: People recognize it as ...
70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The artist only got his proper credit in 2023, too 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/solving-the-...
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remember: columbo isn't a cop. he's a fae with a strong sense of justice, who shows up to crimes and glamours people into thinking he's a cop.
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
remember: columbo isn't a cop. he's a fae with a strong sense of justice, who shows up to crimes and glamours people into thinking he's a cop.
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
that's why he doesn't carry a gun: the cold iron
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I’m having a rent and taxes sales for itch creators day!
It has
- a ritual larp
- A Witch, A Gallows Bird
- TOWNIE(S)
- a surreal gas station
- an erotic noir ttrpg
- a dungeon
- and something for The Between!
itch.io/s/160807/ren...
It has
- a ritual larp
- A Witch, A Gallows Bird
- TOWNIE(S)
- a surreal gas station
- an erotic noir ttrpg
- a dungeon
- and something for The Between!
itch.io/s/160807/ren...
RENT & TAXES Sale! by Jellyfishlines
A bundle by Jellyfishlines, $15.60 for 7 games
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m having a rent and taxes sales for itch creators day!
It has
- a ritual larp
- A Witch, A Gallows Bird
- TOWNIE(S)
- a surreal gas station
- an erotic noir ttrpg
- a dungeon
- and something for The Between!
itch.io/s/160807/ren...
It has
- a ritual larp
- A Witch, A Gallows Bird
- TOWNIE(S)
- a surreal gas station
- an erotic noir ttrpg
- a dungeon
- and something for The Between!
itch.io/s/160807/ren...
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Morphine
Debbie Harry & Jazz Passengers
Kendrick Lamar
X
Me'shell Ndegeocello
Morphine
Debbie Harry & Jazz Passengers
Kendrick Lamar
X
Me'shell Ndegeocello
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Dropkick Murphys
Babymetal
Meat Puppets
Reel Big Fish
Smash Mouth
Dropkick Murphys
Babymetal
Meat Puppets
Reel Big Fish
Smash Mouth
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Morphine
Debbie Harry & Jazz Passengers
Kendrick Lamar
X
Me'shell Ndegeocello
Morphine
Debbie Harry & Jazz Passengers
Kendrick Lamar
X
Me'shell Ndegeocello
trying to practice self-compassion by not posting screencaps of horrible things I've seen people say (sometimes TO me)
but a guy argued today not only that writers don't need to read to improve but that it is elitist gatekeeping to claim they do
but a guy argued today not only that writers don't need to read to improve but that it is elitist gatekeeping to claim they do
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
trying to practice self-compassion by not posting screencaps of horrible things I've seen people say (sometimes TO me)
but a guy argued today not only that writers don't need to read to improve but that it is elitist gatekeeping to claim they do
but a guy argued today not only that writers don't need to read to improve but that it is elitist gatekeeping to claim they do