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Dan LK, Living Deliciously
@2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
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Editor/instructional designer by day, funny dice enthusiast after hours. Sometime DMs Guild author, forever DM. Horror fan. Gourmand. Salty descriptivist. GenX, bi, enby, polyam. He/him, more or less.

Here for elfgames, horror, & occasional leftism.
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Back home from #PaxU and had a restorative nap. I think someone may have missed me while I was away.
My kitty Pepper making a pie on the squishy comforter, where she has been next to me for an hour or so.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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STOP. This is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.

(I am unqualified to judge my own cuteness. Nonetheless.)
Selfie of a middle-aged nerd with a salt-and-pepper beard and retro reading glasses. Featured in the background are chaotic bookshelves.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We are also accepting
Cover of the album Pod by the Breeders Cover of the album Pale by Toad the Wet Sprocket Cover of the album Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover of the album Hell's Ditch by the Pogues
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Me getting a very sweet snuggle from my cat Pepper
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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If you see this, post a concert pic you took (if you feel like it)

The Bevis Frond, Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia PA, March 1 2025
Nick Saloman and the version of the Bevis Frond that toured the US in winter/spring 2025, photographed from the upper balcony at Johnny Brenda's bathed in purple light
September 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Show me the image that burned into your brain when you first discovered the horror genre.

My first comic, absolutely full of eldritch, squirming unease, culminating in the utterly unnerving sequence where Conan fights nameless monsters along *a corridor in space*. I was six. It broke me for good.
The original cover of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian 117, "In the Lair of Mullah-Kajar," showing the mighty Cimmerian battling a tentacled Thing in a squalid dungeon cell The cover of the collected trade paperback of The Chronicles of Conan, vol. 15: The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories, reprinting an image from the title issue showing Conan traversing a corridor in cosmic space, its many doors opening to admit a host of eldritch horrors
August 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Game night. I'm getting help with the Adventuring.
Me with Pepper the caliby kitty snuggled up against me
July 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Happy Caturday from this absolute weirdo in particular
Pepper the caliby kitten sitting in my shower stall, fascinated by the drain
July 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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When me and my crew roll up on you
Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in pagan drag leading the procession in The Wicker Man
July 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Happy #Caturday! Pepper says that there's no wrong way to get your relaxation in.
Pepper the caliby kitten making an absolutely absurd twist inside her fish bed, with one paw hanging out the front
June 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I suspect Pepper may also be fictional. She's much too silly for real life. #ProofOfCat #AllAnalogCat
Pepper the caliby kitten lying practically in my lap and melting into the scritches
June 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Content notice: Beans

#ProofOfCat
My kitty Pepper lying head-first in her cat cave with her feets sticking out the opening
June 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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🎶AS SLOWLY TURNS THE GRINDING WHEEL
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
AAAAAAAAAAAH🎶
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, sitting on a mountain with a guitar and singing to the children she will later help escape the creeping tide of fascism, in a tale of no particular relevance today
May 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Me in the national security group chat
GIF of Peter Weller in Cronenberg's 1991 film adaptation of Naked Lunch, delicately typing on the bug typewriter
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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TFW you wonder if you might be a bad influence on discovering your kitten sleeps like you do
Pepper the kitten asleep on the couch, faceplanted against the back cushion and with one leg out of the blanket
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Many Happy Returns today to Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond, who I finally got to see play live this past St. Davy's Day in Philadelphia. A great show worth waiting 20 years for.

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Nick Saloman engaging in some stage banter at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, March 1, 2025.
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth Peter Gabriel in Genesis, wearing the Narcissus flower costume for "Supper's Ready" Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
March 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Post your king or queen.
King Ghidorah as he appeared in the film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
March 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you.
Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins in the film of The Fellowship of the Ring.
March 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Update:
Pepper the caliby kitten is sitting on my chest, looking wide-eyed past the camera
March 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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I keep wondering if she really likes me
A photo of Pepper the kitten looking up at the camera and lying all the way on my chest while I'm under a comforter
February 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source
Famous middling wizard and travel guide writer/fantasy Yelp pioneer Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm of the Forgotten Realms, as he appears in Baldur's Gate 3
February 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Pepper says hi. She will make a big motor if you scritch her chin.
Pepper, my caliby kitten, half-curled up on the couch with her head upside down, her creamy center exposed, and making bunny feet. Absolutely asking to be pestered.
February 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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You may think this cat toy is silly but I guarantee we will never have a gnome problem
A photo of a cat toy of the fishing pole variety from which dangles a plush gnome with a pointy red hat and ridiculous dangly string legs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM