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Adam Heine
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Editor-for-hire, Foster dad of 10+, Author (Izanami's Choice), Game dev (Torment: Tides of Numenera, Remnant: From the Ashes, Remnant 2). Daily gratitude. He/him.

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Legit world-building tip:
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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3994 - I'm thankful for how happy it makes my Cypher players when I help them turn their cool character concepts into actual game mechanics. #gratitude #TTRPG #Cypher
Meme in two panels. At the top is the text "Player: I have a very specific character idea..." The first panel is Thanos (labeled Cypher System) handing out "Your Character Concept." The second panel is a couple of guys in a shop (labeled Other RPGs) saying, "Best I can do is a bard."
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I especially love that not only is Gambit holding a d20 but the numbers are where they should be.
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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3992 - I don't play Marvel Rivals, but I'm thankful for this super cute promo image that pops up when I open Steam. #gratitude #X-Men
Gambit and Rogue having a cute picnic together
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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How do you paint an image in the reader's head without confusing them? It's not hard, but getting it wrong is surprisingly common. Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/11/pain...
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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I 100% just fought this boss in Silksong.
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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3979 - I'm thankful this lovely girl decided she wanted to become our legal daughter. (I'm also thankful the adoption process after they're 20 is basically a rubber stamp.) #gratitude
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Post from Brittani Nichols (@BisHilarious): "I'm not a good fit for the traditional job market because my greatest strengths are challenging authority, being self-righteous, and wanting to go home"
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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President Skinner from The Simpsons. He's labeled "GOP." In the first panel, he's thinking to himself, "Are our policies out of touch?" In the second panel, with all the confidence of a 12-year-old who has just learned how cars start and believes he's therefore ready to drive, Skinner says, "No, it's the people who are wrong."
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Sorry. They were too busy liking my very erudite use of gifs.
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I've spent decades learning to better manage my time, and I'm STILL learning new tricks. Here's one, today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/10/lean...

#MentalHealth
October 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Weezer. This was the first album I owned where I legitimately enjoyed every song.
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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If I wrote this image into a novel, it would never sell for being too on-the-nose.
Trump's backhoe demolishes the White House.
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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3960 - I'm thankful for a fun game of "Is it AI?" with Anica and the random prints that decorated our Bangkok AirBnB. #gratitude
A framed print of a painting that looks like a view out of a Parisian window with white cloths pinned to a clothesline, two flower planters on the sill, Parisian-style buildings behind the sheets, and the Eiffel Tower in the distance. Except... the clotheslines aren't connected to anything, the clothespins don't make sense, one of the flower planters appears to be floating off the edge of the sill, and the white sheets dominate the center and block the view of Paris. So, is it AI?
October 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Are social media algorithms feeding you or feeding ON you? Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/10/the-...
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Me: What are you doing over there?
Cindy: Winning.
A Settlers board laid out. A single player has placed all of their pieces on the board unchallenged—even using walls as roads. This player has acquired every single development card. They have 22 points in a game where 10 points wins. A dry erase board says, unnecessarily, "I won!"
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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True story.
Screenshot of a post from Margot Wood: "Writers, if you are hesitant about switching genres, just know the guy who wrote Mad Max: Fury Road also wrote Babe."
October 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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I don't know how to fix this, but it keeps happening.
Three panels. In each panel, two people are standing next to a 6 (or a 9) and arguing about what it is. Panel #1: "What we're told is happening." One says it's a 6, the other says it's a 9. Together, they say, "We're both right. We just have different points of view!" Panel #2: "What needs to happen." One says 6, the other says 9. Together, they say, "Somebody drew this. We need to use the evidence at hand to get as close as we can to the objective truth." Panel #3: "What's actually happening. One says 6. The other points straight at the symbol on the ground and says there is nothing there. The first person says, "I... What?"
October 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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3942 - I'm thankful for Netflix's LEVIATHAN. I was worried the pacing would be too fast (three books in 12 episodes!), but as someone who hasn't read the books in many, many years, it felt just right to me. It's great to see that world come to life. #gratitude
The two main characters of Leviathan, Dylan Sharp and Prince Aleksander, standing in front of the titular air beast
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Am I writing what people want to read? Is that even important? Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2025/09/i-ha...

#AmWriting
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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A picture of a beautiful sky full of nothing but clouds—certainly no people—with the words "No rapture yet, huh? Shocking."
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Modern evangelicalism
A picture of a man at Charlie Kirk's funeral "bearing his cross" on one shoulder, except his cross has tiny wheels on the bottom.
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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When it makes sense, I like to wear shirts that express my mood.

I have been getting a LOT of mileage out of this one.
A selfie of me wearing a T-shirt portraying Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso giving a thumbs up and centered in the words "Better A Pig Than A Fascist."
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This is why some of us have trouble sleeping. #AmWriting
Three panels from Pirates of the Caribbean. In the first, Jack Sparrow (writer) asks, "Why is my idea gone?" In the second, Elizabeth Swann (their brain) snaps back, "Because you refused to write it down last night when you were comfy in bed." In the final panel, Jack (write) pleads, "But... why is my idea gone?"
September 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM