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Folarin Akinmade
@akingmade.bsky.social
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Making stuff up for a living.
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Just got Draw Steel in the post. Who wants to play?
A picture of the Draw Steel TTRPG book.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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This the book I've been working on for a while now. It features gorgeous art from Bimpe Alliu, editing & lettering from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and logo design from Salt & Sister Studios.

But how do you want it? Do you read digital comics? What platforms? Do you want a physical copy?
A front cover to a comic book done in a painterly style. It shows a Black woman, from her shoulder up. Standing against an abstract, bifurcated white and purple background. There are sparks of flame coming off her face. Her eyes are closed. The title is centred, it reads "Even The Stars Will Fall".
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Here. A hastily done meme to illustrate my point.
The Scooby Doo Mask reveal meme. It shows Fred revealing the ghost to be a man. The text reads: Horrific world events People trying to understand what is at the heart of these atrocities It's white supremacist settler colonialism. Again. Like it always is.
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Week 7: When Worlds Collide
August 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Week 6 I'm just scrolling

There was more, but I couldn't quite make the chorus or middle 8 work, so it became a verse and a half.

Enjoy.
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Week 5: The Reason I Sing

Okay! Had to double dip today cos I missed last week. Meant I only had a day for this but I like it.

Also, excuse my weird-ass beat-boxing. I could really hear the beat so it needed something in there.
August 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Week 4: the people are hungry
August 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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WEEK 3: WHAT A THING TO BE ALIVE
July 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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WEEK TWO: THE EMPEROR'S LULLABY.

Okay, this one was also quite sad, but surely next week won't continue this morose streak???
July 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WEEK ONE: GROWS & GROWS

Writing songs again for the first time in like a decade. Going to try and do one a week to force myself out of preciousness.

Forgot to make this one rhyme in any way that makes sense.

Woops. We'll see what next week brings us.
June 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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But I know Shamini loved it really 😇
The "I Bring A Sort Of" meme format in which a Black man, wearing a Black baseball cap backwards looks out from a balcony or porch onto a screen space. Text reads: "I bring a sort of CHAOTIC vibe to TTRPGs that GMs don't really like".
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It is a rare thing for a series to remain so fresh, exciting and just plain old Good for volume after the volume, the way X Factor did. RIP Peter David.
Cover of X-Factor, The Complete Collection. It features Jamie Madrox the multiple man in centre. Then left to right, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy, Richtor, Siren, and Monet. They are in a dark office, shaded by detective-noir style blinds.
May 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Posting a little sing-song to this platform for the first time. #MrHudson #MrHudsonAndTheLibrary #ThereWjllBeTears #Acoustic #Cover
May 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Headline from an Independent article. It reads UK is most corrupt country in the world, says mafia expert Roberto Saviano
February 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The thing about Maggott is, I love everything about him, but there aren't enough Black X-Men to have a guy be blue when he does some of his coolest shit.
An illustration from a comic showing Maggott, an X-Man who is a Black man with a single lock of white/grey hair and sunglasses. He holds two giant, armoured "maggots" on his shoulder. Art by Terry Dodson. Image of Maggott in his powered up form. He is bigger and blue.
December 24, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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I haven't been reading anything for a while, so I'm gonna shout out something old.

This book, man. Atmospheric and ever-intriguing. A human study set to the backdrop of the apocalypse. Get on it.
A double page spread (landscape) illustration for the comic boook "The Nice House On The Lake". A lake overlooked by mountains, in a beautiful woodland area. In the top right corner, the lights are on a beautiful, modern house. Think Frank Lloyd Wright but with slightly less natural integration. The text of the book sits on the water at an angle, almost as if they are floating down the river, with reflections in the eater reinforcing that idea. The names of all the creators involved are also present. Including James Tynion IV (writer) and Álvaro Martinez Bueno (artist and cover).
December 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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A screenshot of a tweet by @_Zeets. It reads "The way some think about human life is so interesting - you can create the conditions for countless people to suffer, you can even sign off on their early deaths, and as long as its legal, it's not seen as wrong/evil. This happens with CEOs as much as it does with politicians."
December 6, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Just gonna highlight that Something Is Killing The Children immediately came to mind cos part of the key to a great shonen character is you look at it and go "is this the fucking coolest character design I've ever seen in my life?" And Erica Slaughter delivers even in her simplicity.
An illustration of Erica Slaughter, the main character from the comic book, Something Is Killing The Children. Erica is a blonde woman, with huge, neon green eyes. She wears a white tank top, and black trousers, and most importantly a black bandanna that she wears over the lower half of her face. It features a teeth-like design.
November 29, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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I am too late, but I think everyone should read Witch Hat Atelier anyway. The art is unbelievably gorgeous and it's about art as a magic practise, in a way that is just so satisfying. #WeReadsComics
The front cover of the first volume of the manga, Witch Hat Atelier. It features the protagonist, a young white girl with short blonde hair, wearing witches robes (in this world a sleeveless overcoat, white blouse, and pointed conical hat, that has something in common with the western idea of witches, but I think also has an East Asian influence). All this against a backdrop of a quaint european-looking "medieval" village.
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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This was so delicious.
A screenshot of a game of Marvel Snap, a digital card game, played on the mobile. In it, I show a combo of cards that has led to me getting a score above five million.
November 15, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Let's get this show on the road 💪🏾
A 1:1 poster for the upcoming production of Road Show, at Upstairs At The Gatehouse. It features the headshots of the 8 actors involved in the production, Reece Richardson, Madeleine Morgan, Oliver Sidney, Folarin Akinmade, Robert Finlayson, Emily Friberg, Rhys Lambert, and Katherine Strohmaier The poster for Road Show that features information about the production, namely that has music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, and orchestration by Jonathan Tunick. The show will be on from the 12th December 2024 until the 12th January 2025. www.upstairsatthegatehouse.co.uk
November 12, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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The herculean effort that went into making these apple cinnamon muffins versus how incredibly mid they are is truly hilarious.
A wooden tray of apple cinnamon muffins, smothered in a toffee sauce.
November 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Has anyone got the DNDNext playtest material for the sorcerer? Found this snippet of it on Reddit, and it's very much what I wish the flavour of sorcerer was now, but struggling to find a document anywhere. #DnD #Sorcerer
A screenshot of a block of text from Reddit. The text reads: Sorcerous Powers: At 1st level, you can spend 1 willpower to use the dragon strength power. Additionally, each day, after you have spent 3 willpower, your hands become claw-like and your body grows more imposing. Until you complete a long rest, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage rolls of your melee attacks. Level 4: You can spend 2 willpower to use the dragon scales power. Additionally, each day, after you have spent 10 willpower, you manifest dragon scales that cover large portions of your skin. Until you complete a long rest, you have resistance to the damage type associated with your type of dragon. Suggested Equipment: Chainmail, greatsword, dagger, adventurer’s kit, healer’s kit, and 12 gp
November 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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As I look around at companies making incredibly stupid, greedy decisions that will only serve their shareholders for the quarter before making their situation significantly worse in the long term, I think about this interview with Dave Stewart.

time.com/5913009/dave...
A screenshot from a Time Article. A question in bold reads: Why Haven't You Gone Public? The answer: "The question is, why would we? The only Shareholder that we're concerned about is me. Any my whole goal and objective is not all about the money, it's about how we serve our clients better than anybody else. How do we continue to improve, how we invest in a way that's long term, that's 50 years from now, not a quarter from now. Investors in the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ or anywhere else, they're not very patient."
October 22, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Let's get down to business. Top 3 Miyazaki films.
A poster of the film The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki. It features a young woman in a lush green field, under open blue skies, with big, evocative clouds overhead. She's painting at an easel on a stand, underneath an umbrella that has been attached to its own stand to leave her hands free. The movie poster for Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki. It features a young girl, wearing a mask pulled back to reveal a stern face, adorned with red tribal paint. She sits atop a giant, wild, white wolf. The film poster for Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso. We see an anthropomorphised pig wearing an early 20th century pilot's attire in a red plane from the same time period giving a thumbs up to the camera.
September 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM