Dr. Emily Friedman
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (#TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance)
ecfriedman.com
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Heading to Expo (and Jubensha) a bit before 10, but if you’re looking for me today you can find me:
- heckling at @itsquinns.bsky.social event
- tail end of D20 Cosplay Meetup
- queuing for Table to TV panel unless @aabria.bsky.social scoops me
- Indie Night Market 🤞
(Photo by @emnk.bsky.social )
- heckling at @itsquinns.bsky.social event
- tail end of D20 Cosplay Meetup
- queuing for Table to TV panel unless @aabria.bsky.social scoops me
- Indie Night Market 🤞
(Photo by @emnk.bsky.social )
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Heading to Expo (and Jubensha) a bit before 10, but if you’re looking for me today you can find me:
- heckling at @itsquinns.bsky.social event
- tail end of D20 Cosplay Meetup
- queuing for Table to TV panel unless @aabria.bsky.social scoops me
- Indie Night Market 🤞
(Photo by @emnk.bsky.social )
- heckling at @itsquinns.bsky.social event
- tail end of D20 Cosplay Meetup
- queuing for Table to TV panel unless @aabria.bsky.social scoops me
- Indie Night Market 🤞
(Photo by @emnk.bsky.social )
On the hunt for bookish & literary games & whatever tickles my fancy otherwise, physical copies PDFs I have, & the smiling faces of so many lovely nerds.
⭐️ to @willjobst.bsky.social who I think gets the 1st “are you Dr. Emily Friedman?” of the con. (& @oneshotrpg.bsky.social who made me cry)
⭐️ to @willjobst.bsky.social who I think gets the 1st “are you Dr. Emily Friedman?” of the con. (& @oneshotrpg.bsky.social who made me cry)
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
On the hunt for bookish & literary games & whatever tickles my fancy otherwise, physical copies PDFs I have, & the smiling faces of so many lovely nerds.
⭐️ to @willjobst.bsky.social who I think gets the 1st “are you Dr. Emily Friedman?” of the con. (& @oneshotrpg.bsky.social who made me cry)
⭐️ to @willjobst.bsky.social who I think gets the 1st “are you Dr. Emily Friedman?” of the con. (& @oneshotrpg.bsky.social who made me cry)
@moreblueberries.bsky.social has a killer setup here at #PAXU for The Time We Have
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@moreblueberries.bsky.social has a killer setup here at #PAXU for The Time We Have
I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
A while ago a random commenter snarked at me for saying that 30 lb incline dumbbell presses were impressive looking.
I raise you 60 lb (27.2 kg) chest-supported dumbbell rows.
3x5 (did 6 in first set)
I raise you 60 lb (27.2 kg) chest-supported dumbbell rows.
3x5 (did 6 in first set)
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A while ago a random commenter snarked at me for saying that 30 lb incline dumbbell presses were impressive looking.
I raise you 60 lb (27.2 kg) chest-supported dumbbell rows.
3x5 (did 6 in first set)
I raise you 60 lb (27.2 kg) chest-supported dumbbell rows.
3x5 (did 6 in first set)
It has dropped temporarily to lows near freezing (overnight) & thus the Elder Millennial dons the ancient skinny-jeans-and-tall-boots combo.
(And I have discovered I have functionally no sweaters post-purge. Oops.)
(And I have discovered I have functionally no sweaters post-purge. Oops.)
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It has dropped temporarily to lows near freezing (overnight) & thus the Elder Millennial dons the ancient skinny-jeans-and-tall-boots combo.
(And I have discovered I have functionally no sweaters post-purge. Oops.)
(And I have discovered I have functionally no sweaters post-purge. Oops.)
A wonderful weekend of deliveries of work by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social, @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social + @bmars.bsky.social, & @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
(All purchased myself)
(All purchased myself)
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A wonderful weekend of deliveries of work by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social, @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social + @bmars.bsky.social, & @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social
(All purchased myself)
(All purchased myself)
Running errands before the coffee shop opens, buying essentials for the 10 days ahead…
Not quite bread and roses, but “caffeine, protein, and a zz” doesn’t quite have the same ring.
Not quite bread and roses, but “caffeine, protein, and a zz” doesn’t quite have the same ring.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Running errands before the coffee shop opens, buying essentials for the 10 days ahead…
Not quite bread and roses, but “caffeine, protein, and a zz” doesn’t quite have the same ring.
Not quite bread and roses, but “caffeine, protein, and a zz” doesn’t quite have the same ring.
THIS PART — which I was just texting to a friend:
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
THIS PART — which I was just texting to a friend:
Manu texted this link to me and I Kermit flailed from the title (“Brown Optimism”) on — what a heck of an artifact, work of art, recovery.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Manu texted this link to me and I Kermit flailed from the title (“Brown Optimism”) on — what a heck of an artifact, work of art, recovery.
One of my favorite places in LA is the Cathedral: when my sister’s 1st child, my godson, was born I sat under Nava’s tapestries, looked at Augustine, & thought of @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social reminding us how the saints remind us of the infinite diversity of what love lived out can be, large & small.
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of my favorite places in LA is the Cathedral: when my sister’s 1st child, my godson, was born I sat under Nava’s tapestries, looked at Augustine, & thought of @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social reminding us how the saints remind us of the infinite diversity of what love lived out can be, large & small.
For the morning crowd —
“…It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.”
poets.org/poem/writer
“…It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.”
poets.org/poem/writer
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For the morning crowd —
“…It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.”
poets.org/poem/writer
“…It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder.”
poets.org/poem/writer
This little Astoria baby is now 10. His 5th bday was cancelled in spring 2020. Weeks ago he painstakingly wrote out signs for his siblings to hold, marching for liberty & justice for all.
So often in his lifetime I have worried for the world we’ve made.
His hometown gives me a little hope tonight.
So often in his lifetime I have worried for the world we’ve made.
His hometown gives me a little hope tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This little Astoria baby is now 10. His 5th bday was cancelled in spring 2020. Weeks ago he painstakingly wrote out signs for his siblings to hold, marching for liberty & justice for all.
So often in his lifetime I have worried for the world we’ve made.
His hometown gives me a little hope tonight.
So often in his lifetime I have worried for the world we’ve made.
His hometown gives me a little hope tonight.
I love it so much you can see me playing it in this clip from CNBC’s “Make It” where I snarked so hard they recorded b-roll of me playing four indie games (including For the Queen, Slugblaster, & Yazeba’s) instead of the planned fake-D&D session.
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I love it so much you can see me playing it in this clip from CNBC’s “Make It” where I snarked so hard they recorded b-roll of me playing four indie games (including For the Queen, Slugblaster, & Yazeba’s) instead of the planned fake-D&D session.
This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
I don’t yet have the words for what it meant to have @megueyb.bsky.social here, to discover community I didn’t even know rising up like late season flowers, to see my home with new eyes, to immediately hear my colleagues & I saying “next time” like a prayer.
But I’ll find them.
But I’ll find them.
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I don’t yet have the words for what it meant to have @megueyb.bsky.social here, to discover community I didn’t even know rising up like late season flowers, to see my home with new eyes, to immediately hear my colleagues & I saying “next time” like a prayer.
But I’ll find them.
But I’ll find them.
What a day, what a time to be here, and remember vividly when it opened, the groundswell of hope in the power of remembering.
Its call is even more urgent now.
@legacysites.eji.org
Its call is even more urgent now.
@legacysites.eji.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What a day, what a time to be here, and remember vividly when it opened, the groundswell of hope in the power of remembering.
Its call is even more urgent now.
@legacysites.eji.org
Its call is even more urgent now.
@legacysites.eji.org
Fittingly, it’s PbtA Week.
I’d bring more to class today as examples EXCEPT THE STUDENTS ADOPTED MOST OF THEM.
This is a stack of games that have each inspired countless more. It’s the best of what TTRPG interdependence is — in the work & life of @lumpley.bsky.social & @megueyb.bsky.social
I’d bring more to class today as examples EXCEPT THE STUDENTS ADOPTED MOST OF THEM.
This is a stack of games that have each inspired countless more. It’s the best of what TTRPG interdependence is — in the work & life of @lumpley.bsky.social & @megueyb.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Fittingly, it’s PbtA Week.
I’d bring more to class today as examples EXCEPT THE STUDENTS ADOPTED MOST OF THEM.
This is a stack of games that have each inspired countless more. It’s the best of what TTRPG interdependence is — in the work & life of @lumpley.bsky.social & @megueyb.bsky.social
I’d bring more to class today as examples EXCEPT THE STUDENTS ADOPTED MOST OF THEM.
This is a stack of games that have each inspired countless more. It’s the best of what TTRPG interdependence is — in the work & life of @lumpley.bsky.social & @megueyb.bsky.social
Once again, Del Toro is faithful to the history of Frankenstein’s earliest incarnations (and the first theatrical adaptation, seen by Shelley herself)
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Once again, Del Toro is faithful to the history of Frankenstein’s earliest incarnations (and the first theatrical adaptation, seen by Shelley herself)
Tonight is Lantern Night at my alma mater. Now more than ever, I am grateful for how Bryn Mawr shaped me. No place is perfect, nostalgia is a trap, but I am thankful for that space to be myself.
O, friends of wisdom,
Let us gather…
catapultingintoclassical.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/h...
O, friends of wisdom,
Let us gather…
catapultingintoclassical.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/h...
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Tonight is Lantern Night at my alma mater. Now more than ever, I am grateful for how Bryn Mawr shaped me. No place is perfect, nostalgia is a trap, but I am thankful for that space to be myself.
O, friends of wisdom,
Let us gather…
catapultingintoclassical.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/h...
O, friends of wisdom,
Let us gather…
catapultingintoclassical.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/h...
My Scrivener organization now reflects the revised structure, which means I have a much improved sense of the warp threads for each chapter, through which I can weave all the elements I want to include.
(It’s funny how often I use weaving metaphors given the closest I’ve gotten in practice is LOOM)
(It’s funny how often I use weaving metaphors given the closest I’ve gotten in practice is LOOM)
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My Scrivener organization now reflects the revised structure, which means I have a much improved sense of the warp threads for each chapter, through which I can weave all the elements I want to include.
(It’s funny how often I use weaving metaphors given the closest I’ve gotten in practice is LOOM)
(It’s funny how often I use weaving metaphors given the closest I’ve gotten in practice is LOOM)
Please enjoy my creeper shot of three people I admire a great deal, then go read them in conversation.
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Please enjoy my creeper shot of three people I admire a great deal, then go read them in conversation.
Yesterday @ckunzelman.bsky.social & some of his research team visited Auburn, including a lively discussion in my Intro to Literary Studies course & a talk at Pebble Hill (which was recorded & should be circulating next week). Hopefully there will be more Mercer-Auburn collaborations to come.
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yesterday @ckunzelman.bsky.social & some of his research team visited Auburn, including a lively discussion in my Intro to Literary Studies course & a talk at Pebble Hill (which was recorded & should be circulating next week). Hopefully there will be more Mercer-Auburn collaborations to come.
Glenn Kaino, “Bridge”
(based on cast of Tommie Smith’s arm, displayed in the High exhibit “With Drawn Arms,” upon the anniversary of Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Olympic Games)
Photo by Lauren Holt
www.high.org/exhibition/w...
(based on cast of Tommie Smith’s arm, displayed in the High exhibit “With Drawn Arms,” upon the anniversary of Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Olympic Games)
Photo by Lauren Holt
www.high.org/exhibition/w...
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Glenn Kaino, “Bridge”
(based on cast of Tommie Smith’s arm, displayed in the High exhibit “With Drawn Arms,” upon the anniversary of Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Olympic Games)
Photo by Lauren Holt
www.high.org/exhibition/w...
(based on cast of Tommie Smith’s arm, displayed in the High exhibit “With Drawn Arms,” upon the anniversary of Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Olympic Games)
Photo by Lauren Holt
www.high.org/exhibition/w...
This will hopefully make clear why I will not be in the Full Command Center Liveposting but instead staying awake for as much of the nearly five hour (!!) runtime I can manage…
October 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This will hopefully make clear why I will not be in the Full Command Center Liveposting but instead staying awake for as much of the nearly five hour (!!) runtime I can manage…