just a gigantic spider
@gigantic-spider.bsky.social
ttrpg nobody and Coordinator for The Awards 2026
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so I'm in Germany and my finances are dire because my money is worth almost 7 times less than Europeans'. because imperialism etc.
so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!!
(if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)
so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!!
(if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)
i just got a letter of acceptance to do a semester of my PhD in Germany. It's gonna make a huge difference for me, but I have no funding, and my currency is worth 6 times less than the Euro. So I’m doing a lil' crowdfunding. If you can help, here’s my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/wendiyu
Support wendi yu
Support wendi yu
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
so I'm in Germany and my finances are dire because my money is worth almost 7 times less than Europeans'. because imperialism etc.
so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!!
(if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)
so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!!
(if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)
Can’t possibly say how incredible it feels to be quoted in a Rascal piece, especially with such a lofty title as “crowdfunding researcher” (as accurate as the sorry that follows it lmao)
Themed crowdfunding months provide creative ways to bring together associated tabletop creators and raise consistent money.
But as the trend spreads, the calendar is beginning to feel mighty crowded.
But as the trend spreads, the calendar is beginning to feel mighty crowded.
Every day cannot be a holiday
Much to month about.
www.rascal.news
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Can’t possibly say how incredible it feels to be quoted in a Rascal piece, especially with such a lofty title as “crowdfunding researcher” (as accurate as the sorry that follows it lmao)
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"Realistically depicting the isolation of queer existence and how queer people aren't perfect angels makes me want to buy into the grooming panic. This is the author's fault."
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Realistically depicting the isolation of queer existence and how queer people aren't perfect angels makes me want to buy into the grooming panic. This is the author's fault."
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In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!
Surely giving someone struggling *more* responsibility could never go wrong
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Surely giving someone struggling *more* responsibility could never go wrong
Design Diary #2 is here, and it's all about judges!
I'm hoping to both clarify what the job of a judge for The Awards entails and thinking through some modifications that I can make to make said job easier.
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I'm hoping to both clarify what the job of a judge for The Awards entails and thinking through some modifications that I can make to make said job easier.
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Design Diary #2 is here, and it's all about judges!
I'm hoping to both clarify what the job of a judge for The Awards entails and thinking through some modifications that I can make to make said job easier.
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I'm hoping to both clarify what the job of a judge for The Awards entails and thinking through some modifications that I can make to make said job easier.
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
The Awards
The Awards
We need a National Book Awards-style game award: every year a committee of five freaks is handed the keys to all the prestige, they pick stuff no one's heard of, readers (players) get mad, the committee members get defensive, no one is truly happy, and then next year we do it all again
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Awards
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The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen
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Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
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If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page.
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Alice Wong (activist) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page.
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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This just made me cry. I admired Alice so very much, as a writer and as a human being. If we live even a fraction of the life and do even a small measure of the good she did, we will have lived very, very well.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This just made me cry. I admired Alice so very much, as a writer and as a human being. If we live even a fraction of the life and do even a small measure of the good she did, we will have lived very, very well.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
Rest easy, Alice, wherever you are. We’ll do our best to honor your work.
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
![Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdife25rfr5drwr2nhncr3rf/bafkreidfgv3xytmgta3x35mjze22ojok7lwh3vlhgrcfbcwr7hjg6bb6eu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
For perhaps the first time ever I’ve been beaten to the punch in sharing my own post 😅
"But I want to sound some alarm bells about the influence that these platforms are having on the TTRPG space, and the push toward professionalization that could crowd out smaller artists."
October 2025 TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective
October: big month for Kickstarter, not so much for Backerkit, and Gamefound is around too I guess. Here's the raw data , let's dive in: 181...
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
For perhaps the first time ever I’ve been beaten to the punch in sharing my own post 😅
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I never knew you could do that. I never knew you could just leave absolutely savage, excoriating obituaries for people who end up outliving you, that stick around to as claymore mines of volcanic invective that trigger when THEY die. That is genuinely some Death Note shit. I am in awe
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I never knew you could do that. I never knew you could just leave absolutely savage, excoriating obituaries for people who end up outliving you, that stick around to as claymore mines of volcanic invective that trigger when THEY die. That is genuinely some Death Note shit. I am in awe
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Just noting that Alabama is one of the most biodiverse places in the country and its freshwater biodiversity is some of the highest in THE WORLD, comparable to THE LITERAL AMAZON, but they want to build water-guzzling data centers for AI here b/c land is cheap.
1/4 I typically do not use preprint services, but our findings are important to the residents of Bessemer, Alabama impacted by the Marvel Project...a mega datacenter that will have a huge environmental impact.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just noting that Alabama is one of the most biodiverse places in the country and its freshwater biodiversity is some of the highest in THE WORLD, comparable to THE LITERAL AMAZON, but they want to build water-guzzling data centers for AI here b/c land is cheap.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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It is vitally important that we as a community roll up our sleeves and get ready to do the hard and important work of ensuring Andrew Cuomo loses at something for a third time
holy cow, I might actually get a chance to vote against him a third time 😌
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It is vitally important that we as a community roll up our sleeves and get ready to do the hard and important work of ensuring Andrew Cuomo loses at something for a third time
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Oh god……my fuc king BRAND
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Oh god……my fuc king BRAND
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.