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Lin Codega
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writers room assistant IWTV S3—journalist, co-founder rascal news—debut novel: MOTHEATER, !!!OUT NOW!!!—🏳️‍⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy
it's my birthday!
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.

So don't let it.

This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Desperately sad to be missing pax unplugged this year.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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howling
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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In the first of what will likely be a series of blogs, @lincodega.com unpacks how @samsorensen.bsky.social's month-long realtime Mothership larp/megagame #over/under ended for their character, High Gardener Otso, and also, for themselves.
How to find an ending in Over/Under
After a month of emergent story, scheming, and bleed, it all ended with a gardener and a clown.
www.rascal.news
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bourdain might be the only outsider who really understood what the church was in #over/under.

Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...

#OVER/UNDER
Over Under Anthony Bourdain Compilation
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"THE WORLD IS FUCKED, BUT PLAY ENDURES."
Very pleased with how #MothershipMonth25 shook out! All On Red is moving into its final draft stage, we’re starting on stretch goal writing, got some plans for Glue Trap Games going forward, and made a bunch of new pals from #Over/Under. The world is fucked, but play endures.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
i kept seeing the tempest (merc/soldier) faction in #over/under use the words "mercy" and "consequence" and i was like... that seems... familiar.

It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Just another beautiful interaction on the After Party for #over/under
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Hey - if you're a Denizen of The Dream in #OVER/UNDER and want to follow more of the fun and cool people you've met over there over here then this is a darn good place to look: go.bsky.app/2dTRvz3
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This game genuinely feels like we packed a 3-year-long campaign into a month and are now trying to decompress from it
Four hours after the end of #over/under and people are still in the After/Party section, secondary voice chats, private DMs, and three-to-five separate servers talking about the game, the characters, the players, the moments. What an incredible experience. What a ride. A game-changing kind of month.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Four hours after the end of #over/under and people are still in the After/Party section, secondary voice chats, private DMs, and three-to-five separate servers talking about the game, the characters, the players, the moments. What an incredible experience. What a ride. A game-changing kind of month.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
not a stretch to say that this won the game for all of us, even if we didn't know it
For @samsorensen.bsky.social's #OVER/UNDER I created WEATHERVANE, an in-universe themed combat simulator. Using it, our faction was able to predict the outcome of any battle with a high degree of confidence. It helped us price mercenary contracts and go into any combat knowing the expected outcomes.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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alright & here's mine! the songs i wrote as cardinal horologium, troubadour of the many-voice ✨ this month has been so nuts i genuinely forgot abt one of these. i also did a bo burnham cover for a comedy night that got interrupted by a declaration of war. that is not on here #over/under
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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my character, the young pope Metropolitan Sampsa, is now marrying big_dog beefstink, leader of the hacker collective, in the final hour of the game. it's all gay drama in #over/under turns out
"toxic gay drama in #over/under will never come for me" i said. "it is out there somewhere but my poor sampsa will never get roped up in it." i was wrong. it comes for all of us
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Having played #over/under for a month im not convinced it's real.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Some of my favorite pieces of art I've done during #over/under for #mothershipmonth
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
play to find out
"toxic gay drama in #over/under will never come for me" i said. "it is out there somewhere but my poor sampsa will never get roped up in it." i was wrong. it comes for all of us
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If you're in LA i'm giving a talk tomorrow at a brewery on "THE HISTORY OF TTRPGS IN SEVEN SCANDALS" i have a powerpoint it will be great

🎟️ nerdnite.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Alright maybe this is true play to find out
I take it back!!!
Love conquers all
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
don't ever put me in ANY game i WILL plot and scheme and i WILL pull shit.
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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could everyone please help my cardinals elect a new space pope. it isn't healthy for them to be stuck in a conclave. they only do this when they are very distressed
i dunno how they're talking about it out on the Dream because i'm sequestered but take it from me: this is all you need to know about the conclave so far #over/under
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM