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Nathan Long
@nathanrlong.bsky.social
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Former writer at inXile Entertainment, novelist, script writer, game writer, general plot hammerer - He/Him
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I am the final boss of Mahjong.
Me, in a red fedora and red shirt, sitting in a booth in a dark, wood paneled restaurant with mahjong tiles set up on the table. I am glaring out from under the brim of my hat.
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Rejected portfolio site profile pic #5. Only used 10% of my power.
Me, using raw chi energy to shoot a blizzard of antique household and carpentry tools straight at the camera. Actually, I was at Cooper Union and saw a display of hanging tools and saw an opportunity for a gag shot, but don't tell anyone.
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Birthday books from @lilichin.bsky.social! Thank you, darling!
Two translated wuxia novels by Jin Yong, A Hero Born and A Bond Undone, both from the series Legend of the Condor Heroes.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Rejected portfolio site profile pic #4. Wrong incarnation.
A black and white photo of me in a gray suit and black ribbon tie, with slicked back hair and a grim expression, looking like I'm auditioning for Elmer Gantry.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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And here's the reverse angle with @lilichin.bsky.social's photo on my laptop.
Our cat, Shimmy, on a pillow on my lap, giving me a hard look for squirming around trying to get this shot. In the background is our living room, and my laptop, with the reverse angle of this picture on the screen.
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Box complete!
The box for a card game I designed, Trick City Gang war, sitting on my desk with my keyboard in the background. The box shows the various animal gangsters from the game, cats, dogs, rats, and pigeons.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Rejected portfolio site profile pic #3. Hands poorly positioned.
Me, in a green shirt, giving the double bird.
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Okay, I lied. I don't know how to relax. I didn't play video games. I made the box cover for a card game I designed instead. Art by @lilichin.bsky.social!
Box cover art for a game called Trick City Gang Wars, showing four of the gangsters in the game, a glamorous cat, a tough dog, a wild-eyed rat, and a pigeon with an attitude.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Rejected portfolio site profile pic #2. Friends in shot.
Me, in a flat cap and yellow shirt sitting in a highbacked black leather chair between two grinning skulls, which are mounted on the chair.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Rejected portfolio site profile pic: hat too small.
Me, wearing a very tiny bowler hat at a very jaunty angle.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The great Louis Prima, band leader, jazz trumpeter, and voice of King Louie in the Jungle Book.
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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An elvish alphabet (elfabet?) I came up with for the game Bard's Tale IV, which was used for inscriptions in the game.
An Elfish inscription in a made up alphabet, it reads, "May Ussylmar protect the guardian of my heart." All the letter forms of the Elfish alphabet I invented, and their phonetic pronunciation.
October 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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From tonight's walk. Sunset and the San Gabriels. And Lili.
A gold and pink sunset soaring over silhouetted suburban homes. The San Gabriel Mountains, red in the sunset, rising over the SGV, with palm trees and houses in the foreground, with Lili, her back to us, looking out over it all in a yellow dress.
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Orb Weaver near the kitchen window.
Orb weaver spider in the center of a big web, back lit in the dark so the strands stand out.
October 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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SGV moonrise.
The moon rising over the palm trees and lights of the San Gabriel Valley, with telephone wires sweeping through the foreground. There would be mountains in the distance, but the humid haze has hidden them.
October 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Parking lot mahjong night at 626 Soft Serve.
A large crowd waiting in line for ice cream and playing mahjong in the parking lot outside 626 Hospitality Ice Cream. A large crowd waiting in line for ice cream and playing mahjong in the parking lot outside 626 Hospitality Ice Cream.
October 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Post you from a different era.
Not the fifties. The eighties. But I sure tried. A black and white pic of me, with a pompadour, a white t-shirt and a vintage box jacket.
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Realized this morning as I lay in bed, that the Abominable Dr. Phibes and Seven are the same movie.
Poster for the movie The Abominable Dr. Phibes, with the tagline, "Love means never having to say you're ugly." The Poster for the movie Seven, with the tag line, "Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die."
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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New 8 of Rats for Trick City Gang War, with bigger and clearer icons, and new art by @lilichin.bsky.social!
#boardgamedesign #boardgames
A card for a card game called Trick City Gang War, featuring a stylish lady rat named Redhook Blondie, in 1920s fashions and holding a pistol. On the left side are the icons that show what suit the card is and what it does.
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Propitious Mango.
Some kind of packaged desert called Propitious Mango. It has an orange box, with a photo of mangos, writing in both English and Chinese, and a clear plastic panel showing vaguely mango colored objects inside, but I don't think they're actual mangos.
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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The kerning was terrible but the ramen was great.
Light up letters on the wall of a ramen joint called Tomiso. IBut the kerning makes it look like T O MIZ O. Mison ramen with chashu, bamboo shoots, green onion, and wood ear mushroon in a red bowl.
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Don't mix up your Unas. Merkle (left) O'Connor (right).
Una Merkle, blonde and smiling, looking glamorous. Una O'Connor, brunette and staring, looking shocked and stunned.
September 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Shimmy, surrounded by tigers.
A small gray cat sleeping on a blue-green couch, between two yellow pillows embroidered with tigers.
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Reminds me of...
The Gates of Dawn by Herbert James Draper, a half-naked woman stands in opening of a golden gate, holding one side open.
September 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Looking back, it's clear how much the movies I saw him in as a kid shaped me, as a writer, and a person: Butch and Sundance, The Sting, The Great Waldo Pepper, Three Days of the Condor, All the Presidents' Men.
Robert Redford from the Sting, in a pinstripe suit and newsboy cap, looking serious.
September 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM