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Amabel Holland

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She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker Board games: https://hollandspiele.com video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Jun 16

📌I'm Amabel (she/her), a board game designer. Out of my 80+ games, I'm best known for City of Six Moons and Irish Gauge.

I co-own the publisher Hollandspiele. In my spare time I make video essays about the future & history of games.

I'm a slutty poly trans woman, and I talk about all of the above.

It's me, wearing a black t-shirt with "more teeth" in red lettering encircled by a heart.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 6d

caves of qud

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 7d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 7h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 5h

anyway new "Amabel plays Hitman" stream tomorrow on @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social 's channel

the idea with this series of streams is she's having me play the same level until I reach mastery level 20 on it

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 5h

"Amabel, where's your duck?"

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 22h

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 20h

its wild how across time, space, and culture we keep finding trans people describing having nearly the exact same experiences trans people have today and academics will bend over backwards to explain why they cannot be trans and how its actually offensive and degrading to even suggest that

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

oh my gosh yael got me blushing over here

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

squeeeeeeee thank you blue

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't sleep well but I still look pretty cute

It's me, on the couch, wearing a burgundy slip, draped in a blanket, one hand curled under my cheek.

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Ghost Mutt @inque.bsky.social · 1d

peoples impression of gretchen has become my litmus test for how normal a person is gonna act

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

My god it is happening again

berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 1d

this is the funniest thing i've seen someone act like they're mad about in a very long time

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

this one is alright

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SB @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social · 1d

13) Lake Mungo

An absolute triumph of fake-documentary film-making. Lots of words have been said about this one, even here on this website already this month, so I'll just add that I think this one might be particularly effective on trans people. Quiet and slow and simply one of the best ever made.

The poster for the film Lake Mungo, featuring a blurred and ghostly image of the character Alice Palmer and the text "In 2008, Alice Palmer died... Her nightmare didn't."

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SB @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social · 1d

12) The Invitation (2015)

My favorite dinner party thriller and, for my money, Karyn Kusama's best work. Friends with complicated, difficult relationships all come together for the first time in years and slowly feel out the ways they've all changed. This film does an extraordinary job placing...

A poser for the film the Invitation, showing Logan Marshall Green standing at a distance with a partially broken wine glass held close in front of the camera so he almost appears to be partially submerged in it.

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Beyond Solitaire @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 2d

An interview with Anna Anthropy about Princess with a Cursed Sword, on Backerkit now through @cmichpress.bsky.social youtu.be/A3oMrq4U4Ww

Anna Anthropy on Princess with a Cursed Sword

YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine how much trouble I have playtesting my board games. I lean forward to move a piece and send tiles and wood bits scattering lol

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

I saw it yesterday but didn't interact (beyond adding it to my list of things to watch)

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck! ♥️

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

It is. I've always liked pickles and I have never been on spiro, but I will still participate in our culture. Similarly I am not a programmer but I have been known to wear programmer socks lol

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

Had an absolutely lovely chat with @theythem.press! It's so good to talk games and more with someone so engaged, smart, and empathetic.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

they're not for everyone!

honestly, I think bread-and-butter is better pickling than dill, and quite underrated

but I will very happily make a big ol' pot of dill pickle soup, which can be incredibly thick and hearty

tharook @tharook.bsky.social · 2d

i still don’t see the appeal of pickled cucumbers

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

the idea that I, a trans woman, am unfamiliar with pickles is frankly quite galling lmao

No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 2d

Amabel needs to familiarize herself with pickles, kimchi, etc.

whole world of preserves that anyone can decide to make

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 2d

The fact that these don’t specify North or South Carolina nor whether they’re mustard or vinegar based makes them incredibly suspect

A picture of a bag of “Carolina style BBQ” flavored Cheetos fries

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 2d

every local girl I know who gets their hrt through Powers either has a horror story, or is a horror story (derogatory)

Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

Why go to Will Powers when I'm also a chaser who will give you weird untested HRT advice that WPATH would disapprove of but I'm also kind of hot?

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Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 2d

Why go to Will Powers when I'm also a chaser who will give you weird untested HRT advice that WPATH would disapprove of but I'm also kind of hot?

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