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Jen Vaughn

@thejenya.bsky.social

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Cartoonist || GIRLS MAKE MOVIES, TOOK, BACKSTORY 📚 Narrative Designer @ Strangers (Trailblazers: Into the March) || 👾TTRPG Designer 🗺️ She/they 🇺🇸 -> 🇫🇷 Bordeaux 🎨 artstation.com/thejenya 💻 hauntedvaultstudios.com 📩 rep Shena Wolf [email protected]

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · May 23

🛶 Up a Creek, Without a Heartbeat! 🛶

My latest Brindlewood Bay ttrpg mystery takes place at the annual canoe races that come to a splashin' halt when Dick Spitz + Gina Wing tie for dead (last).

Plus, rules to handle an investigation with two victims.

On @drivethrurpg.com 🌊 bit.ly/creekbeat

Blue cover with the title Up a Creek without a Heartbeat, a new Brindlewood Bay mystery by Jen Vaughn (May). It features the meaty, hairy legs of a person in a canoe with a lot of blood seeping into the water.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 29m

Tape, babyyyyy. Lamp on if it’s night time.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1h

It’s perfect bound and great point!

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1h

Heh, it’s the table space I’m thinking of!

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1h

Haha I know, I feel the same way. This one doesn’t have character sheets though, not including pre-gens with the adventure… but I guess I could.

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2h

Question for the GMs in the crowd: which size book for an adventure is better for playing? As in, if I make a book of a couple adventures does size matter at all?

🌱 6x9 inches (15.25 x 23 cm)
🌳 8.5x11 inches (20.50 x 28 cm)

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 3h

The frog as a dadaist response to the inequality of state violence. In this essay, I will...

(It's a good article worth reading)

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Barbara Perez Marquez➡️BCC Table 519 @mustachebabs.com · 6h

Coming up next week!✨

Baltimore Comic-Con @baltimorecomiccon.bsky.social · 15d

Baltimore Comic-Con 2025 Family Alley with Kid-Friendly Comics Creators

Full PR: conta.cc/4nheMRw

#baltimorecomiccon #kidscomics #kidslit #comics

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Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 1d

The Thought Bubble Comic Convention full programme is LIVE!!

Two days rammed with panels, workshops, guest signings, and loads, loads more. Why not start planning your weekend schedule?

Take a look: thoughtbubblefestival.com/conventionprogramme

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he needs us to DM him our shaky vids

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

You could send me that video, I would watch it.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck yes! Also, that window is gentle-parenting us.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Complaining does not equate inaction. Not sure why I decided to engage with someone who started by calling me an asshole and making assumptions about me. Face that anger in the other direction.

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

“The extremes you can go to within your job, even if you're getting it done, can be evil.”

We spoke with Zack Quaintance & Anna Readman about their MACABRE VALLEY & how uniforms, even hirsute ones, dictate actions. #NYCC Listen: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/macabre...

Werewolf as Uniform: Traveling a Familiar Macabre Valley

We chat with Zack Quaintance and Anna Readman about Macabre Valley, their ghoulish, cathartic comic.

www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Who said I wasn’t paying state taxes?

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Not really sure how not wanting to fund fascism makes me an asshole but good luck with that.

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly.

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

I feel sick paying US taxes (or being reminded to) as they actively continue to dismantle every public service and sell our green spaces.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t remember allowing The Onion to tell my story?

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to tonight's Gosh Comics & Broken Frontier Drink and Draw ONLINE. Woohoo! If you're new to D&D we have 3 themed drawing rounds at 7.30, 8.15 & 9.00. Please repost if you can so we reach as many people as possible! #GoshBFDD

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

Happy happy birthday!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

“Eating dark grains” so it’s either cursed or whole wheat bread

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

Same same same.
Finally, someone who understands the placement of an “anteater” next to a “man-eating unicorn”.

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

J’ai vu un “quest-giver”sur le chemin du retour de mon kiné.

Saw a quest-giver on the way home from physical therapy

A black and white fluffy cat next to some blue garden furniture, in a garden next to a house. One metal gate is open, the other half closed as the cat looks on with questioning eyes

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