Maria
@dyslexicdagger.bsky.social
Maria. She/Her/they/them. Officially in my 30's. I like TTRPG stuff, books, and cats!
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Five creators who worked on Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast have spent the past year fighting a legal battle against Possum Creek Games and Steve Jackson Games. Neither the tabletop RPG nor their working relationships survived the fallout.
Battle over Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast contracts leaves the book, relationships, torn apart
Creative collaborators clash with Jay Dragon and Steve Jackson Games over unfair treatment.
www.rascal.news
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Five creators who worked on Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast have spent the past year fighting a legal battle against Possum Creek Games and Steve Jackson Games. Neither the tabletop RPG nor their working relationships survived the fallout.
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I made a masterpost on ALL of the things I use for drawing manga/streaming! There's info on pens that I use, equipment, programs, plugins, widgets, and other resources so go check it out! 🥳🙌
(The second half of the article is for supporters only but there's still tons of useful info in there!)
(The second half of the article is for supporters only but there's still tons of useful info in there!)
[behind the scenes] My Manga & Streaming Setup, Equipment, and Programs MASTERPOST [2025] | Mieri Hiranishi
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January 17, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I made a masterpost on ALL of the things I use for drawing manga/streaming! There's info on pens that I use, equipment, programs, plugins, widgets, and other resources so go check it out! 🥳🙌
(The second half of the article is for supporters only but there's still tons of useful info in there!)
(The second half of the article is for supporters only but there's still tons of useful info in there!)
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Happy Friday! Let's love on our creators today. Who is a Black SFF author you wish more people were screaming about? Bonus if they have new work coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Happy Friday! Let's love on our creators today. Who is a Black SFF author you wish more people were screaming about? Bonus if they have new work coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥
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Voices From the North: @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/10/v...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/10/v...
Voices From the North: As the Earth Dreams
Jeremy Brett Under Review:As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories. Edited by Terese Mason Pierre. Spiderline, October 2025. There are many beautiful and well-known examples of recen…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Voices From the North: @jbarchivist.bsky.social reviews AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/10/v...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/10/v...
That's a wrap for the Vancouver writer's fest this year! Best week of the year ❤️
October 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
That's a wrap for the Vancouver writer's fest this year! Best week of the year ❤️
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Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!
thoughtpunks.com/ope...
#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
thoughtpunks.com/ope...
#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
Open Source TTRPG Resources
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series.
Example Open Licenses
Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com
thoughtpunks.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!
thoughtpunks.com/ope...
#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
thoughtpunks.com/ope...
#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames
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TTRPG thoughts:
Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
TTRPG thoughts:
Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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you can dl high res illustrations for wallpapers ! jadezhang.art/digiprints
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
you can dl high res illustrations for wallpapers ! jadezhang.art/digiprints
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this is what we could have
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
this is what we could have
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada?
Let's go.
Let's go.
Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now!
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.
![[Image description: The book cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES is centered against a vibrant purple background with bees decorating the corners of the image. At the top, turquoise text reads “OUT NOW WITH HOUSE OF ANANSI.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vn4nljhzwixh6tnp4oktlg5v/bafkreie6zdbduhi6maxnkljizlmlk6zczteurik3j4xbo6aicznzwo53fy@jpeg)
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada?
Let's go.
Let's go.
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Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
October 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
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This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:
The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.
Why does this matter?
The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.
Why does this matter?
October 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:
The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.
Why does this matter?
The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.
Why does this matter?
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WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
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“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
How a Zoomer Became Leader of the BC Green Party | The Tyee
Inside the campaign that scored a victory for 25-year-old Emily Lowan.
thetyee.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
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One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
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By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.
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It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”
I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
September 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”
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new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah
Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible.
If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.
If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.
Rogue
Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans
Rogue.site
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah
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Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.
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🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE! 💫
Check out...
🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot
🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star
& plenty more!
& you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW!
🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
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Check out...
🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot
🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star
& plenty more!
& you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW!
🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE! 💫
Check out...
🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot
🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star
& plenty more!
& you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW!
🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Check out...
🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot
🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star
& plenty more!
& you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW!
🔗 Link to Issue 8.1: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
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“We could have species that are playing very important ecosystem roles, and are in decline, and we don’t even realize it.” 🐝
Citizen Science Is the Bee’s Knees | The Tyee
BC is abuzz with curiosity. Meet the volunteers contributing valuable scientific knowledge about local bees.
thetyee.ca
August 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“We could have species that are playing very important ecosystem roles, and are in decline, and we don’t even realize it.” 🐝