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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 9h

Currently researching at what point one can orbit a black hole, I don't know why I do this to myself.

Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 1d

My college experience included That Guy Who Always Rode a Unicycle and That Guy Who Always Wore a Foam Cheese Hat, which seem about par for the course. The novelty wears off quickly.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 2d

Still just listening to K Pop Demon Hunters and playing Stardew Valley.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

YES, DEFINITELY.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

We should playtest together, Joel's character is an aunt who wants to matchmake everyone, mind is a lovely young girl trying to marry wealthy because of her gambling debts.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

I'm currently working on a hack of Starforged that's Regency England a la Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer. Does that count?

(Shawn built a very robust system so it actually works quite well.)

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 4d

Game Jam called "Make It Fit" where we try to force a system to do something that it shouldn't do at all while still maintaining the ethos of the system. Farming mechanics in Blades in the Dark. Orbital Blues dating simulator. Draw Steel store management sim.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who can't do mood boards, I'm enjoying them.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

I did, in fact, use the knowledge from LPL to get into a work filing cabinet that no one had the combination to. I used a business card. My coworkers were perturbed.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 4d

That's hard core. I just watched several hours of the lock picking lawyer when I wanted to write about lock picking.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 5d

I would watch that Netflix original . . .

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 6d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 6d

That's so cool!

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 7d

I never watched Titanic. I was in high school when it came out and I was never interested.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 7d

I have not seen it either.

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 8d

Give us scifi, give us fantasy, give us anything in between, a bit scary here, a bit heartbreaking there, some frantic action, hope that lingers, a fun ride with so many layers underneath...
Any and all of it, or something else?
Don't self reject, SUBMIT 🥰

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 8d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 20d

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 9d

Dragons would be perfect for crossing lakes or large rivers, for mountain passes, for canyons, for travel to and from islands.

Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 9d

I'm really enjoying how it's cozy with just the merest hint of weirdness and danger.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 9d

I know I'm about five years late but I just discovered Stardew Valley so I'll just be spending all my time growing tiny fruit and veg.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 11d

Your random reminder that you can download Raccoons with Lockpicks for free and run your own gloriously chaotic raccoon heist!

It's a smol game perfectly sized for a lunch break.

kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

Raccoons with Lockpicks by Kate Ravenna

Play as mischievous raccoons with lockpicks in a little heist RPG with narrative dice.

kate-ravenna.itch.io

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14d

That was a great panel! It made me want to get back into that time loop interactive fic that I started.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14d

Although right now a certain cat keeps unplugging my headphones.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14d

I'm really enjoying this year's Flights of Foundry! Three jam packed days, and I was on my first ever panel (Public Transportation--the takeaway is that there should be more dragons as busses, thank you) and ran my first convention TTRPG one-shot (my players were all amazing, it was super fun).

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14d

. @pscwillis.bsky.social I really like the Diamine inks for behaving well on most papers. Diamine Earl Grey is a very lovely grey ink. (I would not have thought I would like a grey ink, but it is a very lovely lightly purple grey.)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15d

Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).

Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.

PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · 16d

Virgil wrote FanFic.

And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.

#ISaidWhatISaid

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19d

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! I'm on a panel this Friday!

🚌 Friday, 9/26 at 4:00pm PDT (Hour 7) -- Public Transportation: The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round, For Now....

Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 20d

FLIGHTS OF FOUNDRY is THIS week!!! See you on the discord this Friday!

Register: flights-of-foundry.o...

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