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Lin Codega
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writers room assistant IWTV S3—journalist, co-founder rascal news—debut novel: MOTHEATER, !!!OUT NOW!!!—🏳️‍⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy
2026 is going to be my year
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
sent off Pasha the Storm to my editor yesterday for the final round of copyedits! we're so close to having arcs and a cover and a map and a real book!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Also had a nice phone yap today with @lincodega.com and this is a reminder to reach out to the people in your life cause it's cool and good to catch up and talk about things like being haunted by the ghost of Anne Rice on Tumblr
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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IYKYK.

SEVERED IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN.

death to the wizard kings!
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
hear me out... realis play by post discord... every moon has its own GM... every month the GMs play a round of microscope to determine big moves... factions get their own sentences that they can enact on behalf of the characters in real time -- which might be too late for the character
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
listening to caleb describe this game made me feel like i was living in a borrowers world but i just hadn't looked hard enough yet. this will be incredibly cool.
Surprise: we're working on something new! A game called Tiny Wizard.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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You absolutely definitely should preorder this book, it is very very good
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I received this beautiful Chinese calligraphy set for my birthday but have no idea how to use it properly. Anyone got any ideas on where to start learning?
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
it's my birthday!
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.

So don't let it.

This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Desperately sad to be missing pax unplugged this year.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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howling
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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In the first of what will likely be a series of blogs, @lincodega.com unpacks how @samsorensen.bsky.social's month-long realtime Mothership larp/megagame #over/under ended for their character, High Gardener Otso, and also, for themselves.
How to find an ending in Over/Under
After a month of emergent story, scheming, and bleed, it all ended with a gardener and a clown.
www.rascal.news
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bourdain might be the only outsider who really understood what the church was in #over/under.

Absolutely phenomenal character. You were a real joy to have in the game.
Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain
Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...

#OVER/UNDER
Over Under Anthony Bourdain Compilation
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"THE WORLD IS FUCKED, BUT PLAY ENDURES."
Very pleased with how #MothershipMonth25 shook out! All On Red is moving into its final draft stage, we’re starting on stretch goal writing, got some plans for Glue Trap Games going forward, and made a bunch of new pals from #Over/Under. The world is fucked, but play endures.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
i kept seeing the tempest (merc/soldier) faction in #over/under use the words "mercy" and "consequence" and i was like... that seems... familiar.

It turns out that Tan (@tjslotus.bsky.social) and Otso's friendship was so profound that it literally changed Tempest's narrative internal code.
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Just another beautiful interaction on the After Party for #over/under
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Hey - if you're a Denizen of The Dream in #OVER/UNDER and want to follow more of the fun and cool people you've met over there over here then this is a darn good place to look: go.bsky.app/2dTRvz3
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This game genuinely feels like we packed a 3-year-long campaign into a month and are now trying to decompress from it
Four hours after the end of #over/under and people are still in the After/Party section, secondary voice chats, private DMs, and three-to-five separate servers talking about the game, the characters, the players, the moments. What an incredible experience. What a ride. A game-changing kind of month.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Four hours after the end of #over/under and people are still in the After/Party section, secondary voice chats, private DMs, and three-to-five separate servers talking about the game, the characters, the players, the moments. What an incredible experience. What a ride. A game-changing kind of month.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
not a stretch to say that this won the game for all of us, even if we didn't know it
For @samsorensen.bsky.social's #OVER/UNDER I created WEATHERVANE, an in-universe themed combat simulator. Using it, our faction was able to predict the outcome of any battle with a high degree of confidence. It helped us price mercenary contracts and go into any combat knowing the expected outcomes.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM