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Merely 🦇 Matt

@merelymatt.bsky.social

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I make I Need A Miracle, a divine audio drama, and Merely Roleplayers, a podcast where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Find me at www.foggyoutline.com

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · Jan 6

I write audio drama, like the award-finalist I NEED A MIRACLE produced last year by @wirelesstheatre.bsky.social, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a granted prayer can upend the world.

www.foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracle

I Need A Miracle, an original audio drama podcast — Foggy Outline

Each episode a prayer; some prayers are granted; a prayer granted can upend the world. Featuring Annette Badland and Patrick McKenzie, and produced by multi-award winning Wireless Theatre.

www.foggyoutline.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16d

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 13h

when folio becomes the biggest actual play podcast of all time i'm going to do an art installation in union station like the humans of new york guy is doing in central station but instead of portraits it's ten metre tall prints of the unique wave forms of every guest i've ever had saying "um"

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 10h

Hidden movement games all need a contingency rule for how you keep the game going as designed after you fuck up and accidentally give yourself away, like by putting your movement card face up by accident, for example

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Whaaat?? 😆🎉☠️

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David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social · 17h

Multi-purpose point-crawls. Might be handy for your game this evening

open.substack.com/pub/davidbla...

Multi-purpose Maps

Need a map for your game tonight, but run out of time/spoons?

open.substack.com

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 1d

Categories are not vacuum-walled strongboxes that keep like things in and unlike things out. The walls are more like outlines. Outlines that you could describe as somewhat ... foggy. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 2d

Patricia Highsmith: don't worry steve, i'll get to the bottom of this
King: oh thank goodness
Highsmith: of course, to prove your innocence
Highsmith: i'll have to extensively interview all of elon's hot widows

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

AS IF you needed wrangling to charge directly into the maw of The Horrors!

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Fiona K.T. Howat @fkth.bsky.social · 2d

This was so much fun to do! 💜 @merelymatt.bsky.social was brilliant at wrangling us despite our best efforts!

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

Coming soon.

Starring @thesiltverses.bsky.social' own @martadasilva.bsky.social and @sassylich.bsky.social, and RPG horror pro @fkth.bsky.social.

A god must feed. What do you do when it's your decision who to feed to it?

Merely Roleplayers Studio: It Feeds on Fire, an actual play of The Silt Verses RPG

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Mike Harrison-Wood @mikeharrisonwood.bsky.social · 2d

Role announcement!

I play as Clive Donahue (narrator and protagonist) in Paraspective, a free to play visual novel!

Without saying too much it involves some awesome meta-narrative stuff that keeps you on your toes and leads to the "true" ending. Can you find it?

housewrennt.itch.io/paraspective

Paraspective by housewrennt

What if you were the monster?

housewrennt.itch.io

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I appreciate it!

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 25d

The EHRC guidance is unworkable for business.

Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

www.independent.co.uk

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

Neck and neck with The White Vault? Oh boy oh boy oh boy

Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so excited I NEED A MIRACLE made it onto the board!

If you don't mind a correction, though, we're a UK production, not USA.

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d

On the board at 35!!

Digital Media World Cups | WSWC & AFWC @dmwcinfo.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨 October 2025 AFWC Update! 🚨🚨🚨

There's a *ton* of movement on the ranking with a lot of festivals still to go in 2025 with a ton of movement yet to come!

Many 2026 festivals are open! Submit your work to them today! https://digitalmediaworldcups/audio-fiction-world-cup

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
1 - Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha
2 -Leylines
3 - Planet Arcana
4 - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea
5 - Godkiller: Last Hope
6 - Curious Matter Anthology
7 - Fables of Eyrde: Lost Mine of the Colossus
8 - The Witches of Wederra Keep
9 - The Adventures of Bud & Herb
10 - DINK: The Musical
11 - The Storyteller Squad, The Fourth Age
12 - Dark Dice
13 - KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir
14 - The Caller

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
15 - Wayward Autumnal
16 - Fawx & Stallion
17 - Unbalanced Encounters: Small Gods Scatter, The Spectral Silhouette Radio Show
18 - Twilight Meridian
19 - Table Read Podcast
20 - Levian, Godkiller: Balance
21 - Liberty: Tales from the Tower
22 - We’re Alive: Descendants, Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood
23 - Observable Radio
24 - The Book of War, Silvertongues
25 - The Treacle People: Still Sticky

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
26 - Howl
27 - Beneath the Surface, A Haunting, Beloved
28 - Gather by the Ghost Light (The Other Me), 5 GMs in a Trenchcoat
29 - The Corner of Pleasure & West River, Murderer’s Murder, Mage Hand High Five: The Badlands
30 - Moose on a Highway
31 - The All-American Ruins Podcast
32 - Unlicensed Magic
33 - The Cleanup Crew
34 - Windfall, Quest Friends!, Malevolent

The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
35 - Unbalanced Encounters: Rally, The White Vault: Goshawk, Kobalt Pier, I Need a Miracle, Ghost InSpectors
Demons & Daughters
37 - True Crime Rectum, Partial Veil
38 - The City: Revolution, RPG for You and Me - Absolute Zero, Forsaken
39 - Stowaway, Old Cove, Alpha 8
40 - What Will Be Here?

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

That's reassuring! People in the thick of running crowdfunds often seem like they're Constantly Posting. I guess that's evidence of good prep.

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Local Files Club @localfiles.club · 3d

The first Local Files Club release is now available to pre-order on Bandcamp!

Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop is a five-part audiodrama from Skadi’s Symphony, the creators of Kane and Feels, starring Greta Clarkson as the eponymous witch.

localfilesclub.bandcamp.com/album/ms-shi...

Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop, by Skadi's Symphony

21 track album

localfilesclub.bandcamp.com

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Jo @jochiang.bsky.social · 3d

The HEARTHBOUND finale is here!! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1807519201/e...

A traditionally and digitally illustrated poster by Hannah Lock. A boot and a two paws steps into a puddle, shining with stars. The text reads: HEARTHBOUND Episode 10: Anagnorisis.

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

I studied the novel at school, it's one of the works that survived being an object of study, and I'm thrilled we're entering an era where lots of new people are going to discover how different it is to what they thought, just like with Dracula in the past few years!

Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a Lab Assistant for Re: Frankenstein igg.me/at/refrank/x...

Re: Frankenstein

An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

igg.me

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Merely 🦇 Matt @merelymatt.bsky.social · 3d

What's a sensible daily time commitment to plan for while it's running?

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