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Talia B.

@taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social

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Professional GM, author, and game designer. I also reblog art of various spice levels. Ask me about The Wonders of Mundus, on sale at taliaellib.itch.io; Email [email protected] regarding commissions and paperback orders.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · Jul 24

For now, you can pick up Book 1 of The Wonders of Mundus, my transgender awakening isekai story, in paperback through these links: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

I will also make the ebooks available through my store on my Patreon: patreon.com/taliaellib?u...

The Wonders of Mundus, Part 1: Reborn on the Shores of Awakening

A closeted transgender woman is about to get way too into her favorite MMO. It's 2047, and our protagonist wakes up face-down in the sands of the Shores of Awakening - a starter area of their favor...

shop.ingramspark.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5h

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 3h

New Halloween bundle is up on itch with my freshly released mildly macabre lesbian romance, Frankenbutch!

A mad scientist decides to build the perfect butch girlfriend. But makes a mistake with the brain.

itch.io/b/2961/stwl-...

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 3h

Historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social spent nearly a decade researching the history behind each and every release TSR put out for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D.
How many products does Designers & Dragons: Origins cover?
Answer: this many.
Follow the project here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

A tiled mosaic of over 320 products released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D. From the first copy of Chainmail to the digital release of Orc's Head.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3h

You know what. Sure.

Help me get an electric razor and drastically reduce the amount of “good morning sir”s I receive from well meaning strangers?

Paypal me care of [email protected] or purchase my transgender cyberpunk isekai adventure novels at taliaellib.itch.io?

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

they're fucking up so many cases -- the kirk shooter, comey/james etc, cook, mangione -- because they can't stop fucking posting

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Halloweve from the Free City of Viacruz. We’re carving turnip lanterns, having masquerades, making saffron bread and paella, and handing out sweets. Will you join our procession down Peppercorn Lane, Adventurer? And what costume will you be wearing?

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 22h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
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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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 1d

Folks who draw trans art, I'm begging you to post it over on the trans sub reddits who accept art bc there are so many people on reddit who think you guys don't exist and aren't posting stuff and it's too much!! PEOPLE WANT YOU SO BAD...
www.reddit.com/r/TransHentai/
(start here!!!)

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Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social · 20h

Met friends at the 12th Street BART station in Oakland and we headed to San Francisco to check out the manga exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. This is one massive exhibit covering the medium and a series of creators. More than worth attending.
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...

Art of Manga

Manga — Japanese comics and graphic novels — have become a global phenomenon. Art of Manga showcases the world of manga from the 1970s to today.

www.famsf.org

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 20h

DIDN’T I ATTACK YOU IN ARTFIGHT WITH A WIZARD DUEL

Yes, yes I did!

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 1d

HI HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY
Pls consider supporting your local nonbinary lesbian !!!

I love u!! Have a gay day!!!!

ko-fi.com/gprismagic

A chibi drawing of a witch. She has brown eyes and pink hair. She wears a white outfit with stained glass patterns on the inside in the colours of the lesbian flag.

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Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 20h

⚔ Artist Spotlight! ⚔

BLANKSWORD, our story-rich roguelike RPG, is nearing the end of its Kickstarter campaign! To celebrate, we're highlighting artists in our community.

Today's feature is from candiedreptile.at.app.wafrn.net, with a moving, incredibly beautiful animation. Links in reply! ⬇️

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 20h

www.usatoday.com/story/money/... full list of products recalled for listeria. Be safe.

Pasta meals sold at Walmart, Kroger, more recalled amid listeria outbreak. See full list.

As the multi-state listeria outbreak continues to spread, more and more ready-to-eat pasta products have been added to the list. Here's all of them.

www.usatoday.com

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corey jae white 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 21h

Happy International Lesbian Day, international lesbians in my phone 💜

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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screaming queer cryptid 👁️🔥🎨 @nintala-scribble.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is how I do it and why I used to make fake anime screenshots, I wanted to kinda trick people into getting curious as what I was drawing LMAO

in my burnout now I just draw OCs cuddling xD

snow @snow117.bsky.social · 2d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote a little essay. Would appreciate if you read, share, and tell me what you think.

There’s this line in the film Borat where the character is searching Jews for their horns. It’s absurd and meant to be funny, but when I pointed it out to my mom, who grew up in Poland, she grew sober. (1/11)

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charlotte @le-rose.bsky.social · 1d

can confirm. is lesbiab and very sweet. highly recommend.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY SO YOU CAN BUY ALL MY LESBIANEST BOOKS FOR ONLY $10 UP TO MIDNIGHT WEST COAST TIME

20 HOURS
$10
16 STORIES

COME GET YOUR GAYS

itch.io/s/161550/int...

the words "international lesbian day book bundle" on a minimalist background in the lesbian flag colors

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 2d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3d

Handled, and thank you!

Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks mostly to a botched order I am $10 in a hole. I have few - not no - expenses while I’m in rehab but I also have less income, so I am going to need help.

Anything extra I’m saving for toiletries: toothbrush, toothpaste, electric razor.

Paypal is [email protected], and thank you.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 3d

Writing my queer magical girl rock band is now, officially, my job. So, if you'd like to support me, please consider buying a copy of the first book! The sequel is nearly ready for its big debut, so you're getting in on the ground floor of a new magical girl universe. 🥰 magicariot.com/buy

Artwork of the cover art of "Magica Riot," featuring protagonist Claire in her purple magical girl costuming posing in front of the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Across the top, artwork of her and the other four main characters in a park is placed. Around the book art are placed several blocks of text: "trans protagonist," "entirely queer cast," "found family energy," "thrilling action," "music-based magic," "goopy monsters," "useless lesbians," "modern-day Portland." A quote from Strange Horizons Magazine calling the book "Brilliant trans joy" comes next. Finally, text at the bottom reads: "Recommended if you like Sailor Moon, Symphogear, Pretty Cure, Power Rangers"

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 3d

MENACE or how game design exists

So, in the game battle brothers, the developers believed that...having permanent consequences and choices matters for the vibes they're going for. But they kept clearly seeing people doing this: Get into a fight, lose a man, go, "Fuck!" and reload the fight.

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3d

You can also help me immediately by purchasing by novels as ebooks from itch, which has the advantage of your having a rollicking transgender coming of age story set in a loving pastiche of FF14 to read.

taliaellib.itch.io/vol1rebornon...

taliaellib.itch.io/vol2outofbou...

The Wonders of Mundus, Volume 1.1: Reborn on the Shores of Awakening by Talia

A queer cyberpunk isekai adventure. It's 2047, and a closeted trans girl is about to get way too into her favorite MMO.

taliaellib.itch.io

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Talia B. @taliadoesrpgs.bsky.social · 3d

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