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@tenpenjenn.com

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Chicago-adjacent ttrpg designer (Dead After Dinner) & editor (Apocalypse Keys, The Zone & more), SFWA member and AFT/IFT 604 union member, people>profit | she/her tenpenjenn.com/links

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · Jul 10

Thinking about Octopus Bill (she/her) today 🐙💖

A Giant Pacific octopus in an aquarium tank. Her skin is textured and bumpy and appears pink and purple under the blue lights of the tank. You can see a few suckers on her arms, one gill, and one of her eyes.

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 1d

Listen, I just have a lot of pens, ok? I can stop any time I want, I just don't want to. I have a lot of things to write down, it's totally fine.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 1d

And a singular goose.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 1d

I needed something suitably editorial for my freelance work and I liked the rhyme. And you can still find me if you forget the second n.

I'd hoped it would stop me from buying more fountain pens, but I'm (not) sorry to say that has not been the case.

Tennpennjenn is funnier to me, but convoluted.

Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · 1d

Explain your username:

No matter your frame of reference for Tracys, I'm the other one. Seems demeaning at first glance. Long-term, it makes me unforgettable.

Joe Kilcarr🔜Somewhere At Somepoint @joekilcarrva.com · 1d

Explain your username:

Its my name with VA at the end (VA is Voice Actor)

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 1d

Temporary tattoos!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 1d

I feel this in my sour bones

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

100% this for me and my little hatchback, too!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

Not this year! I will be at PaxU a couple weekends later.

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

I briefly tried to fit my Regency Desperation hack in 55 cards because it's cheaper to produce a 55-card deck than a 72-card one, but I added a new location I'm in love with:

Wedding Tent- an opulent tent, Miss M. has basically moved in to escape her brother's new wife. Secluded, but temporary.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

I also run my games in the first slot because of nerves, it has served me well!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

Right? From the early 80s, as far as I can tell!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

Getting the listing notification was a thrill!

I still go to antique stores, hoping I will encounter pieces in the wild, but it's a relaxed kind of hunt.

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 2d

Got two bowls in an old school ebay auction this morning!

I would be extremely excited to get 2 cups, just putting that out into the universe!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · Mar 17

I guess I'm a person who hunts for a specific china pattern now.

(Studio Nova Equation, unfortunately from the 80s)

A china cup and saucer set of white porcelain, decorated with graphic shapes in blues, pink & yellow. The pattern is Studio Nova Equation.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 3d

This feels like the setup for a comedy sketch

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 5d

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Steven @silent0siris.bsky.social · 5d

This shit keeps me up at night 🙃

you know

along with all the rest

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 7d

I feel like I know several people who would be excited about this

mymodernmet.com/book-of-kell...

You Can Now Explore All of ‘The Book of Kells’ for Free Online

Zoom in on every page of this legendary illuminated manuscript.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 7d

Good job!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in an office with his arms outstretched and says `` nice job ! ''

Alt: From The Office tv show- Dwight, a white man wearing glasses and a suit and tie, is sitting in an office chair. He claps and says "Nice job!"

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 8d

Happy birthday!

Your solo RPGs are a *very* good time!

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 8d

It was a fun time today!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 8d

SciShow did an ep on knitting that you can no longer watch because they took it down.

Instead, you can watch this, which is much more accurate!

youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ?...

I Remade the SciShow Knitting Video (with accurate SCIENCE)

YouTube video by Evie Unraveling

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 11d

Holy shit! I'm not knowledgeable at all about dressmaking and even I know that form is all wrong for that dress!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 13d

I love my aeropress so much!

jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 15d

Oh that's clever

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 16d

I got to see a building I've wanted to see for decades last weekend and it was very good!

(Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Mill Run, PA)

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house- a stone and stucco house perched over a stream. The surrounding trees are mostly green, with a few changed to yellow for autumn.

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jenn martin is trying @tenpenjenn.com · 16d

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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia crowdfunding now! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 22d

Live now on Backerkit!

Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in #TTRPG form.

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

Back today 👁️
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...

Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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