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2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
Dan LK, Living Deliciously
@2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
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Editor/instructional designer by day, funny dice enthusiast after hours. Sometime DMs Guild author, forever DM. Horror fan. Gourmand. Salty descriptivist. GenX, bi, enby, polyam. He/him, more or less.

Here for elfgames, horror, & occasional leftism.
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Lap desk? Excuse me, I think you mean KITTEH PILLOW
A picture of Pepper the caliby kitty lying in my lap with her eyes closed and her chin on the wrist cushion of my lap desk
January 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Sunset, Christmas night.
Trees silhouetted against a darkening orange sky Trees silhouetted against a darkening orange sky
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits
Josh Ruben, Zac Oyama, and Brennan Lee Mulligan in the middle of shenanigans on Make Some Noise
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Merry Christmas, Laird.
The sinister Broken Ourobouros of Old Leech (a wormlike thing curled in a circle with its tail not quite in its jaws), under the text "We Love You"
December 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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For Xmas I would like whatever weird contrarian faction of the #OSR that seems hellbent on discrediting the idea of Session 0 to cut it the hell out please
Screen capture of a YouTube thumbnail by RedMageGM for the video titled "The first ten minutes of Silksong will make you a better DM": the onscreen text reads, "Better than Session 0."
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Happy Friday, nerds! Got some payday cash to burn? Getting yourself an early holiday present? I have new designs in my TeePublic shop!

Get 'em here: www.teepublic.com/user/nd-leve...
An illustration featuring a jumbled pile of 19 trading cards featuring a roseate spoonbill, next to the text "The last thing I need is dirty, dirty sex ruining my bird time" The text "Hope Prevails" over a pair of 12-sided dice, the lighter of which has rolled a 12 The text "Fear Reigns" over a pair of 12-sided dice, where the light die has rolled a 1 and the dark die has rolled a 5
December 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Brennan Lee Mulligan in one of the promotional photos for Critical Role Campaign 4
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Back home from #PaxU and had a restorative nap. I think someone may have missed me while I was away.
My kitty Pepper making a pie on the squishy comforter, where she has been next to me for an hour or so.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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STOP. This is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.

(I am unqualified to judge my own cuteness. Nonetheless.)
Selfie of a middle-aged nerd with a salt-and-pepper beard and retro reading glasses. Featured in the background are chaotic bookshelves.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We are also accepting
Cover of the album Pod by the Breeders Cover of the album Pale by Toad the Wet Sprocket Cover of the album Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Cover of the album Hell's Ditch by the Pogues
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Me getting a very sweet snuggle from my cat Pepper
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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If you see this, post a concert pic you took (if you feel like it)

The Bevis Frond, Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia PA, March 1 2025
Nick Saloman and the version of the Bevis Frond that toured the US in winter/spring 2025, photographed from the upper balcony at Johnny Brenda's bathed in purple light
September 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Show me the image that burned into your brain when you first discovered the horror genre.

My first comic, absolutely full of eldritch, squirming unease, culminating in the utterly unnerving sequence where Conan fights nameless monsters along *a corridor in space*. I was six. It broke me for good.
The original cover of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian 117, "In the Lair of Mullah-Kajar," showing the mighty Cimmerian battling a tentacled Thing in a squalid dungeon cell The cover of the collected trade paperback of The Chronicles of Conan, vol. 15: The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories, reprinting an image from the title issue showing Conan traversing a corridor in cosmic space, its many doors opening to admit a host of eldritch horrors
August 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Game night. I'm getting help with the Adventuring.
Me with Pepper the caliby kitty snuggled up against me
July 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Happy Caturday from this absolute weirdo in particular
Pepper the caliby kitten sitting in my shower stall, fascinated by the drain
July 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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When me and my crew roll up on you
Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in pagan drag leading the procession in The Wicker Man
July 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Happy #Caturday! Pepper says that there's no wrong way to get your relaxation in.
Pepper the caliby kitten making an absolutely absurd twist inside her fish bed, with one paw hanging out the front
June 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I suspect Pepper may also be fictional. She's much too silly for real life. #ProofOfCat #AllAnalogCat
Pepper the caliby kitten lying practically in my lap and melting into the scritches
June 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Content notice: Beans

#ProofOfCat
My kitty Pepper lying head-first in her cat cave with her feets sticking out the opening
June 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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🎶AS SLOWLY TURNS THE GRINDING WHEEL
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
AAAAAAAAAAAH🎶
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, sitting on a mountain with a guitar and singing to the children she will later help escape the creeping tide of fascism, in a tale of no particular relevance today
May 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Me in the national security group chat
GIF of Peter Weller in Cronenberg's 1991 film adaptation of Naked Lunch, delicately typing on the bug typewriter
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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TFW you wonder if you might be a bad influence on discovering your kitten sleeps like you do
Pepper the kitten asleep on the couch, faceplanted against the back cushion and with one leg out of the blanket
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Many Happy Returns today to Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond, who I finally got to see play live this past St. Davy's Day in Philadelphia. A great show worth waiting 20 years for.

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Nick Saloman engaging in some stage banter at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, March 1, 2025.
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth Peter Gabriel in Genesis, wearing the Narcissus flower costume for "Supper's Ready" Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
March 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM