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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 6h

Still wake up in the middle of the night embarrassed about that incident with the cave moss and the elder blood even though it ended up being no big deal. Haha lol. Human brains are so weird. 😳

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 6h

Pros of knowing @jesseross.com:
Thoughtful support, inspiration and overall friendship from one of ttrpg-land's most studied and open-minded designers.

Cons:
Annual required sacrifices to the old gods that power him, which have brought about some AWKWARD situations.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 6h

On this, presumably his birthday, I can reflect and say it's been a net positive.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 6h

Pros of knowing @jesseross.com:
Thoughtful support, inspiration and overall friendship from one of ttrpg-land's most studied and open-minded designers.

Cons:
Annual required sacrifices to the old gods that power him, which have brought about some AWKWARD situations.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 19h

Night 7. Bring Her Back … You've talked to the hand, but there's a strange new face that wants you to listen.

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Gabriel Robinson @glowingroots.bsky.social · 20h

Continuing this year’s #hauntalong, I’m recommending Bring Her Back (2025).

Film poster for Bring Her Back, featuring a hand grading the head of a child with red demonic eyes and a circle of blood in the background

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hey gamers, Luna here. I'm a graphic designer for ttrpgs, you can hire me to make your zines cooler, or to kill your enemies with my mind. Unless they deal poison damage, then I'm out. Anyways, you want this. Yes?

Table of contents for the game OMEN. Grey and red stripes decorate the page with the titles for each section.

A 3D render of a spread from wolves at the lake. There's a zine and 2 red die on dark wooden planks.

A spread from a feast for a sphinx. It depicts a centipede person holding an obsidian spearhead, along with the descriptions of said weapon and the rooms 7 and 8. The colors red and gold adorn the white page.

A spread from the goblin mail extras zine. Showing two characters, a mail goblin and a robot made out of mail. The art is black and white and features halftone pictures of stamps.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

One of my faves, especially as a transplant Angeleno!

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Make something for the best damn community zine in existence.

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 2d

Sprigs & Kindling sprigsandkindling.com is actively seeking pitches:
Vol 6: Endings & Beginnings. Any Carved from Brindlewood-related creation. Due Dec 1, 2025
Vol 7: Gods & Monsters. The Silt Verses TTRPG and Arkham Herald. Due Mar 1, 2026
Vol 8: Short-form CfB. Due Jun 1, 2026

DM me with pitches!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Night 6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula … a film for those with strange tastes – for bloooooood.

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𝖏 𝖆 𝖈 𝖐 @jackofficer.bsky.social · 1d

Hello, rats and bats. It's #hauntalong time, and tonight I'm kicking off my selects with inarguably the best (authorized) Dracula movie ever.

Title card for "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

PSA for anyone without a dog:

It is impossible to overestimate how much the back half of an electric scooter is soaked in dog piss.

Those things are basically dog internet.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that time Warren Zevon wrote a song about werewolves and everyone assumed it was secretly about something other than werewolves?

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Night 5. Trouble Every Day … In which a woman is shunned and isolated because of her very normal condition.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 3d

This #hauntalong, I'm trying to be a bit sexier than last year. I'm talking sultry, sanguineous, seductive, and penetrative.

Like with knives.

Or teeth.

I wanted to get

Let's talk about my first entry:

Claire Denis' 2001 psychosexual horror film, 'Trouble Every Day' 🫀

Still from the Claire Denis film Trouble Every Day. It shows a wall with wild blood splattering all over it. A woman walks from right Drake to the left, also covered in blood while wearing a neglige.

The foreground says, "Trouble Every Day" A film by Claire Denis.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Never been inside a Starbuck’s.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 3d

Night 4. Late Night with the Devil … Now this is the way to go out as a late-night talk show host.

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Blaine Martin (he/they) @notalonehorror.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #hauntalong everyone! Today we're talking about the 2023 Shudder original Late Night with the Devil, the story of a late night host whose popularity is on the decline. In an attempt to get viewers, he starts booking more and more controversial guests. (1/7)

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 6d

Weeeeeee're baaaack.

#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.

This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.

Come haunt along with us.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Oh! I didn't know that was a thing that could be on Itch.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

SSL issue?

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

It's about to change a hell of a lot more than colors …

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no. You shouldn’t have photographed it a third time …

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Night 3. Jason X … Oh boy. We're flying high with this one.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 5d

Happy #hauntalong, friends! Continuing my trend of contentious movie picks, and really lowering the quality bar of the choices so far in 2025: today I'm recommending my favourite Friday the 13th movie, Jason X (AKA JASON IIIIIN SPAAAAACE)

Jason X poster. A futuristic machete reflects a screaming woman. On the left side is half of Jason's face, in an old shoddy hockey mask. On the right side is half of Uber Jason's face, metallic mask and red eyes.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

We buried Wes Franks that day …

Although, come to think of it, we may have abandoned the body in cornfield after being chased away by a child with a pitchfork and a JD Vance doppelgänger.

Memories get messy in the Hole.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Incidentally, Wes was present at the historic moment when Car Mode was created.

You can tell because of the brass plaque bolted to their third rib: “Car Mode’s birthplace”

𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 5d

I'm very lucky to have written a couple of Holes for Tourist Hole.

Tourist Hole will change how you approach vacations. Tourist Hole will help you survive vacations.

You must enter the 🕳️

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Do you like fun simple games that are deceptively deep art, luring you to the brink of losing yourself in the listless void before summoning you home with the sticky smells of dried Coke and fry oil?

Me too!

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 5d

I'm very lucky to have written a couple of Holes for Tourist Hole.

Tourist Hole will change how you approach vacations. Tourist Hole will help you survive vacations.

You must enter the 🕳️

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Do you like fun simple games that are deceptively deep art, luring you to the brink of losing yourself in the listless void before summoning you home with the sticky smells of dried Coke and fry oil?

Me too!

The ttrpg book Tourist Hole in hand. The author on the cover seems to be labeled “Escape,” which is a little weird.

The printed edition of Tourist Hole opened to its introductory page, where a family of toy figures strolls under the shadow of a hanging skeleton.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Do you like fun simple games that are deceptively deep art, luring you to the brink of losing yourself in the listless void before summoning you home with the sticky smells of dried Coke and fry oil?

Me too!

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