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OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna make your mask cuter? Punk-er? Worthy of compliments from strangers who might otherwise question why you're wearing one in the first place?

I'm running a workshop on making mask chains in Toronto on October 20th!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-eve...

MASKED EVENT: Mask Chain Making Workshop

Learn to make your own mask chain with local maker Orbwitch! Chain, charms, and findings all provided. Studio in the Junction.

www.eventbrite.ca

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Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 14d

Canadians! Some action you can take is signing petitions actually going before the Canadian House of Commons.

Here's a petition aimed at closing the arms export loophole:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition for immigration reform for Gaza refugees:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6808 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · 22d

the Kickstarter for Full Send is running out of time and my stretch goal is the next in sight! let's make some subterranean action happen! 🧗‍♀️

Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · 22d

As we approach the 24 hour mark, we're just over £1000 away from our next stretch goal: getting @smolghost.bsky.social to write a caving supplement for the book.

If enough of our project followers back, we'll get there. It's within touching distance.

Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · 23d

First stretch goal: unlocked!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

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OrbWitch @wildwoodgames.bsky.social · 23d

Hey Toronto,

Come shop at the Mutual Aid Market on Saturday! I'll be there with my mask chains and a few glasses chains/earrings/etc. A percentage of my sales goes directly to families in need.

Poster for Mutual Aid Market featuring a sunbird on an olive branch. Saturday, September 20th, 12-4pm, the tranzac main hall, 292 Brunswick Ave. Please wear a mask.

Jupiter modelling a glasses chain with red and black beads.

Mutlicolour beads on a gold chain shown on a green flatfront mask.

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worm 🐛 @stripeyworm.bsky.social · 25d

Hey Canadian friends, let's sign this petition!! It takes less than 2 minutes and is an official thing you can do 💪

For context, Canada's C-2 bill paves the way for the US gov't to access Canada's private civilian data based on "security of the border", and "other security measures". It's bad!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 25d

Canada's C-2 bill is both a gross overreach of govt surveillance into citizen's privacy, as well as extremely anti-immigrant/racist!

please do not forget to sign this petition alongside the others if you are canadian. This bill is bad news, but we can beat it!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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will jobst -> gamehole con @willjobst.bsky.social · 26d

it's time for the SOLOTEMBER SALE! for the rest of September, take 10% solo games at goodluckpress.co.

A leafy background with text on top that says: "Solotember Sale: 10% off select solo games all September!"

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 26d

Rather channel the hits? Try something classic, like
🏰In Ruins - @mallenhall.com, a solo+ dungeon crawl beginning in a new castle, continuing as the castle weathers and crumbles, and ending as a skirmish for power
🧙🏽Auspex - @smolghost.bsky.social, tarot-reading practice at end of the world

The cover of In Ruins, a dungeon building game by M. Allen Hall. Whimsical and colorful, like a book illustration or a graphic novel. A skeleton holding a mace swings down on a chain into a banquet hall. A red demon with a spear looks alarmed by this, while a glowing orange goo creature waves its tentacles in the background.

The cover of Auspex by Seb Pines. Gold image on a dark blue background. An art nouveau-style illustration of a robed figure (the seer) looking out into the distance.

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Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27d

We cleared £5000 on the crowdfunder this morning, which means we're gonna hit our first stretch goal soon.

When i declare a wish, I conjure it into existence

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG

A tarot-powered, trick-taking tabletop RPG where you'll ascend some of the world's legendary peaks, and risk everything in the process.

www.kickstarter.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 27d

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 28d

Solo games of every flavor arrive FRIDAY. Classic, like...
🏰In Ruins - @mallenhall.com, a solo+ dungeon crawl beginning in a new castle, continuing as the castle weathers and crumbles, and ending as a skirmish for power
🧙🏽Auspex - @smolghost.bsky.social, tarot-reading practice at end of the world

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · Sep 8

Arriving FRI - introspective games like
👁️I would love it if you noticed - @goosepoopgames.com, daily noticing practice
📖Hidden in the Margins - @goodluckpress.co, 10 solo+ lyric games
👣Endling - @mallenhall.com, the last human's final journey
🐕Fetch My Blade - @glyphtide.games, a literal fetch quest

The cover of I would love it if you noticed, a solo mindfulness game. A simple, bright red background with black stained glass-inspired accents.

The cover of Hidden in the Margins, an anthology of epistolary and marginalia games by Pines and Jobst. In the center, an elaborate, black ink illustration of a person at a desk (writing), framed by flowers and wild plants

The cover of Endling, a journaling game by M. Allen Hall. Minimalist in black, red, and white. The title is all caps, san serif, bold red letters. Three tarot cards appear in the center: the three of swords (three swords crossing into a human heart), the one of cups (an upside-down goblet, but the bowl of the cup is a skull), and the seven of pentacles (a bouquet of seven sunflowers)

The cover of Fetch my Blade, a solo journaling roleplaying game by Kelly Tran and Ethan Yen. The title is in white with tiny sword accents. Small dog silhouettes are running atop the swords. The background is red with canine shadows - one shadow is a dog holding a sword in its mouth

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Queer Games Bundle live now! @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Sep 8

4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Sep 2

Let's get dangerous above and below the earth!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG

A tarot-powered, trick-taking tabletop RPG where you'll ascend some of the world's legendary peaks, and risk everything in the process.

www.kickstarter.com

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm so excited to be a stretch goal for this game! I'm crawling out of my cave and into another one!

Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · Sep 2

Stretch goal three: at 6750, @smolghost.bsky.social comes to write on the project! Seb will be writing an expansion based on caving, which I am so excited about.

Seb is the author of Underneath, a solo game about caving, so I was really happy when they agreed to work on the project.

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Aug 21

coming out of my CAVE
and i've been doing just SLIME

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · Aug 21

Something emerges from deep below! Creatures, bugs, a haunting presence, and the suffocating dark. Discover what an unexplored cave system has to offer in Underneath, the solo game of perilous spelunking!

Get it now at the Good Luck Press webstore and on itch.io!

buff.ly/LdYgeMh
buff.ly/UzeeMSi

The cover of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, and a map. The cover of the zine has the title Underneath and a large etching style illustration of a narrow cave chamber. A natural fountain springs up from the rock floor. Statues of dragons and lions and weird dogs all spit water across the chamber into each other's mouths intersecting with the single stream of water erupting from the natural fountain.

An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. The spread has the headings Cave System and Obstacle and has entires for Flooding, Contortion, Tight Squeeze, Crouch, Tall Ledge, and Crawl.

An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. On the left page there is a header that says "Situation" with sections labelled: Lost, Cave-In, and Escape. On the right hand page is an image of a cave chamber, stalactites hang from the ceiling over a deep pool of clear water.

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Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · Aug 19

Aaaaaand suspended again. So cool how a trans woman who needs to advertise her art to make a living keeps getting booted from bsky for... being too mean about her political oppressors?

Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · Aug 7

Gretchen got suspended, so we have to extra spread the word about Black Flame's release. I had the chance to read it a few months back and it's such a brutal hard look at cultural trauma, assimilation, self hatred, revenge, and the messiness of history. It will knock your socks off

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🫀 tendervicious studios @tendervicious.com · Aug 12

shoutout to @sebastianyue.bsky.social and @smolghost.bsky.social for writing games that directly inspired this one!

y'all should check out both!!!

❌ CROSSROADS: sebastianyue.itch.io/crossroads

🪞 Portrait in a Room of Mirrors: smolghost.itch.io

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🫀 tendervicious studios @tendervicious.com · Aug 12

in partnership with @frivolousbear.com, The Home We Remember's Ashcan Edition releases Sept. 8!

it's inspired by various art & media, including:

🩸 Thousand-Year-Old Vampire
🤖 Westworld (S1)
🌀 Life is Strange
🚀 Interstellar
💘 Beloved
🏠 The Clean House

🏡 www.frivolousbearstudios.com/store/p/home...

A screenshot from the text version of the TTRPG, The Home We Remember. It features Appendix IV: Inspiration. It reads, "TTRPGs: Thousand-Year-Old-Vampire, CROSSROADS, Portrait in a Room of Mirrors. TV: Westworld (Season 1), She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Season 4, Episode 9). Video Games: Life is Strange. Movies: Interstellar, Arrival. Books & Graphic Novels: Beloved, Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers. Theatre: The Clean House."

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Aug 11

a beautiful book!! ✨

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Queer Games Bundle live now! @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · Aug 10

🌻We've passed $43,000 for queer artists on a sunny Sunday. Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+) and help these artists survive:

itch.io/b/3062

pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 43 over a background of various pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a blobby, rainbow dotted worm shape that intersects in random ways.

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Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · Aug 7

Gretchen got suspended, so we have to extra spread the word about Black Flame's release. I had the chance to read it a few months back and it's such a brutal hard look at cultural trauma, assimilation, self hatred, revenge, and the messiness of history. It will knock your socks off

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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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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Aug 5

nope, there shouldn't be any issues!

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Aug 5

ah wonderful!! oh what a great birthday gift!! I have a feeling Underneath will be very much your jam so wanted to ensure you got a copy!

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