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Ernie Roby-Tomić
@somnbody.bsky.social
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Lali-ho! I'm Ernie, an Appalachian audiovisual artist and musician currently based in the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway. I make work and do research around gaming media and folklore!
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I make RPGs with elegant mechanics and strong themes and they're all on sale for September only! GETTEM jen-adcock15.itch.io
Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock
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September 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Custom Karrakkin House of Smoke Taraxacum chassis token for our Shadow of the Wolp campaign.

The base chassis is a Retrograde Minis Taraxacum with the additions of the impaled, Dolly'd-up energy horse.

#lancer #ttrpg #pixelart #sprites #lancerttrpg #vtt #karrakkin #Taraxacum #massif #eyaletsky
A pixelated game sprite of a mechanical horse galloping through smoke, impaled on a longsword. The front half is an armored and decorated horse in mirror-finish metals and gold ornaments and purple gemstones. The back-half is that of a hovercraft. Draped over it is a banner depicting an up-side down tower with an open window and a single drop of Eyalet Sky, or a cerulean blue, water.
August 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Savoir Faire
Shivers
Conceptualization
Inland Empire
Four metal printed photos of paintings from the video game Disco Elysium representing available stats to specialize in during the game. From left to right: a boney, yellowed torso with no head and many limbs, electricity crackling through the nervous system of a red bust, a darkened figure in blue and green spiraling white from a dot and a square at its fingertips and it's eyes affixed on the viewer, and lastly a chromatic explosion of texture in place of a head on deep purple torso.
June 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.

One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
inthesetimes.com/article/west...
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...
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May 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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itch.io/jam/sinners-...
Sinners and Seamonsters Indie TTRPG Horror Jam
A game jam from 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-01 hosted by BrewistTabletopGames. Welcome to The Sinners and Seamonsters Jam! The Sinners and Seamonsters Jam is an indie TTRPG game jam celebrating the specific...
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May 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Happy International Workers' Day!

Ya boy on the sousaphone and shout-a-phone for this cover.
I am a container for disaster ballads and workers' rights songs, so I am really thrilled to contribute to this release. J. is an inspiration to me and helped grow radical dreams from Appalachian seeds.
jmarinelli.bsky.social jmarinelli.bsky.social @jmarinelli.bsky.social · May 1
Happy International Workers' Day! To celebrate, I'm releasing May's single, a cover of Swedish-American activist, labor organizer, and songwriter Joe Hill's "The Preacher & the Slave," written and published in 1911.
The Preacher & the Slave, by J. Marinelli
track by J. Marinelli
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May 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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jmarinelli.bsky.social
Happy International Workers' Day! To celebrate, I'm releasing May's single, a cover of Swedish-American activist, labor organizer, and songwriter Joe Hill's "The Preacher & the Slave," written and published in 1911.
The Preacher & the Slave, by J. Marinelli
track by J. Marinelli
jmarinelli.bandcamp.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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sprintingowl.bsky.social
Can confirm, Jenkat's games are good as hell.

If you're looking for a starting point absolutely try Thief Healer Arcanist Warrior it's extremely refreshing.
jenkatwrites.bsky.social Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · Apr 20
listen my games are good as hell and if you also think my games are good as hell you should rate them on itchio and provide me with positive validation and I guess also that lets other people know they're good, but mostly it makes my brain go ding in a good way jen-adcock15.itch.io
Owl Knight Games, by Jennifer Adcock
jen-adcock15.itch.io
April 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Evening character sketch!
It's basically a self-portrait, plus and minus.

#krita #illustration #Lancer #TTRPG
Character illustration of an androgynous, light-skinned human wearing a greenish-blue tinted mask of gel, like a sleep-gel mask. There are wires and electrodes hooked up to their face and a breathing tube in their nose. They have mid-length wavy brown hair on one side and buzzed closer to the scalp on the other. They are wearing a sort of puffy yellow jumpsuit.
April 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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highnorthstudios.bsky.social High North Studios @highnorthstudios.bsky.social · Apr 15
Do you like cosmic horror in you grim-dark retro rpgs?

Skald is featured in Lovecraftian Days on Steam and is currently on sale at a 40% discount🤩

store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/...
April 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Have really fallen in love with Lancer TTRPG! Just finished my take on Calendula, inspired by and taking core design ideas from @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social 's illustration in Field Guide to Karrakin Trade Baronies published by Massif Press.

#LancerRPG #calendula #krita #illustration #TTRPG
Illustration of mech chassis "Calendula" from the Lancer Tabletop Roleplaying RPG. A full-body character illustration of a humanoid mech swiping and floating in fog. It has ornate, silver armor with decorative motiffs which is peeling off and disentegrating from the feet up. On the right arm is a black sword beam which has its armor fully intact. The left arm is totally stripped of armor, reaching backward through the fog. It's head resembles a metallic calendula flower with an insectoid face nestled deep in metal pedals. A little fluorish of warm yellow and orange color contrasts the light and dark cool blues and turqoise in orbs seated into parts of the armor on its chest and face.
April 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I couldn't include images with video in my previous post, but here is the photograph looking out from Olson Tower over the Monongahela National Forest. I doctored a shitty little sticker someone had put on the window with lyrics from Hasil Adkins's 'Shake That Thing'.
March 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I have been really enjoying a robust, custom-made and printed DDR mat from LTEK and making custom songs with Arrow Vortex + StepMania. The image is from Olson Observation firetower at the top of Backbone Mountain, in the Monongahela National Forest I took in 2020. Keep on dancin', true believers.
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Giving a talk at Kunstakademiet on Monday 10.03 in the blackest of boxes at 15:15 time. It is about Mine Health and Safety Administration's workplace fatality archives and, somehow, also Hatoful Boyfriend.
a poster in dark reddish and pink hues modeled after coal workers' pneumoconiosis under a microscope at the top in huge, sharp fantasy font is the title FATALISTIC INTELLIGENCE beneath that is the name Ernie Roby-Tomic the last two-thirds of the poster is an image of a coal miner exploding in a messy monochromatic illustration at the foot are two small 8-bit text boxes, the first of which reads "It wasn't bad I just went to sleep" and the second box is a choice dialogue box with the choises "EXPLODE" and "DON'T" where the option for "DON'T" is selected by an arrow
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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gettin' goin'
March 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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The Chi endures.
February 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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enlitenskitur
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I've had a monstrous time designing and illustrating these two trading cards for Kåfjord Kommune in collaboration with Kåfjord Meta. They wanted these two mountains made into massive monsters with qualities they are known for. Primarily for tourists to beware or know where is safe to venture.
A graphic trading card feature Joppelen, a mountain located in Kåfjord Kommune in Northern Norway. The mountain is drawn in a painterly style as an enormous electric lizard causing an avalanche across the road winding around it. The mountain I'd also known for the power station situated on top which is shown here as a horn being struct by a blast of lightning. A graphic trading card depicting Storhaugen, a mountain known in Kåfjord Kommune for its gently and safe skiing conditions. It is depicted as an enormous purple beast sleeping peacefully on the coast in a painterly fantasy art style.
February 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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A GameJam story

#gamejam #michaelbuble #snoring #womeningames
January 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Tromsø Game Jam today!
24.1 kl17 - 26.1 kl19
Check the site below for more details!
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20...

And just for fun, here are some of my past game jam games:

thewarlock.itch.io/unsharted-2
fireskelet.itch.io/surgeorc
gm48.net/game-jams/co...
sappels.itch.io/quick-dirty-...
January 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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creative-capital.org/shortlist-20...

My collaborator, Ali Printz, and I are honored to be featured on the Creative Capital 2025's shortlist for our project Remediating the Region, to establish a multimedia, socially engaged artwork on Mammoth Preserve with the WV Land Trust.

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CRIK HOLLER
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January 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The illustrious Ellen Lande sweeping through her presentation on Nøkken VR and creativity in interactive media.
January 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The Greatest Staring Contestant
January 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Got me a tiny kiln from the secondhand market today here in the arctic. I found a clay deposit in the river we swim in during the summer nearby that has such beautiful plasticity I am dying to test fire it. Just gotta wait for that sweet sweet midnattsol.
33cm x 38cm ceramic and glass kiln A small ceramic and glass kiln with the lid open photographed from above.
January 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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And this super slick mechanical pencil made out of floorboards from the TransAllegheny Lunatic Asylum helped
December 25, 2024 at 7:44 PM