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Jen Vaughn

@thejenya.bsky.social

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Cartoonist || GIRLS MAKE MOVIES, TOOK, BACKSTORY 📚 Narrative Designer @ Strangers (Trailblazers: Into the March) || 👾TTRPG Designer 🗺️ She/they 🇺🇸 -> 🇫🇷 Bordeaux 🎨 artstation.com/thejenya 💻 hauntedvaultstudios.com 📩 rep Shena Wolf [email protected]

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · May 23

🛶 Up a Creek, Without a Heartbeat! 🛶

My latest Brindlewood Bay ttrpg mystery takes place at the annual canoe races that come to a splashin' halt when Dick Spitz + Gina Wing tie for dead (last).

Plus, rules to handle an investigation with two victims.

On @drivethrurpg.com 🌊 bit.ly/creekbeat

Blue cover with the title Up a Creek without a Heartbeat, a new Brindlewood Bay mystery by Jen Vaughn (May). It features the meaty, hairy legs of a person in a canoe with a lot of blood seeping into the water.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

“Eating dark grains” so it’s either cursed or whole wheat bread

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

Same same same.
Finally, someone who understands the placement of an “anteater” next to a “man-eating unicorn”.

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

J’ai vu un “quest-giver”sur le chemin du retour de mon kiné.

Saw a quest-giver on the way home from physical therapy

A black and white fluffy cat next to some blue garden furniture, in a garden next to a house. One metal gate is open, the other half closed as the cat looks on with questioning eyes

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

Those breaks are amazing/terrifying for parents. Can we get those at work please?

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

A world we can only dream of, especially with those visiting lecturers. @obishenshenobi.bsky.social it was Bronislav!

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 2d

These are so cute!!!!

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phantom p, cozied bug @theagentp.bsky.social · 7d

👻 October Shop Update 🎃

I’ve updated my ko-fi shop with some seasonal crochet makes and other items! Check it out and snag a cute plush if you’d like
💕✨

ko-fi.com/theagentp/shop

A crochet plush orange pumpkin with a brown stem and a green leaf that has safety eyes and a sewn on mouth. Text above it says Plumpkin.

A crochet plush green frog with sparkly pink pipe cleaners shaped into wings. It has saftey eyes and a sewn on mouth. Text above it says Faerie Frog.

A crochet plush orange fish with dangling feet being held up by its arms. It has big sewn on eyes and mouth. Text under it says Steve le Poisson.

A crochet plush white ghost that has safety eyes. Text under it says Ghostie Jr.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 3d

One of the German players in my Pathfinder home game used a Hero Point when we were at an unexpected dorm party at a necromantic academy. It was 🤌 perfect 🤌

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing this wonderful story, you now have a Night Guardian!

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 4d

Eeeeee, Cliff! Thank you. 🎃

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Don Buley @donbuley.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a sucker for themed one-shots like this one. Ordered!

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 6d

It's that time of year again! Something to Dismember Me By is a one-session playable adventure with harvest, Halloweeny mini-games for your table!

Grab a copy from @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Image of cover for Something to Dismember Me By: a Harrowing Hayride by Jen Vaughn. Art is a wagon full of hay in the shape of a skull and bloody ribs

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 4d

Eeeee, thank you! Hope your table has fun with it!

Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 4d

What’s the store? For those of us outside of the states.

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Angela M. Sánchez @angelamsanchez.bsky.social · 5d

It was never about "doing it the right way."

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

To be fair, I’ve never met a single ‘normal’ person, people either know what they have, don’t know, or are hiding it. This incredible neurotypical person we’re compared to doesn’t seem to exist.

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 6d

Can I sign your cast?

“Cast” is a 16-page comic written by me, drawn by @aaronlosty.bsky.social, colored by Aaron and @marissadraws.bsky.social, and lettered by @illusclaire.bsky.social. You can read it below or purchase a hi-res .pdf on Itch:

hagaipalevsky.itch.io/cast

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

Red is your color!

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 21d

HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is now out!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers
Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow

OUT NOW

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 5d

Waiting on my copy to arrive!!!

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 5d

I will never be able to process seeing my words in my favorite publication in the world, Ya girl has 3 (!) pieces in the October 2025 issue of @fangoria.bsky.social — talking FNAF 2, BLACK PHONE 2, & @izzylee.bsky.social!

Snag your copy on the website! It’s the one with PREDATOR on the cover. 😘

BJ Colangelo posing with her copy of Fangoria Magazine

Monster Invasion of Fangoria focusing on FNAF 2.

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Jean Zeid @jeanzeid.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy Book Birthday in English to @jeanzeid.bsky.social + Émilie Rouge + @amandameadows.bsky.social + me!

The Age of Video Games: A Graphic History from Pong to VR and Beyond is out from @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social!

Grab a copy at your local comic shop or bookshop: bookshop.org/a/82330/9798...

Image of Jen holding a real version of the comic book in French and posing with a fake version of the book in English. The cover is in Émilie Rouge’s signature teals and salmon pink.

Panel featuring engineer and designer Jerry Lawson, a Black man with a goatee and mustache. He dreamed and created the first interchangeable cartridges for video games

Panels featuring women in games (both white women in this example) including Amy Briggs with her historical romantic adventure, Plundered Hearts, and Jane Jensen joining Sierra On-Line in 1991 and making detective games based on the French quarter of New Orleans called Gabriel Knight.

Panels about Tōru Iwatani, creator of PAC-man. He is a light skinned Japanese man with short black hair. PAC-man was originally called Puck-man but the name was changed for fear of graffiti change pick to ‘fuck’. The game sold 4,300,000 arcade cabinets in a few years!

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 6d

I think these new owners will make their $20 billion back in genAI cost cutting measures around the same time* Musk makes it to Mars.

*never
www.rockpapershotgun.com/eas-new-owne...

EA's new owners are making "a huge bet" on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report

It isn't hugely surprising to hear that generative AI is a big part of the vision for EA's second coming as a private company, as reported by insiders.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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