Undead Author
@undeadauthor.bsky.social
TTRPG creator, amateur anthropologist and folklorist, bronze age enjoyer, and educator.
https://jamesbarton3.itch.io/
https://jamesbarton3.itch.io/
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Time to watch my fave Christmas movie
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Time to watch my fave Christmas movie
if you use the phrase "pagan-like" or "pagan" as a general term for an aesthetic, you are lazy at best.
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if you use the phrase "pagan-like" or "pagan" as a general term for an aesthetic, you are lazy at best.
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May your lamps burn long, and what waits beyond the light forgets your name this cycle.
Happy holidays!
Happy holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
May your lamps burn long, and what waits beyond the light forgets your name this cycle.
Happy holidays!
Happy holidays!
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"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!"
Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!"
Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
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The Demiurge’s Birthday (1/2)
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Demiurge’s Birthday (1/2)
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Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
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little medieval devils
May 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
little medieval devils
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
December 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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ever find yourself looking in a history book and thinking "lol, those fucking idiots"?
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
ever find yourself looking in a history book and thinking "lol, those fucking idiots"?
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
ron perlman voice: humanity never changes
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December 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I have this tabletop RPG about play superheroes that lays out what being superhumanly intelligent means, and one of the earliest levels is "if you are dropped into a third world country, you will within a few months be solidly middle class via application of your intelligence"
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I have this tabletop RPG about play superheroes that lays out what being superhumanly intelligent means, and one of the earliest levels is "if you are dropped into a third world country, you will within a few months be solidly middle class via application of your intelligence"
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
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Once again to celebrate this awesome game and encourage people to make things for it, I'll be putting the asset pack that Andy used in MM on sale for $3 from Dec 15th through the end of the month.
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Once again to celebrate this awesome game and encourage people to make things for it, I'll be putting the asset pack that Andy used in MM on sale for $3 from Dec 15th through the end of the month.
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
itch.io/s/172140/mid...
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Rent is almost paid but I'm out of anxiety meds. Can anyone throw me like $40 to pick up a fresh prescription?
Hey. It's an emergency again. I need $650 for rent by Friday but I'm only making $400 at work this week. If you or anyone you know can help me keep my house, that would be appreciated. Cat pics pro gratis as always.
paypal.me/tknyarly
paypal.me/tknyarly
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Rent is almost paid but I'm out of anxiety meds. Can anyone throw me like $40 to pick up a fresh prescription?
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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There’s something about a desert that makes me want to fill it with giants 🏜️
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There’s something about a desert that makes me want to fill it with giants 🏜️
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Where this breaks for me is “can I intuit something useful about the setting from the new terms?” A calendar with Wet, Dry, and Storms does that, while D&D’s Mystaran calendar is just the normal one with an extra step where you look up to confirm that “Nuwmont” is January.
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Where this breaks for me is “can I intuit something useful about the setting from the new terms?” A calendar with Wet, Dry, and Storms does that, while D&D’s Mystaran calendar is just the normal one with an extra step where you look up to confirm that “Nuwmont” is January.
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