Dan Arndt
@danarndtwrites.bsky.social
Board Game and TTRPG Journalist, Managing Editor at @TheFandomentals. Bylines at Polygon. Comics, Writing, and Goth Stuff. dan@thefandomentals.com
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When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
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Sometimes movies are high art, filled with moving performances and beautiful imagery. And sometimes they're sleazy, campy, silliness. Today, @jshermancritic.bsky.social looks at The Housemaid
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'The Housemaid' Knows How to Have a Trashy Good Time - The Fandomentals
Paul Feig is no stranger to high camp. His 2018 A Simple Favor was a sleazy masterpiece of trash of women behaving badly. His latest, The Housemaid, an
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December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sometimes movies are high art, filled with moving performances and beautiful imagery. And sometimes they're sleazy, campy, silliness. Today, @jshermancritic.bsky.social looks at The Housemaid
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Happy Kwanzaa to you and yours!
December 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Happy Kwanzaa to you and yours!
They gotta stop saying "The Joining" in Pluribus or Duncan is gonna show up and kill Ser Jory again
December 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They gotta stop saying "The Joining" in Pluribus or Duncan is gonna show up and kill Ser Jory again
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And as much as we love a gay Christmas, don't put yourself through Happiest Season!
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Happiest Season is an Alarming Lie - The Fandomentals
When I first heard about Happiest Season, I won't lie. I was excited. It was another cherry on top of my queer holiday movie extravaganza boon this year, and
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December 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
And as much as we love a gay Christmas, don't put yourself through Happiest Season!
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Every Christmas is better with Batman
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BTAS, The Best Christmas Special? - The Fandomentals
Christmas has never been an easy holiday for me. Growing up in a military family, my dad was usually gone and I would be in another country, some of which
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December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Every Christmas is better with Batman
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Merry Christmas from Queen Carol and all of us here at The Fandomentals!
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Merry Christmas from Queen Carol and all of us here at The Fandomentals!
Why was Clark trying to cheat so bad
December 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Why was Clark trying to cheat so bad
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Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
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100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
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December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Surprise!
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥
Download these games for free—for a limited time only.
momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
Even if you don't need gifts rn, go check out some of these creators. Oh, and if you do still need gifts and don't like my choices, go drop some coin at @ipr.bsky.social or at your favorite creator's itch.io.
Hey, we get it. You still need a gift for your GM and it's ALMOST Christmas! Well, worry no longer! Dan put together some of his fave picks for you to grab at your FLGS (or put an order in for a little late holiday surprise).
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The Fandomentals Last Minute TTRPG Gift Guide 2026 - The Fandomentals
Rushing to get everything together for your D&D party? Dan's got you covered with some last minute gifts perfect for the tabletop nerd in your life.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Even if you don't need gifts rn, go check out some of these creators. Oh, and if you do still need gifts and don't like my choices, go drop some coin at @ipr.bsky.social or at your favorite creator's itch.io.
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Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions.
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍
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Lock and load gang, Axolotl with a Gun is coming to Zinequest 2026 with a coin-operated 2nd edition! 💥🔫
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Coming soon: Axolotl with a Gun: An Arcade-Style Roleplaying Game
Play as armed axolotls with weaponized hobbies fighting hordes of evil robots in this arcade-style, coin-op tabletop roleplaying game.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Lock and load gang, Axolotl with a Gun is coming to Zinequest 2026 with a coin-operated 2nd edition! 💥🔫
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
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It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
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Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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We're getting back to back to back nonsense on the TTRPG feed this month, nature is healing
December 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We're getting back to back to back nonsense on the TTRPG feed this month, nature is healing
Wizards has made a framework people have successfully turned into...basically anything. And honestly they DID pivot recently after a lot of mistakes and are doing a LOT more work with third party publishers as well as places like Paizo and Chaosium. They're more plugged in than people might think.
I think WotC is unambitious with D&D simply because they have no reason to be, they occupy a strata in the industry where friction largely doesn't exist for them unless they do something terminally clueless like trying to rescind the OGL, they can coast forever on minimal effort, why wouldn't they?
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Wizards has made a framework people have successfully turned into...basically anything. And honestly they DID pivot recently after a lot of mistakes and are doing a LOT more work with third party publishers as well as places like Paizo and Chaosium. They're more plugged in than people might think.
Oh hi Kristen Schaal
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Oh hi Kristen Schaal
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SEASON'S GREASONS
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SEASON'S GREASONS
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I am baffled about using these things to generate *ideas* on many levels, but primarily bc idea generation is the cheap, easy, & funtage of the process? Ideas are a dime for 1000, what do they mean they can't even come up w an idea?
Use the prompts for YOURSELF not the planet poisoning thiefbox?!?!
Use the prompts for YOURSELF not the planet poisoning thiefbox?!?!
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I am baffled about using these things to generate *ideas* on many levels, but primarily bc idea generation is the cheap, easy, & funtage of the process? Ideas are a dime for 1000, what do they mean they can't even come up w an idea?
Use the prompts for YOURSELF not the planet poisoning thiefbox?!?!
Use the prompts for YOURSELF not the planet poisoning thiefbox?!?!
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Dudes keep being like "our next TTRPG is Ghibli inspired". Boring. Boo. It should be Gainax inspired.
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Dudes keep being like "our next TTRPG is Ghibli inspired". Boring. Boo. It should be Gainax inspired.
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It is 2018. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person is tired.
It is 2025. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person continue to be fucking tired.
It is 2025. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person continue to be fucking tired.
December 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It is 2018. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person is tired.
It is 2025. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person continue to be fucking tired.
It is 2025. You're scrolling the TTRPG timeline and orientalist stuff is in the mainstream. You and every Asian TTRPG person continue to be fucking tired.
Ah the triangle of annoying European game companies is complete! I'M SURE AI in "productivity" couldn't POSSIBLY lead to reduced headcount
December 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Ah the triangle of annoying European game companies is complete! I'M SURE AI in "productivity" couldn't POSSIBLY lead to reduced headcount
Well I guess The Escapist writers would be happy to see AI used to write their articles, right?
December 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Well I guess The Escapist writers would be happy to see AI used to write their articles, right?
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Hi everyone!
Our lovely boy Geo was hit by a car the other day and while he's fortunately got out of it with only a broken hip, giving him the care he needs is a significant and sudden cost.
So we have a crowdfund now, anything you can give or sharing this is amazing thank you
gofund.me/3a3befd4d
Our lovely boy Geo was hit by a car the other day and while he's fortunately got out of it with only a broken hip, giving him the care he needs is a significant and sudden cost.
So we have a crowdfund now, anything you can give or sharing this is amazing thank you
gofund.me/3a3befd4d
Donate to Geo's surgery costs, organized by Ferne Milton
Hi, I'm Ferne and recently our lovely ginger boy Geo was hit by a car. He was fortunate enough to com… Ferne Milton needs your support for Geo's surgery costs
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December 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hi everyone!
Our lovely boy Geo was hit by a car the other day and while he's fortunately got out of it with only a broken hip, giving him the care he needs is a significant and sudden cost.
So we have a crowdfund now, anything you can give or sharing this is amazing thank you
gofund.me/3a3befd4d
Our lovely boy Geo was hit by a car the other day and while he's fortunately got out of it with only a broken hip, giving him the care he needs is a significant and sudden cost.
So we have a crowdfund now, anything you can give or sharing this is amazing thank you
gofund.me/3a3befd4d
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(We're kinda big fans)
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Korra Week: The Fandomentals Korrasami Roundup - The Fandomentals
Relive the excitement of Korrasami with some of our favorite articles all about a ship that means so much to us here at The Fandomentals.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:08 AM
(We're kinda big fans)
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