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Evan Perlman (DrColossus)
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TTRPG Writer (Call of Cthulhu, Haunted West, 7th Sea)
Occasional streaming with Symphony Entertainment
Find my work on DriveThruRPG! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Evan%20Perlman
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drnelk.bsky.social
Wishing a meaningful Sinking of the Essex Day to Melville fans and all who observe
A sperm whale striking the Essex by Thomas Nickerson
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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christhompson.bsky.social
i hope people read this report. jasper's view of the industry is sharp, clear-eyed, fair, and reasonable in its hopes and skepticisms: defector.com/defector-ann...
Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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symphonyhorror.bsky.social
First game at U-Con Gaming Convention down!

I ran Aurora Blue for Call of Cthulhu from No Time to Scream for a table of top shelf talent.
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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cthulhuarchitect.com
A financial ledger is the perfect way to relay information to your players. Find out more on Handout Generator!

#ttrpg #handout

handouts.cthulhuarchitect.com/template/fin...
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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dougtilley.bsky.social
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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defector.com
What's one rigged pitch? defector.com/whats-one-ri...
If fans still care even knowing that the overall game result wasn't shaped by the scheme, it is not because they are sickos who care about every single regular-season pitch—or, at least, it is not necessarily that. The biggest effect of a scandal like this is that the viewer now has doubt about what she sees, even if it is legitimate. Nobody wants a fixed outcome or a foregone conclusion. What is amusing and incidentally heroic about Andy Pages ruining an eight-leg parlay thanks to his poor plate discipline is the proof that still, in baseball, there is only so much anybody can control. Of course, now one can imagine a situation in which a pitcher tips off his guys that he's going to throw a first-pitch ball, and a batter tips off his guys that he's going to swing at the first pitch to guarantee a strike, and we will be granted the most depraved swing-ball combination you've ever seen in your life.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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symphonyhorror.bsky.social
Symphony is streaming NOW! Join us for Part I of our Storytellers Series writing workshop series!

www.twitch.tv/symphonyente...
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
drcolossus.bsky.social
Let's gooooo exploring the variety of tyrannosauridae!
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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johnmkuhn.bsky.social
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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daedsider.bsky.social
"expanding consciousness" meme: 1. Frankenstein created a monster 2. Frankenstein was the real monster 3. Frankenstein and his creation are *both* tragically flawed 4. Captain Walton made the whole thing up because he couldn't admit to his sister that he failed to find the Northwest Passage
January 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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naominovik.bsky.social
Next weekend (Sun, Nov 16), I'll be at the 2025 New York Jewish Book Festival, hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage to discuss SPINNING SILVER with Michal Schick at 11:30 AM, with a signing to follow.

The festival is free to attend with registration - sign up at mjhnyc.org/events/20...

Image includes additional information on museum location. Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is located at the Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place in New York, NY. Naomi Novik will be discussing SPINNING SILVER with Michal Schick at 11:30 AM followed by a signing for readers at 12:50PM.
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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joshuablevin.bsky.social
Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...
Wilbur Huckle For President: Solving A 61-Year-Old Mets Mystery | Defector
Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I’m not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a l...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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rokhl.bsky.social
Return of the Yiddish Gothic: Three Short Stories by Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn
✨Starting November 11. ✨
Email cjcrokhl@gmail.com

✨$25 discount if you register by Friday 💫
Return of the Yiddish Gothic: Three Short Stories by Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn ✨Starting November 11. ✨ Email cjcrokhl@gmail.com ✨$25 discount if you register by Friday 💫
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
drcolossus.bsky.social
Best sandwich I ever had was from a small shop a few blocks away from the Eiffel Tower. Fresh baguette, a bunch of soft cheese that would probably have cost like $16 to buy at Wegmans, and the whole sandwich was maybe 4 euro.

Just astonishing. So much cheese. So good.
stellagarp.bsky.social Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 17d
It is national sandwich day. The best sandwich I ever had was a ham sandwich from a deli in Sydney, Australia in December 1999. Almost 26 years and no other has come close.
November 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
drcolossus.bsky.social
THIS IS THE BEST WORLD SERIES I'VE EVER SEEN
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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valdevia.art
Many stories of haunted houses may be related to Cyclosa imago, also known as the Haunting Spider.
When a colony settles an abandoned building, they collectively defend against human intrusion by forming dense webs, which have been interpreted as ghostly apparitions.
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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symphonyhorror.bsky.social
Participating in NANOWRIMO? Symphony has asked some of our favorite prolific authors, scenario-creators, and game designers to explore their own personal processes while revealing some of their preferred tools, methods, and reference books to help get them publish!

twitch.tv/symphonyentertainment
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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defector.com
For this year’s Tip Jar drive, we invite you to travel to Philadelphia to either judge (easy mode) or bake along with (chaos mode) Kelsey McKinney and Chris Thompson as they take on another timed baking challenge. defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We…
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October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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thebaltimorebanner.com
World’s largest sailing cargo ship headed to Baltimore on inaugural voyage
World’s largest sailing cargo ship headed to Baltimore on inaugural voyage
With sails towering 300 feet tall — which need to be lowered to fit under the Bay Bridge — the Neoliner Origin will regularly unload automobiles, bottles of Hennessy and even cruising passengers at...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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seankuhn.bsky.social
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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maimonidesnutz.bsky.social
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how "busy you were"
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- how you lit the menorah
- how you praised the bride
- whether or not you thought man should have been created
October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror Scholarship for Halloween

www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Glob...
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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jeffstormer.gobirds.online
He was a lad
He was depressed and sad
Could I make it anymore obvious?

I said "if you're feeling down,
Pagliacci's in town,"
But he started tearing up at this....

Turns out
He was a famous clown,
Beloved and world renowned,
Prescribed him to get check out himself,
September 1, 2023 at 2:01 PM
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keithparadise.bsky.social
I had previously said, “you would have to pay me to watch the Pirates.”

Well, this summer, they did.

My latest for Defector.
October 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM