Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
Game Designer ❖ Writer ❖ Consultant
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
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Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hello all, time for a #TTRPGIntro!
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
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If you’re a fan of TTRPGs and are coming from Twitter, first off congratulations for leaving this aweful platform.
Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky
Welcome!
go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX
Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky
Welcome!
go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX
December 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you’re a fan of TTRPGs and are coming from Twitter, first off congratulations for leaving this aweful platform.
Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky
Welcome!
go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX
Second, the community here is great so here’s a nice starter pack of great TTRPG content creators to follow on Bluesky
Welcome!
go.bsky.app/BrCdFvX
Hello to all the new peeps following my feed! I'm based in Scotland, where we have a thriving indie games scene. Take a look at this Starter Pack, and if you think you should be on it but ain't, hit me up!
December 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Hello to all the new peeps following my feed! I'm based in Scotland, where we have a thriving indie games scene. Take a look at this Starter Pack, and if you think you should be on it but ain't, hit me up!
Elric of Melnononé
The Teixcalaan Duology
Tehanu
The Teixcalaan Duology
Tehanu
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Elric of Melnononé
The Teixcalaan Duology
Tehanu
The Teixcalaan Duology
Tehanu
I'm writing a larp system to use in the coming year. My first larp was Daughter of Twilight (don't @ me, it was the '90s), then GV Larp, ran games in the Cam for >5yrs (I said don't @ me), and have xp running most other styles of larp (from micro to fest). No Vampires is a great starting point.
There are also specific issues with the setting as a LRP and some of them are so core I'm now not convinced they're actually fixable without a total rewrite and which point I'd rather not call myself Vampire and avoid Vampire players in my modern supernatural LRPs. But that's another thread.
December 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I'm writing a larp system to use in the coming year. My first larp was Daughter of Twilight (don't @ me, it was the '90s), then GV Larp, ran games in the Cam for >5yrs (I said don't @ me), and have xp running most other styles of larp (from micro to fest). No Vampires is a great starting point.
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I agree with the desire for more nuance when talking about ttrpgs. I do think there is a reason to still use "System X supports Y style of play."
I've been meaning to start more long form blogging for awhile and this is a start.
publish.obsidian.md/improvgm/Imp...
I've been meaning to start more long form blogging for awhile and this is a start.
publish.obsidian.md/improvgm/Imp...
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I agree with the desire for more nuance when talking about ttrpgs. I do think there is a reason to still use "System X supports Y style of play."
I've been meaning to start more long form blogging for awhile and this is a start.
publish.obsidian.md/improvgm/Imp...
I've been meaning to start more long form blogging for awhile and this is a start.
publish.obsidian.md/improvgm/Imp...
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Ahh so if you’re new to Bluesky and you wanna grow here, I have a few tips:
1. USE ALT TEXT! This is very important!!!
2. Engage with the Bluesky community, don’t just post only!
3. Use hashtags, you don’t get shadow ban for using them!
4. Support other artists & join artshares!
1. USE ALT TEXT! This is very important!!!
2. Engage with the Bluesky community, don’t just post only!
3. Use hashtags, you don’t get shadow ban for using them!
4. Support other artists & join artshares!
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ahh so if you’re new to Bluesky and you wanna grow here, I have a few tips:
1. USE ALT TEXT! This is very important!!!
2. Engage with the Bluesky community, don’t just post only!
3. Use hashtags, you don’t get shadow ban for using them!
4. Support other artists & join artshares!
1. USE ALT TEXT! This is very important!!!
2. Engage with the Bluesky community, don’t just post only!
3. Use hashtags, you don’t get shadow ban for using them!
4. Support other artists & join artshares!
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Okay, most AI adverts merely annoy me but this new Google one is making me GENUINELY ANGRY
"Use AI to learn what happened in the previous seasons of Stranger Things so you can watch the new one!"
JUST WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW
THE THING THAT PEOPLE PUT EFFORT INTO MAKING
CHRIST
"Use AI to learn what happened in the previous seasons of Stranger Things so you can watch the new one!"
JUST WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW
THE THING THAT PEOPLE PUT EFFORT INTO MAKING
CHRIST
December 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Okay, most AI adverts merely annoy me but this new Google one is making me GENUINELY ANGRY
"Use AI to learn what happened in the previous seasons of Stranger Things so you can watch the new one!"
JUST WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW
THE THING THAT PEOPLE PUT EFFORT INTO MAKING
CHRIST
"Use AI to learn what happened in the previous seasons of Stranger Things so you can watch the new one!"
JUST WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW
THE THING THAT PEOPLE PUT EFFORT INTO MAKING
CHRIST
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"Mrs Brown's Boys viewers criticise 'woeful and unfunny' Christmas special "
The Cure concert attendees criticise "dark and depressing" setlist.
The Cure concert attendees criticise "dark and depressing" setlist.
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Mrs Brown's Boys viewers criticise 'woeful and unfunny' Christmas special "
The Cure concert attendees criticise "dark and depressing" setlist.
The Cure concert attendees criticise "dark and depressing" setlist.
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that lawmakers are so concerned that everyone who wants more than 16 tablets at once is going to top themselves probably offers a better commentary on life in the uk than was intended by the law
December 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
that lawmakers are so concerned that everyone who wants more than 16 tablets at once is going to top themselves probably offers a better commentary on life in the uk than was intended by the law
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“A glitchy humanities robot” is a good way of thinking about the chatbots. @tyleraking.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“A glitchy humanities robot” is a good way of thinking about the chatbots. @tyleraking.com
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gamers. she's so fucking warm
December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
gamers. she's so fucking warm
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You do suspect Ozy may have been a STEM-only genius.
If I was the smartest man in the world and I had an epic plan to save the world from ruin i probably wouldn‘t have called myself “Ozymandias“.
December 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
You do suspect Ozy may have been a STEM-only genius.
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That blind spot, I think, means the left as much as the mainstream fail to understand just how serious the consequences of an untrustworthy US state are to the global economy. It's not just the stock market or the dollar. The very structure of global corporate power is thru IP backed by the US state
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
That blind spot, I think, means the left as much as the mainstream fail to understand just how serious the consequences of an untrustworthy US state are to the global economy. It's not just the stock market or the dollar. The very structure of global corporate power is thru IP backed by the US state
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The only good version of Little Drummer Boy is Low’s because drone is the only genre it works in
December 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The only good version of Little Drummer Boy is Low’s because drone is the only genre it works in
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Looking for a bread for life.
This is an official petition to bring back calling your wife "the bread you eat", but only allowed with sufficient innuendo
"THE BREAD WHICH HE DID EAT. In the words of our Rabbis, this is a refined expression which refers to his wife"
www.sefaria.org/Ramban_on_Ge...
"THE BREAD WHICH HE DID EAT. In the words of our Rabbis, this is a refined expression which refers to his wife"
www.sefaria.org/Ramban_on_Ge...
a black and white drawing of a face with a smiley face on it .
Alt: a black and white drawing of a face with a smiley face on it raising it's eyebrows with innuendo
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looking for a bread for life.
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What if the years greatest called shot was also an incredible shitpost
I really hope the dummies over there accidentally do the kind of redacting that’s just highlighting black text in black, easily retrievable, there’s like a 50% chance.
BREAKING: Trump signs a bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure after months of resistance.
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What if the years greatest called shot was also an incredible shitpost
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Official accounts remember Speedball is a he/they king?? We love to see it
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Official accounts remember Speedball is a he/they king?? We love to see it
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The unreality machine is already normalizing an open Nazi as a potential presidential candidate.
Shane Gillis is Rogan 2.0 in the worst way possible and that needs to get very clear to people very fast.
Shane Gillis is Rogan 2.0 in the worst way possible and that needs to get very clear to people very fast.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The unreality machine is already normalizing an open Nazi as a potential presidential candidate.
Shane Gillis is Rogan 2.0 in the worst way possible and that needs to get very clear to people very fast.
Shane Gillis is Rogan 2.0 in the worst way possible and that needs to get very clear to people very fast.
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This is what @moderation.bsky.app is “protecting” us from.
just overt racism.
the other apps will just limit visibility but bluesky is straight up “No Palestinians allowed, ever”
just overt racism.
the other apps will just limit visibility but bluesky is straight up “No Palestinians allowed, ever”
And then they fucking deleted it.
Was this support so dangerous it needed to be silenced?
Was this support so dangerous it needed to be silenced?
December 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is what @moderation.bsky.app is “protecting” us from.
just overt racism.
the other apps will just limit visibility but bluesky is straight up “No Palestinians allowed, ever”
just overt racism.
the other apps will just limit visibility but bluesky is straight up “No Palestinians allowed, ever”
Broadly agree, but there is a glaring error. Those doing reproductive labour (parents/carers, nurses, teachers, cleaners, etc), are massively undervalued and often go unpaid due to the feminised nature of the work. Many artists also have to undertake reproductive labour as well as persue their art.
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Broadly agree, but there is a glaring error. Those doing reproductive labour (parents/carers, nurses, teachers, cleaners, etc), are massively undervalued and often go unpaid due to the feminised nature of the work. Many artists also have to undertake reproductive labour as well as persue their art.
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Follow the Kickstarter for an occult action thriller containing:
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Welcome to everyone new to following me on BSky! You can also follow my upcoming KS campaign, an occult action thriller THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND.
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
www.kickstarter.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Follow the Kickstarter for an occult action thriller containing:
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
Breakneck action 💥
Interpersonal drama 🫂
Occult investigion 🔦
www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...
"These people may understand that COVID exists and is infecting people, but feel that “it’s here to stay,” “we can’t fight it”, and “I’d rather be with my family”- giving themselves up to the virus in order to join with the majority due to fear of isolation."
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"These people may understand that COVID exists and is infecting people, but feel that “it’s here to stay,” “we can’t fight it”, and “I’d rather be with my family”- giving themselves up to the virus in order to join with the majority due to fear of isolation."
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I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days."
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
Gaming Like It's 1930
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2026, works from 1930 are free to use and ...
itch.io
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days."
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...
itch.io/jam/gaming-l...