Olivia Montoya | Metaparadox
@metaparadox.bsky.social
She/they. 33, CT, USA. Queer, ace, Autistic, ADHD, Latine, larper, larp writer + organizer, indie ttrpg hobbyist, programmer of games and tools for analog games, zinester, artist. Ask me about online larp and asexual history! www.oliviamontoya.com
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Stuff I am:
🎭 Larper, LARP writer, GM, event organizer
🎲 Indie TTRPG hobbyist
📒 Zinester + DIY self-publishing advocate
💜 Asexual history nerd + activist
👩💻 Hobbyist programmer + game dev
🏳️🌈 Queer media enjoyer + creator
⌛ Game jam runner
🧠 Neurodiversity advocate
🎨 Digital artist + graphic designer
🎭 Larper, LARP writer, GM, event organizer
🎲 Indie TTRPG hobbyist
📒 Zinester + DIY self-publishing advocate
💜 Asexual history nerd + activist
👩💻 Hobbyist programmer + game dev
🏳️🌈 Queer media enjoyer + creator
⌛ Game jam runner
🧠 Neurodiversity advocate
🎨 Digital artist + graphic designer
Headed to California to run a LARP for 52 people! Have spent the last year and a half or so working on this project with some friends, and it's finally happening!
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Headed to California to run a LARP for 52 people! Have spent the last year and a half or so working on this project with some friends, and it's finally happening!
I'm an adult, which means I can eat waffles at midnight if I want to
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I'm an adult, which means I can eat waffles at midnight if I want to
One of the perks of being a GM and/or writer for a LARP is that you get to be evil 😈
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One of the perks of being a GM and/or writer for a LARP is that you get to be evil 😈
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Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.
www.fox2detroit.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
Reposted by Olivia Montoya | Metaparadox
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!
Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...
Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
I made an itch game jam for #LARP scenarios with pre-written characters on a whim. Want to write a LARP and don't know how? Here's some resources and a deadline! Or use the jam to get eyes on an existing LARP project! - itch.io/jam/litform-...
Litform LARP Jam
A game jam from 2025-09-01 to 2026-01-01 hosted by Metaparadox. What is LARP? If you’re not familiar, LARP stands for Live Action Roleplaying. It's kind of like tabletop roleplaying games, but you emb...
itch.io
August 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I made an itch game jam for #LARP scenarios with pre-written characters on a whim. Want to write a LARP and don't know how? Here's some resources and a deadline! Or use the jam to get eyes on an existing LARP project! - itch.io/jam/litform-...
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🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🏃💨 We've passed $56,000 for queer artists! Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game . . . even adjusted for inflation from 1985.
itch.io/b/3062
itch.io/b/3062
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We're back! Purchasing the Queer Games Bundle for $60 (or $10+) is a direct action that you can take right now to support queer people in a life-changing way, and in exchange, you get over 600 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games and artworks.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
August 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're back! Purchasing the Queer Games Bundle for $60 (or $10+) is a direct action that you can take right now to support queer people in a life-changing way, and in exchange, you get over 600 amazing, heartfelt, fun, and radical games and artworks.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
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✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
July 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.
itch.io/b/3062/
itch.io/b/3062/
Less than a week left to back my Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
(meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology
An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!
www.kickstarter.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Less than a week left to back my Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
Check out this bundle I've got 2 games in, the Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle! The money goes directly to the creators participating! itch.io/b/3015/disab...
Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle Sale! by 1veetvoojagig and 39 others
Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle Sale!: 147 items for $0.00
itch.io
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Check out this bundle I've got 2 games in, the Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle! The money goes directly to the creators participating! itch.io/b/3015/disab...
The Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology is now live! ~500 pages of perzine content! Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
(meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology
An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!
www.kickstarter.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Kickstarter for (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology is now live! ~500 pages of perzine content! Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
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Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.
March 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.
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My new larp The Divine Remnant is up on my larp designer website! If you enjoyed The Divine Fleet, then consider running this at a con or for your friends, because it's set in the same universe (The Oracular Cycle.)
larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...
larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...
The Divine Remnant | July Pilowsky
The visionary oracles of the Divine Remnant work together to resurrect their gods and chart a new course for their people.
larp.pilowsky.me
April 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My new larp The Divine Remnant is up on my larp designer website! If you enjoyed The Divine Fleet, then consider running this at a con or for your friends, because it's set in the same universe (The Oracular Cycle.)
larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...
larp.pilowsky.me/project/the-...
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"The unbound beauty in a world beyond the one that confines us": read the rest of my poem by downloading ACE SPACE LDN's zine, available for free since April 6th!
The zine (from £0): ko-fi.com/s/8233e5253e
Accessible version (idem): ko-fi.com/s/65ce114dbb
Visual courtesy of ACE SPACE LDN 💜
The zine (from £0): ko-fi.com/s/8233e5253e
Accessible version (idem): ko-fi.com/s/65ce114dbb
Visual courtesy of ACE SPACE LDN 💜
April 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"The unbound beauty in a world beyond the one that confines us": read the rest of my poem by downloading ACE SPACE LDN's zine, available for free since April 6th!
The zine (from £0): ko-fi.com/s/8233e5253e
Accessible version (idem): ko-fi.com/s/65ce114dbb
Visual courtesy of ACE SPACE LDN 💜
The zine (from £0): ko-fi.com/s/8233e5253e
Accessible version (idem): ko-fi.com/s/65ce114dbb
Visual courtesy of ACE SPACE LDN 💜
Within the next few weeks I'm going to launch a Kickstarter for an anthology of my text-heavy personal zine series (meta)paradox! If you want to be notified when the campaign launches, check out the pre-launch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
Coming soon: (meta)paradox: A Zine Anthology
An anthology of issues 1-6 of (meta)paradox zine, including never-before-seen content!
www.kickstarter.com
April 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Within the next few weeks I'm going to launch a Kickstarter for an anthology of my text-heavy personal zine series (meta)paradox! If you want to be notified when the campaign launches, check out the pre-launch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/met...
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Made a zine about the practice of wearing a black ring on your right middle finger as an asexual person.
January 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Made a zine about the practice of wearing a black ring on your right middle finger as an asexual person.
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As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day!
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...
![Resource key:
Academic article
Book / book chapter
Comic / webcomic
Course
Flyer
Podcast
Spreadsheet
Social media
TV show
Video
Video game
Webpage / single blog post
Website / blog
Zine
[Each resource name is accompanied by a corresponding icon in purple]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ryig6ad4p3hyi64mrz53pvf3/bafkreifjkfk7cxs3pyccpusqaq2fvdmnworqlc5nshlqbl6rknrtc5eyfi@jpeg)
April 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As it's International Asexual Day, I'm promoting my resource guide to ace sci-fi again! Contents and resource key are below, come take a look at this link! And Happy Ace Day!
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...
works.hcommons.org/records/xyap...
I just published an essay zine about finding truth in fantasy through LARP and tarot #LARP #tarot #zine metaparadox.itch.io/two-of-wands...
Two of Wands Zine by Metaparadox
LARP, Tarot, and Finding Truth from Fantasy
metaparadox.itch.io
April 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I just published an essay zine about finding truth in fantasy through LARP and tarot #LARP #tarot #zine metaparadox.itch.io/two-of-wands...
I hate that my eyeballs just had to see that tweet jkr made being horrific and bigoted about asexual people on International Asexuality Day, sending her audience of millions of other bigots to be hateful to another marginalized group...
April 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I hate that my eyeballs just had to see that tweet jkr made being horrific and bigoted about asexual people on International Asexuality Day, sending her audience of millions of other bigots to be hateful to another marginalized group...
I've got emergency commissions open because I haven't been able to get back on track after recently missed a week of work due to a family emergency. My bank account is currently in the red, and the extra squeeze of taxes made things worse. Here's some examples of my work.
📩 metaparadox11@gmail.com
📩 metaparadox11@gmail.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I've got emergency commissions open because I haven't been able to get back on track after recently missed a week of work due to a family emergency. My bank account is currently in the red, and the extra squeeze of taxes made things worse. Here's some examples of my work.
📩 metaparadox11@gmail.com
📩 metaparadox11@gmail.com
Tax season and missed work (due to a family member being in the hospital) has got me feeling the financial pinch, and my bank account got overdrafted, so I'm putting together a bundle/sale of all my paid games itch.io/s/150897/tax... #TTRPG #LARP
Tax Season Sale by Metaparadox
A bundle by Metaparadox, $16.50 for 5 games
itch.io
April 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Tax season and missed work (due to a family member being in the hospital) has got me feeling the financial pinch, and my bank account got overdrafted, so I'm putting together a bundle/sale of all my paid games itch.io/s/150897/tax... #TTRPG #LARP
@storyenginedeck.bsky.social This is how you April Fool's Day, lol
Today we're launching THE SORRY ENGINE, our deck of excuses and apologies!
Save 10% off sitewide and get the PDF today at storyenginedeck.com/sorry
Watch the trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4G...
To win the ONLY physical copy, follow the instructions below! (1/3)
Save 10% off sitewide and get the PDF today at storyenginedeck.com/sorry
Watch the trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4G...
To win the ONLY physical copy, follow the instructions below! (1/3)
April 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@storyenginedeck.bsky.social This is how you April Fool's Day, lol
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TTRPGs for Trans Rights: Ohio is live on @itch.io! For as low as $5, get over $1700 worth of games, zines, digital accessories, and more!
All proceeds benefit @kycohio.bsky.social and @transohio.bsky.social, two organizations doing important work for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio!
itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...
All proceeds benefit @kycohio.bsky.social and @transohio.bsky.social, two organizations doing important work for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio!
itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...
March 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
TTRPGs for Trans Rights: Ohio is live on @itch.io! For as low as $5, get over $1700 worth of games, zines, digital accessories, and more!
All proceeds benefit @kycohio.bsky.social and @transohio.bsky.social, two organizations doing important work for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio!
itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...
All proceeds benefit @kycohio.bsky.social and @transohio.bsky.social, two organizations doing important work for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio!
itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...