Sean Tibbitts
@pizzoc.bsky.social
Data analyst and writer on the side.
(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
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Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
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cover i painted for an unpublished Trophy adventure
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
cover i painted for an unpublished Trophy adventure
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
Paralyzed! By Imposter Syndrome
— title of my memoirs
— title of my memoirs
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Paralyzed! By Imposter Syndrome
— title of my memoirs
— title of my memoirs
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I hate to do this considering The Everything, but overdraft fees have made it so that I only have about $10 to my name.
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
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So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I hate to do this considering The Everything, but overdraft fees have made it so that I only have about $10 to my name.
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
I wrote a first draft of a mini-incursion for Trophy Gold this week, and it occurs to me that creating TTRPG modules and content would be way easier if I had a game designer's brain instead of the brain I have
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I wrote a first draft of a mini-incursion for Trophy Gold this week, and it occurs to me that creating TTRPG modules and content would be way easier if I had a game designer's brain instead of the brain I have
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TTRPG pitch: Reverse Delta Green where you are shapeshifting undercover alien spies working for a benevolent intergalactic government doomed to go mad containing humans and the various insanities of human life from escaping earth.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
TTRPG pitch: Reverse Delta Green where you are shapeshifting undercover alien spies working for a benevolent intergalactic government doomed to go mad containing humans and the various insanities of human life from escaping earth.
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trying very hard to internalize this
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
trying very hard to internalize this
My dog woke me up early to go outside. I was annoyed at first, but a couple minutes after we got back in the heavens opened and torrential rain descended. So now I get to sit here at the dining room table, writing and listening to the rain.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My dog woke me up early to go outside. I was annoyed at first, but a couple minutes after we got back in the heavens opened and torrential rain descended. So now I get to sit here at the dining room table, writing and listening to the rain.
I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
Back on my bullshit part 2 (pitching my TTRPG fanfic to Sprigs & Kindling)
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Back on my bullshit part 2 (pitching my TTRPG fanfic to Sprigs & Kindling)
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
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A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
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I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
omg!
🩸 Laissez Couler le Bon Sang 🩸
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
omg!
The stalks grew in quickly: clear as glass, hard as iron, tall as a human. Between the rows, half-concealed by the knifelike leaves, I could see another world beckoning. I knew it was a gamble, but I put on my toughest gear and ventured into the plot. Alive or dead, I would not be coming back.
So you've sold your cow for magic beans. You've dutifully planted and watered the beans, kept the dirt free of weeds and built a fence to keep out the rabbits. It soon becomes apparent these beans will not take you to a land in the clouds. What happens instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The stalks grew in quickly: clear as glass, hard as iron, tall as a human. Between the rows, half-concealed by the knifelike leaves, I could see another world beckoning. I knew it was a gamble, but I put on my toughest gear and ventured into the plot. Alive or dead, I would not be coming back.
Today I wrote a thousand words on a short story I had kind of given up for dead. Maybe someday I'll actually finish it! That would be rad
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Today I wrote a thousand words on a short story I had kind of given up for dead. Maybe someday I'll actually finish it! That would be rad
The playtest ended up being super fun, and it helped me clarify some of my ideas about the game and its mechanics, so I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm playtesting my Twin Peaks–inspired short-form Carved from Brindlewood game with friends tomorrow! Hopefully the playtest is enlightening at the very least (of course I also hope it will be fun)
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The playtest ended up being super fun, and it helped me clarify some of my ideas about the game and its mechanics, so I'm pretty happy with it.
I'm playtesting my Twin Peaks–inspired short-form Carved from Brindlewood game with friends tomorrow! Hopefully the playtest is enlightening at the very least (of course I also hope it will be fun)
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm playtesting my Twin Peaks–inspired short-form Carved from Brindlewood game with friends tomorrow! Hopefully the playtest is enlightening at the very least (of course I also hope it will be fun)
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S&K Volume 5 is all about Trophy! The cover that @jesseross.com made for us is SICK. Everything is edited except one last incursion, layout is 78% done, and our copy editor @rebeccahall15.bsky.social is having an amazing honeymoon but will power through when she is back (she's great!)
I'm excited!
I'm excited!
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
S&K Volume 5 is all about Trophy! The cover that @jesseross.com made for us is SICK. Everything is edited except one last incursion, layout is 78% done, and our copy editor @rebeccahall15.bsky.social is having an amazing honeymoon but will power through when she is back (she's great!)
I'm excited!
I'm excited!
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This is all to say that if you're a creator and you're worried about making something that doesn't have substance or doesn't feel deeper, that's OK. Just make the thing that you like as authentically as you can. It may not take you anywhere, but it'll take you places doing nothing never would.
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is all to say that if you're a creator and you're worried about making something that doesn't have substance or doesn't feel deeper, that's OK. Just make the thing that you like as authentically as you can. It may not take you anywhere, but it'll take you places doing nothing never would.
All right, settle down. Thanks for coming to the farm, kids. I’m Miz E. Now, raise your hand if you have a stuffed teddy spider at home. Wow, lots of hands! But do you know what’s even better than a teddy spider? An actual spider that can love you back! Now, who wants to go feed and pet the spiders?
The market for mega-arthropods is strong these days. Giant bees for cartographer mounts, giant millipedes to excavate new sewer tunnels, giant jumping spiders for rodeos. What do you raise at your farm?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
All right, settle down. Thanks for coming to the farm, kids. I’m Miz E. Now, raise your hand if you have a stuffed teddy spider at home. Wow, lots of hands! But do you know what’s even better than a teddy spider? An actual spider that can love you back! Now, who wants to go feed and pet the spiders?
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Whether you write smut, games, novels, comic strips, biographies, fanfiction, what the fuck ever...
You're a goddamn writer.
You're a goddamn writer.
you are not a 'content creator' you are a WRITER you do not write 'fics' you write STORIES you do not have 'ocs' you have CHARACTERS
and if you disagree, well, I'm not your boss. but if you're serious about writing it's important to hold your own craft in a certain esteem and this is one way
and if you disagree, well, I'm not your boss. but if you're serious about writing it's important to hold your own craft in a certain esteem and this is one way
October 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Whether you write smut, games, novels, comic strips, biographies, fanfiction, what the fuck ever...
You're a goddamn writer.
You're a goddamn writer.