The Mummer's Dansky
@rdansky.bsky.social
Narrative expert for video games and writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero narrative director. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
I have no idea what this stuff falling out of the sky is, but it makes me want to go home and buy the ingredients for French Toast.
December 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have no idea what this stuff falling out of the sky is, but it makes me want to go home and buy the ingredients for French Toast.
The aggressive naivete of people who insist that the express train to hell is going to let them off at a stop of their choosing along the way is both breathtaking and depressing.
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The aggressive naivete of people who insist that the express train to hell is going to let them off at a stop of their choosing along the way is both breathtaking and depressing.
Old Man Yells At Cloud Department:
I do dearly miss the pre-pandemic days when, if a car was actively involved in backing out of a space in a parking lot, pedestrians did not feel it was fine to just keep walking across the path of said moving vehicle, certain that the universe would stop for them.
I do dearly miss the pre-pandemic days when, if a car was actively involved in backing out of a space in a parking lot, pedestrians did not feel it was fine to just keep walking across the path of said moving vehicle, certain that the universe would stop for them.
December 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Old Man Yells At Cloud Department:
I do dearly miss the pre-pandemic days when, if a car was actively involved in backing out of a space in a parking lot, pedestrians did not feel it was fine to just keep walking across the path of said moving vehicle, certain that the universe would stop for them.
I do dearly miss the pre-pandemic days when, if a car was actively involved in backing out of a space in a parking lot, pedestrians did not feel it was fine to just keep walking across the path of said moving vehicle, certain that the universe would stop for them.
For your Boxing Day amusement, I offer you me, yammering about writing with a delightful gentleman from Greece!
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Interviewing the Videogame Writer's Guide in an Industry That Hates you author, Richard Danksy
YouTube video by Συγγραφικό Στέκι
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December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For your Boxing Day amusement, I offer you me, yammering about writing with a delightful gentleman from Greece!
youtu.be/TJVzebUhdu4?...
youtu.be/TJVzebUhdu4?...
I am with my sweetie.
We watched a movie today.
We are having Chinese Food gor dinner.
Truly, I am a man who knows how to keep Christmas well.
We watched a movie today.
We are having Chinese Food gor dinner.
Truly, I am a man who knows how to keep Christmas well.
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I am with my sweetie.
We watched a movie today.
We are having Chinese Food gor dinner.
Truly, I am a man who knows how to keep Christmas well.
We watched a movie today.
We are having Chinese Food gor dinner.
Truly, I am a man who knows how to keep Christmas well.
At first I hoped Santa would being Trump a lump of coal. Then I realized he’d just burn it to power an AI data center, or possibly a Bitcoin mining setup.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
At first I hoped Santa would being Trump a lump of coal. Then I realized he’d just burn it to power an AI data center, or possibly a Bitcoin mining setup.
If, by some miracle, I manage to win the $1.7B Powerball jackpot, I am going to arrange for the delivery of a new couch to the Vice President’s residence every day.
December 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If, by some miracle, I manage to win the $1.7B Powerball jackpot, I am going to arrange for the delivery of a new couch to the Vice President’s residence every day.
For your holiday amusement, my story “Spec Ops In the War On Christmas” is now free over at my Patreon.
Happy holidays, and enjoy!
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Happy holidays, and enjoy!
www.patreon.com/posts/143805...
Short Fiction: Spec Ops in the War on Christmas | Richard Dansky
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December 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For your holiday amusement, my story “Spec Ops In the War On Christmas” is now free over at my Patreon.
Happy holidays, and enjoy!
www.patreon.com/posts/143805...
Happy holidays, and enjoy!
www.patreon.com/posts/143805...
I am driving around north of Albany today and there are all these small bodies of water that are now entirely covered in solid ice and I AM NO LONGER OK WITH DEALING WITH THIS STUFF OKAY???
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I am driving around north of Albany today and there are all these small bodies of water that are now entirely covered in solid ice and I AM NO LONGER OK WITH DEALING WITH THIS STUFF OKAY???
Monday morning music nonsense as I freeze my underdressed tucchis off in upstate New York:
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The Ten Best Bands I Discovered This Year | Richard Dansky
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December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Monday morning music nonsense as I freeze my underdressed tucchis off in upstate New York:
www.patreon.com/posts/144948...
www.patreon.com/posts/144948...
Drove past a billboard for “VANCE FURNITURE” today and the jokes are just writing themselves.
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Drove past a billboard for “VANCE FURNITURE” today and the jokes are just writing themselves.
The bar where we’re reading tonight was playing Rush when I walked in.
I will take that as a good omen.
I will take that as a good omen.
December 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The bar where we’re reading tonight was playing Rush when I walked in.
I will take that as a good omen.
I will take that as a good omen.
Happening tonight....
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Happening tonight....
Currently considering deviceicide after having been awakened at 6:30 by the incessant beeping of a "smart" smoke detector that appears to be anything but.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Currently considering deviceicide after having been awakened at 6:30 by the incessant beeping of a "smart" smoke detector that appears to be anything but.
And today I channeled my inner Grinch at a modern holiday classic, with a side of metal...
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Why "Last Christmas" Is Evil | Richard Dansky
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December 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
And today I channeled my inner Grinch at a modern holiday classic, with a side of metal...
(Code BB2E8 for 25% off one month of any tier)
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(Code BB2E8 for 25% off one month of any tier)
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Ignore previous now-deleted post:
Use the code BB2E8 to get 25% off one month of any tier at my Patreon. It was supposed to be a different code, it was supposed to be a longer discount, but I'm terrible at this stuff.
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Use the code BB2E8 to get 25% off one month of any tier at my Patreon. It was supposed to be a different code, it was supposed to be a longer discount, but I'm terrible at this stuff.
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Richard Dansky | Patreon
Writer, Game Designer, Cad. That about covers it.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ignore previous now-deleted post:
Use the code BB2E8 to get 25% off one month of any tier at my Patreon. It was supposed to be a different code, it was supposed to be a longer discount, but I'm terrible at this stuff.
www.patreon.com/c/RichardDan...
Use the code BB2E8 to get 25% off one month of any tier at my Patreon. It was supposed to be a different code, it was supposed to be a longer discount, but I'm terrible at this stuff.
www.patreon.com/c/RichardDan...
Confession: I have never had much use for any game awards show. They all seem to focus on trying to sell what's coming next instead of celebrating what has been done, and largely ignore the people who have done it.
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Confession: I have never had much use for any game awards show. They all seem to focus on trying to sell what's coming next instead of celebrating what has been done, and largely ignore the people who have done it.
...that moment when you think "I haven't played this one album by this artist I like in ages" and you try to put it on and your phone refuses to play it and you realize it's actually trying to protect you....
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
...that moment when you think "I haven't played this one album by this artist I like in ages" and you try to put it on and your phone refuses to play it and you realize it's actually trying to protect you....
Come join us when we share the holiday ghost story tradition at Moon Dog Meadery in Durham on Saturday night!
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Come join us when we share the holiday ghost story tradition at Moon Dog Meadery in Durham on Saturday night!
Finished the edits on the novel manuscript last night. Now, to cover art and layout and all that good stuff!
(and in the meantime, my brain is mush)
(and in the meantime, my brain is mush)
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finished the edits on the novel manuscript last night. Now, to cover art and layout and all that good stuff!
(and in the meantime, my brain is mush)
(and in the meantime, my brain is mush)
Still looking for a last minute gift for the horror fan in your life? I may have a few options at my online store!
Plus, in honor of the holiday season (and because it's all books), use the code YULECAT25 at checkout for 10% off everything!
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December 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Still looking for a last minute gift for the horror fan in your life? I may have a few options at my online store!
Plus, in honor of the holiday season (and because it's all books), use the code YULECAT25 at checkout for 10% off everything!
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There are a /lot/ of stories in this book.
One of them is mine.
Despite that, you should definitely check it out.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2FM82LC/
One of them is mine.
Despite that, you should definitely check it out.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2FM82LC/
Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind (Horrific Scribes Anthologies)
Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind (Horrific Scribes Anthologies) - Kindle edition by Cooper, L. Andrew, Dutton, H.J., Blake, Amanda M., Dansky, Richard, Hirsch, Joseph, Johnstone, Tom, Mavroudis, Thomas C., McKee, Trisha Ridinger, Nash, Eric, Sachar, Cassandra O'Sullivan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind (Horrific Scribes Anthologies).
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December 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
There are a /lot/ of stories in this book.
One of them is mine.
Despite that, you should definitely check it out.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2FM82LC/
One of them is mine.
Despite that, you should definitely check it out.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2FM82LC/
The young man at the register at the Bojangles where I grabbed lunch gave me the Senior Discount without even asking and now I am going to go dissolve into a pile of tomb dust and cobwebs in the corner.
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The young man at the register at the Bojangles where I grabbed lunch gave me the Senior Discount without even asking and now I am going to go dissolve into a pile of tomb dust and cobwebs in the corner.
Drove past a Zaxby’s last night that was decorated like Diahann Carroll’s costume in the interspecies VR porn segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special and I have so very many questions.
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Drove past a Zaxby’s last night that was decorated like Diahann Carroll’s costume in the interspecies VR porn segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special and I have so very many questions.