riley rethal
@rileyrethal.bsky.social
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riley rethal
@rileyrethal.bsky.social
· Aug 5
hi, i’m riley! i’m a writer & ttrpg designer who enjoys greek myth, old hollywood, rebellion & overthinking things.
🎲 ttrpgs: metagame.itch.io
📝 fic: ao3.org/users/rib14
🎥 letterboxd: letterboxd.com/rib14
🧿 tumblr: courtrecord.tumblr.com
🚀 galactic & going rogue: bit.ly/galacticgoingrogue
🎲 ttrpgs: metagame.itch.io
📝 fic: ao3.org/users/rib14
🎥 letterboxd: letterboxd.com/rib14
🧿 tumblr: courtrecord.tumblr.com
🚀 galactic & going rogue: bit.ly/galacticgoingrogue
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How did you celebrate anti-communism week?
Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?
Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
How did you celebrate anti-communism week?
Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?
Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?
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If the Dems will cave on this there is no right of yours that they will not throw away if it means they can go on vacation.
I hate them with my whole heart.
I hate them with my whole heart.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If the Dems will cave on this there is no right of yours that they will not throw away if it means they can go on vacation.
I hate them with my whole heart.
I hate them with my whole heart.
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It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
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Two things need to happen simultaneously:
1) A rapid mobilization and expansion of mutual aid networks to protect, feed, and care for each other
2) A tireless effort to elect progressive politicians looking to oust these fascists and their spineless enablers
1) A rapid mobilization and expansion of mutual aid networks to protect, feed, and care for each other
2) A tireless effort to elect progressive politicians looking to oust these fascists and their spineless enablers
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Two things need to happen simultaneously:
1) A rapid mobilization and expansion of mutual aid networks to protect, feed, and care for each other
2) A tireless effort to elect progressive politicians looking to oust these fascists and their spineless enablers
1) A rapid mobilization and expansion of mutual aid networks to protect, feed, and care for each other
2) A tireless effort to elect progressive politicians looking to oust these fascists and their spineless enablers
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i've been listening to a ton of @corpserevivers.bsky.social + @jeffstormer.gobirds.online 's BATMAN: BUMP IN THE NIGHT podcast lately & wanted to try drawing a cover for one of the issues 🦇🦇🦇
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
i've been listening to a ton of @corpserevivers.bsky.social + @jeffstormer.gobirds.online 's BATMAN: BUMP IN THE NIGHT podcast lately & wanted to try drawing a cover for one of the issues 🦇🦇🦇
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I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
it’s so funny that shelved by genre is reading a comic called promethea, which is the superhero name i gave my masks pc’s mom in 2019. but due to alan moore’s whole block theory of time i think he actually stole it from me
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
it’s so funny that shelved by genre is reading a comic called promethea, which is the superhero name i gave my masks pc’s mom in 2019. but due to alan moore’s whole block theory of time i think he actually stole it from me
i’m watching superman cartoons now btw. still being extremely normal with it
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i’m watching superman cartoons now btw. still being extremely normal with it
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory
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Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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when mamdani is mayor i hope he fixes all the changes they made to hadestown
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
when mamdani is mayor i hope he fixes all the changes they made to hadestown
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the people who said the smallville ttrpg was randomly fucking cooking were right it turns out. feeling extremely galaxy brained about the idea of a campaign-style ttrpg where some of the pcs are expected to be the antagonists.
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
the people who said the smallville ttrpg was randomly fucking cooking were right it turns out. feeling extremely galaxy brained about the idea of a campaign-style ttrpg where some of the pcs are expected to be the antagonists.
shoutout to the jewish man who’s been coming to my pharmacy this week & is trying really hard to figure out i’m jewish, which i am, but there is nothing about me that would convey it so i think he decided it based on good vibes and nothing else. realest guy in the world maybe
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
shoutout to the jewish man who’s been coming to my pharmacy this week & is trying really hard to figure out i’m jewish, which i am, but there is nothing about me that would convey it so i think he decided it based on good vibes and nothing else. realest guy in the world maybe
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See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.
lex is the nobody of el
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
lex is the nobody of el
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10 years of 2-player TTRPGs, and intimate one-on-one conversations. Thanks for coming along for the ride so far. Here's to many more parties to come.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
10 years of 2-player TTRPGs, and intimate one-on-one conversations. Thanks for coming along for the ride so far. Here's to many more parties to come.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
omg happy 10th birthday party of one!!!! the world is so lucky to have this podcast. jeff’s ability to bring out the best from his guests & the games they play is unmatched. also, champ & crowbar are in love ❤️
10 years of 2-player TTRPGs, and intimate one-on-one conversations. Thanks for coming along for the ride so far. Here's to many more parties to come.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
omg happy 10th birthday party of one!!!! the world is so lucky to have this podcast. jeff’s ability to bring out the best from his guests & the games they play is unmatched. also, champ & crowbar are in love ❤️
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Po1 is invaluable as a historical artifact. Not only do I find it tremendously useful as a resource, but it remains a record of games that may no longer be available, as well as snapshots of what the scene was thinking about at the time. Genuinely should be preserved for future games scholars.
10 years of 2-player TTRPGs, and intimate one-on-one conversations. Thanks for coming along for the ride so far. Here's to many more parties to come.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it.
Party On, y'all.
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Po1 is invaluable as a historical artifact. Not only do I find it tremendously useful as a resource, but it remains a record of games that may no longer be available, as well as snapshots of what the scene was thinking about at the time. Genuinely should be preserved for future games scholars.
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Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
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Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."