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seb pines
@smolghost.bsky.social
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🪙 ½ @goodluckpress.co // horror goon // writer & game designer // bookmaker // eerie queer cryptid // they/she/ze 🌙 looking for work!
https://themonstrous.me/ // https://goodluckpress.co/ // contact: asmolghost@gmail.com
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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · Nov 13
in addition to publishing my own games, I'm available to work on yours! I would love to edit your game, layout your book, consult on a project, or design solo rules supplements for your game!

you can get an overview of the services I offer and reach out through my portfolio site

themonstrous.me
a yellow envelope with a black and white label that says Curios Albrecht Manor. the envelope is styled to look like an interdepartmental office delivery envelope. the envelope lies on a bed of envelopes, postcards, photos of houses, and letters. a book titled Dwelling, the cover shows a cropped view of a house showing the roof and one window against a night sky. over the cover is a spot shine of ghosts coming out of and surrounding the house. peaking out of the book are a postcard of a keyhole and a bookmark that shows a key. next to the book are purple paper ghosts and post it notes of drawings and writing. an open book with the background of a moody gradient of pink to blue to purple. the left page has white text detailing a game mechanic called frights and the right page include a table of frights. an open page spread of a zine on a purple and blue gradient background and some tarot cards. the left page has a dramatic illustration with angular panels showing an old woman, a pilgrim, a dog, a queen with a snake. the right page is titled the visitors and has a list of visitors corresponding to the major arcana.
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portablecity.bsky.social
Hey local buds - I'll be tabling at MCX this Saturday, at the Mississauga Central Library! I'll have the usual complement of comics, zines, art, and beautiful fantasy playmat blankets - and something new and special for the holiday season! See you there? campaign.mississauga.ca/mississauga-...
Mississauga Comic Expo (MCX)
Mississauga Comic Expo (MCX) 2024 Artist alley, exhibitors, workshops, panels, cosplay shoots, tabletop board game demos, video game free-play session, presentations and featured guests.
campaign.mississauga.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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funeralbeat.bsky.social
Poster for ZINEDUMP, a new Toronto zine fair! I'm one of the organizers for the event, and we are having our inaugural event on November 9th! We hope to see you there!
For updates, please check our website or follow our instagram at zinedump.fyi
A poster for Zinedump, a new Toronto zine fair. The poster features a woman levitating above a star drawn on the earth in chalk. She is wearing a goat skull and holding a zine, which is emitting orange smoke. 3 small Toronto associated animals are gathered around in worship - A raccoon, a rat and a skunk. The information on the poster is as follows: November 9th, 12pm to 5pm Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street 12 - 1pm - Masks mandatory 1pm - 5pm - Masks encouraged 60+ vendors and programming More updates coming!
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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portablecity.bsky.social
Hey, Ontarians? We gotta push back on Doug Ford's fun new landlord empowerment bill: acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...
Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control
Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.
acorncanada.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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knaveofcups.com
Restocked this month: haunted house gamebook Dwelling from @smolghost.bsky.social and @goodluckpress.co
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A dark, introspective solo RPG, beautifully laid out in midnight color with graphic novel-style illustrations. Wander your newly-inherited home, encountering spirits and reflecting on your fears
The cover of Dwelling, a solo game for ghosts by seb pines. The title appears in all-caps, scratchy, horror-inspired script above an image of an upstairs window of a house. It is night. There are raised, UV glossy ghost shapes seeping out of the window and over the roof
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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wildwoodgames.bsky.social
Wanna make your mask cuter? Punk-er? Worthy of compliments from strangers who might otherwise question why you're wearing one in the first place?

I'm running a workshop on making mask chains in Toronto on October 20th!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-eve...
MASKED EVENT: Mask Chain Making Workshop
Learn to make your own mask chain with local maker Orbwitch! Chain, charms, and findings all provided. Studio in the Junction.
www.eventbrite.ca
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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faunandgames.bsky.social
Canadians! Some action you can take is signing petitions actually going before the Canadian House of Commons.

Here's a petition aimed at closing the arms export loophole:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition for immigration reform for Gaza refugees:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6808 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
smolghost.bsky.social
the Kickstarter for Full Send is running out of time and my stretch goal is the next in sight! let's make some subterranean action happen! 🧗‍♀️
laurieoc.bsky.social Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · Sep 16
As we approach the 24 hour mark, we're just over £1000 away from our next stretch goal: getting @smolghost.bsky.social to write a caving supplement for the book.

If enough of our project followers back, we'll get there. It's within touching distance.
September 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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wildwoodgames.bsky.social
Hey Toronto,

Come shop at the Mutual Aid Market on Saturday! I'll be there with my mask chains and a few glasses chains/earrings/etc. A percentage of my sales goes directly to families in need.
Poster for Mutual Aid Market featuring a sunbird on an olive branch. Saturday, September 20th, 12-4pm, the tranzac main hall, 292 Brunswick Ave. Please wear a mask. Jupiter modelling a glasses chain with red and black beads. Mutlicolour beads on a gold chain shown on a green flatfront mask.
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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stripeyworm.bsky.social
Hey Canadian friends, let's sign this petition!! It takes less than 2 minutes and is an official thing you can do 💪

For context, Canada's C-2 bill paves the way for the US gov't to access Canada's private civilian data based on "security of the border", and "other security measures". It's bad!
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 13
Canada's C-2 bill is both a gross overreach of govt surveillance into citizen's privacy, as well as extremely anti-immigrant/racist!

please do not forget to sign this petition alongside the others if you are canadian. This bill is bad news, but we can beat it!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
September 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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willjobst.bsky.social
it's time for the SOLOTEMBER SALE! for the rest of September, take 10% solo games at goodluckpress.co.
A leafy background with text on top that says: "Solotember Sale: 10% off select solo games all September!"
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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knaveofcups.com
Rather channel the hits? Try something classic, like
🏰In Ruins - @mallenhall.com, a solo+ dungeon crawl beginning in a new castle, continuing as the castle weathers and crumbles, and ending as a skirmish for power
🧙🏽Auspex - @smolghost.bsky.social, tarot-reading practice at end of the world
The cover of In Ruins, a dungeon building game by M. Allen Hall. Whimsical and colorful, like a book illustration or a graphic novel. A skeleton holding a mace swings down on a chain into a banquet hall. A red demon with a spear looks alarmed by this, while a glowing orange goo creature waves its tentacles in the background. The cover of Auspex by Seb Pines. Gold image on a dark blue background. An art nouveau-style illustration of a robed figure (the seer) looking out into the distance.
September 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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laurieoc.bsky.social
We cleared £5000 on the crowdfunder this morning, which means we're gonna hit our first stretch goal soon.

When i declare a wish, I conjure it into existence

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...
Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG
A tarot-powered, trick-taking tabletop RPG where you'll ascend some of the world's legendary peaks, and risk everything in the process.
www.kickstarter.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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knaveofcups.com
Solo games of every flavor arrive FRIDAY. Classic, like...
🏰In Ruins - @mallenhall.com, a solo+ dungeon crawl beginning in a new castle, continuing as the castle weathers and crumbles, and ending as a skirmish for power
🧙🏽Auspex - @smolghost.bsky.social, tarot-reading practice at end of the world
The cover of In Ruins, a dungeon building game by M. Allen Hall. Whimsical and colorful, like a book illustration or a graphic novel. A skeleton holding a mace swings down on a chain into a banquet hall. A red demon with a spear looks alarmed by this, while a glowing orange goo creature waves its tentacles in the background. The cover of Auspex by Seb Pines. Gold image on a dark blue background. An art nouveau-style illustration of a robed figure (the seer) looking out into the distance.
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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knaveofcups.com
Arriving FRI - introspective games like
👁️I would love it if you noticed - @goosepoopgames.com, daily noticing practice
📖Hidden in the Margins - @goodluckpress.co, 10 solo+ lyric games
👣Endling - @mallenhall.com, the last human's final journey
🐕Fetch My Blade - @glyphtide.games, a literal fetch quest
The cover of I would love it if you noticed, a solo mindfulness game. A simple, bright red background with black stained glass-inspired accents. The cover of Hidden in the Margins, an anthology of epistolary and marginalia games by Pines and Jobst. In the center, an elaborate, black ink illustration of a person at a desk (writing), framed by flowers and wild plants The cover of Endling, a journaling game by M. Allen Hall. Minimalist in black, red, and white. The title is all caps, san serif, bold red letters. Three tarot cards appear in the center: the three of swords (three swords crossing into a human heart), the one of cups (an upside-down goblet, but the bowl of the cup is a skull), and the seven of pentacles (a bouquet of seven sunflowers) The cover of Fetch my Blade, a solo journaling roleplaying game by Kelly Tran and Ethan Yen. The title is in white with tiny sword accents. Small dog silhouettes are running atop the swords. The background is red with canine shadows - one shadow is a dog holding a sword in its mouth
September 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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queergamesbundle.bsky.social
4️⃣2️⃣ You have 42 hours left to buy Queer Games Bundle 2025. Get over 600 radical, heartfelt games and projects for $60 (or $10+), less than the price of one AAA game. This morning, we've passed $80,000 for queer artists.

itch.io/b/3062
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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jmkeep.bsky.social
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
smolghost.bsky.social
I'm so excited to be a stretch goal for this game! I'm crawling out of my cave and into another one!
laurieoc.bsky.social Laurie O'Connel @laurieoc.bsky.social · Sep 2
Stretch goal three: at 6750, @smolghost.bsky.social comes to write on the project! Seb will be writing an expansion based on caving, which I am so excited about.

Seb is the author of Underneath, a solo game about caving, so I was really happy when they agreed to work on the project.
September 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
smolghost.bsky.social
coming out of my CAVE
and i've been doing just SLIME
goodluckpress.co Good Luck Press > PAX Unplugged Booth #4059 @goodluckpress.co · Aug 21
Something emerges from deep below! Creatures, bugs, a haunting presence, and the suffocating dark. Discover what an unexplored cave system has to offer in Underneath, the solo game of perilous spelunking!

Get it now at the Good Luck Press webstore and on itch.io!

buff.ly/LdYgeMh
buff.ly/UzeeMSi
The cover of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, and a map. The cover of the zine has the title Underneath and a large etching style illustration of a narrow cave chamber. A natural fountain springs up from the rock floor. Statues of dragons and lions and weird dogs all spit water across the chamber into each other's mouths intersecting with the single stream of water erupting from the natural fountain. An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. The spread has the headings Cave System and Obstacle and has entires for Flooding, Contortion, Tight Squeeze, Crouch, Tall Ledge, and Crawl. An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. On the left page there is a header that says "Situation" with sections labelled: Lost, Cave-In, and Escape. On the right hand page is an image of a cave chamber, stalactites hang from the ceiling over a deep pool of clear water. An open spread of a black and white zine on a green textured paper background. In the background are carabiners, a headlamp, a journal, rope, and a map. The left page of the spread has a header that says "Landfill" and lists chamber encounters. The right page shows an image of a tall cave shaft with a metal staircase working it's way up the tall cave.
August 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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sadiabies.bsky.social
Aaaaaand suspended again. So cool how a trans woman who needs to advertise her art to make a living keeps getting booted from bsky for... being too mean about her political oppressors?
sadiabies.bsky.social Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · Aug 7
Gretchen got suspended, so we have to extra spread the word about Black Flame's release. I had the chance to read it a few months back and it's such a brutal hard look at cultural trauma, assimilation, self hatred, revenge, and the messiness of history. It will knock your socks off
August 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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tendervicious.com
shoutout to @sebastianyue.bsky.social and @smolghost.bsky.social for writing games that directly inspired this one!

y'all should check out both!!!

❌ CROSSROADS: sebastianyue.itch.io/crossroads

🪞 Portrait in a Room of Mirrors: smolghost.itch.io
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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tendervicious.com
in partnership with @frivolousbear.com, The Home We Remember's Ashcan Edition releases Sept. 8!

it's inspired by various art & media, including:

🩸 Thousand-Year-Old Vampire
🤖 Westworld (S1)
🌀 Life is Strange
🚀 Interstellar
💘 Beloved
🏠 The Clean House

🏡 www.frivolousbearstudios.com/store/p/home...
A screenshot from the text version of the TTRPG, The Home We Remember. It features Appendix IV: Inspiration. It reads, "TTRPGs: Thousand-Year-Old-Vampire, CROSSROADS, Portrait in a Room of Mirrors. TV: Westworld (Season 1), She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Season 4, Episode 9). Video Games: Life is Strange. Movies: Interstellar, Arrival. Books & Graphic Novels: Beloved, Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers. Theatre: The Clean House."
August 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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queergamesbundle.bsky.social
🌻We've passed $43,000 for queer artists on a sunny Sunday. Get over 600 games and projects for $60 (or $10+) and help these artists survive:

itch.io/b/3062
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 43 over a background of various pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a blobby, rainbow dotted worm shape that intersects in random ways.
August 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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sadiabies.bsky.social
Gretchen got suspended, so we have to extra spread the word about Black Flame's release. I had the chance to read it a few months back and it's such a brutal hard look at cultural trauma, assimilation, self hatred, revenge, and the messiness of history. It will knock your socks off
August 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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satelitesnaturales.bsky.social
Hey gamers, Luna here. I'm a graphic designer for ttrpgs, you can hire me to make your zines cooler, or to kill your enemies with my mind. Unless they deal poison damage, then I'm out. Anyways, you want this. Yes?
Table of contents for the game OMEN. Grey and red stripes decorate the page with the titles for each section. A 3D render of a spread from wolves at the lake. There's a zine and 2 red die on dark wooden planks. A spread from a feast for a sphinx. It depicts a centipede person holding an obsidian spearhead, along with the descriptions of said weapon and the rooms 7 and 8. The colors red and gold adorn the white page. A spread from the goblin mail extras zine. Showing two characters, a mail goblin and a robot made out of mail. The art is black and white and features halftone pictures of stamps.
March 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM