Katt Kirsch
@thiccmomswag.bsky.social
Games: https://katt-kirsch.itch.io/
Blerg: https://kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/blog/
Authoress. Lagomorph broodmother. Pretend Murder Enjoyer. Thinking Adventurist. Twiddler of knobs. Purveyor of Ancient RPGs.
Libra, Cardinal of the Golden Dawn (Over/Under).
Blerg: https://kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/blog/
Authoress. Lagomorph broodmother. Pretend Murder Enjoyer. Thinking Adventurist. Twiddler of knobs. Purveyor of Ancient RPGs.
Libra, Cardinal of the Golden Dawn (Over/Under).
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Katt Kirsch
@thiccmomswag.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees
Leonard Cohen's (1978) speaks to a time when the public performance of poetry was transforming into what Marc Smith would call "slam poetry" some six years ...
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"Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. "
Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees
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Leonard Cohen's Advice for Novice OSR Referees
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weird ps1 game i found
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
weird ps1 game i found
"In that moment, the immersion, the *feeling* of play, was unlike anything I could have imagined a month ago, when I let my buddy cajole me into trying out Cataphracts in Space."
OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...
OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"In that moment, the immersion, the *feeling* of play, was unlike anything I could have imagined a month ago, when I let my buddy cajole me into trying out Cataphracts in Space."
OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...
OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...
There's so much #OVER/UNDER to unpack everything right now, but thank you @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com for writing Mosh, the incredible @samsorensen.bsky.social for the game behind the game, and big dog @lukegearing.bsky.social for the module behind the game behind the game, and 1/
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
There's so much #OVER/UNDER to unpack everything right now, but thank you @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com for writing Mosh, the incredible @samsorensen.bsky.social for the game behind the game, and big dog @lukegearing.bsky.social for the module behind the game behind the game, and 1/
I just had to explain to my actual human wife that I'm busy watching a knife fight at a space wedding with my fake girlfriend and father figure. This is normal, I feel very normal #OVER/UNDER
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I just had to explain to my actual human wife that I'm busy watching a knife fight at a space wedding with my fake girlfriend and father figure. This is normal, I feel very normal #OVER/UNDER
Here's a really easy way to thank the Warden of #OVER/UNDER today, and receive awesome an Mothership module in the process! It's a fantastic way to continue your adventures in the Dream around your own table. I certainly plan to run my fellow Cardinals through the gauntlet!
what's up gamers I've barely posted about this since #over/under has eaten all of my time, but my space trucking Mothership Month 25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, has just under 36 hours left, go check it out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE: Space Trucking for Mothership RPG
Mothership space trucking 101, set in the star system surrounding Prospero's Dream
www.backerkit.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Here's a really easy way to thank the Warden of #OVER/UNDER today, and receive awesome an Mothership module in the process! It's a fantastic way to continue your adventures in the Dream around your own table. I certainly plan to run my fellow Cardinals through the gauntlet!
It's no overstatement to say that #OVER/UNDER has been a profound experience that has given me pause, and recontextualized the hobby / passion / job that I've made a part of who I am for three decades. Excited to debrief with @samsorensen.bsky.social , and to stay in touch with my fellow cardinals!
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's no overstatement to say that #OVER/UNDER has been a profound experience that has given me pause, and recontextualized the hobby / passion / job that I've made a part of who I am for three decades. Excited to debrief with @samsorensen.bsky.social , and to stay in touch with my fellow cardinals!
That's CARDINAL Anthony Bourdain. #OVER/UNDER
There is someone roleplaying as Anthony Bourdain in #OVER/UNDER, just going around doing monologues in the various public spaces, and it's truly.... so good.
![[Image of stylized Anthony Boudain in front of a magenta cyberpunk background]
And this is where every twisting corridor of the dream ends: the city core hits me like a hangover that never really ended. Everything’s too bright and too dark at the same time: holo-ads bleeding through clouds of coolant steam, promising pleasure, relief, and escape in six-second loops nobody’s really watching anymore. I can feel the hum of the station beneath my boots, like a tired animal breathing slow, or maybe it’s the low rumble of the fighting league. It’s all stacked metal and patched wiring here; architecture built by a committee of welders and dreamers who never spoke the same language. Probably several committees.
Image
Down on the streets I watch a drunk token miner yell at a vending machine that won’t take their credits. Somewhere above, a train rattles the ceiling as it leaves for a better, safer block that’s probably equally as tenuous. It’s loud, dirty, alive, and, in its own broken way, honest. You can’t gentrify vacuum, as much as this station tries. Holographic ads hawk enigmatic augmentations, political slogans that go out of date in an hour, or a good time of the sapphic variety. Smashing. that explains why the air tastes of android coolant. There’s the ever present hint of politics and commerce everywhere, inside the market, outside on the street; anyone not selling something seems to be planning, kneeling or squatting against walls, on the floor, in the street, whispering information or shouting it. This looked exactly like the Prospero Dreams of my fevered imaginings: dead drops, brush contacts, burst transmissions, betrayals.
When I finally leave the market, the blocks are dark, and I pass a few buildings lit by flickering electric light. Broom closet-sized alleyway stores and restaurants serving mysterious narcotics and hot meals for a few credits, flickering LEDs barely revealing the silhouettes of seated figures reading bratva literature. There are cryptic …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wda5bmzr3db5dwkc4m2vm46k/bafkreifhtg2noex4lf3t62yjz3jn3s7kcxnoclijlgnvrji7nhdxg3qhga@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
That's CARDINAL Anthony Bourdain. #OVER/UNDER
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
This is so much more real than you can imagine #over/under
Officially the meta in #over/under has shifted from war game to lesbian romance simulator.
So I went quiet on #over/under posting for a bit, but now people are saying that a war ended because someone was in love with me; to which I say
YEAH? MAYBE? YOU CAN'T PROVE A THING. THIS STATION RUNS ON YURI AND SPITE, AND LEMME TELL YA, I'M RUNNIN DAMN LOW ON YURI.
@juniper-c.bsky.social
YEAH? MAYBE? YOU CAN'T PROVE A THING. THIS STATION RUNS ON YURI AND SPITE, AND LEMME TELL YA, I'M RUNNIN DAMN LOW ON YURI.
@juniper-c.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is so much more real than you can imagine #over/under
Here's a preview, so you don't have to take my word how cool these are!
Hey. My very old school flavored ttrpg magazine has a free preview issue out on Itch. There is also a print run coming soon! Follow along, it would make me happy!
golden-achiever.itch.io/the-internat...
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The International Player's (p)Review by Golden Achiever
golden-achiever.itch.io
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Here's a preview, so you don't have to take my word how cool these are!
I cannot express how cool these are to someone with a love for vintage zines. Eric has somehow genuinely captured their magic. There's a reverence to detail and texture here that's so inspiring. I'm privileged enough to be a small part of this, and fully insist you check these out!!
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I cannot express how cool these are to someone with a love for vintage zines. Eric has somehow genuinely captured their magic. There's a reverence to detail and texture here that's so inspiring. I'm privileged enough to be a small part of this, and fully insist you check these out!!
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On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
Cosign, although I personally think the hermit's a decent hang if you're into the criterion collection
In honor of spooky season here's a definitive breakdown of whether or not I think each of the major arcana can hang
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Cosign, although I personally think the hermit's a decent hang if you're into the criterion collection
The friendest friend shape
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The friendest friend shape
four books to get to know me
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
four books to get to know me
This, this exactly, is why it's so incredibly important to leave your damn house and meet strangers. Say hello to people around you. I promise you, they are NOT MURDERERS. I am a queer woman living in the US and it's incredible to me, in the heart of bible land, now NICE everyone is! Seriously!
What is the most dangerous belief in the world? There's a clear answer, and I talk about it in my new YT video. CONTENT WARNING: this one does not contain nudity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWm...
The Most Dangerous Belief in the World
YouTube video by JasonKPargin
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This, this exactly, is why it's so incredibly important to leave your damn house and meet strangers. Say hello to people around you. I promise you, they are NOT MURDERERS. I am a queer woman living in the US and it's incredible to me, in the heart of bible land, now NICE everyone is! Seriously!
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I was a strange little girl. Chun Li getting a fireball opened whole new avenues of weird kid shit
I am demanding anyone that ever tried to throw a hadouken or kamehameha in real life repost this.
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I was a strange little girl. Chun Li getting a fireball opened whole new avenues of weird kid shit
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Here's something I wrote down from a book about advaita, "effort is not virtue, effort is not love, effort is not freedom". Now you have permission to take a rest, some monk told you so.
October 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Here's something I wrote down from a book about advaita, "effort is not virtue, effort is not love, effort is not freedom". Now you have permission to take a rest, some monk told you so.
Define your music tastes in eight artists:
GiGi Masin
Meat Beat Manifesto
Chris Cohen
Zack Fox
Cobra Man
Automelodi
Miles Davis
Tame Impala
GiGi Masin
Meat Beat Manifesto
Chris Cohen
Zack Fox
Cobra Man
Automelodi
Miles Davis
Tame Impala
Sonny Sharrock
Minutemen
Bela Bartok
Kool Keith
Diamanda Galas
King Tubby
Meat Puppets
Gétachew Mèkurya
Minutemen
Bela Bartok
Kool Keith
Diamanda Galas
King Tubby
Meat Puppets
Gétachew Mèkurya
Define your music taste in eight artists:
the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses
the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Define your music tastes in eight artists:
GiGi Masin
Meat Beat Manifesto
Chris Cohen
Zack Fox
Cobra Man
Automelodi
Miles Davis
Tame Impala
GiGi Masin
Meat Beat Manifesto
Chris Cohen
Zack Fox
Cobra Man
Automelodi
Miles Davis
Tame Impala
Seriously, check this out. Stella is incredible and we're privileged to have play modules of this high quality from such a skilled humble, generous craftswoman so readily available. Her work is just such casual genius, and I'd genuinely consider it a personal favour if you'd give this a look.
Hey tomorrow my book The Door in Murex Canyon releases. If you are on the lookout for a weird post apocalyptic post industrial wasteland dungeon set at the very end of the world for use with your old school d&d clone of choice then this might be for you.
October 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Seriously, check this out. Stella is incredible and we're privileged to have play modules of this high quality from such a skilled humble, generous craftswoman so readily available. Her work is just such casual genius, and I'd genuinely consider it a personal favour if you'd give this a look.
Update: Ive been going through stuff and testing/breaking things in this the last couple of days, and I think y'all have a real reason to be excited about this. Sam has set the stage for something potentially truly ridiculous here. All he needs is your participation and buy-in. Give this a shot!
on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen
Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for
samsorensen.blot.im
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Update: Ive been going through stuff and testing/breaking things in this the last couple of days, and I think y'all have a real reason to be excited about this. Sam has set the stage for something potentially truly ridiculous here. All he needs is your participation and buy-in. Give this a shot!
referring to how anime characters sound as a "mid-pacific accent"
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
referring to how anime characters sound as a "mid-pacific accent"