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aster-in-july.bsky.social
Aster Holloway is writing poetry and hibernating
@aster-in-july.bsky.social
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19 / they/them / queer + nonbinary / Aotearoa
Amateur gardener, poet, cider maker, and TTRPG writer!!
Find my weird lyric games at https://asteriian.itch.io/
🍂🌙🪲🌿🪐
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aster-in-july.bsky.social
hi everyone!! apologies for the radio silence since. well basically since the start of this account - over the past year I've been spending most of my creative juices on poetry and other creative works IRL under a different name. I fully intend to return to game design, just maybe not for a while <3
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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bogwitch-girl.bsky.social
after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.
iantos.bsky.social Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24
Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
mrpecu.bsky.social Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
aster-in-july.bsky.social
Kia ora! You mention that you first had an inkling of this in April, and you certainly saw the news about Steam. Locking people out of collecting their pay with no warning was easily avoidable. Even a day's notice - which you had, according to your Discord messages - would've been better than this.
July 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors.

TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages.

I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.
July 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
i wrote an article for my patreon explaining my perspective in depth, including asides on trans women in sports, the simulation of chess, and a taxonomy of what exactly a rule *is*
www.patreon.com/posts/does-s...?
July 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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violetriotgames.bsky.social
In BDSM studies it's accepted that after intense physical and emotional scenes or any scenes, you do aftercare. This includes a wide format of communication and care. With the overlapping circle of larp and BDSM you'd think we could all agree debriefs in some form should be mandatory. 🙂‍↕️
July 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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quailtea.bsky.social

Pygmy seahorse vase 🫧 🌊
July 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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askamanager.org
Jane is a hero
Not my mortification, but I witnessed it. I was working as an assistant to Jane, a woman who hit the “little old lady” stereotype even though she was in her forties. She wore a lot of cardigans she knitted herself and she quilted blankets for everyone who had a baby. She had quaint turns of phrase like “Thank you kindly,” which she even used in her email signature. She had a range of cat statues on her desk. That kind of thing. We had two newer employees who were both in their mid-20s, call them Frank and Hank, and they thought it would be hysterical to substitute words in a report they were writing for Jane with similar-sounding words that were slang terms for sex acts. They assumed this sweet innocent woman would never notice, and since she was the only one who would read it, no harm done. Jane got the document and called them in ten minutes later. I sat at my desk and listened while she grilled them about their “unusual word choices” until they broke down and admitted they had maybe used some slang terms they shouldn’t have. As a joke. Then she made them define each one. I could hear the absolute mortification in their voices as they struggled through explanations of terms I myself didn’t know, telling a woman they thought of as sweet and innocent all about these sexual terms. Then came the one where Hank defined it and Jane said, “No, that’s not what it means,” and provided a very detailed and technical explanation using proper medical terminology. Dead silence from Frank and Hank. Jane said, “Pranks like these make you look incompetent. Using words you don’t understand makes you look like fools. And making assumptions about your coworkers’ personal lives makes you look ignorant. Now you’re going to spend the next six months trying to prove to me that you’re none of those things, and it seems like that will be quite a challenge for you.” Frank and Hank played no more pranks for the rest of the time I worked there.
July 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
it is just shocking how many buds walk around wearing old wounds like a mask and it is SO obvious. i just want to give them a hug and say BUD you dont have to wear those around anymore, you can set them down. love is weightless but i understand it looks so heavy after hauling all those wounds around
chucktingle.bsky.social Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Jun 28
some folks get REALLY upset when you talk on sincerity as much as i do, which is fine because we all have different trots. its beautiful to say 'no thanks' too. but if i had a wish it would be for those buds to feel safe enough to give it a shot. whole world isnt always snarling, just parts of it
June 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
aster-in-july.bsky.social
HEY HEY HEY WHAT THESE SLAP
jeeyon.bsky.social jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · Jun 27
Over the Wailing Wind, my in-early-dev supernatural gothic game, is no longer Patreon exclusive! The six character playbooks are available on Itchio for the Loose Playbooks Game Jam, and the ruleset and play guides will go up once the jam ends. jeeyonshim.itch.io/over-the-wai...
Over the Wailing Wind (pre-playtest stages) by jeeyonshim
jeeyonshim.itch.io
June 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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floaker.bsky.social
I'm just saying that Moonnbeam, a start-up streaming service headed by an Active Duty U.S. Army Strategist who is cozy with the IDF, should be left to wither and die on the vine no matter how many shiny toys/sponsorships it dangles for #ttrpg peeps.
June 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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carlbetheav.bsky.social
A modest greenhouse on the back porch
June 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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gwentchamp.bsky.social
what is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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cryptotheism.bsky.social
Microdosing on time by taking moments every moment
jame7t.bsky.social jame7t @jame7t.bsky.social · Jun 2
if you’re wise enough the flow of linear time becomes a drug 😇 ⚠️it’s kind of dogshit though
June 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
aster-in-july.bsky.social
WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH
possumcreekgames.com Possum Creek @possumcreekgames.com · May 27
Featuring art by the dastardly @badbucket.bsky.social , LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN a critically-acclaimed and one-of-a-kind TTRPG, and we're honored to get to bring it to the big stage. Come one, come all, and see the fate these plucky rockstars have in store for them!
May 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.2964 has lost track of time
A bunny stares absentmindedly at a sundial on a sunny day. Dragonflies flit around, in the middle of an overgrown garden
May 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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janus.bsky.social
at a punk show where there’s free hrt at the merch table. we’re gonna be alright y’all
a merch table with a rectangular cardboard box with “free estrogen!!!” written on it in black sharpie marker
May 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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noahmedlock.bsky.social
I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:
May 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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premeemohamed.com
When you played too hard and now you are asleep with your little tongue out
a fluffy black kitten VERY asleep, sprawled on her side in a rectangular grey cat bed. her mouth is slightly open to show her tongue and a few teeth.
May 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
aster-in-july.bsky.social
hey jay WHAT !!!!! i need to . sit down and also finally get around to playing bremen
jdragsky.bsky.social jay Dragon 💤💤💤 @jdragsky.bsky.social · May 19
something coming soon
a big devil devouring four musicians running along a train
May 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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cmbombadillo.bsky.social
I've started into the PDF for Harvest and by gum and golly do I love a game that presents itself with style (both artistic and linguistic in this case).
May 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM