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Jes (Dark Mirror Media)
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TTRPG designer. Lead writer, player, and GM at Let's Be Legendary Podcast. I make games about struggle, revenge, and painful revelations.

Find community, find love, keep living.

https://www.darkmirrormedia.com
https://darkmirrormedia.itch.io
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:

www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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solorpglist.com
New to the #SoloRPG List: Tending: A Game of Devotion by Tori Truslow
Create a fantasy religion while tending a holy site you make through mixed media journaling. #TTRPG
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...
Cover for the TTRPG: Tending - a game of devotion. A collage of nature including different leaves, flowers, seeds and beeries, bir wing, gecko
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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mlkirsimagi.bsky.social
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digital sketch of a fluffy white cat looking up at a glowing sparkle
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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vespervines.bsky.social
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 🌱💀

#ArtShare
A tiefling woman mid fight swinging a morningstar, she looks elegant and smug.
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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wynfred1840.bsky.social
male&female cardinal birds handmade dolls
for sale within shop
dezember circa 2025
December 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
In this wonderful new essay, Donna Glee Williams looks at how the Hero's Journey failed her, forcing a rethink about the whole way it's conceptualised for fiction and in real life... because "real heroes run in packs."

Read it here: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/hero-journey
Purple background, white text, which says So, one of my beefs with our Standard Issue Hero's Journey is its vision of individual triumph that paints over the fact that in real life, myth, and fiction, Hero=work is often - maybe usually - collaborative. Real Heroes run in packs, y'all. "Must a Hero Journey?" -- Donna Glee Williams
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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celesse.bsky.social
Please understand that all your favorite million-dollar IPs were created by artists that get nothing more than a typical company paycheck. They don’t get royalties on the sales and oft aren’t even rewarded with bonuses or anything for creating such a valuable brand.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch

"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"

(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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faroukk.bsky.social
These final lines from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poem Running Orders break my heart and send a chill down my spine every time
It doesn’t matter that 58 seconds isn’t long enough to find your wedding album or your son’s favorite blanket or your daughter’s almost completed college application or your shoes or to gather everyone in the house. It doesn’t matter what you had planned. It doesn’t matter who you are. Prove you’re human. Prove you stand on two legs. Run.
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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jackjenkins.me
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A Nativity where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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rascal.news
At this moment, we have 2430 paid subscribers. Can we get 2500 by the end of 2025? You can subscribe right now for only $1, and support independent tabletop games journalism.
rascal.news Rascal News @rascal.news · 7d
New subscriptions to Rascal News will be rising by $1 in 2026. If you've been waiting to support us, we're currently running a holiday sale where the first two months of our entry tier is only $1/month!

Independent journalism on the cheap? Yippee-Ki-Yay, Anklebiters!
We’re raising Rascal’s subscription prices by $1 in 2026
But you can lock in the old price right now with a holiday discount!
www.rascal.news
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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pennyblake.bsky.social
Our lives shape the land, but do we tend with care or carve with violence, leaving only scars? Light candles, make maps, travel home alone or with your group - it's been many years but, This Road Remembers You... pennyblake.itch.io/this-road-re...
THIS ROAD REMEMBERS YOU by PennyBlake
map making rpg for 1-6 players
pennyblake.itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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loottheroom.bsky.social
I am doing a marketing by posting this link and shouting LOOK! I HAVE A BOOK THAT YOU CAN READ, ONE CHAPTER PER DAY!

loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025
The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised grimdark horror novella
loottheroom.itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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vaerlyi.bsky.social
my personal opinion: no one should have to draw this many butterflies

#eldenring #malenia
#art
🦋🦋🦋
A digital painting of Malenia from Elden Ring in the second phase of her fight. She's walking towards the viewer with her katana ready and wings spread.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
In Learn to Howl, you meet Allie, who didn't know she was a werewolf, and how she navigates that (and more!)

It's centered on families, not alpha bullshit
the moon doesn't matter
the silver thing is still true

books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...
three paperbacks lined up on a slightly slanted wooden surface Learn to Howl: The cover for Learn to Howl: a black wolf with blue eyes in profile on a red background, her ear pinned back and her teeth and tongue visible. Baying the Moon: the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background The Company of Wolves: The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art .
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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feenavan2099.bsky.social
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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hatchlingdm.itch.io
Our award-winning educational ttrpgs are now available to preorder through @backerkit.com.

Begin learning sign language (ASL & BSL) with the Isles RPG collection.

The games are beginner-friendly and come with comprehensive video tutorials!

inspirisles-2nd-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Pre-order UNDERISLES: Roleplaying with Sign Language on BackerKit
The award-winning RPG trilogy concludes. Learn British & American sign language as you play!
inspirisles-2nd-edition.backerkit.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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bextraordinary.bsky.social
♥️
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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megzie.bsky.social
🍃 Pokécember 2025 | Day 6 | Grass | Gloom 🍃

🍃 Copic markers on ACEO bristol board

#pokécember #ArtByMegzie
A photo of an ACEO marker drawing of Glood. He is standing facing the viewer, his eyes are closed and he has a smile on his face. The background is a green vignette. The photo is taken on top of a sheet of paper with many marker streaks, with a few markers visible at the side of the photo. Drawn for Pokécember day 6 “Grass”. Art by Megzie Sass-Council #ArtByMegzie #pokecember #pokécember #pokecember2025 #pokécember2025 #Gloom
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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tabletopbookshelf.com
CY_BORG from Free League Publishing is a complete rules-light, rage-heavy tabletop roleplaying game about cybernetic misfits and punks raging against a relentless corporate hell. Based on and compatible with MÖRK BORG. Easy to play, easy to hack.

tabletopbookshelf.com/products/cyb...
A promo image featuring the cover of the tabletop RPG book "CY_BORG" set against a textured blue background. Large yellow text at the top reads "NEW ARRIVAL." The book cover features a gritty, "glitch" art style in neon yellow, pink, and black. The title "CY_BORG" spans the top in large, distressed yellow block letters. The central illustration depicts a cybernetic figure with a skeletal face and spiky headgear, holding a large futuristic rifle and carrying a sword. Text on the cover credits "Rules/text Christian Sahlén" and "Graphic-design/art Johan Nohr," along with logos for Stockholm Kartell and Mörk Borg. Large yellow text at the bottom of the image reads "NOW @ TABLETOP BOOKSHELF."
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
oops it's her again
a drawing of a cute cat making a statement about ai (it sucks)
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online
listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...
2026’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.
readjumpscares.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I’ll be streaming with famed American Girl Shoe Doll Designer Brennan Lee Mulligan!! Make sure to tune in Monday, Dec 8 at 6:30 PM CT on Twitch or YouTube!

Drop any snack-related questions I should ask below : )
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
Stream guest this Monday: Brennan Lee Mulligan December 8, 6:30 pm CT on Twitch and YouTube
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM