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Jes (Dark Mirror Media)
@darkmirrormedia.bsky.social
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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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I got the age gate on Firefox mobile browser when I checked my own game page, and I do not have the option to show a warning checked in my metadata. Haven't tried on desktop yet.
Screenshot of an age verification page requiring birthday entry and checkbox acknowledgement that the user is 18 or older for the itch.io game page "Fill Every Hole."
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Back to writing. Hopefully finishing this outline today.
Photograph of a slightly blurred notebook and purple pen in the foreground with a laptop playing Spirit City in focus. Behind the laptop are several green plants. The room is sunny.
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Started playing one of my solo 5e games again; designing a 3-level dungeon for a crew of 5 (four are lvl 5, one is lvl 3). I've missed doing this, and I'm *really* rusty at fiction writing after working in UX for so long.
A crudely drawn digital dungeon map in black and white with a top level and crypt level showing various rooms, shrines, and tombs.
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Some highlights from Life Makeover the past few days. I am OBSESSED with this game's photo studio mode.
Screenshot from Life Makeover of two models: an orange-haired woman makes a heart with her hands while a white-haired woman makes a sideways peace sign. Both are making cute expressions, and both have little cartoon sea creatures on their heads. Screenshot from Life Makeover of two models: a white-haired model in pink makes a sideways peace sign while an orange-haired model in blue makes a kissy face at the camera. Screenshot from Life Makeover of one model: a white and black haired woman in an orange tiger stripe dress and black leather jacket smiles at the camera while posing. Screenshot from Life Makeover of one model: a lavender-haired woman wearing a tan top and tan plaid skirt faces to the left, looking at the ground.
June 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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These roses are a highlight of the summer. Better every year.

#bloomscrolling
A closeup of a pink and peach blush rose set against a sea of deep, bright green leaves. A tall single pink and peach bluse rose with vibrant green leaves.
June 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Getting more comfortable clipping blooms for indoor bouquets. My plants are VERY happy this year so far, it's just been so cool and sunny.

#bloomscrolling #flowers
A bouquet of pink, white, and pink with yellow peonies, a tall stalk of purple delphinium, purple, white, yellow, and pink columbine, and hot pink yarrow blossoms in a short, cylindrical glass vase on a dark wood shelf. A double white peony blossom. A triple pink, then yellow, then pink again peony blossom.
June 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Peonies opened, and now they're scenting my dining and living rooms. I cannot get enough of these gorgeous blooms.
A handpicked bouquet of flowers including purple, yellow, and maroon irises, bright pink peonies, purple and white alliums, and yellow and purple columbine, all in a green vase on a wooden shelf.
June 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Finished this diaper cover in about 2 hours, and I think this'll be my go-to pattern for the rest of them. It was so simple.

Using this pattern: www.etsy.com/listing/1188...
A crocheted hot pink diaper cover with a teal waistband and buttonholes.
May 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know:

openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Taystee Jefferson from Orange is the New Black Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride Mulan from Disney's animated Mulan Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey
May 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Making the world's softest baby pants.
Photo of two yarn labels, one made with cashmere, camel, silk, and baby alpaca, the other made with mohair and silk.
May 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Haven't crocheted since Christmas, but I still got it 😈
A grey wool crocheted baby hat with a cable-style stitch for texture.
May 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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so close to 3k downloads on itch across all my games!!
screenshot of itch.io's creator dashboard that reads: "2,973 downloads"
April 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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the update is so good, tho
ON TO THE UPDATE PROPER YAY! so, to all the ppl who told me i should tell him what im doing — you were right and that’s what i did. turns out i was VERY WRONG abt him not noticing what i was doing — he apparently put two and two together pretty quickly after i started doing it. he didn’t tell me he was on to me tho, bc he liked it and was worried id get embarrassed and stop if i knew that he knew. so we talked it out and it ended up not being a very big deal at all and im probably gonna keep having m&ms bc they’re good. that’s all i got for yall lol
April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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i am healing
Screenshot of a digital paper doll with light brown hair, dark makeup, and a biker-goth mesh outfit with a short black dress and knee-high black boots.
April 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Day 1 of the Big Dig

Kind of making me wish I didn't have to work this week. We're going to need more than 2 days. 😮‍💨
A hillside that's been dug up along its contour in five rows. At the top of the hill, cardboard has been laid to kill grass. Along the right of the photo, a Bobcat excavator sits idle, waiting to be used tomorrow for more digging.
April 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Our plants are here just in time for digging this weekend!!! I'm so excited to plant our front yard food forest. 😍
A photo of a card table covered in berry bushes and bare-root plants with two bunches of bare-root trees, berry canes, and roses leaning against it.
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Same with my Sophie; I think about how much her life has changed in the year since we rescued her.
A small calico cat huddled on a cold porch at night, looking over her shoulder through a large window at someone taking a photo of her. The same calico from the previous photo lounging contentedly on a soft blanket in a warm house.
March 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Made Meera Sodha's Saffron Lemon Almond cake from East; had to sub in ground walnuts for the almond flour and made a lemon whipped cream instead of the cream cheese frosting for a lighter flavor. One of the prettiest cakes I've ever made!
A golden miniature cake with a basket-like texture topped with whipped cream, a strawberry, and mint leaves on a blue plate.
March 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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New game idea just dropped, courtesy of Loki the cat and his antics (plus @chaffeecj.bsky.social's input)
The Mommy State - you are a cat - mommy is trying to put you in laundry jail - the state is enacting violence upon you with indiscriminate jailing for minor offenses such as: screaming, standing on the Forbidden Countertop, and knocking Mommy's phone off the table on purpose.
February 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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i missed 420 but i managed to snag the other funny 3-digit number >:)
A screenshot that reads: "666 downloads"
February 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Finished what I think is the final draft of Fill Every Hole for #tittyrpgjam but I'm gonna sit on it until Chris gets a chance to look it over. I think it's ready. Preview pic:
Face the Emptiness Look inside. Find the holes within you. What once belonged in their now-hollow homes? Name an occupant. Remember their story. Write a eulogy for one lost joy. It might be the last day you were a child before realizing the horrors and responsibilities of adulthood barrelling toward you. Or it could be an heirloom picture frame, broken in a small earthquake, something you couldn’t have stopped or even predicted.
February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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the cover probably over-promises on this one, but i really like how it's turned out so far
Trippy glitchy image of the cover of the work-in-progress TTRPG "Fill Every Hole" with the title repeated three times and the words "The emptiness inside yearns to be filled" pasted repeatedly in the background.
February 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This is our newest rescued baby, Pib! We fed him on our porch for two months until he just... decided to let us pick him up and take him inside. He's currently recovering from his neuter surgery and is doing well with introductions to our other 3 cats.
A tabby and white cat lounging in a wall-mounted cat bed staring into the middle distance, not a brain cell to be found. A tabby and white cat laying on his side, content.
February 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Pib literally does not have an aggressive bone in his body (so far). Absolute angel.

However: he has made the room smell horrendous simply by using the litterbox (he hasn't sprayed, thank god).
January 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
A red fox balking at the force of a cold wind slamming him in the face with the caption "it fucken WIMDY"
January 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM