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David Schwartz
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Freelance Tabletop Roleplaying Game Developer 🇳🇿

he/him, in case you want to talk about me in the third person

This was supposed to be a temporary place for my bibliography: https://paizo.com/people/DavidSchwartz3034w
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Unexpected Red Cross bookshop find:
Cover of "The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide" "By the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Writers and Performers!" "It's Official!" "As Seen on TV!" "Contains new information about Bigfoot!" "Secrets of the Pyramids revealed!"
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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When I went out to do gardening this morning I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I first thought, Is that fly carrying something? On closer inspection, it was a spider carrying the fly. (CW: spider, fly)
A hunting spider carrying a fly slightly larger than it, on a wooden deck
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Apple, plum
A pink and white apple flower White plum flowers with yellow stamens on a branch. Fence and grass visible in the background.
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Photo of single white daffodil flower on stalk in front of miniature bamboo.
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Conan the Barbarian standing by a woman on a couch stretching for a cup of coffee, while he other hand is pinned under a cat on her lap. Conan says: "ARE YOU SO EASILY CONQUERED?" The woman replies, "Shhhh, he's sleeping on my hand....!"
September 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Red orchid
Orchid flower in various shades of red and off white, on a stalk with orchid buds.
September 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Recent used bookshop finds:
Left: Creative Puzzles of the World by Pieter van Delft and Jack Botermans, white cover with image of cube made of matchsticks; Right: The Book of Games by Jack Botermans, black cover with insets of historic drawings of people playing board games.
August 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Why does MacBeth have a painting of Elisa above his fireplace?
Gargoyles cartoon, foreground: Macbeth prone, midground: Elisa with her hand behind her head, background: Macbeth's collection of naive art, one of them depicts a person dressed like Elisa
July 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Arum lily (which is neither an arum nor a lily)
Large white "flower" surrounding a yellow stalk (on which the actual tiny flowers are). Background is leaves, stones, and a weathered corrugated fence.
July 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Second orchid bloomed
Stalk of yellow orchid flowers with white orchids in the background Yellow and white orchid flowers Stalk of yellow orchid flowers above surface of small rocks
July 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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What I got for my birthday: A hand knitted blanket; a used, wooden Cathedral board game set; a Manawatu Jets baseball cap; a can of boiled peanuts.
A textured knitted blanket in shades of maroon, red, blue, and pink. A Cathedral board game set, consisting of carved wooden buildings filling a ten by ten square board. A black baseball cap with the Manawatu Jets 'J' logo embroidered also in black. A can of Peanut Patch Boiled Peanuts "The South's Favorite Snack"
June 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The First Doc... Oscar
Early Oscar the Grouch, he's orange instead of green.
June 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The orchids have decided the beginning of winter is a good time to bloom.
White orchid flowers with yellow accents White orchid flowers with yellow accents, from a slightly different angle
June 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The Vinland Sagas
Penguin Classics: The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America. Image of a axe head etched with twisting lines.
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Time on Earth (Crowded House CD)
The cover image is some trees and cubes with writing on them...
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (DVD)
Every year Hollywood makes hundreds of movies. This is one of them!
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Grover's Book of Cute Little Baby Animals
Sesame Street's Grover is at a table reading the book "Cute Little Baby Animals"
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Radio Series
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Radio Series 3 x CD
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (DVD, unopened)
Laugh... or I'll blow your lips off!
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Chessmen
Chessmen: Pleasures and Treasures
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Carnival Secrets
Carnival Secrets (How to Win at Carnival Games)
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Aztecs of Mexico
Aztecs of Mexico by G. C. Vaillant. Image is a a turquoise human face mask.
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Anno's Magical ABC. This falls into two things I collect: books by Mitsumasa Anno and weird abecedaries.
Anno's Magical ABC: an anamorphic alphabet. The letter 'a' and a drawing of an anteater, distended for viewing in a curved mirror. The letter 'z' and a drawing of a zebra, distended for viewing in a curved mirror.
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Garden friends
Green praying mantis on a maroon bucket Weta (spiky cricket) clinging to the end of a branch.
April 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I picked up "A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories" at a sidewalk free book exchange and only later discovered that there were flowers pressed inside. Placed there by a Victorian ghost, no doubt.
Book cover: A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories, Edited by Everett F. Bleiler. Cover image is a cross-hatched drawing of a gothic building; the windows are dark except for the uppermost, which is yellow. Three pressed flowers.
April 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM