Juniper
@juniper-c.bsky.social
A confluence of influences; costume, props, photos, larp, writing, games, and anything else that keeps me busy.
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The latest entries posted on The Garden Below
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I have a blog now? Because all the people playing #over/under have them and now I want one too. Check it out here: thegardenbelow.blot.im
First post is about the difference between character voice, narrative voice, and player voice, and its told in those voices because i am, in fact, like that
First post is about the difference between character voice, narrative voice, and player voice, and its told in those voices because i am, in fact, like that
They are saying that she is "the lisan al gaib of OSR". They cry it in the streets. She will know our ways as if she was born to them. The Jongleur profession has a high strength stat but starts with 1d100 useless "kings coins" which are not even made of Electrum. She has won every award.
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
They are saying that she is "the lisan al gaib of OSR". They cry it in the streets. She will know our ways as if she was born to them. The Jongleur profession has a high strength stat but starts with 1d100 useless "kings coins" which are not even made of Electrum. She has won every award.
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good day to remember the Arcane Kids Manifesto
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
good day to remember the Arcane Kids Manifesto
I am filling out tables. I am making. I am answering questions. What is a lostling? It is when a mistborn grows sick. Everybody knows this.
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am filling out tables. I am making. I am answering questions. What is a lostling? It is when a mistborn grows sick. Everybody knows this.
I have posted too close to the sun, the hogs bay, pigs in the mud wiggle and writhe. I have been forced to write An OCR, and will be doing it in as strange a way as I can manage.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
Don Quixote & Dragons - The Garden Below
making an old school roleplaying game from first principles.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I have posted too close to the sun, the hogs bay, pigs in the mud wiggle and writhe. I have been forced to write An OCR, and will be doing it in as strange a way as I can manage.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
thegardenbelow.blot.im/don-quixote-...
OSR is when you feed your players delicious colors. NSR is when the price is easy to swallow.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
OSR is when you feed your players delicious colors. NSR is when the price is easy to swallow.
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Hot take time, lot of chatter about what is the #osr and I'm finally weighing in.
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
We're asking the wrong questions about the OSR?
Everyone is asking what is the OSR again, but I think we're asking the wrong questions?
Who's not asking these questions?
What don't they want us to kn...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hot take time, lot of chatter about what is the #osr and I'm finally weighing in.
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
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I have drunk a large pot of coffee, I have played around with a tape recorder, I have played one hour of Delta Green with my breakfast, I am looking at wonderful JPEGs from a strange blog, I am posting through it. What a wonderful thursday.
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have drunk a large pot of coffee, I have played around with a tape recorder, I have played one hour of Delta Green with my breakfast, I am looking at wonderful JPEGs from a strange blog, I am posting through it. What a wonderful thursday.
Deep and wise questions upon which to meditate
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
We're asking the wrong questions about the OSR?
Everyone is asking what is the OSR again, but I think we're asking the wrong questions?
Who's not asking these questions?
What don't they want us to kn...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Deep and wise questions upon which to meditate
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
nostradumbass.bearblog.dev/were-asking-...
Ever since following all of these TTRPG people back following the blog post I am seeing a lot of discourse about what an OCR is. This is normal I think. Nature; healing. I am Listening and I am Learning.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ever since following all of these TTRPG people back following the blog post I am seeing a lot of discourse about what an OCR is. This is normal I think. Nature; healing. I am Listening and I am Learning.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
AC goes down I think
HP is bad
D66 Tables
Cowboy towns are important
Goblin spunk
etc.
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Reposted by Juniper
Today someone introduced me to the Roman poetess Sculpicia, WHAT a queen people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/...
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today someone introduced me to the Roman poetess Sculpicia, WHAT a queen people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/...
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Juniper is pioneering the future of OSR blogging by dragging it kicking and screaming back to it's roots (zine swaps)
Yes i've been printing off all the blogs people send me. Reading is best done with a pen or with scissors.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Juniper is pioneering the future of OSR blogging by dragging it kicking and screaming back to it's roots (zine swaps)
I am Reading and I am Learning
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I am Reading and I am Learning
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#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
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This is what I assume cataphracts is about
Your majesty, if I'm scheming for your downfall, and YOU'RE scheming to keep our affair a secret, then WHO'S keeping the barbarian hordes at bay?
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is what I assume cataphracts is about
Taking a stab at trying some layout in Affinity rather than with scissors and tape and I deeply regret to say that it is actually quite useful for working out how much word I can fit on the page before I spend several hours cutting and pasting.
Also, first draft of the Rest done! #over/under
Also, first draft of the Rest done! #over/under
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Taking a stab at trying some layout in Affinity rather than with scissors and tape and I deeply regret to say that it is actually quite useful for working out how much word I can fit on the page before I spend several hours cutting and pasting.
Also, first draft of the Rest done! #over/under
Also, first draft of the Rest done! #over/under
Apparently its @itch.io creator day! You can check out my zines here juniperc.itch.io. None of them cost money so theres no rush. I did take the occasion to give it a new lick of paint though. Big thanks to my darling wife for the cool polaroid of a powerline.
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Apparently its @itch.io creator day! You can check out my zines here juniperc.itch.io. None of them cost money so theres no rush. I did take the occasion to give it a new lick of paint though. Big thanks to my darling wife for the cool polaroid of a powerline.
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I wrote a #mothership module about greasy spoon diners, dementia, gendered violence, and uploaded intelligence.
Minimalist Jam 4 entry - No Art, No Layout.
Judge my writing as I’ve judged yours.
valerialoves.itch.io/yonkers-fles...
Minimalist Jam 4 entry - No Art, No Layout.
Judge my writing as I’ve judged yours.
valerialoves.itch.io/yonkers-fles...
valerialoves.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote a #mothership module about greasy spoon diners, dementia, gendered violence, and uploaded intelligence.
Minimalist Jam 4 entry - No Art, No Layout.
Judge my writing as I’ve judged yours.
valerialoves.itch.io/yonkers-fles...
Minimalist Jam 4 entry - No Art, No Layout.
Judge my writing as I’ve judged yours.
valerialoves.itch.io/yonkers-fles...
This is a lovelly article. Shout out to my mate @eyebright-iris.bsky.social whose primer on bleed from running VTM larps ended up in a bunch of OOC channels around the games midpoint. Expect my own blog going into all the times this game made me cry sometime soon.
"Players reported dreaming about Over/Under, losing sleep, even forgetting to eat."
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
Thirty Days of Bleed
Within a high-pressure, nonstop roleplaying game, denizens of Over/Under found it difficult to extricate their character’s emotions from their own.
www.rascal.news
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is a lovelly article. Shout out to my mate @eyebright-iris.bsky.social whose primer on bleed from running VTM larps ended up in a bunch of OOC channels around the games midpoint. Expect my own blog going into all the times this game made me cry sometime soon.
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i dont know whether I make good or bad work i’m just trying to make larger and more nefarious women
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
i dont know whether I make good or bad work i’m just trying to make larger and more nefarious women
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The worst part about apparently fairly accurately understanding what an OSR's are is that I kind of feel obligated to make one now and i've barely even got halfway through the zine im already writing.
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The worst part about apparently fairly accurately understanding what an OSR's are is that I kind of feel obligated to make one now and i've barely even got halfway through the zine im already writing.
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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I'm looking forwards to "oh my god you played X in #Over/Under" as an intermittent dopamine spike for the next few years of my life
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm looking forwards to "oh my god you played X in #Over/Under" as an intermittent dopamine spike for the next few years of my life