Kate (Kit) Hill
@kateplaysgames.bsky.social
Librarian, larp writer/runner/designer/player, queer anarchist type. Special interests include: indie ttrpgs, iron age archeology, the anthropology of ritual. Also my cats, who are perfect.
Very glad that instead of panicking about the world, I am too busy panicking about upcoming larp writing deadlines. This body can hold a lot of panic, but apparently not *infinite* amounts, a surprise even to me.
June 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very glad that instead of panicking about the world, I am too busy panicking about upcoming larp writing deadlines. This body can hold a lot of panic, but apparently not *infinite* amounts, a surprise even to me.
nothing like trying to be creative on a deadline while the world spins more and more towards what feels like utter ruin. I write and try and build places for telling stories and I wonder if those places will even exist in two months let alone a year.
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
nothing like trying to be creative on a deadline while the world spins more and more towards what feels like utter ruin. I write and try and build places for telling stories and I wonder if those places will even exist in two months let alone a year.
That ADHD Life:
What I should be doing: focusing on finishing up a major project at work that goes live in two weeks. Writing 11 more characters for the larp Descertation
What I am doing: watching old Eurovisions to find more songs for my character playlist for a larp in September (Daemon)...
What I should be doing: focusing on finishing up a major project at work that goes live in two weeks. Writing 11 more characters for the larp Descertation
What I am doing: watching old Eurovisions to find more songs for my character playlist for a larp in September (Daemon)...
June 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
That ADHD Life:
What I should be doing: focusing on finishing up a major project at work that goes live in two weeks. Writing 11 more characters for the larp Descertation
What I am doing: watching old Eurovisions to find more songs for my character playlist for a larp in September (Daemon)...
What I should be doing: focusing on finishing up a major project at work that goes live in two weeks. Writing 11 more characters for the larp Descertation
What I am doing: watching old Eurovisions to find more songs for my character playlist for a larp in September (Daemon)...
Come join me and my buddies in a maybe metroidvaina inspired adventures! We would love to see you <3
May 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Come join me and my buddies in a maybe metroidvaina inspired adventures! We would love to see you <3
Lets say I am helping set up a new discord server for a marginialized population. Population may be around 200 ish? Its there for announcements/mutual aid requests/general chat. What bots would you recommend for management if any?
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Lets say I am helping set up a new discord server for a marginialized population. Population may be around 200 ish? Its there for announcements/mutual aid requests/general chat. What bots would you recommend for management if any?
My birthday larp party is coming up and I just got @warbirds.bsky.social lumberjills!! I can't wait to share one of my favorite short larps with others!!
Mo also sent a wonderful note. I am so lucky to call her a friend.
Mo also sent a wonderful note. I am so lucky to call her a friend.
April 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My birthday larp party is coming up and I just got @warbirds.bsky.social lumberjills!! I can't wait to share one of my favorite short larps with others!!
Mo also sent a wonderful note. I am so lucky to call her a friend.
Mo also sent a wonderful note. I am so lucky to call her a friend.
There is so much going on but this is personal:
IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) staff have been laid off despite having a congressional budget approval.
If you care about one of our greatest public institutions, ALA has ways to engage: www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) staff have been laid off despite having a congressional budget approval.
If you care about one of our greatest public institutions, ALA has ways to engage: www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS
This set of frequently asked questions is intended to help library workers, library advocates, and library users understand this Executive Order.
www.ala.org
April 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There is so much going on but this is personal:
IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) staff have been laid off despite having a congressional budget approval.
If you care about one of our greatest public institutions, ALA has ways to engage: www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) staff have been laid off despite having a congressional budget approval.
If you care about one of our greatest public institutions, ALA has ways to engage: www.ala.org/faq-executiv...
In absolutly not important news, I am apparently now in my popular guilty pleasure fantasy period. Trying out Fourth Wing (thanks to my sister) and living for the Wheel of Time show. Especially my problematic favs Lanfear and Liandrin. (Me about Lanfear: But I can fix her!)
April 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In absolutly not important news, I am apparently now in my popular guilty pleasure fantasy period. Trying out Fourth Wing (thanks to my sister) and living for the Wheel of Time show. Especially my problematic favs Lanfear and Liandrin. (Me about Lanfear: But I can fix her!)
@diceexploder.com interviewed me about embodiment in larp and what that style of play can bring to tabletop. Would love to have you take a listen and engage in any conversation! (oh and check out the rest of dice exploder, it is one of my favorite podcasts!) www.diceexploder.com/blog/2025/2/...
Embodiment with Kate Hill — Dice Exploder
In a lot of tabletop rpgs, to do something in the fictional world, we engage with abstraction: to pick someone’s pocket, we describe picking their pocket, or we roll a die to see how well we pick it. ...
www.diceexploder.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
@diceexploder.com interviewed me about embodiment in larp and what that style of play can bring to tabletop. Would love to have you take a listen and engage in any conversation! (oh and check out the rest of dice exploder, it is one of my favorite podcasts!) www.diceexploder.com/blog/2025/2/...
To break up your doomscrolling:
Thank you @megueyb.bsky.social and Vincent Baker for creating a game that is apparently laser targeted to my interests (romance? Aurthuriana? Shakespearean Fairies? yesyesyes). Can't wait to play this!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Thank you @megueyb.bsky.social and Vincent Baker for creating a game that is apparently laser targeted to my interests (romance? Aurthuriana? Shakespearean Fairies? yesyesyes). Can't wait to play this!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Coming soon: In Dreaming Avalon: a Roleplaying Party Game
A lighthearted romantic party game for roleplayers and non-roleplayers, featuring Arthurian knights and Shakespearean fairies.
www.kickstarter.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
To break up your doomscrolling:
Thank you @megueyb.bsky.social and Vincent Baker for creating a game that is apparently laser targeted to my interests (romance? Aurthuriana? Shakespearean Fairies? yesyesyes). Can't wait to play this!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Thank you @megueyb.bsky.social and Vincent Baker for creating a game that is apparently laser targeted to my interests (romance? Aurthuriana? Shakespearean Fairies? yesyesyes). Can't wait to play this!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Everyone's a revolutionary until it's time to do revolution shit (meetings, logistics, laundry and dishes, actual work).
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Everyone's a revolutionary until it's time to do revolution shit (meetings, logistics, laundry and dishes, actual work).
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"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."
It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara
Universities are in trouble, and it’s not just money we’re talking about. They are living through something of a crisis of confidence, even of trust and faith. More and more, I find myself, and my col...
voicesofacademia.com
September 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM
"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."
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Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
Nothing like trying to push through writing for a larp playtest during the first two weeks of an administration that is constantly threatening my loved ones jobs and safety.
Whoops on that timing there....
Whoops on that timing there....
January 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nothing like trying to push through writing for a larp playtest during the first two weeks of an administration that is constantly threatening my loved ones jobs and safety.
Whoops on that timing there....
Whoops on that timing there....
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A list of reasons to make art:
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will
December 9, 2024 at 10:54 PM
A list of reasons to make art:
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will
-horny
-spite
-for the bit
-if you don't who will
The world is absolutely falling apart around our ears.
May I offer you a very beautiful music video in these times that also captures I think a feeling many of us have (beauty lost, a desire to break our chains and finally be free?) (L'Envol by Alcest)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQ_...
May I offer you a very beautiful music video in these times that also captures I think a feeling many of us have (beauty lost, a desire to break our chains and finally be free?) (L'Envol by Alcest)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQ_...
ALCEST - L'Envol (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The world is absolutely falling apart around our ears.
May I offer you a very beautiful music video in these times that also captures I think a feeling many of us have (beauty lost, a desire to break our chains and finally be free?) (L'Envol by Alcest)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQ_...
May I offer you a very beautiful music video in these times that also captures I think a feeling many of us have (beauty lost, a desire to break our chains and finally be free?) (L'Envol by Alcest)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQ_...
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So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
January 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So Trump's shutting down of the entire government's funding system for American projects is literally so he can go line by line and target transgender people and other minorities.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
When we said transphobia affects cis people too, well... here you go.
Sometimes the world is awful but then you walk in the first snow in four years and listen to frostbitten black metal and everything for a few moments is okay.
January 22, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Sometimes the world is awful but then you walk in the first snow in four years and listen to frostbitten black metal and everything for a few moments is okay.
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imagine being afraid of trans people haha like just go on with your life dog what are they gonna do make you play warhammer with them
January 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
imagine being afraid of trans people haha like just go on with your life dog what are they gonna do make you play warhammer with them
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If you've, at any point, said you support trans people and our right to exist, great, now is when you put your money where your damn mouth it.
Support our fundraisers. Give us jobs. Hire trans writers. Trans artists. Defend us when we're attacked. It's not hypothetical anymore, don't be a coward.
Support our fundraisers. Give us jobs. Hire trans writers. Trans artists. Defend us when we're attacked. It's not hypothetical anymore, don't be a coward.
January 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
If you've, at any point, said you support trans people and our right to exist, great, now is when you put your money where your damn mouth it.
Support our fundraisers. Give us jobs. Hire trans writers. Trans artists. Defend us when we're attacked. It's not hypothetical anymore, don't be a coward.
Support our fundraisers. Give us jobs. Hire trans writers. Trans artists. Defend us when we're attacked. It's not hypothetical anymore, don't be a coward.
Me writing characters for a new larp: I am going to keep these to three pages of prose!
Me, seven hours later: All my character sheet rough drafts are six pages of prose.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me, seven hours later: All my character sheet rough drafts are six pages of prose.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Me writing characters for a new larp: I am going to keep these to three pages of prose!
Me, seven hours later: All my character sheet rough drafts are six pages of prose.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me, seven hours later: All my character sheet rough drafts are six pages of prose.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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We have been saying this for years and years. Fighting like hell for trans kids is a winning issue for democrats. Their brutality will doom them, if we have the courage to stand against it.
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
AOC Says Democrats Can Win on LGBTQ+ Issues if They “Throw a Damn Punch”
“People are looking for strength,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press briefing after the House passed an anti-trans sports bill.
www.them.us
January 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We have been saying this for years and years. Fighting like hell for trans kids is a winning issue for democrats. Their brutality will doom them, if we have the courage to stand against it.
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
Its Wednesday so I can once again go Hey! I do a Twitch Stream with D&D friends who are mostly larpers and we are starting a new arc! twitch.tv/lifeinneon. Join us!
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Its Wednesday so I can once again go Hey! I do a Twitch Stream with D&D friends who are mostly larpers and we are starting a new arc! twitch.tv/lifeinneon. Join us!
I am a guest on a ttrpg podcast on Thursday
The host provided me this question in a conversation we are going to have about larp and ttrpg design
"Do you have a definition of “immersion”? Is immersion a desirable goal"
Pray for me as I almost certainly accidently insult 1/2 of all larpers.
The host provided me this question in a conversation we are going to have about larp and ttrpg design
"Do you have a definition of “immersion”? Is immersion a desirable goal"
Pray for me as I almost certainly accidently insult 1/2 of all larpers.
January 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I am a guest on a ttrpg podcast on Thursday
The host provided me this question in a conversation we are going to have about larp and ttrpg design
"Do you have a definition of “immersion”? Is immersion a desirable goal"
Pray for me as I almost certainly accidently insult 1/2 of all larpers.
The host provided me this question in a conversation we are going to have about larp and ttrpg design
"Do you have a definition of “immersion”? Is immersion a desirable goal"
Pray for me as I almost certainly accidently insult 1/2 of all larpers.