Monique Franzsen
@lensandledger.bsky.social
She/her. UK-based lover of games, sharing knowledge, and imaginary worlds.
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Play my D&D module: www.dmsguild.com/product/284448
Read my long-form thoughts: https://lensandledger.wordpress.com/
💙 📚 🪐🎮🏳️🌈🦔✨🎲 💅
Play my D&D module: www.dmsguild.com/product/284448
Read my long-form thoughts: https://lensandledger.wordpress.com/
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🎮 Gaming – *always* playing something, ask!
📚 Books – Love scifi and fantasy, I write book reviews #FantasyBookSky (💙 📚 🪐)
🎲 TTRPGs – I write, read and run rpgs (also for kids)
👩💻 Education - former teacher, lifelong learner
🎮 Gaming – *always* playing something, ask!
📚 Books – Love scifi and fantasy, I write book reviews #FantasyBookSky (💙 📚 🪐)
🎲 TTRPGs – I write, read and run rpgs (also for kids)
👩💻 Education - former teacher, lifelong learner
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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The Picts were always more than their blue-painted, bloodthirsty depictions. Carved in Stone, a new setting guide from @stoutstoat.co.uk and archaeologist Heather Christie, invites players to explore their incomplete but beautiful history.
Carved in Stone is both a history book and an eye-catching RPG
Publisher Brian Tyrrell and archeologist Heather Christie paint a pretty Pict-ure.
www.rascal.news
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Picts were always more than their blue-painted, bloodthirsty depictions. Carved in Stone, a new setting guide from @stoutstoat.co.uk and archaeologist Heather Christie, invites players to explore their incomplete but beautiful history.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
What a cool initiative! I've already signed up to the swag tier because I can't resist a tote bag.
It’s ALIVE! 🐌🎮 Join our book club for games for only £39.99 (whilst stocks last) and unlock a new indie game every month. PLUS exclusive community events and a Discord community. 💸 All funds go towards the great work of UK registered charity, Into Games. www.slowgame.club
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What a cool initiative! I've already signed up to the swag tier because I can't resist a tote bag.
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It’s ALIVE! 🐌🎮 Join our book club for games for only £39.99 (whilst stocks last) and unlock a new indie game every month. PLUS exclusive community events and a Discord community. 💸 All funds go towards the great work of UK registered charity, Into Games. www.slowgame.club
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s ALIVE! 🐌🎮 Join our book club for games for only £39.99 (whilst stocks last) and unlock a new indie game every month. PLUS exclusive community events and a Discord community. 💸 All funds go towards the great work of UK registered charity, Into Games. www.slowgame.club
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I had the Slow Game Club explained to me recently and it’s the sweetest idea I’ve heard in a while 🥲
Forty quid for the year, you get a new game every month, and all the money goes to IntoGames, to give working class people in the UK better access to careers in game dev.
Helluva gift idea, too 👀🎄
Forty quid for the year, you get a new game every month, and all the money goes to IntoGames, to give working class people in the UK better access to careers in game dev.
Helluva gift idea, too 👀🎄
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I had the Slow Game Club explained to me recently and it’s the sweetest idea I’ve heard in a while 🥲
Forty quid for the year, you get a new game every month, and all the money goes to IntoGames, to give working class people in the UK better access to careers in game dev.
Helluva gift idea, too 👀🎄
Forty quid for the year, you get a new game every month, and all the money goes to IntoGames, to give working class people in the UK better access to careers in game dev.
Helluva gift idea, too 👀🎄
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Aaand only two months behind schedule but finally got around to popping up a press release (thanks @rascal.news)...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Get Out & Play with the Field Agent Handbooks
Pick one up today and become a pendulum-dowsing Field Agent
www.rascal.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Aaand only two months behind schedule but finally got around to popping up a press release (thanks @rascal.news)...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
Field Agent Handbooks now available through @ipr.bsky.social or direct from me!
www.rascal.news/get-out-play...
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🌈 #SelfPromoSaturday 🌈
Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic!
Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜
No AI thanks
#smallbusiness #ttrpg
Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic!
Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜
No AI thanks
#smallbusiness #ttrpg
September 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌈 #SelfPromoSaturday 🌈
Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic!
Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜
No AI thanks
#smallbusiness #ttrpg
Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic!
Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜
No AI thanks
#smallbusiness #ttrpg
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Applications are open for our Mentoring Programme.
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!
Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!
Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!
Get a mentor
Arts Emergency provides young people, aged 16-18 years old, with free mentoring, support and community to help them pursue a career they’re passionate about.
www.arts-emergency.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Applications are open for our Mentoring Programme.
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!
Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!
Apply 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!
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Spear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575.
Want to see this go fast?
- Rally, Visibility
- Big $ donations
- Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators
We can!
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social
Want to see this go fast?
- Rally, Visibility
- Big $ donations
- Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators
We can!
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3575, 64%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...
ko-fi.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Spear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575.
Want to see this go fast?
- Rally, Visibility
- Big $ donations
- Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators
We can!
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social
Want to see this go fast?
- Rally, Visibility
- Big $ donations
- Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators
We can!
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social
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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD friends - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in September/October! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at matthews.rj@gmail.com!
My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!
My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!
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If you haven't played Promise Mascot Agency yet, what are you waiting for? It's a business sim/collectathon/fever dream about an ex-Yakuza trying to find redemption by revitalizing a forgotten community. Heartwarming stuff.
If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.
If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If you haven't played Promise Mascot Agency yet, what are you waiting for? It's a business sim/collectathon/fever dream about an ex-Yakuza trying to find redemption by revitalizing a forgotten community. Heartwarming stuff.
If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.
If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.
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I've written about the absolutely brilliant The Trolley Solution by @bydandans.bsky.social. It's so funny, and packed with incredible genre spoofs. A real find.
kotaku.com/the-trolley-...
kotaku.com/the-trolley-...
Don't Bring Me Trolley Problems, Bring Me Trolley Solutions
The Trolley Solution is a fantastic collection of silly dilemmas and game genre spoofs
kotaku.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I've written about the absolutely brilliant The Trolley Solution by @bydandans.bsky.social. It's so funny, and packed with incredible genre spoofs. A real find.
kotaku.com/the-trolley-...
kotaku.com/the-trolley-...
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Disillusioned with major crowdfunding platforms, @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io joins a small but growing bloc of tabletop creators trying literally anything else.
“Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."
“Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."
Crowdfunding kayfabe is dead
Troika! publisher Melsonia retires its Kickstarter-green trunks and exits the ring.
www.rascal.news
September 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Disillusioned with major crowdfunding platforms, @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io joins a small but growing bloc of tabletop creators trying literally anything else.
“Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."
“Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."
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Thanks to Grace Sanders for interviewing me for Nottingham's legendary culture mag, @leftlion.bsky.social. Had great fun discussing #THIRST, Japanese spider-ladies, British river hags, writing for teens, and much more.
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
September 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Thanks to Grace Sanders for interviewing me for Nottingham's legendary culture mag, @leftlion.bsky.social. Had great fun discussing #THIRST, Japanese spider-ladies, British river hags, writing for teens, and much more.
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...
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One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure
Would read a lot about the logistics of old school news networks tbh
September 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure
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My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
September 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com
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Blogpost on "Why Melsonia Is Too Good for Crowdfunding Platforms Any More"
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...
DIY Crowdfunding
TL;DR we're hosting our own crowdfunding campaigns here and also here NOW. Down with the old order, long live the new flesh. Melsonia has been in operation for over ten years now, and we've made a ton...
www.melsonia.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Blogpost on "Why Melsonia Is Too Good for Crowdfunding Platforms Any More"
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...
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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
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Inspired by someone on reddit, this is what I'm calling the "#daggerheart Moh Scale of GM Moves".
Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.
Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Inspired by someone on reddit, this is what I'm calling the "#daggerheart Moh Scale of GM Moves".
Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.
Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.