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Chris Bissette 🐻🌈
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Professional grumpy person. Award winning RPG writer of The Wretched, Treasures Of The Troll King, A Dungeon Game. Co-designer of Tunnels & Trolls 2025. Words in Pathfinder 2, Fallout, Discworld, etc.

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Email: chris @ loot the room .uk
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You should buy my book.

go.loottheroom.uk/winter
A "For Dummies" book cover, with the title "Not Getting Fed To An Ancient Monster At The Bottom Of A Massive Fucking Pit For Dummies"
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Today's chapter of The Mouth Of Winter in a nutshell

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The "corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture. They're the same picture" meme. The options are, "feed people to the creature" and "let everyone freeze to death".
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Chapter 8 of The Mouth Of Winter is live! Here is a meme to explain what happens in this one.

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The Bernie Sanders meme, with the text "I am once again asking you to stop throwing people down the murder hole"
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This past weekend: Yellow weather warning for rain

Me, today: Trail run
A dirt path through some wooded farmland, flooded ankle deep with water
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Incredible move from @letterboxd.social
A captcha test that pops up when you review Bugonia asking you to select all squares that may contain Aliens, showing a photo of Emma Stone in Bugonia
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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AI Overview once again proving how fucking useless it is
The "alien subtitles" you're asking about likely refer to the mysterious, circular alien language in the film Arrival, not the 2025 Australian comedy Bugonia (starring Emma Stone and Joe Keery), which has no aliens but features themes of absurdism and economic struggle. People often search for "alien subtitles" and Bugonia together because Bugonia plays with themes of miscommunication and meaning, similar to how language barriers function in sci-fi, but the actual alien language subtitles are a key element of Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, where they reveal the aliens' non-linear perception of time. If you're looking for alien subtitles: Watch Arrival (2016): This is the movie with the iconic, circular "Heptapod" logograms that translate to complex concepts and reveal the future to the main character. If you're interested in Bugonia (2025): It's about humans: The film focuses on two friends, Joe (Keery) and Simon (Thomas Middleditch), who start a "fake" business to help a rich woman (Stone) get her inheritance, leading to absurd situations. No actual aliens: Any "subtitle" confusion in Bugonia would be about human miscommunication or abstract themes, not extraterrestrial language.
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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It's our 7 year anniversary today so if you'll excuse me I'm going to drink some wine about it
Chris and his partner at a festival, the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in the background
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I'm sorry what
A screenshot of text that reads "You sold The Mouth Of Winter for £100 (£96.01 Tip)"
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The implication here, of course, being that children's media can't be art.
I’m going to get in trouble for this, but fuck it. I’ve been at this a long time. Games culture wants the spoils of cultural sophistication without doing the work. It wants a guarantee that the intention to make work guarantees not just a living but a thriving one. It is a medium for children.
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Spotify Wrapped is in and unsurprisingly it's my lowest number ever for play minutes. Haven't been in the gym and haven't been listening to music while running.

The only surprise here is that for the first time ever, Comeback Kid aren't in either my top 5 album or top 5 songs.
Top albums: Never Enough, White Pony, Addison, Fuck You Skrillex, Glow On Top five songs: Never Enough, Birds, Kubrick Stare, Cries Of Domination, my mind is a mountain
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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There's a PDF in the project downloads
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December 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Chapter 3 of The Mouth Of Winter is live and we're finally learning what the deal with the monks is. Now would be an excellent time to get in on this!

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The monkey side-eye meme, with the text "me when somebody asks me if there's a happy ending" and the URL go.loottheroom.uk/winter
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Chapter 3 of The Mouth Of Winter is live!

Releasing daily things is fun, and part of the fun is that I get to write little notes to readers every day alongside giving them fun stuff that I'm proud of.

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It’s day 3. That means chapter 3. I know that you know that. I want to write things about each chapter in these updates to get you excited, but I also don’t want to spoil anything. It’s a hard balance to strike. Instead, what I’ll tell you is that over on Patreon I’ve posted part of the original draft of this chapter. If you’re enjoying the story and want to see some of the behind the scenes work and decisions that went into writing this project, you might like the additional stuff over there. Some of that material will be included in the final full version of the book that you’ll get when the project ends, but some of it - like today’s post - is for patrons only. I hope you enjoy today’s chapter!
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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This makes the beholder armour from I, Tyrant even better. It's for when they get so unbelievably baked they can't float anymore and need some little legs to walk them around
A beholder, seemingly stapled to the neck of a suit of plate armour
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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CHC Bosses do Dragonmeet, feat. I.T. Ramel Ebanks, big_dog beefstink, Engineer Seraphin, and Denk Fontaine C.I.S.O (aka @chrisair.itch.io, @lukegearing.bsky.social, me, and @meatcastlegameware.com ).

#over/under
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December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Chapter 2 summary: "Remember those thirty people you killed yesterday? Funny story about that..."

The monks have some explaining to do. Nobody's going to like the explanation.

Get The Mouth Of Winter here: loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025

#TheMouthOfWinter ❄️
A mockup of a hardback book against a showy background. The title reads "The Mouth Of Winter" overlaid above a giant darkened moon that hangs like a void in the sky. Mountains sit below it, the spire of a chapel of some sort silhouetted against them. Text above the book reads: "One chapter a day. December 1-25". A URL reads loottheroom.itch.io.advent2025 The Loot The Room logo is visible in the lower right corner
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I'm going to link to the guide so you don't have to go to the hell site.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Addendum: The Mouth Of Winter is now the #1 project in Books on @itch.io sorted by both Popular and Top Sellers
A screenshot of the Books category on itch A screenshot of the Top Sellers sorting in Books on itch
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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That's it, that's the thread. Thanks for your attention.
The booktok meme about The Mouth Of Winter. Lots of arrows pointing at the book cover, and text that reads: * Contains 0% romance, 100% poor life choices * The monster has better work-life balance than you * Very cheap * Why read it all at once when you could wait for daily chapters instead * The protagonist becomes his father (it's a horror novel) * A Christmas story (threatening) * Is it a novel or a novella I don't know
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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At the time of writing this, The Mouth Of Winter has sold 45 copies and made £248.65.

There are still a few hours left in day 1, but this is the worst launch I've had for one of these projects by a fairly large margin.
A screenshot of itch analytics for The Mouth Of Winter, showing £248.62 gross revenue, 45 payments, 388 views, and 83 downloads. A screenshot of a spreadsheet showing data for the previous years' advent calendars on day 1. Reivdene-Upon-The-Moss sold 186 copies for £566.50, BLACKOUT sold 114 copies for £503.47, A Month Of Misery sold 97 copies for £322.34, and The Witch Of Drithwyn Weald sold 143 copies for £686.50.
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Well, The Mouth Of Winter is #2 in Books on @itch.io right now, so I'm pretty happy with that.

Feel free to get it to #1, though.

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A screenshot of the itch books category
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Here's the first chapter of THE MOUTH OF WINTER for you to read in your browser for free, if you don't want to download a PDF or an epub.

Enjoy.

itch.io/t/5603727/ch...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Okay it's been 15 hours of perfectly hinged marketing it's time for the weird shit

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The booktok book marketing meme with arrows everywhere pointing at a book cover. Text is next to the arrows. It should make you want to read the book but somebody has clearly given up trying to write good marketing copy. The various text chunks say: Contains 0% romance, 100% poor life choices The monster has a better work-life balance than you Very cheap (this one is in really big letters) Why read it all at once when you could wait for daily chapters instead? Is it a novel or a novella I don't know A Christmas story (threatening) The protagonist becomes his father (it's a horror novel) A large Amazon "Buy Now" button is in the bottom right corner. "Amazon" has been scribbled out and replaced with "itch.io". At the bottom of the whole image is the following text: loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 (people smarter than me said there should be a url here)
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The book cover itself has the word "OOF" on it, so you got off easy tbh
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December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The surprise bestseller of Dragonmeet so far today has been The Wonderfvll Discoverie Of Witches, which is back in print after 5 years. Very happy to see people picking this up
The Wonderfvll Discoverie Of Witches
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM