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Mae Finch 🫀
@maethefinch.bsky.social
280 followers 560 following 370 posts
🥀 The only way out is through
🪶 Technical writer, narrative game dev, dungeon master (D&D)
👻 Creator of Undead Flames, Soul Date, former cohost of Screen Quest Pod
📸 instagram.com/mae_the_finch
👾 maethefinch.itch.io
📺 youtube.com/@mae_the_finch
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My cat has also taken an interest in narrative theory
A picture of someone holding a copy of Narrative Theory by Herman, Phelan, Rabinowitz, Richardson, and Warhol with a grey tabby cat nuzzling against the book
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Been experimenting with waking up early for the first time in my life and I am actually getting more sleep?? And eating a full breakfast??? And still having 30 minutes before work to practice drawing proportions??!?! What is this witchcraft!
Screenshot of Procreate with a digital sketch of a woman at 3/4s facing the camera and a reference photo of the same woman in the corner.
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The Godot documentation and training technical writers are MVPs, I’m gonna use this as my example of good tech writing for training going forward
Screenshot of the intro to Godot documentation. “9:49 Introduction GDScript C# fune _ready: print("Hello world!") Welcome to the official documentation of Godot Engine, the free and open source community-driven 2D and 3D game engine! Behind this mouthful, you will find a powerful yet user-friendly tool that you can use to develop any kind of game, for any platform and with no usage restriction whatsoever. This page gives a broad overview of the engine and of this documentation, so that you know where to start if you are a beginner or where to look if you need information on a specific feature. Before you start The Tutorials and resources page lists video tutorials contributed by the community. If you prefer video to text, consider checking them out.“
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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So Spotify removed my most political podcast episode, The Sacrifice, due to “possible infringement” of a book that was published a year after my episode released and is completely unrelated aside from sharing a title. Apparently I have a Time Machine and did a future plagiarism of a 2 word title!
An email from Spotify notifying the recipient that automatic review tools determined a podcast contains third party content from The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier and removed the episode. A screenshot of a success screen that says We received your appeal on Spotify’s review website.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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On our way to Hallownest!

#hollowknight #silksong #hornet #cosplay #indiegame #halloween
Picture of two people dressed up as Hornet in a white bug mask and red cloak and the Knight in a white bug mask and grey cloak posing outside on a porch in twilight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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🍂 All Hallows’ Eve is here! 👻

Take 10 minutes to pierce the veil and explore your undeath in Undead Flames, my free mini narrative game, on mobile and desktop: maethefinch.itch.io/undead-flames

#indiegame #narrativegame #indiedev #freefame #choicesmatter #horrorgame #horror
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Very excited for our couple’s costume this year, can anyone guess? #halloween #cosplay #indiegames
A white plastic mask with two large oval eye holes and curved hornes on a wood workbench surrounded by tools
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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What’s it take for a fox to get a fish around here? Hijinks at the Palace of the Wind and Stars from @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social ✨❄️

#worldsbeyondnumber #fanart #procreate #dndcharacterart #dndliveplay #fox #illustration #magic #digitalart #dnd #d&d
A digital drawing of an orange fox floating on blue magic above an ice palace, a fish bleeding from his mouth, with a starry sky in the background.
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Making progress! #art #fanart #digitaldrawing #procreate #fox
A digital drawing of an orange fox floating on blue green magic above ice, a fish in his mouth dripping blood
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Making progress! #art #fanart #digitaldrawing #procreate #fox
A colored digital drawing of a fox floating in blue and orange magic over ice, a fish in his mouth dripping blood
October 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Continuing on the fan art kick, can anyone guess the inspo for this one? Hint: it’s D&D related
Rough sketch of a fox biting into a fish while floating in a sea of blue frost magic
October 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Wordless variant:
Fanart of the video game Slay the Princess, showing the crow like player character reaching toward a broken mirror of the princesses in various forms, with the Happily Ever After Princess reaching through to you from a field of stars beyond the mirror.
October 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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First movie of spookyober
A red lit room with the Interview with the vampire on the TV
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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There might be worse things than the end of the world. 🗡️ #slaytheprincess #slaytober #fanart #horror #horrorgames #indiegames
Fanart of the video game Slay the Princess, showing the crow like player character reaching toward a broken mirror of the princesses in various forms, with the Happily Ever After Princess reaching through to you from a field of stars beyond the mirror.
October 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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We do Pride in October in Florida because of the heat. Loved seeing the community turn out in a year like this. Keeping Jacksonville beautiful!

#pride #lgbtq #queer
Photo of participants in a pride parade with a Keep Jacksonville Beautiful sign Image of a crowd of Pride parade participants walking into a city strip
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Felt very special to run a session of my Whoops All Monsters DnD campaign with the help and hosting of Manifest Distilling. Kept the whiskey and the wild magic flowing!

#dnd #ttrpg #dnddm #dndhomebrew
People sitting at a table in a liquor bar playing Dungeons and Dragons. People sitting at a table in a liquor bar playing Dungeons and Dragons. People sitting at a table in a liquor bar playing Dungeons and Dragons.
October 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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WIP for the #slaytheprincess anniversary - for once you’re right little bird, some things are worse than the end of the world. Much worse. With endless joy comes endless cruelty. Life finds a way to decay, to change, to give itself wholly to a new dawn, no matter how still you seek to make the world
A digital predominantly black and white drawing of the happily ever after princess from Slay the Princess reaching through a broken mirror for a black clawed hand. Other fragments of mirror reflect different princesses, drawings unfinished. A digital predominantly black and white drawing of the back of the black bird or dragon-like creature called the Long Quiet from Slay the Princess, reaching through a broken mirror for an outstretched hand.
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Tis done
A two tone drawing of a dragon in a cave. A digital drawing of a blue dragon in a beam of sunlight in a cave, standing on a ruined shield and helmet
September 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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✨Jerry 🐉

- Spends 80% of his time sleeping in a pool of sunlight, 20% plotting
- Spelunker
- Give him your shinies and nobody has to get hurt

#Procreate #DigitalDrawing
A digital drawing of a blue and green dragon in a beam of sunlight, in a cave, standing on a battered shield and helmet
September 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I feel like this little guy wants to be a dragon. Let’s make some magic!

Accepting name suggestions…
Screenshot of a wikimedia commons page for an image of a bright blue green Male Agama Sinaita lizard in Jordan. By Ester Inbar. Sketch based off of the attached reference photo of a blue lizard. Outline of a dragon standing on an empty helmet and shield in a cave, based on the attached sketch
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Barnice the Corn Dragon’s close up. A smile to die for!

#DigitalArt #Procreate
A close up of a toothy smiling red and yellow striped dragon with head spikes. A close up of a red and yellow striped dragon with large wings. A close up of red and yellow striped dragon sitting on all fours with its front talons pressed daintily together A toothy smiling red and yellow striped dragon with head spikes and large wings.
September 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Heeeere’s Barnie! ✨🐉 (short for Barnice)
- Leo
- The dragon equivalent of a corn snake
- Just wants to be told she’s pretty
- Fastest flier in the realm
A digital color charcoal drawing of a red and yellow striped dragon grinning and sitting daintily against a forest backdrop
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Initial sketch is done. What are we naming this goofus?
September 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Day 2 of Finding My Style:

Truckception (Drawing a truck while riding a truck)
A digital pen and water color drawing of a forest road with a white truck driving away ahead, power lines lining the right side of the road, and an orange and blue dramatic sunset cloud.
August 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Day 1 of Finding My Style

Bleed In, Bleed Out
A simple line and color block drawing in black, white, and red of a rose with red tendrils coming out of it up to a creature in the corner and back down to a puddle of red on the ground. A layered drawing in black, white, and red of a semi translucent black rose with red tendrils coming out of it up to a creature in the corner and back down to a puddle of red on the ground.
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM