Mark Sabalauskas
@marksab.bsky.social
Indie tabletop RPG designer, zine publisher
I wrote Return to the Stars, a science fiction RPG, which helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting. #hopepunk
I wrote Return to the Stars, a science fiction RPG, which helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting. #hopepunk
Resisting will fail. You need a Bombidil style character who is totally indifferent to the Ring.
December 24, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Resisting will fail. You need a Bombidil style character who is totally indifferent to the Ring.
Megalopolis limps into #17 in the S&S pol. Not surprising, but disappointing.
The film is a shipwreck.
To which provocateurs dive, pull up odd bits of plunder--a cool scene, a scrap of production design.
Pretending that these add up to great art.
Moved not by the film, but their "cunning".
The film is a shipwreck.
To which provocateurs dive, pull up odd bits of plunder--a cool scene, a scrap of production design.
Pretending that these add up to great art.
Moved not by the film, but their "cunning".
December 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Megalopolis limps into #17 in the S&S pol. Not surprising, but disappointing.
The film is a shipwreck.
To which provocateurs dive, pull up odd bits of plunder--a cool scene, a scrap of production design.
Pretending that these add up to great art.
Moved not by the film, but their "cunning".
The film is a shipwreck.
To which provocateurs dive, pull up odd bits of plunder--a cool scene, a scrap of production design.
Pretending that these add up to great art.
Moved not by the film, but their "cunning".
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
(I, myself, only had the vaguest recollection of this unsuccessful Canadian sci-fi series, until I snagged a free remaindered copy of the Ellison biography at Readercon.)
(I, myself, only had the vaguest recollection of this unsuccessful Canadian sci-fi series, until I snagged a free remaindered copy of the Ellison biography at Readercon.)
November 20, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
(I, myself, only had the vaguest recollection of this unsuccessful Canadian sci-fi series, until I snagged a free remaindered copy of the Ellison biography at Readercon.)
(I, myself, only had the vaguest recollection of this unsuccessful Canadian sci-fi series, until I snagged a free remaindered copy of the Ellison biography at Readercon.)
People often talk about the ship of Theseus, but no one ever says who their OPT is. Ariadne, Hippolyta, Perigone? Someone else?
November 19, 2024 at 4:10 PM
People often talk about the ship of Theseus, but no one ever says who their OPT is. Ariadne, Hippolyta, Perigone? Someone else?
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I'm not entirely certain that it is ideal to have Talentless Takanko attempt my rescue. But perhaps the kidnappers will be in awe of her style and confidence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not entirely certain that it is ideal to have Talentless Takanko attempt my rescue. But perhaps the kidnappers will be in awe of her style and confidence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I'm not entirely certain that it is ideal to have Talentless Takanko attempt my rescue. But perhaps the kidnappers will be in awe of her style and confidence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not entirely certain that it is ideal to have Talentless Takanko attempt my rescue. But perhaps the kidnappers will be in awe of her style and confidence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Such a wonder in the night sky
October 11, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Such a wonder in the night sky
Flights of Foundry is a free online global SFF convention.
I'm running a session of Advertising and Antiheroes on Friday (hour 10 of the con, 9 CDT)
Come play as a fascinating & flawed corpo sellout in a cyberpunk dystopia, in a prestige drama pastiche!
I'm running a session of Advertising and Antiheroes on Friday (hour 10 of the con, 9 CDT)
Come play as a fascinating & flawed corpo sellout in a cyberpunk dystopia, in a prestige drama pastiche!
September 25, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Flights of Foundry is a free online global SFF convention.
I'm running a session of Advertising and Antiheroes on Friday (hour 10 of the con, 9 CDT)
Come play as a fascinating & flawed corpo sellout in a cyberpunk dystopia, in a prestige drama pastiche!
I'm running a session of Advertising and Antiheroes on Friday (hour 10 of the con, 9 CDT)
Come play as a fascinating & flawed corpo sellout in a cyberpunk dystopia, in a prestige drama pastiche!
I'm also excited to bring @jasonsanford.bsky.social 's essay on AI in front of more people in the latest issue of the Stellar Beacon 'zine!
September 17, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I'm also excited to bring @jasonsanford.bsky.social 's essay on AI in front of more people in the latest issue of the Stellar Beacon 'zine!
When My Light Reaches You is an original SFF story by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
Rob is lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a former guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
Daydreamer is his debut middle grade novel. Check it out!
Rob is lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a former guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
Daydreamer is his debut middle grade novel. Check it out!
September 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
When My Light Reaches You is an original SFF story by @brklyndragon.bsky.social
Rob is lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a former guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
Daydreamer is his debut middle grade novel. Check it out!
Rob is lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a former guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
Daydreamer is his debut middle grade novel. Check it out!
Looking forward to connecting with and learning from many more people on Bluesky in the future!
September 17, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Looking forward to connecting with and learning from many more people on Bluesky in the future!
The House Always Wins is adventure that mashes up noir cyberpunk themes with resistant hopepunk possibilities.
Can the PCs sustain a beacon of hope in a city
shrouded in darkness?
Can the PCs sustain a beacon of hope in a city
shrouded in darkness?
September 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
The House Always Wins is adventure that mashes up noir cyberpunk themes with resistant hopepunk possibilities.
Can the PCs sustain a beacon of hope in a city
shrouded in darkness?
Can the PCs sustain a beacon of hope in a city
shrouded in darkness?
Powered by a Flower a solarpunk adventure, with the added fun of werewolves in space!
It was designed by the noted science fiction writer @jolantru.bsky.social whose Star Pattern Traveler reminds me of the classic science fiction stories of Andre Norton and whose Fire Heart is releasing in Nov.
It was designed by the noted science fiction writer @jolantru.bsky.social whose Star Pattern Traveler reminds me of the classic science fiction stories of Andre Norton and whose Fire Heart is releasing in Nov.
September 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Powered by a Flower a solarpunk adventure, with the added fun of werewolves in space!
It was designed by the noted science fiction writer @jolantru.bsky.social whose Star Pattern Traveler reminds me of the classic science fiction stories of Andre Norton and whose Fire Heart is releasing in Nov.
It was designed by the noted science fiction writer @jolantru.bsky.social whose Star Pattern Traveler reminds me of the classic science fiction stories of Andre Norton and whose Fire Heart is releasing in Nov.
And now at last it comes. We would have given Jodorowsky the cult following freely! In place of the Lynch arthouses would screen quixotic surrealism. And it shall not be disturbing like Mulholland Drive, but as beautiful and terrible as Branded to Kill! All shall “like” on Letterboxd and despair!
March 1, 2024 at 3:27 PM
And now at last it comes. We would have given Jodorowsky the cult following freely! In place of the Lynch arthouses would screen quixotic surrealism. And it shall not be disturbing like Mulholland Drive, but as beautiful and terrible as Branded to Kill! All shall “like” on Letterboxd and despair!
Wrapping up a lovely trip to Taiwan.
January 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Wrapping up a lovely trip to Taiwan.