N. Twenty
@nat20.bsky.social
Bard. Enthusiast and creator of cozy fantasy, retro games, TTRPGs, and books with whiskey ads stitched into them. Author of BARD CITY BLUES and publisher of @wyngraf.
Yesterday one of my twentysomething coworkers asked me what color my hair was before it started graying and I guess I’ll just get the chisel and start working up a gravestone now
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Yesterday one of my twentysomething coworkers asked me what color my hair was before it started graying and I guess I’ll just get the chisel and start working up a gravestone now
Am I the only person who hates Gmail’s inbox sorting (which got added without my input or consent) and is thrilled to learn it can be shut off?
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Am I the only person who hates Gmail’s inbox sorting (which got added without my input or consent) and is thrilled to learn it can be shut off?
HBD to the perfect game system! In very rough order…
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Secret of Mana
4. Super Mario World
5. Super Metroid
6. Link to the Past
7. Final Fantasy IV
8. NHL 94
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Secret of Mana
4. Super Mario World
5. Super Metroid
6. Link to the Past
7. Final Fantasy IV
8. NHL 94
Kicking off with some birthday greets to the Super Famicom! Released in Japan on this day 35 years ago.
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
Fearing Yakuza were going to hijack shipments of Super Fami's, Nintendo trucked them in secret to stores: Operation Midnight Shipping.
What are some of your favourite SF or SNES games, peeps?
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
HBD to the perfect game system! In very rough order…
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Secret of Mana
4. Super Mario World
5. Super Metroid
6. Link to the Past
7. Final Fantasy IV
8. NHL 94
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Secret of Mana
4. Super Mario World
5. Super Metroid
6. Link to the Past
7. Final Fantasy IV
8. NHL 94
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Just told my kid it’s time to wake up and he hit me with the Quiet Coyote. Is it legal to donate him to science?
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Just told my kid it’s time to wake up and he hit me with the Quiet Coyote. Is it legal to donate him to science?
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
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Some of these contain advice, some of which has become commonplace: “it is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in”, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well”, “never put off till to-morrow, what you can do to-day”
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Some of these contain advice, some of which has become commonplace: “it is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in”, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well”, “never put off till to-morrow, what you can do to-day”
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1) More women should write sword & sorcery.
Please, for the love of Crom, save us from the men's rights douchebros that try to turn hardboiled fantasy into some testosterone-driven epic of macho bullshit.
Please, for the love of Crom, save us from the men's rights douchebros that try to turn hardboiled fantasy into some testosterone-driven epic of macho bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
1) More women should write sword & sorcery.
Please, for the love of Crom, save us from the men's rights douchebros that try to turn hardboiled fantasy into some testosterone-driven epic of macho bullshit.
Please, for the love of Crom, save us from the men's rights douchebros that try to turn hardboiled fantasy into some testosterone-driven epic of macho bullshit.
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Digital bust of Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI for a client on Ko-fi~🖤
#Art #Commission #FinalFantasy #ArtSky
#Art #Commission #FinalFantasy #ArtSky
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Digital bust of Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI for a client on Ko-fi~🖤
#Art #Commission #FinalFantasy #ArtSky
#Art #Commission #FinalFantasy #ArtSky
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one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference
July 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference
Me, confident I know the lyrics: “Sea breams are made of cheese”
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Me, confident I know the lyrics: “Sea breams are made of cheese”
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I just released my "Brief Guide to Writing Short Fiction." It's a solid guide to writing short stories and more; and has a special focus on Sword and Sorcery stories.
It costs $10, which, as a set of instructions to write stories you can sell, is rather inexpensive.
Like and share. That helps!
It costs $10, which, as a set of instructions to write stories you can sell, is rather inexpensive.
Like and share. That helps!
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I just released my "Brief Guide to Writing Short Fiction." It's a solid guide to writing short stories and more; and has a special focus on Sword and Sorcery stories.
It costs $10, which, as a set of instructions to write stories you can sell, is rather inexpensive.
Like and share. That helps!
It costs $10, which, as a set of instructions to write stories you can sell, is rather inexpensive.
Like and share. That helps!
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
A good name for a used watch store would be Second Hand
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A good name for a used watch store would be Second Hand
A YouTube ad just asked me “Have you noticed that wealthy people in Shanghai never carry charging cables?” and like… no, I haven’t noticed that. For a number of reasons.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A YouTube ad just asked me “Have you noticed that wealthy people in Shanghai never carry charging cables?” and like… no, I haven’t noticed that. For a number of reasons.
Everybody has to be friends with Rockman
I have been playing D&D and this is my character Rockman.
Rockman was unearthed by some dwarves and gently pushed toward the questing board and told to complete them all.
My bf Luke also modelled and printed a full Rockman mini figure! I haven't painted him yet but will post when I do.
Rockman was unearthed by some dwarves and gently pushed toward the questing board and told to complete them all.
My bf Luke also modelled and printed a full Rockman mini figure! I haven't painted him yet but will post when I do.
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Everybody has to be friends with Rockman
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Have a nice weekend, friends
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Have a nice weekend, friends
Me explaining teeth to my kid: “Okay so the incisors do slashing damage, the canines do piercing damage, and the molars do bludgeoning damage”
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Me explaining teeth to my kid: “Okay so the incisors do slashing damage, the canines do piercing damage, and the molars do bludgeoning damage”
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
I’m dating myself here, but I’m irrationally irked that the accepted abbreviation of Dungeons & Dragons has changed from D&D to DnD, to the extent that Google will say “did you mean dnd?”
Did the shift happen because you can’t use an ampersand in a URL?
Did the shift happen because you can’t use an ampersand in a URL?
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m dating myself here, but I’m irrationally irked that the accepted abbreviation of Dungeons & Dragons has changed from D&D to DnD, to the extent that Google will say “did you mean dnd?”
Did the shift happen because you can’t use an ampersand in a URL?
Did the shift happen because you can’t use an ampersand in a URL?
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I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!