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James
@niceonejames.bsky.social
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James, 29, she/they • Queer & Trans • Latine • 2023 NJ WebFest Best Game Master • Award-winning actual play safety consultant • TikTok pirate captain • Larper • Co-founder of StarlightTales✨ (cover by aeipathea)

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tabletopartsfund.org
Previous winners have received more than 100 nominations and three dozen awards at festivals on four continents. Now it's your turn! The Tabletop Arts Fund is proud to announce our 2026 Actual Play Grants.

📅 Submissions close October 31, 2025.
👉 Apply now: apply.tabletoparts.fund/ActualPlay2026
Promotional graphic for the Tabletop Arts Fund 2026 Actual Play Grants. At the top center is the Tabletop Arts Fund logo, featuring a stylized book with a red d6 and yellow d10 on its pages, crossed by a pen and paintbrush inside a circle. The Text reads: 2026 Actual Play Grants “Open to any podcast or video actual play with at least three episodes released in 2025. Grants provide entry fees to all festivals in the 2026 Audio Fiction World Cup. Preference for all awards given to first-time festival participants and creators from marginalized backgrounds.” At the bottom, bold text states: Submissions close October 31, 2025 Link: https://apply.tabletoparts.fund/actualplay2026
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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stellaluna.tv
if you're ever looking for a TTRPG player that loves to go all in with their character design & performance, i really enjoy dressing up... i want to make more like-minded friends & be a part of your games!! 🥰
Compilation of costume fits for stellaluna in 2023 including a pink hair mermaid, a sultry satyr, a zombie, a half god, a cowboy, an orc, an aasimar, a vampire, a gothic elf, a deerkin, an aquatic elf, a firbolg Compilation of costume fits for stellaluna in 2024 including a chopper fit, a Korean grim reaper, an aasimar, an orc, a mechanic, an elf queen, a blonde scholar, a pirate, a monk, a witch, a hunter, and a catgirl
August 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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keymonster.bsky.social
Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step.
#noai
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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luckoftheharbor.com
Did you miss backing Warrenguard? The PDF is now available at itch.io! Ride dragons! Bond with fellow dragonriders!

luckoftheharbor.itch.io/warrenguard
Warrenguard by Luck of the Harbor
a game of Dragonriders & Found Family
luckoftheharbor.itch.io
June 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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violetriotgames.bsky.social
Fascists aren't larping. They're fascists. Don't confuse morally bankrupt inept fascists with larpers. Journalists and others use larp and cosplay as a derisive word and that obscures what's actually happening. Roleplaying is pretend. Fascism is very real.
June 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
fuck off with the “waving a mexican flag while
protesting ICE is a bad look”

It’s Los Angeles not The Angels pinches pendejos no corremos y no nos escondemos 🇲🇽
June 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Cannot express how big the disconnect is between what Angelenos are seeing/saying to each other right now and what delusional rabid conservatives are barking online. I know it's par for the course, but this is another level.
June 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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erosalie.infoepi.com
🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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jettbarker.bsky.social
Hi! If you're in LA, please strongly consider adding a contact/bookmark with this number and website.

Supporting LA means supporting our friends, neighbors, colleagues, and folks we don't know who are at greater risk of violence.

¡Si eres Angelene, ayudas a tus vecinos!
HAVE YOU SEEN ICE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? Document it and report it. CALL THE LA RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK AT: 1-888-624-4752 STOPICE.NET UPDATE The toll-free alert number and the StopICE.net web site might experience some delays or down-time due to extremely heavy traffic and we are working 24/7 to reallocate enough resources to increase system capacities ASAP. If you texted the toll-free number but didn't get a response yet, try going directly to StopICE.net instead. You can also donate to help keep StopICE.net online, keep spreading the word and thank you for your support! Power in numbers!
June 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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james.claims
I was just informed that this passed the House a few hours ago and now heads to the Senate. Get up. Call your representative. Demand they do everything they can to ensure the trans people they represent are not lost.

Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. NOW.
james.claims james @james.claims · May 22
Cis Americans, if you do one single thing today please let it be to contact your representative. You have no idea how many US trans people I follow who are freaked the fuck out

And for everyone else, if America does it, your country will use America as an example of how they can do it too. Speak up
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · May 22
IMPORTANT: Nationwide ban on Medicaid covering gender affirming care is in the House bill.
May 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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kaoscryptid.asalwaysimani.com
The time is now. Player sign ups for the all Black Juneteenth TTRPG stream series I'm organizing are open!

We have 7 games planned for the day from 7 amazing and talented Black GMs

forms.gle/bHygyrCs7tcS...

Graphic made by the invaluable @burstofhope.itch.io
Juneteenth TTRPG Stream Event, Bringing Black TTRPG Talent to the Front. Players Wanted. Players Wanted May 21st - 27th. A solid blue background with a green starburst outlining a white star.
May 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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kaoscryptid.asalwaysimani.com
Hi Hello

I'm organizing a series of all Black TTRPG streams for Juneteenth.

Sign ups are open for GMs (must self identify as Black) and Stream Producers (anyone).

GM Sign Ups: forms.gle/75iFEUsZk227...

Producer Sign Ups: forms.gle/YUP35rUFcc9Y...

Sign ups close Friday May 16th
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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arcanegold.bsky.social
dorian pavus is still ruining my life a decade later #dragonage
May 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
niceonejames.bsky.social
something something you can’t take the druid out of the player
a mostly empty petting zoo at a ren faire, with three small cows closer to frame and a feminine presenting figure standing behind a white fence making metaphorical heart eyes at them. two of the cows are in shades of brown, and the last one is jet black. the figure has long brown hair, an emerald-colored cloak, and is grinning a mostly empty petting zoo at a ren faire, with two goats and a feminine presenting figure standing beside a white fence and smiling. one goat is brown, black, and white, and the other is light brown, and neither of them seem to care at all that there’s a person nearby. the figure has long brown hair, an emerald-colored cloak, and a long blue dress underneath. in the far back, behind another white fence, is the top of a brown alpaca’s head. there is also another figure facing away from camera towards the back, with medium length black hair and wearing a medium brown cloak. in the background is also rabbit hutch (I think) and several other less visible animal pens.
May 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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spunkytaylor.bsky.social
CALLING ALL BIPOC GMS!!! It’s that time of year again and I’m happy to announce that I will be helping producing and running the TTRPG department again for BIPOC vamp day!!!
Sign up here - docs.google.com/forms/d/1VBm...
May 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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paigeedits.bsky.social
South of Midnight represents a group that’s so rarely seen in gaming with a black girl as the lead character. I want to make sure that black girls and women get the chance to play this—so if that’s you or someone you know? Send me a DM and we’ll make that happen! (Limiting this to 10 copies.)
April 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
Humbly, I again beseech many of the people expressing fear of US travel in the present climate to consider what travel has always been like for people of colour and queer people, and convert some portion of that energy into organising to keep those among them who must travel safe as well.
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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odiarti.bsky.social
My move is finally done guys have a decadent Zev #dragonage
March 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
niceonejames.bsky.social
accidentally got so good at spotting shapeshifters at larp that my friends are in a group chat begging staff to let them go out as shapeshifters together and try to kill my character
kermit the frog puppet made of felt sitting in a tiny white chair with his legs crossed and hands folded very coyly, with a white fabric backdrop and a wooden flooring
March 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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byconniechang.bsky.social
Horrifically, this is definitely an undercount of direct deaths & not a reflection of indirect deaths; the true figure is likely in the 100,000s+. Israel’s genocidal warmongering must stop. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

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aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Mar 23
The number of Palestinians killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has crossed 50,000 as Israel intensifies attacks inside the besieged enclave aje.io/35kgqd
March 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
niceonejames.bsky.social
the epic highs and lows of live action roleplaying
selfie of someone in fantasy in garb with wavy brown hair in a gold dress and blue bracers. their makeup features gold eyeshadow, reddish pink lipstick and white marking on their forehead and cheeks vaguely resembling a tree and roots. her hair also has a series of charms and beads, including several small coins with tree symbology. she’s smiling with her eyes closed and a hand under their chin the same person as in the previous picture, but this time wider shot with most of their body and much darker garb and makeup. she’s wearing a black drapey dress and a black shawl embroidered with roses, as well as a silver braided belt around their waist with an antler and a green pouch attached. their makeup is shades of dark red and black, and they have a circlet that looks like twisting branches. she’s holding an inflatable alligator in one hand by the nose and smiling weird with dead eyes, mimicking those pictures guys post on dating apps where they’re holding a random fish. she’s surrounded by trees, grass, and gravel
March 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
niceonejames.bsky.social
turning a dark fantasy heavy-combat larp into your own personal minigame of pretty fairy princess dress-up simulator is all fun and harmless until your friends start posting survival guides about how to hide from very deadly monsters and you remember your kit both jingles AND glows
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM