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NightlingBug
@nightlingbug.bsky.social
Mazey Veselak
a smaller, softer moon
ennie-winning ttrpg designer
nebula award finalist
(she/her or zey/zem)

Wickedness: http://nightling-bug.itch.io/wickedness
Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast: https://possumcreekgames.com/pages/yazebas-bed-breakfast
there's always pressure on trans girls to minmax our transitions... but my paleolithic-fertility-idol ass stands testament to the fact that estradiol pills are fine, actually
August 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm worried my cat might be AI
August 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
sitting in the stupid park for my stupid mental health
August 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
sometimes living in a swamp means that you have to relocate newly-hatched aliverocks out of your driveway
June 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"My 'outie?' God, we need to come up with a better word for that. But no, I don't *have* an outie, Ted, and I'll tell you why. I'm not like you or these other peons. I don't NEED an outie because I am one hundred percent IN."
March 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I know this was some lukewarm transmisogynistic humor, but where do you think these props ended up and do you agree that if I had them they'd become retroactively funny?
February 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
imagine: my boyfriend wearing this shirt with jeans. me wearing a cut crop top version with daisy dukes
February 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
some old selfies, because IDK if the bluskii crowd realizes I'm pretty yet
January 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I figured out what was bothering me
January 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I already made this into a ttrpg
January 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
January 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I didn't expect thIs bathbomb's "hidden color inside" to be RAW BEEF
December 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
sorry to cut the viscerally upsetting thought experiment short, but I believe I've arrived at the objectively correct answer
December 5, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Some more about me, personally: I grew up in a tiny mountain cabin with no indoor plumbing, now I live in an attic over a swamp, I have a master's in library science, I love tea and pierogies, I'm ten inches taller than @vugarou.bsky.social (my partner of 15 years), we have two beautiful cats.
November 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I also wrote Wickedness, a high stakes tarot-driven RPG for exactly three players where your coven must balance the demands of the mortal and magical worlds against their own relationships and personal failings, or else slowly lose each other (and maybe fail to stop the apocalypse).
November 26, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Yazeba's is a love-letter to indie games, using a diverse cast of loveable weirdos with their own modular "half-moves" to keep producing surprising new twists on a simple game engine for scenario after scenario.

(You can buy it here:)

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Yazeba...
November 26, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I co-created Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast with @jdragsky.bsky.social, a sprawling, innovative slice-of-life game about a cranky witch and her colorful cast of misfit boarders, designed to merge easy pick-up play with impactful legacy mechanics that challenge assumptions about chronology & canon.
November 26, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Hello, website!

I'm Mazey Veselak / @nightlingbug, a disabled trans girl who writes and edits fantasy fiction and tabletop roleplaying games. My work focuses on finding the mystical in the mundane, on queer life and healing, and on body liberation.
November 26, 2024 at 7:46 PM
November 14, 2024 at 3:37 PM