Silver Goose
@silvergoose.bsky.social
Not really a goose
Wheel of Time/The Locked Tomb crossover fanfic author https://archiveofourown.org/works/59197216
he/him queer who loves board games and writing
Wheel of Time/The Locked Tomb crossover fanfic author https://archiveofourown.org/works/59197216
he/him queer who loves board games and writing
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Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
Boxes: Selling, Framing, Meaning
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
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I don't usually go in for awards and such but this means an awful lot, both because it's my work being recognized by peers, and because I remember Bobby Nunes fondly. It's also one of the video essays I am proudest of.
We're thrilled to announce @amabel.bsky.social's video essay “Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context” as the recipient of the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. More info on the award here: sdhist.com/amabel-holla.... Check out the essay here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXy...
Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don't usually go in for awards and such but this means an awful lot, both because it's my work being recognized by peers, and because I remember Bobby Nunes fondly. It's also one of the video essays I am proudest of.
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okay turns out there will be a video essay, probably for the one after what I'm working on presently, because I FOUND THE DESIGNER
HE'S STILL ALIVE
I AM INTERVIEWING HIM
HE GAVE ME A LIST of 50+ BOARD GAMES IN ADDITION TO THE 3 HE'S CURRENTLY CREDITED WITH
HE'S STILL ALIVE
I AM INTERVIEWING HIM
HE GAVE ME A LIST of 50+ BOARD GAMES IN ADDITION TO THE 3 HE'S CURRENTLY CREDITED WITH
no video essay this time, but after digging this out to take this photo, I thought "maybe I should try again to find out who designed this". 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
okay turns out there will be a video essay, probably for the one after what I'm working on presently, because I FOUND THE DESIGNER
HE'S STILL ALIVE
I AM INTERVIEWING HIM
HE GAVE ME A LIST of 50+ BOARD GAMES IN ADDITION TO THE 3 HE'S CURRENTLY CREDITED WITH
HE'S STILL ALIVE
I AM INTERVIEWING HIM
HE GAVE ME A LIST of 50+ BOARD GAMES IN ADDITION TO THE 3 HE'S CURRENTLY CREDITED WITH
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Highly recommend reading this out loud if (like me) your normal reading doesn't make a pretend sound inside your head.
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Highly recommend reading this out loud if (like me) your normal reading doesn't make a pretend sound inside your head.
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psst @boardgamegeek.com this has continued to sit. It is deeply, deeply weird to have a game that's currently in-print that has a correct name on the publisher's website & everywhere else, and a different wrong name in your database only
Inexplicably, someone on BGG at some point changed the title of my game "II Grass II Crown" to "The Grass Crown II". I submitted a request for it to be changed back but it's such a bizarre thing to have happened. Like, it's really inscrutable to me tbqh
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
psst @boardgamegeek.com this has continued to sit. It is deeply, deeply weird to have a game that's currently in-print that has a correct name on the publisher's website & everywhere else, and a different wrong name in your database only
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my understand is that basically nobody reads #2 in a trilogy anymore until #3 comes out, readers have been scared off by too many unfinished trilogies, which also means it gets basically no marketing budget and just gets dropped out there to swing back to when the trilogy completes
October 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
my understand is that basically nobody reads #2 in a trilogy anymore until #3 comes out, readers have been scared off by too many unfinished trilogies, which also means it gets basically no marketing budget and just gets dropped out there to swing back to when the trilogy completes
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(fwiw, re book 3: I've handed in a draft, publisher has said edit notes should come back in the next couple of months, there are some verrrrry tentative dates I don't wanna give out until we're fully locked-in, but the wheels ARE turning)
October 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
(fwiw, re book 3: I've handed in a draft, publisher has said edit notes should come back in the next couple of months, there are some verrrrry tentative dates I don't wanna give out until we're fully locked-in, but the wheels ARE turning)
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The Three Wise Men -
existentialcomics.com/comic/622
existentialcomics.com/comic/622
The Three Wise Men
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Three Wise Men -
existentialcomics.com/comic/622
existentialcomics.com/comic/622
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A new mini-episode is up! Listen to Anaïs justify her stretching of the definition of literature as she discusses NICAEA and City of Six Moons by Amabell Holland!
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A new mini-episode is up! Listen to Anaïs justify her stretching of the definition of literature as she discusses NICAEA and City of Six Moons by Amabell Holland!
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I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.
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Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬
August 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
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The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I’ll Laugh As You Bury Me: New Zealand, America and Cultural Hegemony
All science fiction has its basis in the real world. This is the real world I base mine in. It has jokes and cups of tea and big smiles. Sometimes I’m in awe of the power of fiction to unite us. I …
strangehorizons.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I'm sure the age of legends had theremins, but that implies someone must have made the joke "lews theremin telamon", right? Right?
#wotsky
#wotsky
August 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm sure the age of legends had theremins, but that implies someone must have made the joke "lews theremin telamon", right? Right?
#wotsky
#wotsky
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Norwegian home invasion.
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Norwegian home invasion.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Empress Lu Yuan is a huge badass, I think I'll be fine, but also extremely heartbroken when I realize her fate. Prof nerd Shen Bu Yan though, just gets in the way.
Empress Lu Yuan is a huge badass, I think I'll be fine, but also extremely heartbroken when I realize her fate. Prof nerd Shen Bu Yan though, just gets in the way.
August 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
Empress Lu Yuan is a huge badass, I think I'll be fine, but also extremely heartbroken when I realize her fate. Prof nerd Shen Bu Yan though, just gets in the way.
Empress Lu Yuan is a huge badass, I think I'll be fine, but also extremely heartbroken when I realize her fate. Prof nerd Shen Bu Yan though, just gets in the way.
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apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves
The #HugoAward for Best Fancast goes to Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, presented by Emily Tesh & Rebecca Fraimow
August 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves
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Today we're wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City! a real butter-pie of a book: delicious ice cream froth on the outside, but full of surprisingly rich ideas once you actually bite into it
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A Tale of Time City by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh
Twenty Century refugee equipment. Case is open to show clothing and protective mask.
A tale of one or two cities, three or four Vivians, four to fourteen badly translated old women, and at least two...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today we're wrapping up our second season with A Tale of Time City! a real butter-pie of a book: delicious ice cream froth on the outside, but full of surprisingly rich ideas once you actually bite into it
zencastr.com/z/8P9vM1fI
zencastr.com/z/8P9vM1fI
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Can you believe Hollandspiele has been around for nine years? We're having a flash sale now through Sunday, offering a $9 discount on five of my games.
August 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Can you believe Hollandspiele has been around for nine years? We're having a flash sale now through Sunday, offering a $9 discount on five of my games.
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Hey MA area folks! I've got two events celebrating the release of THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES coming up at two incredible bookstores and you can sign up now:
Brookline Booksmith - 8/20: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
An Unlikely Story - 8/21: anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/caruso25
Brookline Booksmith - 8/20: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
An Unlikely Story - 8/21: anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/caruso25
August 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hey MA area folks! I've got two events celebrating the release of THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES coming up at two incredible bookstores and you can sign up now:
Brookline Booksmith - 8/20: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
An Unlikely Story - 8/21: anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/caruso25
Brookline Booksmith - 8/20: brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-0...
An Unlikely Story - 8/21: anunlikelystory.indiecommerce.com/caruso25
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Still have the orig on my wall, but this edition looks nice too!
Congrats on the release, this game is great.
Congrats on the release, this game is great.
August 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Still have the orig on my wall, but this edition looks nice too!
Congrats on the release, this game is great.
Congrats on the release, this game is great.
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I have strong convictions but spend a lot of time & energy wondering if I am wrong, questioning myself, constantly checking and double checking, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that many people just never do this, especially when it comes to politics
July 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I have strong convictions but spend a lot of time & energy wondering if I am wrong, questioning myself, constantly checking and double checking, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that many people just never do this, especially when it comes to politics
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Our lids were sealed; but like the Duchess, we promised we'd come clean!
Coming this fall;;
BELINDA'S BIG BONUS - a BELINDA BLINKED game - is the first board game based on the books by @flintstonerocky.bsky.social enjoyed by "Belinkers" around the globe.
🧵for details 🧵
Coming this fall;;
BELINDA'S BIG BONUS - a BELINDA BLINKED game - is the first board game based on the books by @flintstonerocky.bsky.social enjoyed by "Belinkers" around the globe.
🧵for details 🧵
July 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Our lids were sealed; but like the Duchess, we promised we'd come clean!
Coming this fall;;
BELINDA'S BIG BONUS - a BELINDA BLINKED game - is the first board game based on the books by @flintstonerocky.bsky.social enjoyed by "Belinkers" around the globe.
🧵for details 🧵
Coming this fall;;
BELINDA'S BIG BONUS - a BELINDA BLINKED game - is the first board game based on the books by @flintstonerocky.bsky.social enjoyed by "Belinkers" around the globe.
🧵for details 🧵
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.