seren 💙
@witchoflight.bsky.social
seren 🦋 they/fae 🦋 bi 🦋 24 🦋 white 🦋 a composer but never composed 🦋
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✨ new video! ✨
silksong is a game obsessed with faith. abstractions, literal depictions, corruptions of faith — it's all there. most important though is silksong's faith in its players, and the lengths it goes through to help us find strength within ourselves.
youtu.be/G8MB434ddTk
silksong is a game obsessed with faith. abstractions, literal depictions, corruptions of faith — it's all there. most important though is silksong's faith in its players, and the lengths it goes through to help us find strength within ourselves.
youtu.be/G8MB434ddTk
The Unwavering Faith of Silksong
YouTube video by Wavelengths
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
✨ new video! ✨
silksong is a game obsessed with faith. abstractions, literal depictions, corruptions of faith — it's all there. most important though is silksong's faith in its players, and the lengths it goes through to help us find strength within ourselves.
youtu.be/G8MB434ddTk
silksong is a game obsessed with faith. abstractions, literal depictions, corruptions of faith — it's all there. most important though is silksong's faith in its players, and the lengths it goes through to help us find strength within ourselves.
youtu.be/G8MB434ddTk
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i just want to play games with my friends all the time
December 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
i just want to play games with my friends all the time
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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The physical edition of my solo game, Psalms for the Undertow, is now available for members of the Dirtgoblin Zine Club! Members get editions that include experimental materials. In this case that's a two player mechanic I'm currently testing, printed on vellum, and a piece of handmade paper (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The physical edition of my solo game, Psalms for the Undertow, is now available for members of the Dirtgoblin Zine Club! Members get editions that include experimental materials. In this case that's a two player mechanic I'm currently testing, printed on vellum, and a piece of handmade paper (1/2)
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begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
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#SaveSpeech
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#SaveSpeech
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
28… damn i gotta read more ttrpgs. really fun to be sitting next to copies of two of the ones on this list though (i still havent put away my pax purchases yet lol)
The Guess The TTRPG challenge I brought to PAX Unplugged is now available online! Can you identify one hundred tabletop RPGs featured on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social?
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
28… damn i gotta read more ttrpgs. really fun to be sitting next to copies of two of the ones on this list though (i still havent put away my pax purchases yet lol)
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Finally finished this move in LEVIATHAN, my in-dev mech pilot game. The Bonding Moves push characters towards moments of healing and intimacy, either emotionally or physically. The one exception is when they're on the brink of death.
To support more #LEVdev, join my Patreon! patreon.com/jeeyonshim
To support more #LEVdev, join my Patreon! patreon.com/jeeyonshim
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Finally finished this move in LEVIATHAN, my in-dev mech pilot game. The Bonding Moves push characters towards moments of healing and intimacy, either emotionally or physically. The one exception is when they're on the brink of death.
To support more #LEVdev, join my Patreon! patreon.com/jeeyonshim
To support more #LEVdev, join my Patreon! patreon.com/jeeyonshim
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Making more progress in early stage dev for LEVIATHAN, today honing the table materials. The most productive, fruitful, and downright fun focus group session so far, home game group remains unbeaten (apologies in advance to @windienine.bsky.social for my usual quality of organization in notetaking)
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Making more progress in early stage dev for LEVIATHAN, today honing the table materials. The most productive, fruitful, and downright fun focus group session so far, home game group remains unbeaten (apologies in advance to @windienine.bsky.social for my usual quality of organization in notetaking)
late reflection but i got to go to pax unplugged for the first time on saturday and i had an incandescently wonderful time! got to meet up with friends both old and new, larp for the first time, and make Completely Considered Financial Decisions on the expo floor.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
late reflection but i got to go to pax unplugged for the first time on saturday and i had an incandescently wonderful time! got to meet up with friends both old and new, larp for the first time, and make Completely Considered Financial Decisions on the expo floor.
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For all the NYT is doing wrong (a lot), this is the brightest spot of real journalism I’ve seen from the outlet.
This is what every journo should be doing with Roblox and every other platform/company/exec with power.
Getting Baszucki to admit he wants kids gambling on his platform is ace work.
This is what every journo should be doing with Roblox and every other platform/company/exec with power.
Getting Baszucki to admit he wants kids gambling on his platform is ace work.
We asked Roblox's CEO about child safety on the platform. It got tense www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For all the NYT is doing wrong (a lot), this is the brightest spot of real journalism I’ve seen from the outlet.
This is what every journo should be doing with Roblox and every other platform/company/exec with power.
Getting Baszucki to admit he wants kids gambling on his platform is ace work.
This is what every journo should be doing with Roblox and every other platform/company/exec with power.
Getting Baszucki to admit he wants kids gambling on his platform is ace work.
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fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.
Nailah Mathews • better hands • Print + E-book - Newfound
better hands • Print + E-book Summary Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a ferv...
newfound.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
fair warning: these poems bite back 🌷please continue reading if you experience the following: persistent desire, the urge to give birth to a bird of hell or pick your teeth with an orbitoclast. some also experienced pre-grief for perfect strangers, resentment, reverence, and gender euphoria.
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My new essay, on Silksong, faith, and the Book of Revelation, is now available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My new essay, on Silksong, faith, and the Book of Revelation, is now available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
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big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...
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Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.
azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...
azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...
So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter
In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill
azhdarchid.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.
azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...
azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...
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Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.
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In a landscape with so many incredibly tightly-designed metroidvanias, Silksong's exclusion of quality-of-life features is not an oversight!! It is essential to understanding the game!
I think my favorite insight in this piece is in how it considers annoying design decisions diagetically. an exploitative religious economy, charging the devout to use a bench, skimming off the top when they want to save their rosary beads, etc
reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs)
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In a landscape with so many incredibly tightly-designed metroidvanias, Silksong's exclusion of quality-of-life features is not an oversight!! It is essential to understanding the game!
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I'm just going to note here that ASOIAF/GoT has more than half of these, but none of these card processing companies has ever had any issue making bank off of it.
July 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I'm just going to note here that ASOIAF/GoT has more than half of these, but none of these card processing companies has ever had any issue making bank off of it.
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itchio putting out a list of prohibited material is unrelated to the impact our calls have. that's the list they were always going to have to put up. keep calling until the processors are made to give up enforcement of that list. do not stop calling.
July 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
itchio putting out a list of prohibited material is unrelated to the impact our calls have. that's the list they were always going to have to put up. keep calling until the processors are made to give up enforcement of that list. do not stop calling.
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i love my friends so dearly :)
April 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
i love my friends so dearly :)
lrt the only brand of ranch dressing i would eat as a kid was newman's. thank u little seren for having good taste.
April 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
lrt the only brand of ranch dressing i would eat as a kid was newman's. thank u little seren for having good taste.
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every Newman's Own product you buy funds a free summer camp for sick and disabled kids who need medical support to have a normal summer camp experience (former camper here.) I will fucking ride for Newman's Own and the ghost of Paul Newman
Newman’s Own stuff rules. Everything is solid quality, the pasta sauce isn’t Rao’s but it’s solidly above Prego, all the ingredients make sense, it goes to charity. This is what rich people should do. Elon is sending his sperm around or some shit and Paul Newman is helping kids from beyond the grave
March 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
every Newman's Own product you buy funds a free summer camp for sick and disabled kids who need medical support to have a normal summer camp experience (former camper here.) I will fucking ride for Newman's Own and the ghost of Paul Newman
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This is fantastic. Huge high five to everyone who called your reps.
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
March 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is fantastic. Huge high five to everyone who called your reps.
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mocking up some more descriptive text for the LEVIATHAN rpg to give everyone a fuller look at its little titanium corner of the world.
hope you like medical horror and constant surveillance!
hope you like medical horror and constant surveillance!
February 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
mocking up some more descriptive text for the LEVIATHAN rpg to give everyone a fuller look at its little titanium corner of the world.
hope you like medical horror and constant surveillance!
hope you like medical horror and constant surveillance!