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Genderqueer game designer, union activist, and treehugger. I also do stuff with computers?
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Kirby universe marxism was invented by this guy:
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Playing Kedamono Opera, I loved how feats came with thematic portents as downsides or thematic shenanigans, which made me think about how I've wanted more support for powers going wrong or causing chaos in Chuubo's. So here's what Chuubo might look like in a hypothetical "Jam Opera" hack:
A Kedamono Opera-style character sheet for Chuubo, the Wishing Boy, giving him Social Authority, the Nature "A perfectly ordinary kid", the Opera "Wishing", and Feats "A Little Push", "Kaiju Form", "Let's Talk", "Peace-splosion", and "Effective Daydreamer".
August 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Also more photogenic than usual toaster oven potatoes
A bowl of chopped roasted potatoes with rosemary, red bell pepper, and white onion.
July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The most photogenic fruit salad I've ever made
A red, white, and blue fruit salad with apple slices cut into stars, strawberries, grapes, and blueberries.
July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Edited version of the Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast title page, replacing "Room For Everyone" with "Not For Everyone"
June 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A yard sign reading "Butterflies Love Parsley and the Constitution. Pollinator Gardens for Democracy." Dill, fennel, and bee balm are also listed in a haphazard manner.
May 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Your Proper Place, my incomplete ashcan YA fantasy ttrpg about breaking rules and finding a place to fit in, now has really fun cover art by the amazing @angryartist.bsky.social!

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Cover of "Your Proper Place" by Xavid, showing an older woman with a clawed cane, a brightly-dressed juggler, a person embroidering in an embroidery hoop, a black teenaged girl with batlike wings, and a mouse making their way through a grassy stone labyrinth.
April 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I'll be at Arisia tomorrow at Sarah Morrison's Artist Guest of Honor signing with some Dreampunk stuff. If you're there, come say hi!
Work-in-progress shots of a painting showing a fox person tending a plant in a corporate conference room. The left shows a sketch with some brown added, the right adds more color and shadow.
January 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Check out "Knowing Forever", a modern mythology flash fiction by Sarah Grace Tuttle: sites.google.com/newmyths.com...
The text "They wed where her ice began, on the mountain she could never leave. From 'Knowing Forever' by Sarah Grace Tuttle. NewMyths.com" on a mountain background.
December 30, 2024 at 3:29 AM