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Dragula is back with corny puppets? This can only bring good things

Comics haul from Pretty Good Fest today! It was great to see some of the folks I know and meet some new ones. Got there in time to see the Chris Ware & Joe Swanberg conversation, too. prettygoodfest.com

I’m not sure what this means, but it seems important

No one knows I’m an X-Man

Saw Ken Russell’s The Devils last night, and I’ll never look at a crucifix the same way again

Game Hole Con: Day 4, Game 1 (of 1) - my one and only game the final day of Game Hole was Mothership. It was a module (Red Shift) run by the author so that was really cool. This system is a lot of fun for a one-shot. Great horror, Aliens-vibe

Game Hole Con: Day 3, Game 2 (of 2) - The Silt Verses. Another in the Carved from Brindlewood games from @gauntletrpg.bsky.social, this game thrusts you into the role of god-investigators, policing rogue gods in this universe as you navigate your own complicated relationship in your own worship.

Not the easiest one-shot to run for a con, but the GM managed with style! I did have some trouble shifting my brain into the right gear, but got there before it was done :)

Game Hole Con: Day 3, Game 1 (of 2) - now, Wildsea - what a setting! I’ve raved about this world before, but had yet to play in it. Funnily enough, this was run by someone I know from Chicago. This game really felt the most like we were building it as we went along via collaborative storytelling.

I played a collective colony of spiders inhabiting a canvas mannequin with a brass mask. Until recently, they were trapped in a prison of weird amber when a few hundred years ago the trees grew like lightning and didn’t stop growing, covering the planet and bringing about a cataclysm.

We sailed atop the green canopy of leaves in search of the regional bookmobile, the One Armed Scissor, a library -ship making the rounds of neighboring spits in the area, recently missing. Culture was starting to bloom in this new world, and we weren’t letting it go without a fight!

Game Hole Con: Day 2, Game 1 (of 1) - after three full games Thursday, Friday was a bit of a rest period with only a single game. My introduction to Pirate Borg was decent, but didn’t leave me wanting to run a campaign or anything.

Pirates are ok, but I think I need a bit more than zombie dust drugs to keep the campaign feeling exciting to me.

Game Hole Con: Day 1, Game 3 - Nahual, ¡Por el Cielo o el Infierno, Nos Alzamos! It was nice to play this Mexican game again, even if I was exhausted after a full day of gaming. I even brought my dice bag shaped like a Luchador mask.

The DM wasn’t *super* familiar with the system, but he was excited about the world and characters and that’s enough to make it fun.

Game Hole Con: Day 1, Game 2 - a Mork Borg OSR called Tales From the Tape Deck: Dawn Without a Coffin. It was a vampire game set to a soundtrack where the end of the set was when the sun rises. That was a neat way to add urgency to our actions and keep things moving.

I named my vampire Innocent, as he took a Papal name out of spite after the clergy turned him away

My first time with a Mork Borg game, it flowed quickly and encouraged a lot of creative ideas from the table. I’d definitely play in another MB game at some point

Game Hole Con: Day 1, Game 1 - A Daggerheart adventure called The Marauders of Windfall. Group was a good mix of people who’d played DH before and new players. A good twist left the characters caught in the middle of chaos between 2 factions. It was fun to play with the new character options.

I played a Gnome Brawler (Juggernaut), so that was a fun mix! A tiny dude with tons of armor and the ability to teleport.

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Dorothy

@catandgirl.bsky.social

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

Excited to be heading up to Madison this week for GameHole! It’ll be my first gaming con in a bit. Looking forward to playing some Mothership and Wildsea, spending time with the hubby, and just not working. 😴

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@cakechicago.bsky.social

.. can you feel it? Something in the air.. CAKE 2027 applications will be opening up at the end of the month! 🦇 🎃 🧙 #cake2027 #cakechicago

With the upcoming livestream of a public execution, we are one step closer to The Running Man.

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Erica Henderson

@ericafails.bsky.social

Good morning. Heres my favorite commission from the batch I did in the hotel room last night. I feel like someone mentioned Rumiko Takahashi yesterday and it came out in the face.

While my eggplant gently weeps

(making Sohla’s baking sheet eggplant parm)

Sometimes it’s the simple things .. daily puzzle joy

My bag? Swag! If Paddington is swaggy, I guess (which he totally is).

I loved when dad would take me to his league night and I would get lost in the alley’s arcade

Rooflemonger@rooflemongerreal.bsky.social

street fighter is gonna be 40 years old next year I played friggin sf1 in a bowling alley as a child in '89 im old

lastpinepress.comLast Pine PressGames and ephemera of Last Pine Press

That sounds cool as heck

jex thomas@lastpinepress.com

Anyway. Maybe this is a bunch of pretentious drivel, but if a sci fi game about unwilling child soldiers escaping the ancient religious order that kidnapped them as babies and empire it props up, please consider following along. lastpinepress.com#embers

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Dr. Eepy 🐯

@drtora.bsky.social

Happy FullMean Alchemist Girls Day

The year of the trans pride Lush tiger

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You should stop by for lunch.. 🕷️

Long live Queen Shannon

22 Sept

Earthbound showing you what was up 30+ years ago. Having fun watching Boy Meets Girl vids on YT

youtu.beHow Tim Curry Changed Your LifeYouTube video by Matt Baume

19 Sept

Can’t wait to see this! I know seeing Rocky Horror for the first time was a big step for me coming out…

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈@mattbaume.bsky.social

New video about Tim Curry premieres tomorrow! I see you shiver ... youtu.be/RTPd8FqVxS8

18 Sept

Chiitan goes *hard*!

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆@chiitan.love

LGBT souls exist🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No special permission is needed. Not understanding is no right to harm. Show courtesy, then step back. They want ordinary human things: laughter, love, and growth beside those they choose. To trans families — let’s keep smiling. Let’s fill the world with Love🌈

12 Sept

I haven’t tried strawberry mole bitters, but I’m very curious #sbk

@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

12 Sept

About to go play my first game of Mothership and now this sculpture has me wondering if we are going to meet any aliens that look like that

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Iron Circus Comics

11 Sept

In Chicago this weekend? 👀 Come spend Saturday with us at Chicago Indie Game Showcase! We'll also be here hosting a speaking panel with our very own @ironspike.bsky.social! 🎮 If you have a crowdfunding dream, now's the chance to get some advice and enjoy some games while you're at it! #CIGS 🚬⚙️

10 Sept

Bot hell. Order product A. Receive product B. Return it with a description of what happened and am then denied the refund because my return didn’t match the product ordered. Now I got this Magnus Robot Fighter energy welling up..

7 Sept

This is Bento, my friends’ pug. He is a cutie 🥰

I learned there was a game that is similar to @tcannoncomics.bsky.social ‘s comic of Dracula vs. Hi+l*r called “Eat the Reich” that I want to check out. Anyway, go buy Operation: Iron Coffin. Issue 2 out now!

In other RPG-news, I'm currently obsessing over The Wildsea. Such a cool setting, chock-full of weirdness and the fantastic. My brain is very task-oriented, though, which is at odds with the freewheeling, the-journey-is-the-adventure structure they've made.

I used LEGO to build my mini for a Daggerheart campaign that just wrapped. He’s a dwarf wizard brewmaster!

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mondayzc

@mondayzc.bsky.social

26 Aug

digital painting study from like ~15 seconds of the RHPC movie i did last year RIP Tim Curry what a guy

“No, that isn’t a shiny beetle under your sheets. It is a chunk of your flaked-off nail polish.” & other horror stories can be yours in this next collection by this horribly near-sighted author 🤓 👀