#scribesandmakers — Public Fediverse posts

Here's my announcement to anyone in our lovely #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #ScribesAndMakers #WordWeavers #PennedPossibilities who might be interested, that on this new blog I'll be recording progress and thoughts etc. on the new novel I'm about to start writing. I'll link below to today's entry, which is my second on the blog but I doubt I'll be doing it strictly weekly as we go along because I don't intend to impose that pressure on myself. So:

https://davidbridgerwip.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/my-new-work-timetable/

#ScribesAndMakers № 13 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I have been using computers since there were personal computers or personal screens with pixels. My friend was cutting edge because they bought an IMSAI kit (look it up) with 256 bytes of serial RAM. You read that right, 256. It had no display. It had lights above dip switches. You put an AM radio near it and tuned in the music the running machine programmatically made. NO PIXELS. I did have a Balley game console. It was all 16-bit pixels, none of which I could make art with.

My Apple ][ Plus years later had pixel games. I don't think I used it for art. Later, my original Fat Mac came with Quick Draw and Mac Paint, which allowed me to draw things with the mouse. The sketches I've found with notes for very early story files are really bad. Personally, I prefer oil pastels for art and pencil for sketching, and I'm not calling that big A art, either. I'm not much of an artist; I haven't done pixel are except to create icons for programs. I do work with my iPad acting as a tablet when working with photos in Photoshop. Photography is my art.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#ScribesAndMakers № 13 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I have been using computers since there were personal computers or personal screens with pixels. My friend was cutting edge because they bought an IMSAI kit (look it up) with 256 bytes of serial RAM. You read that right, 256. It had no display. It had lights above dip switches. You put an AM radio near it and tuned in the music the running machine programmatically made. NO PIXELS. I did have a Balley game console. It was all 16-bit pixels, none of which I could make art with.

My Apple ][ Plus years later had pixel games. I don't think I used it for art. Later, my original Fat Mac came with Quick Draw and Mac Paint, which allowed me to draw things with the mouse. The sketches I've found with notes for very early story files are really bad. Personally, I prefer oil pastels for art and pencil for sketching, and I'm not calling that big A art, either. I'm not much of an artist; I haven't done pixel are except to create icons for programs. I do work with my iPad acting as a tablet when working with photos in Photoshop. Photography is my art.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
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#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 13 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I have been using computers since there were personal computers or personal screens with pixels. My friend was cutting edge because they bought an IMSAI kit (look it up) with 256 bytes of serial RAM. You read that right, 256. It had no display. It had lights above dip switches. You put an AM radio near it and tuned in the music the running machine programmatically made. NO PIXELS. I did have a Balley game console. It was all 16-bit pixels, none of which I could make art with.

My Apple ][ Plus years later had pixel games. I don't think I used it for art. Later, my original Fat Mac came with Quick Draw and Mac Paint, which allowed me to draw things with the mouse. The sketches I've found with notes for very early story files are really bad. Personally, I prefer oil pastels for art and pencil for sketching, and I'm not calling that big A art, either. I'm not much of an artist; I haven't done pixel are except to create icons for programs. I do work with my iPad acting as a tablet when working with photos in Photoshop. Photography is my art.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
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#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 13 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I have been using computers since there were personal computers or personal screens with pixels. My friend was cutting edge because they bought an IMSAI kit (look it up) with 256 bytes of serial RAM. You read that right, 256. It had no display. It had lights above dip switches. You put an AM radio near it and tuned in the music the running machine programmatically made. NO PIXELS. I did have a Balley game console. It was all 16-bit pixels, none of which I could make art with.

My Apple ][ Plus years later had pixel games. I don't think I used it for art. Later, my original Fat Mac came with Quick Draw and Mac Paint, which allowed me to draw things with the mouse. The sketches I've found with notes for very early story files are really bad. Personally, I prefer oil pastels for art and pencil for sketching, and I'm not calling that big A art, either. I'm not much of an artist; I haven't done pixel are except to create icons for programs. I do work with my iPad acting as a tablet when working with photos in Photoshop. Photography is my art.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 13 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I have been using computers since there were personal computers or personal screens with pixels. My friend was cutting edge because they bought an IMSAI kit (look it up) with 256 bytes of serial RAM. You read that right, 256. It had no display. It had lights above dip switches. You put an AM radio near it and tuned in the music the running machine programmatically made. NO PIXELS. I did have a Balley game console. It was all 16-bit pixels, none of which I could make art with.

My Apple ][ Plus years later had pixel games. I don't think I used it for art. Later, my original Fat Mac came with Quick Draw and Mac Paint, which allowed me to draw things with the mouse. The sketches I've found with notes for very early story files are really bad. Personally, I prefer oil pastels for art and pencil for sketching, and I'm not calling that big A art, either. I'm not much of an artist; I haven't done pixel are except to create icons for programs. I do work with my iPad acting as a tablet when working with photos in Photoshop. Photography is my art.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
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photographer chef cooking #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

Who wouldn't like to immerse themselves in a little humor if forced to fly these days? Wanna bet that everyone in that row is reading BEER POUR? #beerpour #flying #beer #humor #books #bookstodon #booksky #airtravel #plane #airport #airports #flights #flying #humorous #funny #fun #jet #reading #mastodon #readingcommunity #novels #novels #satire #romanticSuspense #romantic #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #scribesAndMakers #author #indieAuthor #authorLife #authors

Who wouldn't like to immerse themselves in a little humor if forced to fly these days? Wanna bet that everyone in that row is reading BEER POUR? #beerpour #flying #beer #humor #books #bookstodon #booksky #airtravel #plane #airport #airports #flights #flying #humorous #funny #fun #jet #reading #mastodon #readingcommunity #novels #novels #satire #romanticSuspense #romantic #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #scribesAndMakers #author #indieAuthor #authorLife #authors

Who wouldn't like to immerse themselves in a little humor if forced to fly these days? Wanna bet that everyone in that row is reading BEER POUR? #beerpour #flying #beer #humor #books #bookstodon #booksky #airtravel #plane #airport #airports #flights #flying #humorous #funny #fun #jet #reading #mastodon #readingcommunity #novels #novels #satire #romanticSuspense #romantic #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #scribesAndMakers #author #indieAuthor #authorLife #authors

Who wouldn't like to immerse themselves in a little humor if forced to fly these days? Wanna bet that everyone in that row is reading BEER POUR? #beerpour #flying #beer #humor #books #bookstodon #booksky #airtravel #plane #airport #airports #flights #flying #humorous #funny #fun #jet #reading #mastodon #readingcommunity #novels #novels #satire #romanticSuspense #romantic #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #scribesAndMakers #author #indieAuthor #authorLife #authors

Who wouldn't like to immerse themselves in a little humor if forced to fly these days? Wanna bet that everyone in that row is reading BEER POUR? #beerpour #flying #beer #humor #books #bookstodon #booksky #airtravel #plane #airport #airports #flights #flying #humorous #funny #fun #jet #reading #mastodon #readingcommunity #novels #novels #satire #romanticSuspense #romantic #writersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #scribesAndMakers #author #indieAuthor #authorLife #authors

#ScribesAndMakers № 12 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I played MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) for ten years, finally ending when our party of adventurers defeated a Nazgûl, one of the nine ringwraiths. I played a hobbit mage, which is pretty impossible to begin with considering how unmagical they are. I managed to roll two 100s in a row with a third high die, in the 90s if I recall, using a spell through a multiplier item, and between us all, we defeated the monster, and the GM! The scenario had been created to once and for all kill off the party since we'd played all the modules and everything he created. It had been an adventure. Our characters got retired.

Playing the game generated an idea not related to Tolkien IP for a novel (I wrote a first chapter). I also wrote short story in the same fantasy universe—which was actually SF in disguise—featuring a female to male trans protagonist who encounters a being made of fire. It got accepted into an anthology. Sadly, the publisher went out of business and it never got published because it was too niche.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#ScribesAndMakers № 12 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I played MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) for ten years, finally ending when our party of adventurers defeated a Nazgûl, one of the nine ringwraiths. I played a hobbit mage, which is pretty impossible to begin with considering how unmagical they are. I managed to roll two 100s in a row with a third high die, in the 90s if I recall, using a spell through a multiplier item, and between us all, we defeated the monster, and the GM! The scenario had been created to once and for all kill off the party since we'd played all the modules and everything he created. It had been an adventure. Our characters got retired.

Playing the game generated an idea not related to Tolkien IP for a novel (I wrote a first chapter). I also wrote short story in the same fantasy universe—which was actually SF in disguise—featuring a female to male trans protagonist who encounters a being made of fire. It got accepted into an anthology. Sadly, the publisher went out of business and it never got published because it was too niche.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#fantasy
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#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 12 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I played MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) for ten years, finally ending when our party of adventurers defeated a Nazgûl, one of the nine ringwraiths. I played a hobbit mage, which is pretty impossible to begin with considering how unmagical they are. I managed to roll two 100s in a row with a third high die, in the 90s if I recall, using a spell through a multiplier item, and between us all, we defeated the monster, and the GM! The scenario had been created to once and for all kill off the party since we'd played all the modules and everything he created. It had been an adventure. Our characters got retired.

Playing the game generated an idea not related to Tolkien IP for a novel (I wrote a first chapter). I also wrote short story in the same fantasy universe—which was actually SF in disguise—featuring a female to male trans protagonist who encounters a being made of fire. It got accepted into an anthology. Sadly, the publisher went out of business and it never got published because it was too niche.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#fantasy
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 12 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I played MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) for ten years, finally ending when our party of adventurers defeated a Nazgûl, one of the nine ringwraiths. I played a hobbit mage, which is pretty impossible to begin with considering how unmagical they are. I managed to roll two 100s in a row with a third high die, in the 90s if I recall, using a spell through a multiplier item, and between us all, we defeated the monster, and the GM! The scenario had been created to once and for all kill off the party since we'd played all the modules and everything he created. It had been an adventure. Our characters got retired.

Playing the game generated an idea not related to Tolkien IP for a novel (I wrote a first chapter). I also wrote short story in the same fantasy universe—which was actually SF in disguise—featuring a female to male trans protagonist who encounters a being made of fire. It got accepted into an anthology. Sadly, the publisher went out of business and it never got published because it was too niche.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
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photographer chef cooking
#fantasy
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers № 12 ('26 May) Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I played MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) for ten years, finally ending when our party of adventurers defeated a Nazgûl, one of the nine ringwraiths. I played a hobbit mage, which is pretty impossible to begin with considering how unmagical they are. I managed to roll two 100s in a row with a third high die, in the 90s if I recall, using a spell through a multiplier item, and between us all, we defeated the monster, and the GM! The scenario had been created to once and for all kill off the party since we'd played all the modules and everything he created. It had been an adventure. Our characters got retired.

Playing the game generated an idea not related to Tolkien IP for a novel (I wrote a first chapter). I also wrote short story in the same fantasy universe—which was actually SF in disguise—featuring a female to male trans protagonist who encounters a being made of fire. It got accepted into an anthology. Sadly, the publisher went out of business and it never got published because it was too niche.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
photographer chef cooking
#fantasy
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion

#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Oh most certainly! I mostly Dungeon Master games.

I like doing board game design for fun and I have injected some of my own design ideas into a session or magic item along the way.

My best was the Pirate’s Parlay. Built out a social encounter with some skill check elements that made things interesting and fun. Grog was involved 😁
#ttrpg #gamedesign

#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Oh most certainly! I mostly Dungeon Master games.

I like doing board game design for fun and I have injected some of my own design ideas into a session or magic item along the way.

My best was the Pirate’s Parlay. Built out a social encounter with some skill check elements that made things interesting and fun. Grog was involved 😁
#ttrpg #gamedesign

#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Oh most certainly! I mostly Dungeon Master games.

I like doing board game design for fun and I have injected some of my own design ideas into a session or magic item along the way.

My best was the Pirate’s Parlay. Built out a social encounter with some skill check elements that made things interesting and fun. Grog was involved 😁
#ttrpg #gamedesign

#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Oh most certainly! I mostly Dungeon Master games.

I like doing board game design for fun and I have injected some of my own design ideas into a session or magic item along the way.

My best was the Pirate’s Parlay. Built out a social encounter with some skill check elements that made things interesting and fun. Grog was involved 😁
#ttrpg #gamedesign

#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Oh most certainly! I mostly Dungeon Master games.

I like doing board game design for fun and I have injected some of my own design ideas into a session or magic item along the way.

My best was the Pirate’s Parlay. Built out a social encounter with some skill check elements that made things interesting and fun. Grog was involved 😁
#ttrpg #gamedesign

#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to love

In the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons

... and probably some more I forgot.

#ttrpg #pnp #larp

#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to love

In the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons

... and probably some more I forgot.

#ttrpg #pnp #larp

#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to love

In the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons

... and probably some more I forgot.

#ttrpg #pnp #larp

#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to love

In the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons

... and probably some more I forgot.

#ttrpg #pnp #larp

#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to love

In the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons

... and probably some more I forgot.

#ttrpg #pnp #larp

#ScribesAndMakers 5/11: Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I’ve GM a #Shadowrun table for years with a set of original campaigns I wrote. Balance the rotating cast with the needs of the plot and giving every character a chance to shine. Love it. I backed Anarchy 2.0 on Kickstarter and can’t wait for the physical copy to get here.

I tend to run my tables with ‘the rule of cool’ which is that I am more concerned about things being fun than what the crunch of the dice and rules say.

#ScribesAndMakers May 11: Though it can be hard to choose favorites and you may not be a fan of his work, which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best?

The Merchant of Venice. Portia is badass and not given nearly enough credit for winning that court case.

#RomanceAuthor #romanceReaders #Romancelandia

#scribesAndMakers
Rom&jules is the shake (spear) i'm most versed in

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #music #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #notBonk
SongAwfulJouRapNal20260511 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28845

#peerTube #makingOf #video:
https://spectra.video/w/tggYYdBKiHFsZaiqN5rVxN

#wordWeavers
as you can probably tell i recently had some fun making a song about how bad my songs are : )

#scribesAndMakers
Rom&jules is the shake (spear) i'm most versed in

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #music #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #notBonk
SongAwfulJouRapNal20260511 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28845

#peerTube #makingOf #video:
https://spectra.video/w/tggYYdBKiHFsZaiqN5rVxN

#wordWeavers
as you can probably tell i recently had some fun making a song about how bad my songs are : )

#scribesAndMakers
Rom&jules is the shake (spear) i'm most versed in

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #music #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #notBonk
SongAwfulJouRapNal20260511 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28845

#peerTube #makingOf #video:
https://spectra.video/w/tggYYdBKiHFsZaiqN5rVxN

#wordWeavers
as you can probably tell i recently had some fun making a song about how bad my songs are : )

#scribesAndMakers
Rom&jules is the shake (spear) i'm most versed in

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #music #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #notBonk
SongAwfulJouRapNal20260511 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28845

#peerTube #makingOf #video:
https://spectra.video/w/tggYYdBKiHFsZaiqN5rVxN

#wordWeavers
as you can probably tell i recently had some fun making a song about how bad my songs are : )

#scribesAndMakers
Rom&jules is the shake (spear) i'm most versed in

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #music #artiphon #orba #weeklyBeats #notBonk
SongAwfulJouRapNal20260511 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28845

#peerTube #makingOf #video:
https://spectra.video/w/tggYYdBKiHFsZaiqN5rVxN

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as you can probably tell i recently had some fun making a song about how bad my songs are : )

#ScribesAndMakers 11 May: Though it can be hard to choose favorites and you may not be a fan of his work, which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best?
I'm a great fan of Macbeth. Witches and ghosts and lots of angst and action, and the bad guys get theirs at the end. #macbeth

#ScribesAndMakers 11. May: Which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best?

Difficult, either Winters Tale or The Tempest.

To be fair though, there are very few I don't like if done well.

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#ScribesAndMakers 11. May: Which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best?

Hmm… that’s a tough one. I’d be tempted to rate them by body count.

Hamlet’s the one usually thought to be the epitome of everyone dies in the end, but it’s only 9 deaths meaning it ties with King Lear and Macbeth.

Richard the third totals 11 deaths, leaving Titus Andronicus the clear winner with 13 of the grisliest deaths.

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#ScribesAndMakers
Leviathan?

Excellent trilogy by Scott Westerfeld.

#books #steampunk #reading #writing

#ScribesAndMakers 8. Leviathan?

My cat is Leviathan! We call him Levi for short. He’s a little sea monster (especially if we’re taking him to the vet).

If you ever see a leviathan in something my partner or I have created, chances are it has some reference back to our cat.

Pictured: our cat and an early version of a card from a game I made.

#caturday #blackcat #gamedesign #boardgames

#ScribesAndMakers 8. Leviathan?

My cat is Leviathan! We call him Levi for short. He’s a little sea monster (especially if we’re taking him to the vet).

If you ever see a leviathan in something my partner or I have created, chances are it has some reference back to our cat.

Pictured: our cat and an early version of a card from a game I made.

#caturday #blackcat #gamedesign #boardgames

#ScribesAndMakers 8. Leviathan?

My cat is Leviathan! We call him Levi for short. He’s a little sea monster (especially if we’re taking him to the vet).

If you ever see a leviathan in something my partner or I have created, chances are it has some reference back to our cat.

Pictured: our cat and an early version of a card from a game I made.

#caturday #blackcat #gamedesign #boardgames

#ScribesAndMakers May 8: Leviathan?

Wakes, and then later falls. IYKYK, and if you don't, read #TheExpanse to find out.

#ScribesAndMakers - 8th May. Leviathan?

Hmmm, maybe someday I'll rewrite my version of the Bible.
Till then, I'll focus on my smut stories...

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It's National Beverage Day. Statistically, the most popular beverages in the world are water and tea, I believe. But beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world. For years, Japanese beer advertisers would come to the U.S. to make commercials for their beers. #beverage #beer #advertising #ad #ads #film #book #booksky #bookstodon #books #bottle #glass #beers #brewer #scribesAndMakers #commercial #filmmaking #alcohol #novels #novel

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.05.06 — Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create or share a word you've created.

Here are some synthetic words. I keep a lexicon for the Reluctance Series to add them to, along with regular words the definition of which I've either extended or warped. The definitions below were tuned to lessen any spoilers, not to mislead.

Arithmocosm: The vivid mindscape a daemon sees when they think mathematically.

Chromatype: 1. A trait passed to one's children without out the aid of the chromosomes, but instead is a flight of epigenetic switches reluctantly† turned on or off around the time of conception. 2. A type of human differentiated only by the epigenetic switches inherited from either their mother or their father.

Crystalscaphe: A word for spaceship where the destination traveled within is not exactly space—powered not by rockets but by miracles. Derived from bathyscaphe, if you wish to ponder what the word could mean further.

Idioglyph: An idiosyncratic marking associated with all chromatypes. Some people even think they say something about them. Also, informal, singular: idy; plural: iddies.

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† The various forms of the word reluctance are important to the series of stories. It is both a MacGuffin and a glue that holds the stories together, and saying anymore would be spoilers.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#ScribesAndMakers 20260505 — Have you ever worked with collage?

I went to school when art was still considered an essential subject in school. I'm sure I've committed collage once or twice in the lower grades, and a science project poster that could pass as a better example of the same.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/independent-bookstore-revival-amazon-decline-local-retail-reading-trends/

onward and upward #indie #bookstores

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#ScribesAndMakers Day 5: Have you ever worked with collage?

Not my thing...

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.05.04 — How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart?

I know by heart:

1. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
2. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
3. O Tannenbaum — Oops, that was in German and I've forgotten parts.
4. Kimba, the White Lion

This list probably says something about me…

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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antiflaw: imperfectionism

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #artiphon #orba #music for #weeklyBeats
DamnBeaverJouRapNal20260504 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28582

#peerTube making of #video:
https://spectra.video/w/v8MRfyLLck8d6Jf71KraHn

#scribesAndMakers
freestyle because i never managed to hold a full song in my heart

#wordWeavers
antiflaw: imperfectionism

#jouRapNal #mirloMondays #artiphon #orba #music for #weeklyBeats
DamnBeaverJouRapNal20260504 on Mirlo
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/jourapnal/tracks/28582

#peerTube making of #video:
https://spectra.video/w/v8MRfyLLck8d6Jf71KraHn

#scribesAndMakers
freestyle because i never managed to hold a full song in my heart