Sporian Games is Calling Paypros

A footnote on a document. "Sporian is one of the pseudonyms traditionally used by the University of North Washington’s history department to avoid individual litigation towards faculty and students by state prosecutors. One can read more about the Pseudonym Protection Program in the UNW Anti-Prosecution Style guide. Requests for authorship and communication can be done through the History Department. One can learn more about the history of Sporian as a pseudonym in Valence, Misty. “Sporian: Authorship in Zines and Games in the 2020s,” Analog Game Histories 23, No. 3 (2xxx): 150-165, or by visiting an archived version of Sporian-attributed works at https://sporian.itch.io. "

I haven't posted much, but I have been writing, designing, and working on projects. Here's a snippet of fiction that I think does a lot of the stuff I like; playing with authorship, anonymization, making commentary on the future, and advertising my other work. I think it hits.

Writing a GMed game for the first time in my artistic career and thinking about how to create in-game solutions for this. What are some examples in GMed games you play to create inter-player talk? I'm thinking:

- The way whispers and twists work in Wild Word systems
- Deals with the devil in FitD

The censorship coming for video games in the Trump-era is a problem, even if you never plan to buy NSFW games.

postgame.substack.com/p/why-nsfw-g...

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Garden of Earthly Delights

Garden of Earthly Delights

V:AstridGirlie

Upon more thought (and a lovely DM from a fan!!) I realize that [DON'T] Kiss Your Friends is incredibly expressionist in its function. It's a good example of expressionist play in action.

I can't wait to evoke expressionism on purpose next time.

sporian.itch.io/dont-kiss-yo...

The Expressionist Games Manifesto “Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

TB wife coded

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Based on how liberals understand politics I assume I'll see some of them suddenly support the ban now that the Wrong People spoke up against it

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

After many years of testing, edits, art, and layout, FATHOM - the surreal TTRPG of drifters exploring the depths of the urban UnReal by @matthewguz.bsky.social and me - is finally finished.

v1.0 release is out now - for free - on itch.io

sulcata.itch.io/fathom

If you are an American trans person doing any kind of creative and intellectual labor, *no matter how famous,* the #1 thing on your mind should be 'how can I continue this work under fascism?'

We are essential workers for our community. You don't walk around in a pandemic unmasked.

A ★★★★½ review of An Injury to One (2002) "It is 1864. The Montana Territory is carved out of Idaho and a colonial economy is adopted. From the inception of the territory, all of Montana's salient industries are extractive. According to this ...

Just watched Travis Wilkerson's amazing 2002 documentary about Butte/Frank Little, *An Injury to One,* and it's eerie how much it felt like a video essay of the modern era. Felt like a narrative pairing to @foldablehuman.bsky.social 's Mantracks. Really engaging. letterboxd.com/sporian/film...

I think my favorite depression symptom is the psychomotor stuff because it makes everything feel so impressive.

Me, in my head: grab the salt for the sauce.
(I watch myself for 10 seconds as I slowly reach my hand up and put it on the salt)
Me, nodding, out loud: Hell yeah. Nice.

the god damn fellas

7 part pact but it's superheroes and it's critiquing all the different ways heroes face problems would go hard. One person could be the cosmic level hero, one the street crime person... you could do such insightful critique of the genre through play

Batting Order: (NEW 2025) Teams may bat any number of players (minimum of 10) as long as they alternate sexes. Note: should a team have any non-binary individuals, they should follow the sequence of: M, F, NB. (Ex. M, F, NB, M, F, M, F, M, F, M, F). A team may bat extra males (or NB players using a 12” ball) BUT must take an out between when the males (or NB players using a 12” ball) are batting consecutively. Females (or non-binary players hitting with an 11” ball) can hit consecutively without taking an out between batters. Players in the lineup may play defensively with free substitutions. Players not listed in the batting order may substitute into the game per normal substitution rules.

Looking into playing rec league softball with my friends and checked in on the rules about coed to see if there'll be a problem with trans stuff, and found some of the funniest regulations I've ever seen.

You ever see liberals legislate themselves into a tizzy trying to be """fair"""??

Both of these works have been instrumental to me in my work. I care about them a lot.

I do actually think my biblical literacy is a bit of a crutch I use in my writing sometimes. I think if I relied on it less I'd make more interesting worm.

But I did just write down, to describe myself in a zine, "HAIRIER THAN ESAU, GENTLER THAN MARY," and I just can't beat it.

this is a poem by isabelle correa called on my history of kissing everyone at parties

AAAAAAAAAAAA adore this. Really good

....I do think that at some point we are just reinventing forums with a strong tagging system.

Which I'd love! I was never there for either The Forge or G+, but I really like the forum system as an alternatehistory.com fiend

Or, or or or, hear this: if you make multiple reviews (as I am want to do on LB for every time I rewatch Bullet Ballet), they show up as a blog; one after the other.

I'm very interested in this! I think a letterboxd for TTRPGs would need two categories of review: one where you just read the book and one where you played it.

Volume of reviews would be a lot lower per-user, too, so the app should incentivize comments, which LB doesn't.

STOP BEING AFRAID OF BEING CRINGE AND START BEING AFRAID OF BEING BORING!!!!

EXPRESS YOURSELF OR YOU'LL DIE

Life has been so busy/crushing that I haven't even celebrated 1,000 downloads on itch.

Regardless, I'm very proud. I promise, new work is on the way and I hope to have multiple places to find it.

But I'm focusing on the thing that really sustains me: playing games.