Gwend💫lyn Vines

It's an incredible show. I wish I could watch it again for the first time!

RIP, I never went ): I was in an Uber pool once that picked people up outside there though! (Are Uber pools still a thing?)

Oooo which one I need to know

I'd do the same but for sushi

Congrats!!!!

My toddler's latest musical obsession is "hana castle" (Hanneke Cassel). Constantly wants to listen or watch videos of her fiddling (sometimes along with "big guitar" which is a cello). I think I'm raising a fiddler, y'all...

They just need to Google "em-dash" and copy paste it every time they want to use it like a truly lazy writer. Not that I'd know anything about that....

I am SO HERE FOR THIS

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

this is the way

Loot that drops after defeating me:
-A pacifier
-A Pilot Vanishing Point
-Three little packets of konpeitō
-A Hot Wheels monster truck
-the biggest size of Owala

Programs for Animazement 2003 and Trinoc*coN 2004 (July 23-25 Durham NC) with a greyscale dragon depicted on a galactic background.

Happened upon some of my old convention programs and let me just say that everything and everyone felt a lot more fun and approachable 22-23 years ago than they do now! I miss groups of nerds meeting and nerd rotting together. RIP Trinoc*coN and free artist's alley tables at Animazement....

Did I start outlining something super super indulgent as a break from Revbook? Yes, yes I did 👀

a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose"

a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

Treated myself to a fun animation of Jim in the smithy -- by the amazing @vetaprats!

#jimbook #writingcommunity

Scarborough Fair, the Simon and Garfunkel version. Or perhaps One Tin Soldier, not sure which came first.

Two sketches on a grey background of a stern, older purple-skinned elf man (dungeons and dragons character) with grey hair. It's shaved on the sides and pulled back on top into a series of hanging braids on the back of his head. He wears three turquoise pin-like earrings through the outer shell of his ear and the lobe. His ear has a nick in it.

Character sketches for my retired paladin for the next season of our play-by-post D&D game!

Okay but I actually really like A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms? It's a small story told amidst all these towering ones, and yeah, I could do without the bodily fluids and questionable prosthetics, but at its core it has a hero and a quiet grief I find compelling.

Map of the United States showing which states have departed from federal guidelines for childhood vaccines as of January 20, 2026. It's titled "Most States Now Depart From Federal Guidelines for Childhood Vaccines, Including All States with Democratic Governors." States with Republican governors are marked in red, and states with Democratic governors are marked in blue. Source is KFF.

All blue states (those with Democratic governors) have departed from new federal guidelines on childhood vaccines, while four states (AK, MS, NH, and VT) with Republican governors have also done so for at least some.

Dive into the details: https://on.kff.org/4b82tDQ

text reads: get to know my game taste, for every like i will post one game i love <3

get ready for a lot of ancient, very deep cuts. i was raised in the bowels of shareware and $5 discount CDs at the state fairgrounds computer show and CompUSA

okay...i'm gonna dip into the storm snacks...

Yes please!

Highly recommend Andor. It's SUCH a refreshing watch to have a show trust its audience to pick up on nuance and subtlety. The pacing is so much better when they don't need to stop to explain everything.

Game screenshot of Rainbow Islands featuring a redheaded sprinte jumping on a series of rainbows to reach new grassy platforms against a blue sky with oval clouds.

14: Bubble Bobble ft. Rainbow Islands (yes I'm cheating by combining these into one game but they were one collection...) My brother and I played the crap out of the BB games. Something about the gems and the letter bubbles in particular just scratched a platforming itch for me.

Old Mac window showign the game Moria, a dungeon roguelike depicted in ASCII characters

13: MacMoria (or just Moria, but I knew it as the former). A fun little roguelike that tickled the budding young D&D player in me as I wiped out C-shaped gelatinous cubes... You can play it online here! umoria.org/play/

Need For Speed 2 SE - McLaren F1 (Showcase Video) [HD 1080p] YouTube video by NFS2SE3HP4HS8U2

12: Need For Speed 2. I LOVED the NFS games. I played 2 and 3 so much that I figured out every place on every track that you could hit and clip off the map. I used to say the car I wanted when I grew up was a teal McLaren F1....and, I mean, that hasn't changed LOL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfF2...

YESSSSSS! My only foray into writing my own text based adventures was programming them into my TI-83 in middle school (and then my 83 was stolen and with it my only copy of my game, and I never programmed a game again, womp womp)

A screenshot of the game Emperor: Battle for Dune showing buildings and units and a GUI for building new units. Backdrop is a red sandy planet.

11: Emperor: Battle for Dune. I was big into RTS games at the turn of the century (lol) and while Emperor felt like Red Alert 2, I loved RA2 so I had no complaints haha. The sandworm mechanic was super fun & I even ran an Emperor themed guild on Neopets (circa when I met @quietsnooze.bsky.social )

Game screenshot of Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller. A redhaired woman hides behind a pew in a darkened church.

10: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller. Speaking of point and clicks, this is a modern one set in Boston that I really enjoyed - it's got a fun postcognition mechanic and does a good job with the Boston setting!

Game screenshot of Lighthouse the Dark Being looking out of the keyhole shaped window of a round, tan walled workshop at a mechanical bird man flying in for a landing. A desk is on the left, shelves on the right, and a number of objects are shown in the inventory in greyscale at the bottom of the screen (a bag, a bulb, a spring, some strange mechanical components)

#9 Lighthouse: The Dark Being. We were really into point and click games as a family and this is the other game that sent me into engineering (a third being the Incredible Machine, probably). Fun fact: the Jimseries contains some homages to Lighthouse!

A gears puzzle in the game Gizmos and Gadgets. Text reads "push all of the red buttons at the same time by turning the crank."

a blueprint of a Helicopter that can be built in the game Gizmos and Gadgets. Cursor is hovering over the transmission, which is labeled as such.

#8 Gizmos and Gadgets. This game low-key contributed to my studying mechanical engineering. (I feel like the 90s were a golden age of educational computer games, before graphics got too flashy and the internet got involved and microtransactions and touchscreens proliferated...)