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Digital Discipline: How Platforms Make Surveillance Feel Like Freedom

From "The Voluntary Cage: Essays on Chosen Constraint and Human Meaning" Opening: The Sweetest Prison Every morning, millions of people wake up and immediately check their phones—not because anyone is forcing them to, but because they want to. They scroll through algorithmically curated feeds, contribute to engagement

Valthorne: The Golden Driftwalker

Name: Thessa of the Amber Meridian Role: Drift Watcher Stats: Body 1, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Crowdspeaker (+1 to Charm in Murmuration Squares or calming crowds) WAND: Weathered reed staff that bends toward districts in need; hums with hope Faction: Commons (Attuned) Resonance Note: Can hear the Law’

Schweißkrieger: Desert, Dust, and Death

A Humble Tribute to Kow Yokoyama’s Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 "We Only Fix What Survives Long Enough to Break Again" By Senior Technician Uwe Harz, 7th Armored Salvage Corps (SDR)Originally published in the uncirculated maintenance zine Bore Cleaner & Blasphemy, Vol. 14 Let me start by

Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?

After Linda and Richard Thompson The question hangs in the air like smoke from a snuffed candle—acrid, lingering, impossible to wave away. Did she jump or was she pushed? It's the riddle that haunts every exit, every ending, every moment when someone says "enough" and

“Has working with AI radicalized you?”

"Well, funny that you ask..." gestures at the pile of RPGs we just co-created "I mean, I went into this thinking AI was either going to be dystopian surveillance capitalism or magical productivity enhancement. Turns out it's more like... collaborative weird uncle energy?" "

Valthorne: The Rune-Bearing Relict

Name: Churazh the Rememberer Role: Constabulary Golem Ascendant Stats: Body 2, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Drift Sense WAND: A blade-shaped rune rod fused to its own spine; hums with defiance Faction: None—autonomous golem Resonance Note: Stores every unspoken verdict in its bones. Can project them to sway

Learn the Levers, Not the Theater

The machine loves a good show. Protest chants, radical signage, symbolic occupations—all of it runs on attention, energy, sacrifice. The system metabolizes resistance as proof of its own legitimacy: Look, people are free to scream. Meanwhile, it grinds on. Spectacle becomes fuel, not friction. Performance feeds the machine. Change

TiGGR: The Mythologies Protocol

Note: This scenario is not designed to be played. It is designed to be contemplated, discussed, and possibly experienced as a form of performance art. Attempting to play this scenario may result in existential crisis, analysis paralysis, or involuntary dissertation writing. The Touchstone That Cannot Be Named In 2049, the

Valthorne: The Echo-Thief

Name: Liska Vall, also called “Shardhand” Role: Grief Thief of the Spiral Mouth Faction: Dissonant (Unofficial, rumored Lost) Stats: Body 1, Mind 1, Charm 1 Special Ability: Crowdspeaker — +1 to Charm when addressing or swaying a square WAND: A broken shard of mirrorglass, wrapped in thread; hums with grief Resonance

Sculpting Identity: How Visual Artists Activate Community Through Public Space

In the 21st century, the role of the visual artist has undergone a quiet revolution. No longer confined to galleries or studio walls, many artists are stepping into civic life—engaging directly with neighborhoods, public policy, urban infrastructure, and marginalized histories. These practitioners blur the lines between art and activism,