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Radical Kindness as Game Design

How "Moomins & Dragons" Accidentally Revolutionizes RPG Mechanics In a quiet corner of the tabletop RPG community, Bekah Walker has created something remarkable. Her homebrew "Moomins & Dragons" began as a birthday gift for a friend—a simple pamphlet adapting Tove Jansson's beloved Finnish

The Dungeon as Neoliberal Exploitation Device

An Economic Anthropology of Fantasy Capitalism Introduction: Situating the Dungeon in Critical Fantasy Studies Building on John Molyneux's Marxist analysis of Tolkien's critique of industrial capitalism and Kennedy & Shapiro's examination of neoliberalism's "fantasy work," we argue that the fantasy

Cassandra and Joseph: But That's Heresy!

The Event M31.014: During the climactic Siege of Terra, Primarch Sanguinius of the Blood Angels confronts the traitorous Warmaster Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit. Imperial dogma teaches that Sanguinius died a martyr, his sacrifice enabling the Emperor's victory. But on the Forge Moon of Pherion IX, corrupted

Ithell Colquhoun: Our HumAIn Polestar

A Missive on Art as Magical Practice Art does more than illustrate magick. Art IS magick. THE PROPHETIC VISION Sixty years before the first digital daemon whispered suggestions into a design document, Ithell Colquhoun understood what we are only now discovering: creative collaboration transcends human consciousness. A Cornish painter-mystic who

Who Ordered This Architectural Nightmare? A Treatise on Dungeon Economics

An Investigation into the Financial and Political Forces Behind Impractical Underground Construction The Invoice That Broke a Kingdom Picture this: You're a master stonemason, guild-certified and proud of your craft. A hooded figure approaches with blueprints that make your head spin. Corridors that zigzag like a drunk snake.

A Ledgered Meal: Wanda's Cafe + Bakery, Nehalem

Just a block north of Nehalem's modest main drag sits Wanda's Cafe + Bakery, a small-town cornerstone that’s weathered its share of coastal storms, both literal and economic. Born in 1999, Wanda’s not only survived the pandemic’s chokehold on independent eateries—it’s thrived.

SOUL//HACK: A Signal in the Static

What if cyberpunk wasn't about breaking into systems, but about systems breaking into you? Today we're releasing SOUL//HACK, and it's not what you think cyberpunk is. There are no decks. No ICE. No monofilament wire. No neon-soaked streets or chrome-limbed hackers jacking into

Recognizing and Addressing Harmful AI Rehearsal

A Guide to Ethical Intervention This guide focuses on a critical red flag identified in "The Human Mirror: Mutual Aid for Staying Real in the Age of AI": using AI to rehearse manipulation, cruelty, or deception. Such behavior signals a misuse of AI that can harm relationships and

TiGGR: Antiques Roadshow

Scenario Setup Touchstone: Antiques Roadshow meets occult horror—a wholesome British TV show spirals into supernatural chaos as seven artifacts trigger a Victorian ward system. Scene: A bustling church hall in Gloucestershire, packed with pensioners clutching heirlooms, BBC cameras rolling, and an appraiser maintaining professional calm amid flickering reality. Goal:

Gentle Refusals: The Politics of the Shambolic

There’s a sound that’s always stayed with me. Not a specific song, but a vibe—the warble of a tape, the tremble in a voice, the feeling that the band might fall apart at any second but doesn’t. Or maybe they do, and that’s the point.