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Make A Manifesto, Damn You

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  Make A Manifesto, Damn You I made this for Manifesto Jam 2026 . For a full free art version, check it out on itch.io here .

There's a Pain in the Back of My Neck

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I am a sensitive person, and the world is too hard for me right now. Collage by me. Enough 2 (2026).

I published a game (and have cool friends)

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Announcement! Game! A roleplaying game on my roleplaying game blog? No way. But I'm excited to share that it's my first published game (that's not an anthology of other people's games)! Very exciting stuff.  

Divine Suffering and Forest Cathedrals

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Collage by me. Don't Fear the Reaper (2025). What my mother and the trees taught me was this - there are 3 places to touch the divine. The cathedral, the theater, and the forest. The cathedral sparkles. There's exquisite suffering in Catholicism. And I really admire it, how aesthetically rich that suffering is, the way they dramatize it, the way they bring excruciating death to life. I love the gold, the scale, the awe, the detail, the light, the dazzling array of beauties reaching beyond one's tiny human form. To experience it, one had to shut themself off, contort themself; simmer in doubt, shame, guilt, fear; wonder and awe at the blood and sacrifice, the wine and incense, the dread secrets. The cathedral's music, soaring high, high, arced by the gay music director, then silenced by a new bishop. At least that was my experience of it. If you don't grow up in a cathedral, you cannot possibly imagine (I imagine) the shame dug into your breasts and the fuzzy disappe...