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Co-Founder @rascalnews | Words in Polygon, Autostraddle Email for press inquiries or story tips: Rowan@rascal.news 🏳️‍⚧️she/they

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imo it's really cool that Aftermath is both an entertainment journalism site and also a site *about* entertainment journalism

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Episode 7 is out! In this week's episode we chat with @rowanzeoli.bsky.social, TTRPG Journalist and Co-Founder of @rascalnews.bsky.social, about writing ABOUT roleplaying games, along with the state of the industry, starting your own business, and how fascism is bad.

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In this weeks Lay It On The Table, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social lives her Survivor Villain fantasy in Deathmatch Island - and thinks about what it means to play an "evil" character along the way

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So pleased to see Rascal cover this show. I couldn’t be more proud of the work that we did! Watch The Panic Table on YouTube!

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And I am 100% in agreement

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Godkiller: Oblivian is BlackwaterDND's intimate audio AP about confronting your destiny at the end of the world. Rascal talks with Christian Navarro, Jannes Wessels, and Em Carlson tabletop games

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The new @ttgda.bsky.social offers a library of educational resources and legal guidance for board game, TCG, and TTRPG designers.

Rascal interviewed co-founder @senfoonglim.bsky.social about why an association like this is needed in the rapidly growing tabletop industry

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Joseph Fink's avatar Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social
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found a chrome extension that hides this useless shit, but google still runs it, which means now searching stuff on google uses an inordinate amount of energy and water for literally no reason at all! cool!

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In this weeks Lay It On The Table, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social explores the impermanence of identity and post-apocalyptic vampire gunslingers in Bloodbeam Badlands

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Happy to answer any other questions you might have! My college trans/queer lit course was so important for me, happy to pass that on to a new generation of students!!

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Amazing!! Here's another article I wrote about transness and D&D for Autostraddle last year if you need some more information!

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Three years late, and months without an update: FunForge CEO expresses “frustration” that Monumental Kickstarter is still not ready to deliver

Read the full story in the latest BoardGameWire newsletter, plus all the other important industry news, jobs and more:

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For sure, and the steps itch has taken to clarify in their website in recent months will likely do *a lot* to help mitigate expectations But yeah, it always comes down to money, operating costs, and staff bandwidth — the communication lapses are symptomatic of that, and I hope find solutions

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That's fascinating! I spoke to the organizers of Games for Gaza, Trans Rights for Texas, Bundle for Buffalo, and an upcoming Palestine Bundle + some private sellers. The problem moreso was/is in the absence of communication over the course of months

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With over $2 Million raised for charity, the tabletop ecosystem proves it has money to donate, but can itch.io keep up in the future? I spoke to 4 different charity organizers that experienced delays in payouts, and even, in one case, never got the money at all.

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As more and more people turn to hobby-focused charity efforts, itch.io maintains its position as an indie darling, allowing smaller creators to contribute. But my investigation revealed a team that appears to be overwhelmed by how people are using its platform.

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In February, the organizer of Games for Gaza tweeted that they'd been ghosted by itch.io after raising $365,000. Speaking with a number of charity bundle organizers revealed this is a consistent pattern from the platform.

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While we’re at it, “pandemic fatigue” was, in many cases, fatigue with an incoherent state response. It was decision fatigue in a populace expected to fend for themselves without the expertise or information to do so. It was the exhaustion of hyperindividualism.

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🥺🥺 thank you Alex that's so kind

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I LOVE these, your students are brilliant

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Nothing radicalizes you like seeing all your freelancer friends have to pay 30% taxes on their poverty wages. Everyone is out of work, under employed, underpaid if at all. There are no savings and no safety nets. Groceries cost $80 every trip. It feels like I'm bleeding to death.

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Thank you so much Keith! I really appreciated your comment and took it to heart

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If you haven't read the full article yet, I think you'll find that I agree with you!

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Did you know journalism is incredibly rewarding but also a skill that requires effort and practice and making mistakes in a very public forum?

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The Dimension20 live show marks an historic first appearance of actual play on the legendary Madison Square Garden stage. While a big move for the show and the medium, do the venue's values align with Dimension 20’s?

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More than 660 adult carceral facilities across the US have some form of 'prison farm' and these are not quite as idyllic and rehabilitative as they're pitched.

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I wrote about the impossible struggles of parenting during societal collapse, and what leftists can do to help parents in their communities. This one was emotional: hilaryagro.com/2024/04/04/c...

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Three separate formerly incarcerated comrades, one who just got out 4 months ago after 40 years locked up, told me today that my writing changed how they viewed prison and their experience of it. And no one can tell me a single thing for at least 5 years. I was moved to tears.

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“We shouldn’t be speaking truth to power because they aren’t listening and don’t need to. Besides, the powerful aren’t our audience; if we are going to be speaking to anyone at all, it should be to those without power as we try to help one another understand the world around us.”

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I'm (slowly) working on a piece rn about TTRPGs and Sex Work. If you are in the TTRPG/AP space and do sex work (especially if they overlap) email me or ask for my Signal! Priority to sex workers of color and trans sex workers, though all experiences are valuable!

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These are the moments people look back on throughout history when religions divide into The full rejection of and active work against Zionism feels like a turning point for a lot of Jews who'd already felt distanced from the religions' institutions

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I feel the mainstream of the country has memory holed so much horror, but I have never forgotten the way a movement to reform racist policing was beaten back, literally, with police violence, including violence targeting the journalists who tried to cover it.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

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this is an incredible piece, and one i am glad exists in a space where i keep thinking i'm losing my mind at trying to explain why no, i cannot make it to yet another mega TTRPG event that has no protocols of any kind

thank you @rowanzeoli.bsky.social

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