Slammed Poet™

@chezident.bsky.social

storyteller through games, short fiction, and journalism. he/they.

cw: pet loss I had to say goodbye to my cat Saber today after 6 six years of owning her. She developed some severe infections due to a flea problem that we didn't catch in time. I loved her more than I've ever loved any pet and I'm gutted straight through.

i'm in a chronicles of darkness game and playing a malkavian vampire currently serving as van princess while the crew does a little breaking and entering we have a discord channel we treat as in-character texting group chat

Image Description:  
A screenshot of a Discord chat between two users, Malcolm Murdoc and Blaidd, shown on a dark background. The conversation is timestamped between 11:03 PM and 11:10 PM and features humorous, surreal exchanges about mind control, demons, and being left on read.

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Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:03 PM
do i have mind control
does anyone know if i have mind control
i know i can make people look at other stuff and not me
but that could just be weird introversion powers

Blaidd — Yesterday at 11:04 PM
i feel like youd know if you did

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:04 PM
i feel like your optimism is both appreciated and not justified
YOUDIDITYOUDIDITYOUDIDITYOUDIDIT
oh goddammit the madness network got into my burner phone
sorry
am i allowed to say goddammit? i feel like i really need to reckon with my swears right now
are you guys okay?

Blaidd — Yesterday at 11:08 PM
👌 theres a lady here and she definitely a demon or smth
but its fine shes insane or wtv

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — Yesterday at 11:09 PM
what

Malcolm Murdoc 🪓 ffhack — 11:10 PM
listen i appreciate our rapport but this is the wrong time to leave me on read

I have to work today because I still can't land a full-time job after years of looking but if anyone wants to support this poor black woman after losing grad school financial aid and not being able to finish an MA I leave the link here. Ko-fi.com/wozenstein

starting a game of final fantasy tactics is not for the weak of heart. while the game doesn't tell you this, it involves much more than hitting "new game." you see, final fantasy tactics' characters are defined by their classes (of which, i note, you have none.)

Every time I want to go back to Octopath Traveler 0, since I really enjoyed the gameplay so much, I find myself remembering just how *foul* the story is. It's just a misery parade that involves a lot of horrible things happening primarily to women characters, and it puts me completely off.

I'll say more when I can focus a bit, but for now ... While I'd love to stay in games, I'm also open to editor positions elsewhere in the publishing world. Fiction would be lovely. Before joining the games industry, I spent a decade and a half in higher ed roles that inform my work today.

Lynne M. Meyer: TTRPG Editor, Writer, and Consultant

Hail and well met! Here you can learn a little about me, my TTRPG work, and how to get in touch. Let's create together!

lynne-m-meyer.carrd.co

and what Damocles never tells anyone is that every night he gets a little stepladder and he climbs up to the top of it and he feels around the blade, the hilt, the pommel, to that little knot of sinew and he loosens it a little more just so he has a say. just so he has a say. #poetry

and what Damocles never tells anyone is that every night he gets a little stepladder and he climbs up to the top of it and he feels around the blade, the hilt, the pommel, to that little knot of sinew and he loosens it a little more just so he has a say. just so he has a say. #poetry