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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸

@byconniechang.bsky.social

they/he/she/ta. chinese-american. ENNIE-winning game writer & narrative designer threading queer drama w/ black-hearted apocalyptica. Game Master for @transplanarrpg.bsky.social. Prev: Bungie, NetEase 🌟 byconniechang.itch.io 📧 byconniechang@gmail.com

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2w ago

❌ TALKBACK IS LIVE! ❌ It’s been a few months (!!!) since we’ve streamed, but we’re back tonight with our Arc 4 Talkback! 💖✨ Come celebrate what was, what could have been, and what will with us — we’re here to field YOUR 🫵🏼 questions! 🍂 twitch.tv/TransplanarRPG 🍂 youtube.com/@TransplanarRPG

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COMMUNITY STREAM | Arc 4 Talkback 🦋 !qna | Streaming just chatting.

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸@byconniechang.bsky.social · 2w ago

❌ I AM LIVE! ❌ Friends, it’s been too long! But never fear… GAY PEOPLE ARE HERE. Kesseki Crew’s BACK ON STREAM with our Arc 4 Talkback, yapping about all things grief, survival, ghosts, and home. 🍂 Join me on twitch.tv/TransplanarRPG!

Connie, Dare, Jon, Sea, Val, Cai, and Samm smile and pose in individual facecams against a pastel blue, pink, and yellow background with a dark blue captions box. Stylized text reads “Transplanar community night.”

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌟 TALKBACK TONIGHT 🌟 You’ve got questions — we’ve got (ominous, prophetic, obscure) answers. 🦋 Join the cast of The Chaos Protocol TONIGHT (9/12) at 8pm ET for our Arc 4 Talkback. We'll be hosting a Q&A with the whole crew, so it's sure to be a stream of curiosity, laughs, and great conversation!

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2w ago

🦋 ARC 4 TALKBACK 🦋 Join us for a deep delve into Arc 4 THIS SATURDAY (9/12) at 8pm ET for our ARC 4 TALKBACK as we celebrate what was, what could have been, and what will. We'll be discussing everything related to our most recent Arc, as well as answering YOUR QUESTIONS about the series! ❌

A promo graphic for Transplanar RPG’s Community Night. The graphic is light blue with pastel pink and yellow accents. Text reads: “Transplanar Community Night. Arc 4 Talkback. Saturday 9/12 8pm ET.”

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy Labor Day! Today is a day to connect with your community, learn about different labor movements, get organized, and take action to fight for liberation across the globe. We are connected beyond borders. All power to the workers of the world! 🗺️

GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸@byconniechang.bsky.social · 4w ago

hello friends sorry for the radio silence for 2-3 months! i’ve been enjoying my Time Off at the horse barn Touching Grass

In a selfie, Connie smiles serenely and looks to the left amidst a grassy field with a blue sky and white fencing. They are a Chinese person with short black hair, glasses, and a maroon shirt with rolled-up sleeves exposing a tattoo on their upper left arm of a turquoise qilin.

The Onion @theonion.com · 4w ago

Mom’s Head Rotates Demonically After Passing Sign For Antique Wicker Furniture

Nishaant! Made Tamasha!@artbyrecluse.bsky.social · 4w ago

To make good my promise to @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social I present the quickstart to my heartbreaker TAMASHA! An original setting and system inspired by South Asian Myth, LA hip hop and 2000s anime and cartoons. An action comedy journey to become legendary! artbyrecluse.itch.io/tamasha

Tamasha! Quickstart! by Recluse!

Set in a hopeful apocalypse where junk is better than gold and music stops armies. Are you ready to make some noise?

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Tales Yet Told | Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip @talesyettold.com · 4w ago

NEW EPISODE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🥀GODKILLER: Peace & Death🥀 Episode 5: Revelations in Adamence How do you prepare to kill a God of war? Can someone like Orchid even accomplish such a feat? No time to back down now, all she and her allies can do is push forward to the end... Episode info below 🔽

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're deep in our hiatus hibernation, but here are all the things that have been fully updated to catch up with the finale of Arc 4: - Youtube VODs (to watch!) - Podcast Releases (to listen!) - Recap Document (to read!) Full updates and patch notes are in our weekly announcement post on Discord! 🌸

Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖@urbanbohemian.com · last mo.

I'm so tired. 😑 A direct link to the setting (next to last from the very bottom): www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... And more details in their Account Settings FAQ: help.twitch.tv/s/article/tw...

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

What are "generative AI content models," and what does it mean for my content to be used to train them?

Generative AI content models are AI tools that can help create or synthesize content outputs like text or images when given instructions or prompts because they are also trained on content. When you allow training, that means that your content may be used for future Gen AI model improvements. An example of what happens when you allow your content to be used for training a GenAI content model is that your audio might help refine models that create speech to text, which would help improve captions at Twitch but would also help improve captions across Amazon.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly does opting out cover? What doesn't it cover?

If you opt-out and decide to not allow your channel content to train Generative AI content models, your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel will not be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.

Opting-out of training generative AI content models does not opt you out of all AI or machine learning uses at Twitch. For example, Twitch will still run AutoMod, which helps keep our community safe, but does not retain your data and use it to produce content. Twitch may also still use your data to run AI-supported features, like captions, which automatically generate captions for your Clips but does not retain your stream or your clips to train a model that can generate new content.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

If I opt out, will other AI-powered features like Captions or safety tools still work on my channel?

Yes. There are two important differences between Generative AI content models and AI-supported features at Twitch.

1) AI-supported features at Twitch do not retain your content and then use it to train models that create new videos, images, or text.

2) Twitch users have separate controls for many of the AI-supported features we're releasing. For example, streamers can turn on AutoMod and can adjust captions settings.

From Twitch's Frequently Asked Questions

Why can't I opt-out of all AI uses at Twitch?

Where AI works to help you create content or to help viewers understand your content, you do have controls over how it is used, and you can manage those in your settings.

Other AI works differently. Some of it runs the service itself, the same way our servers and our code do. Some of it keeps the service secure. And some of it, like AutoMod, protects the whole community. Turning those off for one person would weaken safety and security for everyone else on the platform, so they are not individual settings.

What channel content (clips, chat, metadata, etc.) is eligible to be used for generative AI training?

Your stream and the stream's chat, your VODs, your Clips, Highlights, and any text or images on your Channel may be used. If you chat on someone else's stream, their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · last mo.

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · last mo.

The recap document is (finally) updated! 🌸 Check it out at bit.ly/ChaosRecap to get caught up on ✨ALL OF CHAOS✨ while we're on hiatus between Arcs. Our recap document is an accessibility tool, a lore document, a resource for artists, and much more. The Arc-That-Kicks-You-In-The-Head awaits!

Transplanar RPG: THE CHAOS PROTOCOL RECAP

THE CHAOS PROTOCOL - RECAP DOCUMENT - Art by @Crowesn. Transplanar RPG is an all-transgender, people of color-led dark fantasy TTRPG show set in an original non-colonial, anti-orientalist multivers...

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's official! ✨ Our podcast is completely up to date with all of Arc 4 now available in gorgeously edited audio-only format. A massive thank you to our incredible editor @sassy-composer.bsky.social of @hemcreekprod.bsky.social for making our story come to life. You are a marvel and a hero!!

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🦋 PODCAST DROP 🦋 Xainan calls music from the storm. Lumièra considers creation and destruction. Seir finds the way back to where it began. And Zinnia introduces her loved ones. The Chaos Protocol podcast comes to a close with the first part of our ARC 4 FINALE, now available on all platforms! ❌

Seir, Xainan, and Lumièra stand beside each other in their Arc Four outfits. Seir wears a gray pinstriped vest over a white, long-sleeved Henley shirt and sports blue cybernetic antlers. Xainan wears his classic wide-brimmed hat, a dark duster with a wide collar, and an orange tube that connects to a breathing mask around his neck. Lumièra wears a wide-brimmed hat with a gray shawl over a black jacket with golden tassels and a gold belt buckle, the left side of her face decorated with white markings. White text reads, "The Chaos Protocol.”

Tales Yet Told | Strangers in the Wood 2: Road Trip @talesyettold.com · 2mo ago

🥀GODKILLER: Peace & Death🥀 Episode 2: Hope In Tryta As the seat of the God of abundance & scarcity, Tryta is a cornucopia of all the pleasures this world has to offer. But now that death has returned, Orchid hopes that Trytis' mercy is among his many blessings. Episode info below 🔽 1/5

SouzaGM @asouzagm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👋🏼 Are you looking for a brand new episode of Melanin Mythos? Is it cooler if this episode saw us joined by @byconniechang.bsky.social, @kiennas.bsky.social, and @akinomiiart.bsky.social to talk Tian Xia. Well, have I got the episode for you! Out now, where you catch your pods at! 👋🏼 link 👇

Sea 🩸@seaplaysrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we had so much fun at *checks notes* gencon this weekend!!

Hamnah ✨ // Lilith 😈@lilithttrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Life is about spending time with friends, sharing space, laughing, doing ridiculous shit, deep talks. I wish I wasn't so far from the people I love. I am also so grateful for the time I *do* get to spend with them in meat space. Anyway, I love @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social & @byconniechang.bsky.social

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're officially on hiatus! ❌ It's been a full week since we streamed the FINALE of The Chaos Protocol: Arc 4, and we're settling in for a long and restful break. But never fear! There's still plenty to do in the Transplanarverse, with VOD & POD uploads coming this week alongside recap doc updates.

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our VODs will be uploaded to Youtube, and our edited podcast episodes release Tuesdays and Thursdays on all platforms. CHAOS is an immense labor of time, energy, resources, and love. We couldn't make this art without the contributions of every person on, behind, and beyond our screen. Thank you. 🌸

Transplanar RPG

An all-transgender, people of color-led dark fantasy TTRPG actual play channel telling poetic stories in an original noncolonial, antiorientalist multiverse. Check out all our links at: https://linktr...

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you. 🦋 Thank you for helping us raise $400 for Mahlia’s Fund for Crisis Services, thank you for witnessing our grief, thank you for supporting our story, thank you for bringing your hearts to the table and staring unflinchingly into the long end. Thank you for Arc 4. Thank you for Kesseki.

Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A wee Monday ask 🥹 The Go Fund Me I’ve had to set up when things ran out is almost to the goal! 🙏🏾 gofund.me/b98ecaba7

Donate to Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt., organized by Tanya DePass

Update: I initially had no plan to up the goal or change anyt… Tanya DePass needs your support for Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt.

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Sea 🩸@seaplaysrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CHAOS FINALE IS LIVE! 🦋 This was me reading Connie's session notes this afternoon. Just, ya'know... as a warning. twitch.tv/transplanarRPG ❌ youtube.com/@TransplanarRPG

A photo of Sea sitting at their desk with tears in their eyes, holding their head in their hands.

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

❌ ARC 4 FINALE ❌ i do not mourn / for worlds we lost nor light that dies / nor dismal cost the thread shall break / the end defy say not your mercy / say not goodbye 🦋 The Chaos Protocol returns with the ✨FINAL EPISODE✨ of Arc 4 this Saturday (7/18) at 8pm ET. Join us as we carry memory and love.

A promotional graphic for Transplanar RPG’s The Chaos Protocol. The graphic features illustrations of Ying He, Lumièra, Zinnia, Azalis, Xainan, and Seir standing beside each other in their Arc Four outfits. Ying He wears a hanfu style gray and purple jacket over a light linen tunic with a standing collar and a wide-brimmed weimao hat with a translucent veil. Lumièra wears a wide-brimmed hat with a gray shawl over a black jacket with golden tassels and a gold belt buckle, the left side of her face decorated with white markings. Zinnia wears a shawl over a mustard yellow tank with a light tan protective scarf, goggles, and a silver ring on a chain worn around her neck. Azalis wears a thick wrap around their neck over a worn duster and a shotgun on their back, with a red crosshair painted over their right eye. Xainan wears his classic wide-brimmed hat, a dark duster with a wide collar, and an orange tube that connects to a breathing mask around his neck. Seir wears a gray pinstriped vest over a white, long-sleeved Henley shirt and sports blue cybernetic antlers. The characters stand in front of an illustration of a hazy canyon with an opaque sky and shaded planet looming behind them. White text reads, "Transplanar RPG presents: The Chaos Protocol. Every Saturday at 8pm ET. Twitch.Tv/TransplanarRPG."

GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸@byconniechang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

oh, i knew a girl from mokugē long black hair in a fancy braid 🦋 The Arc Four finale is LIVE, and I've prepared somethin' special for Kesseki's sendoff <3 Come join me for the culmination of a story about survival, grief, and diaspora. ❌: twitch.tv/TransplanarRPG

Connie grins and holds a dark brown guitar aloft. They're a Chinese person with short black hair, black over the ear headphones, and a collared short-sleeved black shirt with white tropical patterns.

Samm Star ✨@lusttforlifeex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And the Chaos is LIVE!! Join us on @transplanarrpg.bsky.social RIGHT NOW for the Arc 4 FINALE of ❌The Chaos Protocol❌ Trust in Each Other 🕰️ twitch.tv/transplanarrpg

A promotional graphic for Transplanar RPG’s The Chaos Protocol. The graphic features a waist-up illustration of Lumièra, Black person with dark brown skin, curly/kinky brown hair that is braided and streaked with white. She has bright grey eyes and leather jacket with gold fringe across the arms and breast pockets and a gold belt buckle adorned with clockwork symbolism. Her face and left hand have Clock gear designs in Ndom patterning and her antique pocket watch sits in her left breast pocket. Over an over an illustrated background of sand dunes. White text at the bottom reads: “The Chaos Protocol. Live Now on Transplanar RPG.” Text in the right hand corner reads: “Art by @/tallnquirky.”

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

❌ CHAOS FINALE IS LIVE ❌ This is the end to one journey — and the beginning of another. Join us for a story about grief. And because it is a story about grief, it is also a story about love; and memory; and endings; and the future. 🦋: twitch.tv/transplanarRPG 🦋: youtube.com/@TransplanarRPG

TransplanarRPG - Twitch

Transplanar RPG is an all-transgender, POC-led dark fantasy actual-play series streaming THE CHAOS PROTOCOL on Saturdays at 8pm U.S. eastern time. Podcast episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨@transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DARE!!2DOG @dare2dreamrpg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m in serious need for help. My cat Leorio is only 5 and is having a sudden medical emergency. My family and I are trying to pay for it but we need help. Please share or donate whatever you can. ko-fi.com/dare2dream

Dare and her pet cat Leorio, a tuxedo cat laying on her chest

Leorio, a tuxedo cat laying adorably in the kitchen

Find Out Productions @findoutproductions.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔴Live with the penultimate session of Blades in the Dark! 📺 twitch.tv/findoutproductions And it's time to face the consequences of double-crossing a vampire. With: @classicalglaiza.com @prince-infidel.bsky.social @drbubblesphd.bsky.social @andreriveraart.bsky.social @wizardstyles.bsky.social

Promotional image for session 14 of Blades in the Dark: The Revenants on Find Out Productions.
Shown are the four player characters in front of a faded purple cityscape background:
Multo, a construct carved from wood with masculine features in a three piece suit and tie, holding a pocket watch, looking distant.
Eloji, a Black man with neatly trimmed Victorian mutton chop sideburns and short black 4C hair, smiling jovially with one hand on his purple-tinted glasses and the other on his silver and black cane.
Taibhse, a pale white woman with long, wavy hair, wearing a dress, bandages around her arms, and a Victorian style hand belt. On Taibhse's right hand is a crossed out/scarred bell tattoo. She has no visible pupils.
Carrion, a stocky man wearing furs and a poncho. He has glowing eyes and is looking sternly at the camera. A bearded vulture, likewise with glowing eyes, sits on his left arm.

The Revenants is now live on twitch.tv/findoutproductions