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Kelly Digges

@kellydigges.bsky.social

Worldbuilder, editor, and narrative designer for games. Principal Narrative Designer for Riot's Riftbound TCG. Formerly worked on Magic, Lorcana, Concord, Gods Unchained. I killed Lorthos and I'd do it again. He/him

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs@opensketchbook.bsky.social · 3mo ago

skill issue. just do the worldbuilding/research and then not put it into the story this is not a joke. thinking out the implications but not explicitly enumerating them allows meaningful consistency without bogging your story down

SJ Klapecki (should be writing)@sjklapecki.itch.io · 3mo ago

Every so often my opinion on worldbuilding is vindicated by its own largest communities online If you are writing a narrative, a linear story or set of stories, heavy worldbuilding is Sugar of Lead: it tastes sweet, but it poisons you bit by bit if you don't understand what you're working with.

Post from /r/Worldbuilding "My Beta reader said my world felt like a wikipedia article and I haven't written since: Got feedback two weeks ago and I can't shake it. I spent two years on this world. The history, the geography, the political structures, the magic. I thought I was weaving it naturally into the story. apparently I was just writing an encyclopedia with characters occasionally wandering through it. The worst part is I reread the chapters after and they were right. it does read like a wikipedia article. I just couldn't see it before someone said it out loud. I don't know how to write the world without explaining the world. And smh my head it's all connected like you can't understand why the character does what she does without understanding the political context, you can't understand the political context without the history, and suddenly I've written four paragraphs of backstory before anything happens. how do y'all actually solve this!!??? "
Kelly Digges@kellydigges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We challenged our not-very-culturally-literate 13yo to name a football player. She thought about it and said “Taylor Swift’s boyfriend,” which I allowed on the grounds that it would be sufficient to name him with Pithing Needle

Kelly Digges@kellydigges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Begging absolutely everyone to stop posting quotes and screenshots in order to dunk on them. Rancid vibes. Fractured discourse. Instant dogpiles. I don’t need to know what some asshole said. Just please post cool shit so I can read that instead.

Kelly Digges@kellydigges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm going to talk a bit.about why you should back @jayeatonart.bsky.social's comic Runaway to the Stars on Kickstarter! Short version: This is sci-fi through the lens of disability, accessibility, and difference, and it is unlike anything I've read. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Runaway to the Stars by Jay Eaton

Alien, trans-species foster Talita has enough to deal with on the scrapworld of Dirtball. And the sly, crimey A.I. Bip isn't helping!

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Kelly Digges@kellydigges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm going to talk a bit.about why you should back @jayeatonart.bsky.social's comic Runaway to the Stars on Kickstarter! Short version: This is sci-fi through the lens of disability, accessibility, and difference, and it is unlike anything I've read. 🧵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Runaway to the Stars by Jay Eaton

Alien, trans-species foster Talita has enough to deal with on the scrapworld of Dirtball. And the sly, crimey A.I. Bip isn't helping!

kickstarter.com

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.

lesbian john williams 🦔@micropolyphonia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Kelly Digges@kellydigges.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Notice how there’s not even a fig leaf here—not even an attempt to appear as though this helps anyone or keeps anyone safe. This is pure persecution, and it’s what all this anti-trans shit has always been about. Protect trans vs people any way you can, folks.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo ago

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Commander Sterling@commandersterling.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

From Undiscovered Country to Nemesis: How Star Trek Reflects Society

It is a common cliche that Science Fiction says more about the present than it does the future, and perhaps no franchise embodies that more than Star Trek, which has always openly served as a socie…

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6mo ago

personally i am a lower decks liberal. boom