what sequence of exec notes and studio feedback could have resulted in "Out of the Further"?

Streaming is back on the menu now I have a working laptop that's not an explosion risk! Monday's postponed listening party for I NEED A MIRACLE ep4, Fair winds for the wing-trial, will be on Friday instead. Then I'll get back on track with ep5 on Monday as normal youtube.com/live/jU1Bnoh...

Listening party: Fair winds for the wing-trial

YouTube video by Foggy Outline

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Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tonight's livestream is postponed because I can't plug in my laptop in case it catches fire. New laptop arrives tomorrow or Wednesday, so I'll probably stream on Friday.

Word of the day is "thank fuck"

Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · 9h ago

My replacement laptop arrived nice and early, and after a hairy 15 minutes while it hunted for the backup drive, all my files are now back in a state where I can see them and reassure myself they're there 😮‍💨

My replacement laptop arrived nice and early, and after a hairy 15 minutes while it hunted for the backup drive, all my files are now back in a state where I can see them and reassure myself they're there 😮‍💨

Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've eliminated the risk of a housefire. Now all I have to be anxious about is whether the backup I took on Friday is ok and won't somehow get corrupted before the replacement laptop arrives and won't refuse to load onto the replacement laptop for no reason

It's August! Crowdfunding for I NEED A MIRACLE season 2 starts THIS MONTH! Keep up here or by signing up for the Foggy Outline newsletter buttondown.com/foggyoutline

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Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

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Frieren e1: Frieren sad 😶 Frieren e2-9: Frieren silly 😴🤓 Frieren e10: Frieren scary 😱

I've eliminated the risk of a housefire. Now all I have to be anxious about is whether the backup I took on Friday is ok and won't somehow get corrupted before the replacement laptop arrives and won't refuse to load onto the replacement laptop for no reason

Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Since I took this photo at 8am today, the battery has swollen enough to distort the keyboard. Laptop assuming bread roll shape. I have taken it to be safely disposed of

Since I took this photo at 8am today, the battery has swollen enough to distort the keyboard. Laptop assuming bread roll shape. I have taken it to be safely disposed of

Tonight's livestream is postponed because I can't plug in my laptop in case it catches fire. New laptop arrives tomorrow or Wednesday, so I'll probably stream on Friday.

Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fuck noooo, my laptop is bulging – I've known for a while that it's on its way out, but I thought I had a couple of months at least to shop around, but that timeline's suddenly moved up to "run a backup right now, do not turn it back on after, order a replacement THIS WEEKEND"

New month, new paper brain

Heads up to my fellow ttrpg designers, heretofore undiscovered picklist by Bram Stoker just dropped

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

I wish I had the capacity for #RPGaDay2026 but I think it's healthy that I don't add it to my workload 😅 Here's what I did for it last year! www.foggyoutline.com/lobsterpots

Lobster Pots, a Spindlewheel story for RPGaDay2025 — Foggy Outline

A nautical sci-fantasy short story by Matt Boothman generated with Sasha Reneau's tarot-like roleplaying game Spindlewheel and David F. Chapman's RPGaDay2025 prompts.

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I would read at least 3 more Adventures of Mawukana na-Vdnaze the Apologetic Weary Eldritch Space Horror

I hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.

Fuck noooo, my laptop is bulging – I've known for a while that it's on its way out, but I thought I had a couple of months at least to shop around, but that timeline's suddenly moved up to "run a backup right now, do not turn it back on after, order a replacement THIS WEEKEND"

I had no idea bumblees and honey bees were completely different things. I thought they just all had different roles in the hive. Bumblebees don't even live in hives! They live in cracks in brick walls! More bee facts in this month's email buttondown.com/FoggyOutline...

Surrounded by bees 🐝

Karen, Richard, and Matt are professional relations: business partners who are also family members. This issue, Karen and Richard tell us about counting...

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This month's newsletter goes out in a couple of hours. It's a summery one with my business parents chatting about bumblebee identification, plus I NEED A MIRACLE state of play buttondown.com/FoggyOutline

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Surgeons have “sawbones” but the rest of the professions should get bonus names too. Fixcar. Taketrash. Hitball. Drawcomics. Photographfeet.

Toss a coin to your youtu.be/UVAki9SGrlg

WICKER | Official UK Trailer

YouTube video by Black Bear UK

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Five Great Comics Based on The Odyssey www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Five Great Comics Based On ‘The Odyssey’

This year, The Odyssey has become a blockbuster movie for the first time. But these five reads prove that the story is perfectly suited to comics.

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Silent and lugubrious, I wandered down the hall #earworm youtu.be/1SLftouEUL4

Gummyworm

YouTube video by Jamie Paige - Topic

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*standing up on a plane* Okay, folks, we're gonna make this real simple: I've got an idea for a KILLER audio fiction podcast, and none of us are going anywhere until one of you gives me the money to make it, shall we start the bidding at two-hundred thousand? Do I hear two-hundre- yes, thank you sir

Nick Douglas@toomuchnick.com · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* Listen up smooth-brains. As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife, and realize she's very plain. But that's just perfect for an Amish like me, you see I shun fancy things like electricity. At four-thirty in the morning I'm milking co

This is the hottest bit of the day. If I can manage this bit, I can last the rest.

The Vampire Lestat has arrived on iPlayer LET'S GOOO

Finely etched, and charged with oakgall ink.

Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (1993)

Merely Matt@merelymatt.bsky.social · last wk.

What has our history tortoise?

What has our history tortoise?

Philosophy of the World at the Yard left me with an earworm, but it wasn't by the band the show is actually (sort of) about youtu.be/4yj9Lz4JdHA

Mansion Song

YouTube video by Kate Nash - Topic

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