momatoes
Diana Jones Emerging Designer, Ennie-nominated tabletop game designer and visual artist. Featured in Polygon, Rascal, Dicebreaker and more. She/her
👹 Games: ARC, The Magus, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri
📌 Learn more http://momatoes.com
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- We are spaying our little one tomorrow. Wish her luck in the operation! (pictured: her testing out the onesie)
- Reposted by momatoesTTRPGs are such beautiful, impossible things. Think of how hard it is to get any group to get on the same page on *anything*, and then marvel at how we play these games that allow you to build worlds together. I think about that a lot.
- Reposted by momatoesI'm writing a story about this and would love to talk to trans TTRPG creators, if you're open to sharing your thoughts. Hit me up please! kheehoon@rascal.news
- When I was young, I adored The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Now rereading it over ten years later, the magic is gone. Kundera is a problematic author. When he lays the essence of humanity bare, the book sings and compels. But it cannot save the book's woeful treatment of its female characters.
- Reposted by momatoesLove the idea of hiding your shame of calculating behind the cool of smoking.
- Reposted by momatoesFrom: Big Fish & Begonia (2016), dir. Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, B&T Studio/Studio Mir
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- Kundera calls butt holes "eyes of the rump" and inspires a singular, unwanted mental image in my brain
- Reposted by momatoesScreaming Metal is live right now! If you like toxic lesbians and strange mechs with tamagotchi hearts then help me bring this project to life! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
- Excellent thread on intentional layout design, but also these screenshots are sooo good. I love kinetic typography.
- Reposted by momatoesi made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
- Reposted by momatoesConcept art for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Walt Disney Feature Animation Art by Andy Harkness and Craig Grasso
- Reposted by momatoesReading a book about octopus intelligence, thinking about octopuses,
- Reposted by momatoesin times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change
- I am at a café trying to people watch. So far observations: - Lots of people wearing grey hoodies - A couple with a super tense atmosphere - A deluge of doctors all chatting with each other - A family armed with tablets - A dad dropping his phone and happily chatting with his daughter
- Reposted by momatoesWe are proud to join @evilhat.bsky.social and their efforts to support Minnesota by donating 10% of our average quarterly sales made on our webstore to support the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...
- Reposted by momatoesWe are also putting our money where our mouth is. Today we have taken 10% of all the purchases made on our webstore in the last quarter and donated it to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Stand strong. Stay united. Serve in whatever way you are called to. 💪
- Reposted by momatoesGREAT DAY TO NOT POUND
- Reposted by momatoesKodansha announced they released all 26 episodes of Mushishi Season 1 to watch for free on their Youtube Channel (Availability limited to English Speaking Countries) English Sub www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsA... English Dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpg...
- Reposted by momatoesDo I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)
- Reposted by momatoesBully Pulpit Games has 28 larps and larp-like games published - for free, pay what you want, and for sale; some by me and some with friends. We have lots more available to our patrons but never published for various reasons. Some of my personal faves in a thread... www.patreon.com/posts/bully-...
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- Reposted by momatoesScreaming Metal: Vector Soul is a mecha ttrpg about toxic lesbians piloting living machines for exorbitant amounts of money so they can live lavish lifestyles before being torn to shreds by the poisonous arms of hyperspace. Solo or competitive~ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
- Reposted by momatoesHi all! TTRPG writer and general word-wrangler gal looking for work here. DM me for references and samples! I can do and have done: - Writing - Design - Dev editing - Line editing - Copy editing - Translation (EN<->ES) - Design consultancy - Sensitivity consultancy Pay me to write pls
- Reposted by momatoesThe Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
- I credit Dragonlance with getting me through difficult times as a kid and sparking my interest in tabletop games. I absolutely had to answer the question, "How can I live this story??"
- Reposted by momatoesHello. It's my final week as a full time game designer, and as if to underline why I can't do this anymore, I currently can't afford to cover my bills at the end of the month. All of my work on itch is on sale. Tell your friends, buy something, thank you very much. itch.io/s/179351/jan...
- I have some options for the next book on my list. Invisible Cities, which I started a while back and never finished The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which I loved but have appropriately forgotten A Hundred Days of Solitude, which I have not thought about in a decade 1/
- Reposted by momatoesstop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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- She's asking me what book I should read next.
- The Name of the Rose is no laughing matter. (and with that joke, I would like to announce that I have finished the book and give it all my thumbs up)
- Kinda criminal no local bookstore stocks The Name of the Rose. They do have Piranesi though, at least.
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- Reposted by momatoesAll the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
- What is your opinion on museums displaying a modern artwork right next to a placard explaining the artist's vision? Necessary? Dogmatic? Thought-provoking? Limiting? On a related note: are designer manifestos a factor in your enjoyment of an RPG? What differs in your answers to the 2 questions?
- Reposted by momatoesHappy Caturday.
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- I haven't drawn in literal months, so my fingers now hurt a lot. But it does feel good to draw something joyful.
- Reposted by momatoesIf you are in the tabletop industry/ecosystem and you have been impacted by ICE, DM me or email me at RascalRowan@proton.me
- Reposted by momatoesEveryone deserves to live, here and abroad. Everyone. No ifs ands or buts. Chicago. El Fasher. Gaza City. Kharkiv. Uvira. Sydney. Dhaka. Minneapolis. Utøya. Devaluing anyone anywhere will form the basis for devaluing everyone everywhere. No more.
- Reposted by momatoesTeaser: Plus One is launching a line of adult games to support creators who are getting deplatformed/don't have a place to put their sexy shit. Currently, we are calling it Plus One XXXP. If you pitch us a game for this we have one specific ask: BRING YOUR HORNY SHIT FORWARD! #TextNotSubtext
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- Reposted by momatoesThe Quiet In Late January, Before The World Wakes Up
- After finishing The Name of the Rose (I am halfway there! Slow but savory progress) I would like to watch the movie with Sean Connery. The trailer looks so classic and iconic, and I wonder if Connery can do justice to William.
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- I'm getting boba tea :) (I'm excited like a little kid)
- Reposted by momatoesDating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC
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- Please, Umberto Eco. Please. My working memory only has space for three (3) Catholic orders and you are overwhelming me with all your Proper Nouns.
- Reposted by momatoesOranges and lemon tea #oilpainting #art
- Reposted by momatoesFrom: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953), dir. Ted Parmelee, UPA
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