We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social A weekly reminder that we’re just normal men. Each & every Monday. We’re just innocent men.
Jumped ship to 🦋
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Ceasefire now 🇵🇸
City Lit Writing Dpt @citylitwriting.bsky.social Creative and non-fiction writing courses, workshops and special events in the heart of London and online at City Lit.
➡️ www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writing
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
https://tr.ee/ElementalBookshopOrg
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
https://ko-fi.com/snellarthur
Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
🤺🏳️🌈
dhowlett1692.com
Anna Foden @annafoden.bsky.social Writer of short plays and one seemingly endless biography. Love libraries, archives and generally looking stuff up.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social I really like drawing silly animals and flowers!
Digital artist from Sweden.
Check out my art!! both #art and #sketchbook stuff! :)
Shop and other links: https://shop.byjessicaelena.com/pages/links
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
(she/her) #Autistic #NB
https://brandyschillace.com/
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social Void Wizard
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social Environmental historian working on the climate emergency 
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social Co-host of What Would The Smart Party Do? and Unconventional GMs, premier #ttrpg content providers.
🕪 www.whatwouldthesmartpartydo.com
🖳 www.youtube.com/@unconventionalgms
Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social Mostly TTRPGs and shizz. He/Him. Blog at burnafterrunningrpg.com, run and play games at Unconventional GMs.
Check out pacy all-action Actual Plays: https://www.youtube.com/@unconventionalgms
"A great example of the sort of positivity we need"
3skullsmatt @3skulls.bsky.social Brexit escapee. Socialist. He/him.
I make TTRPG stuff, current projects:
- #TwilightSword solo rules
- 2e of #YearZeroMini
Previous work:
- #ForbiddenLands solo rules
- #TheWalkingDeadRPG solo rules
- #Outgunned Assistant Director expansion
Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social Grandmother Fish (Macmillan 2016), the first book to teach #evolution to preschoolers, plus science games for kids (www.grandmotherfish.com). Over the Edge, #TTRPG of surreal urban danger (atlas-games.com/overtheedge). D&D 3E, Ars Magica, Everway, etc.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Gareth @woodsrunning.bsky.social Autistic, Horror, Warhammer. Not necessarily in that order.
Arbitor Ian @arbitorian.bsky.social Just remember, Space Marines are BAD and there's no such thing as canon in 40k.
Human who talks at a camera about geek stuff. He/him.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out now. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Meriel Beattie @merielbeattie.bsky.social British writer and editor, currently living in New York
Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social DELICIOUS TTRPGS FOR DISCERNING FREAKS
Honey Heist • Eat the Reich • DIE • Heart & Spire • Hollows •
And more at rowanrookanddecard.com
(posts by social media wretch @naomithinksit)
Rich Stokes @tacticalbacon.bsky.social GenX nerd.
Thinks he's funny, but isn't.
If you care about what I think, you probably shouldn't. I'm an idiot.
Look, I'm just here to talk about RPGs. And sometimes Industrial music and videogames or movies.
Also sometimes comics. More of a DC guy, sorry.
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-c. maritime connections in the North Sea world
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).
M a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social Host of the Savage Lovecast, author of Savage Love. "A deviant of the highest order!" — The Daily Caller
Nick Coveney @nmjcoveney.bsky.social Queer Ancient 🌈💀 | Husband | Author EVERYTHING NOT SAVED | Trans incl 💖🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈❤️ books, tech, 🎮| All opinions own & RSkts others'| Occasional life model | He/Him/His https://linktr.ee/nmjcoveney
Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social Creative Director, Bully Pulpit Games. Designer of games and playful experiences like Fiasco, Night Witches, and Zhenya's Wonder Tales.
Lin Codega @lincodega.com author, journalist, game writer—PASHA THE STORM out now | co-founder @rascal.news, editor @fansplaining.bsky.social | WRA TVL S3—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy—there's a hugo here somewhere
Rascal News @rascal.news Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social President of Evil Hat (I publish Fate, Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, &c). Liberal in politics, reposting, & use of the block button. Be advised, I limit parasociality when I can. Permanently in AMA mode (so ask).
Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social Turning Passion into Great Games! Publisher of Fate, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and other games. www.evilhat.com
Ukie @ukieofficial.bsky.social We are the trade body for the UK games and interactive entertainment industry. Our mission is to supercharge the future of the UK video games industry.
www.ukie.org.uk
James Whatley @whatleydude.com Snr Global Brand Strategist @ the LEGO Group (opinions own, etc). Mainly working on LEGO Games, Ninjago, and Technic. It's fun. Occasional sender of fivethingsonfriday.com. I got ❤️ for writing, gaming, and figuring stuff out. He/Him.
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Play-Ability Cognitive Expert. Accessibility (LiS: Double Exposure / Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy) / Cultural Consultant (DA: The Veilguard). Podquisition. 2024 WIG Journalism Impact + 2024 GAConf Best PR / Comms Winner.
LauraKBuzzOfficial@Gmail.Com
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Doc Cowie @dracowie.bsky.social Enthusiastic TTRPG-er and Gloranthaphile.
King of Dungeons (disputed).
(Banner not indicative of support for violence outside Glorantha)
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
turnip max @turnipmax.bsky.social So sorry for making Turnip28 https://linktr.ee/hieronymus_max
British illustrator Max FitzGerald
Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
@stephanieytam.bsky.social @stephanieytam.bsky.social 
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Rep: Harriet Poland at CAA.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social “Breaking Rommel” is now available for purchase.
“That's an impressive array of sources, but what are your credentials?"
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
www.rommelsriposte.com
BISI @bisi1932.bsky.social Exploring Iraq's past, present, and future. Promoting research and education about the history, societies, and cultures of Iraq. Discover more at www.bisi.ac.uk
@tomhall1.bsky.social @tomhall1.bsky.social 
Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Trans theologian and connoisseur of fine heavy music
Co-Editor of Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today (T&T Clark, 2024)
Read my stuff: https://linktr.ee/nicoleteburbach
Can't access my DMs. Opinions are my own
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
@properpauper.bsky.social @properpauper.bsky.social Occasional Professional Dungeon Master and all-around cool guy
NewWriting.Net @newwritingnet.bsky.social 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Andreas G. Heiss @andreasgheiss.bsky.social Archaeobotanist (bean counter and charred food enthusiast), Research Group Leader @ OeAW-OeAI. Frenchie papa. Opinions are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
Emma Kay, Author, Historian, FRHistS, Archaeologist @museumofkitchen.bsky.social Doing Things The Old Way - Historian,Author, Archaeologist with food specialism.Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Online Archaeology Tutor.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/oldway2 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTyhFgdStZBUTkSxu0qTMQ
Lauren Cortese @lacortese.bsky.social Querying my PhD novel about 9/11, January 6th, and the climate crisis as told by a dysfunctional DC family. It's fun, I swear!
Current: PhD in Creative Writing@University of East Anglia
Past: MFA@College of Charleston, Ed. Assistant@Swamppink
Paul David Gould @pauldavidgould.bsky.social Author: Last Dance at the Disco for Deviants, a state-of #Russia novel/ #LGBT #thriller set in 1990s Moscow | buy @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | alum @unibirmingham.bsky.social + @faberacademy.bsky.social | #Brighton based | sub-editor @financialtimes.com
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social Narrative Designer on Universes Beyond for Magic: the Gathering.
Writer, illustrator, and game designer. Writer of Cheer Up. Tamer of the Mathmos.
Rep: @desir.ee at Looking Glass Lit
Opinions are my own.
Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
φ Matt@Phyrexia φ @megamarines.bsky.social ☆ Himbo Disaster, Warhammer Fanatic, MtG Nerd, and Cosplayer 丨 He/They丨 Pan ☆
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
THE KRAKEN @the-kraken.bsky.social THE KRAKEN is a baroque gathering of international gamers and game creators to play, develop and test fine quality games. Weirdly successful at being a once in a life time event every time.
Keith 🔜 Funky Ferndale Art Fair Booth 20 @keithsenkowski.com I create a cocktail of art, weird fiction, design, poetry, and table top gaming.
Free Newsletter 👉 keithsenkowski.com
Books, Art, & Magazines 👉 shop.keithsenkowski.com
Support 👉 thetrevorproject.org
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.
Most of my things are at: https://levikornelsen.itch.io/
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com Nathan D. Paoletta | he/him | Game designer, independent publisher and graphic artist. I make World Wide Wrestling 💪 Imp of the Perverse 😈 Annalise 🥀 and more good games for interesting people.
he/him | ndpdesign.com | unwrittenearths.com
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social Mother of the Apocalypse, founded #PbtA. ALA & Morgan Ellis award winner. Museum curator. Material culture, leftist politics, kindness & appropriate levels of vengeful fury. She/her,☪️,🌈, breast cancer survivor. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lumpley
Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com game designer, made Microscope, Kingdom, West Marches, this that and the other thing. I blog at arsludi.lamemage.com
Tabletop Sentinel @tabletopsentinel.com Tabletop Gaming News and Events - RPGs, Wargames, Miniatures, Board games, LARP, Conventions, Sci-Fi, Horrror, Fantasy, Historical ... we could go on. Send us your news https://tabletopsentinel.com/contact-us
Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com Award-winning Gen X Tabletop RPG Designer—Rusty Sellsword Design Ltd. He/him. Tangata Tiriti. 💜🩶🤍 Opinions mine.
🔺Now for Wrath! 🔺Now for Ruin!
🔺And the Red Dawn!
https://linktr.ee/rustysellsword
LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell.
Suddenly, also a Clojure developer!
(he/him)
https://unwrittenearths.com
https://dig1000holes.com
💀
Epistolary Richard @epistolaryrichard.bsky.social (h/h) '24 ttrpg What's Hot Year in Review see https://therpgpipeline.blogspot.com
My '25 ZineQuest Teen Noir ttrpg see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1591846918/teen-noir-ttrpg-2e-zinequest
(indie ttrpg organiser, designer, former Warhammer novelist)
Neil Gow @omnihedron.co.uk All the good TTRPG stuff on here
Read my gaming musings: omnihedron.co.uk
Check out Liminal RPG pages: liminal.omnihedron.co.uk and patreon.com/omnihedron
Conventions at the Garrison? Garrison.omniheron.co.uk
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social Shiftwork & human fatigue specialist, writer, award-winning game designer (Swords of the Serpentine, TimeWatch), storyteller, BBQ guy; some of these actually tie together. Crappy shark movie enthusiast. He/him.
The Good Friends of Jackson Elias @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social A regular podcast about Call of Cthulhu, horror films, and horror gaming in general. Hosted by Scott Dorward and Matt Sanderson.
http://blasphemoustomes.com/
Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social I design games, especially tabletop roleplaying games (Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark). I also write books on storytelling (Play Unsafe) and drift into interactive fiction (39 Steps) and LARP (Will That Be All).
And I love theatre, art and history.
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. “Full of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" – Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net