Ben Klug

@silkandstone.itch.io

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I'm not mad, this is actually an opportunity to experience amor fati for me he/him SF studies podcast: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/starboard TTRPG: https://silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die Contact: silkandstonegames@gmail.com

Itch.io download stats, showing that my game Detect or Die has been downloaded 1,000 times in about the last year.
A framed print of fanart depicting Duck, Madoka, and Utena walking in casual clothes together. The frame is five inches by five inches.
Duck, Utena, and Madoka walking together in charming street clothes. Each of them has a background from their respective stories. All of them are surrounded by a salvatory glow. Utena has a basketball.
"We were playing Dog and Bear, you know. And Servo was chasing me. And I ran panicked over logs and through streams, maddened with primal terror, you know. And I turned and raked my deadly claws against his howling snout, you know. And I rose to my hind feet, towering, and still bellowing he came. And I mewled and spewed gore from my wounds and snot from my flaring, wild maw, and, and, and then, we were locked like lovers. And then, I was engirdled by moiled, spotted hound bodies and my entrails were hanging out. And I tried a savage, feral roar, but alas, my force was spent and I died! Then, Servo took it too far."
The cover of Catherynne M. Valente's novel Space Opera.
A black-and-white still from the 1962 movie The Whale God, in which Meiji era Japanese shore whalers cling to the side of the tokusatsu whale, harpoons in hand.
Cover art for Dirt by Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, which is a very 90s black and white manga poster type image with a giant robot, a protagonist, and a red title in rough strokes that looks kinda like the Berserk logo.
"Wake up, Detective. The flood has taken your memory palace. The waters of the past rose up and carried everything away, acidic as regret, cold as sorrow, unyielding as pride. Your foundations are split and divided. The skein of your thoughts torn and muddied, the mirror of your mind splintered. Half-drowned and half-present, what remains of you is only a warning - but look up! Look up, from the silt of your despair, your mistakes, your little ruin of memory! There is a star in your empty midnight sky. It is the Case. Solve it, Detective! The Case will guide you. Redeem you. Discover who you were. Decide who you are. DETECT OR DIE."
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The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (via the cover of the first volume, the Shadow of the Torturer)
The cover of Detect or Die, a tabletop role playing game by B.P.S. Klug. Tagline: Discover who you were, decide who you are.
Cover of Detect or Die, a tabletop roleplaying game by B.P.S. Klug. Subtitle: Discover who you were, decide who you are. The image behind it is a double silhouette of a detective, like a playing card, that's been heavily scribble on and water-damaged.