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a question

Ninefox Gambit fans: if I released a Ninefox gamebook toolkit (prose, cf. Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Thousand Year Old Vampire) or a TEXT videogame toolkit (cf. Twine, Inform 7 parser IF, old-school MUDs like Evennia, 3 Minute Games' Lifeline) for folks to DIY Heretical Hijinks, what would you want in it? "NOPE not for me" is valid. :p

(You can also reach me at yoon at yoonhalee dot com, the usual place; I've posted this as well on Bluesky.)

I can't wrassle code templates with graphics support, sorry! (Before anyone offers assistance directly: I'm buried under schoolwork + family stuff, and don't have the bandwidth to handle that, although the thought is appreciated!)

(I have no idea if anyone will see this since I'm too buried under orchestration homework to do much on Tumblr anymore but here's hoping!)

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Ninefox Tarot - V. The Hierophant

Hexarch Nirai Kujen, because Reasons. 😅

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/revenant/ resurrecting this terribad Ninefox Gambit gag cartoon

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Zeroed

Zeroed: Hexarch Nirai Kujen/General Shuos Jedao. Because I felt like trash panda digital painting/illustration. Yes, I know I am going to some form of bad place, probably the one where all the mathematical constructivists hang out.

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Fledged

Cheris/Jedao, because.

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DIY HexarTarot prototyping

Some placeholders and a streaky printout are okitty for prototyping - will cut and assemble to see how this paper does! Art is mine EXCEPT the Darkana Tarot card for scale (bottom right).

For a single/tiny print run deck for personal /trolling/ entertainment this makes more sense than sending files to a card deck printer lol.

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Ungloved

a.k.a. we who fought with our wide-format color printer about 11"x17" Jedao/Cheris (digital illustration, Procreate) because I want the ship on some luckless wall of my house even if the printer doesn't lolsob. Apparently what I do when under the weather is... :gestures:

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Fifth Column: I did (another) Machineries of Empire art. No fictional mass murderer arch-traitor tacticians and their voidmoth or phoenix soft frens were harmed in the making of this-- I can't keep a straight face.

I resumed digital painting in Procreate now that I can make 11"x17" prints again! We'll see if the local game store will carry this one - I have some test prints and they've carried my smaller prints in the past.

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11"x17" test prints of my art! (to be sold via the local game store). There's one I obviously have to remove from the lineup BUT I wanted to run the wide-format color printer through its paces. Probably next up is a limited run DIY Tarot/oracle deck and DIY comics for the game store as well. :3

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Behold, a calendrical heresy! UGears "Date Navigator" 3D puzzle/mechanical model (the gears really turn! very fun to assemble), BPAL Clockwork scent locket.

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chillaxing

Exploratory for-fun personal writing on BYOK and Qwerkywriter! I'm not under contract presently; taking a breather to focus on MFA studies (media composition and orchestration).

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Adventures continue in reverse isekai for fun noodling! Meanwhile, back to schoolwork...

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chillaxing

Exploratory for-fun personal writing on BYOK and Qwerkywriter! I'm not under contract presently; taking a breather to focus on MFA studies (media composition and orchestration).

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Commission (juicy)

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Nota bene

For anyone who's had difficulty finding print copies of Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit etc), I've renewed the contract with Solaris Books (we were in negotiations last year as those books were/are on a time-limited contract) so new print editions should become available by and by. Theoretically Ninefox Gambit is scheduled for 11 August 2026, although that date may slip.

Yours in calendrical heresy, YHL

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~Video game track vibes WIP in Cubase. I have promised to yeet the choir later, but I just wanted it in there right now!

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I apologize in advance for the :kof: closing pun.

Featured Friday! Yoon Ha Lee

Yoon Ha Lee is a Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford

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Black replacement keycaps! The space bar design I did for fun - the seller will 3D print your design for you if you send an image. :)

(For Cubase reasons, I needed glowy function keys. The rest are really for fun.)