I made a post on bluesky yesterday about having your own website or blog and it really blew up so now I’m fired up about websites and will probably be more annoying about them than usual. If you’re reading this then you probably have one but if you don’t? Go fix that. It’s a lot of fun and then I can read it and tell everyone about how cool it is!
Also did you know you could like posts on Bear Blogs? I didn’t realize that until just a few minutes ago. Haha, WHOOPS! So if you have one, just pretend I was liking every post until now, because that’s probably what I would be doing.
Anyway, here are some of the posts I enjoyed reading this week! If you enjoy these, subscribe to some RSS feeds and do your own link roundup. Google sucks now and this is how people will discover new sites.
Video Games
Aura talks about a ton of video games in this year’s IGF
If you’re looking for people to follow on Bluesky, SideQuesting put together a list of starter packs they like.
Renga in Blue continues playing through every single adventure game in order of release. This time it’s the 1982 text adventure Firienwood.
No Escape explains how Pacific Drive is like storm chasing.
Gamers with Glasses talks about antifascist game criticism.
Tabletop RPGs
I really love the playthroughs of solo ttrpgs Kaden has been doing for Solovember.
A. A. Voigt. wrote a short story for the Spectres of Brocken RPG setting, by Aaron Lim
Music
Megan explains their process for film scoring.
I love hearing about local music scenes and in this post Yaffle writes about emo bands in Russia.
The Morning Music blog is going on break for two weeks but at least it leaves us with this great live jazz album recorded in Detroit.
Photography
Interactive fiction writer Andrew Plotkin now has a photography blog!
Nicky Flowers posts photos of BART.
Dev Logs
Dev logs are great. You all need to post updates on your games on your own site instead of on a social media network that might not even be around in a few years.
Meredith Gran gives an update on the upcoming Perfect Tides sequel.
David Lindsey Pittman posts screenshots of Eldritch 2 and the inventory system.
Other Stuff
I love reading blog posts that are just life updates from people I know, and they talk about what art they’ve been enjoying or what they’re up to. For example, these posts from Renkon and coffeentacos were really nice to read. If you’ve ever wanted to blog about that stuff and didn’t think people wouldn’t care, you’re wrong!
eladnarra discovers blackwork embroidery.
Critical Distance has put together a great list of organizations to support if you can afford to.
Cohost Union News was a great account on Cohost that posted about union news and they’re back at it on their own site.
If you had a cohost account, you should repost your stuff! Here’s a nice pencil animation.
It’s not a blog but Unwinnable talks about the dying art of finding porn in the woods. I always heard about this but even in the 90s it never happened to me.
I also enjoyed some older posts that I saw folks sharing. This blog post talks about how it’s good to be frivolous on your blog, talking about whatever you like. I found it from someone I follow just reblogging it.
Molly White talks about an approach to social media that I think I’m currently doing, POSSE.