Tag: art

• Gullet of the Rust Demon (June 30, 2026)

  At least half of my enjoyment of Gullet of the Rust Demon, a one-page, system-agnostic tabletop RPG adventure by Dan D., comes from the “establishing shot” of the dungeon exterior at the top of the sheet. The tufts of grass and single, stray flower, cartoonish as they are, do so much to suggest where some adventurers might come across this minimalistic dungeon’s entrance, and how quietly, temptingly anomalous it would appear.

• Your flag is what you fly (August 13, 2025)

  Posting this amidst a two-week vacation in Freeport, on the Maine coast. I can report that the 1901 Maine flag, with two simple shapes on a plain background, is ubiquitous on souvenir merchandise here. In shop after shop I see it embroidered on caps, screened onto T-shirts, and carved into coasters. People here are proud of the design, and visitors clearly love it too, buying every sort of representation to take back home. I shall be among them.

• “Is this ‘loss’?” (August 8, 2020)

  Remembering the time Zach posted a picture of a stool and I got all upset and didn't know why.