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This all-new Human Gorilla Heists Bundle presents .PDF ebooks from Human Gorilla Creations that help you create tabletop fantasy roleplaying adventures of thieves and thievery.

Bundle of Holding: Human Gorilla Heists
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Aisha's unique senses could help the empire escape the ecological crisis the empire has inadvertently engineered. Too bad dynastic security requires her death.

The Girl from the West (Kokun, volume 1) by Nahoko Uehashi (Translated by Cathy Hirano)

Fig (2011 - 2026)

Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:45 pm
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I just got email from Fig's owner that Fig (who I owned from 2012 to 2017) passed away this evening. Cause unknown. My impression is Fig just didn't wake up.

Seen on the Watsfic Discord

Feb. 3rd, 2026 02:40 pm
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QWP


Hey everyone,

**This year marks WATSFIC's 50th Anniversary!** To commemorate this we are releasing a new issue of our club fanzine Starsongs.

If you would like to become an officially published author, we are opening up submissions right now! Send us your **short stories, opinion pieces, open letters** [to systems, games, concepts, authors, or WATSFIC itself], **reviews of Sci-Fi/Fantasy** games, books, or other media, **your best drawings or paintings**, or whatever else you'd like to share with WATSFIC and the greater UW Community. We will endeavour to accept and print as many submissions as possible as long as they are club appropriate. If you're unsure if your idea is right for Starsongs, please don't hesitate to contact an exec and we'd be more than happy to discuss it and/or workshop it with you!

If you are looking for inspiration, you can find the 1970s releases of Starsongs on the University of Waterloo's Digital Library.

**We will be accepting submissions until the end of March, if you would like to contribute** please fill out this form here.

-# Submissions after March 31st may still be accepted, but we cannot promise anything, so please try to get any and all submission in before this deadline to ensure your work can be considered.

D&D scenario

Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:54 am
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Decades after the PCs' last adventure, an old epic foe reappears, still bent on conquest.

Time to get the band back together!

Alas, the band isn't just dispersed. All but one member is long dead.

Happily, the last surviving member is a necromancer.

My First Bridge

Feb. 2nd, 2026 11:38 pm
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I went to the dentist this morning for a routine examination and cleaning, but he found a non-routine situation, and arranged for me to come back in the afternoon, for, he hoped, a crown and a root canal on one of my lower molars. When I came back, he decided that that wasn’t workable, and that he would have to extract the tooth, and put in a bridge, which he proceeded to do.

After some preliminary work with a drill, he tried several chisel-like devices to remove the bad tooth, periodically putting aside one to try another. It was like struggling to open a tightly sealed jar, or breaking apart some damaged item so that it could be removed and thrown out, except that I wasn’t dealing with a recalcitrant jar lid; the dentist was dealing with one of my teeth. Finally, the dentist was able to pull out the remnant of my tooth, suture the wound, and stuff it with gauze.

He prescribed amoxicillin and Motrin for me. I have started on the antibiotic, but haven’t touched the Motrin. I remember how sore my mouth was after the removal of my wisdom teeth, or after more recent gum surgery, but to my surprise, I’m not in any serious pain.
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"In 1947 and 1948, Agee wrote an untitled screenplay for Charlie Chaplin, in which the Tramp survives a nuclear holocaust; posthumously titled The Tramp's New World, the text was published in 2005."

Bundle of Holding: Forbidden Psalm

Feb. 2nd, 2026 02:13 pm
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Eight death-metal miniatures games from OptimisticNL inspired by, and compatible with, the artpunk tabletop roleplaying game Mörk Borg.

Bundle of Holding: Forbidden Psalm

2025 Fanfic By The Numbers

Feb. 1st, 2026 10:18 pm
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2025 was a productive year!

Total words: 173,566
Total works: 85

Exchanges: 28
Pinch Hits: 20
Bangs: 3

Fandoms: 47 fandoms
New to Me Fandoms: 18
First Work Fandoms: 5

I finished a story that I started working on in 2008 (Thank you WIP Big Bang).

My goal for 2026 is 126K.

2026 Pinch Hitter Bingo Card

Feb. 1st, 2026 10:04 pm
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Giving it another try, completed 3x in 2025!

Single pairing/character in request Creator's Choice of Fandom pinch hit Romance fandom Large fandom [over 20000 works on Ao3] Event hosted on Discord
Unusual format pinch hit Cartoon fandom Crossover pinch hit Shipping-themed event YA/children's fandom
Standalone fandom Male character[s] requested FREE SPACE Fandom with no works on AO3 Original Work pinch hit
Vintage fandom [pre-1990 CE] Nonhuman character[s] requested Event with delayed reveals Flash exchange Max pairings/characters in request
TV fandom Minimum of 5k or more Medieval fandom [pre-1600 CE] Minimum of 300 words Established event [3+ times run]

Eine Winterreise

Feb. 1st, 2026 08:40 pm
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Thursday evening, I was coming home from the Patent Office, wearing a backpack, and carrying a bag with my laptop and various papers therein. At the Pentagon City station, where I got off, an A40 bus was supposed to come by in nine minutes (according to the display in an electronic sign). A woman told me that it had been supposed to arrive in two minutes, but then that announcement had disappeared. I decided to walk to a bus stop about a third of a mile away, where I might catch an A40 bus or the F-something bus.

I waited a bit, and two other men joined me. We waited, and an A40 bus came by, but didn’t stop; it was very crowded, and did not seem to be taking new passengers. I said that I had had enough, and would walk home. It was over a mile, and the going was rough, as there were patches of cleared sidewalk, patches of snowy sidewalk with an icy crust on the snow, hillocks of snow to claim, and so forth. The temperature was below freezing, and there was wind. I walked and walked, and a few blocks before the sidestreet to my apartment building, I saw two buses come by, an A40 and an F-something.

I finished the walk, and got home after ten o’clock. I wasn’t comfortable, but I think it was just as well that I did walk home, since I was doing something to achieve my goal, instead of standing there stewing, while the possible future arrival of a bus was outside my control.

The Chosin Few would not have been impressed by my endurance.
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Voting is now OPEN for the Other Projects category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes amazing projects that don't fit into any other area. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2026 Rose & Bay Landing Page.

In the Other Projects category, the 2025 winner was "The Mending Circle" by Martin Nerurkarwon.

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Poll #34169 Other Project
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"May I Enter" by Josh Heath
1 (33.3%)

"The Far Roofs" by Jenna Katerin Moran
1 (33.3%)

"Take Us North" by Anima Interactive
0 (0.0%)

"Min-Maxed" by Clark, David, and Megan (Sellsword Arts), Jack (Jacques Ze Whipper), David (blumineck), Bensei (instructor_bensei), Tater the Bard
1 (33.3%)

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Voting is now OPEN for the Webcomic category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes outstanding webcomics. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2026 Rose & Bay Landing Page.

In the Webcomic category, the 2025 winner was "Bronwyn: Short Story Collection" by Isaac George.

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Poll #34168 Webcomic
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"Alien Romance" by [personal profile] gs_silva
1 (50.0%)

"Cat's Cafe" by Matt Tarpley
0 (0.0%)

"ADHD Alien" by ADHD Alien
1 (50.0%)

"Quantum Vibe" by Scott Bieser w/Zeke Bieser
0 (0.0%)

"False Knees" by Joshua Barkman
0 (0.0%)

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Voting is now open for the Poetry category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity (aka crowdfunding), and this category recognizes exceptional poetry. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2025 Rose & Bay Landing Page.

In the Poetry category, the 2025 winners were a TIE between The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters - A Sci-Fi Anthology by Thinking Ink Press and The Haiku Foundation by The Haiku Foundation.

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Voting is now open for the Art category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity (aka crowdfunding), and this category recognizes exceptional poetry. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2025 Rose & Bay Landing Page.

In the Art category, the 2025 winner was "Anubis & Bastet ☆ Pharaoh's Guardians ☆ Plush" by Kayla AKA.

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The Red Queen’s Race

Feb. 1st, 2026 04:26 pm
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I finished an Office Action on an amendment a few days ago, so I’m down to four amendments on my Amended docket. I worked on another one, which I hoped to finish Saturday, but no go. Now I hope to finish it today or Monday.

I did finish an Office Action on my oldest Regular New case a week ago, so that’s something.

Plantar Fasciitis

Feb. 1st, 2026 04:24 pm
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I have been getting twinges in my feet, leading me to suspect a recurrence of the plantar fasciitis which troubled me years ago, so I have been doing some stretching exercises that I used to do. I hope they help.
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Voting is now open for the Patron category of the Rose and Bay Awards. These awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity (aka crowdfunding), and this category recognizes exceptional artists. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Please read the complete details below, and then make your vote in the following poll. For more information about these awards, visit the 2026 Landing Page.

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**Edit: If you voted for the patron category on Feb 1, or early Feb 2, please vote again. I had to change the poll because I accidentally forgot a nominee. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Poll #34174 Voting for 2026 Rose & Bay Awards: Patron
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Choose your favourite Parton.

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Fuzzyred patron of "Poetry Fishbowl" by Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith
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Anthony Barrette patron of "Poetry Fishbowl" by Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith
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Siliconshaman patron of "Poetry Fishbowl" by Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith
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Sarah Williams aka Dialecticdreamer patron of "Poetry Fishbowl" by Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith
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Stacey R Van Keuren aka Librarygeek patron of "Poetry Fishbowl" by Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith
0 (0.0%)

Elizabeth Barrette aka Ysabetwordsmith patron of Feathering the Nest by Sarah Williams aka Dialecticdreamer
0 (0.0%)

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