the quiet in the garden

Another postcard game this month, this time a wee solo boardgame. Hopefully the rules on the postcard cover everything you need to know, but if anything's unclear just go with whatever makes the most sense to you.

Download the quiet in the garden

The Rules:

• The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (1/12/23).
• This download is a zipfile containing a PDF.
• All documents and assets are included, licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License.
• As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.

Further Reading

I've fallen down a bit of a wrestling rabbit hole recently, and this clip of the Hardys and LA Knight shouting their catchprases at each other cracked me up. "This is very confusing. See you tomorrow."

(though Matt Hardy's 'DELETE!' gesture takes on a very different tenor when you see the entire audience doing it 😬)

Andi McClure linked this incredible track by GEZAN/Million Wish Collective as part of her daily "What I'm listening to" series.

Kieron Gillen with a beautiful piece of writing about Abba in his newsletter.

Some gorgeous old drawings of mushrooms by Hans Walty on wikimedia.

A wide-ranging collection of books in HTML format on Monoskop.

A conversation on cohost about making things and motivation. Particularly seaglass' point about developing muscle memory for this stuff. That's how it is for me, certainly. By this point in my life I think making things has become just another part of how I exist in and understand the world.

With Bandcamp looking like they're going the way of all VC-backed companies, Jazz Mickle has put together a website pointing towards alternatives for both musicians and listeners.

Michael Lutz debunking the conspiracy theories behind Shakespeare not being the real author of his plays:

"things happen in history, and history changes everything, especially how and why we read"

"they present themselves as primarily moral phenomena to be weighed and debated on a higher plane than the merely material one of who has the fences, who has the planes, who has the prison camps"

I'm going to be away when this month's newsletter goes out, so I'm writing this a bit in advance. And maybe things will have completely changed by the time this goes out, but right now it looks like Israel are in the process of committing genocide in Palestine. I am woefully ill-equipped to comment, but it feels wrong not to acknowledge the horror that is unfolding, so here are some posts that I found useful in providing some context:

• Zionism isn't what people think it is (it's worse)
• How To Be Anti-Zionist WITHOUT Being Antisemitic

There's a bundle of games for Gaza on itch, and Medical Aid for Palestinians seem to be good people to donate to?

I don't have words to counter the despair of hundreds of thousands of people being cut off, starved, and bombed into oblivion, so I don't know. Take care out there, wherever you are.