Inventing Community

Life of a DM

When you casually say: “ Hey, what if we tried a horror campaign with a creepy fog and snobby vampire lords” And now it’s 3:17am, your browser has 12 tabs open, and you’re: writing a regional dread map, inventing a fog that eats memories, designing monsters with feelings, and outlining trauma arcs... read more

Unable to sleep

It’s 2 AM and here I am… wide awake, staring at the ceiling like my brain has its own little party going on 😩 I’m exhausted, my body is begging for sleep, but my mind? Nope. Just scrolling through random thoughts, overthinking everything, and probably inventing problems that don’t even... read more

I'm Khadijah who grew up in Manila, Philippines

In the end, the lives I live between pages are as real as any I have ever known. They are filled with sun, rain, spice, and salt; with laughter and sorrow, wisdom and folly. They are alive in me, and through me, they may touch the lives of others. Writing is the art of living beyond limits, the act... read more

Some men, clearly wrestling with serious mental health issues, end up inventing entire lives just to feel like they matter.

They stitch together these hollow fantasies using random photos pulled from the internet, pretending they’re evidence of some grand, meaningful existence. It’s not just deceptive it’s deeply sad. What makes it worse is how absurdly shortsighted it is. We live in an era where images can be traced... read more

Elegy for a Dying Species

Thoughts race—feverish, frantic, Eyes flicker in panic, Left to right, Endless plight, A suffocating sight. Beauty gleams sharper in fear’s embrace— Terror brightens what time would erase. Only when doom casts its long, cold shadow Do we finally see the sublime aura of all in our world. Mortality... (edited) read more

Wow someone is inventing paranoia for pigeons 🤯