Playing God is now available on Itch!

https://gnomemadegames.itch.io/playing-god

This solo or multiplayer TTRPG allows you to play as a mighty god!

Read about the game in this interview: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/qa-adam-hancock-playing-god/

#ttrpg #mythology

Playing God is now available on Itch!

https://gnomemadegames.itch.io/playing-god

This solo or multiplayer TTRPG allows you to play as a mighty god!

Read about the game in this interview: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/qa-adam-hancock-playing-god/

#ttrpg #mythology

Lithuania's Romuva community celebrating earth goddess Žemyna during the Žolinės holiday yesterday

#Romuva#Pagan #pagans #Baltic #Lithuania #folklore #mythology #baltics #witch #spirituality #singing

Once more, for the people in the back:

An "epic hero" (*cough* Odysseus *cough*) is not an "epic hero" because they are a role model that does everything right. They were never meant to be an unproblematic fandom icon.

People bending themselves into pretzels to prove Odysseus (and others) never did anything wrong, questionable, or "problematic" are doing a disservice and flattening mythology into fan fiction.

Said what I said.

#mythology#Storytelling

Yuval Harari, #author of big science history books 'Sapiens' & 'Homo Deus', has just posted this on his Instagram (pic w/ alt txt below).

I don't usually get annoyed by generalisations, but...

I wrote a short #refutation of this #claim that #science is "far more imaginative" than #mythology & "didn't predict black holes or atoms" here:

https://www.kittythinks.com/yuval-is-wrong/

Tl:dr: Many scientific theories can be traced back to mythology & creation myths are there to ask questions science is answering.

Second side note: we have done too much work trying to redeem and reframe women in Homer's epics just to go back to "ooh those evil scheming wily women are trapping poor innocent men!"

#mythology

Once more, for the people in the back:

An "epic hero" (*cough* Odysseus *cough*) is not an "epic hero" because they are a role model that does everything right. They were never meant to be an unproblematic fandom icon.

People bending themselves into pretzels to prove Odysseus (and others) never did anything wrong, questionable, or "problematic" are doing a disservice and flattening mythology into fan fiction.

Said what I said.

#mythology#Storytelling

One of my dolls lives in a museum. You can meet and greet her in The Museum of Magic, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's Frau Perchta from Germanic mythology. She is waiting for you in Folk Witch display.

If you run a museum or any other public space that you think could benefit from such doll, let me know. I'm open for discussions and creating the doll that you need. I just love museums and the idea of my witch dolls greeting people in public spaces. If my doll lands in your museum I will brag about it forever.

#perchta #germanic #mythology #museum #witchcraft #fortunetelling #magic #history #scotland #edinburgh

Also, re: mistletoe

Yesterday I learned that not everyone knows mistletoe is a tree parasite. Which is interesting to me as a storyteller. In Norse mythology, the god Baldr is killed with mistletoe (thanks Loki...). His mother, Frigg extracted an oath from everything under the sun to not harm her child. But she skipped mistletoe because she didn't consider it a separate plant.

Taxonomy saves lives, people. :D

#mythology #MythologyMonday #folklore #nature #storytelling