Those2Nerds Progress Report

⭐ Cause problems in wow that's a lot of stars
⛱️ Chronicle your travels in The World is Dead
✏️ Add yourself to the World of Worlds

The Lost Jump Gate

A myth about a wandering jump gate and the people it summons.

1115 words
20 likes

Jump Gates

Ancient psionic technology that once teleported whole ships across the galaxy.

988 words
17 likes

Great Mother

The main deity recognized across the stars is the mother of all creation.

1068 words
21 likes

Burn

A condition describing a forced and painful data wipe of virtual intelligences.

765 words
20 likes

Psionic Quarantine Zones

Locked settlements where native-born Livonian psions are forced to spend their lives.

1357 words
18 likes

Legion Incursion

The Emerald Legion's failure at taking over the sector left us forever changed.

1441 words
19 likes

The Watcher

A spy program embedded within certain VIs that can only be removed by reformatting.

1090 words
19 likes

Fall of Night

(Prose) A small story of an tragic day on a jump gate on June 25, 2665.

4510 words
18 likes

VI Culture

Not many believe virtual intelligences can have a culture, but they're allowed to be wrong.

1086 words
22 likes

Those2Nerds Progress so far

13420 words 134.2% completed!

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About Me

I'm Rin, queer storyteller and aspiring otherworldly entity based near Boston, Massachusetts. The other nerd to my name is my husband, my #1 biggest fan.   While books are my main love, I adore good stories in all forms and spend much of my free time playing video games. Either that, or wrangling CSS into doing something World Anvil really doesn't want it to do.  

My Work

All my work is human-made, including anything I've commissioned from someone else.   My primary WA World is a grounded science-fiction setting used with the Stars Without Number TTRPG system. It's been nominated Most Beautiful World and won Best World in 2026.
wow that's a lot of stars

a sci-fi adventure of dubious intentions

Ten planets connected by metadimensional space, divided by ideals, and held together by one beleaguered organization.

  I also have a variety of side projects, including:
  • Rin's Overworld, which contains event hubs and how-to guides.
  • Su-mehr Qiamp, a short-term project from 2025 featuring ghosts and rivers, some of which are angry sometimes.
  • You Are Here Now, for information on the novels I'm writing.
  • The World is Dead, an epistolary worldbuilding project I'm working on this summer.
  • Lastly, I help with World of Worlds, a project by Annie Stein to create more ways to share your World and find others to follow.

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