Interview with David M. Donachie, Creator of Gamebooks and More

This author, illustrator, game designer and lover of mice agreed to chat with me about living a creative life.

Here are just a few of the things he’s had a hand in: a series of free Dragon Warriors modules with Red Ruin Publishing, a TTRPG where you pilot a spaceship made of dice, and the versatile GNAT System for gamebook adventures—which he used to write Heart of Keros, a free, excellent adventure and Merit Award winner from the 2023/2024 Lindenbaum Competition (which is where I first found his work).

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Every Super Sentai Theme Song, Ranked (Pt. 2)

Welcome back! Here’s Part 1 if you missed it. Now get ready for some more squeezed GIFs and hopefully normal MP3s as we count it down from #17 to that coveted top spot!

Yeah, that’s Dappu. From Carranger. In his jersey. All dripped out.
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Every Super Sentai Theme Song, Ranked (Pt. 1)

Super Sentai. It’s the series Power Rangers is based on…but also so much more. I did not give a shit about it until about eight years ago when I watched every one of its theme songs in a row for some reason.

It’s corny. It’s campy. It’s cool. It’s high-octane. And as of 2025, it spans fifty years.

So let’s count it down, from my least favorite to most coveted—complete with MP3s and supercompressed GIFs to give YOU a taste of the action.

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Let’s Just Chat About Catgirl System

Time feels short and distractions seem many. Right now I don’t want to write much other than Catgirl System, and other projects (including my blog posts) threaten to screech to a halt. So…why not smash them together into an unholy conglomerate? Join me for a LitRPG chat around the fire.

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Take a Break: Let Your Body Catch Up with Your Mind

If there’s “no good reason” why you should feel burned out, yet you feel burned out, consider a rest. After that, your feelings might go, “Wait, it doesn’t seem hard anymore. …Huh.”

It sounds fake when I put it that way, but it’s been true for me.

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The Artist Who’s Never Been Driven At All?

Some artists have a “creative mania.” They work day in and day out, like motors that feed on air. To outsiders, their path to artistry is simple—in the same sense as the simplest way to break into a bank is to pull out the battering ram. Just work tirelessly. Hammer it out. And it may even seem to happen spontaneously, involuntarily.

For me, though, it would take not only passion to reach this state (and…drugs?), but a lot of stifling work.

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