Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large

@thejenya

Cartoonist | GIRLS MAKE MOVIES, BACKSTORY 📚 Narr Designer Trailblazers: @IntotheMarch.bsky.social | TTRPG Designer 🗺️ Pathfinder 2e AP @tumblethrupod.bsky.social | She/they 🎨 artstation.com/thejenya 💻 hauntedvaultstudios.com rep Shena Wolf OCAF 9.12.2026

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Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· 25d

When you sign a little contract but you're actually the Sea Hag. Project Littlefoot is under way...

still from the Little Mermaid where Ariel, a young mermaid with long red hair, signs Ursula's contract. Ursula is a fat, beautiful diva with purple skin and a octopus lower body.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· 26d

Zack Woods playing Jared Dunn's "on-the-phone" personality Ed Chambers on Silicon Valley is never gonna not be funny to me. What a generational talent.

image of a very very very light skinned man (like a Victorian Doll) with ken doll hair laughing aggressively into a cellphone in a kitchen.

I tease, Zack, you're very handsome

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· 27d

You all can come over for pot au feu sometime. I mean, to France, not to my house because there's not enough flavor in this for me/ I don't eat meat.

Image of a put full of potato, carrots, leeks, and beef in super thin broth and one bay leaf. There's usually some thyme or rosemary in there too but... man.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· 28d

C'est une comedie mais je pleure !!! Cyrano de Bergerac + Molière ? Bah, ouais

L'image des Les Caprices de l'enfant roi

Image of the poster for The Whims of the Child King aka Les Caprices de l'Enfant Roi

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 11

💙 Cassim 💙

Image of Aladdin's dad with silver streaks in his temples and a well-manicured beard and mustache. his hand is in a milking an cow-udder gesture as he confidently tells Aladdin something

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 10

"Let them both die"

The Dark Princess of Rainbow Bright with giant red hair, purple green eye makeup, a black jumpsuit with a cape and is holding a very large diamond like a pet

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 10

The Detective Update: she's cute

Image of a white cat with black spots laying across a planner and blocking access to a laptop

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 9

Season 3 of The Pitt, in a fever dream of a patient for one episode, the entire start of the ER is working in a restaurant with the same name.

Two story resto with a free sign that says Oyster tasting and Le Pitt.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 6

2023-2024 was a canary in the coal mine for the video game industry, thinking about how many of us lost our jobs (I did) between CEO/corporate greed and the promise of AI. And it just keeps going. I hadn’t checked the wiki entry in awhile but it’s grim. Video Game Layoffs of 2022-2026

Image from wiki that says Games Industry Layoff by Year:
2022 with 8,500 layoffs
2023 with 10,500 layoffs
2024 with 15,650 layoffs
2025 with 9,200 layoffs

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 3

Building a room set for a client

Drawing of a corner of a room with wood floors, yellow and purple paint with a light up moon light, a planetary alignment poster and a pin board with a calendar and some pictures.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 2

I ran an early version of Our Haunt on my old in-studio ttrpg stream Big Dun-Jen Show (lil graphic below), and interviewed Rae mid-2020. Enjoyed playing in One More into the Void and watching Apocalypse Keys. Please buy the Recovery Bundle! @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jul 2

Rae Nedjadi is one of those "he worked on THIS game too?" designers. I wouldn't be who I am without Rae's games! Rae's in need of some financial support as he is healing. The @drivethrurpg.com bundle includes Our Haunt and Brindlewood Bay! 22 Titles for $25 www.drivethrurpg.com//product/572...

Image of the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle including a nice illustration of him in glasses with short curly black hair, and three book covers of Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, and Once More into the Void

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 28

Loved the New York Post article claiming "it's over" for Mamdani as if there isn't an entire cultural touchstone on powerful or leading men getting wet in their (regency) white shirts when overcome with emotion.

Zohran Mamdani in a grey suit, yellow tie, and white shirt wet in the pool, laughing and looking incredibly happy

Colin Firth from the BBC's 90s Pride and Prejudice, hair wet from the pond, shirt clinging to his chest

Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton erupting from the water with the most diaphanous white shirt of the bunch

Another light skinned white dude with brown hair, from Lost in Austen, waistdeep in water with his shirt clinging to him

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 27

Pride continues with some non-fiction activity books from Nomad Press that I Illustrated! Learn how to make a picket sign to protest unfair labor conditions with Industrial Revolution or make a soda can engine with Bridges and Tunnels: nomadpress.net/illustrator/...

Cover of the Industrial Revolution activity book, sub title investigate how science and technology changed the world with inventions like the light filament and the telephone in an old illustration style. Written by Carla Mooeny

Orange cover illustration of the Golden Gate bridge. Titled Investigate Bridges and Tunnels: Feats of Engineering.

Instructions and drawing from the side and 75% above of a Knitting spool made out of popsicle sticks and some other items

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 27

Pride continues with the documentary Cartoon College, a film about a very small cartooning college in Vermont called @cartoonstudies.bsky.social. You can see a baby jen with the pink bangs and spiky hair and working two jobs at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlD6...

Jen with pink bangs, glasses, and a rainbow sweater in a graphic novel library

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 27

Reading Clean Up on Aisle Earth while trying to stay cool in our lil backyard pool.

Image of the light blue book and the cover image is of a trash picker upper device holding an oily planet earth. Subtitle of the book is How Technology Drives Climate Action by Tasmin Lockwood

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 27

Time Belongs to Us, just haunting

Image of the three singers and orchestral director, Judy Alice Lee (Melinoe), Colin Ryan (Apollo), Ashley Barett (Artemis' singing voice)

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 26

Pride cont with Fables: Pirates of the Aetherial Expanse @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social Ch. 4 co-written with @katkruger.bsky.social + @anneofmanynames.bsky.social! We explore the half-sunken ships of the Soul Cages before going fully underwater with astral merfolk ghostfiregaming.com/product/fabl...

Image of Chapter 4: Lost to the Aether, a 5e compatible adventure path. A pirate is holding a dagger up to an crocodile underwater this image is inside of a compass rose surrounded by wooden planks with carvings inside.

Image of a femme-presenting pirate from the back with knee high black boots, brown paints, and a white billowing shirt jumping from a a high up rock to land in some blue water in a pink coral reef.

Image of a blue, pink, and purple tunnel with some large statues peeking out from the walls, fish and kelp drift in the water.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 26

Pride cont with 5e Fables: Pirates of the Aetherial Expanse @ghostfiregaming.bsky.social! Cocreated Ch. 3 with @writejess.bsky.social + @anneofmanynames.bsky.social. I created gambling mini-games, ships, + designed Blinking Island + it's countdown clock effects. ghostfiregaming.com/product/fabl...

Image of Chapter 3: the Lost Constellation, a 5e compatible adventure path. A femme presenting person is being blown off a ship, in this image inside of a compass rose surrounded by wooden planks with carvings inside.

Two page spread of the Blinking Island, a curved crescent moon island with a lighthouse on either side of the tips, connected by a rocky path. The lighthouses are being hit by lightning from the tumultuous sea-sky

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 26

Big thanks to @moliaudrey.bsky.social for these incredibly gorgeous Godzilla vs GenAI stickers, they are bigger than my hand!

Sticker in the form of the video game UI with Godzilla destroying AI offices like ‘Clode’ aka Claude and ‘ChienGPT’ aka Chat GPT. A person says Go ahead and destroy AI data centers Godzilla make people happy!

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 25

At least my hand fan is cool.

Image of a yellow orange and hot pink fan with sun rays that says ‘tarpin chaud’ which means too hot or beaucoup chaud, an expression from southern France, Marseille

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 25

In the middle of European heatwave, I’m using public transport (train), trying to cool myself with hand fan, and passing by some French wind farms. Worried about my cat and my old neighbors. I want to 🔥 every AI data center, every big oil company and their CEOs, and the politicians who helped.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 24

To quote Scott Seiss:

Meme Image of light skinned moustaches comedian Scott Seiss saying ‘then die’ in response to capitalism

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 24

Pride Month continues with Lie to Him by @michellicopter.bsky.social! A solo RPG about deception with tarot cards and wooden block tower! Companion app by @aleenay.bsky.social, layout by @byfrancita.bsky.social, cover and art by me! Grab it on Itch: michellicopter.itch.io/lie-to-him

Cover image featuring a sepia tone color scheme, art by Jen. In the foreground on the right, is a skeleton on his knees looking at the skeleton standing in the doorway in the background (on the left) who has their hand on a door. It is unclear if they are opening or closing the door. The title font over the image reads Lie to Him. And at the bottom: a solo roleplaying game of deception by Michelle Kelly.

Image of tarot card drawn by Jen with skeletons and the game set up rules

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 23

Next up is the graphic novel adaptation of middle grade classic: Took by Mary Downing Hahn! Adapted by Scott Peterson (words), me (linework), and @hankjonescolors.bsky.social (colors)! When Daniel’s little sister Erica goes missing, he believes the local rumors about the forest witch are true…

Image of the book cover with a blue-ghastly faced doll reaching out to the viewer, it says TOOK, a ghost story graphic novel

Image of a destroyed cabin in the forest
And a vulture flying out and scaring the father and two children who are exploring

Image of Auntie, the witch with long grasping hair and Bloody Bones, a skeleton construct with a boar skull menacing a girl who looks like Erica

Image of Daniel and Erica talking on a stone wall as the wind whips around her and she talks to her creepy look-a-like doll

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 21

And an overworld run by the light of Selene and a bit of Dionysus’ wine

Image of Melonie at Olympus after beating multiple foes, half glass of rose near by, and the shadows for company

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 21

Playing Hades 2 in 38 degrees C/ 100 degrees F for full immersion into hell

Image of a Nintendo switch and the Tartarus level with Melinoë on screen.

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 21

Pride cont with Delves and Journeys, edited by @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social, cover art by Eric Pommer. 36 easy to use five-room dungeons to add to your campaign! Mine is an ode to Buckee's. Just like the real one, there's problems with management! On @dmsguild.com: www.dmsguild.com//product/530...

Image of four adventurers holding torches, glowing staves or weapons as they walk down into a white stone dungeon. A skeleton of a former adventurer is on the the ground.

Beginning of Jen's adventure that says Broken Mirrors at Luck-ee's General Store for level 1-3 characters and a description of the mascot: a grick wearing a hat

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 20

Trying to stay cool during the heat wave with a local Lyon cider

Image of jen with light skin, dark hair, in a black and white striped shirt drinking an Otcho hard cider

A dachshund puppy looking out of the corner of their eye at me with the camera as they search for crumbs

Jen Vaughn, Storyteller at Large@thejenya· Jun 19

Reading Honeyeater under the weak moonlight as the wind whips through the trees, bats swooping low. Ambiance +1000