ash alder
ketcham seguinte

Audio fiction writer, director, & producer.
Table-top role-playing game developer.
Graphic designer & divination deck creator.
Founder/manager, Law of Names Media.

Other Projects

Deacon University Library

Explore the special collection.A Blake Skye:PI fan project.

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Getting Back to OK

A mindfulness guidebook.Remember! Life is just a reflection of will!

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About Ash

Ash is an aggressively enthusiastic creator-of-things in Northern California.He has realized in recent years that one of his greatest strengths is that he never learns the how something is supposed to be done before he tries it himself. He does a lot of things wrong, & one of the most freeing creative choices he's ever made was deciding not to care.He's queer & autistic, and didn't understand till recently how much of what he makes & how he makes it are informed by that fact. He also lives with a collection of physical & mental diagnoses that largely get in the way, but have, at least, been named.Above all, he is driven to tell the Story, to connect the mythic to the modern, and to be visible such that others from Elsewhere know they aren't alone.He has been writing since forever, and professionally for over a decade. Now, he has the luxury of making creative work without the need to generate income from it, and he's found he's happiest as a hobby creator.He thrives on collaborative work, collective world-building, and connecting with creators of as many backgrounds and outlooks as he can.Contact Ash

Audio Dramas

Arcadia, CA

Series complete.
October 2020 - September 2024
A suburban fantasy serial audio drama.

Series creator & writer
Scheduler
Administration coordinator
Website manager
Graphic designer & asset creator

Show Website


The Dakota Gold Mysteries

1st series releases November, 2024
Cyberpunk noir mysteries.

Series creator
Scheduler
Administration coordinator
Website manager
Graphic designer & asset creator
Writer/Director
Cloud City Sonata
Murder at 1.28 Hertz

Show Website


para/Normal

Season 1 complete.
June 2023 - September 2023
A collection of bite-sized horror/Comedy stories.

Series creator
Scheduler
Administration coordinator
Website manager
Graphic designer & asset creator
Writer/Director
Cost Of Living
Standard Number 1904.39(c)
Winning Bid

Show Website


Blake Sky: Private Eye

A Most Vital Art

Series complete.
September 2022
A 5-episode cosmic horror story set in the Blake Skye universe.

Writer/director
Scheduler

Show Website


Devoid of Space

Series complete.
Released October 2023 - May 2024
Anthology of science fiction horror.

Production assistant
Scheduler
Administration coordinator
Website manager

Show Website

Breathing Space

Series complete.
May 2021 - October 2024
A science fiction western audio drama anthology.

Series creator
Scheduler
Documentation & records manager
Administration coordinator
Website & Twitter manager
Graphic designer & asset creator
Writer/Director
Season 0
Breakdown
Badger Game
Paradisio Orbital Advertisement
G(ym) Force Advertisement
Season 1
Goodnight, You Moonlight Ladies
The Salvage of the Valentina Tareshkova
Attention, Associates!
Oh Beautiful for Heroes Proved
Advanced Readings in Theoretical Helioseismology
We Interrupt This Program
Season 2
My Stars Will Never Leave Me
The Train Job
The Tale of the Knock at the Airlock
The Gambler
Solidarity Forever!
Season 3
By Any Other Name
Roll On, Northumbria
Five-Foot Six & Two-Fifteen
Season 4
Seed Money
You Can Hear the Whistle Blow

Show Website


Waterlogged

Season 1 complete.
June 2024 - August 2024
A collection of aquatic horror stories.

Production assistant
Website manager
Writer & dialog editor
Like a Fish to Water
Treading Water

Show Website


Translating Arcadia

December 2022 - May 2022
Audio short fiction.

Series creator
Website manager
Writer & editor
Become, Becoming, Became
Coyote
Containment
O, Melpomene
Maker
One Night in Midwinter
Leather

Show Website

Games

Full-Length TTRPGS
Resistor: High School, Low Life
Angry teens with brain computers in the near future San Angeles Megacity
Micro-RPGs
The Food Truck Rebellion
Covert culinary operatives fight back against the Food Industrial Complex.
The Daisy-Chain House
A game about creating family, & finding love in whatever form it might take.
Casserole
A delicious game creating the recipes for stories about home.
The Wild Hunt
A tarot-based game of Hunters and quarry.
Seedling
A game about discovering one'sself while turning into a plant.
Cut
An experimental, free-form game of shifting rules and mental vivisection.
A Risky Gambol
A game of dice and bluffs and winning or losing one's whole self.
Micro-LARPs
Bread & Stone
A dinner LARP of Hospitality between Arcadians lords and their guests.
Peacocktail.com
A no-prep LARP of rating your friends video dating profiles.
What Happened to the Theater
A game of improvising the stories of the background characters in Commedia Dell’Arte
Epistolary Games
Under Hill, Over Hill
A game of letters between a Changeling and the human they replaced.
When The Messages Began
A game of digital exchanges between strangers in a post-apocalyptic world
Text-based computer games
Like Trying to Learn to Breathe Underwater
Identity

Graphic Design

Logos & Icons
Banners
Maps
Streaming overlays & icon sets
Role-playing game layouts
Ephemera & miscellania

Commissions open, priced by project.
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Divination Decks

The Elsewhere Tarot

A complete, 72-card, collage-art tarot deck, available in both physical and digital format, with digital interpretation booklet.

Available here

The Augurium

An oracle deck of unique cards, designed to be read individually, or in a spread. The Augurium will be available in digital and physical format, with a digital interpretation guide.Currently being created.