Spent an hour on a rough cut and all I've learned is I need like a proper DAW and not this ancient copy of Wavosaur which may as well be a pile of cassette tape I'm sewing together

PRESENT DAY PRESENT...TIME!

Can't believe there's no upload of Nightreign Libra's theme with dialogue Might have to do something about that

I do recommend this one by @davis.social as well as following him in general ❤️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

Did watch the new one, adapted from E.F. Benson's The Room in the Tower Mark Gatiss really can't help himself when it comes to shooting the schlockiest endings imaginable that turn otherwise servicably atmospheric films into completely silly Goosebumps shows. Room in the Tower is no different.

As per annual tradition

Art by • Ted Nasmith

Robert Lloyd Parry's live reading of M.R. James' An Episode of Cathedral History is done (and well received), I have a Cadbury's selection box, cans of sugary junk, and my favourite carols playing It is CHRISTMAS and it is #WIZARDWEDNESDAY

Happy wizard(ess) Wednesday to those who celebrate

t'was the #WizardWednesday afore crimbo

#DecemberWorldbuilders The night time world of Demiurge is a secret battleground. For every finger-winged, verminous, writhing, creeping blood-sucking living shadow--shudders in the dreams of the Fallen Archon envisioning dark in the world--there's a savage avenger to slay them. 1/2

In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, take a walk through three old school fat lore dumps of esoteric worldbuilding and soak in some dark fantasy atmosphere! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #SFF #WritingCommunity

This is my week off writing, but I'm getting some potential titles anyway and damn it I think I've got a really fun idea for a tale about a prince who sets himself up as a deity with unforeseen but painfully obvious consequences he can't deal with lest he lose his favour and image

#DecemberWorldbuilders The night time world of Demiurge is a secret battleground. For every finger-winged, verminous, writhing, creeping blood-sucking living shadow--shudders in the dreams of the Fallen Archon envisioning dark in the world--there's a savage avenger to slay them. 1/2

Watched Crippled Avengers (1978) How have I never seen this??? Three martial artists are disfigured by a bitter and resentful aristocrat father who's son was also disfigured (and now bearing iron arms), and seek justice. Kung fu gimmicks APLENTY alongside tight choreography. Shaw Bros delivers.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Ch7 of KOSAL just dropped 🕯️🤍✨ Azriel sat at the bedside and kissed Thelinth’s eyes. “Tell me, what haunts you so?” “A face cloaked in time and shadow… It smiles at me, Azriel, as if it knows something. It smiles just beyond the veil of this existence. It waits.” open.substack.com/pub/mycelial...

Carloman's funding is 100% magical, my man can literally conjure money. Would this ruin the economy? Not in my wacky fantasy world it won't. 💪 Sepp however hasn't a penny to his name, he's looking to offer his services as a very basic healer. And maybe hexer, if it comes to that.

Had no idea Taylor Wong, director of one of my favourite HK movies died this earlier year! His film Buddha's Palm (1982) is a panic attack of a film with boundless energy and creative visuals, one of my first and still a favourite. It was my intro to Lo Lieh and Kara Hui, two Shaw Bros staples.

And while we're at it, let's stop calling creative works online "content" Are your videos essays, animations, illustrations, or writing just bits to fill a container with or what?

It's as simple as: if you cut corners in a creative endeavour, no matter what aspect, don't cry when people look at you funny, wondering what else you cut corners in

#DecemberWorldbuilders Drakes are the premier big beast of this world so far, I find myself creating smaller stuff a lot, but there's a few other theoretical examples: -straight up dinosaurs in the continental interior -certain forests -stuff in the sea we haven't even seen yet -the Macha deities

#DecemberWorldbuilders According to chapter 13 of The Path of Poison, this is what a drake looks like. Uncontested apex predators held in awe and fear by Voerlund and Silverden, terribly cunning, and deeply prideful. They're elemental beings born from centuries of Voerlund's might and savagery.

No I'd say quite a few of them have evil in their heart actually I can only ascribe so many things to ignorance, negligence, short-sightedeness, callousness, greed, or plain stupidity before I have to admit there's a malevolence to wannabe megacorps trying to control thought and information

#DecemberWorldbuilders According to chapter 13 of The Path of Poison, this is what a drake looks like. Uncontested apex predators held in awe and fear by Voerlund and Silverden, terribly cunning, and deeply prideful. They're elemental beings born from centuries of Voerlund's might and savagery.

Chapter six of KOSAL just dropped on Substack 🕯️🤍✨ Selania’s eyes burned, and with a flick of her finger, the paper the artist had been sketching on went up in flames. Her eyes fell on the general. “I did not come here to sit for your pictures.” Read here: substack.com/@mycelialwri... #FantasyRead

#AwesomeCharacters First thing you see of Carloman are the billowing red robes, then the staff, then if you're unlucky, the blazing points of amber that are his eyes👁👁 He chose the robes, he's a beacon and a warning sign, he knows some people stare, some people are wary, but he doesn't mind

Lies of P could have been a straight forward action game with the P-Organ as the focus of character customization and made much more sense tbh

Lords of the Fallen really spoiled me because I'm finding my recent replay of Lies of P a bit of a slog It's far from being a bad game, obviously, but man I miss when builds in Souls games actually provided different gameplay styles and not just mild restrictions on gear usage

#DecemberWorldbuilder In truth, the vast majority of all life in the Demiurge world would probably fit the brief here, as they are elemental lifeforms which manifest, fully formed, from confluences in the surroundings. Many are bestial, but some are on the level of people, or beyond. 1/3

#DecemberWorldbuilders Was having trouble with this one until I remembered my serial in which the coastal canal city of Farhaven has to regularly perform this picture on marine life. The city exists in a metaphysical state between land and sea, and mansize octopuses WILL crawl around hunting people.

Learning that I can just activate Sandevistan and just slice n dice through most areas in Cyberpunk 2077 is making this second playthrough an absolute delight This is THE way to play

In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, take a walk through three old school fat lore dumps of esoteric worldbuilding and soak in some dark fantasy atmosphere! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #SFF #WritingCommunity

Hi. I was born without certain bones in my right leg and thumb. Or maybe a shark got me. Who can say? Anyway I wrote about an angel who sacrifices his wings and falls to a dystopian earth. Disability rep everywhere. books2read.com/clippednovel

Just discovered the JP counterpart to the legendary Solstice box art......

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978, Ralph Bakshi)

The last edition of Shadows & Sorcery for 2025 out later on!

✨ Happy Solstice! ✨ 🎁 Solstice gifts for readers: • Star of Shalik preorder is live! • Kickstarter backers get the SoS ebook TODAY • KOSAL continues on Substack (daily chapters through Dec 25) • TCT is FREE for today only Links are here: linktr.ee/lakenhoneycu...
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TCT is ranked #26 on Amazon’s Fantasy Best Seller list✨💫 Thank you SO much to my incredible readers💛 553 copies sold on a book that’s been out for three years… truly unreal. Think we can push it into the Top 10 today? Let’s see 👀✨ And the best part? TCT is FREE today. Happy Solstice!!🕯️🤍✨ #BookSky

That's not a small tree or anything btw that's a whole ass helmet I can actually wear A friend got it for my birthday a while back and had no idea it was the helmet, he thought it just a mask to hang on a wall

As the lord intended

Brackenmere County fans rise up I might never write about this one ever again, consider it a farewell

Seriously doubting one of these stories now. Thought I had something interesting but I cannot find a satisfactory way to leave it and now I'm wondering if it makes any sense at all. I don't want to have to start another story this late, but it's also the last edition of the year. At a loss tbh!

Giving an old neglected setting some love in the final 2025 edition of Shadows & Sorcery🙏

#DecemberWorldbuilders The known world wasn't always sunshine and Carlomans. Sea raids, mass exodus, conspiracy, imperialism--it was fast becoming a black spot. But even then, there was no slavery. The disgust for the concept ran deep, to the soul that remembers where it came from. However... 1/2

#DecemberWorldbuilders The known world wasn't always sunshine and Carlomans. Sea raids, mass exodus, conspiracy, imperialism--it was fast becoming a black spot. But even then, there was no slavery. The disgust for the concept ran deep, to the soul that remembers where it came from. However... 1/2

The four outfits for my V in Cyberpunk 2077, three different flavours of street punk edgerunner, and one Very Sensible Outfit. Rocked that third one when I was helping Ward bust the serial kidnapper and killer. Last pic is my endgame fashion for storming Arasaka Tower.

#PretendPanel Plans for 2026 are inch ever closer to 1000 stories for Shadows & Sorcery, and self-publish a very small print run of selected S&S stories purely for funsies. Outside of writing? Blaze the rebel path and persist in this fucked up world!!!!!!

In the new SHADOWS & SORCERY, join the tomb-and-ruiner gang on three gigs below the city way outta their depth as a rogue crusader brews war with an army of the undead... shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #FlashFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity 💙📚