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Levin's finest

Asked a friend for an NYE Tarot card pull to provide an omen for 2026. I am pleased with the outcome.

Don't forget to leave your pork pie out for the Hogfather, lads.

Don't forget to leave your pork pie out for the Hogfather, lads.

I finished my replay this afternoon. A bluesky post can't do it justice, really. The "are games art?" debate was over a long time ago, but 1000xResist shows a game can be Capital-L Literature.

My 2026 reading challenge is... Exactly the same as my 2025 one, because I ticked off 0 of my goals. The challenge is "read at least five of the giant books I've always meant to read" — my White Whale list. Appropriately enough, Moby-Dick is on that list.

We discovered a strange idol when digging through the undergrowth behind the shed in preparation for fence painting. It now lives as the guardian of our mint and basil. Surely this will be fine. I have never read an MR James story.

So obviously this (which I'm now relistening to) is unparalleled, I'd be willing to shell out a good chunk of money in return for an Alex Horne version

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

So I didn't make it to Christmas Mass, but I spotted another Dove shortly after reading this article. Symbol Status: still unclear.

Literally me

My brother and I are up to the important manly cooking tasks in the kitchen, while his wife and her family are outside attending to more delicate feminine matters like power sanding and water blasting the side of the house. Hashtag tradwife hashtag influencer hashtag heteronormative

WIZARDPUNK 2'S PDF IS OUT NOW! What an incredible book, an honor to be a part of such a fantastic collection of fine people. Come get some fucked up rituals, read some fucked up short stories, check out CRAP WIZARD, it's a blast in here at WiZARDPUNK 2!!!!! sandypuggames.itch.io/wizardpunk-2

WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

A very Hester Christmas

Scenes that make me go "man I should write a LARP"

A very Parliamentary (and apocryphal) Christ-tide to you all.

My Nana died this year, so this is my first Christmas with fewer than four grandparents. Estate matters are still being worked through, but we always knew she was leaving me the complete works of Charles Dickens, so I have those now. So, in memory of Nana Dee, I'm reading A Christmas Carol today.

Well, @realwizardmartin.bsky.social has outdone himself once again. His [terrible/amazing] Christmas gift to me was a selection of the most dire novels the Star Wars Legends EU has to offer. And Dark Empire, which rules.

Christmas Eve, in four pictures.

I was thinking about going to mass tonight, for the first time in... forever, really. I thought to myself "if I'm celebrating Christmas, is it not worth doing it properly?". I stewed on the idea. I checked whether the NZ Catholic Church's stance on Palestine is 1/3

Picked up a battered second hand copy of Hogfather from Arty Bee's the other day, so this year's annual seasonal re-read is happening in hard copy, which is nice. Though last year I went with the recent audiobook version, and that has its own charms.

A very Parliamentary (and apocryphal) Christ-tide to you all.

You can tell that O Holy Night is my favourite Christmas Carol is by the fact that there's about a thousand different versions of it on the playlist.

T I S T H E S E A S O N

"average jrgp needs millisecond reflexes" factoid actualy just statistical error. Baguettes Georg, who lives in une cave & parries over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Dave, what are your plans for Liminal Spacemas and the majority of January? This screenshot, and a lot of wine.

My copy of Against Time and Death by @ickbat.bsky.social arrived! It's seasonal, y'know

Pouring one out for Chris Rea.

Though 2025 was a shit of a year, there was a lot of good music. So here's my 2025 top music from Aotearoa. Lake South - We lived our lives on top of this Pining Radiata - Pining Radiata Neive Strang - Find Me in the Rabbit Hole Hannah Davenport - Feeding Hand Marlon Williams - Te Whare Tīwekaweka

End of year lists are always a struggle, but I always like doing them. I like the sense of purpose it gives me - that I'm not JUST consuming media, I'm engaging with it, thinking about it, choosing it rather than having it served up to me by an algorithm.

So the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 having its IGA awards retracted for GenAI is huge, don't miss the other retraction of an Indie Vanguard recipient because the company (ModRetro) that made their game carts is making a real life weapon company themed handheld. Like what?? www.indiegameawards.gg/faq

Roads are "infrastructure" that you "invest" in because they generate a return in [getting to work faster], which makes them better than free [ignore what the BCR say]. Health/education are "spending" that you "waste" money on because they [who knows what they do].

Honestly this ridiculous photoshoot makes me want to get back into LARP... I don't have enough opportunities to dress up like a rake and/or dandy these days. Maybe I should use unemployment to start work on Wizard Parliament LARP again

Truly, new heights of Daveposting have been reached 🫡

Everyone in this book is insufferable, completely unrelatable and unpleasant to read about. I don't get the appeal. You'd never catch me acting like such a twit. On a completely different note, the Emile Boeckel Cremant d'Alsace Blanc de Blanc is delightful.

A metaphor so on the nose it's basically a septum piercing

Congratulations to everyone who won a Nebula award this year, the final time they were ever worth a damn.

And hey it's even on sale right now, so you can join me in feeling unfathomably deep emotion while perplexing those around you by saying "hekki" all the time. store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

I've decided my new December Tradition is replaying 1000xResist, a chapter per day so it lasts. Three days in, already cried twice. What a beautiful game. Hekki Allmo, hekki @sunsetvisitor.studio.

Leo pointing dot jpeg

you 🫵 should play Misericorde

One year from today is the latest possible date the next election can be held #nzpol

By amazing coincidence, this is also the title and first single off of my new album

Black Friday lasts all of November. Boxing day begins a week before Christmas. Celebrate the Māori New Year with our hot Matariki discounts. Consume, consume, consume, culture is just grist for the sales mill. Fuck all the way off.

Te-Whanganui-a-Tara turning out to support trans rights and stand up for our rangatahi takatāpui at the hand-over of the open letter urging Simeon Brown to reverse his evidence-free decision to restrict puberty blockers. #NZPOL