My headcanon for why Garran Crowe resists the Blade of Antwyr is because he’s such a sword dork who only cares about swords being good swords that it doesn’t even occur to him to use the demon swords world-destroying powers. It’s a sword why would he use it for anything other than sword things?

After some consideration I’ve decided that author notes on each chapter needs to be a higher tier on the subscription plan when I launch it next month because man writing these for all 40+ chapters is not easy. #booksky

So I am not a handyman by any stretch of the imagination (my wife is the tool-wielder in the house), but I lived on a small ranch for 7 years and my god the sheer incompetence of these guys who whine about the decline of masculinity AT TRADITIONALLY MASCULINE THINGS is striking.

My son when I tell him no: “dad have you ever tried having fun once in your life?” My son: “… dad why are you grinning?” Me, knowing I have secretly been waiting years to pull this out of my back pocket:

TrueRef: Real references for real artist. 🤍⚔

I'm seeing some middle aged men whose hearts I really do think are in the right place NONETHELESS making dumb "sexy time" jokes about the Epstein stuff. Just a default setting of heh heh, whoa sex heh heh. I feel like a real drag for scolding about this, but c'mon man. Discernment, Even in jokes.

My method for avoiding a middle that drags for this series is to divide each book into 4 acts with the mid-point being the climax of the first half and rocketing immediately from that to an exponentially bigger build up in the 3rd quarter that rockets into overdrive by the 4th. #booksky

Sitting on a machine for ten minutes between sets when other people are waiting is a war-crime.

230lb 20 rep RDL. Let’s go.

One of the bizarre mental spaces I’ve found myself in re: Glassblade is I wrote so completely from the mentalities of the characters rather than from my own conscious desires that I’ve genuinely lost track of this book’s politics. I cannot predict who it’s gonna upset. At all.

Right, this event needs $1500 to happen. There are 600 participating bookstores & for most it’s their busiest sales day of the year, or is second only to Indie Bookstore Day / Small Business Saturday. Editors/publishers, this is a no-brainer of an opportunity for your imprint. Romancelandia: pls RT

Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…

I wonder if there’s a corollary measurement that can be made between the perception online that conventionally hot people were taking over nerdy spaces and the rise of social media causing a lot of us to suddenly see more hot people in a single day than we’d have seen in a year in any previous era.

Listen 15th century reenactors, I know it can be tempting to cut corners by wearing leggings instead of joined hose but without the codpiece you will look maidenless. Dick pouch or GTFO.

Amazing deep cut. 10/10 no notes.

My proof of intelligent design is the elbow. It is a brilliantly designed joint. My proof against intelligent design is the knee. It is a terribly designed joint.

Instructors: “here is how you execute this technique safely and with precise control.” The instructors sparring with eachother five minutes later:

“Embrace monkey brain. Fight like you want to eat your enemy’s children.” -Shit we say in class sometimes.

Absolutely amazing name. 10/10, no notes.

I love Brennan Lee Mulligan but the idea that people aren’t guided by ideology but impulse and that those codes are created afterwards to justify behavior is just… very misguided. Extremists are the way they are because they believe what they say they believe. Thinking otherwise is dangerous.

At 230 pounds which is roughly my current weight, I am now back squatting my body weight 20 times without stopping. Which means not only have I hit my goal, but I’m stronger than I was before I stopped lifting last time.

It’s so weird that this character is gonna be introduced to readers and they’re gonna live with that version of him for like 2.5 years and meanwhile the version I’m currently living with is so much further down his character arc. That’s writing a series for you though.

I think it’s important to remember that “the Dems” didn’t cave. 8 moderate democrats did, and the rest of the party is pretty fucking pissed at them. And those 8 moderates should be primaried to hell and back.

So primary these fuckers immediately.

One of the reasons this administration seems shocking in its stupidity as well as its cruelty is that most people’s conception of evil comes from stories that are written with ordinary decent people in mind as their audience. 1/

People who read a lot of fiction online: what are your preferred platforms other than wattpad? I’m going to be hosting Glassblade chapters there after they’re released via my newsletter but I want to cast a wide net with links back to me and I’m not as familiar with this format. #booksky

This sort of thing makes me think of the nerds who occasionally walk into my sword classes who aren’t super fit and fall into two camps when they discover that swordsmanship is in fact a physically demanding activity and the jocks have a leg-up: 1. Decides to buckle down. 2. Quits in a rage. 1/

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

I look grumpy but I’m actually very happy because I got some important errands run. Dressing nicely on purpose has really helped my mental health lately.

Mamdani will gather a host of assemblymen and force King John to sign the Magna Carta, followed by a second round of the Oxford Provisions which will further limit the power of the Monarchy under Henry III. Will no-one think of these English Kings.

I have so much stuff to set up this month.

Phrase of the day: “A fuckboy designed by Lockheed Martin.”

Playing Age of Calamity with the kids and they’re enjoying my saying “murder murder murder murder” in my best BOTW Princess Zelda impression a bit funnier than I’m comfortable with.

This entire assembly process is way more zen than I expected it to be.

Happened across a video this morning of a young woman snarling over the fact that the guy she’s into isn’t picking up what she’s trying to hint at and this was the top comment. Reader, I died.

“LOOK AT THE PARTIALLY ASSEMBLED. LOOK AT THEM SISTER. LOOK AT THEM.” #warhammer40k

Sometimes the doodles are just as amusing… (if you remember, Brek is a vampire). #someonetowatchoverme

A bit of a pep talk on how understanding the rules for breaking into genre fiction is important for the same reason as understanding the rules of genre fiction: If you don’t understand the rules, you won’t know how to recognize when you can take advantage of an exception. #booksky

Make that TWO little plastic warriors I have assembled successfully. #warhammer40k

The assembly is going well. #warhammer40k

If you don't pay a proper salary for public office, the only people you get occupying public office are the already rich who are there to ensure they stay that way and you never get there

Dude.

Every time Nazis try to use Tolkien to justify white supremacy, I like to float this 1941 letter in which Tolkien called Hitler a "ruddy little ignoramus" and accused him of "ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed" the spirit of the cultures upon which he based his works.

Goddamn. When I say that lush, pulpy prose is my jam, this is what I mean. Spoilers from “Ravenor” by Dan Abnett.

I FUCKING FOUND IT. I FOUND IT I FOUND IT I FOUND IT.

Hell is dropping a piece of one of your 40K miniatures, only for it to bounce on the carpet and out of sight, and it’s the only piece of that sort that you have and you’ve been scouring the floor for two and a half hours now because if you can’t finish the miniature you can’t close the ADHD loop.

I’ve read a lot of scifi but few things have scared me conceptually like the Tyranids shadow in the warp where the collective consciousness of the approaching hive-fleet causes communications between worlds to go dead YEARS before the main fleet arrives. You’re suddenly alone, and they’re coming.

So about a month or two ago, I was like, what if I made promotional art for #theelementals? And then once I settled on #someonetowatchoverme as the first story, this took a backseat for a little while. I finally got around to finishing it! I may fiddle with it some more later… #ocs

The cope. My god.