even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites

Sunday night movie: THE PSYCHIC (1977)

beneath all that silence and placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in agony

working on a light heroic/pulp sword and sorcery reskin of my forged in the dark game The Spies That Death Forgot, because being out in the country has once more put a bee in my bonnet about fantasy nonsense

Thursday night movie: A BAY OF BLOOD (1971)

misc screenshots from various texture tests and experiments in Quake

Wayne Barlowe, 1982

frighteningly close to posting images of my current No Man's Sky corvette on this here bluesky, like a proud parent

for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him

Hurtling towards the grim inevitability of running my own Pathfinder 2e campaign, please pray for my immortal soul

Sunday night movie: SABOTAGE (1996)

intermountain bus depot, vertical view, 1st avenue s. & 4th street, great falls, montana, 1987

“Thank goodness you’re here, Doctor! … I came in this morning and found Billy just all scribbled like this!”

Practically not posting this week because I'm out in the country watching apples get processed for wine and cider and it's gard to care about any online discourse when you're in Medieval Peasant Mode

Hot fresh quality-of-life update for my cyberpunk horror ttrpg, DEEP IN A MATRIX OF FLESH AND METAL! Nice printer-friendly sheets and maps: thysane.itch.io/deep-in-a-ma...

Hot fresh quality-of-life update for my cyberpunk horror ttrpg, DEEP IN A MATRIX OF FLESH AND METAL! Nice printer-friendly sheets and maps: thysane.itch.io/deep-in-a-ma...

kutsher's lobby, thompson, new york, 1977

It's my 44th birthday, please buy one of my games! DEEPEST VALLEY [videogame €5] - it's an abstract fantasy wargame with sick hand-drawn art.

Winamp Skin: Panasonic 06

The Black King/Glyn Smyth

Bioforge (1995) Developed by Origin Systems.

an audience with the king of the forest

doorway to hell actor, seaside heights, new jersey, 1978

millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries

Arlington, 9/3/2025, 2:50:41 AM

Haywain - Closed

Me retreating into the west like a Tolkien elf

earlier tonight I made extremely spicy spanish rice with chorizo for myself with my leftovers ahead of this week's move, and it rocked so hard I'm still thinking about it

All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought

Peter Bräuninger

Pathfinder 2e group I'm in is close to finishing out at least one of the two APs we're currently playing, after which I've been invited to GM, so I MIGHT be subjecting them soon to either a Mwangi or Tian Xia campaign of my own devising, or just going wild with Kala Mandala or somesuch oddity

one thing to love about the Irish weather is that the climate will simply change on a dime. Two or three days ago it was the height of a dry hot summer and now it's a blustery rainy autumn and there was almost no transition period between the two

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

you know when you have basically no money in your bank account it really throws into sharp focus how much advertising is based purely on aspirations of extreme wealth that most of us can never reach

might fuck around and come up with a tiny Traveller-like you can play with characters on post/index cards, and the subsector on a handful of dotted notebook pages, merely so I can do solos without having to use a screen or lug around huge books

how do I deal with money woes and moving and all the stress that entails? well you see, what I do is I get really obsessed with the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, apparently en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuten...

privileged to be part of this release -- which includes a brand new interview with Peter Hyams (!) -- and frankly pretty proud of the essay I contributed to this one

OUTLAND. Cover art for a 4k restoration from Arrow Video

Friday evening movie: THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976)

The Last Judgment - Central

Five realms battle for control of a valley sunk so deep into war it may swallow them whole. Siege, fight, and corrupt your rivals make and break alliances to claim your rightful throne! DEEPEST VALLEY A multiplayer fantasy strategy videogame for 2-5 players. friendly-ghost.itch.io/deepest-valley

had a truly disturbing nightmare the other night about a serial killer that is absolutely going to be influencing the novel I'm writing, thanks brain

For sleeping man, ’twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.

I am COOKING tonight and then I am going do some WORK and then I am watching THE MONKEY and I shall not be disturbed

Money is getting supremely tight right now, so why not consider buying one of my fine tabletop roleplaying games? thysane.itch.io

how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies

Haywain - Closed

invade the sanctity of domestic bliss