SOME GAMES CHANGE HISTORY. SOME SAVE IT. Ron talks about his newest kickstarter, which launches tomorrow, July 7--and which means there's only one day left to get a free copy of "Kagari" by getting notified! Link in a comment... youtu.be/Vh9O2AcFe6I

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse Ep! Puppets, muppets, smuppets, Muppet Babies, Archimedian spirals in the SAW franchise, and more varieties of the TF2 Medic's dove than you dare shake a stick at (with and without bloodstains). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOT...

Done some. Their legs bend backwards, they have antlers, they're tall. All of this is fine. It's the fact that they don't get that our universe isn't their science lab is the creepy part.

Ray has been threatening to make butterscotch spam cookies for a while...for Halloween. Her patience JUST RAN OUT. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZVGva...

Theme in writing fiction: threat or menace?!? Talking practical details and perspectives on how to write theme in fiction. Not the kind of theme that critics swoon over. The smaller kind that you can leverage without screwing up your muse. wonderlandpress.com/theme-for-fi...

Blind Date with Death, Ep 14. Marina's ex haunts her, but maybe Dan can help. Her body has been trying to warn her for over a decade but her mind never caught up. Romantic suspense for people who read with their skin. www.patreon.com/VelvetMaskFi...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse ep! I WORE A BOW TIE. We got into punch cards and Dad's safe contents. There's a spoiler warning; I had to put my fingers in my ears. Link section includes Party Cannon, Larry Flynt, and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jms1...

Assholes warp reality, and so do the people around them trying to keep things from going sideways. This one's about why placating never actually works—and why that's not a failure of effort, it's a feature of the dynamic. The burden doesn't shrink. It grows. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New episode of Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up! This week Ray and De got into songs, mannequins, and harmoniums—and came away with a burning research question about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and some rumored anatomical compromises. (We hope it's true.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtp...

Blind Date with Death, Ep 14. Chocolate dessert going cold on a hotel cart. Crickets shimmering outside. Dan's fingers drumming lightly on Marina's back, finding sore spots—mental and physical—with unnerving accuracy. The truth comes out ugly. www.patreon.com/VelvetMaskFi...

Escape from 2026 Storybundle, now thru June 25. Leslie Claire Walker's Time Out of Mind: five time travel stories where the real destination isn't another era—it's perspective, and the people who will finally see you. Pay what you want. wonderlandpress.com/leslie-clair...

Escape from 2026 Storybundle is live, now thru June 25. Today's feature: Kathryn Kaleigh's Last Stop: Yesterday—an ordinary present becomes 1876, a scenic mountain railway, and a soldier just home from the war. Pay what you want wonderlandpress.com/kathryn-kale...

Escape from 2026 Storybundle,now thru June 25. Featuring Monster Road Trip, edited by Jamie Ferguson and yours truly. Ten monster stories, many of them about a familiar world changing underneath us. The monsters just make it easier to look at. Pay what you want. wonderlandpress.com/amazing-mons...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Jurassic Park, Joy Division, Blazing Saddles, and an American Tail. A long ramble on pogos, imps, comedic rhythm. We also work through some early theories about character worldview and growth. Linkdump in the description as usual. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pe...

Blind Date with Death Audio Ep 3! Marina feeds Dan off her fingertips while his phone buzzes in the pocket she's sitting on. Logan in a zoo shirt that reads NOT SO FAST, drinking Sleepytime tea with his old boss, thinking he's just making small talk. He isn't. www.patreon.com/posts/160440...

Escape from 2026 Storybundle, now thru June 25. Today, Douglas Smith's Into the Time Slip—four time travel stories, four ways to bend physics. A dinner that takes three lifetimes. Radio signals from the past. Lovers hunted across dimensions. Pay what you want. wonderlandpress.com/douglas-smit...

Escape from 2026 Storybundle, live thru June 25. Dean Wesley Smith's Dry Creek Crossing: time travel as a job — chaotic, risky, but manageable. A historian and a mathematician chasing a stagecoach that has no business being in 1902 Idaho. Pay what you want. storybundle.com/timetravel

To sum up: this person discovered what happened to DOGE, and it looks like it's being set up to collect non-anonymous voting information at vote.gov, as well as already being in place to collect information for TrumpRX and other sites. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse/Homestuck commentary ep: we got distracted by puppets and never fully recovered. Ray also wrote an article about villainess erasure that you should read. It's been a productive week for the apocalypse. 🎭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLE...

KICKSTARTER Limited Edition! Runaway princess. Rival mage. A world cursed to die if they don't stop hating each other long enough to save it. Normal enemies-to-lovers behavior. Read for cute aggression balanced by genuine emotional OUCH moments. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lis...

Time travel and alternate history fiction aren't just escapism—they're distance, perspective, and the greatest human game of all: What If. Explore the Escape from 2026 Storybundle, available May 28–June 25, 2026. wonderlandpress.com/escaping-thr...

New ep of Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Today we dove into Barty's Brew Ha-Ha, a pre-Homestuck Hussie project, then immediately careened into Fight Club discourse and a meditation on censorship. Very normal Homestuck readthrough behavior. For us anyway. 🐊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDY...

Villainess manga used to bite. Now they're wish fulfillment in a black dress. Ray, who has loved these tales almost since the moment they became A THING, breaks down what went wrong—and which stories still get it right. wonderlandpress.com/a-villainess...

Blind Date with Death Audio Ep 2 live on Patreon! Spies and spicy romance 🖤 Logan fleeing through a golf course in bloody cargo shorts. Dinner with Dan on the balcony smells like bacon, habaneros and old trauma. Everything is delicious but nothing is quite safe. www.patreon.com/posts/158892...

You can't remove yourself from triggers unless you're self-isolating OR you're exerting abusive control over others.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up! Homestuck commentary on worldbuilding, isekai vs. portal fantasy, kernels (math and computers), and SPAM BUTTERSCOTCH COOKIES. We haven't made them...yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0nl...

New ep of Herpetology of the Apocalypse: Under an hour but no less weird for its (sorta) brevity. Casket vs. coffin vs. sarcophagi, taxidermy trivia, and more. We were both a bit fwoomped but the apocalypse stops for nobody.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=-en7...

When you center yourself as the protagonist of your own own story, expect resistance: it will cost you to disentangle yourself from assholes. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New ep of Blind Date with Death: The chrysanthemum tattoo has long, curling petals that cover most of a juicy thigh...but it's not the only tattoo Dan notices. And Logan waits for the other shoe to drop while Hill's dog sighs at an empty chair... www.patreon.com/posts/155837...

New episode of Herpetology of the Apocalypse! To the Mormons we laughed at on camera: next time don't solicit while we're recording. Also: gaffer tape, Rose's mom, glitches...and more laughter. A lot of it. Come hang out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0d...

Oh hey, Brigid Collins' second Clockwork Kingdom book escaped to Kickstarter! The first was a delight. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bri...

Finalizing the #n4sa2e Defenestrated Edition.

Being known. Being truly known. If you grew up managing someone else's ego, you may never have found out. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New Blind Date with Death: Ms. Hill has a confession. Then another. Then one more. And all Logan can do is spin a cork coaster while feeling himself floating over an abyss. Luckily there's also a large dog leaning against his leg and keeping him grounded. Sorta.  www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

HAPPY HOMESTUCK DAY!!! New Herpetology of the Apocalypse up! We celebrated with cake, booze, Doritos, and a pesterchum handle how-to.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNae...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse (Homestuck commentary) video up. Wizards (both the Lord of the Rings and the Discworld kind) and the deeply unsettling history of bronzing things, like baby shoes. And kings.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvlL...

When a research crew descends into the abyss to explore the wreck of the long-lost USS Hollander, they awaken more than echoes of the past. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-th...

In “Whispers of the Drowned,” Charles Eugene Anderson gives voice to the ghosts history tries to forget—melding wartime dread and mythic retribution in a story where the sea itself becomes a keeper of memory. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-wh...

New Blind Date with Death. Marina's job is to keep Dan distracted until ten. Instead they pass a panic attack back and forth like the world's worst party favor. Spy thriller where the most dangerous thing is two people who know exactly where each other's buttons are. www.patreon.com/posts/154655...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! We lived through the SBAHJening & are back to Homestuck. Old novels, Doctor Who tangents, more sylladex chaos. Also Nyan Cat turned 15 on the day we recorded this. Which is uhhhh...just slightly unnerving. As you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-v...

In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay plunges readers beneath the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, where greed, ghosts, and the wreckage of war rise together from the deep. Check out the interview with Alicia! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ab...

Asshole Mitigation Plan: Know Thyself. Two brothers, one cake. The older one cuts...but the younger one picks, because "fair" looks different when the same brother who cuts also picks first. Objectivity is just an idea. Sweating over that cake? Is not. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

In “Final Walkthrough,” Lou Berger brings the ghosts home—a dark inheritance steeped in Southern soil, where love poisons as easily as it redeems. Check out the interview with Lou! 👻 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-fi...

You're in a hallway. The lighting is off. Nothing is wrong. And yet. On writing liminal spaces in fiction. The uncomfortable process of creating uncomfortable spaces. wonderlandpress.com/liminal-spac...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse/Homestuck commentary ep! We finally finished the SBaHJ side comics and had to talk about anti-memes, Poe's Cask of Amontillado, and the DARE program to get there. It's a long one. We regret nothing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=21z1...

Blind Date with Death Ep 10. Marina feeds Dan distracting octopus while his phone buzzes a warning. Logan rolls a coaster across a cozy kitchen counter as an old boss confesses she helped him hide a murder--and he never knew. The urge to trust, embedded in lies. www.patreon.com/posts/bdwd-m...

New Herpetology of the Apocalypse! Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, part 1. Turns out there's a lot of deep thought structuring the nonsense, and nonsense structuring the deep thought. Everything from Borges to the Panasonic Blu-Ray song (99 dolllars). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZN...

When an intelligence officer and her crew recover a mysterious artifact, they awaken something older and far more dangerous than the war around them. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-wh...