I came up with a joke about Charybdis, but honestly it kinda sucks.

Neuromancer getting an adaptation had me thinking about some of my favorite books and their adaptability. Out of ten: Blindsight - 1 The Uplift Saga - 6 His Majesty's Dragon - 8 Perdido Street Station - 5 Moties Series - 6 A Fire Upon the Deep - 6 The Locked Tomb - 2 How about some of your faves?

Alright so I need gigs *urgently*. Savings are pretty much gone and bills are due. HMU if you need anything drawn, I'm affordable and fun to work with, or so I've been told!

I'm obsessive in my research no matter what I'm writing. Partly this is just who I am (I will look up topics as someone is talking to me about them, which I am told is one of my... not-so-lovable traits), partly I think it provides verisimilitude to readers, and partly it's an excuse to not write.

I deeply admire the people who self promote without shame. This is not sarcasm. Like they just hammer away until they find their audience. That's cool as fuck. I don't even talk about most of my stuff, because like two personal friends will like it, and I'll be like see it's dumb give up now.

my "grasper" variant of the popular dnd beholder oddly unpopular with the gaming group

The Internet is a weird place. I was like "a solid half of fantasy is based on a dumb concept" and nobody got angry. Then in a response to a comment on someone else's sheet I said an alien abduction story wasn't real and somebody got pissed at me.

Me pouring clog cleaner into a drain, shutting the door carefully behind me kit within minutes: father, this door is shut father I am denied access to a room father that contains nothing I need but it is a part of my lands father my birthright and some insolent villein dares to deny me what is mine

I've had new followers trickling in lately, so I just want to note that my proudest moment was someone declaring I was "the worst Black Library author ever, even worse than CS Goto." Which given BL pulled my actual novels and no one read them is impressive, I think.

I may have ranted about this before, but one trope I am very bored with is people having the Special Genes. Oh, sorry, you can only use magic if you're born with it. Sorry, gotta be Force Sensitive. Oh, sorry, you're either born a dragonrider or you're not one. Booooooring. Done. Tired.

🎶I need your grace to remind me to find my own 🎶

I don't know if this "counts", as it's not exactly a horror movie? But definitely a horror *sequence* in a movie. And it sure as fuck haunts me.

I'M DRIVING DOWN HIGHWAY 40 IN MY BIG OLE PICKUP TRUCK

We are actively having a thunderstorm and people are setting off fireworks into the storm, and I am somewhere between annoyed and kind of impressed by that level of determination

My pet peeve in stories, especially games for this one, is morality of narrative significance. "Oh no, if you kill him, you'll be just like him!" MF, we killed 732 people getting to this point. The fact that he has a name on the screen doesn't make his death important.

TIL that weir isn't just a word McCaffery made up. So that only took me about 27 years.

every time some shit comes out like this "hiplets" nonsense, I'm just like ... are you guys sure you're attracted to women like you don't have to torture people because you don't like their bone structure you can just fuck off about it it is literally so easy

'quad bike' as a phrase upsets me on a personal level

Watched Pacific Rim again today, and it reminded me of how much differently I would have done Pacific Rim 2.

"games that use AI see a catastrophic 40-60% drop in sales" isn't that how the much-ballyhooed free market is supposed to work? if people don't want something, they vote with their dollars? i dunno, man, if people hate AI, maybe stop using it in your products. seems straightforward to me.

Josh does have talent, of course, but the truth is talent is overrated. Talent doth butter no parsnips. The only thing that puts words to paper is sitting down and writing. "The race goes not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

yeah, i got that dog in me the dog:

Someone called "Easier to Run" the saddest Linkin Park song, and I fear that for me it will always be "One More Light" given the context.

I'm gonna have a rough day tomorrow. Send some positive vibes my way plox.

What's the better faction/alignment nomenclature style: A) Red, Green, Silver, Black,... B) Gules, Vert, Argent, Sable,... C) Crimson, Verdant, Pale, Tenebrous,... D) Flame, Wild, Pact, Void,... To be clear these would be the same faction for a given placement in each lineup.

The fundamental failure of the Backrooms in all versions of it I have ever seen is that in the end it's just an excuse for a monster. I don't think anyone's figured out how to grapple with the fundamental fear that made the original creepypasta pop.

watching his face go red like come on... just a little more... those arteries have to be giving out. they have to.

kit's names have reached truly baroque levels after fifteen years of being my cat, with the most recent ones being My Little Panther and Bed, Bat, and Beyond.

ttrpgs actual ideal environment is assisted living, in this essay I will

oh a gaming controversy let me guess it's because it's a woman protagonist oh look yep

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

You know what's kind of surprising to me. All the video game adaptations we've gotten: Fallout, Last of Us, Super Mario, Sonic, Halo, Resident Evil, etc etc etc No Metroid. No Samus Aran on the big or small screen.

D&D based stuff is so funny. Like what do you mean my random encounter is 5 badgers. That's just silly. You're silly.

I'm very good at Independently coming up with an idea someone else did six years ago. It's kind of my special power.

I wonder if James Corey deeply regrets naming it the Epstein Drive now. Like I'm not saying he did anything wrong. That case didn't really break until seven years after Leviathan Wakes. But damn. It's like writing about the wondrous Hitler flying machine in 1916.

Oh, I saw Obsession. It was really good. And wow, the lead actress, Inde Navarrette? Killer performance (wakka wakka). But seriously, she did SO FREAKING GOOD. She is effectively acting for two, sometimes in the same moment, and does amazingly conveying the schism.

My favorite thing is when cats (probably all animals but I spend my time with a cat) do things that are very human. Fr'ex, Kit in her old age has taken to occasionally sitting up like she's gonna go do something... And then changing her mind and laying right back down. I feel it, baby girl.

Me and Tim. What's the matter, Tim? I thought you liked danger? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LyI...

I am not a visual artist, but here is a picture of the only star that we know has art. 💚☀️

I broke my keyboard. I mean, I've written multiple novels on this poor little laptop, maybe that was inevitable.

I feel like the horror genre encompasses two different primal reactions: fear and disgust. Now, I'm not saying those are mutually exclusive or something. I just... I very rarely want a piece of media to disgust me, but I enjoy being frightened. I wish I had an easier time knowing what I was in for.

It's sort of funny when you think about it, but in the vast majority of science fiction universes I can think of, if a dude runs full speed at you carrying a sword, you're probably fucked. Like, way worse than if he just had a gun.

Hey hey hey any #TheDivision fans who still follow me, I just wanted to take a moment to note that I will be contributing to the TTRPG Kickstarter coming soon from @arkhaneasylum.bsky.social. The KS is set to launch on the 12th, and if you know me you know TTRPGs are my jam so I'm very excited.

I understand the answer is fundamentally "money" but damn Charlize Theron looks as amazing in 2026 as she did in 2006.

My Star Wars headcanon is that Anakin is allowed a place as a glowy post death guy, but isn't granted the rank of Force Ghost.

You should go listen to Joshuma's interview. Or better yet, buy his books! He's a very good writer, and he hasn't blocked me yet for harassing him which is really quite a marker for patience.

No kings. No gods. No CEOs. No presidents. No borders. No promised tomorrow handed down from above but only the tomorrows we reach for together.

"Tom, why are you watching Young Sherlock so attentively? It's not your usual oeuvre." "Haha, well, you see, a very funny, smart, pretty woman told me I should watch it so we could chitchat about it, and ... uh." 😅

A character being 'smart', or even 'super smart', does not prevent them from doing dumb shit. There's different kinds of intelligence, for one thing. History is riddled with brilliant minds who fucked up all their relationships. You might also think deeply but not quickly -- or vice versa!

He left out skilled and adaptive. Hire him! He is good.