Right - off to comicon Malaga. Please repost freely in my absence

News that I've been holding inside for so long - genuinely excited for others to read this one (I may have used spousal privilege to get early access)

And the news: www.orbit-books.co.uk/orbit-books-...

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

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While the article isn't directly about this, a good convention GM needs to take player conversation at the table into account from the very start.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

This neatly encapsulates the conflict between Thorin Oakenshield, an oligarch suffering dragon-sickness; Thranduil, representing permanent gerontocracy; and Esgaroth, a town with an elected (if flawed) leadership. In this essay I will

If you want to get a bit topical in the panels, the Dagger in the Heart spanish translation is in crowdfunding and just reached its funding goal today! Congrats on getting yet another book translated here. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

I'll be at this con in Spain for the weekend - running demos of MERRYSHIRE and an early glimpse of the in-progress TERRAFORMING MARS rules, plus panels on characters and world-building.

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

Invasive Procedures is outstanding! Really impressive work by @mytholder.bsky.social

Turns out you can turn "Genetically Engineer Martian-Viable Shrimp" into a compelling interactive drama.

The rapture isn't coming. At least, not like this. The crows know.

I scheduled a Zoom meeting with @mytholder.bsky.social for after the Rapture which now that I think about it isn't exactly a compliment

The One Ring - Grey Ranks crossover nobody imagined until now.

A year apart.

Well, if this works, this will be the oddest roleplaying scenario I've ever done.

Rivendell’s an odd place. When Tolkien was writing the Hobbit, he didn’t give much thought to the wider world; I suspect he just transplanted Tavrobel, the House of a Hundred Chimneys, and changed the name a bit.

The key to keeping public discourse at a high level is to take a leaf from the Edwardians, with their love of decorum.

Made me chuckle 🤣👩🏻‍🚀👽🦑 *thought you’d appreciate this @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social

A whole bunch of freelancing contracts all paid at once, so I’ve gone wild and bought A NEW BACKPACK. Madness.

New Doggerland lore just dropped.

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

I've heard they danced in the disco Bumper to bumper but oh no You don't know where it's gone and got to do you? The pure new wool, the perfect stitch It's not the type to make you itch The baffled langer going wheres me jumper Where's me jumper? Where's me jumper? Where's me jumper?

Unsure why my brain decided that I needed to hear a Leonard Cohen cover of Where's Me Jumper, but that's what's currently playing in my head.

It's a lovely day in Area X, and you are a horrible goose.

Freedom! Also, my retinas are firmly where they should be, which is good

I've spent several days on an outline of The English Market in Cork, so I needed to trial how the ink I chose (FerrisWheel's Browned & Buttered) would work before I launched into the actual painting 🥹 Just a rough trial, but I think it will work. #corkart #tradart #ferriswheelpress #speirgorm

Arrrrgh. In waiting room for a medical thing. Was given handful of papers and told to give it to nurse. Didn’t realise that meant ‘flag down nurse when she passes through waiting room’. Now I’m last in the queue; if I get to my 920AM appointment by 1220 I’ll be lucky.

Ha! I had the first line of the book, but couldn't make it line up with it actually starting the story. This morning I thought of a different way in, and we're off! (Oh, false confidence, how I love thee.)

When you see it.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Victory!

At the stage where I can’t do basic maths

Or maybe not…

Golden armour and I am suddenly in with a chance of surviving

Spiders have learned to use doorknobs. The tide turns…

Our party bunches up before going through a door. It’s an explosive door.

Room 2! Room 2!

Newer, stupider adventurers

And we died within seconds after I posted this

Two and a half hours and we’re nearly out of the first room…

Ok, let's start this novel for the third time.

More musings from the Deity series. Always wanted to paint a sphinx of some sort but never have, they’ve always fascinated me. So why not make one for the series (or several actually). The anatomy was a fun design challenge, thanks for looking!

This is fascinating. We are neuroally wired to learn by orientation to time-place-person. Medical pros use "oriented by three" examination to determine mental states. It's why we find stories so frustrating until we're oriented to time/place/person, and why many nope out if not oriented fast enough

Every so often, I go "I could do that as a Space Marine army theme" and remember that I can't paint or kitbash or anything and I don't have any minis and I don't play 40k