The sudden urge to do a Ulysses riff set on one day in Arkham, where young Randolph Carter (with stately, plump Harley Warren) runs into... I dunno, I guess Henry Armitage?

For context, so the rest of you can start pulling your weight around here: UK needs 442,522 games USA needs 2,465,499 games Order forms are open

HiRISE 3D: Double Impact Crater! Glacier fill in two craters now separated, but looks like the flow went north at some point, and there is a suprising lack of erosion in some areas of the rim. Full image: https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_089880_2125_ESP_089603_2125_RED #Mars #NASA #science

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. (The Dungeon Book, out August 2026.)

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

I would love to run a Vampire AP set in Dublin. However if that was a thing there would be no masquerade! Everyone in Ireland knows everyone. If a hunter went into the local pub saying they're looking for John the barman would immediately reply "Do you mean postman Johnny or vampire Johnny?"

Travelling back in time to beat up my 16 year old self.

In Tolkien's writings, just about every character on screen for more than a sentence has a name: lieutenants, door-wardens, orcs, trolls. Tolkien Gaming Principle #39: Name every NPC.

How I'm choosing to sell the new TOR supplement to my play group:

“In conclusion, AI is a land of contrasts”

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Currently suffering an incredibly frustrating IT issue at work that has sent me far beyond the sense-of-humour-failure-event-horizon. An old quote from @mytholder.bsky.social now comes to me: "Profanity." — Gareth Hanrahan.

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

The concept of this is 100% the ONE RING campaign I'd run if I ever had the time.

The preorder for my next ONE RING rpg supplement, HANDS OF THE WHITE WIZARD, is up! freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-one...

Huh, and @robertjbennett.bsky.social gets a shout-out too

Halloween might be over, but gothic vibes are never out of season! To this end: Two of my favourite fantasy novels set in distinctly gothic cities: City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social and The Gutter Prayer by @mytholder.bsky.social. My write-up: wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU

Look for the sickos.

Two failed attempts to get to grips with Ark Nova. Will the third time be the charm?

We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit! #Museum30 #Sketchbook

I wrote this yesterday about what to tell young people who are worried about what work will be in the age of AI: naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

I'm told THE SWORD DEFIANT is on discount in the US and Canada, in the you feel like starting a new trilogy with magic talking swords, aged heroes, and bringing down kings... www.amazon.com/Sword-Defian...

@thegrognardfiles.bsky.social Apple Podcast’s automated transcript has some gems.

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

I can't believe I finally get to announce this: Wolfskin, Book 3 in the Common Saga, will be coming out in March 2026. It is, I think, the best thing I've ever written. I've been out of the public and literary consciousness for a while, so any support is appreciated. (pre-order links below)

*adds a fractional World Fantasy Award to my pile of fractional Ennies...*

Haven't done this many random tables in a long long time.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

The best word in the English language – my favorite – is "effervescent." Having the property of forming bubbles/marked by or expressing an appealingly lively quality. It makes a personality into a physical phenomenon, and it's pronounced how carbonation feels on your tongue.

It is very important to be effervescent in joy, to ward-off the easy, recursive path of despair.

I think Sauron and Boromir fundamentally agreed on the dark realm’s accessibility problem, which is the great irony of the orcs thinking he was naming it Mordor when he was in fact asking for more doors, so one could simply walk into it.

I see we’re doing yet another UBI trial

Half way through this and enjoying it. (It’s structured against/for/against/for so enjoymentment is not endorsement)

Go to coffee shop to write for 2 hours while twin #2 is at his course. Forget iPad.

What a thread. This is the inside track on Cold City. #coldcity

Some Dragon of Shandon shots

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

"The English profs keep sweeping our work under the rug, but that rug is about three feet off the floor by now, and things are coming out from under it and eating the English profs." (Ursula K. Le Guin, Prospects for Women in Writing, 1986)

I'm in a Bundle of Holding! You can get Stealing Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark and Fairyland by @sdorward.bsky.social here, along with Lovecraftesque by @armadajosh.bsky.social and other stuff. Please repost this and appease the nameless gods. bundleofholding.com/presents/Ten...

True Story: JRR Tolkien plotted a sequel to Lord Of The Rings where a couple generations later, disaffected teenage boys in Gondor start LARPing as orcs to be edgy. He wrote a chapter or two but abandoned it as “too depressing”. No, really. Absolutely true— tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_New...

Finished! The English Market, Cork. Autumn 2025 (Ink and pencil on A3 300gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper - for people who care about such things) #Cork #speirgorm #corkart #IrishArt #tradart #painting

We need to do ultra-masculine fascism, like in J.R.R Tolkien's famous book, "Lord of the here's why Ultra-Masculine Fascism is evil, stupid and self defeating. Under no circumstances do it you fucking clowns."

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.