note to self: this only with heads.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Inject it, as the poet said, into my veins. (Page from Michael Drout’s THE TOWER AND THE RUIN.A

I have also gigged in a Working Man's Club.

There's nothing as reassuring for a writer as when as a minor character suddenly stands up and goes "actually, I've decided I'm important and I'm doing stuff". It's the moment where Frankenstein's monster twitches on the slab.

Saving this image in case I ever need a photo reference for an art order of "evil hobbit"

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Nothing's as much fun as writing a really mean review (of a fictional play in a Merryshire mystery...)

good morning

I am SO here for new WKRP reboot.

Naming things in games can really slow things down. We needed to come up with a lot of names during our playtest of This Means War, so we tried a different approach to take the pressure off. arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/49...

4. The Sword Triumphant, Gareth Hanrahan Stuck the landing! And this book was set 20 years after the previous, so we had elderly heroes having to deal with Tiny Babies (early 20s babies) who are Excited to do Questing, it was glorious.

3. The Sword Unbound, Gareth Hanrahan Lots of fun! Honestly, really funny, even with the massive amount of death. Deeply love the realisation that none of the POV chars actually want to engage with the plot, and are mostly trying to sidle away from it.

2. The Sword Defiant, Gareth Hanrahan Fantasy, what happens after the dark lord is defeated. Good concept, suffered a bit in that the *actual* story took a while to get going. The Big Hero's sister questing to save her teen son was a delightful fave character. Will buy book 2 soon!

Do you want tragedy? Do you want hurt/comfort? Whumph?? Angst?? 🥲 This is the game for you. Dive into your own AU and create your own fix-it fic 🤌

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

help!

Ten minutes sketch from reference

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can you explain all these gaps on your cv yes that's to show where one word ends and the next one begins

Cork locals, and not-locals who might be some lucky chance have the honour of being in Cork at the time: I'm doing a chat at the Cork City Library as part of Ireland Reads on the 28th of Feb. www.eventbrite.ie/e/writer-gar...

It's #Tolkien time again and the 3rd in my blog series on rereading #LOTR 50 years after I first read it at the age of 10. Here I list all the named female Hobbits (there's more of them than you think!) and talk about Bilbo and Frodo's 'exceptionality' in not being married and having large families.

It's my birthday! To celebrate, could I request you quote this post with your favourite sword and sorcery artwork? In honour of me - and also Swords Without Master: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Ken and Robin talk Mr. Johnson and why he is bad, a weird ancient beliefs quiz with guest stars @mytholder.bsky.social and @jameswallis.bsky.social, writing compelling exposition, and a murder case ghost.

The joy of putting the cover art for the next book up as your desktop background.

I'm popping some of my tips from the fantasy writing classes I teach on r/fantasy writers - one on voice and one on general approach, sharing them here too in case people find them useful! www.reddit.com/r/fantasywri...

When Zach Weinersmith goes beast mode.

Christ it's Stancil's Wario.

That point when writing a mystery scenario when you go “ack, stupid interactivity getting in the way of my genius plotting, why didn’t I do this as a novel instead”

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

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everyone is twelve theory unbeatable

"What's that? Is that the temple of elemental evil?" "No, it's the temple of elemental chemistry. Roll for initiative against the Kroll Process".

there is more chemistry in this game design than I was prepared for

Pelgrane Press seeks Customer and Platform Relationship Manager

This is a genAI company *doing its own research* to find that using its product reduces coding skills.

Ok, the ten minutes between Nimue discovering that she could mirror my iPhone screen (currently showing Youtube kids) to my Mac (currently showing a work email I need to reply to) and me working out how to turn off screen mirroring was... fraught.

Hell of a Grauniad typo here -

Look upon my wok, ye mighty, and these pears

Back to Merryshire to start writing the last adventure in the Dreadful Hare, then off to Mars to write changes based on Warpcon playtest, then looking at Art for [THING I CAN'T TALK ABOUT], then One Ring stuff, then some other stuff, then cook dinner for the kids, then Blades in the Dark one shot.

Thanks to a typo I am now musing on what 'Cthonic Fatigue Syndrome' might entail.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Creation of the Birds https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19623

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Laughing because I've spent a chunk of the last few weeks turning this list into game mechanics in Terraforming Mars.