New improved cat, now with more legs

A thing I made is next to Heavy Metal 😳

Happy New Year to my insomnia, which has gotten much worse but at least I got to ring in 2026 in style (bed)

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

English Archers during Henry V's 1415 Campaign

Publishing would be much more fun if instead of Penguin Random House it was Random Penguin House

Look! It’s everyone’s favorite Squaresoft game from 1987, programmed by Nasir Gebelli, with music by Nobuo Uematsu: Final Fantasy! Wait, what?

Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvp...

Wisdom from my child on this blessed day: “Wow, Mozart must have hated ska”

Signs you’re too RPG-brained: I ordered some Duraflame Quickstart logs for my fireplace and when the confirmation email arrived I thought “glad I can start playing Duraflame without reading the rulebook”

Happy Fritz Leiber’s Birthday to all who are celebrating it.

the big heist

I appreciate Wake Up Dead Man taking an unequivocal stance on one of the pressing issues of our time: the correct nickname for Nathaniel is Nat

焚き火(2022.3)

Temeraire RPG coming 2026 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Retro gamers are winning the long battle. They don't have to ask if their 1994 blorbo is made with gen AI. That's all natural babe

Concepting inks #inkdrawing #sketchbook #fantasyart #art

I wish MMPB were still financially feasible for publishers b/c I want to absolutely trash my books, I want to shove them in my pockets, my purse, my backpack, sit on them, bring them out during the kids' classes, carry them everywhere, and still have them hold up like the little troopers they are.

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor

Argent, a cross encliparted, a wingding rampant

I heard it was Bandcamp Friday! Here’s some fresh dungeonsynth from a good friend, once again proving New England has the best sinister ambience. gatescroll.bandcamp.com/album/orc-cave

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Took the nephews to IHOP the other day. The kids menu included a guide to draw the secret sign. America's core institutions handing down the sacred knowledge to future generations. Grateful today for the stewards of our culture

Merchandising idea, D&D undies: Loot of the Room

Bae caught me slippin, slippin, slippin into the future

From the Days of Mana specials in Nintendo Power: Katsuya Terada's visions of the world of The Secret of Mana, which, like their illustrations for Link's Awakening, lend the game a darker, more mature vibe akin to the artwork you might see in a Wizardry game.

Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt

Yesterday one of my twentysomething coworkers asked me what color my hair was before it started graying and I guess I’ll just get the chisel and start working up a gravestone now

Am I the only person who hates Gmail’s inbox sorting (which got added without my input or consent) and is thrilled to learn it can be shut off?

HBD to the perfect game system! In very rough order… 1. Final Fantasy VI 2. Chrono Trigger 3. Secret of Mana 4. Super Mario World 5. Super Metroid 6. Link to the Past 7. Final Fantasy IV 8. NHL 94

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Just told my kid it’s time to wake up and he hit me with the Quiet Coyote. Is it legal to donate him to science?

Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays. Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons. @nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her: pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...

Some of these contain advice, some of which has become commonplace: “it is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in”, “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well”, “never put off till to-morrow, what you can do to-day”

1) More women should write sword & sorcery. Please, for the love of Crom, save us from the men's rights douchebros that try to turn hardboiled fantasy into some testosterone-driven epic of macho bullshit.

Digital bust of Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI for a client on Ko-fi~🖤 #Art #Commission #FinalFantasy #ArtSky

one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference

Me, confident I know the lyrics: “Sea breams are made of cheese”

I just released my "Brief Guide to Writing Short Fiction." It's a solid guide to writing short stories and more; and has a special focus on Sword and Sorcery stories. It costs $10, which, as a set of instructions to write stories you can sell, is rather inexpensive. Like and share. That helps!

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

A good name for a used watch store would be Second Hand

A YouTube ad just asked me “Have you noticed that wealthy people in Shanghai never carry charging cables?” and like… no, I haven’t noticed that. For a number of reasons.

Everybody has to be friends with Rockman

Have a nice weekend, friends

Me explaining teeth to my kid: “Okay so the incisors do slashing damage, the canines do piercing damage, and the molars do bludgeoning damage”

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I’m dating myself here, but I’m irrationally irked that the accepted abbreviation of Dungeons & Dragons has changed from D&D to DnD, to the extent that Google will say “did you mean dnd?” Did the shift happen because you can’t use an ampersand in a URL?