Once more into the slush pile, volume 18 throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/01/slus...

After over a year of digging around, I have compiled not only a list of every single Proto-Indo-European resource I bothered to write down, but also a helpful step-by-step guide if, for some godsforsaken reason, you also want to make a conlang out of it throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/01/prot...

My heart years for Astroprisma. I do not have an ereader that can handle those pdfs so I must wait for print, and it is agony.

Haven't finished the episode yet, but looks like GDQ didn't read my donation message. Dang. Spent like an hour on that. Also, yay, 10 hrs of mandatory OT per week for the next month if not longer

"Coach Z!" "That's me!" "Whatchu got for me?" "I got the- F-I-S-H-E-Y-E LENS!"

New year, more Lovecraft, this time with a nice random table. Haven't done one of those in a while. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/01/50-t...

I am cleaning up my files and have rediscovered both the scraps of an alt-history project and an absurd mega-crossover setting that I made in college. Lil' treasures.

Starting off the new year (as best as I can given the Circumstances) with a #publicdomain roundup of this year's graduating class. You can now have Nancy Drew investigate the theft of the Cthulhu statue from Miskatonic U. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/01/publ...

man it'd be great to have decent water pressure for stretches of longer than 2 months.

My new years resolution is "Never, ever, EVER, do another conlang with ablaut. Ever. Those vowels are going to remain ROCK-SOLID and EXTREMELY STABLE, god damn it!"

Well damn, that's a lot of new followers. Hi! Here's me talking about books, for the 20th time. Some real meaty reviews in this one. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

Cat's sick again.

I have, somehow, reached a stance on Christmas that is simultaneously a rejection of the secular holiday and also extremely heretical by the standards of anyone who celebrates religious Christmas. This makes me extremely fun at parties [citation needed]

Time for my year-end review 2025: It's a bad year throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...

God damn it Mozilla, now I need to find a new browser.

After over a year, I finally have the sound changes for my indo-european conlang where I want them. I have also managed to bumble my way into a system where every declension, and potentially most individual words, are extremely irregular. It's a nightmare.

One of my favorite bits of modern slang is "cooking / cooked". it's very fun grammatically, because the connotation is according to aspect rather than tense. "Is cooking / was cooking" = good "is cooked / was cooked" = bad Folks took "toast" and added some more layers to it, and that's neat

Well on the plus side, 2152 days is a really solid streak for not getting covid

I am currently down with the sickness (ow-wah-ah-ah-ah [hacking cough]), so here's a slushpile roundup of yet more wikipedia links from my notes throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/12/wiki...

I do not like this time of year one bit, but I do like binge-listening Esoterica. Lose some, win some (occult knowledge)

Do you want to get reasonably mad about copyright law with me? P. Scott Hollander wrote a detail almanac / gazetteer to Hell in 1974. The kind where there's a section on the history of its flag. It's pandering directly to me. 1/

Extremely cool thing I just learned and need to tell everyone about: Quilombo dos Palmares was an independent country founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian backcountry, and it resisted the Portuguese for a century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmare...

New post, more mythos shit. I swear this year of Lovecraft was unintentional. The muse is weird. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...

Haven't had much to report re: Leslie Stone project, as progress has petered off of late. With most of the shorter works taken care of in the first pass, the longer ones remain, and I would be lying if I said that it wasn't a tedious process. Still: i have found it a good balm for anxiety.

Some days, the brain is busted. Then some days it says "Hey, remember how the Tartakovsky Clone Wars kicked unreasaonable amounts of ass?" and I answer "yes, brain, correct, thank you for reminding me"

Got installment 9 of my video game micro-review series. Somehow, there are even more bangers throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...

Further Asbury Pines notes: I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!

Grabbed Asbury Pines on a whim, because the idea of a Twin-Peaks style narrative idle game intrigues me The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.

Love how I can just tell someone "ADHD hamstrings my memory and chronic stress has made it infinitely worse" and their response is "But what about //more// stress, have you considered that?"

Wanted to write something quick and easy, so I cooked up another one of my "line-by-line dissections of monster write-ups in big-name RPGs" posts. This time it's the Gnoph-keh, because Call of Cthulhu is the gift that keeps on giving in this department. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/mons...

Hell is Us has one of the best dungeons I have ever seen in a video game. Huge amount of design stuff you can and should swipe for tabletop.

Welp, i just discovered Kaimere, that's going to be a nice hyperfixation for a while. Extremely inspirational

Me, earlier today: "Oh this linguistic paper looks neat" Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented

Honestly amazed that no one has made a SCP-ish management sim TTRPG yet. Like we've already got Delta Green at home, let us play as the bureaucrats who have to wrangle the yearly budget allotment for containing the nuclear fusion mangos or whatever

My run of stumbling across banger video games continues: Hell is Us is "what if Death Stranding was an exploration/puzzle-first Soulslike based on the Bosnian War" 3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.

Yo y'all need to check this out. Easily some of Rowan's best work. This book is laid out the way Chainsaw Man feels to watch.

Secret of Weepstone straight up just flips open a fake TSR dungeon module when you want to look at the map. @talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one

In the spirit of the season, I spruced up one of the Mythos monsters that always felt a lacking to me. Have some polyps: they fly! throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Decktamer has the best monster designs I've seen in a hot minute but needs one hell of rebalance patch

I think the tariffs accelerated what was already an unsustainable system: not every game needs to be a luxury product with a bespoke card deck or a companion app or a featureless black cube. Sometimes, print-at-home is enough. Sometimes it //has// to be enough.

I went from "know nothing > wishlisted" so fast that time dilation kicked in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPp...

I can now add "the guy you go to if you want a Proto-Indo-European insult for your RPG module" to my resume

I have just been reminded that there's a Delta Green supplement with agent profession "Astronaut Corps Pilot" and with this year's contest fast approaching this is dangerous knowledge to have.

Not a single theater in near me has GDT's Frankenstein.

And here we go, my wrap-up and reflection of my solo mission in @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space. What a wild ride. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...

In an uncharacteristic display of productivity, have a review of a 20+ year old Star Wars Saga Edition Supplement throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-fa...

Extremely important: I have found the best thing They're so happy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNpE...

Fantasy novelists and RPG designers straight up cannot match the Kushan Empire when it comes to wildass crossover settings. You could reach into your pocket and pull out coins with Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Shiva, and the Buddha on them just while buying lunch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_...

It's time for part 4 of my play report series of @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space: this time round we get to see the sausage-making procedure and make it successfully to Pholus! Now it's just the wrapup post left. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...

Part 3 of my mission report for @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space is up: at long last, I complete the first year of the Hayabusa's 4 year mission! throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...