Meanwhile! So my online RPG crew may be playing Champions 6e at some point in the near future. It's not a system I'm familiar with, but I'm still stoked because my current character concept is PRINCESS FRANKENSTEIN. The name tells you everything, really.

My dog has gotten into the habit of laying on me while I'm sprawled out on the couch reading or playing Switch. Which, y'know, is the best thing, even if not particularly conducive to productivity.

it would sort of makes sense that Pepe Le Pew isn't actually from France but is just some pick-up artist guy from Toronto who's pretending to be French

Protip: Don’t watch videos of murders and executions It’ll fuck you up one way or another

The world is a farce (and not the funny kind), but pizza is not illegal. Yet.

Dropped by the library today, first visit of the year! My local library has a thing that tracks the MSRP of everything you check out, and spits out "You saved a total of $X this year!" Which I can't help but look at as a way to KEEP SCORE. Gonna try to beat last year's record.

"Oh hey, wasn't I doing another Chrono Trigger playthrough?" I asked myself. So I fire up the SNES, and ... I realize I left off right before that one finnicky part where you have to put the code in JUST RIGHT to save Lucca's mom. ... I think I may play Mario instead.

Benny is the only one with his shit together, and they kill his dog for it.

Wait wait wait. There's a new #Bloodstained game in the works and I'm only now learning about it?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

If you have a few beers and squint, K-Pop Demon Hunters and Sinners take place in the same universe.

WELP. So The Cataphract Oath didn't get one of the randomly chosen 300 spots for #SPFBO. Buuut, at least it got picked up (at least for the first round) for #SPSFC. Let's hear it for writing multigenre mashups!

for real

Starting off my "Watch movies I have on my shelf" resolution with a Blu Ray I nabbed fairly recently solely because it was a Chang Cheh movie. (Also, obligatory Eddie Izzard ref: "Did you bring a flag?")

I went into 2026 with ... guarded optimism? Albeit with an inkling that the other shoe would drop, rendering me a cynic once more. ... I hadn't expected that shoe to drop this early.

So, uh. I'm procrastinating. Which means, instead of opening the word processor, I'm poking around old files and old drafts, I just found an unfinished manuscript that I started during quarantine. ... and it's 41k words long? That I forgot I wrote? I may have to do something with this.

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

Oh hey, the #SPFBO opens for submissions tomorrow! I understand it's a bit of a big deal.

We survived 2025, people. Good work. Now let's do it again. 💪❤️

Okay, might as well get this started. It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930. The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d. 1/

I think I've figured out my resolution for 2026. Namely, I'm gonna try to watch more physical media. Probably won't cancel Netflix just yet, but I've got a fair number of DVDs and Blu-Rays on the shelf. Not to mention stuff available at the local library. (Libraries are rad, BTW).

Hey #WriterSky! I'm in search of a calendar-app-thing to track the new year's writing. Honestly something formatted for 2026 in Excel would be just fine. Theoretically a way to keep my self accountable and/or keep score for the new year. I had one on my previous laptop but I forgot where I got it.

O DANG NEW #BIGTOPBURGER! It's honestly mostly denouement for the season, but it's still great. Adult Swim needs to throw a truck full of money at Worthikids.

So, a few months ago, I saw a cute resin mini at a convention that I knew a friend of mine would like. So I bought it. Painted it. Figured it'd be a good holiday gift. And, earlier tonight, after fretting over its condition for literal months, THE SWORD BROKE AS I WAS HANDING IT TO HER. Tragic.

Meanwhile, not only did I wind up working the whole day at my Real People Job, I also wound up staying late due to schenanigans entirely outside of my control. Lucky thing I'm coming off a long break, otherwise I'd be far more frazzled than I currently am.

Today’s #MondayReads is The Cataphract Oath by Marc Edmond Best (@dapperdinobot.bsky.social). Saw this at a pitch event on this site months ago, pitched as something like “Dumas X Gundam”. Steampunk mechs sounds like a good time to me. #BookSky 💙📚 #AmReading

I was -supposed- to take today off, but I'm gonna wind up going to work anyway. Ostensibly, this is just to take care of a few things before my 'proper' return from vacation, but I may wind up working the whole day anyway. Capitalism, baybeeee (derogatory).

It appears my internet is once again operational? (At least for now). A good thing, too, as I was starting to think about going to see the new Avatar movie.

So, like. K-Pop Demon Hunters. Covering Bella Ciao. It's a niche within a niche, but damn if it wouldn't be rad as shit.

So, my home internet's been down for the last few days, which has thrown my entire routine out of whack. At least I've got piles of physical media/games/etc to distract me (and I can check email on my phone), but it's definitely "First World Problems" territory.

Hither came Tiny Tim, the Londoner, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, an urchin, an immortal, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his festively stockinged feet.

Zorro, in the festive spirit. (He is also trying to eat my cheese and crackers)

OH DANG, new #BigTopBurger! What a holiday present.

BUT HOW WILL YOU FARE, KAMEN RIDER, AGAINST MY COUNCIL OF SEVEN?

For obvious reasons, I tend to give out books as Christmas presents. Not exclusively, but still. Viewed uncharitably, one could look at this as assigning my friends & family homework. I'm gonna give out books anyway.

I am officially on winter break! 'cause I had a few leftover personal days that expire at the end of the year, so I might as well use 'em, dangit. ... I still may go into work next Monday, but at least until then I'm going to be pretty slothful. Looking forward to it.

Meanwhile! I'm slowly getting my stuff together to release my second indie published book, THE CATAPHRACT ERRANT, in the near future! (Probably going to be early January?) Which means I've got to get the back blurb written. So, question is, would this make you want to pick the book up?

Sat down and popped in my Vinegar Syndrome Blu-Ray of Robo Warriors, 'cause who doesn't love direct to video #mecha nonsense from 1996? This is one of those flicks that TRIES very hard, but doesn't quite stick the landing. But it's still got giant robots shooting lasers, so I can't complain.

Straight out of the G Gundam Holiday Special.

If you see your mommy kissing Santa Claus this Christmas, remember that's a good thing because it means your parents are about to be divorced so you'll get two Christmases and therefore double the amount of video games

Happy Winter Solstice! On midwinter’s day, the sun sets between the pair of stones that form the largest trilithon at #Stonehenge Farewell to the shortest day of the year, as we look forward to lighter days ahead! ☀️ #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

Between Jake Paul and Andrew Tate, it looks like we all got a Boxing Day gift early this year.

Call me a luddite, but I think having computers make up "news" to fit your bullshit narrative is bad.

One of the ironies of the season is that the Jingle Bell Rock does not, in fact, rock at all.

Musk is the National Lampoon version of Hari Seldon send tweet

I do not like AI a bit I do not like it in Fitbit I do not want AI at all I do not want it on my calls I do not like it, Sam Altman

Processing this information as I drink a peanut butter chocolate stout (for dessert).

They're using Venezuelan technology to put fentanyl into the TikTok