What could be better than starting the year off with The Thin Man? Nothing.

Endings are really difficult. That was a really strong one.

Stranger Things wrapped up really well. I was even getting choked up at the very end. I want to believe the storyteller's story too.

For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:

Praise for my novel, Great America in Dead World. From Ray Nayler author of Mountain in the Sea, Cody Goodfellow author of New Tomorrow and James Reich author of Skinship... Check it out...

That’s right, I did it! ⚔️✨ I’ve started my Draw Steel Fan Artist’s pack! Want to see more from the community? Follow these lovely people!! 🧡 Did I miss someone? Want to be added? Comment below!! ⬇️ #mcdm #mcdmfanart #drawsteel #trrpg #starterpack go.bsky.app/MfMXwW5

One-day exclusive sale: Readers in Australia, for the next 24 hours the Kindle edition of If You Knew Me is available for only 1.49 (AUD).

ICYMI - A few years ago Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella were kind enough to interview me for This Is Horror. We had fun, and we talked a lot! Michael has posted the audio interview in its entirety, so you can listen to the whole thing or check out a bit of it. As you wish. ❤️

Good Morning, World.

Looking forward to all the books I'll read in 2026. (And apparently it counted flipping through the Kindle version of my book to make sure it looked right as a read.)

Some of my favourite science teachers from television 🤍🧪⚛️🔬

I wonder what the radius around the Long Beach El Dorado Park area that people could hear me laughing at this is.

One of the things I love about Stranger Things is that the characters are constantly discovering that their previous theory is either inadequate or mistaken and are adapting to the new data.

In my house there's often a dangerously large teetering pile of books to be read. But there's the normal teetering pile of books, then there's the post holidays teetering pile of books. There are of course, worse problems to be had.

I will not buy your AI book I will not give its text a look I will not share your AI art I will not share even a part I will not play your AI game I will not play it, feel some shame! Use your soul and heart and head And make us things to love, instead (With apologies to Dr. Seuss).

It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

I got the first volume of the Dreadstar Omnibus for Jólabókaflóðið, last night. I am happy to report that Dreadstar is even weirder and more wonderful than I remember it.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

Hans continues to fall down the Die Hard advent calendar. CRACK THE SUN CROWDFUNDER IS LIVE!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m... ALSO A NEW PATREON POST WITH SOME FUN CHRISTMAS EVE CONTENT!!! www.patreon.com/posts/four-m... Hans has almost hit the ground! The day is almost here!

The end of the year is coming up fast!

Willy: Hey I want to make Relg for Draw Steel. Me: Yeah man go for it. Make him sick. Viola!

If I copied all these links correctly it'll be a holiday miracle. Here's a blog post of my favorite holiday songs: www.ianwelke.net/blog/2025/12/24/holiday-songs

Out now: THE SNOW QUEEN'S FURY, a midwinter one-shot for Draw Steel! Battle dangerous ice monsters, explore a strange fey realm, and negotiate with a powerful archfey to save a village from endless winter. An icy mystery! Tips for running at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd echelon! Queer grandmas! ⚔️❄️

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Mindscape Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University. After a tough year for higher education, I give a pitch for the most idealistic, aspirational conception of the value of a liberal-arts education. #MindscapePodcast Happy Holidays all! www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Happy Solstice everyone!

Happy solstice!

You can now make proper Draw Steel orcs and memonek and time raiders in Titancraft, complete with appropriate face details! titancraft.com

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called And You Will Know Us By The Paths Of The Dead

Brackenbury Books is doing our part! ✋HUMAN MADE is the only way to go, folks.

Open question: when Frosty says “I’ll be back again someday,” does it mean— a. Frosty will exist in a null state until golemed into being once more b. Frosty is a herald of Revelation and will return when the seals break c. Frosty must yield to the bhavachakra until his karmic debts are paid

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

Our new Backerkit campaign for Issue 02 of Ratcatcher Magazine for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's #DrawSteel is LIVE NOW: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

My latest collection includes military SF, Lovecraftian Cyberpunk, fantasy, magic realism, sword-and-planet adventure stories, and more!

I guess everything I write is now considered doing a terrorism.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” —Douglas Adams (1952–2001)

I will fight tooth and nail to protect LGBTQIA+ rights, as well as women's rights, the rights of POC, and many others' rights.

Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

End of Year TTRPG wrapup. Here's what I've played this year: Call of Cthulhu Delta Green D&D 5E (though really just encounters using MCDM's Where Evil Lives) Never Stop Blowing Up Draw Steel

It's sort of amazing that he says so much that's wrong and alarming that pretty much everyone seems to stroll right past the the-president-of-the-United-States-doesn't-know-how-percentages-work problem.

Treat yourself or a friend to a novel you can get lost in. Follow the dangerous game between wannabe journalist Parker and her over-eager subject Ann, a legend in the making--in her own mind, that is. "If You Knew Me is one insanely compelling read!” —Lisa Morton, six-time Bram Stoker Award winner

Watching BRAZIL (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam) really prepared me for authoritarian cultists being proud of their tacky plastic surgery

Ajax and the War Dogs.

The time-spanning, paradigm-shattering conclusion of ANCESTRAL RECALL by @jrsosa18.bsky.social and Atagun Ilhan is finally in stores today! Don't miss the riveting final issue of the comic @aiptcomics.com calls "a magical deep dive into the center of life itself." comicsahoy.com/comics/ances...

We were so pleased to see EVERYTHING ENDLESS by @nytebird45.bsky.social and Jamal Hodge in The Lineup's Best Horror Books of 2025 curated by @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, "An absolute must-read of the year." the-line-up.com/best-horror-...

Gosh if our oil supply is causing us to wage war it sure seems like it’s in the interest of national security to invest heavily in renewables at home rather than risk American lives and spend a ton of money on this

It's Philip K. Dick's birthday. He was a nutter, but few writers have so vividly shown that cruelty, selfishness, incompetence, and stupidity are the secret sauce of American authoritarianism.