The Helvetica Blanc deck always delivers.

It is once again a "don't quit your job don't do it for fuck's sake don't do it" kind of day

the fact that this gif lacks pixels is perfect

Now listening to the GOAT of synth heavy black metal grimestone.bandcamp.com/album/fugiti...

going to karate like

fitness goals

I took a sick day today and didn't end up needing it so I'm just chilling and it's just...night and day. Heaven and earth.

Life is so beautiful when you don't have to work.

Every time I buy a bunch of albums on Bandcamp I go "oh right, it's [CURRENTYEAR] and I still can't bulk download albums from Bandcamp without a third party browser extension". Incredible.

One of my all time biggest pet peeves is when customers go "I am SHOCKED your system can't do X". Oh really??? You're SHOCKED? So why don't you go and build a fucking tech company and see how easy it is to cover hundreds and hundreds of potential use cases. For fuck's sake.

I can't quite explain how strongly this album has captured me. The message, the music, the execution - everything is stunning. Probably my AOTY. Crazy good black metal, post-rock but really not as you know it. Used this review to talk about political art and what it means.

OK this is as good as everyone said it was. What the fuck. sonhostomamconta.bandcamp.com/album/no-rit...

I wrote a suite of flash fiction pieces from the years 2018 to 2023. It used to live on my main website but I wanted to give it its own website. And so, here it is: Listen, An Ongoing Series! Give it a read if you'd like or hit the link at the top for a random entry! listenongoing.com

why did no one tell me The Knick was this good? Holy fuck dude

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

LET'S GO

WORKS OF VERMIN MENTIONED

sickos.jpg "Fiction is no good without the risk that someone can be wrong about it; let people be wrong, but let them reach it themselves." I also have a lot of thoughts about in regards to Book of the New Sun and how people are reading it these days. Might need to write/record my thoughts on that

Too bad this didn't come up in my FB memories for Victory Over Sauron day but what the hell, here it is anyway.

holy fuck this album is good. Super challenging as always but the better production, the synths, the guest vocals, all make this an even better release than the previous albums. Incredibly chaotic and maximalist avantgarde/technical thrash metal

god the synths on this are good

Man, what a year for technical thrash metal huh? Bekor Qilish review going up tomorrow to coincide with its release day. Truly amazing, alongside Polaris Experience, Cryptic Shift, Wildhunt and a few more. Great stuff.

Turns out I have pretty bad B12 deficiency so think how powerful I'm going to be once I get this fixed

ask not for whom the albums release; for they release for thee

I have released the album (official release date is tomorrow) on bandcamp. Please buy if you'd like, share, comment, anything... tapes will come from Fiadh in a few weeks, and vinyl is available at the elasticstage link below aliciacordisco.bandcamp.com/album/my-res...

Don't have the words to describe how hard this track hits me apparat-music.bandcamp.com/track/tilth

In case you missed it, my brief genealogy of the weird space opera went live last week! I've been fleshing this out as a loose taxonomical category for a few years now and reading John M. Ford's masterful "Web of Angels" finally caused everything to click.

Today's underrated progressive project is this. Really great blend of prog rock, math rock, and some emo on the vocals. Energetic and light-hearted, plus it's about a frog bandit! I loved their debut so much that Heavy Blog funded this EP! objectuntoearth.bandcamp.com/album/memory...

Man, if you just fixed the fucking loot/item system, Nioh 3 would be a perfect game. Imagining it with like, Valhalla's system of unique weapons instead of the fucking inventory slop that has marred the Nioh series from day one.

Just dropped some recs in a server for weird, contemporary SFF. Enjoy apropos of nothing. The Works of Vermin - 19th century French empire politics but bugs change reality The West Passage - what if the Hobbit but mega weird and the history doesn't make internal sense

One of the biggest side advantages of being in better shape is that I can headbang and dance with more abandon

I am once again here to plug the most underrated progressive metal of the last two decades. Jim Grey from C-Horse on vocals. Many other talented Aussie musicians. Incredible, anti-war, multi-generational concept (my analysis in the replies) Listen to it! arcaneaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/known-...

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Happy Victory Over Sauron day. Here's my favorite LoTR quote to celebrate: “The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task,

Banks when you have to do something: "Click the button!!! We are saving this rate for ONE MINUTE ONLY!!! You are going to fucking DIE if you don't click this button NOW!!! FUCK!!!" Banks when you ask them where your money is: "bro like...it depends? Like....chill bro, you know? Haha namaste my guy"

My theory is that he likes to block passages because then you have to pay attention to him.

This album remains one of like three-four synthwave records that are still worth your time. Too bad the guy behind it is a piece of shit (allegedly). carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/trilogy

Read too much materialist analysis of the global economy and now I can't breathe

This book honestly surprised me, I expected it to be good but it's actually great. Name focused magic, crazy priests, eldritch powers!

Next year I'm going to be leading a reading group at the Providence Athenaeum on the SFF novella! First order for it came in.

Tonight's tincture

HHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Jon coming in with the best opener to a post that I can remember.

I have complex feelings towards this album, some of which I tried to capture here

Well would you like at that! My investigation into the origins, themes, foundations, and modes of what I call the "weird space opera" is live on ARB! I look at The Centauri Device (duh) and Web of Angels (not so duh) to find the working principles of this beloved and odd sub-genre!

FB memories with the heat once more

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