every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

Inside you there are two Wolfes. (This is a compliment.)

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

#4 of ‘Cheetah & Cheshire Rob The Justice League’ is out this week!!! The heist BEGINS! @gregrucka.com

Really enjoyed Christopher Buelhman's The Daughters' War, a beautifully crafted meditation on loss, grace and survival (that also happens to be a fantasy book). I described it to some friends as "A Farewell To Arms, but with lesbian crow knights" and I stand by this assessment as a high compliment.

HE COMES ACROSS *EXACTLY* THIS CASE. IT'S THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL! AND IT'S SET DURING SHERLOCK: THE COLLEGE YEARS, SO IT PREDATES HIM SAYING THIS TO WATSON IN A STUDY IN SCARLET. THE 'HE WAS TROLLING WATSON' EXPLANATION IS THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES SENSE. Ahem. Please go about your business.

been a while since I went hard on patina

It's time to pledge your fealty to MADAM MCQUILLEN! MADAM is a full-color 164-page supernatural horror comic that picks away at the false faces we wear and reveals the dark thoughts lurking within. Feast thine eyes on this KILLER exclusive cover by @cotronis.bsky.social!! Link below!

A friend prompted a discussion, and a discussion rapidly metastasized into a miniature project. I present: TABLETOP! The TTRPG of Musicals. A fast-paced frenetic experience of pure showbiz and artistic sincerity.

Weirdly I was talking about this in the context of The Muppets just this morning, how a failure to understand Muppet kayfabe dooms the product. There are rules both subtle and glaring, but they have to be followed. Other eras understood that quite well, but I don't think they've crossed over.

Matt came by my PSU class today. Updating my presentation I found this. We didn't know it was online. its one of Matt's favorite things & SO interesting cuz there was no #batfraction in his future then. FROM THE TCJ ARCHIVES: A DENNY O’NEIL AND MATT FRACTION CONVERSATION www.tcj.com/a-denny-onei...

So since this doesn't *exclude* Tabletop, it counts, my primary principle is called "Loosely Held" which holds that much should be implied or gestured towards but only coalesce into focus off player stimulus. World building, narrative, characters. GMing is a series of prompts and responses.

Celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday at The Word for World exhibition at Architectural Association, with an edible landscape by artist Rain Wu.

It's true, but it also places the obligation on current werewolves to take solid action on lunar change mitigation plans, so future generations of werewolves aren't prejudiced by the excess of this time of unparalleled werewolf opportunity.

This is my one

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Gutted to hear about Rob Wieland. Cool in my short interactions with him, long in the hours of joy he indirectly contributed to my table. Tabletop is a small place in a lot of ways, despite the ever growing player base. Voices sound a long way, Rob's sounded very loud but always graciously. RIP.

But Gene's robots are his nicest people! This is slander and I'm not having it. Typical engineer really.

That's the way it's gonna be, Clarice Starling/ We'll listen to Goodbye Horses, yeah yeah

Talking with some friends yesterday about the pure joy of watching goblins go to work causing havoc has become a free, rules light, one-page RPG. I hope you all enjoy "Oops...All Goblins!"

Dear *God*.

Shifting the default video game presentation to 3D first person or over the shoulder to allow dominance for the console market was a mistake, beautiful 2D environments were robbed for decades.

Garak reading the comics of Steve Ditko

Oh, dip

I think, still, after all this time, it's CARNIVALE. Twin Peaks got properly finished, I'd really REALLY like Carnivale to be completed too.

Among other things, the Earthsea books are treatises on the limitations of power. Not just that they teach that power is finite, they actively question by what metric we measure success, how we measure selfhood, what the purpose is of our life. Power fantasies inverted into wonder fantasies.

The World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game is going to get a new edition!

Do non-Australians know who Ned Kelly is, without looking it up?

You say Carmina and I say CarmIna You say Burina and I say Burana Carmina! CarmIna! Burina! Burana! Let's Carl the whole thing Orff.

No more potent sign of middle age than the pop songs of your college years being reinterpreted by a mellow jazz trio for a black tie affair.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Aghast. Words fail me here.

Dear God.

I am now reliably informed that Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 IS available from a certain online digital service that was not able to get it to your hot little hands yesterday. So what’re you waiting for, hmm? @nicolascottart.bsky.social wants to know!

Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 drops today! I am legit excited to share this with folks. It’s a lot of fun, and I’m really hoping people will come along with @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I for the ride!

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Years ago, @ghostthatwalks.bsky.social, @darcrider.bsky.social and I stayed up all night, speculating on what would have happened if, as apparently very nearly it did, George Lucas had stepped in to finish Apocalypse Now for an ailing Francis Ford Coppola.

this is one of the widest gulfs between popular sentiment and establishment policy i have ever seen in this country

Mindless Ones doing Disco Elysium is like a band you love covering a song you love from a different band. A double gem.

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live action catbus looking pretty sweet

I tell this story not infrequently, but my Soderbergh fan friends and I went to the brief theatrical release of 'Behind the Candelabra'. No-one else there but two old ladies sitting behind us. We are, perhaps, 15 minutes into the film when one of them cries out, scandalised "LIBERACE WAS GAY?!?!"

ICYMI (and TBF, I wouldn't be surprised, I could barely remember how the platform works), a spontaneous essay on the vivacity of James Gunn's Superman (2025). Bits on the comics of @kurtbusiek.bsky.social, how movies used to end, the theodicy, cowboys and the need to be alive.

Unbelievably, I'm not just a little back, I seem to be totally back on my bullshit: geekcommissar.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/s...

What was shaping up to be a work stress dream changed halfway through to successfully solving puzzles in @mattfraction.bsky.social's unreleased Batman run, so it seems after a long time, I am back on my bullshit.

This is what the game I'm making looks like.

I feel it says something that the most long in memory American ad for milk trades on slightly aggressive exclusivity, and the dominant Australian ad for milk explicitly states it transforms you into a sexual dynamo capable of cuckolding a horde of beer swilling rabble. What it says I'm not sure.