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announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

People look at my sketches and say "hey you're pretty good at that," not realizing that getting to "pretty good" involved art classes through AP Drawing and Painting and literally hundreds of hours of practice. I look mildly talented! I am not talented! I am a highly trained and experienced doodler.

"Live off the rain and the dirt" is one I'm hanging onto, thanks.

Right. Of course. Janelle Monáe can time travel. Incorporating that into my worldview.

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I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

Going Medieval is coming out of Early Access tomorrow with a patch I am _super excited_ about. I really enjoyed the EA version but this looks _fantastic_.

I love these games because I'm pretty good at them :P www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

FRIENDS. Registration for 2026 is OPEN! We can’t wait to see you!

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Slay the Spire 2 may be the first game I've bought the day it hit Early Access since something I worked on.

Accountant on one side, for the family junkyard business. The branch that owned it decided they wanted to keep the books in the family and sent him, a cousin, to college for the purpose. Car salesman on the other. Oldsmobiles, iirc. Never met either - they both died quite young of cancer.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Ser Voyne from The Starving Saints aka the lady knight of my dreams 🗡️❤️‍🔥🐝 @caitlinstarling.com

This is a great opportunity to recommend I Am Future, a survival game with this theme. It has a coziness slider!. You just want to potter around and dismantle things and not worry about the evil slugs that eat your lettuce at night? Coziness slider up!

PSA: A scammer is using the email account '[email protected]' to impersonate me. That is not my email account, and I am not sending messages from it. Please delete all such messages if you receive them.

I suppose I should tidy up those three terabyte drives and the seven-year-old nVidia card for sale, shouldn't I.

I want this to fund because I want to read it!

This is an interesting convo between @maxgladstone.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social about, among other things, the publishing industry, and it brings up an angle - the bestseller being a market correction - that is my personal explanation for the romantasy phenomenon. (1/2)

Today's beans

There are a couple I'd prefer not to (sardines, black licorice) and a couple more I probably wouldn't order (oysters, blue cheese) but my wife refers to me as a trash compactor with good reason. (This list avoids my actual weakness, bitter vegetables, quite thoroughly.)

Heh, this should be interesting. Day one: Final Fantasy. I rented it a few times before I scraped together enough quarters to buy it. It is 100% grooved into my brain, to the point that I play it in my head to fall asleep sometimes.

This was the basis of my (undoubtedly stoned) extended explanation to my long-suffering wife why baseball was the right game to make blaseball out of.

Floof.

Post a banger that isn't in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxWx... (I don't have _many_ in my collection but the ones I love I fucking _love_)

@byzantienne.bsky.social for your powerline collection www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

We have had three herding dogs over the last ten years, all of which should have Had A Job, and yet two of them were Dipshits and one of them routinely Picked Fights With God.

My actual dad's favorite movie was Father of the Bride. Followed, iirc, by Dumb and Dumber. So, uh, this category is a little opaque to me.

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Hot take: The "Phantom Tollbooth" characters King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician, are prefigured by two 9th century Byzantine intellectuals, Patriarch John VII, known as John the Grammarian, and his cousin, the archbishop of Thessalonica known as Leo the Mathematician.

I have fished my gross old tub overflow cover out of the trash because the new shiny one just doesn't seal right. Here's to vaguely unclean but deep-enough baths!

May the source of peace send peace to those who mourn, and justice to those who are bereaved.

The main damage I walked away from game dev with is that I enthusiastically read patch notes and roadmap posts about MMOs that I no longer play.

Happy #werewolfwednesday Going to need a lot of caffeine to get through today.

We are going to keep donating money for as long as you all keep buying jewelry. ... Viv has added more jewelry because you have been so generous in supporting our neighbors and friends in Minnesota. 😄 I'm really thrilled. Keep going, and we will too.

Viv has put all of her gorgeous jewelry shop on sale to raise funds for Minneapolis mutual aid. I will match whatever she raises. All the money will go to organizations listed at www.standwithminnesota.com. it's a small thing we can do to help a community we love, but it's a thing.

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So many grand hopes for 2026. So few that I can put into words without violating Bluesky's community guidelines.

I would love to claim some bit of Arthuriana, or The Dark is Rising, or even Narnia, but honestly this was my very first love.

2026: lie down before you fall down

If ever a realtor should have skipped the HDR...

A-fucking-men. I kinda doubt the people who make this joke have ever heard anything but their radio singles Same thing a decade earlier with jokes about Dave Matthews Band. I would love to have a critical discussion of them! But "that band is lame" ain't it

@rahaeli.bsky.social Would you mind passing along the name of your spine surgeon? My wife is looking for options for her EDS-related neck fuckery.

Batman and Robin. I love camp Batman and I don't care who knows it.

Man I love the recorder.

Time for another rousing chorus of "NO MICE ON THE BED!!"

I read this in one much-too-late-at-night sitting and it's absolutely delightful. Funny, sapphic, with an eldritch horror aesthetic but it's really structured more like a cozy mystery.