Doodled the main character of my novel

New Bechdel Test just dropped: are you dumb enough to let ai be "creative" on your behalf, absolving you of the joy of being human?

Silent Hill(shire Farms)

Book 6 of 2026: Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery I wanted to read this ahead of the Netflix adaptation, now I've got my fingers crossed that the series captures the wackiness of the novel.

Who would win in a fight: that dude from the Dwayne Johnson award-bait boxing movie that nobody watched or the woman from the Sydney Sweeney award-bait boxing movie nobody watched?

Gonna try to make a mix a month for my homies talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/maxi...

Film 6 of 2026: Honey Don't It kinda feels like if a professional production filmed a high schooler's script with no changes.

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My solution: play games with cool people rather than talk about them with randos! It was *always* the answer.

There is literally no good reason to repost twenty things in a row here, man.

Three more otherworld entities served by cults in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/krom...

Film 1 of 2026: Eyes of Fire (1983) Eyes of Fire is an incredibly strange American folk horror. A heretical preacher and his flock abscond from their community to settle their cult deep into the "unknown" frontier, but they encounter a "devil witch" and her clay-smeared minions in the territory.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

my man kellogg spinning in his grave right now

Good mail day

Nobody missed this, right? RIGHT? Anyway, Bad Books for Bad People is back with a best of the year episode talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/best...

There is a character in my novel that talks like that, and it's supposed to be obvious that he's evil and weird.

Book 1 of 2026: @joshrountree.bsky.social, The Unkillable Frank Lightning Killer premise that is absolutely delivered on in the novel: Frankenstein's monster in a Wild West show, hunted by his wife because she wants to end his unnatural existence. I had a TON of fun reading this one!

Blogged about stuff I enjoyed in December talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/tota...

All that *and* Super Vixens!

Today is the last day of Barnes & Nobles' 25% off preorders sale. I just did what I did last year: bought a bunch of stuff i'm excited about, so now I'll be getting one or two books a month throughout the year at a discount as they come out. It's like making yourself a subscription box.

That was fun

I'm unlikely to start and finish another book tomorrow, so I think I can call it: I read 104 books in 2025

Doctor Moreau is up to his old tricks

Don't look back in anger or at the events of 2025, in general

Crispin Glover held my hand and insisted I tell him everything I know about Beowulf

I'm going to start a rumor that Jigsaw from the Saw movies is the kid from Home Alone all grown up

"Stone": description of a tomb about to be robbed #wipsnips

"Angle": a bard watches a beatdown #wipsnips

Ho ho ho, motherfuckers! This year's Christmas tale involves Santa's pooper, a big titty elf, and murderous reindeer! Read at your own risk, don't come crying to me if it ruins your holiday. Look upon my works, ye Merry, and despair! talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/12/we-t...

There's also a weird commentary about how if the Catholic family believed in contraception they'd be able to afford to move out of their haunted house lol.

The theological implications are weird: it *feels* like Catholic propaganda, yet is set up to glorify the sanctity of the Warrens above and beyond the Church. Their child is miraculously raised from the dead, they wield spiritual power where priests fail, etc.

Slogging through Conjuring: Last Rites. So far: -Who would buy a broken mirror as a present for a young girl's confirmation? -Oh no, the demons all have Creepy Smiles(tm) -Real long cookout/ping-pong sequence -Why does the bridal place have them try dresses on in an endless hell of funhouse mirrors

"Silver": the girls get their picture taken #wipsnips

"Default" doesn't appear in my wip, so have "fault" instead. #wipsnips

"high": in which a librarian knows he's being run to ground by stunning beauty

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There's a fairly prominent metal review youtube channel that dropped a video of their viewers' top albums of the year--hosted by two guys who absolutely shit on the fans' picks. I guess it's supposed to be funny, but metal nerds aren't beating the hipster allegations in 2025. Feels lame to me

"Request": the protagonist of my novel is *terrible* at flirting #wipsnips

I got one question for you, punks

RPG Theory Guy: Oh, you're having fun playing games? *cracks knuckles* Check out the latest batch of problems I've invented. Don't worry; I can make it sound real intellectual. I'll throw in a few "ludo-narrative dissonances" for free. Wanna get rid of those problems? Buy my games. *salesman grin*

Had an idea for an ominous fey party boat in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

"Clay": Nightsong is both Very Lesbian and a Look at Me! Look at Me! narcissist #wipsnips

Publishers Weakly

Erika Kirk looks like she is constantly watching her kids' black friends use their pool

Why not go on an odyssey or let a loved one do the same?

Moist doesn't appear in my wip (you're welcome) so have "foist" from the main characters having their first date at a macabre absinthe bar #wipsnips

I think I have a lot of stereotypical gen x qualities, but I've never seen The Goonies and I don't really have any feelings about The Simpsons.

I'm Gom Jabbar critical. That's just sly Bene Gesserit propaganda.

When joining a new ttrpg group, it's important to decide what kind of player you're going to be Hyper-aggro, willing to fight every shopkeeper? Fifty pages of backstory, but refuse to engage with any hooks? Dead silent, clearly scrolling between multiple tabs on your computer? The "joke guy"?