Simon Morgan-Russell
@smorgan-russell.bsky.social
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Northerner, reader, gamer, tea-drinker
Just back from āGeekway to the Westā with ten new plays over the weekend. Here are my favourites: Up or Down
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, Skara Brae
@garphillgames.bsky.social
, Finspan
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, and Nusfjord
@lookoutgames.bsky.social
A great convention and community.
#boardgames
4 days ago
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Almost too cool to unwrap. Iāve been looking forward to āEven Deeper Regretsā for a while. Thanks
@tettix.bsky.social
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17 days ago
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Hard to get my head around this duology ā¦did I like it? Yes, I think, though Iām not entirely sure it made a lot of sense.
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27 days ago
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So ⦠Clarke has a great ear for 18thC prose, and skillfully reproduces it in this expansion of the Strange/Norrell universe. But I struggled with the collection. Not anything to do with Clarke, but I remembered how much I dislike 18thC British fiction while I was reading it.
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š šø *not my content*
#poetry
#MaryOliver
#poetrymonth
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 2 months ago
ā¦yeāll maybe think itās a ā funny day to be celebrating ā well, no, but ye see I wasny working, and I like to celebrate when Iām no working⦠āEdwin Morgan, āGood Fridayā from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS,
@carcanet.bsky.social
2020
#Easter
#poem
#poetry
#GoodFriday
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Short but powerful Northern novel, āSeascraper,ā by Benjamin Wood. A lovely, slow read that takes place over the span of about a day, about class, small-town stigma, and creativity.
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about 2 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 2 months ago
A feel fur thon wee Lewis keelies stuck in Lunnon Goggle-eāed wi chowin the taps aff their shields, Haimseek fur Norroway ower the faem. āJim Alison, āIngauneesā originally published as a poster for
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#poem
#poetry
#chess
#Vikings
#medievalsky
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By some odd coincidence, I read two, quite different, āheistā novels at the same time. Comparisons are odorous ⦠but Iāll only say that I LOVED
@eddierobson.bsky.social
ās book from start to finish. Iām going to miss those characters.
2 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
2 months ago
Scotland, you have invoked her name just once too often in your Presbyterian living rooms. Sheās heard, yea even unto heathenish Arabia your vixenās bark of poverty⦠āKathleen Jamie, āThe Queen of Shebaā from THE QUEEN OF SHEBA,
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1994 A
#poem
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Trees filled with red-winged blackbirds.
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3 months ago
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Quick try-out of a new one-player game, Resist!, which I lost (just had to push it one more round ⦠one too many as it turned out). Nice to have two one-player games about the Maquis, both of them fun and lovely to look at.
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#boardgamesky
@25thcentury.games
3 months ago
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Our first game of Wyrmspan. We loved it!
#boardgames
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@stonemaiergames.com
3 months ago
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Another attempt at Arkham Horror again last night ⦠we almost didnāt lose again this time. But, alas.
#boardgames
3 months ago
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Soooooo happy to have backed āBlades ā68ā today. Weāve been playtesting it for a year, and itās groovy, baby.
@olddog.games
@evilhat.bsky.social
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Blades '68 Crowdfunding Trailer
YouTube video by Evil Hat Productions
https://youtu.be/oRlhKBRU8VU
3 months ago
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Looking through my game archives today and found this from 1981! I suppose I really have been playing this game for more than 40 years. Better get these Call of Cthulhu counters put together before there arenāt any pennies left!
#TTRPG
@chaosium.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Another bout with Arkham Horror. Another unsuccessful attempt to save the city from destruction!
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4 months ago
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Evil Hat
4 months ago
"Oh, and uh, just one more question, Dr. Morcroft... I see a lotta pilots from Blueraker 5 sign into the visitor logs for the Lusk Reform Clinic. I didn't see any of them sign out." The Hound. 1 of 8 Playbooks in Blades '68 Get more info and sign up to follow here:
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Iām often not thrilled with Booker winners, and this one took a few chapters before I was hooked. I ended up liking Szalayās āFleshā a lot. I know it took a beating from some readers but I thought it was a compelling meditation on trauma and masculinity, and whatās not said.
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4 months ago
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We unseated Denethor in Minas Tirith and mustered the Elves, but the Eye of Sauron found Frodo and Sam in Mordor and that was the end for Middle Earth.
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4 months ago
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C L Polkās āWitchmarkā was an enjoyable read, though mystery novels are not my thing, usually. But a fabulously conceived world. Great Edwardian
#SFF
#booksky
4 months ago
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Evil Hat
4 months ago
Our next crowdfunder! Blades '68 grabs Blades in the Dark by the lapels of its woolen jacket and launches the game 100 years into the future! New crews, new rules and subversive acts of radical revolution await you under the light of an artificial sun. Sign up here:
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Monster Hour Pod
5 months ago
Itās Echo Chamber Day!! Join the Emissaries of the Echo as they crash Duskvolās Consensus Day parade and infiltrate the Ministry of Discovery. After all, the Blue Array underpinning the city's new golden era isn't going to destroy itself. Episode 1 - Consensus Day
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I really wanted to like āThe Night Circus,ā and started out enjoying its lush prose. But I never connected with its characters. Iām not sure why. By its end I felt like I was reading only to finish it. Never a good feeling.
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5 months ago
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Another crack at Frostpunk tonight ⦠and a win!
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5 months ago
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⦠and gin, of course. This from the Isle of Wight Distillery.
5 months ago
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My Xmas haul, photobombed by my daughterās pusheen. Games and books. Who could ask for anything more?
#booksky
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@atomicmassgames.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Raphael van Lierop šØš¦
5 months ago
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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Reading round-up for 2025: Best author discoveries were Adrian Tchaikovsky and Malka Older, although they write very different novels. Favourite novel was Carys Daviesā āClear,ā though special mentions for Yangsze Chooās āThe Fox Wife,āSandra Newmanās āJulia,ā and Mooreās āThe Great When.ā
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5 months ago
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Ah, Zombicide. Nothing says the holidays like playing a Molotov-cocktail throwing kid who drives over zombie hoards in a stolen police car.
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5 months ago
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End of our first game of Getaway Driver. I do love Fowers Games, but this rulebook was a bit challenging. Great two-player game, though.
#boardgames
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5 months ago
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Life goals. He Wants a New Start. So He Is Taking the Hardest Driving Test in the World.
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He Wants a New Start. So He Is Taking the Hardest Driving Test in the World.
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6 months ago
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Shout to my wife, Stephannie Gearhart, who has an article on Derek Jarmanās āThe Tempestā in this volume. š¬ļø
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6 months ago
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First time playing the Epilogue mission of Nemesisā Aftermath expansion. By a stroke of luck I managed to complete my Psychologistās āPersonal Requirementā in the first turn and squeaked out a win.
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6 months ago
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Lovely game of Aspens today: our first! We were so excited to calculate the final score that we forgot to take a picture. š
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6 months ago
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Evil Hat
7 months ago
Look for Blades '68 to crowdfund next year.
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Two games on the table tonight: another bout of āApiaryā and a victory over Ithaqua in āElder Sign.ā
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7 months ago
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Jason Price
7 months ago
š£ Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting is now live on Kickstarter! š£
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š Forge a sci-fi trilogy in this solo boxed card game š 450+ unique cards with tons of cool art by
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šļø A brand new game & system, in collab w/
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Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting
Forge your own sci-fi trilogy in this solo narrative card game.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alwayscheckers/notorious-tales-of-hardscrabble-bounty-hunting
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Canāt say Iām looking forward to this new season of Doctor Who
#DoctorWho
8 months ago
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I looked forward to this for a long time and I really did my best. But I found it deeply disappointing. Couldnāt finish it.
#booksky
8 months ago
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Not sure why it took us so long before we got around to playing Apiary, but it was great!
#boardgames
@stonemaiergames.com
8 months ago
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A very enjoyable game of āFate of the Fellowship,ā which we won, unexpectedly, at the eleventh hour. We were impressed by the gameās mirroring of Tolkienās trilogy.
#boardgames
@zmangamesofficial.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Today ⦠Brink! Another great game, though I lost fairly dramatically.
#boardgames
9 months ago
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Our first, long-awaited game of Vantage. We were happily surprised by how different each of our paths turned out.
#boardgames
@stonemaiergames.com
9 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
9 months ago
My grandfather didnāt know he was a Taoist. He had fished the river Awe for sixty years. Life is sensed as a flowing movement, a power like wind or water. When he cast, it was the bank that moved, not the river⦠āLorn Macintyre, āSatoriā from The Bridport Prize Anthology 2013
#Zen
#poetry
#fishing
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Lovely game of Harmonies tonight with the family!
#boardgames
10 months ago
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Brian Groom
11 months ago
Iām heading to that London.
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Brian Groom
11 months ago
Kinder Scout's northern edge, Peak District, Summer Solstice June 2024, photo by Sarah Lister.
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Although I forgot to take a picture of the endgame, we played āDeep Regretsā for the first time last night. It resulted in a tie ⦠which I lost because of my long litany of lingering regrets. Fabulous! So happy to have backed its expansion āDeeper Regrets.ā
#boardgames
@tettix.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Hilarious times with āNot Today, Murder.ā
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