Some thoughts driven by the observation of a persistent brain bug:

I saw this and started whisper-yelling "YEAH! YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!"

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

Esteban Maroto can really fuck up a tree (A Scream in the Forest, Creepy 1973)

Sharing again for the daytime scrollers

Exciting to have a new translation!

Some bangers on this book round-up: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/2/...

James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane "May" (née Murray). He was the eldest of ten surviving siblings. He was baptised with the name James Augustine Joyce. #JamesJoyce #OnThisDay #Ireland

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

The world's real fun right now.

a big ol' beautiful poem from Andrew Walker " Chris says I should find an outlet to empty myself into, like yoga or hiking but he is in California & I am substance dependent—" https://www.havehashad.com/0dvve

Shamelessly swiped from the Internet. Rules of Acquisition Afterall

I did actually get this up last night, thereby meeting our self-imposed deadline, but then immediately went to bed. Anyway, some notes on transgressive art: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/1/...

The Quiet In Late January, Before The World Wakes Up

Starting off the year by pushing out reviews of the last...twenty? books I read last year. I, uh, I should have done this sooner.

I didn't cry often before starting T, and since then I haven't fully cried at all but I have gotten choked up to the point of tears in the presence of great beauty (broadly defined). A thread of things that left me verklempt, as I remember to update it:

@cameronlsummers.bsky.social talking about the year we've had: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/12...

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It’s that time of the year.

I've made it difficult for myself to take a week off. Here are some notes on something I've been thinking about for a while:

Today we had this horrible warm fog like all day, and I feel like that's a hellish weather experience I don't see often enough in fiction. (I am actively soliciting hot fog book recommendations with this post.)

IT'S NOT OPTIONAL

Here's this again -- there's some really good stuff on this round-up.

Doing any last minute shopping for the weirdos in your life? Consider one or more of these books that I read! www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/12...

The Minotaur https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19644

If you also enjoy horny late-XIXième gothic built on a truly compelling system that's fun and easy to play and run, I cannot recommend backing The Between highly enough.

A plan, based on a few years of experience: two simple methods for spotting AI writing while grading papers.

the lesson of transness itself is it isn’t just what people are, it is also what they can be, what can unfold and blossom if you do not kill the bud

Libby Wrapped 2025

Oh! What a Beauty!

A review of 'Book of Hours' by @weatherfactory.biz, shading into some thoughts on game design, storytelling, and how "mystery box" narratives work.

we’re at 43%! can we make it to 50% today?!?!?!

It's my birthday and it's snowing but I'm making progress on things that are important to me, like this poem I made myself have to read.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

My beautiful husband on the books he's read recently

A brief essay on why things never seem to get better, politically speaking.

Félix Vallotton, Soirée sur la Loire, 1927

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

This is magical. A hopeful freight of words finally delivered.

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

An essay concerning the psychological toll that patriarchy takes on its supposed beneficiaries:

Born #onthisday in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Celebrate with a look at his 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 birth, how he survived the pantomime of his own execution to be “reborn into a new form” — @alex_christofi with a “reconstructed memoir” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form

happy November 10th and don’t forget to greet the circulatory system walking through your kitchen

🌞 #ersatz

They are so queer, and so brilliant for being queer. I'm shocked that it isn't talked about more often. It should be in the same breath as folks talk about Brindlewood Bay's mystery system, because that's how fundamental queerness is to Gauntlet games.

Sharing again for the morning crowd: my October book round-up!

I read so many books last month, and I wrote about them here: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/11...

Some thoughts on recent discussions in the arts and entertainment.