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New blog post! My annual list of my favourite first time watches of the past year. My favourite list to write each year, and I watched some good movies in 2025, so this is a great list.

Hello! My zine that I put out physically a few months ago is now available on itch! I had a lot of fun making it, and it's 100% free

Oh thank god we can do movie awards season discourse now save me awards season discourse

Everyone loves Stoner. The youth are banging on the doors of the bookstores, screaming to be let in so they can buy multiple copies of Stoner by John Williams

Musicians with a Solstice Tree puppet, and two of the three folkloric Obby Osses who danced down the aisles of our village church at this year's Winter Solstice gathering. Photographs by Claire-Shauna Saunders. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

It’s a Wonderful Life is speculative fiction

New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date #osr #ttrpg

They should’ve made a Pyre 2 instead of a Hades 2

Chainsaw Man is Never Gonna Score

New blog post! A review of Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock's cheekily sacrilegious time travel story about a guy who sucks plus he got depression.

Actually what’s interesting and sophisticated about games is when there’s a little guy on the screen and you can make them move around.

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis...and the rise of the sons of Aryas...there was an age undreamed-of.

this one has been cooking for a while: for @jstordaily.bsky.social i wrote about early futurists & how they helped bring us to the way "the future" is wielded today by Silicon Valley and others daily.jstor.org/the-first-fu...

wrote about Canada's proposed age verification law which is a very bad idea! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

The “reveal” in Bugonia is Good and the “reveal” in Weapons is Bad. Thank you for your time.

Need one of those chef reacts videos for the cooking scenes in Jeanne Dielman

Slow cinema is great for the no attention span era because you can look at your phone the whole time and not miss anything

i'm tired of forecasting what other people will do, what the general public will do or think out of a need to be like some kind of smart commentator who knows the score as a way to distract from developing any coherent sense of values or principles yourself.

Art by • David Mattingly

one thing i don’t wanna see out of any Running Man discourse is people talking shit on the Arnold version. that’s basically a perfect movie for what it is, i don’t care what relationship it has to the book or this new movie

I meant to read 31 short horror stories in October. I read three, and didn't manage to finish my blog post about them until now. Nevertheless, my thoughts.

This sounds exactly like a Torche song what the hell

Read the Silmarillion! Its good! Seeing many people acting like this is some forbidden unapproachable object after the shelved by genre announcement - it’s good!

My bluesky followers have been invited to an island resort to celebrate my birthday, only to learn upon arrival that I have been turned into a statue by my nemesis DINO SAURICIDE, a talking triceratops who wears sneakers. Only by besting him in a series of racing challenges across six realms can the

BOO!

Morktober Day 31: PUMPKIN Thank you to @exeunt.press for running this, I had a ton of fun and it was a very fulfilling creative challenge to participate in. Happy Mörktober one and all. Don your pumpkins. #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 30: STAR The penultimate day - this has been a lot of fun - see you all tomorrow for one last trip around the bend. #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 29: HOLE #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 28: BLOAT #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Morktober Day 27: ICE #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 26: TORCH #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 25: HERMIT #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

September

Morktober Day 24: STUMP #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

August

Morktober Day 23: FLOWER #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 22: THIEF #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 21: BEAK #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Very funny to see an hour long YouTube video with “where do you start” and its about reading Discworld. Well you start with the first book actually.

Morktober Day 20: ASH #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 19: BROKEN #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 18: WITHER #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 17: WARDEN #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Morktober Day 16: OBELISK #morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober