It begins! Confirmation received that the crew will be here to tear out our old driveway tomorrow and begin laying the new one Thursday morning.

Realize I never posted my full AAR on here: dice-and-doubloons.blogspot.com/2026/07/zomb...

Out today! All amazon sales go to the estate of James A. Moore, so you folks do me a favor and share this around, please.

Acting real innocent for someone who climbed me like Everest because I wasn’t giving him his scheduled meal an hour early.

ALCD are my go-to source for MDF buildings for my table and they don’t seem to get a lot of publicity so glad to see @geekken.bsky.social cover them!

A crusty little run-down liquor store joins my terrain collection! #terrain #wargamesterrain #scenery

If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.

I gotta say, getting hit with a $5K vet bill has done wonders to curb my desire to buy hobby stuff. Think it's time to enthusiastically work down my backlog.

fans of the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social should check out the Lost World range at our buddies' Antediluvuan miniatures SHOP- Lost World Range | Antediluvian Miniatures share.google/AmQrKh1Gqw92...

HUMAN ARTISTS OF EARTH! use only one photograph of tiny painted toy soldiers to convince people to follow you.

A reminder for everyone gearing up to go to Gen Con (or any other convention): youtu.be/uldt6Y-CE3s?...

I worked at a toothpaste factory right out of college. Security cameras everywhere to prevent theft. During my tenure there we learned that all but one of them were decoys. Night shift had a toothpaste fight, using QA-rejected tubes like squirt guns, right in front of the one real camera.

Rotten little Wretch 🤘👹💀🪱⚔️

Normally we close Poppy out of the bedroom at night because he starts demanding breakfast around 4:30. We’ve been leaving the door open since he got home from the hospital. This morning he jumped on the bed for the first time since he’s been home and started yelling at 4:27.

Took “Zombie RV” for a test drive today. Big takeaways - I need to paint more zombies, and it does what it says on the tin - it’s a beer and pretzels zombie apocalypse game without, I think, any grand pretensions.

I like soba noodles but no one else in my household does, so got this to try when we checked out a Japanese market near my house. 71% my daily recommended sodium so not going to be a regular thing. And Godzilla seltzer to wash it down!

Hammer hat die famose Mixtur aus Mantel & Degen - Film + Vampirstreifen "Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter" (1974) auf Youtube frei zugänglich gemacht. 🧛 ⚔️ 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvY...

They put aside their differences, stop trying to break each other’s necks, and team up to punch out a sinister gorilla in a fancy cloak.

#selfpromosaturday - Two #ttrpg scenarios written for @cthulhureborn.bsky.social , printed tête-bêche/"Ace Doubles" style - play through one scenario with your friends then flip the book over and play the other! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #cthulhurpg #callofcthulhu #cthulhueternal

132 mammoths have joined the Blue Ochre People! And thus, a portent appears! Sign up here to see more in the coming weeks regarding @jonolfert.bsky.social 's stone and sorcery novella, Seers in a Broken Season! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

The vet tech: “Poppy’s been really enthusiastically eating the new prescription dry food during his time here at the hospital.” Poppy, at home, standing with both front paws in the bowl of prescription dry food: “UNACCEPTABLE!”

2005's War of the Worlds. Lousy film, and also my worst theater-going experience ever. Three old women behind me talked loudly through the entire thing about how cute Dakota Fanning was, to the point where they weren't paying attention and panicked that the "aliens got her" if she was off-screen.

Gluing the walls to the base and each other on my latest kit from Atomic Laser Cut Designs - welcome to Blotto Bros Wine & Spirits, open 24/7. #mdf #wargamescenery #terrain

"Dear Mr. Lovecraft: This is one of those nasty, moist days in the 90°s when everyone simply welters in misery, and I shall try to forget my gelatinous surroundings in letter writing." —C. L. Moore to H. P. Lovecraft, 19 July 1935, LCM 49

Shout-out to Poppy's veterinary discharge paperwork for teaching me a new word! It's not every day I get sent to the dictionary any more. I'd guessed what "inappetance" meant from context but had to look it up to confirm it's "loss of appetite." Neat!

"She was brought to the sacred forge, to the priest with his hammer and tongs, to swear her oaths to the clan and the Steel-Shaper in iron. She remembered hammering in the darkened forge, exhausted, still stained with battle, sweating in her wool shirt from the heat of the coals."

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case? Avenge me, Godzilla.

Half of Richard Shaver’s body of work in the 1950s was “what if there were 80-foot tall women who radiated an aura that gave them total control over men? How great would that be?” The other half was, of course, “it would suck if evil space robots gave me paranoid schizophrenia with their ray guns.”

Amazing how fast the gabapentin-induced drowsiness wore off when he heard the eyedrop bottle getting uncapped.

Poppy is home, high as a kite on painkillers and trying to figure out why his new home looks so much like his old home.

Got out to the used bookstore this afternoon. $13 well spent, says I.

Update from the vet, Poppy is doing well, eating and drinking normally and relieving himself freely with the catheter. They're going to keep him one more night as a precaution and I'll be able to bring him home tomorrow.

Distracting myself by finishing the last two Zombicide: Invader monsters I got from @weidbrewer.bsky.social - the Widowmaker and Shadow Abominations. Widowmaker's legs were cut off and re-pinned in new positions to make it taller and more stable and I'm real proud of that.

Not gonna lie, I am struggling hard with anxiety today.

Hey ya'll -- the pre-order store is open for the first issue of Swords Against! and the "FlipZine" we did with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. Both the physical and digital versions are available. swords-against-the-swords-sorcery-fiction-magazine.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Poppy is overnighting at the hospital tonight for continued observation. The house is so uncomfortably quiet without his never ending demands for extra meals.

🤼‍♀️ SUPLEX & SORCERY💀, by @breadsonja.bsky.social, is out today in digital and mass-market paperback! Wrestling, humor, weird(er than usual) opponents, barbarism in the big city, and more... See the pic for the story summary, or head over to the website 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Took Poppy to the emergency vet first thing this morning for a urinary blockage, he's staying under observation until at least 2pm tomorrow.

MVmedia Sword and Soul Spotlight: Woman of the Woods! www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page...

A little taste of the garden before it gets hot today.

Really pleased with my editing progress today. This story can be summed up as "We'll defeat this asshat with the power of friendship and this white phosphorus we found" just, y'know, dressed up pretty in sword-and-sorcery language.

I project egregores into the Akashic Records to comb for ideas.

"The Tarskia stories are set against the backdrop of a balkanized shithole where selfish men make themselves 'kings by their own hand' until another bastard with a sword shows up to take it from them. Civilization is upheld by ordinary people being decent and - OH I'm working through stuff, yeah?"

JV understands me on a deep, spiritual level.

12 days away First issues of Mordschlag Sword and Sorcery--I have a story in #1 and am eager to see this new S&S mag on the scene Options to back both The Arcanist's mags, or just Mordschlag if the sacred genre is your speciality www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Homeowner project. I’ve been holding off for a day that isn’t 800 billion degrees or a torrential downpour and today was the day! Happy to have it done, but having a knee jerk sense of “I should give it a wash and some edge highlighting.”

I was about ten feet from a crow this morning - the closest I’ve ever gotten to one of our corvid neighbors. They’re bigger than I thought they were!

📩New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine opens for submissions soon!📆 ✍️ Subs open on August 1st, run for the entire month, and we are hoping to buy more stories than ever before! Learn more here 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Nothing like graffiti’ing up a fresh terrain piece.

Butts for the butt god or something like that