That's some brilliant arrangement by the the organizers/curators/designers of this exhibition, wherever it is. (via @simonguy.bsky.social )

On reddit, someone would inevitably leave an "I also want this guy's life back" comment. (Nah, it wouldn't be me, I'm just recognizing a pattern, I guess.)

2025

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Trolling Stones (Yes, I already had another band in this game here bsky.app/profile/whoi... :D )

Somehow when its on, its worse. odditymall.com/darth-vader-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVmU... a little Saturday music

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

The future will be stupider than you can possibly imagine.

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds (I'll make it three, two drawings and a free to read magical realism (?) #shortstory at gaborcsigas.medium.com/the-echo-of-... )

Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

What was your very first #ttrpg that you bought for yourself to run yourself?

So far I've been a huge #Firefox supporter, but I think it's time I took a look around.

No idea who this guy is, just stumbled upon this randomly, but yeah, this is interesting and probably good to know about #Hungarian (the language) in case you missed it: (A comment from www.reddit.com/r/AskTheWorl... )

A Lord of the Rings band called Helm's Deep Purple (They probably play Khazad-dûm metal instead of hard/prog rock, though. Even so, they proved a fan favorite at Mirkwoodstock.)

Hello Thursday. Palazzo dei Priori (Assisi), Grotesque with owl. C14th/15th.

Okay, okay, that single like there came out of seven (!!!) total views, so it's not so bad, after all… right? 🤣 www.artstation.com/artwork/rlNDkG #artstationrecap2025 #artstation #yetanotherrecap

Dr. Frankenstein gave his monster the finger. All of his fingers. Not to mention his heart. Well, someone's heart. And someone's finger. He meant it, he meant it all, nonetheless. #flashfiction #microfiction #frankenstein

(via @tychebooks.bsky.social )

Monday(s)

'(…) a mighty Devil folded in black clouds hovering on the sides of the rock; with corroding fires he wrote the following (…): “How do you know but every bird that cuts the airy way Is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?” (…)' —Blake: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell #BookWormSat

:D www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3o...

Hard City (a narrativist rules lite film noir game by the same guy who created Neon City Overdrive) Dragonbane (OSR-adjacent classic fantasy w/ a modern system, dangerous fun) Mage: the Ascension (you wanted magic? here's magic) ALIEN RPG (an awesome exploration of the franchise by Free League)

a #mashup I'd like to see (it should be a horror comedy, obviously)

In case you missed this a million years ago, "Always…", the 1992 gothic (also kinda death/doom) metal album by The Gathering is still one of the best of the genre, imo. thegathering.bandcamp.com/album/always Thanks for the reminder, @underworldmetal.bsky.social 🤘🏻

hello new unfollowers /j

Random intriguing find of the day (incl. comments) "Autistic individuals are more prosocial towards strangers and people they barely know compared to their non-autistic peers. These differences were not driven by repetitive responding that is typical of autism. " www.reddit.com/r/science/co...

Heh.

Yes. This. Exactly. Also: Art matters. Literature matters. Every fucking one of these creative people does something to make the world better for someone else. Cherish that.

An old, old idea… presented in a rather new light indeed. :) thedebrief.org/new-study-cl...

laserswordfish #showerthought

I got word from a Kickstarter I backed that it's almost done, however ... the creator was diplomatic in how they expressed this, but it was clear the tariffs destroyed their profit in this venture. I keep hearing this more and more from creators. The tariffs are crushing small creative businesses.

In case you're curious about how Hungarian metal and rock music journalists see today's relevant music scene, és beszélsz magyarul (sorry, folks, it's Hungarian only), és/de még nem láttad ezt, akkor ez a post neked szól. 🤘🏻 (Én még csak belelapoztam, de amit eddig láttam, az határozottan bíztató.)

If your "free font" is free for strictly personal use only, and/or it consists of a heavily limited glyph set, it's not really "free", is it.

List 3 things (you think) you're known for & your followers will tell you if you're right or wrong: 1. Deleting random uninteresting posts of mine because the voices from beyond told me to 🤪 2. Promoting my free-to-read short stories more often than those published in anthologies 3. Reaction gifs

I didn't have "having to snopes literally every fucking thing" on my bingo card for the rest of my life, did you?

So I've stumbled upon this 10-year old, rather good article about #shadowrun by (I guess) @robotviking.bsky.social and having re-read it I wonder what a 2025 update — featuring the recently Kickstarted (and apparently rather good) SR Anarchy 2.0 #ttrpg — would look like. gizmodo.com/shadowrun-th...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (in no specific order) Nine Inch Nails David Bowie Faith No More Rammstein Ozzy Osbourne __ Personal footnotes: 1. Unfortunately never seen Kraftwerk, JM Jarre, Vangelis, Queen, & a number of other favs live 2. I also like & saw a lot more, obv. :D

(via @hugobookclub.bsky.social )

Am always wary of #anthologies w/ titles like "year's best X". So …you're telling me you've read every X published in the past year, in every language? …you're confident enough to declare the collection you subjectively liked most, and was able to acquire the rights to, as "best"? Daring, right?

existential bread not the greatest pun, I'm afraid, not at all :(

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Yeah, this. One of the worst movies (and movie sequels) I've ever seen. (via various people)

Unless you're playing Ravenloft or Dark Sun or some non D&D game like Call of Cthulhu or Alien RPG or Blade Runner RPG etc. In that case "laughing" is not only optional, but can in cases be seen as weird and unsettling. Obviously. 🙃

As a footnote to the below, if you know a small (open, open to unagented, safe) publisher that may be interested in a collection of weird…ish short stories, let me know. 🙃 (No, not Tenebrous, unfortunately.) In case you're curious what kind, here's an example: gaborcsigas.medium.com/holes-in-the...

A personal footnote to the below: Got curious, so went and checked if they (meaning this Anna's Archive thing) have anything by me and/or my friends — like, say, "Cthulhu Lives!", the anthology edited by @salomekjones.bsky.social. Sure they do. Yay. /s

Oh, nothing better to start my Monday w/ than a rejection letter for a short story collection. Such is life, though, and — to reference #StephenKing (watch his awesome advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6SK... ) — I don't yet need a bigger nail. But only because I'm not submitting enough. 😅 #writers

One of my favourite (fantasy) art pieces ever. A mesmerizing masterpiece.

#BookWormSat There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) by Ray Bradbury. Published in Collier's. Revised for The Martian Chronicles. "The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the boy, the girl, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin layer of charcoal." The 1918 Sara Teasdale poem central to the story: