🐐Please enjoy this excellent interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social, conducted by @alexpuncekar.bsky.social for @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social!⚔ 👉 www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

Just $365 to raise before The Best of Swords & Sorcery, Vol. 1 is fully funded. That's just 10 average pledges. Or 4 more people going for a hand signed and numbered poster of the cover art. You could be the one who makes this happen. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Over $16,600 and -- Novelette in an extra zine unlocked! Onward to International Shipping Discount, for us Rest of the World people! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Some journal out there has got to want me to review this one, right? Right?! www.routledge.com/From-Clovis-...

Happy to say that @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social and I have just submitted two smashing Frisian-focused panels to #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social - fingers crossed! If we make it, I expect you ALL to be there in 2026!

It’s #fiadhfriday ⛓️ The Ashen Codex - The Curse, the Choice, The Healer Hircine - Old Kings Fall Nibiridis - Knight’s Heart Robes of Snow - Sylvan Land of Shiver Ulm - The Accursed Share Wounds of Recollection - I Found the Love that I was Looking For fiadh.bandcamp.com 📷: karumancy on ig

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📑FREE 'ZINE FOR ALL NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLA BACKERS???🤯 Yes, but only if we unlock our first stretch goal - a 17,000 word S&S novelette in the Acid Gothic tradition! Learn & see more in our latest update: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

An interesting new blog series by @ajaltamimi.bsky.social translating the Roman History of Paul the Deacon. #medievalsky www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/paul-the-d...

Can Science Explain Legendary Creatures? An interview starring me, at Things Visible and Invisible... youtu.be/_ePSHyZ1hRU?...

This is a problem.

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

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Ian Miller, 1976. #illustration #1970s #IanMiller #Beowulf

A very exciting bundle from @humblebundle.com and @cubicle7games.bsky.social featuring a bunch of pdfs of #WarhammerFantasy Roleplay, #AgeofSigmar Soulbound, and #40k RPGs Wrath & Glory and Imperium Maledictum! Worth it if you're interested in any of these. www.humblebundle.com/books/warham...

Continuing out early career retrospective of C. L. Moore with "Tryst in Time" (1936), her first published time travel story. deepcuts.blog/2025/09/24/t...

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for catching up week at Treble, i wrote about the beauty that is black metal conjured via @lusthag.bsky.social ‘s stupendous second album

Celebrate by reading some bisexual (me) luanawrites.carrd.co (You'll want "Hedging Your Bets", but I won't stop you from reading the lesbian stuff)

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THE GLUT CONTINUES ✨✨ 14 of the best stories from the 60 issues published by @curtissandsm.bsky.social 60. ISSUES. Can't wait to get my greedy mitts on this #swordandsorcery www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Help us crowdfund the novellas so Varika finishes pounding this boner

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

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I'm pretty outspoken about being pro the (careful and considered) use of "Anglo-Saxon" in an early medieval context. This looks like it will be a useful and interesting contribution to the debate around longer chronological usage though. trivent-publishing.eu/home/217-413...

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Back The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1 while you still can. You'll get 14 fantastic stories from the early years of S&SM with new illustrations and help support talented writers and illustrators. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

A gazetteer on a Monday? And a truly self indulgent one to boot as we trawl through the ruins of our memory palace in search of things that inspired us, plus we tip @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social’s new card game and try to convince you to buy a magazine for the millionth time…

happy autumnal equinox! may gorgo, mormo, the thousand faced moon find your sacrifices pleasing!

Here’s the announcement of the next round of digital shorts based on the characters of Robert E. Howard. My story is about Bran Mak Morn, a Pict hero in the days of the Roman occupation. The title is “Wolf of the Heather.” www.superherohype.com/comics/62877...

This is a great piece, shows not only how games are an intrinsic part of our cultures but also how you can use them to tell wider stories. Excellent stuff

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. For this recipe you'll need a 9x13 inch baking pan,

Humanities Commons is great, and j hope the mass exodus from Academia dot Edu lets us all reconnect there!

This week's North Sea Nexus post takes us to the quiet spot on the Berwickshire coast where, in the late eighteenth century, modern geology and the idea of deep time was born.

Illustration by Mike DaFonte for "The Devil's Mandala" by Garnett Elliott. Only 9 days left to back The Best of S&SM to get this and 13 other great illustrations with their stories. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

🖌️ ARTIST SPOTLIGHT🎨 Sword & Sorcery stalwart Simon Underwood ( @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social ) returns to grace us with a new interior illustration for Orhan Timur's latest in THE HUNT OF A THOUSAND LEAGUES! See more and claim your copy here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Hahahaha Academia Dot Your Stuff Is Yours messed up so badly that Humanities Commons is currently down, lol When it comes back, scholar friends, go get yourself a profile at a place that won't steaI from you

Next week, students in my medieval survey course @viuniversity.bsky.social will be discussing Katherine Allen Smith’s fantastic article “Why did medieval monks sew?” If you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s superb.

Dariel is without exaggeration one of the best authors currently writing S&S. His style is a combination of Robert E. Howard and David Gemmell, blended into stories set in a fantastical but historically inspired not-Asia. Don't sleep on this!

Imagine an AU where young (not)Genghis gets his shit kicked in by a rival, loses his throne, and becomes a hunted outlaw across all of (not)Asia, that's Orhan Timur. 1) you can read em in any order 2) Dariel is SO GOOD at writing action, small scale or large 3) he makes wizards so gross, goddamn

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When Bluesky was in its infancy the users pushed back on its supposed guiding vision, drove Jack Dorsey off, and made it a cool place. I'm tired of migrating and rebuilding - I hope maybe there's an effective way to push back against recent developments and improve this space again.

Novellas! Four novellas!! Four sword & sorcery novellas!!! Explore a range of what sword & sorcery is up to these days. As suggested by the art, each of these is doing its own thing, while they share a passion for the sword & sorcery revival. We're above $13,000 and 200 backers. Eleven days left.

Last rp: Moorcock is always worth reading on classic sff. Reading both "Epic Pooh" and (later) "Starship Stormtroopers" for the first time really helped consolidate a lot of things I'd been thinking for a long time about inherent conservatism.

Interesting long piece by Michael Moorcock on the right-wing views implicit in Golden Age fantasy and science fiction. Moorcock anarchism/libertarianism colour everything, but he's very knowledgeable and well read. libcom.org/article/star... #books #sff #scifi #reading #writing #booksky

The internet should just be message boards and torrent sites again.

another pulp story dissected by yers truly over on the ol' blog. this time it's Arthur Burks' 1933 ghostly tale of tourism and China, "Chinese Processional" in Weird Tales! geoliminal.com/2025/09/18/p...

Today on the blog, I celebrate the forthcoming paperback release of The Emperor and the Elephant by looking at elephant diplomacy in the twenty-first century. #elephant #diplomacy @princetonupress.bsky.social salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/p...