me and my buddy Elfhelm are going to Mundburg

SHELVED BY GENRE lingers in the darkness at the end of THE TWO TOWERS, facing desolation, monsters, the specters of England's national mythologies, and the disastrous consequences of telling one guy he has to read all the poetry: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/19/t...

After years of yearning for it, the latest SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode has finally gotten around to watching the central text of millennial genre cinema, THE MATRIX. You remember when people believed in people believing in things? www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

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Finally, after years of waiting, we watched The Matrix. It's good.

The Gandalflings are on the hookah again (and you should enjoy listening to Shelved by Genre from @rangedtouch.bsky.social)

After years of yearning for it, the latest SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode has finally gotten around to watching the central text of millennial genre cinema, THE MATRIX. You remember when people believed in people believing in things? www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

Listen to Shelved By Genre and you, too, will avoid automobile accidents.

JUST KING THINGS reaches the end of Stephen King's "Bill Hodges Trilogy" of crime novels with 2016's END OF WATCH, and if you thought regular criminals were bad, just wait until you find out what they do when they're psychic and on the internet! rangedtouch.com/2026/06/08/e...

On the Patreon, a JKT Bonus Episode closing out the strange third season of the direct-to-streaming MR. MERCEDES series, which this go-around regularly features Kate Mulgrew straight up murdering people with household tools, plus surreal Bruce Dern monologues. www.patreon.com/posts/160513...

JUST KING THINGS reaches the end of Stephen King's "Bill Hodges Trilogy" of crime novels with 2016's END OF WATCH, and if you thought regular criminals were bad, just wait until you find out what they do when they're psychic and on the internet! rangedtouch.com/2026/06/08/e...

big news about our longtime sponsor kinolorber.com/product/harr...

We hit the goal. He's doing it. He got very close on his first try. Come watch a level 6 peasant mode run fight against one of the hardest bosses of all time.

i've been watching the goofs at @rangedtouch.bsky.social playing a dark soul all dang day to raise money for abortion access and they're still going!

We're live right now with @ztul.bsky.social and he's going to play a musical instrument sometime in the next hour!

We are LIVE RIGHT NOW www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch

In ONE HOUR we are raising money for abortion access by supporting The Brigid Alliance in PREPARE TO GIVE, a Dark Souls 3 marathon where if you donate $2500 an hour Danni can never level up! www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/ Please share around!

We've learned that Danni made a "post" on Reddit about his preparation for this stream that is entirely about math, and if you want to see Redditors get mad about math it's a real good time www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3...

The Monthly Podcast is up for $5 patrons, and it includes @badsavingthrow.bsky.social cutting a MEAN promo about what he's going to be doing at Prepare To Give this weekend (and your relative cowardice vis a vis his accomplishment). www.patreon.com/posts/ranged...

Today we continue THE TWO TOWERS, as SHELVED BY GENRE has finally learned what Saruman looks like, plus there's some extremely heavy metal marshland and, looking back to our last reading, just one more thing we forgot to mention... rangedtouch.com/2026/06/05/t...

this is very important: do you have a gaming hearth, a gaming bunker, or a gaming cabinet? listen to this episode to find out what i am talking about

PREPARE TO GIVE is coming up on Saturday! Danni is playing DARK SOULS 3, and if you donate at least $3,000 an hour he will NEVER BE ABLE TO LEVEL UP. We've got some great guests lined up, too. Remember this iconic event from the last P2G? www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/...

PREPARE TO GIVE is coming up on Saturday! Danni is playing DARK SOULS 3, and if you donate at least $3,000 an hour he will NEVER BE ABLE TO LEVEL UP. We've got some great guests lined up, too. Remember this iconic event from the last P2G? www.twitch.tv/rangedtouch/...

LAN parties, bunkers, conventions, and "mancounters"--this month GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES takes a look at the environments where straight white men play videogames and how space is made and remade to let it happen as we read Nicholas Taylor's THE GROUNDS OF GAMING: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/01/9...

LAN parties, bunkers, conventions, and "mancounters"--this month GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES takes a look at the environments where straight white men play videogames and how space is made and remade to let it happen as we read Nicholas Taylor's THE GROUNDS OF GAMING: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/01/9...

A little more than a week until Prepare To Give!

yes the pope listens to the show

Little old birthday men vs. evil advisors! Bioware companion banter! Horses meeting old friends! Truly, THE TWO TOWERS is everything you could want from a fantasy epic, as we learn on the latest SHELVED BY GENRE rangedtouch.com/2026/05/22/t...

FYI: tech troubles with the SBG ep upload are known. working on getting it resolved but may be a minute

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@rangedtouch.bsky.social There's no option for a fulligen cloak, but I think I did pretty well.

If you are following Shelved By Genre please note Spotify is automatically removing every episode where we read a certain amount of the text because they think we're trying to make an illegal audiobook. They've stopped letting us appeal! Consider an alternative to Spotify to ensure ease of listening

SHELVED BY GENRE BONUSODE ALERT: Lord of the Year continues with another banger of Millennial Cinema, as we talk over the the myriad smart adaptational moves--and a handful of questionable ones--made in 2001's FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. www.patreon.com/posts/158336...

As a Tennessee-based listener, gotta say you all are right about Gatlinburg.

SHELVED BY GENRE BONUSODE ALERT: Lord of the Year continues with another banger of Millennial Cinema, as we talk over the the myriad smart adaptational moves--and a handful of questionable ones--made in 2001's FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. www.patreon.com/posts/158336...

We're making @badsavingthrow.bsky.social defeat all the bosses of Dark Souls 3, and you can donate money to keep him from leveling up. It's PREPARE TO GIVE, and it's benefitting abortion access again! Mark your calendars! JOIN US ON JUNE 6!!!

ME ON NEXTDOOR: Has anyone seen my Arkenstone? EMELORN THE DUNEDAIN: Loud was the clamor that marred this golden noon! The sons of the twenty-sixth house have been dirt-biking again. It is a matter I once thought resolved. BIRCHBENT: say w. Entwife. By traansfer Station.? If you yes

We're making @badsavingthrow.bsky.social defeat all the bosses of Dark Souls 3, and you can donate money to keep him from leveling up. It's PREPARE TO GIVE, and it's benefitting abortion access again! Mark your calendars! JOIN US ON JUNE 6!!!

JUST KING THINGS has much things to discuss: old judges doing paperwork, the short fiction of Raymond Carver, a Kindle e-reader that warps reality, and of course, because it's Stephen King, an evil car! We read the 2015 short story collection, THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS rangedtouch.com/2026/05/11/t...

JUST KING THINGS has much things to discuss: old judges doing paperwork, the short fiction of Raymond Carver, a Kindle e-reader that warps reality, and of course, because it's Stephen King, an evil car! We read the 2015 short story collection, THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS rangedtouch.com/2026/05/11/t...

Continue the journey of Lord of the Year with SHELVED BY GENRE as we begin THE TWO TOWERS, meet the Ents, and learn all sorts of deeply convenient things about the world of Middle-Earth that nobody has really mentioned until now: rangedtouch.com/2026/05/08/t...

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES has a new episode, covering a landmark 1997 survey of the field of play studies, Brian Sutton-Smith's THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY. Come learn about what play is or might be, and how people justify, rationalize, hate and/or denigrate it! rangedtouch.com/2026/04/29/9...

CHOTINER: There are claims you've been down too long in the midnight sea. HOLY DIVER: Who's saying that?

Today, SHELVED BY GENRE stops to take a breath as we conclude the first third of LORD OF THE RINGS, reflecting on our time thus far and, also, uncovering the most shocking truths about the text that SOCIETY DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW rangedtouch.com/2026/04/24/t...

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Today, SHELVED BY GENRE stops to take a breath as we conclude the first third of LORD OF THE RINGS, reflecting on our time thus far and, also, uncovering the most shocking truths about the text that SOCIETY DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW rangedtouch.com/2026/04/24/t...

and they FREAKING LIKED IT!!!!!