Do you ever wonder about game fandom and different types of fans? I was reflecting a lot on gatekeeping and different play styles lately, thanks to Silksong. I thought I'd bundle my ideas in a blog, and made a typology to go along with it! (Shaw!) #gamestudies nicollelamerichs.com/2026/01/28/s...

The Coral Bones is currently down to £2.99 on Kindle (not sure for how long) Three women, three centuries, the Great Barrier Reef, sharks, corals, mantas, leafy seadragons, bonus numbats (the best marsupial) 🌊 🪸🦈🐠🐉 amzn.eu/d/0UJGTQu

Hoe gaat het met Anton Dingeman? Tekenaar Pieter Geenen vertelt. Een gesprek over het verdwijnende dialect. En twee strips! ❤️ "Af en toe dacht ik nog wel aan hem hoor, als ik de krant las en het nieuws zag. Dan had ik soms de neiging om Anton weer op te laten duiken". www.trouw.nl/tijdgeest/st...

The latest issue of Haven Spec has a cover that seems to feature a bunch of Orbits sleeping on an only slightly bloodied human, and it's adorable.

VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe is the latest Mamoru Oshii joint and I couldn't be more excited for its release later this year. Let's go!

Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.

HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Amid all our booing at techbros hawking LLMs, let's not forget to celebrate the previous horrible grift that predictably collapsed. Tech is NOT an irreversible destiny, keep pushing.

So it feels very weird to be talking about anything other than the ICE occupation right now, but the ARCs of my new book arrived on Saturday. I'm going to do a giveaway.

If you see this, post an archer.

This Juy, I will be attending EUROCON / METROPOLCON 2026 in Berlin! Just applied for membership and booked the train tickets. Looking forward to meeting the SFF community there!

One of my fav SF novella reads 👇

Wait, is Starfleet Academy actually going to be good? "Turning Discovery's lemons into sweet lemonade", don't you dare get my hopes up.

This landscape is brought to you by the belief that no country should invade or annex another country, nor kidnap their leaders, nor seek to influence their politics, nor oppress minorities, nor exterminate neighbors. The snow's convinced there's a clear line between good and evil right there.

Pictured: Tom Paris stealing a printer during the Bell Riots (2024)

Not all characters need arcs or deep-rooted mysteries. Sometimes, and this is true for ensemble stories in particular, characters are like The Dude’s rug: flat and ornamental, but they really tie the room together.

There's a crook in this park road in Deventer that's never not magical at night, especially in the snow.

The banks of the IJssel are covered in snow, which makes for great walks with Orbit! He loves plowing through it 🐾

Absolum is an object lesson in how video games don't need a huge (open) world to feel like a fully realized, rich environment. The game's almost cozily small in territorial scale, but every area has stunning scenery and a drip feed of secrets to keep things interesting.

Playtime in the snow!

De onvolprezen kampioen van Nederland, te vinden op het onderste schap van uw Jumbo.

Looking back on 2025, there's no question what stood out: receiving the Galaxy Award on stage in Chengdu for Star Body of course! 🍾 For 2026, I plan on finishing my next SF novel, which is at least twice as ambitious and challenging to create as the last one.

We spent new year's eve watching the new Knives Out movie, which was again delightfully different from the preceding films yet carried once more by Benoit Blanc's impeccable sense of dress.

End the year, or start the year, with some choice writing advice by one Ann Leckie 👇

With Netflix throwing all Trek shows off their service on Jan 8th, I've been happily forced to binge 2.5 seasons of Voyager in less than a month... So this has been my brain for the last three weeks or so 🌲💛🌌

Damn it, I just found out my fiancée is a Tal Shiar operative working for the Star Empire.

I already enjoyed the first Wicked movie, but the second one goes harder than I expected! Pleasant surprise. #JusticeForBoq though.

I watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas ft. one Jim Carrey for the first time. Feeling a morbid curiosity to try The Cat In The Hat next.

Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY.

Warning: humorous British indie adventure game alert 👇

Platecarpus & Hoploscaphites

Me pumping myself up before social encounters

Netflix has thrown me a significant gauntlet: I have until January 8th to watch all the rest of Star Trek Voyager. 69 eps to go, which boils down to 2.8 episodes per day (EPD). Started earlier this week, averaging 4 EPD. I can do this.

It was so weird coming out of this movie thinking this is the example for all blockbusters to follow and how there was so much more untapped potential in this franchise and then waking up the day after to the *intense* backlash to it..

My new favorite game trailer.

Tonight! We're screening Mamoru Oshii's Dark Souls-inspiring ANGEL'S EGG in arthouse cinema Mimik in Deventer!

This is a very cool, free, short text adventure where you play as a cocksure venture capitalist who has pumped billions into AI. Go try on their alligator hide and see what drives you.

C'mere, pookie. We need to talk about how now is a difficult time for lots of people in publishing. Not just bc--*waves arms*--but bc we're seeing Best of the Year lists and Award Eligibility posts, and bc the last book deals of the year are being announced while sub times are longer than ever. 1/

This is a powerful ride!

I have a guest post on the "Late Star Trek" substack answering the question you're all asking: why is Odo French? latestartrek.substack.com/p/why-is-odo...

Eurovision's dead.

This edition of LOCUS features a report on the Future Creation Workshop held in Chongqing, China last October. Written by James Patrick Kelly, who was there as mentor to us mentors. Great memories 💛

The Netherlands' first citizen council on climate presented their findings. Great to see that, in line with other representative citizen councils elsewhere, here too actual people want FAR more progressive and thorough policies than what politicians usually offer.

I swear, this science fiction novella by the Strugatskys gives off the same nervous energy as Uncut Gems. Constant high pressure situations barely understood by poor Malianov, and the reader's not much wiser. Alternately laughing out loud and trying to calm my heart.

"When I wake next, I will be a midwife, Because the Calypso is expecting. The Calypso will soon be a mother. She is ready, and expecting to birth Skies, and rivers, and trees, and animals. The Calypso will birth a whole new world." @oliverklangmead.bsky.social

Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.

I'm ALIVE and MOVED and REJUVENATED so my energy will be focused on this

Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs. A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.

I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...