I found this nuanced take on Brownshirts terrorizing honest folk

After 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,' don't miss 'The Lord of the Rings: That Galadriel Show,' only on Amazon Crime

Bygone: Take Me Home #heavymetal #hardrock

"Clyde’s found himself at the center of a massive conspiracy to kill the Emperor." The worst one yet; I was boooreeed, annoyed, and contemplating quitting Bad Guxs and Good Guys altogether. DNFed at the pointless sewer crawl. Never felt better. #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Cryptopsy: Dead Eyes Replete #brutal #technical #death #metal #canada

So, the Bad Guys are actually also Good Guys but rogues who work as literal and metaphorical shit-stirrers by day? Also, this guy doesn't throw away great magic weapons and items. He sells them for cheap so... that's kind of an incremental improvement on Montana. #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Barbarian: Mercy Swallower #blackened #thrash #speed

"There are actual stakes this time - children could starve, his friends have gone missing - and Montana's not sure he has what it takes to save everyone. This video game world is starting to feel way too much like reality." Vol. 6: Boulder Rolls, Everyone Dies, I'm Out #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Crypt Sermon: Only Ash and Dust #epic #doom #metal

Anne Rice: The Vampire Thermostat

One morning, when 𝕯𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝕶𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊 woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

"Go back in time one final time, save everyone, get the girl, and defeat the ultimate enemy." Perfect run achieved without save-scumming and with only some divine intervention, but with lots of lower lip chewing. Also, Pandawan is pure and must be protected at all costs. #booksky #progression

Ereb Altor: Hälsingemörker #epic #viking #blackmetal #sweden

"When Montana first started playing in iNcarn8, his new game life, he just wanted to be one of the good guys for a change. But despite his impressive stats and incredible heroics, even his followers are just plain scared of him." Vol. 5: Duke Troll'em or: Bearly Legal #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Tómarúm: Shed This Erroneous Skin #progressive #blackmetal #blackened #death

I fucking love Bob Mortimer #wilty

This guy wants to be canceled

"Montana Coggeshall has far fewer intelligence points than is probably recommended." Vol. 4 of Montana Does Stupid Things Because Nobody Warns Him in Time and He Is Too Scatterbrained to Ask Before Accepting the EULAs. I hope this type of propelling the plot stops soon. #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Remina: Silence and the Silver Sea #atmospheric #gothic #doom #metal

I heartily recommend 'Pater Noster and the Mission of Light' if you love #vinyl, #gore, and #trippy movies made with friends for next to no money that are fun, punk, cosmic, indie, culty, witchy, and record store-y. #horror #cult #witches

"Montana has to rescue Nikolai, go through a sentient dungeon hell-bent on causing torture, inflicting pain, and extracting the ultimate price." DM's favorite player destroys a dungeon and gets a shit-ton of everything, most of which he'll probably throw away in volume 4. #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Karloff: Crown Cult Fate #blackmetal #punk #germany

#Keeper does not make much sense. Trees are right to groan. #horror #witches

Now is the perfect time to accidentally purchase a horse in Bulgaria. #wilty

Good, nobody has tried to annex Antarctica yet. Cones of all degrees of irregularity, terraces of every sort of provocative disproportion, shafts with odd bulbous enlargements, broken columns in curious groups, and five-pointed arrangements of mad grotesqueness belong to native proto-Shoggoths.

"Montana’s new life in the medieval fantasy game world he lucked into is going pretty well: he's now an heir to a dukedom." This probably should have been the second half of the first book, but as it is... Welcome to Volume 2 of... 'Everything's Coming Up Montana!' #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Gjendød: En elv av kjøtt #blackmetal

And the people are chanting: "No more years! No more years!"

I don't understand how 'Rabbit Trap' ended up on so many worst-of-2025 #horror lists. The small cast is great, the film is haunting, eerie, aural, #folk, and #cosmic, and it asks big questions like...

"Sucked into iNcarn8, a game claiming to be a whole new life, Montana, the larger-than-life warrior, has one more last time to get his life right." Bare-bones, making-it-up-as-we-go-along fare, but mildly entertaining if you don't care about the details, like the author. #booksky #litrpg #gamelit

Century: Sign of the Storm #heavymetal #sweden

"Dan has accidentally 'noclipped' into a bizarro, extra-dimensional world, overrun with nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out." I got out by DNF-ing. It was recommended as similar to Dungeon Crawler Carl, but DCC was fun, funny, emotional & had Jeff Hays #booksky #litrpg

Valdrin: Ignite the Murder Shrine #melodic #blackmetal

Oliver knows what's up

"Probably the most personal work by the master John Blanche." Transports you to weird, but somehow archetypal places. #booksky #art #fantasy #horror #scifi #warhammer

Ambush: Evil in All Dimensions #heavymetal #sweden

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

"To prevent New Rome's destruction at the hands of the vicious Meta-Gang, our favorite courier must explore both sides to become a corporate superhero in one loop, and a scenery-chewing supervillain in the next!" Vol. 2: Scum, Villainy, Presidency, Cashmere & Raining Blood #booksky #progression

Fer de Lance: Death Thrives #epic #doom #heavymetal

"Ryan 'Quicksave' Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies." If you read just one #superhero #scifi #time-loop #post-apocalypse #dystopian search for a Marxist-Leninist true love... #booksky #progression #litrpg

Häxkapell: Satans rötter #blackmetal

Eddington is a mess and a slog. I hope the talk of a sequel is just someone's fever dream.

Themes

Vol. 2: Sectional Healing Style - severely lacking Substance - severely lacking World Building - severely lacking Banter - severely lacking Humor - severely lacking YA Crap Done Badly - A rank Using 1000 words where 10 would suffice - S rank #litrpg #progression #scifi #academy #tournament #ya

In the last episode, Karen, sorry, Carol felt she was thrown under the pluribus and, to no one's surprise, went nuclear. Take that, Woke Pacifist Communist Utopia!

Helms Deep: Frozen Solid #heavymetal #powermetal

"Lindon’s journey may have ended, but there are still more tales to tell. See the world after Cradle, those left behind, and even some legends from long ago." From Underdog to Overgod, vol. 13: B-sides, Rare and Unreleased Tracks #booksky #cultivation #progression #scifi #fantasy #cradle

Haimad: Nen Cendril #symphonic #melodic #blackmetal

Emma Stone going "diverse, diverse, diverse" in #Bugonia Also, I like how the score is, for some reason, 27 times more intense than the movie, which is extremely intense.

Does the change from Kennedy Center to Komödie Zentrum warrant all the cancellations?