First I heard "The Wizard and The Wild One" was when "Something to Remember You By" dropped & I was stuck for minutes going back to try & listen to the dialogue b/c I couldn't hear anything over my tears (silent) & how beautiful the piano was. Finally having the full track is a balm to the soul ✨️🩵

"Demons of Ink" has now become the theme song that I play for our party Paladin's (INT 10) segment at the beginning of every session "Dumbass Dear Diary with Orazio" where session notes are taken in character, and read back to us.

Superb Lyrebird near Katoomba, amazing song! #Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds

I will not repost this 1) without the ability to quote it from someone and 2) in a way that gives the author revenue, so I'll have to post it myself. It's a wild take until you realise that anyone with the braincells to put Pratchett's political msgs together has probably blocked her 😂

Swag, brother.

Then I guarantee that I'd try to put my washing in it by accident

love a silly chapter title

Don't even have to watch The Boys to be deep in my schadenfreude cups watching the fącişt crash-out happening in real time. As one of them tried to describe the death scene of one of the mains, unable to realise that he was correct, just not for the reason he thought he was... pathetic 💅🏻🙃🤣

It's incredible how much better a continent can get writ large when it is largely uncontaminated by Murdoch swill, aka the microplastics of journalism. Basic green thinking gets laughed down in the West, at least in my experience.

In less chronological order and perhaps something of a hot take... but 2Quest 2Fever is superior to the first instalment 💅🏻 that take may be predicated on the fact I can't unhear "...this picture represents 20% of the great stations of witchcraft" and the 0:30 prior to it, we'll never know.

There is something to be said for being ?enplagued with a virus at 1am local time, coming down from the dexies you took way too late and uncensored access to the internet. "Oh, your research premise is 'cool shit to homebrew for the squad?' Have "Writings 1997–2003" by CCRU. With no lube."

Praise be to spite, lisdexamphetamine and pseudoephedrine (who strengthen me) for powering me through a job application due tomorrow when the universe & org leadership (who make their staffing failure your problem) are trying to conspire to stop me from applying for what might be a dream job 💊🖕🏻

Autumn be in full swing ðơŵɲ ųŋɗəŕ (i can't write it upside-down OK!?) and yet again, chain stores doth provide. Would looove to see The Fox come back, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social gang! 🙏🏻🧡🌭🗳 (FYI — we call election days "democracy sausage day" b/c a bbq is set up at every poll location 🦊)

I have so many feelings in chronological order 😭✨️ the first of which... the track "Escape from the Citadel?" Nahhh, that's "Eldritch Abomination (Livestock!?) (Rhapsody of Nicholas the Goat)" Citadel can bend a knee and have some respect for my boy Nicholas 🤣🐐👹

This woman straight up either gonna be the love interest or nemesis (both? Both? Both is good) of my Librarian bounty hunter (my Li—barbarian, as it were)

How are all these stories I love so fkn deeply in my blood getting graphic novels so close together, I'm going to be so fkn POOR

I don't have words for how much more incredible this story became because @taylordotbiz.bsky.social got his melodious thumbs into this decadent, fantasy dessert pie of a podcast. I cannot afford how much I'd like to throw my $$ at this man in perpetuity. Please throw some at him for me 🎶✨️😭

How incredibly beautiful. Wishing you love, a safe place to feel and heal and everything the universe can provide 🩵

I came here to do a reading, not be read, r00d aṣs bịtch cards

“All your faves are using GenAI” Soon as I find out they’re not a fave anymore. Flaw in your logic.

It is in the single digits and wet outside, and I'm privileged enough to have a large bed with a warm doona, and extra pillows to keep the warmth in. Life is not easy, but mine is a lucky one nonetheless.

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things. — Equal Rites

This book is so beautiful! @sarahwebb.bsky.social did an amazing job!

My morning visitors who warble their pretty songs to let me know they're about and would like dried worms 🎶 the horror stories about Australian magpies are only true if people have been assholes (or you look like one they've seen before) Beautiful and clever, fierce parents and iconic singers.

Slightly increase a band. The Bastards (The Police)

"Sometimes, the world will actually try to kill you. You'll never deserve it" is a line from spoken word poet Melissa Newman—Evans I never knew I'd need ten years later, surviving as an estranged child every Mother's (and Father's) day. I am surrounded by words that save me — from them and myself.

I think I spy my favourite piece from the whole story in that third column, and if I'm right, there aren't words to describe my excitement 🎹🎶

Not too shabby a first review of the tour. Read the whole thing here - theatrematters.com.au/Reviews/the-... Kicking off week two in Naarm / @artscentremelb.bsky.social. Last show today before we roll on to the Gold Coast and then Scotland.

The Bookbinder by @trickofthelightnz.bsky.social was one of the cleverest and most incredible work of light and storytelling I've been lucky enough to see a team of two pull off. A spellbinding tale reminiscent of CS Lewis, Michael Ende and folklore across the world. I couldn't recommend it more ✨️📖🧙🏼

This, but an Australian possum, and you have what May looks like down under

The conversion rate from my currency to USD is fkn rotten, and I would pay it twice for how fucking good these stories and creators are. And I had up look up who Tucker Carlson was, because I do deliberately live under a rock so I don't know who people like him are, but also fuck that guy.

Happy Birthday Terry

"Hello little ravioli" A raviolo just for XL—ZL, from an Australian chain store for homewares 😂 wish me good speed and good fortune on my journey through the pipes to retrieve this ?cursed piece of homeware from the store! @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social

Catching up on CR4 #20, and Bolaire's line that "Know that if you decide that the current, new administration is trustworthy? They kill the storytellers first" slaps and hits equally too hard in a world like this one. I would've preferred my blood not run cold today 🥶😨

Why do I get the feeling that this ray of apparent, rainbow sunshine is going to try and kill y'all in your sleep if you in any way impede the second rise coming of his people? Don't think I don't know that XL—ZL could just mean eXtra—Large ZeaLot 😉 @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social

When you want to make a commonplace book, but you want it to be made of index cards and colour—coded... in the Dewey Decimal system. This might make it hard to categorise my favourite quotes from fictional work 🤔 but leave that with me.

So much of the fantasy fiction I love is... forest—centric? And I love me a tree. But I have lived my whole life on a coast of a country where if you can't swim, you can't play. I need fantasy with coral, and saltwater and a coven of witches who surf and/or drown men when they sing. Someone. Please.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

"I like real books because I can underline really clever writing," is not something I ever expected to see someone else admit to as well. What if my Librarian bounty-hunter (of late fees) hears this from inside my DND campaign notes, catches wind and comes for both of us!?

Replaying the Command Board in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep all these years after release is making me desperately want a version of @square-enix-games.com 's Itadaki Street for @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social but with cute Port Talon map background or something and playable Will Gallows 😭

Welsh folklore tells us that elves, fairies and witches hold sway over those born today: “Palm Sunday was formerly considered an unlucky day for a birth, because people born then were more in the power of elves, fairies, and witches than on any other day.” Folklore of Wales 1909 ✨

Have you ever felt the need for an expansive library of folklore? Me too. Here's one I prepared earlier. sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folkte...

If there was ever proof that stories can bring you back to yourself, grieving steers me into stories I've not heard yet from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social et. al, and for a moment, I forget that parts of my life are on fire. That moment is usually enough to remember I've survived worse by better.

Relistening to WBN #24 and hearing "Some things I stole on my way out of the Citadel...a little coin, that you see has a Queen's head on one side, & on the other side, a raven in flight..." is the gift only being retold a story with more context can give. THAT WAS THE QUEEN OF COINS ALL ALONG!

In the middle of prepping my table's next session, and just scared the local wildlife when I screamed while reading through the Complete Sha'ir's Handbook and seeing parallels between 2e Astrologers and the star—walking Sly in Book 1, Season 3 of @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social