Turns out, Tove Jansson of Moomins fame did some illustrations for The Hobbit. Tag yourself, I'm depressed harpist.

Oh dear, major trunk line for Wroclaw's water supply has failed and is now flooding some of the streets in the centre, so the *entire city* is running on reduced water pressure right now.

This week's Scribes and Scriveners is a round table re the Black Library Open Submission process. Denny, Robbie and Jonathan were fantastic and it's well worth a watch! Thankyou! @denny-flowers.bsky.social @jonathandbeer.bsky.social and Robbie MacNiven #warhammercommunity #WarhammerTV

Makes me wonder what dinosaurs would look like after one (1) Agricultural Revolution's worth of humans selectively breeding the poor sods into absurd shapes.

Absolute deluge of incredibly fluffy white snow here.

*squints* Wait, with the first line of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is one Clive Staples Lewis gently taking the piss out of his own style of name/himself? Am I today days old when I realised this, or am I wrong? ("There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.")

I have no real visual artistic talent of my own, so one of the most exciting parts of writing is when the final product releases and I get to see what some talented artists have done with the material I've written.

I think the game mechanic I loathe the most in video games is the enforced painfully slow, arduous walking section to emphasise how the character you're playing is wounded, even though they've been sucking up bullet wounds and still sprinting round like an athlete for the rest of the game.

I'm in that slightly awkward space where the release dates for the stuff I've finished or am currently working on is all quite distant still; so I have things I'm bursting to talk about but have to keep quiet on for a while yet :(

Miserable time out shopping today when my card randomly got payment rejected in all the food court options for... no particular reason? Still worked to pay for other stuff, but apparently today I was banned from eating.

Switching to milestone levelling in my D&D campaign was definitely the right idea. Gave the regular XP rules a fair shot again with the new edition just to check but, as ever, they produce all sorts of weird incentives on players and pressures on adventure design.

I'm very tired of early access video games.

I wonder if it's maybe worth going to the UK Games Expo this year.

Power cut right when I was prepping to cook dinner. Estimate is it'll take 2 hours to get fixed :(

Hit a big milestone on the manuscript yesterday. Into uncharted waters now!

I have never subscribed to the ‘great man of History’ as the font of progress and good things but I’m willing to be persuaded by the ‘Stupid Man of History’ as being responsible for some bad ones.

An argument that elides all AI with LLMS & which treats the existence of a technology as evidence that it is a) good and b) ought to be adopted. This is a call to abandon critical thought & political self-determination, & just radically alter our societies to suit tech-bros.

Can't believe it's been ten years since I saw my first work for this game-line published!

But, look, the problem here, the *problem*, is that if I've actually finished this manuscript then it means that not too far into the future, people will actually get to read it. They will pay good money for a book I've written, and *read* it. Which is terrifying.

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Been very sick with the flu over Xmas. Honestly haven't had fever that bad for years and years, and it rather put a crimp on all my plans, both work and holiday. Slowly clawing my way out of it now but this damn cough still refuses to shift. Quite a sharp lesson not to miss the flu jab next year.

Happy Xmas, to all those who celebrate it!

My novella is one of the two in the Aeon compilation :)

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Got flu just before Xmas. *sigh* (Didn't get the flu jab earlier this season as I caught Covid right before I was scheduled for the shot)

When I'm not actively working on a draft, I just find myself feeling incredibly drowsy in the afternoons for some reason.

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First snow of the season.

Cold weather.

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Finished Bloodlines 2. It is, unfortunately, Not Good.

I am trying to like Bloodlines 2 but it is making it *so* hard every step of the way.

Every time I reference the Astrological War in my D&D game, when people went to war with one of the moons, it makes me giggle like a fool for some reason. (The moon lost the war when an empire shot it with a magical solar superweapon.)

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Every time I think about what sort of Age of Sigmar video games would be cool, I then also start wondering about how you go about starting a design studio up without enormous piles of cash and without staking your house on it, because 'make them yourself' has a certain appeal.

Trying to sell myself as a creative is always daunting. 'I've done cool stuff - please hire me to do cool stuff!'

"Success... at a cost!" mechanics in ttrpgs actually tend to get really fucking tiring.

I really need to remember, for my next Age of Sigmar game, that Power Through is a thing that exists...

The eye-watering costs of hotels for our pending holiday to the UK is making me feel better about what I spend on my Warhammer habit.

Games Workshop pays me, so now I put aside some of that money so I can pay Games Workshop for more miniatures. This is what is called 'the circle of life'.

Screaming bell done for my Skaven! Doing the 90s-era-red-details style of GW painting came back to bite me somewhat when it came to time to highlight all those rope braids, though...

Going slowly mad painting braided rope.

Dentists were surprised and confused by the very good state of my teeth. Even did x-rays to hunt for cavities and came up blank :P What can I say, kids; just brush your teeth regularly and don't eat too much sugar, I guess?

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Great experience getting my painted Skaven AoS army onto the battlefield for the first time! Had a good game at the Bolter LGS here in Wrocław. (Well, painted apart from the Gnawholes but those are right gits to paint).

Ah, the moment after recording a podcast when you're trying to figure out if you said anything really stupid during your blathering.

Those are some pretty great looking new Kharadron models.