taken by the birds mid sente

I would write Sword & Sorcery myself but I can't decide on a pen name (the most important part of writing). It came down to Howard H. Howard or Womanly Maude Wellwoman but I just couldn't make up my mind so I've given up on the whole deal.

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

brittlestar season 2

This is my "first" proper interview and I actually thought about what to talk about for a full 2 days! Incredibly thankful for the very gracious and welcoming Wythe and Chris for helping me sort my thoughts out. Can't stand my own voice but I hope to get better at this!

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

marathon's art direction is goated with the sauce, actually

I started on projects with the intent to continue them if people showed interest and then cancelled them. Years later, some people step forward wondering why I didn't continue, and I tell them the same thing every time: no one showed a lick of interest or gave me any indication I was being read.

claiming feanor as a relative due to the insane amts of generational trauma he has inflicted on his sons

WIZARDS (1977) - The Ending

THE BREAD IS STALE AND THE CIRCUS IS BORING

[stock gun reloading sound] [stock gun cocking sound] [robot lady voice saying "WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE GAMER EXPERIENCE"] [stock fucking a pumpkin sound]

a manifesto for manifesto jam 2026. for everyone who's got that dog in them. haraiva.itch.io/against-grat... #manifestojam2026

I saw a lack of sword and sorc inspired by SEAsian culture and decided fuck it, make it myself

I love writing assholes, more so assholes that got to where they did precisely because they were assholes. except from a sword and sorcery-inspired short story set in gubat banwa #gubatbanwa

Ersatz cast model updates

“No amount of layout, bullet pointing and simplification will ever reach those who hate reading. It will only enable them.“ Using Monday for its intended purpose: to make enemies. rolltodoubt.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/a...

I should. Really read the Quran

just found out its international tabletop day and no one brought us breakfast in bed or could even be bothered to make a card or buy some flowers from walmart or anything. which is fine. not like we brought a fire RPG into the world after hours of labor w no epidural

Live look at the GOG intern

ppl underestimate the fuckin WEIGHT good graphic design and text layout (sequencing rules, grouping rules on a spread etc) does when facilitating rules learning. it's some 99%invisible shit that nobody actively notices until u run across an ass application of layouting

Between Chinese mythology, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and later Ifa stories, I realized the idea of magic vs. warriors doesn't make sense; most history for most of the world was magical warriors the whole time.

MAGICAL GIRL TRANSFORMATION SCENE EXCEPT THEY'RE CRYING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF BLOOD THAT CONGLOMERATES INTO THE ARMOR OF DRACULA AS DESIGN BY EIKO ISHIOKA IN DRACULA (1992)

Bros fuck this I'm going to newgrounds if I wanna post my smut and NSFW art

new story out today in Strange Pilgrims! wow that art that shows up here is NOT representative at all of what the story is about. NOMENCLATURE is about fighting in a war that you never signed up for. also about cain and abel.

It's odd that I haven't made anything Black Lagoon yet considering how formative it was to my tastes. So on that note, have some Revy! #BlackLagoon #Anime #fanart

In the end, what sells games isn't good design, its marketing.

whats everyone workin on. tell me

Lumpfish

reminded of larp cultures where "play to lose" is so normalised that sometimes players have to be reminded that it's okay for their characters to occasionally succeed, and that this might in fact be helpful for all the other players hoping for a tragic ending

Today on the blog, we have the 2nd of AAA4's fifteen essays up for public viewing - here's @stanwixbuster.co.uk with an investigation on triple-A games' conspicuous absence of the failure-focused game design of so many porn games! www.bpgamesinc.com/what-if-the-...

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

シングル・ソード🗡️ (2本目) パリスで入り込んでから、 バハド系のサヤウに。

I will not be able to financially recover from this decision but at least in 4-9 weeks time I will have A Cool Sword

シングル・ソード🗡️ 今週は3本撮影したけど、 せっかく刀を頂けたので全部刀で。 (1本目) ゲリラ戦のサヤウを取り入れました。

I just think it'd be fun if Lancaster pilots could make their funny dog stand on its hind legs as a threat display #lancerrpg

insane thing but I think it's foster the people's pumped up kicks

Holy fucking shit I hate graphic design (affectionate)

Happy Birthday to the late, great Mœbius, born Jean Henri Gaston Giraud 88 years ago today

Her principled devotion to the advancement of socialism and Marxism-Leninism

"THE TECHNICOLOR ROAR OF THE SLIPSTREAM"

Photo thread incoming! 🧵 Street vendors sit at the heart of Manila's streets. But not just in the capital city—the only place you can't find them would be the walled subdivisions insulated from the outside world.

what does wuxia even mean anymore dude it's become a buzzword

I decorated my kindle case with stickers from my partner @yawamancer.bsky.social <3

by the motive grace of @ipr.bsky.social — physical copies of INFINITE REVOLUTION, now available for purchase. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Infini... thank𓇼you.

what 'roles' exactly are we getting at here hmmmmm

UNBREAKABLE THUNDERBOLT EYE