Tea black as midnight on a moonless night.

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Honestly I'd probably end up turned into a mackerel of the sea or something. #BalladHunters

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

A large poster map labeled "Charles Dickens' London" by David A Purdue.

11. Charles Dickens' London, by David A. Purdue. #MapMonday

Solid gold

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I'm thrilled to have this in audio form! Thank you @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social for reading this so beautifully.

Now that I think about it, there was absolutely a pro-ceratopsian bias to my childhood dinosaur play.

Note: “other” includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of “other.” We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren’t dinosaurs.

My wife believes that me and my daughter are singlehandedly responsible for this note:

I can only assume that the 40% of respondents without a favorite dinosaur were simply unable to choose between all the wonderful dinosaurs.

I honestly wouldn’t even have considered that there were more options than “I like dinosaurs” and “I love dinosaurs.”

“River Towns” is based on a Breece D’J Pancake story and for me that‘s the most welcome literary deep cut in all of rock music.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

I know I'm right in the middle of the Venn diagram of "TTRPG players" and "broadside ballad enthusiasts," but if you're anywhere on that diagram at all, you should pick up this game!

April 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

Start your Wednesday off with this new historical flash from FFO: “For Solomon Fishkowski Who Carved Chess Sets in Siberia” by KD Casey
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Congratulation! Love this piece

I'd be very bad at being rich, but I would have an excellent library.

Luke Skywalker saying, "I'm ready for anything."

Chicago: Always Down, Never Out

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Congrats!

Congrats! Both the story and the collection are amazing.

A cruelty of history that the kids are rediscovering large pants just as the mass-market paperback disappears.

Mythical Beasts of italy It's hard not to love Italy.I could talk about the Roman Empire, the influence of Christianity, the Renaissance, and how the world has been shaped by Greco-Roman history. But I don't think that's why ...

Here's the blog post that went along with the map's release. Covers just a few of the featured beasties: www.pucaprinthouse.com/post/mythica...

A map of “mythical beasts of Italy,” by Neil Parkinson

10. Mythical Beast of Italy, by Neil Parkinson (@pucaprinthouse.bsky.social) www.etsy.com/listing/1785...)
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Thinking about happy accidents of measurement that end up yielding perfection: The 25 1/2 inch scale length of the Fender guitar, the 90 foot distance between baseball bases. Seemingly no explicit reasoning behind the choices, but the results ideal.

Congrats! Excited to read.

Getting a bunch of people out to join us at a White Sox game is a beautiful pastoral lesson in sharing the suffering of others and visiting the afflicted.

Of other characters, I find Maedhros one of the most tragic and psychologically interesting in the legendarium.