"[His Majesty the Worm] might be the missing link between Theater Dorks and Dungeon Heads" - Skullboy

Your weekly reminder that The Castle Automatic is an easy way to get started with HIS MAJESTY THE WORM - the system moms, theater dorks, and dungeon heads can all agree on!

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Stephen Graham Jones’ New Horror Novel 'Off the Reservation' ‘Stole’ His Sleep — See the Cover (Exclusive) PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Stephen Graham Jones' next horror novel, 'Off the Reservation.' The book, due out this fall from Saga Press, brings back a character from the author's 2020 b...

On the bookshelves October 13th. Hope y’all like it:

POSSESSION SYNOPSIS (Not For Publication) After a long absence, a man (Sam Neill) returns home to find that his beautiful young wife (Isabelle Adjani) is leading a double life. Indeed the young woman has always been pro-miscuous: tiring quickly of her lovers and abandoning them. She seeks a fulfillment that has always eluded her; that she has never been able to discover in work, in marriage, nor even in her innermost self. She and her husband have a son, and she looks after him by day, but she disappears from their apartment at night and reappears only the following morning. The husband cannot resign himself to this fate and refuses to admit that his marriage is a failure. Not unexpectedly, his rival (Heinz Bennent) turns out to be his exact opposite. Where the husband is plodding, the lover is worldly. Nevertheless, they have something in common; the lover is every bit as frustrated as the husband, for his mistress is cheating on him as well. And the third "partner" it seems, is what really counts in her life. She keeps his identity a secret — so jealous a secret that she almost let's herself be run over by a truck one day when her husband is following her, rather than allow the third man's identity to be revealed. In desperation, the husband hires a private detective. But the wife kills the detective when he discovers the existence of the sorry little apartment she rents, in which, obviously she does not live alone... Her secret is discovered in turn by the detective's assistant, before he too, is murdered. The husband next discovers her morbid passion and because he loves her still, in spite of every-thing, he sets about covering her, protecting her from the consequences of her demented behavior, from human retribution, from the police and from the lover who, when he discovers the impossible truth, decides to blackmail her. The estranged husband and wife are momentarily reunited; but the husband admits, "I loved you blindly, but I no longer can be blind..." Becau…

What’s that? You want to read the US distributor’s synopsis of POSSESSION that they included in the press notes? Got you covered.

An art piece by Goran Gligovic of a sword resting against a battered tree in front of a rocky dungeon entrance amidst a snowy field. The text says UNBAN GORAN GLIGOVIC.

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.

Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

An illustration of Thranduil from The One Ring First Edition. This illustration didn’t make the corebook. It replaced a rejected piece of art by another artist, and was used in “Words of the Wise”, a free scenario by Dominic McDowall for the game. After that had to go away for contractual reasons, the art reappeared in… Heart of the Wild? Darkening of Mirkwood? Those two titles began as one book, so I don’t always know the split.

I’m late for the anniversary of its release at GenCon 2011, but to celebrate that ancient release of The One Ring First Edition: one like = one illustration from TOR 1st ed, which I helped illustrate, art direct, write and creatively direct. Good times. Here’s Thranduil with whom I was happy.

EVERYBODY SHUT UP
SHUT UP LUTZ
LOOK AT THIS ART THAT GREY WIZARD JUST DROPPED

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

she's doing a noise set

Some Fantasy recommendations! I have even more, but these are the ones I come back to most.

Excuse me, I'm just letting myself into your hotel room. They call me Strider, a nickname I gave myself. I don't have any friends because I'm so stinky. Here's a poem I wrote about myself. Will you be my friend?

ICYMI, I'm dipping my toes back into streaming, and that starts RIGHT NOW! Channel is live, I'm a little nervous to be back, but looking forward to playing some games and hanging out for a bit.

twitch.tv/DMJazzyHands

See ya there?

8 vinyl records in their sleeves on a bookshelf including: Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity Swans - Love of Life Slint - Spiderland The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 Coil - Music to play in the dark 2 The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips Xiu Xiu - FORGET

Had some really great record store finds over my holiday break

Something I feel that is often missing in this type of understanding is that not all questions need logical answers. They often require emotional intelligence to navigate, or to be of assistance. If your only contribution is logical, it's limited. Understanding humans requires more than logic.

This quote from an IDF soldier should pose an existential challenge to all of the various fields—antisemitism studies, genocide studies, far-right studies, etc.—that were ultimately born out of the legacy of the Holocaust

Nosferatu (2024) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ****/****starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoeinspired by the screenplay Nosferatu by Henrik Gallen and the novel Dracula by Bram Stokerwritten for the screen and direc...

I really loved this movie. Eggers' distaff take on a traditionally masculine sex-obsession/xenophobia parable kindred to his VVITCH in its interest in female sexuality, oppression and empowerment. filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/nosf...

Feyd Rautha

Laszlo Cravensworth

Mark Anthony

I don't know about resisting the One Ring but I do know which characters would stick their dicks in it

MYRNA LOY (1905-1993) a New Deal Democrat, Red Cross volunteer during WW2, she was so outspoken against Hitler that he blacklisted her in Germany, where her films were banned. #classicfilm #filmsky #fightfascism

another .NET 4.8 to .NET 8 migration...

The Deeper Reasons Democrats Lost It wasn't just that Trump got more votes. It wasn't just that Harris had lower turnout. A deep dive into the psychological, existential, and systemic reasons Harris and Democrats didn't win in 2024.

New piece.

A long deep dive piece into the reasons beyond the punditry and headlines as to why Harris and Democrats as a whole failed in 2024.

I firmly believe this is about far more existential, psychological, and structural reasons than it has been depicted as. Here’s why.

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Some pet pics, mostly Nora - the newest kitten
also a rainbow Caiaphas

Some ren faire pictures from this year