couple of weeks ago I went to a punk gig in Leeds and the crowd was very 40+. Saw a punk in a gilet

going to an “elder emo disco”. It’s emo, but, like, for elder millennials so it’s 4pm - 8pm so we can get home in time for a cup of tea and an early night

it’s not a phase, mom

The Witcher as an Ironsworn Character If you want to use Ironsworn to explore the Witcher-universe or play the role of a similar monster-hunting character, let's take a look at some character assets that fit the archetype.

Ironsworn does it so well the author wrote a post about modelling Geralt:

tomkinpress.com/blogs/news/t...

Fell off doing this when life got a bit busy around moving house, but I’d love to come back for this season!

I need to order some reading glasses so I can meaningfully interact with my #MagicTheGathething collection again. I’ve got some cards to file and I can’t read the bloody set numbers #gettingOld

Finished my first hand-drawn #2d6dungeon floor; I don’t think Dyson Logos has anything to worry about just yet…

One mistake made, there’s two copies of a unique room which I didn’t notice until later. I also continued exploring after placing the stairs down, which I’m not sure is allowed RAW.

just noticed I've got two room elevens and no thirteen, sack the cartographer. This is what you get trying to draw a map one-handed by lantern light with a quill and ink

played my first dungeon floor in "2D6 Dungeons" using the demo version over the last two evenings and it was great; definitely going to pick up the full book. Mapped it using dungeonscrawl.com but I'm going to go analogue next time :)

#rpg #solorpg #ttrpg #2d6dungeon

Your games (and it looks like IS2e) are *so* diegetic that I’d love some bold or underline or something. I think because “if you’re in a favored situation…” works on two levels (fiction, mechanics) a little nudge when mechanics are kicking in would be handy.

Tried to buy one, but no shipping to the UK — totally understandable, I work in e-commerce and know how horrible costs & paperwork are between US & UK are at the moment!

Just to say — prices seem fine for original art! 👍

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.

aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

For those eligible to vote, and who've enjoyed my writing, my eligibility list for 2025 is:
Novel: Shroud, Bee Speaker
Novella: Lives of Bitter Rain, The Hungry Gods
Series: Dogs of War
Short fiction: Holy Fools (in Of Shadows Stars and Sabers)
Fancast: Starship Alexandria

we bonded over librarian martyrship, humdrum towns, shape-shifting elves, and arguments over the relative worth of data cores vs space rocks.

How to Write Absurdly Well — Adrian Tchaikovsky YouTube video by David Perell

Fantastic interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) on writing, plotting and world building: just excellent advice here for writing and tabletop gaming.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0q...

Haven’t used Bluesky in about 4 months. Haven’t been posting anything, anywhere, outside of a couple of Discord servers; cut right back on The Internet. Instead I’ve been keeping an increasingly sprawling journal / PKMS, just for myself. It’s been kind of incredible, actually?

New episode of my current favourite podcast, Starship Alexandria with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social (Adrian Tchaikovsky). Going to delay listening to this one for a day or two though, I’m only halfway through the book.

The Chambers Beneath by Cyningstan A role-playing dungeon crawler game for DOS

So @cyningstan.bsky.social has done it again and released a fantastic CGI roguelike dungeon crawler. Well worth a play - DOS(box) and Windows versions available.

cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...

Starship Alexandria: Episode 4 - Top Ten For our fourth episode of Starship Alexandra, Adrian puts forward the graphic novels Top Ten volumes 1 and 2 by Moore, Ha and Cannon, for Emma to read and consider.    Other talking poi...

Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria for you (and anywhere you listen to podcasts). @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon. starshipalexandria.com/episode-4-to...

I have eaten
the turtles
that were in
the Galapagos

and which
you were probably
saving
for study

Forgive me
they were delicious
so meaty
and so slow

didn’t they read the empire/faction sections of Sundered Isles? It’s not subtext. The text is right there.

Quagaars! It’s must be some Quagaar warriors, or a beautiful alien woman with six breasts!

Blessed be the Omnissiah; hail spirit of the machine, essence divine

Classic Web (@classicweb.site) Screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s. Brought to you by the internet history site https://cybercultural.com [bridged from https://indieweb.social/@classicweb on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

The Classic Web account on Bluesky is currently going through kottke.org’s blogroll list from 2004 and displaying screenshots of those sites as they appeared then. Look at all those varied designs! [bsky.app]

parmOOOO

+ chips and garlic sauce and bit of limp salad in a plastic box please

HOMEWORK MACHINE The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen. Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be. Here it is — "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." Three? Oh me ... I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

The most important thing is you’ve realised you have a problem (with Big Data surveillance) and now you can take steps to do something about it (stop using points card, pay with cash)

Calvin dressed as a noir detective, saying "Yeah. That's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye."

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

I really want to play some Elder Scrolls Online. I haven’t touched it for a few weeks, besides claiming my login goodies. Want to get Wrothgar wrapped up before the new content patch hits consoles in a few weeks time.

Photo of a rainbow coloured Sainsburys banner that says "We proudly support the LGBT+ community" with the small print underneath "whenever profitable and convenient"

I added some vinyl text to this banner outside my local Sainsburys a few years ago. Stayed up for about 12 hours before they took the whole thing down