Richard Pack

Two muted tortoiseshell cats, snuggling on a pile of blankets and pillows on the back of a couch.

A black and white dog, (blue wheeler mutt), sitting with one paw propped up on the side of the couch.

A shelter dog in full croissant mode.

Worldspark may be free to listen to, but by checking it out you'll still be helping me provide for these furry menaces.

So don't do it for me. Do it for Shallan, (cat with orange spots), Sabriel, (her sister), Lopen, (blue heeler mutt), and our step-dog Case, (sheltie)

#cats #dogs #pets

Thinking of this video a friend sent me a while back. . .

The PERFECT video.

Lopen, a blue heeler mutt, lies on a couch. Case, a sheltie, lays on the ground in front of the couch.

Alt text on the third picture autocorrected from sheltie to shelter, and I didn't catch it in time.

By way of apology, I offer a bonus double-decker dogs.

Two muted tortoiseshell cats, snuggling on a pile of blankets and pillows on the back of a couch.

A black and white dog, (blue wheeler mutt), sitting with one paw propped up on the side of the couch.

A shelter dog in full croissant mode.

Worldspark may be free to listen to, but by checking it out you'll still be helping me provide for these furry menaces.

So don't do it for me. Do it for Shallan, (cat with orange spots), Sabriel, (her sister), Lopen, (blue heeler mutt), and our step-dog Case, (sheltie)

#cats #dogs #pets

The cover of the book "Worldspark," with a stylized blue phoenix crackling with fire and lightning-esque energy.

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that "Worldspark" is #free through #audiomazes. It's an immersive audio branching narrative adventure story with 8 different endings.

Explore an ancient temple. Meet a god. Stop the apocalypse.

www.audiomazes.com/library/worl...

I was probably 12. I decided that the two characters I'd played through the "Neverwinter Nights" campaigns were brothers and wrote about them sparring.

Ellowyn and Elvewyn Ellodel, a half elf cleric and ranger respectively.

I was such a nerd XD thank goodness I still am.

The cover of the book "Worldspark," with a stylized blue phoenix crackling with fire and lightning-esque energy.

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that "Worldspark" is #free through #audiomazes. It's an immersive audio branching narrative adventure story with 8 different endings.

Explore an ancient temple. Meet a god. Stop the apocalypse.

www.audiomazes.com/library/worl...

The Bearer of the Scythe An ancient being visits an isolated manor

I wrote a new short story set in my fantasy setting, "Tales of the Guildless." Please check it out and let me know what you think! I'm trying to get some momentum for the setting before I publish my first full novel next year.

#fantasy #shortstory #free

open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

The Bearer of the Scythe An ancient being visits an isolated manor

I wrote a new short story set in my fantasy setting, "Tales of the Guildless." Please check it out and let me know what you think! I'm trying to get some momentum for the setting before I publish my first full novel next year.

#fantasy #shortstory #free

open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

A sleeping infant in a rocker, wearing a warm onesie with gloves and an orange hat.

Rocking my daughter with my foot

Knowing that if I stop

She'll wake up

My eyes collapsing, mind escaping,

Sleep the nearest and furthest thing

As she rocks

If you want to see a master of his craft take any idea at all and turn it into a compelling story, do yourself a favor and read Garth Nix. He's a big part of why I'm a writer!

Reading "To Hold the Bridge" by @garthnix.bsky.social. This man is a genre chameleon. Even as a kid it amazed me how much Keys to the Kingdom differed from The Old Kingdom or from The Seventh Tower. And once again he jumps from one to another effortlessly. As a writer, it makes me jealous XD

The final QTE had me cheering, just in time for the sobfest that was the ending.

"detail" of the front cover part

four drawings of Thimble, from critical role. She's a tiny little pixie in green and brown clothes. In each pose she's spells a letter of the word "love"

was looking at that little Thimble i drew and i had a vision that i now offer it to you

This is a lot of fun, great work!

Love this dynamic XD

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

Shipfall A setting description/landing page for my "medieval meets sci-fi" setting

Updated this to be a sort of general landing page for all of my Shipfall stories and articles. #shipfall #scifi #ttrpg open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

Shipfall A setting description/landing page for my "medieval meets sci-fi" setting

Updated this to be a sort of general landing page for all of my Shipfall stories and articles. #shipfall #scifi #ttrpg open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

In Haven's Shadow AKA: What happens when you throw a massive spaceship at a medieval city?

Wrote another Shipfall short story, vaguely in response to @imagine2create.bsky.social's Narrative Feast prompt. The setting is a blend of medieval and science fiction, with survivors attempting to MacGyver their way through the post-apocalypse.

#fiction #shipfall

open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

Redesigning my axolotl

In Haven's Shadow AKA: What happens when you throw a massive spaceship at a medieval city?

Wrote another Shipfall short story, vaguely in response to @imagine2create.bsky.social's Narrative Feast prompt. The setting is a blend of medieval and science fiction, with survivors attempting to MacGyver their way through the post-apocalypse.

#fiction #shipfall

open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Spiraling Sometimes, I don't want to human.

When life gets to be too much, I write poetry about it. It hardly helps, but that's better than nothing.

open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

Coda The world ends with a beautiful song

Thanks to @imagine2create.bsky.social I'm continuing to experiment with horror. open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

Coda The world ends with a beautiful song

Thanks to @imagine2create.bsky.social I'm continuing to experiment with horror. open.substack.com/pub/theemera...

❗ // FRU - futures rewritten ultimate spoilers ❗

sora's voice: kairi... kairi is inside me?

#lighttenet

Temper wears a leather blacksmithing apron & holds a sword on the right side of the image, with the October 2025 calendar on the right.

Another, "oh awesome!" moment today...

Turning the page on my @ginnydi.com calendar & seeing one of my favorite of her characters!

Temper!

The Thing That Lives in My Walls The First Indulgence: Day 1

Today marks the first day of my month-long horror writing challenge over on Substack!

Several writers have already submitted stories for today's prompt, so now I'm sharing my own take on the concept!

bradleyramsey.substack.com/p/the-thing-...

#writingcommunity #writesky #horror #shortstory