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Jason Ray CarneyπŸ˜ŽπŸ“šβ˜•οΈ

@jrcarney52.bsky.social

Ph.D., English, Writer, Academic, Christopher Newport U. https://spiraltower.blogspot.com/ Nerdery: sword & sorcery, Warhammer, D&D, pulp, comics, anime, the Gothic. Cats: Goblin and Worm. Labeled a contrarian (although I disagree). Opinions mine. B. 1983.

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Gothic Imagination, 2025, is a wrap. Probably one of the best classes I've had to privilege to teach. The students were all cool. This is our final site visit, Strawberry Hill House, ground zero for Gothic fiction. #gothic

13.06.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world."

01.06.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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En route to Canterbury. πŸ˜ŠπŸ“šβ˜•οΈ

31.05.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teaching a Study Abroad Course on the Gothic Imagination (Literature, History, and Culture), and am having a great time with these students and my colleagues Charlotte and George. I love Yorkshire and York. I feel very grateful for the opportunity to spend a few weeks doing this. πŸ˜Šβ˜•οΈπŸ“š

25.05.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Waystation (Issue 2) now available (free PDF) The second issue of Waystation: Amateur Magazine of Space Opera, is now available. You can download it here HERE as a free pdf. The cover i...

Waystation: Amateur Magazine of Space Opera, a zine I put together, just published its second issue. It's a free PDF! Check it out: waystationmag.blogspot.com/2025/05/ways...

18.05.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Here's my review of the 18th Horus Heresy novel, Deliverance Lost, by Gav Thorpe. It was good, but I'm starting to lose some patience with the same old tropes in the series. #warhammer40k

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

15.05.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The 20th mailing of an APA, TRIAPA, I founded is now available as a free pdf. You should submit a zine! Cover by Michael Rollins.

triapa.blogspot.com/2025/05/tria...

07.05.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A one step process to making your life betterβ€”
Read more.

06.05.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€οΈβ€πŸ©Ή

06.05.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wolfenstein 3D is now officially 33 years old

05.05.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 15

Great story and glad we were able to publish it!

04.05.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ep84 – Interview w/ Curtis Ellett Oliver sits down with the editor of the longest running, still-extant S&S magazine, Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Curtis Ellett!

If anyone want to hear more from me, here I am having a chat with @obrackenbury.bsky.social on his "So I'm Writing a Novel" podcast.
soimwritinganovel.com/2025/04/28/e...

29.04.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Such an amazing game.

04.05.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finished the new Devil May Cry anime tonight. Really enjoyed it. I thought White Rabbit was such a tragic figure. #anime

04.05.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do certain material configurations constrain awareness into forms vivid enough to ask why the universe bothers to be aware? #philosophy

03.05.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cover art for issue 2 of Waystation: Amateur Magazine of Space Opera, a free zine some friends and I put together. Art by Chase A. Folmar.

02.05.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of All That Breathes (2022) All That Breathes offers no dramatic revelation, no singular event to upend meaning--yet its quiet attention amounts to a theological provocation. In documenting two brothers who care for injured pred...

What a gorgeous film. letterboxd.com/redwizard52/...

01.05.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are your own little plant. Water yourself, speak to yourself nicely and bloom 🌻

30.04.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Random pic of some prep for a D&D campaign I ran 2017.

30.04.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As the semester progresses and approaches the end, shelf entropy increases and the vertical-to-horizontal book alignment ratio approaches zero. πŸ“šπŸ“šπŸ“š #booksky #acdemicsky

28.04.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jason Ray Carney's review of Knee-Deep in the Dead (Doom #1) 4/5: I was born in 1983, and like many of my generation, I played Doom extensively. It was a mythical gameβ€”an experience that felt almost larger than life. I first encountered it on floppy disk; if I ...

I read the first Doom novelization. Not high literature. Very pulpy. Nostalgic. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

28.04.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Doom's Division #1 Reviews Read reviews and discussion of Doom's Division #1 from Yoon Ha Lee and Minkyu Jung, published by Marvel Comics

The Doom event continues to be interesting. leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/511767...

26.04.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜…β˜…Β½ review of Conclave (2024) The Conclave builds toward a resolution of the Church’s ideological impasse: the election of a pope who seemingly synthesizes the gravitas of tradition with the urgency of reform. For much of the film...

I enjoyed this film a lot, but had some thoughts about troubling undertones. letterboxd.com/redwizard52/...

24.04.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Overwatching infantry with Infernus pyreblasters... πŸ€“πŸ”₯ #warhammer40k

21.04.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mail call. This show came out in 1993, when I was 10 years old. It aired M-F on our local Fox Kids Morning Hour. I watched it before the bus came in 5th and 6th grade. I knew when the episode was ovver to walk to catch the bus. Every kid wanted to be as cool as Sonic is in this show.

19.04.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just spent four hours with three friends in the Grim Darkness of the 41st millenium, and now it is time to go to bed. Pretty relaxing Friday after a long week at work. πŸ€“ #warhammer40k #darktide

19.04.2025 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alien: Paradiso #4 Review (β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…) by RedWizard52 I really enjoyed this issue. The casino setting offers a refreshing change of pace, injecting new life into the familiar Alien mythos. While the Weyland-Yutani Corporation typically serves as the back...

This was a great issue. #aliens #comics #weylandyutani leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/RedW...

15.04.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€οΈβ€πŸ©Ή #warhammer

15.04.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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