Matt Castleman

Leaders use armed forces judiciously to protect people. Tyrants scoot them around like toys to hide their weakness. Today’s parade has about 30 Abrams tanks. We’ve sent 31 to Ukraine, to date. Brave people will die while trump uses what could save them like he’s splashing in the bathtub. No Kings.

Steel Echoes - James Gunn's Ad Astra As Elton Lye walked home from work, the purple lights in the sky were momentary flashes of white-edged lavender high in the hills, bright enough to leave ghost trails on your vision. A ripple of flash...

www.adastrasf.com/steel-echoes/ My first mech story! A blind mechanic comes to the aid of a small dusty town beset by raiders. Kind of a classic western but with giant robots.

New story out today! The second adventure of my wandering Swiss mercenary following his debut in issue 2 of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social .

'The Quiet Sisters,' in Swords and Sorcery Magazine - swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-quiet-si...

I did not buy anything today, but I did donate money to Ukraine's defense effort. Slava Ukraini, and fuck the human cancer metastasizing in the white house and the Moron-Ribbentrop Pact he's made with Putin.

YouTube video by Warspeare If Shakespeare Wrote the Horus Heresy

Warhammer 40,000 is larger than life, high drama, full of blood and death, and sometimes has silly sounding fancy language. So naturally I’m turning it into a Shakespeare play.

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I was accosted by a philadelphian but I tricked him into saying ‘Bo Girds’ to banish him to his home dimension

And if you don’t like how it looks, just do what I do and write the thing in Baskerville or your preference and then select-all it into TNR before you submit it. Sometimes requires minor formatting but isn’t really much hassle.

We didn’t tell you so. He told you so, again and again. He told you he was a bottomless greed void disdainful of knowledge, ethics and empathy, a rabid bigot idiot, the least convincing budget costume of a human being. Nobody can say they didn’t know that. It just turns out some people like it.

Remember that no political function works by handwave. Everything requires actual people to do things at every step. Whenever you are one of those cogs you can refuse to spin, or deliberately spin slowly or badly. Bad Cogs Battalion, form up.

When improvised jokes in your comedic shakespeare gig demand a proper visual incarnation

GET OUT OF MY BEHDFEEDA JON SNOH

2024 Metal Albums for Normies 3: Faerie Ring, “Weary Traveler.”

Imagine if Tom Bombadil got really into Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath and then started his own band. Riff out, ye wizards.

Happy Yule to all celebrants! Tell jokes by warm firelight and listen for the clip clop of the Wild Hunt. Eat the foods and drink the drinks, you know the deal. ❤️🕯️

Death of an AI Whistleblower Thank you Suchir Balaji

OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on his company’s mass theft of copyrighted work. In late November he was found dead in his home

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2024 Metal Albums for Normies 2: Crypt Sermon, “The Stygian Rose.”

Gothic, operatic tales delivered by mighty twin-lead guitars, smoky baritenor glory and a galloping rhythm section. This is one for the theatrical types who enjoy a little blood in their melodrama.

The way this year is dissolving into madness we’re about three days from “Introducing Bawk Tuah, the Perdue-HTGirl collaboration, chicken made for spit-roasting”

I love cherryh’s other stuff, I’ll check it out!

I don’t! Please enlighten me.

We align!

Favorite fictional sword?

I don’t use spotify, so in lieu of Wrapped, a miniseries: 2024 Metal Albums for Normies.

Castle Rat: “Enter the Realm.” A rockin doomy-melodic record, production with grit you can feel. Fantasy, but less shining steel than patina’d copper. Singer(pictured on cover) is haunting and powerful.

Transmissions from Somewhen

www.castlemantransmissions.net/fiction A list of all my to-date published fiction, with links! To be updated soon. :)

Thanksgiving Eve, make sure to listen for the clip clop of turkey feet on the roof

Introducing Actual Intelligence. Want prose that feels organic and properly thought out, like a real person wrote it? Turns out you can hire a real fucking person to write it.

Det. Prezbluesky

Congrats to Jackie Chan for being nominated Secretary of Not Stepping in Buckets and Getting Head Stuck in Ladders

I was gonna try a hydromancy gag but I feel a little out of my depth

Brian McKnight: One, you’re like a dream come true
Two, just wanna be with you

Me: I can’t believe we have to wait through 74 more of these to get to the trombones

I really should start giving a fuck what paul valery says.

I want to pronounce it like a Polish name i.e. “Yer a loose cannon, Bluesky”