Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium

Having a physical place to sell original art has given me an excuse to think about my paintings as objects again! Today I am testing some wax medium as a way to seal gouache paintings on wood, so I can safely paint on cradled panels and sell the originals unframed, as treasures to be displayed.

To be fair to Past Eppy, waiting was likely the correct course. Specifically, waiting until @ndpdesign.com and I joined forces as the @unwrittenearths.bsky.social and pulled @portablecity.bsky.social in to do art direction.

This is not a thing I could do by my lonesome. Not in this day & age.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

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Some PSAs for things I am glad to have found over the last couple of years:

refuseuline.com/Alternative-... - uline sucks, there's other options!

ellipsus.com - a free, full-featured collaborative writing option that isn't Google Docs!

www.freetaxusa.com - USA, you do not need to pay TurboTax!

As I mention here: bsky.app/profile/epid...

The Eidolon Folios will be available in the PDF version of the game, so you don't have to shell out for the physical rewards unless you have a need and the means.

🎭 Limited Edition Tone Bones: Custom dice, which you absolutely don't need to play the game... But I absolutely do need. I have my favorite pair of d6s, the ones I designed the game with. And I have stone d6s that I display but never use for fear of chipping them. And yet, I still need these.

🔮 Eidolon Folios: Decks of fantasy illustration cards to inspired your rogue creation, but also to give you and your fellow players the experience of being the art directors for your own personal campaign. Pick and choose art from these amazing artists to dial in the sword & sorcery vibe you seek.

So, here's the dream coming true:

⚔️ An illustrated book containing the original rules, plus all the material I've written for it over the past decade, including previously unpublished material. Include a handful of ways to learn or reference the rules, to accommodate a range of tastes and needs.

A black and white photo of Pious.

Four comic & pulp magazine covers by Pious: Marvels of Science #1 (1946), Blue Bolt #53 (1945), X-Venture #2 (1947), and Sports Fiction (Winter 1943).

Robert Pious (March 7, 1908-Feb. 1, 1983) was a painter, illustrator, & cartoonist. His work appeared in books, magazines, & comic books from publishers such as Fiction House & Novelty. In 1933, he produced the comic strip, The Dopes, that was syndicated in Black newspapers. #BlackHistoryMonth

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.

Swords Without Master A ttrpg of strange sorceries, ferocious deeds, and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

I spent so much time over the last decade wringing my hands about putting together a stand-alone version of Swords. Largely because I didn't have the resources to do it justice and I was worried there wouldn't be the interested to justify it.

What a fool I was.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Flyer taped and torn to a pole: “YOU WILL GET AWAY WITH IT. Lose paperwork, make food wrong, decaf instead of regular, over tighten lug nuts, strip spark plugs, delete Jira tickets. IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES. YOU CAN FIGHT ICE WITHOUT ANY RISKS. everything adds up, you have no excuses anymore, just do it.”

Please refer to my bio, but I reiterate. It is February.

Ya'll gonna have to play my shit. Post the screenshots. Link me the APs. All of that. If ya need some assistance, I can facilitate that, but I'm honestly tired of getting slept on.

Go to fallonmyblade.itch.io and pick a game. I'll wait. TY.

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

We have two more weeks for Swords Without Master! Check out the campaign for all the info on:

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In case you ever needed proof that the mainstream media is a complicit arm of propaganda for a fascist regime and deserves no credibility or respect.

Not framing a reported $75m movie making $7m as a flop, but as a triumph and a record breaker. In a headline-over-article world, this matters.

this launches tomorrow I'm not nervous YOU'RE NERVOUS

The next #babashka version will have an improved console REPL. No more rlwrap needed. Multi-line expressions can be entered and edited. Moreover: completions!
Test out the dev version with:

bash <(curl raw.githubusercontent.com/babashka/bab...) --dev-build --dir .

#clojure

To be clear, “con games” means games where you play con artists, but almost all my games are also good at one-shot convention games!

A digital illustration of an attempt to make a fake illuminated manuscript. There’s a fancy illuminated drop capital M. Lots of medieval-type ornamentation, a little illustration in the corner of a rabbit with a battle ax having some sort of confrontation with a little bipedal lizard thing that has an arm instead of a neck and head which is holding a dagger. There’s an orange dragonish beast wrapped around the top of everything and lettering done in some kind of fanciful script reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’

if you see this post your dragons 🐲

if you see this post your dragons 🐲

photo of an illustrated calendar

photo of a row of hand painted wood mini shields hanging on a chalkboard

photo of a small wood banner painted, it's leaning against a chalkboard

I've discounted all my calendars, even if January is basically over you can still use the calendar page as a postcard and have 11 other months to use the rest of it

pamwishbow.com

Also I put a bunch of new painted wood banners up if you missed the chance last month

Ilustração de um vampiro cangaceiro de cabelos longos com uma espada na mão andando por uma paisagem desolada à noite.

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

Mysteries abound, but none more opaque than helmet mysteries.

If you embroider or cross-stitch & are interested in mutual aid, I think that I'm going to organize an event where folks can sell their work and donate a percentage of proceeds to a couple of local mutual aid groups. May 16 or 23. I need to find a location here in NYC. I'll circle back with details.

Pringles, Nutella, Cheerios Among Thousands of Products Recalled for Exposure to Rodent Waste The company is urging consumers who purchased the affected products to “destroy the products as soon as possible,” per the recall announcement

There's a massive food recall (including Cheerios, how I found out) yet the only news article I can find about it is on People dot com. What is going on?

Nuff said
#fuckice #hellboy #comicart

Pinocchio's terror when first he poops.