Ian

A juvenile secretary bird

This picture of a juvenile secretary bird appeared on my tumblr feed the other day and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. the legs, the hairdo, the expression?? what am I supposed to do with this information

Wishing Rosie all of the best and a swift recovery, what an amazing thing to be doing!

Cover for Brigands & Breadknives, depicting a campfire scene with an elven adventurer, a rattkin writing letters in the back of a wagon, surprised by a goblin in a patchwork coat brandishing a breadknife, with a demon chicken on their head. Okay, so it's hard to describe.

Oh, hi there! It's cover reveal day for Brigands & Breadknives, with art yet again by the amazing @emberwickart.bsky.social-
I love it so ❤️
Coming Nov 11 '25 from @torbooks.bsky.social-

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

i think once you hit $1 billion it should be legal to keep the money, but also legal for everyone else to be able to hunt you down like a dog. running man type shit. its open season as long as you're over $1 billion.

writing eldritch horror vs gothic horror

Good morning

I just came back from one of the most amazing D&D sessions I've ever run in my life.

For context, in the last year I've been working as a professional DM, and one of my gigs is running games for kids in a camp setting here in LA.

My table has been known as the most chaotic of the bunch.

I know this isn't going to make processing the better sourced article on Neil Gaiman any easier, but folks.

Death of the Author is a framing device for analyzing works and doing critique.

It is NOT pretending the author doesn't exist, especially when that's not how art works.

Did they ever explain the in-universe reason the baby shoes were never worn? I know there are fan theories or whatever but did they ever actually address it in a spin-off? Or are the writers being lazy again 🙄

Love a good ship!

what if the lovecraftian gods were made of beer and they were The Great Cold Ones

Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater. The eel is yellow in color, with a piercing eye and adorable nostril horns. You can just see one of its fins at the edge of the picture. The eel looks to be smiling, but not a jovial smile. It's the uncertain but hopeful smile of a man meeting a blind date at a biker bar. The eel is swimming low in the water, just above a sandy-looking bottom. It's shadow looms just below it, a negative-spaced eel that reminds you of the fragility of meaning and the patience of the following dark. Imagine, if you will, that this is the last eel in the world. And *you* have to break the news to it. How would you feel? Wouldn't it be better if you could tell it that a renewed focus on eels in human history has led to a revival of the species? Let's do that. Meme text reads: "Have you seen my friends? I'm lonely"

Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.

Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.

But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
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Lovely! Bog standard strawberry with just a touch of the cream flavour, delish

Tea! Day one is a Stawberries and Cream tisane that I'm excited to try this evening

Such a good clown, she's the whole circus xoxoxoxoxo

Happy birthday Guan-tilly-mo Bae

"how do i start writing horror?? how do i write scary fiction" you literally just take a little guy (gender neutral) and you make them do fucked up things that is literally it