Alex Hamilton

Feeling a little giddy today after getting the first (text) review for my novel. What better motivation is there than this?! #amwriting #booksky

It's about a young man betrayed by Rome. Enslaved, press-ganged, and forced into a war he never dreamed possible.

For those who like:
🛡️ Bernard Cornwell / Simon Scarrow
⚔️ People getting stabbed with purpose
🏛️ The Roman Republic tearing itself apart

www.amazon.co.uk/Boar-Eagle-B...

During COVID, I started writing a novel about Romans hitting each other with historically accurate swords.

It’s called The Boar and the Eagle and it’s now out in the wild, and sold 100+ copies!

Gritty, grounded, and full of betrayal, sandals, and bad decisions.

#amwriting #booksky

"Why does my cat insist on begging every time I eat?" I ask myself, dropping a small piece of ham onto the floor. "I don't know where he's picked this up from," I add on bended knee, delivering the leftovers into his domain.

The cat in question

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

New year, new #amwriting goal: One short story published *somewhere* each month. Try to build some momentum for another big writing project in the future.

Used to see them over Lake Malawi. Locals would come down to the shore with fine nets to catch the flies, squish them up into burger patties. Surprisingly tasty!

It's impressive just how much of a nosedive the writing on Netflix's Castlevania takes after the first two seasons.

Looking from the outside in it'd be absolutely mad for Spurs to sack Ange Postecoglou. 11th with a GD of +14, still missing half the team... Potential for a lot of humble pie to be eaten by analysts next year.

Ashley Williams seems to be struggling to grasp the concept of a wing back on #MOTD.

Annual Wank-Pass for Mount Wank.

Must remember to renew my Annual Wank-Pass.

Begging at the feet of an oligarch-in-waiting. Very normal behaviour.

Soon be into the third day of no water thanks to SES Water breaking their treatment works nearby. As much as I like roleplaying a Victorian urchin washing myself in a tin tub I'd like it solved tbh.

War of the Rohirrim: Pleasantly surprised by how good it was, a few animation and dubbing issues aside. Now kind of interested to see what it sounds like in Japanese.

MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast

MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek

"I have poor time management skills and am even more detached from the average person than you originally thought possible."

Someone help me, I reinstalled Stellaris and can't stop excavating alien archaeological sites and building orbital hydroponic ecologies.

Haha that's a nice touch!

One of my favourite things about Warhammer Rogue Trader is the incredulity with which your companions react when you do something that isn't violent, bigoted, or authoritarian.

So scared of it now I end up doing 3-4 super thin coats every time haha

I picked 40k back up in August 2023 and stupidly chose white as my first main colour.

Learned my lesson quickly! Also I worship at the alter of contrast paints regularly.

Still learning to do edge highlights properly.

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

Imperium of Man Facebook group post titled : you say space fascism like it's a bad thing.

You can always count on Warhammer40k "fans" to completely miss the point of a grimdark dystopia.

Ooooh sweet! Where was this?

Screenshot from reddit of a screenshot from Twitter, in which Elon is commenting on a screenshot from Avowed posted by another user. The screenshot shows the character creation overview screen, including character pronouns. Elon and the other user are whining that pronouns are preset.

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I wanted so badly to make him mad with my game, and I cannot believe it actually happened.

Just wait until you see the default, you said little shit.

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Returning to work after a week away and having to spend a minute remembering all your passwords

My cat brought in a whole uneaten sausage roll from outside. Wrestled it off him and he returned 5 minutes later with a second uneaten sausage roll. Is he just rocking up at Gregg's?

Some shots of my time in Osaka this weekend. The kitchen of Japan as wonderful as always.

Preparing for a 14hr flight by downloading all the indie games I've neglected onto my Steam Deck.