Gareth Hanrahan

Gamergate is the Dreyfus Affair of the 21st Century and I don't even know if I'm kidding or not.

Ah, thank you! Definitely filler art then. (Which is mildly weird; if you're working on the Magic game, then one thing you're not short of is art assets!)

That's what I assumed, but I was intrigued by the possibility that it was a draft cover, and what that implied about the content.

I have a followup question.

... is that guy on the cover holding a gun?

SPUD

A photo of copies of the Collins paperbacks of Mythago Wood, Lavondyss and The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock. The cover art on Mythago Wood is by Peter Goodfellow, on the others by Geoff Taylor.

"Each dawn, since the hollyjack had come to the cathedral bringing her strange dreams, the boy had started to think of waking as the opening of petals, or a form of budding."

It's time to face the music
It's time for searing light
It's time for all things ending on the Muppet show tonight
It's time to dig a bunker
it's time to bemoan our plight
It's time to drop the curtain on the Muppet show tonight
How did we ever get here?
Oh we all truly know
They elected Muppets...

Just came across this line about a review of Eliott that also applies here. “Readers were told they would benefit from a dictionary, an encyclopaedia and a martyr’s spirit.”

I don't know if you can still get the paper rolls, but you can get guns with stupid rings of stupid caps and when your kids go through a Wild West phase and buy a million of them you find the stupid rings everywhere and they hurt when you step on them in the dark.

No, but if you also join the Shield of the Americas you get a 10% discount on green fees at Mar-a-Lago.

Watching a retro games video yesterday, and I caught a glimpse of the ABC figures for Amstrad Computer User.

The second-best magazine for the third-biggest microcomputer was selling… 63,000 copies per month. In the UK.

Incredible to think about how publishing has changed.

Hopefully some of this will be scaffolding and I can strip it out; at the same time I’m interested in scaffolding and how things arise even if they’re not totally germane to the story

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

Who's at the top of the thread, eh? Who cast the first post?

Q: What can you write easily?
A: 1000 words on the economic and cultural ramifications of wizards.

Q: What do you struggle with?
A: Characters talking to each other.

Q: What did you just write?
A: 1000 words of wizard nonsense.

Q: What were you supposed to write?
A: Not wizard nonsense.

See, I google that, and the first link is a local bookstore with it in stock, and it's only a tenner including shipping, and I can just click twice and now it's on the way and I literally have a few dozen books I *should* be reading and this is basically buying procrastination and yet *click*

Yeah, I'm wavering a bit myself.

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

Fighting my way through THE WASTE LAND - A BIOGRAPHY OF A POEM (Matthew Hollis). It's good, but every page I have to google a historical figure or poem or literary movement that I'd vaguely heard of but don't actually know.

Also A TIME OF GIFTS (Patrick Fermor) and THE GAME WIZARDS (Jon Peterson)

Rereading THE GAME WIZARDS and struggling through THE WASTE LAND - A BIOGRAPHY OF A POEM and it’s oddly reassuring that works of art that have shaped generations go hand in hand with really petty arguments over royalties and print runs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic A Talk With George

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Waiting on Wednesday – The Dungeon Book by Gareth Hanrahan Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy.  Stay tuned t…

For this week's Waiting on Wednesday, I highlight a cool and amusing upcoming fantasy novel, The Dungeon Book by @mytholder.bsky.social. I am really looking forward to this awesome read and I cannot wait to check it out.
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I imagine Zeno would be very relaxed about the Trolley Problem.

How was GAMA?

This war's main mudflap is Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, a man who achieves the rare feat of being both eager to show off his hard muscles and yet somehow also personifying erectile dysfunction.

Getting an early start on tomorrow’s Gist.

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The street finds its own uses for things.

Fascinating thread