chilton 👁

A bunny runs excitedly down a beach at high tide, to a greenish bottle that has just been washed ashore. Inside the bottle is a rolled up message.

Daily bunny no.3253 is ready for an adventure

You know, that bony monstrosity you don't believe in. The one that's making your hands shake right now.

game character is at the bottom of what looks like some stone steps, close to some trees. they are saying: this looks like a tree from far away, but it's just more of that computer generated crap. this comes from the point and click command 'look at the trees'. down the bottom of the screen is a face portrait of the character and the point and click commands: walk to, look at (highlighted), take, use, talk to, swallow, give, push. to the right of this is mostly blank boxes for inventory.

harlan ellison: i have no mouth, and i must scream, screenshot, macintosh (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/617/har...

PSA: a lot of people asked for an ebook edition — and we’ve been able to put one together! And with hyperlinks, of course.

Wish I loved anything like the boys I know love civ. Wish I had a fraction of that passion in my heart.

I can tell my cousin is unemployed again because he’s yelling things like “THE INCAN EMPIRE JUST COMPLETED THE MANHATTAN PROJECT” from the living room at random intervals

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

Reminder: we are OPEN to reprints all month long! We are looking for reprints that cannot currently be read online for free! This includes stories that were never available online or are no longer online after a publication closed, etc. Find all the details in our guidelines!

part who-knows-what of an ongoing conversation with myself, in column form! these are not final, authoritative thoughts, partly because I am just not that interested in final, authoritative thoughts, but I do authoritatively feel that an us vs. them approach to genres is a mistake

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger.

ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

Dyke knights wip! ⚔️

chibi drawing of pinky☆ and michi from promise mascot agency by the kei truck on a beach at dusk

kaso-machi evening

Une entrée de la station Kodemmacho à Tokyo. La photo a été prise en 2018 et redessinée pour le plaisir. Oui oui! Pour le plaisir! Je suis normale!

You Are Elon Musk by Kris Lorischild A Billionaire Simulator

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:

YOU ARE ELON MUSK

200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY

direkris.itch.io/elon

Desert Vigil - desert animals paying their respects to a lone cowboy for this month’s riso print

Pier Paolo Pasolini #BOTD punched a fascist at a cinema in Rome in 1962.

"retail theft" is such a spectacular lie of post-pandemic reality-creation. it gave cover for companies to expand the surveillance state, raise their prices, and close stores in slightly less profitable areas, conveniently turning the actual solution (hire more employees) into a total non sequitur

SHIVERS - A grey rain falls on Martinaise. The city soaks in it, cold and dripping. Waves hit the concrete breakers. The homeless huddle by the fires behind the fences. There, among the shacks, is your home. Stay. Have a drink. Forever.

This 12th century Lewis Chessman piece depicts the berserker shield-biting practice of Viking warriors who gnawed on the edges of their shields in a rage-filled frenzy meant to terrorize their enemies.

📷from the British Museum's collection #WyrdWednesday

screencap from the above link: I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!

Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.

PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!

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“ICE/CBP YOUR ACTIONS WILL HAUNT YOU”

North Minneapolis, February 2026

Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson:

Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

Writing is hard. Writing is great. Writing sucks. I love writing. I wish I could stop writing. I cannot stop writing. Please help. Please leave me alone, I have another 3 pages to get through. Please read my work. Please never perceive this garbage I've created. Respect me. Ignore me.

If I slam that bara bada bastu trauma edition button forty times before my therapy session it might fix my life tho