@chrisdurstonish.bsky.social
Author, musician, doer of occasional stuff.
text reading: Today's instalment of the Inventory Tales is chapter 18, 'Drinks', in which Wren meets Juniper's family.
another day, another free chapter of my odd little item shop fantasy serial :)
28.10.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text reading 'Today's instalment of The Inventory Tales is chapter 16, 'Carol and Junie', in which we meet two experimental gin-makers'.
tuesday means a new chapter, and today it's 'Carol and Junie', featuring two good pals who love amateur chemistry and, bizarrely, serial novels
21.10.2025 13:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text reading 'Today's instalment of the Inventory Tales is chapter 15, More Lunch Plus Musings on Life and Stuff, in which Wren considers how the heck anyone ever really finds what they're meant to do in life anyway.'
in the latest chapter of my item shop serial thingy, Wren gets into a bit of a pickle with the sheer amount of food she's eaten but meets a nice healer with whom to have a conversation about, y'know, life and how any of us is supposed to work out what the heck to do with it.
17.10.2025 13:42 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text reading: Today's instalment of the Inventory Tales is chapter 12, A Portion of Extortion, in which we learn that some opportunistic dungeoneers have made the village dungeon into a big problem.
Chapter 12 is now live and you can read it for the price of zero money, for fun!
07.10.2025 13:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
a little bit late on the post, but yesterday did see a new chapter as scheduled!
04.10.2025 06:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
made a friend
02.10.2025 16:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A fantasy item shop, overlaid with text stating that the current instalment of The Inventory Tales is chapter 10, 'The Courier's Tale: Part 3'.
it is Tuesday, which means it's Inventory Tales Day
today's chapter is the final part of the Courier's Tale, in which we conclude the story of the good doctor and the flask that might heal you or might do the exact opposite.
Text reading: Today's instalment of the Inventory Tales is Chapter 9, The Courier's Tale, Part II, in which Doctor Cartiston faces a terrible moral dilemma.
In today's chapter of The Inventory Tales: the power of the strange flask is (sort of) revealed, forcing a doctor to make a decision.
26.09.2025 13:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text reading: Today's instalment of the Inventory Tales is Chapter 8, The Courier's Tale, in which we begin the tale of a doctor and a most peculiar artifact.
Today in The Inventory Tales, we learn the history of a most peculiar artifact via a tale concerning a doctor and his wealthy patient.
23.09.2025 14:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
a very normal and correct aspect ratio advert that popped up when I was reading some shitty clickbait article
19.09.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text reading: Today's instalment of The Inventory Tales is chapter 7, 'It's Me, Mercie Beiceuse', in which Wren gets her first customer
In today's edition of The Inventory Tales, Wren gets her first customer!
19.09.2025 10:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Part of the cover of The Inventory Tales, and text reading: Today's free instalment of the Inventory Tales is Chapter 6, The Hilarious Misunderstanding, in which Wren inadvertently gets a job.
Today's free instalment of The Inventory Tales is Chapter 6, "The Hilarious Misunderstanding", in which Wren inadvertently gets a job.
16.09.2025 13:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Inventory Tales is here!
A serial novel about a fantasy item shop and all the people and items that come through its doors, it'll be updating with two chapters per week, always free, for as long as I can keep it up. Enjoy!
Two chapter teases today, because I worked the days out wrong.
Chapters 1 to 5 of the Inventory Tales launch TOMORROW, for free and for fun and for all the good things.
"Let the last story people hear of me be a good one, eh? ... For the tale to be one of magic instead of a stupid man coming to a stupid end."
The Inventory Tales, a story about stories, launches on Friday!
"The story is the asides, as much as it's the beginning and the middle and the end and all the rest of it. Who's to tell me which parts of my story are the important ones, hm?"
Chapters 1-5 of The Inventory Tales drop on Friday - free to read, two chapters a week for as long as I can keep it up!
First five chapters dropping on Friday!
08.09.2025 13:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Coming next Friday: a story about stories, and also dungeons and magic and capitalism and stuff. Free to read, new chapters every Tuesday and Friday - with a bumper drop of five chapters for launch.
04.09.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Free story coming soon!
The Inventory Tales will be publishing two chapters per week from mid-September, and it'll be totally free to read.
Follow the page now at patreon.com/chrisdurston to get notified on launch!
Tom Morello has multiple albums of collaborations with plenty of people in different genres now - good stuff
30.07.2025 16:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0oh no not creepy ๐
yeah, he's best known for the track Passionflower, which went a bit viral several years ago now because he's doing a lot of the thing where he changes the note by tuning it as he's going
From Portal 2, no less :)
29.07.2025 15:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Of course!
I just woke up this morning and went "I haven't been on Bluesky in ages, wonder whether Pix has done a song share lately" and lo and behold
Oooh, that's a fantastic prompt.
I'll go for Tom Morello ft Steve Aoki and Tim McIlrath (of Rise Against) with this track that has banging riffs, dirty synths, and a proper head-bangy electronic beat all in one. (And some kind of appropriate lyrics to boot.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejl6...
This banger right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJK...
First heard The Warning when they supported Muse in Plymouth, then discovered Dead Poet Society through this collab. Now listen to them both very regularly!
I think I first heard this one when my baby girl was either on the way or very young, so I'm happy to admit it probably hit different because of that.
'Will I teach her my fears / If I try to protect her?' is a line I still find myself thinking about.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1f...
ok so this is potentially not what you meant but
i learned two things from Exile Vilify
one: that my comfortable vocal range is lower than I used to think
two: that a 6-4-1-5 progression (very common) can modulate a full fifth and sound really good somehow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Vg...
NEW Way Out, balls and bums
28.07.2025 09:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
wah, I totally missed this whole thing?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!??!?!???!!?!??!?!!
well, better late than never
to get me up for THIS week, here is No Way Out by Poppy from the album Negative Spaces, which I have had on repeat for many weeks now www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVN...
your kindness, sir, is legendary and I am deeply grateful โค๏ธ
09.06.2025 05:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
