Oliver Darkshire

new suggestion, when a company gets so large that it's in danger of gaining a monopoly we hold a special sort of arena championship for all the board members and we could call it the ambitious games or maybe the enthusiasm games or even the hunger games

A copy of Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire.

Early Christmas present from my sister. Looking forward to cracking this open over the winter holidays. @deathbybadger.bsky.social

if you hate it, you have to lie to me and say it was great, those are the rules

from a left wing standpoint, an ancient vampire living in their ancestral home and eating 500 peasants a year has more politically in common with you than a billionaire

the law is fickle, and money is powerful, but the good news is that transphobes cannot force you to be nice to them. so don't be

hm, I'm actually not sure, but publishing being what it is I expect not. libraries can get hold of it though! which is the next best thing (and is an excuse to go to the library...)

yea I'm not proud of it but it was what it was

it's just like when they let me read naruto thinking I might learn to draw or something and instead I discovered homoeroticism

I read a lot of Pratchett as a kid, and all the adults were like "those are not serious literature, but at least he's reading, he'll grow out of it" anyway I internalized the literary tradition

so many sparkling lights
they call to me
I must touch them
*mosquito zapping sound*

You🫵
Go read this immediately!!!

(Pretty picture as promised✨)
@deathbybadger.bsky.social

once a month or so, apollo blesses me with the gift of Sweet Lyric, Harmonic Verse and Banger Memes in 300 or Less Characters, in a different age I would be kept in luxury all my life as a prophet

ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence

googling "how long do moles live" like a fucking sociopath, they are going to send me to jail

I do want to take a pretty pic of this book I'm reading with the Christmas lights but first I have to share this paragraph LMAO "ethically agnostic"😂🫢

(it's Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by )

I am already scribbling

1d6

you're not /not/ in it

trying to convince the league of seven evil bottoms that it's not a competition for my attention when actually it is

at least it looks good. suits you 👍

ah yes the holiday necklace
that known article
the famous holiday necklace, a thing that exists. a normal thing to suggest

yes I am the kind of person who will start a diatribe about a show, realise you haven't seen it, spend a month or two watching all 8 seasons with you, then pick up my fulmination exactly where I left off

my husband never finished game of thrones back in the day, so we rewatched the series because I wanted to rant about it, and it remains quite impressive how the last 6 episodes ruin everything good about it like a slow motion tower collapse

interestingly, I don't think any version of the book has enough stories for 1000 nights, highest comes to about 700, I think? I may be wrong

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as always, the library of games, and other stuff, exists here:

www.patreon.com/cw/deathbyba...

a one page RPG called Scheherazade about telling stories to a Sultan so you can remain un-beheaded

it's time for another one page rpg, I expect, so here's a game called Scheherazade. yes I know that's an intimidating combination of letters, but it's a big world out there and I am doing the best I can with an alphabet made up by ancient romans, who had a wine-based economy

doesn't have to be a cis gay, and at this point I'll take any written medium, any grade of smut that reasonably justifies the moniker, doesn't even have to be published

so maybe I should have predicted this but every male writer of homosexual smut for the last 50 years seems to have untreated clinical depression, some of this porn could double as a eulogy, I've never been so sad reading about penises

someone could say "I hated your book more than life itself" and I would characterise to it everyone I met as "yea readers responded really strongly to the themes"