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Yeah I try and imagine how they must have felt being the last Cumbric speakers of the North, but at the same time the Govan Stones reflect an openness to different cultural influences.

In some sense similar to vikings in being a warrior culture but also with a flexibilty to change

comic cover for the Hogback Saga a Viking wears a helmet reflecting swords and flames

Norse warriors assembling into ranks for battle

Two feuding Norse men cease their conflict due to the presence of the Oath ring of Dublin, a sacred object associated with Thor

Hello to my new followers! On top of posting round Robins I also draw a Viking-Age comic called the Hogback Saga. Its about groups of Norse settlers that have been ousted from Dublin trying to form a new community as part of Strathclyde, the last kingdom of the North Britons.

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Mr March says to himself

"Wait! Is that an Australasian Grebe? Here?!

"No. My mistake. It's a duck"

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus (*) to all of the Welsh persuasion!

(*) and where's my Welsh Cakes! Delish

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

The general choice of figure is great, and the shield designs are excellent in choice and execution

If the thinking is the same as it was 19 years ago up here, the thinking is that the voters are theirs, stolen by other parties

It seems reasonable that no party in any system should take voters for granted, even “tribal” votes, unless you are a totalitarian state, as the tribe can shift

I like these very much

Give that man a cigar!

No!

A box of cigars!

Heart raises, then drops, Kobo yes, but not US

I break down boxes and fresh what I can of stuff, harder than it used to be as my ground pressure is less than it was

Then you can't get it into the blue bin because of contained empty air! Eejits!

It is hard to say which advert series is worse, the Rana "she hates this man she has to pretend to be in a relationship with" one or the Numan "Buffet Boy" one where I feel really sorry for the actor to have that on his CV

Blue skies, only some infrequent, wispy clouds. Looking East on River Clyde from the chain bridge, a small seeming moon top left in direction of the Clutha Bar

Cloudier night sky, moon peeking through a gap

The moon hanging around a while today

Watch @worldoftelly.bsky.social ‘s latest episode of UFO and you too can have your internet ads full of Gerry Anderson products 10 minutes later!

I wonder if the podcast will do as many do, and pivot to some RPG episodes but with the Space 1999 RPG rather than D&D

A UFO from the series UFO getting blown up.

Night all.
😴

the Labour party trying to paint a picture of why you shouldn't vote Green and it's "everyone will take drugs all the time and also engage in fundamentalist Islam"

of course people voted for that, it's Dune. you've invented Dune!

No flipping argument from me there

I would buy those certainly

I wish I had the funds to pay an artist to help me create graphic novel versions of THE GOBLIN CORPS and THE IRON DEVILS. I feel like those two novels, in particular, would work really well in that format.

(Anyone who suggests I use AI art to do it gets blocked. Seriously.)

(*) granted a P Celtic language would be historical but Gaelic whilst under threat, is still more alive than Cymric in Scotland

It is an inexpensive PDF and I had fun playing it, even though I screwed myself up, I did so in character!

3/3

Ossian: Roleplaying in the age of song - Seachdain na Gaidhlig Fàilte gu tìr Oisein; rìoghachd fo cheò nan seann sgeulachdan is cuimhne far nach robh crìoch shoilleir eadar sgeul is fionn-sgeul o chionn fhada. Based on ‘Basic Roleplaying’, this is […]

If you know the percentile “Basic Role-Playing” system of Call of Cthulhu/Runequest that is the system it uses

The author is trying to promote Gaelic, and includes Gaelic phrases that players might want to use, a Gaelic translation is on the way (*)

seachdainnagaidhlig.scot/events/ossia...

2/3

Ossian: Roleplaying in the Age of Song - Ossian-RPG | DriveThruRPG Welcome to the land of Ossian; a mist-shrouded realm of legend and memory, where the line between myth and truth has long since faded. In this world, your character is more than a mere wanderer or war...

Sure. It is set in the lands of the Picts, long before the Dal Riata spread East. Your character seeks to serve family and tribe against situations both natural and supernatural

The game was a one shot run by the author, non-violent solutions are plausible 1/?

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Message on Glasgow Central PA

"In the interests of Passenger Health and Safety, please do not eat the pigeons"

Seems fair

Alt, Hell as a ruined cityscape from the film Constantine

Cheers

Luckily the folks I interact with here seem a decent lot, so this is less stressful than the previous popular micro-blogging site is

Have you seen it lately?

As long as it lasts until we can get a new kitchen

For that we need to wait for another situation to resolve

It seems to surprise the Westminster press that a party with a core goal can have other concerns too

You think that they would have woken up to nearly 20 years of that being practiced

But they seem to want to fight the image they have constructed, not the actuality

I have a lot going on just now
- relatives in hospital
- being a carer
- operation coming up on short notice
- trying to get the place straightened out beforehand
- stressful job

BUT! I put new drawer runners in this morning and 10 minutes in the kitchen hasn’t collapsed so far. So there is that

Cute as anything

Fun playing the "Ossian: Roleplaying in the Age of Song" tonight

Tried to persuade a not very persuasive druid that they were, in fact, silver tongued