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Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
Today on the blog - the story of a family caught in the middle of Charlemagneβs conquest of Saxony, featuring murder, exile and a daring rescue! #medievalsky
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Saint Boniface to the Frisians, moments before his death:
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Wacky graphic with flames in the background and text that reads "Thank you to our 666 backers".
π€666 backers AND we've unlocked a third author raise, on to more money for the artists!π€
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Recent Commissions!
Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3
The Sunday Guardian headline: Big Tech Loses $1.3 Trillion in 2026 as AI Spending Fears Trigger Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia Stock PlungeβWhatβs Happening? Follow-up says: Big Tech loses $1.3 trillion in 2026 as AI spending fears hit Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and Alphabet. Investors demand profit visibility. TSMC, Samsung, Walmart gain. The article is written by Prakriti Parul and was last updated yesterday morning.
genAI is dying repost to make it die faster
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Quick update. We bypassed our next stretch goal ($7,200) and I have the new one up. Let's get these creators bonused out!
Big announcement coming later today.
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Heh, cute but "hard". Heh heh.
18.02.2026 05:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Daube's paper on Theodora & Justinian's marriage published in 1967, is a rare example of an article that has aged very well despite great advances in the past 60 years in our knowledge about the age of Justinian and Procopius the historian and rhetorician: scholarship.law.edu/lawreview/vo...
18.02.2026 03:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Did you know sharing the original post here helps unlock bonus content for this year's issues?
Did you know you've already unlocked one bonus story and another is only nine shares away???
hey, it's Margaret St. Clair's birthday, so here's a little bit o' something from the blog: a discussion about her really interesting story "Brenda" from Weird Tales!
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Cover of "From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians", a collection of articles by Roger Collins
Another day, another book to review. Really looking forward to this one. An opportunity to revisit some classics, and there are some previously unpublished articles!
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Probably couldn't get away with putting this on a dice tray.
17.02.2026 09:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please read this, itβs more coherent than the thoughts of the richest assholes in the world, although thatβs not saying much.
16.02.2026 21:00 β π 23 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0Can't help but feel it's a missed opportunity to say "find out Mork" above the website address.
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Jeremy Swist, Charlotte Naylor Davis, and Shamma Boyarin T Editors l Premodern Worlds in Heavy Metal Music Volume 1: Critical and Practical ApproachesT
Jeremy Swist, Charlotte Naylor Davis, and Shamma Boyarin T Editors Premodern Worlds in Heavy Metal Music T Volume 2: Identities and Cultures
Full manuscripts have just been shipped off for production. Forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan's "Pop Music, Culture and Identity" series.
Huge props to my co-editors @metalbiblescholar.bsky.social & Shamma Boyarin for their teamwork, as well as our many contributing authors!
Wow, two volumes! Excellent, can't wait to read them!
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Anyway, if you want to read too many words on why Sparta was terrible and people who like Sparta are terrible for liking Sparta, check it out: acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
16.02.2026 18:11 β π 273 π 67 π¬ 5 π 5Commissar Yarrick's back!
And Ghazghkull's front!
Check out the full feature inside for more iconic fronts, backs, and sides!
A great Elric illustration by @neonufo.bsky.social, showing the white wolf holding his sword high as animalistic demons and smoke swirl around him.
A great Elric illustration by @neonufo.bsky.social, showing him somewhat tired and riding a horse.
An illustration by @neonufo.bsky.social of a drow-looking woman leaning low while holding a dagger.
A color illustration by @neonufo.bsky.social of a bare-chested warrior whose heart is shooting rays of red light out in all directions. The caption at the top reads "Triumph of the Self-Seeker".
ποΈWELCOME JIM BRIN!π¨
@neonufo.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! π www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
1853 novel "Clotel, or, The President's daughter: a narrative of slave life in the United States" by William Wells Brown, a writer and fugitive slave. the novel uses then-contemporary rumors about Thomas Jefferson to expose the brutal horror of chattel slavery in the US
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I swear the devil didn't make me do it.
Let's get that next story and story art!
Thanks everyone for your support.
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This is a great chat between @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social and @alexharvv.bsky.social not only for the insights into Alex's new book, but also because they touch on some really important stuff around being an independent researcher and the networks involved in that.
16.02.2026 15:38 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0As long as you have a mouth and can scream
15.02.2026 18:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wish that were me
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Swordlings,
We are spitting distance from a Jason Sholtis / Trey Causey S&S comic for Swords Against! Magazine.
Completely humbled every time I pop open Backerkit. Almost 300 people say this should be a thing. So great.
Share with your buddies and grandmas and that weird guy down the street.
A new post...
...with an update on 'The WFRP Story'.
#WFRP #Warhammer #Oldhammer
This weekβs writing from me β on mapping sea versus land, plus some thoughts from my own travels through sea-heavy lives and times
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2024-03-03 Table #63: Riddle me this, Sphinx⦠What has <d6> <roll on column A> in the <roll on column B>, <d6> <roll on column A> in the <roll on column B>, and <d6> <roll on column A> in the <roll on column B>? Column A 1. Legs 2. Heads 3. Eyes 4. Wings 5. Ideas 6. Problems Column B 1. Morning 2. Afternoon 3. Evening 4. Kitchen 5. Bath 6. Garden
Table #63: Riddle me this, Sphinxβ¦
#RandomTables #TablePerDay2024
sign reading HornΓ nΓ‘mΓͺsti
etymology fact: 'namesti', (square) is from na+mesto (on + town), the equivalent of 'on main (street)', while hornΓ of course means horny
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