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On the ring since 2026-03-18
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It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.I am still not over stuff that happened in 2023....
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Islands of Weirdhope, the maritime expandalone to ECO MOFOS!!, by the fearsome pairing of David Blandy and Daniel Locke, is currently crowdfunding.Scant hours left! The...
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CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the...
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NO SPUR BUT YOU, MY BROTHERA powerful gang of cockerels, a series of killings, and bitter quarrel between siblings.+++IN DEEP NIGHT, A COCKEREL CROWINGAn ill omen, folk say—of...
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A trader selling herbal medicine, her beautiful children, and a trail of empty cribs.+++A DAY FROM TOWN, BY A MUDDY BANKAuntie Sa is breaking camp. Her four daughters douse the...
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Names of places come difficult for me, too!I wrote Lorn Song as being suitable for slotting into any "peripheral" territory---ie: any region outside a metropole / imperial...
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rovee-eats-art:Made this for the crocodile, thought they deserved some fanart cause I love them so much and I couldn’t stop thinking about them.^———^( Ó w Ò) Hi @zedecksiew (...
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LIFE CYCLEA seed from a divine source, the tree it grows into, and the demon that follows.+++THIRTY YEARS AGO, AS THE SUN SETPrau Sa Pritiya danced. Her chest shivered, her...
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(Photos: Patrick Stuart, Scrap)Attention As DevotionIn Nottingham we visited the Museum Of Curiosities.It boasts “haunted items from around the world”, gathered via its owner’s...
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(Photo by Shuyi)A CROCODILE, EATING is an installation work, ritual performance, and shrine.It is part of WEIRD HOPE ENGINES, a contemporary visual art exhibition about...
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JUDGEMENT IS A BLADEShe is a good sorcerer, but a poor disciple. She finds it difficult to concentrate. When she arrives the bell has been struck—the lesson has already...
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Last weekend, 7-9 March, Sharon and I hosted a party.Because: It was my birthday the week before;Sharon’s “Portal” work, which began on our local beach, then travelled to the...
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THE PONTIANAK, IN FICTIONThe following is one of a pairs of essays I wrote as a Stretch Goal for A PERFECT WIFE.Pretty basic stuff for hantu aficionados, of course. But it is...
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What happens when a toxic man forcibly marries a murderous vampiress?A PERFECT WIFE is an adventure of contemporary supernatural horror, featuring the Malaysian pontianak, set...
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A PERFECT WIFE(It is Vampire Weekend! Have a pontianak-themed urban-horror investigative adventure. I wrote it with Kuala Lumpur in mind, but it should work for any big city...Linked by the ring
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EDIT:Freddie Foulds over on Bluesky found the post for me! It was a Chris McDowall post: Alien Dojos. This is now a fan post about the genius that is Alien Dojos.Every martial...
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This post is a brain-fart—me trying to jot a thought, lurking and seeing TTRPG folks react to GNS Theory for the upteenth time.+Context:GNS Theory seeks to frame, understand,...
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In “Replica, Aura, and Late Nationalist Imaginings”, the political scientist Benedict Anderson (most famous for his Southeast Asia scholarship and that definitive critique of...
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At her funeral Silver’s children did not cry. Their grief was dry as pyre kindling. They said:“We will sail east past the border. We will search for our mother in the shoals of...
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The opening of my soon-to-be-real Cairn RPG adventure, The Tide Returning, is a crime scene.The king of Zum and his sceptre has gone missing in the night. Hired to find him,...