Reminder that this one of the best progressive metal albums of the last 20 years or so aviations.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

The Light Years, by Aviations

9 track album

aviations.bandcamp.com

October issue

Randomly re-sharing one of the most crushing pieces of music that I know of. Not heavy, not metal, but will still unwind you like a kite's string and leave you drifting in a sea of melancholy. Just....impossibly beautiful. Warmth as a weapon. deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount

Recount, by Deaf Center

2 track album

deafcenter.bandcamp.com

Butt-Head: Let's Go!

ALT: Butt-Head: Let's Go!

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Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 2d ago

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I try to be the bigger man but sometimes I just can't help allowing myself some schadenfreude. Me: "user needs X!" PM: "no way they need X" go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X" STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU

Sometimes I wake up and I physically can't bring myself to open my inbox because I know there's so much stress and work waiting in there. This is healthy, right?

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

Reading John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time and it's just Shadowrun but written well? Hell yeah

Following up from @allieinchains.bsky.social's list, here's my list of Midnight Lightning Steel Power Metal And Also A Bunch Of Prog Power

Banger list. Pure midnight lightning steel.

⛓ X-Wing @ Alicianess ⛓@allieinchains.bsky.social · 3d ago

My Top 30 Power Metal albums of any era, style, region or genre overlap. Just fucking power metal as a whole. 30 albums I'd die for 30 albums to test if you really "don't like power metal" or if you just heard some BS meme band that doesn't even sound like real power metal Genre tags in alt text

Mortal Shell 2 is a deeply unserious game (complimentary)

Me

⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️@fiadh.bsky.social · 5d ago

🎨 obh_design

I am absolutely insane and stupid to keep Heavy Blog alive but I will continue doing so until my fingers fall off

One of the most underrated bands I know. If you ever want to get a kind of exquisite, scintillating sort of sad, with just enough light in there to make it hurt that much more, these are the guys for you. Exceptional. towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...

Echus Chasma, by Towers Of Jupiter - Echus Chasma

4 track album

towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com

Happens to be one of my favorite essays I've written! And since I've written it, I've found more and more examples of works working against the underlying privileging of "center" over "periphery.

Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine)@wolfbridge.bsky.social · 5d ago

My favorite essays are the ones that continue to generate discussion long after they've been published. This piece, by @tallesteden.bsky.social, was published in May of last year and is currently #1 on the site. www.typebarmagazine.com/weirding-the...

Not finishing novels you don't enjoy is the sign of a mature, discerning and healthy reader, actually. If you feel even a little bit of guilt over it - do not.

God I am just LIVING for the M. John Harrison Renaissance, truly. I remember rambling about Light and Viriconium to anyone who would listen and just being incoherently enthused when I first read Nova Swing. And now everyone is singing his praises alongside me, it feels so good.

The faster you learn that philosophical ideas are tools to be combined rather than proof-complete closed systems, you can actually start using philosophy properly.

Nor'easter? I hardly know 'er!

I've heard enough: new Boss Keloid is AOTY.

20 years since we lost one of the best and most underrated writers of SFF and beyond. Still CRIMINALLY underread. Go read Growing Up Weightless, PLEASE

Andrew Plotkin@eblong.com · last wk.

I've been quoting bits of John M. Ford, who died twenty years ago this morning. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/09/twen... “There's not the time to stand still in the corridor / waiting for life to make sense after all.”

I was so skeptical and hesitant coming into this release but The Ocean still have the juice. The lineup change was the best thing they could have done and Lane Shi is such an amazing vocalist.

Heavy Blog is Heavy@heavyblog.bsky.social · 7d ago

It all builds up to something much more exciting than just a retread. Rather, it's a rethink, an approach to the band's past that insists not just on regurgitation but a reprocessing. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/09/25/the-ocean-solaris/

I am really really really tired from crying about Chaucer but I guess my body/brain have not had enough

Random reminder that I'm part of a (mostly dormant, for now) band and we made a bright-eyed progressive metal album about my own original, UKL inspired, space opera science fiction :) instar1.bandcamp.com/album/the-ex...

The Ex Nihilo Cycle, by Instar

6 track album

instar1.bandcamp.com

One of the biggest and most common deficiencies I've seen in my career is people's absolute incapability to properly estimate problems with users. A user reports an issue and they spiral into apologies or talking about how bad the problem is. No one cares. What is the impact, what is the solution.

And The Vanished Birds and Waves Without a Shore and The Winged Histories and The Mulai and Synners and

undiminished somewhere 🌕@tallesteden.bsky.social · 2w ago

Five Ways to Forgiveness deserves to be as big as The Left of Hand of Darkness but also A Stranger in Olondria, Growing Up Weightless, Memoranda, The Only Harmless Great Thing, Gnomon, OK I'll stop there but wait, there's Stations of the Tide and Web of Angels and Lord Demon and...

Book good

Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · last wk.

Spies and the City: @katepreach.bsky.social reviews Premee Mohamed's WICKHILLS (@torbooks.bsky.social)

Reminder

undiminished somewhere 🌕@tallesteden.bsky.social · last yr.

Gaze upon 90's m john harrison and be soothed

If you can read this without crying, I don't know what to tell you. Good crying to be clear, that so many people are fighting the good and hard fights to keep our paradise among the stars vibrant and alive.

Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · last wk.

The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon

UKL Cat lives on.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last wk.

A quick note to say that Pard is doing great, living his best life (though he's had several of those, as appropriate for a cat). He does not look his age, does he?