"Downton Abbey meets John le Carré in slow-burn cat-and-mouse thriller TRADECRAFT MANOR." A graphic novel by me and Leandro Fernández—coming March 23, 2027 from BOOM! Studios…I'm extremely proud of this one! www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-bo...
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I'll be at @captioncomicfest.bsky.social on Saturday. So will lots of cool folks over the weekend like @kierongillen.bsky.social @starspilli.bsky.social @karriefransman.bsky.social @streakofpith.bsky.social @kitsuneart.bsky.social and many more. How about you? www.brokenfrontier.com/caption-2026...
Caption Festival Brings Small Press Comics Community to Oxford with a Piratical Theme this Weekend - Trans Narratives, the BF Six to Watch, Well-Being and More All on the Programme – Broken Frontier
It's Caption 2026 this coming weekend of August 8th-9th and here's what you can expect from the programme of events.
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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Hemingway's baby shoes has nothing on the economy or affective power of these two words. I'm in pieces.
At the end of Cronenberg's Crash, when it cut to black and played Crash by the Primitives.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
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Small town terrorized by shark. Media starts giving a lot of airtime to the shark, allowing the shark to explain the logic behind its attacks. Shark becomes popular, and successfully runs for mayor on a platform of "sticking it to the woke anti-shark elite".
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
I didn't put this line in my Stonetop not-review but "GMing is a practise" is a great way to put a fundamental truth about that bit of the form.
JP Bradley@jpbradley.bsky.social · yesterdayYou might read this and think it doesn't seem simple, but the difference is just experience. Read more ttrpgs, and more varied rpgs, and run your games. Time will teach you how to read a game and understand what the important parts are to you and, crucially, your players. AI robs you of this craft.
Stewart Lee did do an extended bit about Liddle, but also about Liddle's essential repetitive emptiness www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-tQ... - that's the start of the Liddle bit, so you don't get haunted by the Katie Hopkins bit.
Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - Migrant Crisis
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Pre-orders are open for ROSEWOOD ABBEY's upcoming limited reprint. Order now and get it by September 2026. therolistes.bigcartel.com/product/rose... Investigate monastic mysteries like William of Baskerville or Cadfael of Shrewbury with Rosewood Abbey. 🥀 #TTRPG #CarvedFromBrindlewood
With the amount of stuff I've written on writing, I suspect most people would wish I'd gatekeep some more and shut the fuck up.
Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d agoSeeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.
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Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
"Are you working?" "Yes." "Is it on your work?" "...no." "Is it 2000 words on your first skim through indie-TTRPG darling Stonetop?" "Leave me alone." #ttrpg #indiettrpg
The Skim: Stonetop - Old Men Running The World
It is this organ’s firm and unyielding belief that one cannot review an RPG from reading it. You can review a manual, certainly, but you’re not reviewing the
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I'm reminded of when I turned to C when watching Westworld and solemnly asked her "What would you do if I turned out to be a robot?" and she laughed until she cried before gasping out, delighted, "but who would make a robot like you!" That, but my writing.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 5d agoFor writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.
Courtney Love is a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Fast and 2 Furiosa@hexadecibelle.fyi · 2d agoif you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.
You'll likely know @tomhumberstone.com from various things (his comic on the Luddites went large), but he's got a new one on the Gig Economy, couriers, the history of all that, specifics of exploitations and the fight against that. Read it, and spread it around. Strong. tomhumberstone.com/just-work
Just Work | Tom Humberstone
Just Work
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It’s important to research the fundamental historical facts for the period in which you set a story. The research: Siri, when did kenickie release Catsuit City?
Get ready for Caption (next week?!) and peruse this year's schedule 🏴☠️
I'm just imagining the composer of Into The Unknown sitting down and thinking "you know what Frozen 2 needs - a big song which even sung properly has haunting atonal properties, so will sound like the energetic murder of cats when kids have a shot, that'll be good, parents won't murder me."
If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …
When you’re listening to a lot of metal for a project and there’s a band you‘re digging and you’re considering whether you should google and find out what their politics are or not.
Hellraiser Lament Configuration: Open It
ALT: Hellraiser Lament Configuration: Open It
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Music videos with diegetic sound effects or dialogue that aren't in the song are ridiculous egotism from a director who hates the job they're doing, has reduced the standing of music in culture and mostly suck.
Al Ewing Writes Comics@al-ewing.bsky.social · 4d agoAlmighty-type “add a litre of drum machine” covers 1000% beat indie-ass “slow down a banger, make it sad” covers. See the ur-examples, PSB Always On My Mind and Gary Jules Mad World
Day 1 of #RPGaDay: Discipline. One of the best games I've written - and one of the most overlooked - is Disciplinary, in which you play a 1950s disciplinary committee reviewing a decision to dismiss a (probably) queer employee. www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
Golden Cobra Challenge
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On the D&D discourse: I've long planned to run 2e Dark Sun setting with some other system. I mention this in the chat
