In less than a week we have funded, and blown past three stretch goals! We have art from Simon Underwood, a map by Caster Jones, and now a shipping discount for all international backers! Help us get to 5,800 for double art by Simon; then...mystery stretch goals? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Seers in a Broken Season: A Stone And Sorcery Novella

Primal meets The Man with No Name in this Stone-Age fantasy tale. Walks-like-a-Rockslide, wandering warrior of the mammoth-people, seeks an end to the ice choking the world. Instead he finds war, whal...

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How can’st thou endure without being mad?

got my author copy of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social issue 9 a few days ago, and you should definitely pick it up, for the gorgeous cover and wonderful Arthuriana, Including my dark prose poem "A Toast to the Knights of the Trowly Wood"

Funded in under 24 hours! The Blue Ochre People trumpet your names, dear backers! Onward towards the first stretch goal: interior art by Simon Underwood! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Seers in a Broken Season: A Stone And Sorcery Novella

Primal meets The Man with No Name in this Stone-Age fantasy tale. Walks-like-a-Rockslide, wandering warrior of the mammoth-people, seeks an end to the ice choking the world. Instead he finds war, whal...

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Praise Yag-Kosha in style with a one-of-a-kind mammoth idol, called into being from fieldstone sourced out of the weird North (Canada) by our own Jonathan Olfert. Comes complete with our entire backlog (costs $) AND maddening knowledge from beyond the stars (free). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!

Over 66% funded in 4 hours! Can we get to 100% in just one day? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Seers in a Broken Season: A Stone And Sorcery Novella

Primal meets The Man with No Name in this Stone-Age fantasy tale. Walks-like-a-Rockslide, wandering warrior of the mammoth-people, seeks an end to the ice choking the world. Instead he finds war, whal...

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Congrats to our friends and herdmates at The Arcanist Literary Magazine! Funded within only a few hours! Let's get em those stretch goals! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

The Arcanist's Fantasy Magazines 2026

Pocketable magazines featuring Sword & Sorcery and Literary Fantasy fiction, Shadowdark RPG content, poetry, and critical articles.

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Seeing this number, and flashing back to a million Battlefront 1 lobbies, and Icecrown Citadel raids. Anyways; two hours in, and we're almost at 50% funded! Who shall push us over?

22 backers have joined the Blue Ochre People! Embrace your inner mammoth and join em!

Where strides the behemoth? HERE! Our new campaign for Jonathan Olfert's stone and sorcery novella, Seers in a Broken Season, has begun! Backers in the first 48 hours receive an exclusive bookmark! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Seers in a Broken Season: A Stone And Sorcery Novella

Primal meets The Man with No Name in this Stone-Age fantasy tale. Walks-like-a-Rockslide, wandering warrior of the mammoth-people, seeks an end to the ice choking the world. Instead he finds war, whal...

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With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

Announcing Ichor Magazine, an amateur magazine of sword and sorcery touched by the sublime. A home for new authors dipping their pen into the violet ink of unknown horror. Not ready for a NESS submission yet? We may be your perfect intro market. Opening for subs September 1st 2026

Cover art reveal! This is the cover art for Jonathan Olfert's ( @jonolfert.bsky.social ) stone-and-sorcery novella, Seers in a Broken Season. The crowdfunding campaign for it goes live tomorrow! The art itself is hand-painted by Brian LeBlanc, and depicts Walks-like-a-Rockslide himself!

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (2001)

An even darker, bloodier, and more intense sequel. Full review below!

Book of the New Sun-inspired RPG about nobles fucking around, going to parties, dueling, and eventually dying en masse when the Campaign Season rolls around. modality.itch.io/commonwealth

COMMONWEALTH by Michael Hansen

A far-future social climbing simulation

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I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do

Eventhough I enjoy adding colour to a lot of my "woodcut" styled piece I do also like the B&W versions 🖤 #b&wart #art #illustration

though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore

Art by • Christopher Rush

Having watched In the Mouth of Madness (1994) again, I'm convince the scariest bit of the movie is the dog running from the kids. That's the bit that gets me; not the jump-scares or the gribblies. Just that poor dog, eternally fleeing from the children.

132 mammoths have joined the Blue Ochre People! And thus, a portent appears! Sign up here to see more in the coming weeks regarding @jonolfert.bsky.social 's stone and sorcery novella, Seers in a Broken Season! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

The greatest, possibly of all time.

Classic Video Game Box Art@classicboxart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (1996)

Some things are simply Not For Me. Often, I can tell that such a thing is Not For Me without formulating a meaningful opinion about the thing itself, or what it being Not For Me says about it or me. And, because it's Not For Me, I'm not going to formulate such an opinion unless someone is paying me.

Devilry in Godling Wood will be out October 23. Thank you so much to the people who are supporting this novel by spreading the word, adding it on Goodreads, or reading an ARC. I try to surround myself with people who want me to succeed and cut out the rest. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Devilry in Godling Wood

They say Godling Wood was there when ancient magic stil…

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In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

RIP Melville, you would have loved modernity

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3w ago

I went to my little room in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.

One of my favourite Sam Neill things was the 1998 Merlin miniseries. (Isabella Rossellini as Nimue and the rest of the cast was fire too.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_...

to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out