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They/he. Variously, Theo deRoth, Edgar Mason, Charles-Elizabeth Boyles. Reading, writing, fiber arts. No fun ever. Part of brokenhandsmedia.com
[Early aughts car supply store commercial voice] GET IN THE ZONE IT'S THE ZONE
Cameron L. Summers@cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 7h agoSome thoughts on Zones as a recurring trope in literature and film (e.g., STALKER, Area X, et al.): Quite proud of it as a work of critique, the first downside is that "zonal" is an ugly word. The second downside was unexpected, but I was in too deep by then.
Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
A brief set of thoughts on the models of history and progress that we tend to use.
The Wheel and the Rocket: On The Shortcomings of Historical Models — Broken Hands Media
It seems to me that the emphasis on cycles is a kind of replacement for the various cycles that structured the world for many societies before modernity. The impulse to see cycles – as the seasons, a...
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Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Personally, I think that space is cool. I also think that the emphasis we place on it in our stories about the future is weird. The effect that these stories about the future have on policy decisions is also really weird.
Nimrodism: On the Outer Space Imaginary — Broken Hands Media
The rhetorical stew and tribalism and lack of forethought work out so that the vision being proposed is, essentially, that we’re going to tear down heaven and put up a data center.
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Fully recommend reading three books a week (on average), though eventually the dissociative quality does wear off and it's just you gnawing through books, and the horrors still there. Fortunately, the books often offer responses and solutions to the horrors!
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 3w agoSounds like a great idea! #BookSky
Late, but in earnest: a spate of book reviews, featuring some good, some bad, and a potentially concerning amount of the Laundry Files:
Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2026, part 5 — Broken Hands Media
I’m burning through books at a rate of about four a week because of this job. I’ll be back to dragging along in Edgar’s wake soon enough, as the school year picks up. Still, I’ve got two more weeks ...
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Strange and tender. @horrorsong.blog does not miss
Gavagai@gavagai.com · 3w agoIn today's featured Editor Pick: After a long winter alone, a man returns to the island that has always felt more intimate than any human relationship. Among its toppled trees and exposed roots, something seems to recognize him. It's Take Him by Joe Koch. Read it for free at gavagai.com
"A fact of life. We’re going to die. ‘Be of good heart,’ cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced — but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man’s name doesn’t matter all that much.”
Will McKinley@willmckinley.bsky.social · 3w agoI saw Orson Welles' F FOR FAKE yesterday w/ a rapt crowd. It startlingly prescient, predicting podcasts, youtube, memes. And like the proto-influencer he was, Welles inserts himself into each topic, playing the version of himself he knew we all wanted. It’s on @criterionchannl.bsky.social #FilmSky
It would make a happy birthday for you to finally follow the COME ON IN Backerkit. We've been waiting so long for you and have so much to show you. Like a free digital copy of the full game in Ashcan form. I'm so generous, I'm giving gifts on my birthday.
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Wes Franks@carrion-comfort.com · 4w ago33
La force des choses / Force of cricumstance - 1958 #artbots #magritte
Got another monthly round up here! www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/8/...
Edgar's Book Round-Up, July '26 — Broken Hands Media
We come now to the crown jewel of this round-up, a book I have been chasing since my first youth (or at least my early teens) and which I have finally read in its original language, over the course of...
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A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
Sharing this again because Cameron did a really good job talking about guys and gender.
Cameron L. Summers@cameronlsummers.bsky.social · last mo.Not sure how to lead in to this one. It's late, and I've had so much to do today. www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/7/29/gender-and-social-reproduction-ergodicism-2
Not sure how to lead in to this one. It's late, and I've had so much to do today. www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/7/29/gender-and-social-reproduction-ergodicism-2
Gender and Social Reproduction (Ergodicism #2) — Broken Hands Media
But it’s not necessary to engage in struggle sessions or self-flagellation, and it’s important to remember that thought-crime isn’t real. What matters is what you do and say, and so the work is to ju...
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KC ICE Free is hosting a School Supply Drive to support local families impacted by ICE as the new school year approaches. 💼 Now through August 17th, drop donations off at a nearby participating Monarch Business. Scan the QR code for the full list of supplies! ✏️ 🌹
Architecture au clair de lune - 1935 #artbots #magritte
it’s either warp or get wefted on this bitch of an earth
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.” Happy Raymond Chandler’s birthday!
Finally saw Backrooms; I stand by every thing I said about liminality here www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/4/...
Passing Through: on Liminality — Broken Hands Media
All of these places have similarities, mostly big windows so you can watch the planes taxi around, like megafauna for mechheads, but my point here is that, although liminal in function, they are not “...
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Working on an Apocalypse Keys mystery, and genuinely I did not expect it to be a much fun as it has been. I haven't run anything in a hot minute, but this has been great for me.
