Black Myron
@blackmyron.bsky.social
Avid reader, writer, tabletop and video gamer. Physics degree. Likes to think way too much about the stuff I enjoy.
My unwanted opinion on how to deal with the non-problem of continuing James Bond: do something like the original Casino Royale movie - throw in 12 James Bonds, all completely different, in the same movie. Why not?
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My unwanted opinion on how to deal with the non-problem of continuing James Bond: do something like the original Casino Royale movie - throw in 12 James Bonds, all completely different, in the same movie. Why not?
Just found out yesterday that the classic 80s song "I Melt With You" was intended to be a love ballad set during a nuclear holocaust. I honestly didn't think that the title referred literally to people melting
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Just found out yesterday that the classic 80s song "I Melt With You" was intended to be a love ballad set during a nuclear holocaust. I honestly didn't think that the title referred literally to people melting
Found out recently that a member of the CSA cabinet fleeing the end of the Civil War with the gold from the Confederate treasury passed through the obscure Florida lake that I'm using as a story setting and I have to figure out a way to include that fact now #writingcommunity
October 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Found out recently that a member of the CSA cabinet fleeing the end of the Civil War with the gold from the Confederate treasury passed through the obscure Florida lake that I'm using as a story setting and I have to figure out a way to include that fact now #writingcommunity
I fully admit that I scour map images from Star Trek episodes to place systems and stellar objects now that they effectively use the Star Trek Star Charts book from 20 years ago as official
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I fully admit that I scour map images from Star Trek episodes to place systems and stellar objects now that they effectively use the Star Trek Star Charts book from 20 years ago as official
I finally did it - submitted my entry for the "Write Before Midnight" contest with 5 days and 3 words to spare! #writing #writingcommunity
September 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I finally did it - submitted my entry for the "Write Before Midnight" contest with 5 days and 3 words to spare! #writing #writingcommunity
Finished reading all the Elric books (up to the latest one), and now onwards to the Witcher series, since a new book is dropping in the States at the end of Sept #booksky
August 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Finished reading all the Elric books (up to the latest one), and now onwards to the Witcher series, since a new book is dropping in the States at the end of Sept #booksky
Finished reading the original six Elric novels. I had expected from reading about them that Elric would be more amoral, but his journey is about his morality rather than a lack thereof. Also, it's funny that his friend Moonglum has to constantly handle his basic finances for him. #booksky
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Finished reading the original six Elric novels. I had expected from reading about them that Elric would be more amoral, but his journey is about his morality rather than a lack thereof. Also, it's funny that his friend Moonglum has to constantly handle his basic finances for him. #booksky
When I decided to dust off my old personal databanks for Star Wars after a decade, due to the new Atlas update, I didn't expect I would have so much work. I still have about a dozen handbooks old and new to catalogue! #starwars
August 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
When I decided to dust off my old personal databanks for Star Wars after a decade, due to the new Atlas update, I didn't expect I would have so much work. I still have about a dozen handbooks old and new to catalogue! #starwars
Finished my story for the "Write Before Midnight" short fiction contest! Hardest part was keeping it under the 7000 word limit #writingcommunity
August 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Finished my story for the "Write Before Midnight" short fiction contest! Hardest part was keeping it under the 7000 word limit #writingcommunity
Ah, the twist and turns of life - putting aside working on a book to do a (maximum) 7000 word short story for something unexpected! 4200 in the past few days, so I'm happy. #writingcommunity
July 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Ah, the twist and turns of life - putting aside working on a book to do a (maximum) 7000 word short story for something unexpected! 4200 in the past few days, so I'm happy. #writingcommunity
It's odd that Conan's traditional nemesis, Thoth-Amon, is never met by him in the original Howard stories and in the 1st story only battles a monster he sent because Thoth-Amon wanted revenge on a guy who was also trying to overthrow Conan and was attacking Conan when the monster arrived
July 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It's odd that Conan's traditional nemesis, Thoth-Amon, is never met by him in the original Howard stories and in the 1st story only battles a monster he sent because Thoth-Amon wanted revenge on a guy who was also trying to overthrow Conan and was attacking Conan when the monster arrived
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I've always found myself on the "they're Men" side of the origin of orcs, but considering that the the regular orcs are generally shorter and two hobbits were able to disguise themselves easily, I'm wondering if there's a common origin there #lotr
June 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I've always found myself on the "they're Men" side of the origin of orcs, but considering that the the regular orcs are generally shorter and two hobbits were able to disguise themselves easily, I'm wondering if there's a common origin there #lotr
With all the Witcher 4 excitement going on now, I'm such a dumb nerd because I'm going "Wow, we're going to see Kovir in the next game!"
June 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
With all the Witcher 4 excitement going on now, I'm such a dumb nerd because I'm going "Wow, we're going to see Kovir in the next game!"
Everyone's got their own take on how the Fallout universe timeline broke from our own, and I'm no exception:
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When It All Changed: The Early History of the Fallout Universe
Fallout Season Two's teaser just dropped, and I'm busy playing Fallout 76 at the same time that I'm in a Fallout TTRPG campaign - so I supp...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Everyone's got their own take on how the Fallout universe timeline broke from our own, and I'm no exception:
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Tackling two Discworld books on the timeline before hitting the Really Big Questions: blackmyron.blogspot.com/2025/04/blam...
Blame The History Monks: The Discworld Timeline Part Two
Whew! So I finished reading all 35 of the adult Discworld novels, and I'm going through the various non-novel materials (the guides and ye...
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April 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tackling two Discworld books on the timeline before hitting the Really Big Questions: blackmyron.blogspot.com/2025/04/blam...
Who wants to make a fool of themselves trying to sort out the Discworld Timeline? I do! blackmyron.blogspot.com/2025/04/bigg...
Biggest Fool Of Them All: Tackling Discworld's Timeline
This year has been a good year for reading: the project I started back at the beginning in 2023 (and quickly abandoned) to read my own priv...
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April 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Who wants to make a fool of themselves trying to sort out the Discworld Timeline? I do! blackmyron.blogspot.com/2025/04/bigg...
All the buzz about Atomfall is that it "isn't the British Fallout", and having played it I can agree - it's the "British STALKER". You play an amnesiac, you're in a Zone (divided into minimaps) full of mutations, around an exploded nuclear power plant.
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
All the buzz about Atomfall is that it "isn't the British Fallout", and having played it I can agree - it's the "British STALKER". You play an amnesiac, you're in a Zone (divided into minimaps) full of mutations, around an exploded nuclear power plant.
In the old 1980s adventure game Time Zone, you can kill Brutus to stop him from stabbing Caesar, but once you leave the game taunts you that Caesar immediately dies anyways tripping and hitting his head. If you then kill the Senate, the game goes "Oh, you're like that" and ends
March 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In the old 1980s adventure game Time Zone, you can kill Brutus to stop him from stabbing Caesar, but once you leave the game taunts you that Caesar immediately dies anyways tripping and hitting his head. If you then kill the Senate, the game goes "Oh, you're like that" and ends
In the middle (Hogfather) of a from-the-beginning Discworld readthrough, and didn't realize today was the 10th anniversary of his passing. So, here on the Roundworld clacks, GNU TERRY PRATCHETT. May your name circle 'round until the end. #booksky
March 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In the middle (Hogfather) of a from-the-beginning Discworld readthrough, and didn't realize today was the 10th anniversary of his passing. So, here on the Roundworld clacks, GNU TERRY PRATCHETT. May your name circle 'round until the end. #booksky
Working on a bit on my Zork homage, and realized I got stalled on adding extra bits instead of focusing on finishing the main game, which is collecting the traditional 20 treasures. Is having fake treasures an awful thing to do to a player? #interactivefiction
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Working on a bit on my Zork homage, and realized I got stalled on adding extra bits instead of focusing on finishing the main game, which is collecting the traditional 20 treasures. Is having fake treasures an awful thing to do to a player? #interactivefiction
February's almost over, but can add 9 more Discworld novels and 4 Newhon novels - onwards to the entire Thieves World collection, from the beginning! #booksky
February 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
February's almost over, but can add 9 more Discworld novels and 4 Newhon novels - onwards to the entire Thieves World collection, from the beginning! #booksky
Took a gander at my old unfinished interactive fiction game, "Sensitivity to Initial Conditions", an homage to the old Adventure/Zork games that kind of morphed into a critique of sorts. Thinking about trying to finish it up this year.
February 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Took a gander at my old unfinished interactive fiction game, "Sensitivity to Initial Conditions", an homage to the old Adventure/Zork games that kind of morphed into a critique of sorts. Thinking about trying to finish it up this year.
Final tally for Jan: All 9 Elric books, 3 Discworld novels, and the complete original Conan stories by Robert E Howard. Not bad, but hopefully I can do better for Feb! #booksky
February 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Final tally for Jan: All 9 Elric books, 3 Discworld novels, and the complete original Conan stories by Robert E Howard. Not bad, but hopefully I can do better for Feb! #booksky
Despite having a busy month, I've managed to read all 9 Elric books and reread the first 2 Discworld novels. Currently on "Equal Rites" and the complete collection of Robert Howard's Conon stories. #booksky
January 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Despite having a busy month, I've managed to read all 9 Elric books and reread the first 2 Discworld novels. Currently on "Equal Rites" and the complete collection of Robert Howard's Conon stories. #booksky