Jeremy Levett
@brosencrantz.bsky.social
Grumpy frog enthusiast. Recently started my own webcomic: https://oubliettecomic.com/
Writer of blogs and travelogues: http://brosencrantz.com
Writer of blogs and travelogues: http://brosencrantz.com
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I have been watching sumo since the late 1990s when American Pacific Islanders dominated the sport, then through the Mongolian era and of course Hakuho the GOAT.
This was one of the coolest, most exciting bashos I've ever seen. What a guy!
www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
This was one of the coolest, most exciting bashos I've ever seen. What a guy!
www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
Aonishiki: Ukraine sumo prodigy becomes champion in Japan
Aonishiki wins the November sumo tournament in Japan and becomes the first person from Ukraine to claim an elite-level sumo championship.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I have been watching sumo since the late 1990s when American Pacific Islanders dominated the sport, then through the Mongolian era and of course Hakuho the GOAT.
This was one of the coolest, most exciting bashos I've ever seen. What a guy!
www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
This was one of the coolest, most exciting bashos I've ever seen. What a guy!
www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
Note that thanks to Trump's idiot tariff nonsense I can't honour sales to the US (which is a big part of the problem.) Green, red and blue are still available in decent numbers.
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Note that thanks to Trump's idiot tariff nonsense I can't honour sales to the US (which is a big part of the problem.) Green, red and blue are still available in decent numbers.
This sounds like one of those lame fake "we are selling our business ;_;" posts but I promise it actually isn't: last chance to buy one of the black Matsumoto Hoji frog pin badges, I've got ten left and I almost certainly won't be making any more. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/7...
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This sounds like one of those lame fake "we are selling our business ;_;" posts but I promise it actually isn't: last chance to buy one of the black Matsumoto Hoji frog pin badges, I've got ten left and I almost certainly won't be making any more. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/7...
I feel like the “effort to anyone-giving-a-shit ratio” of blogging has not been helped by feeling anything posted publicly is going to be copied and fed without my consent into the slop engines. But creating is still fun and recording it still feels worthwhile. brosencrantz.com/2025/11/16/b...
but here I dreamt I was an architect
I have been rather more constructively engaged over the summer than might have been imagined.* Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the best and most hardcore city/logistics game ever, has a b…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I feel like the “effort to anyone-giving-a-shit ratio” of blogging has not been helped by feeling anything posted publicly is going to be copied and fed without my consent into the slop engines. But creating is still fun and recording it still feels worthwhile. brosencrantz.com/2025/11/16/b...
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The next Mortal Engines novel, Bridge of Storms, will be published early next year: philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/brid...
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The next Mortal Engines novel, Bridge of Storms, will be published early next year: philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/brid...
Now on the blog: Taipei's tallest building, oldest street, and largest ball. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/03/m...
August 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Now on the blog: Taipei's tallest building, oldest street, and largest ball. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/03/m...
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Let me counter by suggesting that every one of these should in fact say "you are a nerd and also wrong" except for Carolingian, which should say "you are a nerd and also correct."
July 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Let me counter by suggesting that every one of these should in fact say "you are a nerd and also wrong" except for Carolingian, which should say "you are a nerd and also correct."
July 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I was struck, during a lecture on the WW2 Eastern Front, by a distinguished British academic insisting on using loads of German terms (correctly pronounced, too) but absolutely none of their Russian equivalents. Did rather smell of cultural wehrabooism that time...
July 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I was struck, during a lecture on the WW2 Eastern Front, by a distinguished British academic insisting on using loads of German terms (correctly pronounced, too) but absolutely none of their Russian equivalents. Did rather smell of cultural wehrabooism that time...
This week on the blog: some hot (OK, pretty tepid in 2025, but hopefully entertainingly scornful) takes on Chiang Kai-Shek at his memorial in Taipei, and some lovely tea plantations. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/02/g...
June 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This week on the blog: some hot (OK, pretty tepid in 2025, but hopefully entertainingly scornful) takes on Chiang Kai-Shek at his memorial in Taipei, and some lovely tea plantations. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/02/g...
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You, a peasant, go to the beach and make sand castles.
Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.
Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You, a peasant, go to the beach and make sand castles.
Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.
Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.
The game's mechanics actually encourage Soviet urbanism and microdistricts: because you are responsible for providing all services, it's cheaper to build walkable districts than transport people to shops, and cheaper too to build denser and higher rise (so need fewer schools/shops/kindergartens).
June 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The game's mechanics actually encourage Soviet urbanism and microdistricts: because you are responsible for providing all services, it's cheaper to build walkable districts than transport people to shops, and cheaper too to build denser and higher rise (so need fewer schools/shops/kindergartens).
I’m actually building a horrible industrial city with cheap workers’ barracks right now because I want to save resources for a big glam Stalinist skyscraper across the river to attract western tourists.
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I’m actually building a horrible industrial city with cheap workers’ barracks right now because I want to save resources for a big glam Stalinist skyscraper across the river to attract western tourists.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic does this well! All resources are simulated and better buildings cost more, so you are materially incentivised to build "just good enough" cities and services (steel is a particular bottleneck and there are always loads of other things competing for it).
June 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic does this well! All resources are simulated and better buildings cost more, so you are materially incentivised to build "just good enough" cities and services (steel is a particular bottleneck and there are always loads of other things competing for it).
This year has been so mad I've been to two more countries before having a chance to get out any more Taiwan blogs. But I'm going to do the thing properly! This time: Lungshan Temple and the National Palace Museum. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/01/a...
May 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This year has been so mad I've been to two more countries before having a chance to get out any more Taiwan blogs. But I'm going to do the thing properly! This time: Lungshan Temple and the National Palace Museum. brosencrantz.com/2025/04/01/a...
This week on the blog: Taroko Gorge! brosencrantz.com/2025/05/05/t...
May 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This week on the blog: Taroko Gorge! brosencrantz.com/2025/05/05/t...
Taiwan travelogue #2, mostly featuring RAIN and MUSEUMS with DELIGHTFUL ART and HIDEOUS REPRESSION. brosencrantz.com/2025/03/30/p...
April 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Taiwan travelogue #2, mostly featuring RAIN and MUSEUMS with DELIGHTFUL ART and HIDEOUS REPRESSION. brosencrantz.com/2025/03/30/p...
I went to Taiwan! Back in the travelblogging saddle after many years (fear it's a bit rambly; I'm out of practice.) First entry: night markets, very damp atmospheric old town, a cat village, abandoned coal mines.
More soon.
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More soon.
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April 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I went to Taiwan! Back in the travelblogging saddle after many years (fear it's a bit rambly; I'm out of practice.) First entry: night markets, very damp atmospheric old town, a cat village, abandoned coal mines.
More soon.
brosencrantz.com/2025/03/29/o...
More soon.
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Spotted in south London chilling on a POANG.
March 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Spotted in south London chilling on a POANG.
very occasional blogpost: I bought a wicked new shoulder bag brosencrantz.com/2025/03/09/a...
a breakdown on the main production line, a small oversight in the machine design
A change from comic posts – an entry in the occasional (like… every ten years or so) genre of “I am actually spending money on buying myself something nice” posts. I have wo…
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March 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
very occasional blogpost: I bought a wicked new shoulder bag brosencrantz.com/2025/03/09/a...
Karst Vinegar. Hmm. That actually sounds pretty good.
February 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Karst Vinegar. Hmm. That actually sounds pretty good.
brosencrantz.com/2025/02/19/o... I've been making my webcomic for a year now; here are some thoughts on what I've learned.
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
brosencrantz.com/2025/02/19/o... I've been making my webcomic for a year now; here are some thoughts on what I've learned.
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Here’s a trailer for my next home-made blockbuster, the Cream Tea Western PRAIRIE RASCALS.
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Prairie Rascals Trailer
YouTube video by Bonehill Films
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January 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Here’s a trailer for my next home-made blockbuster, the Cream Tea Western PRAIRIE RASCALS.
youtu.be/CtolT7CHQRQ?...
youtu.be/CtolT7CHQRQ?...
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Two more pages of OUBLIETTE! That's it for the January update - but more coming next month. oubliettecomic.com?webcomic1=3-09
January 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Two more pages of OUBLIETTE! That's it for the January update - but more coming next month. oubliettecomic.com?webcomic1=3-09