Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
The other half of CyNic Stories.
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
The arty, fonty half.
Bad Sector now available from Amazon in paperback, hardback and KU.
She/Her
See our books: https://cynicstories.co.uk
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Nic Wilkinson
@nicwilkinson.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Bad Sector by Cy Dethan
"In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie - The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Killed.
Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him… again."
Now available on Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R
"In the sentient city of Expectation, an augmented executioner hunts the murderer of Everyday Carrie - The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Killed.
Permanent Mark is going to solve this case if it kills him… again."
Now available on Amazon
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXCFDL2R
Reposted by Nic Wilkinson
ADRPG attribute auctions, amirite?
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
How to avoid 'The Winner's Curse'
A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ADRPG attribute auctions, amirite?
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have waxed two more pieces inspired by @cydethan.bsky.social 's Bad Sector.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
They are
"Fall Without Fear"
And
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"
To understand them and their titles you'll have to read the book...which you can find pinned on my feed.
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Lapwing Stars by Tom Hirons.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
It was published in Falconer's Joy in 2018 (sadly now out of print but he's hoping to get a new edition out next year).
One of my favourite poets.
Check out his Sometimes A Wild God if you don't know his work and want a punch in the heart.
Ooh - look what I've got!
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ooh - look what I've got!
I mean they'd believe it, post to encourage them or not, honestly, but good Debunking here.
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
🧵
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I mean they'd believe it, post to encourage them or not, honestly, but good Debunking here.
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today I waxed
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
The Flower Bride of Frankenstein
"She wants to be flowers, but you make her howls."
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've been thinking a lot about Red Riding Hood, menopause, the 3 women and the wolf recently.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I won't put all my thought about here - I already made Cy listen to them.
But I did paint "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" about it.
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I have watched Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro and it is beautiful.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
I am off too sweep gothically about some ruins in a storm with a candelabra and a long dress.
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today's adventures in synaesthesia.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
Couldn't remember the word chartreuse for about 2 hours because that is a DUSTY BROWNISH PINK word that tastes like roasting chestnuts!
As if the shade of green it is didn't make me feel naturally ill the dissonance between the word & the colour gives me vertigo.
This is exactly it.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I used to call it 'bathos' when players would undercut tension, fear, or thematic worldbuilding in my #TTRPG sessions with absurd jokes/references. Then I heard Matt Mercer refer to the effect perfectly as: 'slapdickery'
It's too self evident, too tonally appropriate. It haunts me.
It's too self evident, too tonally appropriate. It haunts me.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is exactly it.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
I hate it so much when someone does this in a game.
If you don't want the high pitched emotional drama then go find another table.
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Did medieval peasants have more free time than you? No way! Think of all the eels they had to catch & prepare!
In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!
That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
🗃️🧪
In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!
That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
🗃️🧪
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Did medieval peasants have more free time than you? No way! Think of all the eels they had to catch & prepare!
In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!
That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
🗃️🧪
In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!
That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
🗃️🧪
Just came home with my best ever bag of shopping:
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just came home with my best ever bag of shopping:
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
✅️ HRT patches
✅️ Hot chocolate sprinkles
✅️ 1kg of Panettone in a beautiful I shall use for keeping art and crafts stuff after Christmas.
It's true, though.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's true, though.
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
When Morgan got back everything she wanted and lost everything that mattered.
She learned that you can while you can refract your fate you can't escape it. Just because she bent reality so her heart wasn't punched out by a monster it still got ripped out by a friend.
Real actual tears.
#ALIENrpg
She learned that you can while you can refract your fate you can't escape it. Just because she bent reality so her heart wasn't punched out by a monster it still got ripped out by a friend.
Real actual tears.
#ALIENrpg
A question for your Friday.
What's a character moment you're most proud of from a TTRPG game?
Something you keep thinking about, a heroic moment, a left field choice, a sacrifice. I'd love to know.
What's a character moment you're most proud of from a TTRPG game?
Something you keep thinking about, a heroic moment, a left field choice, a sacrifice. I'd love to know.
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When Morgan got back everything she wanted and lost everything that mattered.
She learned that you can while you can refract your fate you can't escape it. Just because she bent reality so her heart wasn't punched out by a monster it still got ripped out by a friend.
Real actual tears.
#ALIENrpg
She learned that you can while you can refract your fate you can't escape it. Just because she bent reality so her heart wasn't punched out by a monster it still got ripped out by a friend.
Real actual tears.
#ALIENrpg
"Rìgh na feansa ~ king of the fence"
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Rìgh na feansa ~ king of the fence"
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Colin Blanchard 2024
Linocut with deboss
Scottish printmaker
/artist
Sssh...the first little fire spirits of winter have arrived 🔥
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sssh...the first little fire spirits of winter have arrived 🔥
Glamour's not working, Mr Not Cat!
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Glamour's not working, Mr Not Cat!
Oh no!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Oh no!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
Now I will be a creepie sheepie!
It's Chippiversary!
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It's Chippiversary!
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
Neither @cydethan.bsky.social or I knew on this day 33 years ago that when the sun went down our lives would change forever.
I don't have any pictures of that fateful night, so this being the first photo of us, is a tribute (from about 6 months later)
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