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Metal, science fiction, history.
Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.
Fëanor was right.
Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.
Fëanor was right.
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Like this status to help me forge Ferrom, the night-shrouded sword I plan to use to kill the sun.
2026
IN:
Terminus Est
Dueling with avern leaves
Eating the alzabo
Plays
Horse riding (Thecla edition)
Touching weird statues without worry lol it's fine
OUT:
Maces
Taking your job as a carnifex seriously
AGIA
Falling into the sky
Nodules
Waiting rooms
Snails
The Autarch
Jonas :(
IN:
Terminus Est
Dueling with avern leaves
Eating the alzabo
Plays
Horse riding (Thecla edition)
Touching weird statues without worry lol it's fine
OUT:
Maces
Taking your job as a carnifex seriously
AGIA
Falling into the sky
Nodules
Waiting rooms
Snails
The Autarch
Jonas :(
December 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
2026
IN:
Terminus Est
Dueling with avern leaves
Eating the alzabo
Plays
Horse riding (Thecla edition)
Touching weird statues without worry lol it's fine
OUT:
Maces
Taking your job as a carnifex seriously
AGIA
Falling into the sky
Nodules
Waiting rooms
Snails
The Autarch
Jonas :(
IN:
Terminus Est
Dueling with avern leaves
Eating the alzabo
Plays
Horse riding (Thecla edition)
Touching weird statues without worry lol it's fine
OUT:
Maces
Taking your job as a carnifex seriously
AGIA
Falling into the sky
Nodules
Waiting rooms
Snails
The Autarch
Jonas :(
Take all your light
Leave it by the door
And slow your fire
In the circle of standing stone
Walk to me
Erase your name
In the weird depths, in the sunken cliff
Our fallowness
latitudesuk.bandcamp.com/track/fallow...
Leave it by the door
And slow your fire
In the circle of standing stone
Walk to me
Erase your name
In the weird depths, in the sunken cliff
Our fallowness
latitudesuk.bandcamp.com/track/fallow...
Fallowness, by LATITUDES
from the album Part Island
latitudesuk.bandcamp.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Take all your light
Leave it by the door
And slow your fire
In the circle of standing stone
Walk to me
Erase your name
In the weird depths, in the sunken cliff
Our fallowness
latitudesuk.bandcamp.com/track/fallow...
Leave it by the door
And slow your fire
In the circle of standing stone
Walk to me
Erase your name
In the weird depths, in the sunken cliff
Our fallowness
latitudesuk.bandcamp.com/track/fallow...
There's nothing quite like stepping into a cold, snowy morning and listening to some Lychgate.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There's nothing quite like stepping into a cold, snowy morning and listening to some Lychgate.
So Bloodborne fans, can you sell me on the healing and parrying system? I really really dislike that they are both tied to finite resources, parrying especially. I know you can get them to drop pretty easily but like...that feels really bad? Going around killing mobs for blood vials and bullets.
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
So Bloodborne fans, can you sell me on the healing and parrying system? I really really dislike that they are both tied to finite resources, parrying especially. I know you can get them to drop pretty easily but like...that feels really bad? Going around killing mobs for blood vials and bullets.
Is this the year I finally play Bloodborne?
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Is this the year I finally play Bloodborne?
The Last Duel was great
December 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The Last Duel was great
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Into My Arms (feat. ellene), by City Girl
from the album Somnolent Nova
city-girl.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
holy fuck promised consort snoopy
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
holy fuck promised consort snoopy
current mood
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
current mood
I don't normally like helping out brands but my Uplift desk is one of the best purchases I've ever made. Two and a half years in and I have had zero problems with it and got so much mileage and usage from it. Just a great product that's the backbone of my home office.
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I don't normally like helping out brands but my Uplift desk is one of the best purchases I've ever made. Two and a half years in and I have had zero problems with it and got so much mileage and usage from it. Just a great product that's the backbone of my home office.
I love how people are complaining about 6-7 or whatever when we had the letter "E" is a (very funny) meme years and years ago
why do people get this way when they turn 40ish? I know why don't tell me but like....WHY
why do people get this way when they turn 40ish? I know why don't tell me but like....WHY
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I love how people are complaining about 6-7 or whatever when we had the letter "E" is a (very funny) meme years and years ago
why do people get this way when they turn 40ish? I know why don't tell me but like....WHY
why do people get this way when they turn 40ish? I know why don't tell me but like....WHY
Posting poems to LinkedIn again, as I do whenever I am extremely sad and weary and burdened by work.
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Posting poems to LinkedIn again, as I do whenever I am extremely sad and weary and burdened by work.
*deep breath* READ THE WORKS OF VERMIN
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
*deep breath* READ THE WORKS OF VERMIN
this is the way
A tip for all the youngsters out there: I'm a middle-aged man, I'm about as CisHet and Masculine-presenting as it gets. I'm telling you that it's not just okay to enjoy the softer things in life, it's liberating. Dance, have the bath, cry, watch the RomCom, drink the fancy drink. You'll feel better.
Look... As a man, if you can't enjoy a hot bath with a nice lavender-and-whatnot bathbomb and your beverage of choice, then I don't know what to tell you...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
this is the way
Listening to weirdo prog metal and finishing up (hopefully) my essay on the history of the weird space opera.
howlingsycamore.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...
howlingsycamore.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...
Seven Pathways to Annihilation, by Howling Sycamore
7 track album
howlingsycamore.bandcamp.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Listening to weirdo prog metal and finishing up (hopefully) my essay on the history of the weird space opera.
howlingsycamore.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...
howlingsycamore.bandcamp.com/album/seven-...
Here's a habit I had to teach myself by repetition: whenever you write "always" in an essay, use "often" instead. 99% of the time it's what you meant to begin with and the last 1% doesn't really matter.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Here's a habit I had to teach myself by repetition: whenever you write "always" in an essay, use "often" instead. 99% of the time it's what you meant to begin with and the last 1% doesn't really matter.
Love my elite gamer wife
2012: Fez. I was just getting back into gaming, and indie puzzle/platformers are what got me hooked. Fez was one of the first games I played..
Now: Dishonored. I played it a few years after it came out, and it's still one of my favorite games of all times.
Now: Dishonored. I played it a few years after it came out, and it's still one of my favorite games of all times.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2012, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2012 is now, if it differs
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend
Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Love my elite gamer wife
me, seeing a friend of mine suffering a physical or mental ill of any kind or magnitude: you know, martial arts would really help you with that
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
me, seeing a friend of mine suffering a physical or mental ill of any kind or magnitude: you know, martial arts would really help you with that
One of those days where I get off my last call and just feel like someone took a dump inside my soul. Some days I just can't deal with how stupid, meaningless, and soulless my job is. I fucking hate it so much. I'm good at it but it's so goddamn pointless. Wow selling software, so IMPORTANT.
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One of those days where I get off my last call and just feel like someone took a dump inside my soul. Some days I just can't deal with how stupid, meaningless, and soulless my job is. I fucking hate it so much. I'm good at it but it's so goddamn pointless. Wow selling software, so IMPORTANT.
Instead of working I am blasting this full volume on the speakers and getting transported to strange galaxies
naxatras.bandcamp.com/track/legion
naxatras.bandcamp.com/track/legion
Legion, by Naxatras
from the album V
naxatras.bandcamp.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Instead of working I am blasting this full volume on the speakers and getting transported to strange galaxies
naxatras.bandcamp.com/track/legion
naxatras.bandcamp.com/track/legion
OK, I think my Top 25 list is more or less done (barring last minute surprises) so here we go. Unranked.
December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
OK, I think my Top 25 list is more or less done (barring last minute surprises) so here we go. Unranked.
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reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
reshare if you agree wall adapters with a single USB C port have a surface area differential ratio that looks weird
I love him
December 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I love him