Joe Writes Books
blaguards.bsky.social
Joe Writes Books
@blaguards.bsky.social
Writer of horror and fantasy. Magic and monster enthusiast. Engineer so ask me math questions to make me feel alive. He/him, no AI

https://linktr.ee/joewolf
There's an unfortunate crossroads between wanting pot legal because there's no good reason not to...

and not wanting to smell everyone's smoke 🤮
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Funny cause the same is true of Skyrim, and what I played of Oblivion's mq was already better
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Counterpoint: Oblivion's main quest broke so I got mad and stopped playing 😡

(I'm sure I'll get back to it lol)
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So big asterisk on Polite Era, got it 😂
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I will say the Trudi Polite Era will be surprising after cruel gods, but I'm here for it
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If I managed that I'd put it on my resume tbh

Power move
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trickle him down to us poor southerners too T_T
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You can make enough to eat for a few days and it'll keep pretty well

I made this for the first time when my wife was out of town and I wanted dinner but didn't want to try too hard
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My favorite international friends thing recently was

a) explaining to the Europeans what grits are
b) convincing them that they're good (one of the friends is from Alabama so she had my back)
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Ilwyn states are a series of independent city-states, each under a lord (feudalism with extra steps)

Pashne is a kingdom in name only, it's a loosely collected rural swampland where each town more or less does its own thing, or does whatever their mayor/alderman says
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
An author I follow apparently has a setup that lets him play Civ on the elliptical

Man's just on another level
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This looks awesome, thanks!
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I am respectfully requesting a recipe cause I wanna make some pork belly 🙏
October 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I'm sort of lampshading this in my WIP right now

He is a 200ish year old vampire
She is a 24 year old barmaid

She hooks up with someone her age cause why would she want grandpa over here
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hell Hath no Fury by @rachel-aaron.bsky.social

This is the book this post was about
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Love the attention to detail with the urban fantasy worldbuilding, love the characters, love the escalating stakes and new locales

5⭐ Absolutely can't wait to read book 5
One of the best feelings is picking up a book that you expect to be the conclusion to a series, realizing it's not, and also realizing "yeah I'd 100% read another of these"
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The whole "no one expected this" too

"We fundamentally changed the workflow of an entire office of people and it never once occurred to us that it might hinder rather than help"
October 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I don't think I've ever named anything before it was done or nearly done

MAYBE I named my poem "the necromancer" early cause it's the simplest possible name I could give it
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Me whenever someone suggests using ChatGPT for basically anything
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
specify. A whole conversation explaining "we had set champs over the weekend a the card shop and I made top 8" is more trouble than its worth 😅
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM