Calum Novak-Mitchell
@calumnm.bsky.social
Folk music, ttrpgs, books etc
May we all aspire the formal invention of late-period Hey Duggee.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
May we all aspire the formal invention of late-period Hey Duggee.
Among many other wonderful birthday presents, my wife got me a t-shirt with the character art Kyle Ferrin did of my #over/under character!
Looking forward to using this to baffle strangers.
Looking forward to using this to baffle strangers.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Among many other wonderful birthday presents, my wife got me a t-shirt with the character art Kyle Ferrin did of my #over/under character!
Looking forward to using this to baffle strangers.
Looking forward to using this to baffle strangers.
God I loved Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog as a kid. a couple of years ago I checked on YouTube to see whether it still held up and My Word it did *not* hold up.
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
God I loved Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog as a kid. a couple of years ago I checked on YouTube to see whether it still held up and My Word it did *not* hold up.
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is the good stuff. If you like Calvino/Eco/Borges, labyrinths, Aztecs, moody psychedelia, spooky violence etc then you will have an excellent time.
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue is the good stuff. If you like Calvino/Eco/Borges, labyrinths, Aztecs, moody psychedelia, spooky violence etc then you will have an excellent time.
This year at the rsc: Macbeth in a 1970s pub is better than Hamlet on the Titanic, because it was a symbolic 1970s pub but an extremely literal titanic.
(Having said that, the guy playing Hanlet was much better than the guy playing Macbeth, so swings and roundabouts)
(Having said that, the guy playing Hanlet was much better than the guy playing Macbeth, so swings and roundabouts)
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This year at the rsc: Macbeth in a 1970s pub is better than Hamlet on the Titanic, because it was a symbolic 1970s pub but an extremely literal titanic.
(Having said that, the guy playing Hanlet was much better than the guy playing Macbeth, so swings and roundabouts)
(Having said that, the guy playing Hanlet was much better than the guy playing Macbeth, so swings and roundabouts)
Congratulations to my wife for performing adequately at Mario Kart on the secret extra-hard difficulty (playing while our toddler swings the camera around and mashes the controller at random)
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Congratulations to my wife for performing adequately at Mario Kart on the secret extra-hard difficulty (playing while our toddler swings the camera around and mashes the controller at random)
Reading a (terrible) scientific paper, and I feel that any author should stop and have a good think about what they've done before writing "This project operates in an inherently ambiguous ethical space"
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reading a (terrible) scientific paper, and I feel that any author should stop and have a good think about what they've done before writing "This project operates in an inherently ambiguous ethical space"
The toddler is enjoying counting things. “One Two Three Seven Eight Nine!” she will say. And she will get *extremely* cross if you refer to the existence of four, five, or six.
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The toddler is enjoying counting things. “One Two Three Seven Eight Nine!” she will say. And she will get *extremely* cross if you refer to the existence of four, five, or six.
Here's my ludicrously long blogpost about #over/under, and what it's like to run an imaginary bookshop in space. open.substack.com/pub/calumnm/...
Being Mister Eyes
How I Joined the Space Mafia and ran an Imaginary Bookshop
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Here's my ludicrously long blogpost about #over/under, and what it's like to run an imaginary bookshop in space. open.substack.com/pub/calumnm/...
Stayed up until 2.30am for the grand finale of the improbable good vs evil bookshop rivalry. It’s not gone well for my guy. #over/under
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Stayed up until 2.30am for the grand finale of the improbable good vs evil bookshop rivalry. It’s not gone well for my guy. #over/under
I may have slightly misunderstood the vibe at the Blenheim Palace Halloween trail. Prob wouldn’t have brought the toddler if I knew it was going to be this intense!
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I may have slightly misunderstood the vibe at the Blenheim Palace Halloween trail. Prob wouldn’t have brought the toddler if I knew it was going to be this intense!
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The #over/under fever has been possessing me, it will only break once I’ve mapped the entire station I think, or I explode…anyways heres my latest batch of pieces. 🫡
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The #over/under fever has been possessing me, it will only break once I’ve mapped the entire station I think, or I explode…anyways heres my latest batch of pieces. 🫡
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Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
I know most people I know on here will be baffled by my continued posts about thousand-player ttrpg/wargame #over/under , but I’ve been commissioning real art with pretend money and it’s amazing.
See this picture of my imaginary space bookshop, by Atlas Costa Aguilera
See this picture of my imaginary space bookshop, by Atlas Costa Aguilera
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I know most people I know on here will be baffled by my continued posts about thousand-player ttrpg/wargame #over/under , but I’ve been commissioning real art with pretend money and it’s amazing.
See this picture of my imaginary space bookshop, by Atlas Costa Aguilera
See this picture of my imaginary space bookshop, by Atlas Costa Aguilera
Too early to tell, but I reckon Electric Nebraska is better than normal Nebraska.
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Too early to tell, but I reckon Electric Nebraska is better than normal Nebraska.
More #Over/Under stuff - I’ve acquired a logo for my imaginary bookshop.
(Credit to @tonytranrpg.bsky.social)
(Credit to @tonytranrpg.bsky.social)
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
More #Over/Under stuff - I’ve acquired a logo for my imaginary bookshop.
(Credit to @tonytranrpg.bsky.social)
(Credit to @tonytranrpg.bsky.social)
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EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage
More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age
Bizarre thousand player discord rpg #over/under has been consuming my time recently, and I’ve been trying to work out the weird texture of it. Because, theoretically, this is set on a cyberpunk space station in an SF/horror universe.
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Bizarre thousand player discord rpg #over/under has been consuming my time recently, and I’ve been trying to work out the weird texture of it. Because, theoretically, this is set on a cyberpunk space station in an SF/horror universe.
This game is insane. iver a thousand players. I’m running a bookshop on a space station. I’m an android. People are buying imaginary books off me with imaginary money so I can pay my imaginary rent. The bookshop is starting to get known in the android rights movement. It’s only been a day.
on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen
Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for
samsorensen.blot.im
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This game is insane. iver a thousand players. I’m running a bookshop on a space station. I’m an android. People are buying imaginary books off me with imaginary money so I can pay my imaginary rent. The bookshop is starting to get known in the android rights movement. It’s only been a day.
The glib, reflexive, internetty dismissal of Byron (all that “ooh he was so annoying that Mary Shelley invented the horror genre” stuff) is a sign of cultural rot
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The glib, reflexive, internetty dismissal of Byron (all that “ooh he was so annoying that Mary Shelley invented the horror genre” stuff) is a sign of cultural rot
One of many reasons that “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” is great is that playing it in full gives you permission to listen to Fairytale of New York in October.
October 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
One of many reasons that “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” is great is that playing it in full gives you permission to listen to Fairytale of New York in October.
Had a dream the other night where I went on holiday for a second year running to the midsommar cult, because they promised me they “wouldn‘t try that stuff again“.
September 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Had a dream the other night where I went on holiday for a second year running to the midsommar cult, because they promised me they “wouldn‘t try that stuff again“.
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Ultimately, social media is a helluva poor substitute for sharing a room and singing Stan Rogers songs.
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ultimately, social media is a helluva poor substitute for sharing a room and singing Stan Rogers songs.
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Dog Lamp. Called it years ago.
September 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Dog Lamp. Called it years ago.