Calum Novak-Mitchell
@calumnm.bsky.social
Folk music, ttrpgs, books etc
Ah weird it showed up for me. (Though it did get a bit confused, maybe because iplayer doesn’t have s2?)
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ah weird it showed up for me. (Though it did get a bit confused, maybe because iplayer doesn’t have s2?)
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.
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!
And this portrait of my character, by Kyle Ferrin
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
And this portrait of my character, by Kyle Ferrin
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
#over/under conducting a job interview in my imaginary bookshop
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#over/under conducting a job interview in my imaginary bookshop
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)
Only tangentially related, but re: gormenghast - I suddenly remembered last night that when I was a very young child, my parents had a print of this picture of The Hall Of Bright Carvings up on the wall. Must have spent hours staring at it.
October 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Only tangentially related, but re: gormenghast - I suddenly remembered last night that when I was a very young child, my parents had a print of this picture of The Hall Of Bright Carvings up on the wall. Must have spent hours staring at it.
Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s these sort of disconnected tendrils that aren’t really part of the whole, and the shames that give the impressions of spirals without actually being spirals. But it’s lovecraft so it’s not like those things are inappropriate
September 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Maybe I’m wrong, but it’s these sort of disconnected tendrils that aren’t really part of the whole, and the shames that give the impressions of spirals without actually being spirals. But it’s lovecraft so it’s not like those things are inappropriate
And the eccentric chain shapes on this one do make me wonder…
September 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And the eccentric chain shapes on this one do make me wonder…
Here’s its prose at full flashy pomp, but it’s also strange and funny and tragic and short enough to read in an hour and a half.
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Here’s its prose at full flashy pomp, but it’s also strange and funny and tragic and short enough to read in an hour and a half.
Ok this was amazing.
June 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Ok this was amazing.
Very funny that this blurb basically says: “we’re warning you - lots of people think this book is bad!”
May 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Very funny that this blurb basically says: “we’re warning you - lots of people think this book is bad!”
Everyone sitting down at the game table, and one person is informed that, this evening, they will be playing the role of “Fatty”.
April 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Everyone sitting down at the game table, and one person is informed that, this evening, they will be playing the role of “Fatty”.
Or at least thinks about books in a very narrow, commercial way. Here’s what the storygraph community says about Ulysses.
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Or at least thinks about books in a very narrow, commercial way. Here’s what the storygraph community says about Ulysses.
This year’s Hamlet at the RSC:
March 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This year’s Hamlet at the RSC:
I do trip up on this bit though. Because I think, here, Le Guin is talking about fantasy as a specific 20th Century genre. I think what she's saying is *absolutely* true of much of the best 20th century genre fantasy (Gene Wolfe, Angela Carter, Mervyn Peake)...
February 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I do trip up on this bit though. Because I think, here, Le Guin is talking about fantasy as a specific 20th Century genre. I think what she's saying is *absolutely* true of much of the best 20th century genre fantasy (Gene Wolfe, Angela Carter, Mervyn Peake)...
Not sure apple’s shopping list auto-categorisation has got it quite right here.
January 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Not sure apple’s shopping list auto-categorisation has got it quite right here.
I don’t know why I hate the half price Christmas mountain, but it fills me with fear and disgust.
January 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don’t know why I hate the half price Christmas mountain, but it fills me with fear and disgust.
Ten pages into Philip Dick’s A Maze of Death (published 1970), and a character puts on The Lord of the Rings on DVD.
January 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ten pages into Philip Dick’s A Maze of Death (published 1970), and a character puts on The Lord of the Rings on DVD.
Second game of the year
January 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Second game of the year
First game of the year.
January 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
First game of the year.
Conan, what is best in life?
January 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Conan, what is best in life?