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Cider🍂☕️📚
@cidermarten.bsky.social
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A library marten! - He/Him - Over 30
I read stories and play games on Twitch!
(I also sometimes write and make music!)
https://www.twitch.tv/cidermarten

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Join me for more Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (1996 original) today! I’m not in the mood for more FFXIV yet, so I hope you’ll enjoy puzzling through this adventure with me! Stream will start around 1:30PM Pacific! www.twitch.tv/cidermarten
A screenshot from the game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. A goat stands menacingly on the opposite side of an empty water trough from the blond-haired protagonist. The man stares at the goat, ribs aching from being head-butted 60 times while trying to solve The Goat Puzzle that has its own Wikipedia article.
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I’ll start the 1996 point-and-click adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars around 2PM Pacific! I’ll also read a story afterward! www.twitch.tv/cidermarten
A screenshot from the 1996 video game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. A group of people are in a destroyed bar. One of them, a bald man in an overcoat, says “On the surface, no. But what lurks inside the subconscious?”
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The tasty soup I made yesterday! It’s a chicken and cream soup with leek, cabbage, onion, and garbanzo beans! I didn’t follow a recipe, but it turned out nice!
An orange bowl of creamy chicken soup with leeks and garbanzo beans
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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I’ll be playing the 1994 furry point-and-click adventure game Inherit the Earth for the first time on Tuesday afternoon! www.twitch.tv/cidermarten
The box art for the computer game Inherit the Earth. The art features an anthropomorphic fox, boar, and elk in medieval fantasy adventuring outfits. They are on a journey through woodlands toward a white city or fortress.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I carved a jack-o-lantern!
A jack-o-lantern with a toothy smile
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The books I brought home from my adventures last weekend!
Five vintage paperback books: The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series 3, Serve it Forth (a cookbook full of recipes by famous sci-fi and fantasy authors), The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher, Final Stage: The Ultimate Sci-Fi Anthology, and Shock 3 by Richard Matheson.
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Vintage book cover #41 from my collection: The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)
A hardcover sci-fi book. The cover features an illustration of five cat-like aliens escorting a human man through a crowd of aliens. One of the cat aliens is holding a futuristic gun while another is holding a communication device
October 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Vintage book cover #40 from my collection: The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI, edited by Gerald W. Page. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)
A paperback book. The cover features an illustration of a skeleton in a coat and hat, holding a long knife. Their mouth is open, as though laughing, and they’re opening a wooden door
September 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Vintage book cover #39 from my collection: Fantasy Annual IV, edited by Terry Carr. Cover art by Lisa Falkenstern
A paperback book. The cover is black with an illustration of a monkey toy holding cymbals. The cymbals are pressed together and a drop of blood is oozing from between them
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Vintage book cover #38 from my collection: Dragon’s Eye, edited by Christopher Stasheff. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet
A paperback book. The cover features an illustration of a red dragon attacking medieval soldiers
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Vintage book cover #37 from my collection: Weird Tales, edited by Leo Margulies. Cover art by Virgil Finlay
A paperback book. The cover features an illustration of a ghost man in a dark graveyard with wide, white eyes
September 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Vintage book cover #36 from my collection: Basil Rathbone Selects Strange Tales, edited by Basil Rathbone and produced by Lyle Kenyon Engel. Cover art is signed “Elliott”
A paperback book. The cover features surreal art of a full moon, large old house, bare tree, bloody picture frame, and the disembodied head of Basil Rathbone
September 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Vintage book cover #35 from my collection: Hecate’s Cauldron, edited by Susan M. Shwartz. Cover artist is the legendary Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)
A paperback book featuring a cover with a beautiful witch adding ingredients to a steaming cauldron
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Vintage book cover #34 from my collection: Strange Eons by Robert Bloch. Cover artist is David Hada
A paperback book. The cover features an illustration of a monkey-like winged sea monster rising from the ocean
September 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Vintage book cover #33 from my collection: The Dark Beasts by Frank Belknap Long. Cover artist is Edward Gorey
A firey orange paperback book with black drawings of creatures on the cover A firey orange paperback book with black drawings of creatures on the cover
September 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Vintage book cover #32 from my collection: Hauntings and Horrors: Ten Grisly Tales, edited by Alden H. Norton. Cover artist is uncredited
A paperback book featuring cover art of a stitched hand with sharp fingernails. A lit candle melting in its palm
September 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I made spiced whole wheat rolls with dried currants, cherries, and toasted pecans!
A light blue plate with two rolls. The rolls have lots of dried fruits and nuts.
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Tonight’s soup contained onion, fennel bulb, eggs, stone ground mustard, chili flakes, black pepper, and some veggie broth
A bowl of very tasty soup
September 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I saw a dapper fox today!
A pub sign for “The Little Beast Pub & Butchery” featuring an anthropomorphic fox wearing fancy clothes and a monocle
August 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Lots of bookstore adventures lately!
A shelf of old books including “We’re Sailing in the Morning”, “Apocalypse of the Day of the Lord”, and “Ruins and Old Trees Associated with Remarkable Events in English History” A shelf of worn books from the 1600s and 1700s A spiral staircase into the lower levels of a bookstore A display of queer books
August 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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They’re done!
Freshly baked rolls with pecans and dried fruits
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I’ve been seeing these cute drawings around Capitol Hill in Seattle. Anyone know the artist?
Graffiti of a crying rat chef saying anyone can cook Graffiti of a crying rat holding a heart with a halo. Below them is written “saint rat” Graffiti of a creature with the text “wear your stripes” Graffiti of a rat chef holding a fork with the text “anyone can cook”
July 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I got another pair of cozy socks!
Brown argyle socks with a magenta and orange diamond pattern
July 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Graffiti on a post featuring a rat in a chef’s hat with the words “anyone can cook”
June 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I got a linen shirt and some cozy socks this evening!
A dark beige/mushroom colored linen shirt and a pair of gray socks with a cream and light blue argyle pattern
May 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM