Erin Shrike
@erinflight.bsky.social
Avid sci-fi/fantasy/horror reader.
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"Monumental Facade", digitally painted for MTG: ONE, is a fun location on the outer shell of New Phyrexia. The design here functions like Stonehenge to align with the mana suns that orbit this planet.
January 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Monumental Facade", digitally painted for MTG: ONE, is a fun location on the outer shell of New Phyrexia. The design here functions like Stonehenge to align with the mana suns that orbit this planet.
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Time moves in layers
2024
2024
January 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Time moves in layers
2024
2024
Oh wow I super hate the changes to goodreads reading challenge.
The nice grid of covers? Gone. My friends’ challenges? Gone. My previous challenges? Gone.
It feels like every change makes goodreads worse. Might finally be time to switch to StoryGraph 💙📚
The nice grid of covers? Gone. My friends’ challenges? Gone. My previous challenges? Gone.
It feels like every change makes goodreads worse. Might finally be time to switch to StoryGraph 💙📚
December 31, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Oh wow I super hate the changes to goodreads reading challenge.
The nice grid of covers? Gone. My friends’ challenges? Gone. My previous challenges? Gone.
It feels like every change makes goodreads worse. Might finally be time to switch to StoryGraph 💙📚
The nice grid of covers? Gone. My friends’ challenges? Gone. My previous challenges? Gone.
It feels like every change makes goodreads worse. Might finally be time to switch to StoryGraph 💙📚
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Welp it is that time of year, and the nomination windows are opening. I will be gauche enough to note what I’ve put out in 2024:
December 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Welp it is that time of year, and the nomination windows are opening. I will be gauche enough to note what I’ve put out in 2024:
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I’m also a huge fan of Nghi Vo and her latest fantasy is lush and sharp and gorgeous. Really reminded me of Tanith Lee. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The City in Glass a book by Nghi Vo
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin. An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F A P...
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December 9, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I’m also a huge fan of Nghi Vo and her latest fantasy is lush and sharp and gorgeous. Really reminded me of Tanith Lee. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Abandoned City. A personal piece from 2018 that was also released as an art print through Static Medium the same year.
November 22, 2024 at 7:23 PM
The Abandoned City. A personal piece from 2018 that was also released as an art print through Static Medium the same year.
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Watching Together. 🫂
November 18, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Watching Together. 🫂
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"This Kingdom will fall, I've seen it in my visions" Personal artwork in an ongoing image series called "Palace Life". This one was made back in 2018.
November 26, 2024 at 4:14 PM
"This Kingdom will fall, I've seen it in my visions" Personal artwork in an ongoing image series called "Palace Life". This one was made back in 2018.
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This place is quickly becoming the art community I hoped it would be. I hope it just continues to grow and grow.
November 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
This place is quickly becoming the art community I hoped it would be. I hope it just continues to grow and grow.
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Oh! and books! Currently listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, my first exposure to LitRPG and absolutely incredible. Otherwise I consider Peter Watts' Blindsight the best science fiction novel ever written, and R. Scott Bakker's "The Second Apocalypse" saga the best Fantasy series.
December 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Oh! and books! Currently listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, my first exposure to LitRPG and absolutely incredible. Otherwise I consider Peter Watts' Blindsight the best science fiction novel ever written, and R. Scott Bakker's "The Second Apocalypse" saga the best Fantasy series.
When I finished ‘Too Like the Lightning’ I wasn’t quite sure what I thought. I didn’t know Ada Palmer. Where was she even going with this? Could she pull it off?
But damn she did. It’s one of the only series where I’ve given every book 5 stars. 🪐📚
But damn she did. It’s one of the only series where I’ve given every book 5 stars. 🪐📚
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 PM
When I finished ‘Too Like the Lightning’ I wasn’t quite sure what I thought. I didn’t know Ada Palmer. Where was she even going with this? Could she pull it off?
But damn she did. It’s one of the only series where I’ve given every book 5 stars. 🪐📚
But damn she did. It’s one of the only series where I’ve given every book 5 stars. 🪐📚
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And I just really like the guy. So I’m thrilled that he is actually coming back on 10th April next year, investigating the death of a real estate agent on the beach of a run-down holiday town…
November 29, 2024 at 11:12 AM
And I just really like the guy. So I’m thrilled that he is actually coming back on 10th April next year, investigating the death of a real estate agent on the beach of a run-down holiday town…
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I had no idea the SCP art books existed until I stumbled on them in a bookstore a few weeks back. Definitely in my top ten random bookstore discoveries of all time
December 4, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I had no idea the SCP art books existed until I stumbled on them in a bookstore a few weeks back. Definitely in my top ten random bookstore discoveries of all time
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"Allaria", my illustration for Draco Studios. This merging of imperial China & elven court called for a very special site, inspired by my travels in China: Zhangjiajie National Park. You might spot a few subfactions, including an enclave where human merchants are allowed to do business.
November 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM
"Allaria", my illustration for Draco Studios. This merging of imperial China & elven court called for a very special site, inspired by my travels in China: Zhangjiajie National Park. You might spot a few subfactions, including an enclave where human merchants are allowed to do business.
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The ultimate train ride! This illustration for D&D had me designing a train that creates its own levitating tracks. 'Affair on the Concordant Express' was also probably my son's favorite thing I've ever worked on. He was going through a Thomas the Tank Engine phase at the time.
December 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The ultimate train ride! This illustration for D&D had me designing a train that creates its own levitating tracks. 'Affair on the Concordant Express' was also probably my son's favorite thing I've ever worked on. He was going through a Thomas the Tank Engine phase at the time.
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Wrong time of year for this one but that's too bad, I like it 🐝
Also! There's a lucky four leaf in there somewhere.
Also! There's a lucky four leaf in there somewhere.
November 26, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Wrong time of year for this one but that's too bad, I like it 🐝
Also! There's a lucky four leaf in there somewhere.
Also! There's a lucky four leaf in there somewhere.
Koriko is so wonderful! I love the depth it adds to NPCs.
In a lot of solo games, your character is completely alone. Or, if other people are around the prompts don’t engage with them much.
But Koriko ties the big cast into the core gameplay, which I love.
In a lot of solo games, your character is completely alone. Or, if other people are around the prompts don’t engage with them much.
But Koriko ties the big cast into the core gameplay, which I love.
12. Koriko: A Magical Year by @mousehole.press. I need to continue playing this one! I've recorded my playthrough of the intro so far (available on my YouTube channel) but then life got in the way and I haven't continued it. The digital version is available here: mouseholepress.itch.io/koriko
Koriko: A Magical Year by Jack Harrison
A game of novice witches and teenage drama.
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December 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Koriko is so wonderful! I love the depth it adds to NPCs.
In a lot of solo games, your character is completely alone. Or, if other people are around the prompts don’t engage with them much.
But Koriko ties the big cast into the core gameplay, which I love.
In a lot of solo games, your character is completely alone. Or, if other people are around the prompts don’t engage with them much.
But Koriko ties the big cast into the core gameplay, which I love.
You may, of course, be thinking that you could just use a pre-made wireframe summoning circle.
“No need to free hand your nested pentagrams!”
Don’t. If your postman dropped it, if your floor isn’t 100% flat, then you have a gap. And gaps are why Providence, RI is now the Rhode Island Void.
“No need to free hand your nested pentagrams!”
Don’t. If your postman dropped it, if your floor isn’t 100% flat, then you have a gap. And gaps are why Providence, RI is now the Rhode Island Void.
December 3, 2024 at 12:58 PM
You may, of course, be thinking that you could just use a pre-made wireframe summoning circle.
“No need to free hand your nested pentagrams!”
Don’t. If your postman dropped it, if your floor isn’t 100% flat, then you have a gap. And gaps are why Providence, RI is now the Rhode Island Void.
“No need to free hand your nested pentagrams!”
Don’t. If your postman dropped it, if your floor isn’t 100% flat, then you have a gap. And gaps are why Providence, RI is now the Rhode Island Void.
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Croydon Colonnade, London's first porcelain pedestrian thoroughfare which I'm so proud to've been able to design. Photo by Gareth Gardner
November 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Croydon Colonnade, London's first porcelain pedestrian thoroughfare which I'm so proud to've been able to design. Photo by Gareth Gardner
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 12, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Private Censorship too is part of public/social censorship, since many censoring powers, from the Inquisition to the USSR, have curated their policies to intentionally encourage self-censorship & private censorship, which will always be more penetrating & powerful than gov't
PRIVATE CENSORSHIP: 1st, owner of a 1533 vol. of Pontano poetry crossed out the naughty bits. 2nd, owner of a 1751 bowdlerized vol. of Petrarch poetry pasted over the censored verses & wrote the explicit original back in. Learn more at our @Kickstarter https://buff.ly/2DXlJWv
November 8, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Private Censorship too is part of public/social censorship, since many censoring powers, from the Inquisition to the USSR, have curated their policies to intentionally encourage self-censorship & private censorship, which will always be more penetrating & powerful than gov't
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Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful
December 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful