Kelmscott
@kelmscott.bsky.social
Mostly talking about tabletop RPGs on here, plus whatever random history podcast I just listened to.
I just heard a French audiobook narrator attempt to pronounce “Derbyshire”.
July 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I just heard a French audiobook narrator attempt to pronounce “Derbyshire”.
I finished reading the Spanish Civil War supplement for Call of Cthulhu. Or rather, I finished skimming it, in the sense that my Spanish is middling and it would take a careful second pass for me to grasp the details.
June 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I finished reading the Spanish Civil War supplement for Call of Cthulhu. Or rather, I finished skimming it, in the sense that my Spanish is middling and it would take a careful second pass for me to grasp the details.
What I’ve learned from this grammar book is that they have terrifyingly large cats in China. I’d better go back to learning Spanish.
April 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What I’ve learned from this grammar book is that they have terrifyingly large cats in China. I’d better go back to learning Spanish.
The big RPG book of the Spanish Civil War recounts how Kim Philby worked as an apparently right-leaning war correspondent for The Times whilst really answering to Soviet Intelligence.
April 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The big RPG book of the Spanish Civil War recounts how Kim Philby worked as an apparently right-leaning war correspondent for The Times whilst really answering to Soviet Intelligence.
I’m making my way through the Spanish Civil War supplement for Spanish Call of Cthulhu! You can play a Spanish commissar. The Spanish for “asylum” is “manicomio”.
April 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’m making my way through the Spanish Civil War supplement for Spanish Call of Cthulhu! You can play a Spanish commissar. The Spanish for “asylum” is “manicomio”.
I was making my way through this surrealist RPG supplement using my iPhone’s “read aloud” facility, and the entry for Salvador Dali got converted into cut-up word salad by some quirk of PDF formatting. It’s what he would have wanted.
March 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I was making my way through this surrealist RPG supplement using my iPhone’s “read aloud” facility, and the entry for Salvador Dali got converted into cut-up word salad by some quirk of PDF formatting. It’s what he would have wanted.
I was not previously aware that Fritz Lang looked quite so much like a guy who might say "You have interfered with my plans for the last time, Batman!"
March 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I was not previously aware that Fritz Lang looked quite so much like a guy who might say "You have interfered with my plans for the last time, Batman!"
Me doing depressing politics reposts on Bluesky dot com.
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Me doing depressing politics reposts on Bluesky dot com.
Does this lil guy count? I guess I like him because Lemmy plays guitar.
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Does this lil guy count? I guess I like him because Lemmy plays guitar.
I can accept that different languages render the names of famous historical characters differently, but I refuse to accept this.
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I can accept that different languages render the names of famous historical characters differently, but I refuse to accept this.
Duolingo gets weird very abruptly when it starts teaching you the names of animals.
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Duolingo gets weird very abruptly when it starts teaching you the names of animals.
I mainly bought this (in spanish audiobook form) because it’s very long and so I’d be getting a lot of Spanish for my money, but it manages to make topics like the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the nostalgic tendencies of 1950s German cinema oddly compelling, even soothing.
December 31, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I mainly bought this (in spanish audiobook form) because it’s very long and so I’d be getting a lot of Spanish for my money, but it manages to make topics like the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the nostalgic tendencies of 1950s German cinema oddly compelling, even soothing.
My other RPG listening has been the Byzantine Ars Magica supplement, as I’m hoping (if I get the time) to run a bit of Ars Magica, using a PbtA conversion a player dug up online to reduce the hideous rules complexity. (THREAD ENSUES)
December 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
My other RPG listening has been the Byzantine Ars Magica supplement, as I’m hoping (if I get the time) to run a bit of Ars Magica, using a PbtA conversion a player dug up online to reduce the hideous rules complexity. (THREAD ENSUES)
I’ve finished reading this! In short: it reads smoothly- Galeotti is a much-published academic and author. (SHORT THREAD ENSUES)
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I’ve finished reading this! In short: it reads smoothly- Galeotti is a much-published academic and author. (SHORT THREAD ENSUES)
Currently reading this, picked up in the recent Osprey sale. The ability to get my iPhone to read aloud is a game changer! Dunno if this one’s any good yet, but if you want to pit Machiavelli’s clockwork robots against Pope Julius II’s glider pilots, this is the game that does that.
December 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Currently reading this, picked up in the recent Osprey sale. The ability to get my iPhone to read aloud is a game changer! Dunno if this one’s any good yet, but if you want to pit Machiavelli’s clockwork robots against Pope Julius II’s glider pilots, this is the game that does that.
Ars Magica supplements are always educational. The Albert Hall hadn’t been constructed in 1220, so it’s not clear where the other one is.
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Ars Magica supplements are always educational. The Albert Hall hadn’t been constructed in 1220, so it’s not clear where the other one is.
My opinion regarding Duolingo is that Lily the purple haired girl should never smile. Any incident where she is depicted as smiling is not “Duolingo canon” for me and will NEVER be referenced in my Duolingo fan fiction.
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 AM
My opinion regarding Duolingo is that Lily the purple haired girl should never smile. Any incident where she is depicted as smiling is not “Duolingo canon” for me and will NEVER be referenced in my Duolingo fan fiction.
Evergreen image nabbed from one "@erinys" on Twitter.
November 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Evergreen image nabbed from one "@erinys" on Twitter.
Sad that the state of the housing market is preventing me from having, like Moctezuma, an extremely goth room with no windows entirely painted black used only for meditation.
November 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Sad that the state of the housing market is preventing me from having, like Moctezuma, an extremely goth room with no windows entirely painted black used only for meditation.
I’ve seen that hairdo before, Amazon.
November 22, 2024 at 12:08 AM
I’ve seen that hairdo before, Amazon.
"Leone dispenses the gore on the set of Once Upon a Time in America"
November 18, 2024 at 10:05 AM
"Leone dispenses the gore on the set of Once Upon a Time in America"
“To Calais, in Ordinary Time” by James Meek is the best thing I’ve read (well, listened to) in yonks. If you’ve got the stomach for a bunch of medieval folk getting menaced by the Black Death, the use of language and history are superb. Funny and moving.
October 23, 2024 at 8:03 AM
“To Calais, in Ordinary Time” by James Meek is the best thing I’ve read (well, listened to) in yonks. If you’ve got the stomach for a bunch of medieval folk getting menaced by the Black Death, the use of language and history are superb. Funny and moving.
