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Mike Manzer
@nevtelen.bsky.social
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SFF (and sometimes horror) reader. Occasional writer. I play TTRPGs and video games. Mountain biker. Adjunct teaching ESL.
#Sounders and #Gonzaga bball fan
American and Hungarian.
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Punch Deadlift, bruh. You gotta problem with that?!
A list of words to create a "Beefcake name" based on your initials.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Hear me out - a gritty reboot of Thundarr the Barbarian. Not live action. Post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery in the ruins of America.
The cover of the 4-disc set of Thundarr the Barbarian. Three figures are standing on a stone outcrop against the backdrop of a fiery explosion. Thundarr, with his sun sword is in the middle. To his right is Ookla, Thunder's ally. He is a lion-man-like Mok. To Thunder's left is Princess Ariel, a sorceress. Yeah, was probably not great TV, but it was the best when I was like 5 or 6.
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! (And fuck that other guy.)

A nice way to mark the day is by supporting an indigenous creator. Last year, I got myself this:
The cover of Earrhdivers Vol 1 Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones with art by Davide Gianfelice. It shows three ships sailing over the ocean from a distance with crosses in their sails, and a giant face superimposed over them. The bottom half of the face is a grinning skull.
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The best book-mail is the stuff that takes you unawares. Totally forgot I preordered this, but I'm soooo happy with Past Me rn.
The cover of Premee Mohamed's The First Thousand Trees, which I am extremely psyched to read
October 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I started The Late Breakfasters. I love Aickman, but so far this is seeming a bit different that his short fiction. Still waiting for the weird to hit.
The cover of Valancourt Book's edition of The Late Breakfasters by Robert Aickman.
October 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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This is what I'm trying to read in October! Nowhere near my full tbr stack, but one chunk at a time, right?
A stack of books on a table, including Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea, Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud, The Late Breakfasters by Robert Aickman, Asunder by Kerstin Hall, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and, my current read The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne.
October 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Someone put him in a bacta tank until the match tomorrow!
Luke floating in a bacta tank wearing a breathing mask to heal after being rescued in The Empire Strikes Back. Apparently bacta heals about anything, so we definitely need it for Cristian before the end of the season.
August 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I'm only like 20% through this, but, yeah. It's amazing.
The cover of Ray Nailer's Where the Axe is Buried. It shows a futuristic cityscape encased in glass, floating above a dense forest.
July 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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20-day TBR challenge. Choose 20 books on your TBR shelf, stack, library hold-whatever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#20TBRbookchallenge #Booksky 2/20
The cover of The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez. The cover has a green hand shape with silhouettes of fighters holding weapons inside it. It is surrounded by vaguely organic shapes.
June 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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20-day TBR challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf, list, stack, library hold-whatever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers!

#Booksky #20TBRbookchallenge 1/20
The cover of Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The top of the cover is orange and it shifts in degrees to pink by the bottom. In the center is a yellow form of some sort of alien life. I don't know what it is - I haven't read the book yet!
June 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Best random bar sticker ever? Seen at Fast Fashion in SoDo.
A sticker that says "Tell your dog that I slept with your mom."
June 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Earlier in the year, when the Sounders were prepping for Antigua GFC, I stumbled across a cool-looking book set in Guatemala that I decided to pick up on a whim, The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca.

It finally percolated to the top of my TBR pile and I've been reading it this week.
#FridayReads
The cover of Michael J. DeLuca's The Jaguar Mask. It shows a multi-hued just aguar leaping across the cover next to a quetzal bird. The border has geometric mesoamerican designs blended with a car icon at the top.
May 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Like a total dork, I did not manage to attach the picture. *Sigh*
The copies of Matt Emmon's graphic works Daystar and Trial +Error and Jendia Gammon's thriller Atacama on my kitchen table.
May 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Trump yelling at a kid mowing the lawn. He is shouting"Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!" like any totally normal person.
May 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Zuck: The average American has three friends
Spiderman, Iceman, and Firestar from the Spiderfriends cartoon from the 80s. How in the world some tv exec put these three together in one show I will never know, but I loved it in the 80s at 11AM Sat mornings.
May 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
7/20
Portia the spider (via fantastic art by Neil Richards) from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. Yes, she's a giant sentient spider. Yes, I'd definitely invite her to dinner.
April 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
6/20
Li Mu Bai from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
April 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Good bookmail day again today.
I do love a good haunted house story! And this I really like this particular cover style by @valancourtbooks.bsky.social
The cover of Moths by Rosalind Ashe.
April 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
5/20
Ged from A Wizard of Earthsea
April 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
4/20
Miyamoto Usagi from Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo comic series.
April 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
3/20
The cover the Ursula K LeGuin's The Dispossessed, showing the main character, Shevek, standing on the surface of a barren moon looking at the nearby planet on the horizon.
April 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
2/20
The cover of 1 book of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books. I guess I'd probably rather have dinner with the Gray Mouser? Fafhrd wouldn't be bad, though.
April 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Love this prompt:

20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS that have stayed with you or influenced you who you would invite to a Dinner Party. One character per day for 20 days in no particular order
No explanations, no names, just gifs or pics #Filmsky #Booksky #anime #manga #comicbooks #fictionalcharacters #tv
Cassian Andor from Star Wars
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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'Nother good bookmail day today. The TBR pile is getting big... but that's a good problem to have.
Carol Emshwiller' novel The Secret City next to As The Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood by Karol Yeager Rodriguez.
April 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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It's always a good book-mail day when I get a new Ray Nayler book!
The cover of Where The Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM