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Silas A. Bischoff
@silasabischoff.bsky.social
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SFF writer, mostly grimdark with sprinkles of whimsical, lover of pretend grave robbing with dice, coding & sciencing
https://www.morbidtastepublishing.com
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You might have heard about Alpha, Beta and Sigma males.

Well, it turns out I'm a GAMMA male... 😔

(short for "Gay Angry Muscle Mommy Appreciating")
Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb being buff af Vi from Arcane being a casual badass Mama K melting your heart with her infernal engine Avatar Korra about to kick yo ass
July 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Here are the covers:
Paradise City by Zoë Beck - a Berlin metro escalator in blue and yellow duochrome Heliotrope by Palmer Pickering - guy with 2 swords and armour and a leaping lady with a nocked and drawn bow The Blacktongue Thief - retro Sword & Sorcery cover layout and a grey and yellow artwork of two heroes and swords and stuff Blackstone Heart by Michael R. Fletcher INSANITY Edition - epic undead dude leading a monster army and general epicness
June 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Working on an #8bit #Elric of Melniboné based on @michaelwhelan.bsky.social's iconic Stormbringer illustration.

It's for a fan project I'm working on, an Elric game for the #NES written in #NesFab.

(The colour palette will be different in the game)
8-bit era pixel art depicting the character Elric if Melniboné wearing his iconic black winged helmet, 8x16 pixels
March 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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I have recently discovered the world of networked note-taking & started using a fancy tool called #logseq

This is my knowledge graph after 2 days:
Logseq graph view showing two central nodes for March 1st and February 28th, surrounded by various interlinked topics like "Writing" or "Neovim" or "Fitness"
March 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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wtf is this update size?

#steam #bg3
Steam showing a Baldur's Gate 3 update sized 403.4 GB
February 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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(pilfered from @jacobfloyd.bsky.social's FB feed)
Impressionist painting of a woman reading with the caption: "Have you ever realized how surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours hallucinating vividly"
January 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Post an archer.
Magic the Gathering card: Cattie-brie of Mithral Hall
January 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Currently reading the Sophus Helle translation of Gilgameš, and I gotta say – for all the ancient Babylonians' achievements in mathematics and such – are we sure they got this dude's measurements right? 🤔
Excerpt of the epic of Gilgamesh with the following circled in red: "He was a giant in height, eighteen feet tall, and his chest was six feet broad. His feet were five feet long, and twice that his leg, and the length of his stride was the same. His beard, too, was five feet long." Drawing of Gilgamesh with proportions faithful to his description.
January 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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He died a thousand times hunting it. He has long forgotten why. He only knows, upon finding it dead, he must pursue into the next afterlife. For only he can slay it proper.

But as each new world grows bleaker, memories return. Is HE the monster? Is he pursuing his own doom?

#WIPPIT #FBW #H #F #M
Cover for "Soulgrinder" by Silas A. Bischoff, depicting a naked man with a spear hunching before a stone portal leading from a bleak world of bone, twisted flesh and leering eyes into an empty alien space with a solar eclipse in the distance. The colours are trippy and the title is styled like a black or death metal band logo.
December 14, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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Reminder: only 2 more days to try and get one of these 3 beauties for free 🧵
Cover of "Performances of a Death Metal Bard" by Rob Leigh Cover of "The Great Leap" by Dan Hanly Cover of "A Crow Named Torment" by me, Silas A. Bischoff
December 6, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 19 + 20 🎉
Cover of "The Physician" by Noah Gordon Cover of "The Silmarillion" by J. R. R. Tolkien
December 6, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Last two paragraphs of today's writing 👉
A flurry of stomping claws and grasping tendrils, wet on my skin, and something thorny scratching me bloody that I don’t even know where it protrudes from. Their shape’s even more confusing up close, crammed in between them, and no creature this size should be allowed to grow so many fucking limbs. Truly godforsaken place, this. It’s good I have the bronze braces on. The claws dent them, ringing my bones like harp strings, but they don’t cut through and get deflected well enough. So far.
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 17 + 18
Cover of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft, showing a gloomy oil painting of a dilapidated town covered in mist Cover of "The War of the Buttons" by Louis Pergaud, showing a drawing of a naked boy, running, swinging a wooden sword and holding a giant button like a shield, covering his body
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 AM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 16
Cover of "Elric of Melniboné" by Michael Moorcock, the first volume of a trilogy of collections, with an artwork by Michael Whelan showing a pale, slender man with long white hair and a black sword
December 1, 2024 at 9:29 PM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 15
Cover of "Witch Child" by Celia Rees, showing a faded portrait photograph of a young woman
November 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 14
Cover of "The Carpet Makers" by Andreas Eschbach, showing a slightly abstract artwork of an archaic loom with an almost finished carpet on it and with a woman behind it, whose hair is clamped into the loom as the threads. The carpet depicts a space station hovering over a planet.
November 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 12 & 13
Cover of "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville showing a black and white print of a giant sperm whale rising from the sea and a small boat with a few men inside Cover of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe showing a man with a rifle and his dog looking out over a jungle vista
November 26, 2024 at 10:26 AM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 11
Cover of "The Long Earth" by the late Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
November 24, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 10
Cover of "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem
November 22, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Is no one listening, or are there no good fantasy novels with dinosaurs?

If so, I'll write one. Inspired by:
Cover of "Dinotopia" by James Gurney
November 21, 2024 at 5:22 PM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 9
Cover of "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Token, nuff said
November 21, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 8
Cover of "The City of Dreaming Books" by Walter Moers, depicting a drawing of a whimsical one-eyed little creature reading a book amid a huge stack of many more books
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Cover of "Daughter of Calamity" by Rosalie M. Lin, with gold relief foil patterns in floral shapes, fans and lotus flowers and the hands of skeletons, a cocktail glass and a round hanging lantern, in a baroque iconographic style on black background
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
💙📚👀

NOW it's day 7
Cover for the The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, made up like an old-fashioned half vellum binding with red background and a black profile of Sherlock Holmes with the traditional deerstalker hat, smoking a pipe
November 19, 2024 at 10:23 PM
silasabischoff.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#books
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 7
Cover of "Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan, depicting a distorted, high contrast view of a city street at night with blurry neon lights and a distinctive noir vibe
November 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM