District of Summerland
@vircadesproject.bsky.social
Old science fiction novels, chaotic TTRPGs, werewolf hair
I finally saw the 1982 Conan movie. I have to say, I wasn't expecting the movie to be so ...for lack of a better phrase... art house!
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I finally saw the 1982 Conan movie. I have to say, I wasn't expecting the movie to be so ...for lack of a better phrase... art house!
Has there ever been a collection or compilation of the Adventures of Two Gun Bob comic strip (by Jim and Ruth Kelly) that used to appear in the back of Dark Horse's #Conan issues? It's such a humane and interesting series, honestly one of my favourite comics.
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Has there ever been a collection or compilation of the Adventures of Two Gun Bob comic strip (by Jim and Ruth Kelly) that used to appear in the back of Dark Horse's #Conan issues? It's such a humane and interesting series, honestly one of my favourite comics.
RIP John Varley. The Ophiuchi Hotline is one of the all time great genre-shifting SF novels, really ahead of its time.
News is coming to me via friends on Facebook, and via Fancyclopedia, that John Varley, who wrote Millennium, Steel Beach, and the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has died. He was an excellent writer in the Campbell/Heinlein tradition, and I dug him a lot in my teens and early 20s. RIP.
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
RIP John Varley. The Ophiuchi Hotline is one of the all time great genre-shifting SF novels, really ahead of its time.
Fun day at #dragonmeet this year. A friend recommended Mythic Bastionland by saying "it's for your DM style. It works really well with someone who goes with the flow and makes up any old shit as things happen." With a recommendation like that, I obviously had to pick it up 😅
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fun day at #dragonmeet this year. A friend recommended Mythic Bastionland by saying "it's for your DM style. It works really well with someone who goes with the flow and makes up any old shit as things happen." With a recommendation like that, I obviously had to pick it up 😅
Mordheim is such a fun game. It's so fast, me and my mate got two games into three hours.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mordheim is such a fun game. It's so fast, me and my mate got two games into three hours.
I’m reading a book from 1940 about con-artists, exposing their hep 1940s con-artist lingo…
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m reading a book from 1940 about con-artists, exposing their hep 1940s con-artist lingo…
I watched a few episodes of Xena for the first time and I'm fascinated by the very specific aesthetics of the villages she visits. It's a very 1990s, bucolic "stacked vegetables and dreamcatchers" culturally non-specific hippy thing. And the tie-dyed arcadian villager costumes are very 90s Star Trek
October 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I watched a few episodes of Xena for the first time and I'm fascinated by the very specific aesthetics of the villages she visits. It's a very 1990s, bucolic "stacked vegetables and dreamcatchers" culturally non-specific hippy thing. And the tie-dyed arcadian villager costumes are very 90s Star Trek
I finally played Battletech after 20 years of owning it. Playing a wargame with such restricted movement options is a really interesting experience. (I still managed to get completely envelope by the enemy lance and only won through some lucky engine criticals…)
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I finally played Battletech after 20 years of owning it. Playing a wargame with such restricted movement options is a really interesting experience. (I still managed to get completely envelope by the enemy lance and only won through some lucky engine criticals…)
I have fantasied a lot over the years about running an RPG about aristocratic mechwarriors taking tea in the parlour before fighting the Capellan Confederation.
really cannot emphasize enough that the streaming model has failed us all by not giving us a prestige court-politics battletech drama series
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I have fantasied a lot over the years about running an RPG about aristocratic mechwarriors taking tea in the parlour before fighting the Capellan Confederation.
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The Melsonian Arts Council and Iglootree are teaming up to open a FLGS/bookshop in South London. Yes, THIS Saturday. Come say hi, buy a book, maybe win one of the ludicrously posh games we're offering in the raffle (I goddamn love raffles), play games in our basement. THIS IS REAL!
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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A D&D boss fight that's been building for half a decade, built around the weirdest collection of figures!
April 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A D&D boss fight that's been building for half a decade, built around the weirdest collection of figures!
I had a pretty restrained day at #Dragonmeet2024 yesterday but I’m really pleased with that WFRP find. I’ve been running that campaign with the updated 4e version for a year now!
December 1, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I had a pretty restrained day at #Dragonmeet2024 yesterday but I’m really pleased with that WFRP find. I’ve been running that campaign with the updated 4e version for a year now!
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“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
October 30, 2024 at 4:20 AM
“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
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Any excuse to wallow in Katsuya Terada's Zelda art...
November 11, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Any excuse to wallow in Katsuya Terada's Zelda art...
Years of waiting excitedly for this and now that it’s finally here I’m scared to open it 😊
June 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Years of waiting excitedly for this and now that it’s finally here I’m scared to open it 😊
I had lots of fun at Dragonmeet today! It was really exciting to see the Wulfweald box at the @lostpages.bsky.social table 😍
December 2, 2023 at 7:58 PM
I had lots of fun at Dragonmeet today! It was really exciting to see the Wulfweald box at the @lostpages.bsky.social table 😍
First Necromunda game in literal decades. My friend’s terrain collection is a lot more evocative than the piled books we used to use!
October 28, 2023 at 8:45 AM
First Necromunda game in literal decades. My friend’s terrain collection is a lot more evocative than the piled books we used to use!
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Was just thinking recently about how I miss Geralt. So here's a comic about Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild.
October 18, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Was just thinking recently about how I miss Geralt. So here's a comic about Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild.
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gonna use this as an excuse to post one of my all time favorite poems, the last line lives rent free in my head
October 17, 2023 at 3:02 PM
gonna use this as an excuse to post one of my all time favorite poems, the last line lives rent free in my head
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When the world seems cruel, absurd, bereft of meaning or direction, we must remember the true source of value in our lives: reading PDFs. We have an existential duty to fill our lives with more meaning by downloading more PDFs.
October 16, 2023 at 9:12 PM
When the world seems cruel, absurd, bereft of meaning or direction, we must remember the true source of value in our lives: reading PDFs. We have an existential duty to fill our lives with more meaning by downloading more PDFs.
I absolutely adore the smaller, softcover POD /slim hardcover formats for small press RPG books, but some stupid pedantic part of me wishes there could be some collective agreement on the height of these books 😅
October 13, 2023 at 5:36 PM
I absolutely adore the smaller, softcover POD /slim hardcover formats for small press RPG books, but some stupid pedantic part of me wishes there could be some collective agreement on the height of these books 😅
Earthdawn TTRPG art from the Japanese edition of the game. I think the pink creature is a t’strang (lizard folk) - removing their lizard features in favour of a more human face weirdly makes them seem a lot more alien! (More here: fondationdraco.fr/2017/05/28/e... )
October 11, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Earthdawn TTRPG art from the Japanese edition of the game. I think the pink creature is a t’strang (lizard folk) - removing their lizard features in favour of a more human face weirdly makes them seem a lot more alien! (More here: fondationdraco.fr/2017/05/28/e... )
Looking through the first collection of Warhammer fiction, it’s amazing to see who they commissioned for these early pieces. Nicola Griffith, two years before Ammonite!
October 11, 2023 at 7:55 AM
Looking through the first collection of Warhammer fiction, it’s amazing to see who they commissioned for these early pieces. Nicola Griffith, two years before Ammonite!