@peterallison.net
Husband, father, writer, journalist and podcaster. 🧛♀️ Co-founder of @MythicEchoes.bsky.social 🎲 Editor for @geekpride.bsky.social ✍️ Articles in BBC, Guardian, Independent and others 🎙️Occasionally on BBC Radio 🧬 They/them 📌 Derby, UK 🔗 www.peterallison.net
Finished Resident Evil: Village tonight, but I should have stopped at the end of the first act.
Exploring the village and Dimitrescu castle was delightfully creepy, but it quickly became a generic action game afterwards.
Nonetheless, it looked amazing throughout. #RE8
youtu.be/JSapXD9vxYA?...
The Regicide Report by Charles Stross.
Happy World Book Day to everyone.
I tried to persuade my youngest to dress as Bob Howard from the Laundry Files series by @cstross.bsky.social (black t-shirt, combats, smart phone and a tentacle), but they insisted on going as Spider-Man...
In other news; The Regicide Report is incredibly good.
Sheffield.
Threads.
Good afternoon...
There can be only one
LARPCon
We will be exhibiting at LARPCon this weekend, where we just might be making a special announcement! 😲😲😲
#larpcon #announcement #larp #vampire
6.4 miles in 35.5 minutes.
A quick blast on my bike before lunch.
on the other hand, one well-timed nuke could solve a lot of the world's problems
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Dracula Returns to Derby
Eunice on her stall
Amazing gothic stall
Body painting
Great time at the Dracula Bazaar today. Not just an alternative market, but a body painting demo and ghost story Festival combined.
5.4 miles in 35 minutes.
A quick blast on my bike before lunch.
Stairwell
Dining room
Drawing room.
The tunnels.
Exploring Calke Abbey.
Dracula Returns to Derby
Eunice on her stall
Amazing gothic stall
Body painting
Great time at the Dracula Bazaar today. Not just an alternative market, but a body painting demo and ghost story Festival combined.
I had not considered the Powers Rangers vibe before, but I can definitely see it now.
Picked up the Massive-verse comics last year and thoroughly enjoyed their fresh take on superhero comics.
If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.
Absolutely deranged...
The o2 Arena in London has a D&D related announcement taking place at 5pm this afternoon for an event taking place in August.
Are Critical Role coming back to our shores again after their instant sell-out Wembley Arena dates a few years back?
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Morning update, so far thanks to this sale, across all our titles, we’ve sold 394 magazines on DriveThruRPG & 1 (one) on DM’s Guild, which made me laugh
Anyway, around 9 hours to go, so jump in, the water’s warm (if somewhat brackish & home to nameless monsters from the time before the stars shone)
Watched the amazing Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with my children tonight, a film i have always loved and wanted to share with them.
Eldest son: "Well, that was depressing..."
youtu.be/q-HrIQLdaNE?...
I will be there on Saturday.
Vampire Games Day II brought together six incredible storytellers to host vampire-themed roleplaying games in a gothic former library.
See you all next year?
#vampire #dracula #gaming #ttrpg #horror
Faerie lives don't matter... 😁
Don't threaten me with a good time...
Vampire, Werewolf, Mage and Wraith.
9 miles in 58 minutes.
Quick blast on my bike before lunch, and the first time in ages (actually three weeks...)
Meanwhile, there literally is, or plans for there to be, a solar farm in Chornobyl...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
A man speaking into a recorder: Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.
Here we are.
Oh, that is excellent news.
Makes you wonder if similar collections would be equally successful... 😜
Alex Worley's work on Durham Red has been sublime. Are there any plans to release them as graphic novels?
