Ranged Touch

We will be doing a Ranged Touch hangout at Adepticon on Friday, March 27th at 3pm! Location announced on the day, but it will be somewhere in the Baird Center.

The Shockmaster

Hell yeah i love Book of the New Sun

#ShelvedbyGenre #LordoftheYear

you ever look back with immense sorrow and pity at the needlessly bitter but intensely pursued agendas of people trapped in a world they don't realize is preparing to die in a frenzy

big witcher spoilers here

A busy weekend pushed us out a day or two, but as of yesterday your podcatcher should have received the latest episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we journey into the deep past with the debut issue of GAME STUDIES from the alien world of July of 2001 rangedtouch.com/2026/03/02/9...

my interpretation of Sam Gamgee and his weird bag hat for @rangedtouch.bsky.social

A long-expected episode: prepare your party favors, brush up on your lore, and get your traveling cloaks ready as SHELVED BY GENRE embarks on the Quest of the Ring today with our first episode on J.R.R. Tolkien's THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. rangedtouch.com/2026/02/27/t...

Fellowship eppie in process, there was a technical issue and our geckos are hammering on the website

LATE ANNOUNCEMENT: This month's Game Studies Study Buddies will be a discussion of the first issue of COMPUTER GAME STUDIES from 2001 www.gamestudies.org/0101/

elfs are one billion years old and dwarfs are 27 or 52 years old. Thats the rules.

It's a bonus episode week, which means Patreon supporters get access to our discussion of some MOVIES! Today we finished off the Peter Jackson Hobbit films in a two-for-one mega-episode, considering them as a sort of noble experiment with some really bizarre outcomes. www.patreon.com/posts/151240...

Listening to Shelved By Genre talk about Tolkien's drawing of Bagend, I mocked up a quick Blender scene of the perspective to see just how big that door really is.

Answer: Quiet Large.

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@rangedtouch.bsky.social Will this Jordy Verrill be the first official action figure released of Uncle Steve himself?

[Guitar Solo] Uh-huh See ZZ Top Live Get tickets as low as $70 You might also like making the bed Olivia Rodrigo the grudge Olivia Rodrigo all-american bitch Olivia Rodrigo [Verse 3] The blue coat and brown hat And I don't worry 'cause my pony's fat Yellow boots, Goldberry Singin' songs, makin' merry [Chorus] They come runnin' just as fast as they will 'Cause every hobbit crazy 'bout Tom Bombadil

...the arkenstone....

or lord of the year. whatever

speaking of, if any tobacco and tobacco accessory outfits (famously numerous here on bluesky) have some Tolkien-themed products they can send samples to @ztul.bsky.social for review during the Year of the Ring

We went there, and now we're back again! Today Shelved by Genre concludes our reading of THE HOBBIT, discussing a bit more Tolkien's literary scholarship as it inflects his aesthetic projects and why therefore Beowulf needed a little guy who followed him around. rangedtouch.com/2026/02/13/t...

Crime Novel Steve is here.

Over on our Patreon, this month's JUST KING THINGS Bonus Episode sees us undertaking something slightly new: discussing a three-season TV show that adapts a trilogy of books. So far it's mainly a good time! www.patreon.com/posts/150368...

Over on our Patreon, this month's JUST KING THINGS Bonus Episode sees us undertaking something slightly new: discussing a three-season TV show that adapts a trilogy of books. So far it's mainly a good time! www.patreon.com/posts/150368...

JUST KING THINGS embarks upon a new era today, with the full emergence of 'Crime Fiction Steve' by way of the BILL HODGES TRILOGY. It begins with MR. MERCEDES, a 2014 novel precision-targeted to enrapture and terrify grandparents everywhere. rangedtouch.com/2026/02/09/m...

in just a few hours...you'll learn...just how mister a mercerdes can be

"Colton Burpo," I said.

an interpretive watercolor illustration of Smaug from The Hobbit as described in the text.

close up of an interpretive watercolor illustration of Smaug from The Hobbit as described in the text.

I took a little time before work to read The Hobbit and try to draw Smaug based on the description like @rangedtouch.bsky.social asked. He sounds like a Bat-Piggy with a bunch of arms to me.

Help! I've lost my Arkenstone amid the space encompassed by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image!