War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
This one is an older work of urban fantasy that came to me by a list of recommendations written by Seanan McGuire. Since I love McGuire's books, I've made a little checklist of the books to take a look at some possible influences. War for the Oaks is a modern…
A rectangular oil painting that features what appears to be a child’s body in a red empire-style dress with a white ruff and the head of an orange cat. The cat is wearing a crown and has a large cigarette dangling out of its mouth as it stares at us dispassionately. The background is mostly baby puke green with castle turrets visible at right and some bare tree branches in the top corners. Truly this is the most extraordinary piece of art I have ever seen
I saw this painting, so now you have to, too:
Exit. Pursued by a bear.
Hamlet and the Scottish Play *are* great.
I have personal soft spots for Midsummer Night's Dream (9 year old me's first Shakespeare seen live) and Twelfth Night (which I was in).
Also, because of 10 Things being filmed in my hometown, Taming of the Shrew.
Exactly, finding so many fake citations, and having to check if sources exist is a lot of work.
And crafting an argument around the sources I find is way more fun than double checking slop.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
This book showed up in my recommendations on my Kobo account months back and the title really intrigued me. It also fit in with the attention I've been giving the Zero to Well-Read podcast diving anew into classic literature. As I read…
I remember when I learned to use embed tags to stuff midi files into the websites my friends and I made on Angelfire
The old web was a wild place.
So about 0.67 sessions sounds about right
Oh, for sure.
I mean more like is Pathfinder 2 or D&D 5 better for fantasy adventure.
Whereas like I'd love a discussion over what Monsterhearts and Monster of the Week do differently despite similar influences and the same core engine to supply different feelings.
Yeah, the comparison is so often on better/worse when that's kind of boring compared to "how do these two games differ in their approach to the same genre"
Anyway, welcome to my overthinking anything I watch on TV.
Or The Crows.
Like money to do the goal of leaving should have been there multiple times. But then there's no show. But the decision to keep writing things that would let the goal happen creates this weird Waiting For Godot effect where it's a choice not to leave while continuing to complain.
My wife and I finished our (6 years late) watch through of Schitt's Creek this week.
So, practically, I know the Roses remain in the motel because otherwise there's no show. But ostensibly, their goal is to leave. And stuff happens like the Blouse Barn money or investment in the motel paying off
I love Eberron.
I can't wait to return from campaign hiatus on my to figure out what my players do next after ... accidentally destroying a cathedral of the Silver Flame and destroying one of the seals on Rak Tulkhesh, opening a demon portal.
Do you want that in decimals or fractions?
Look! It's smiling!
In the Ramtop Village they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up wounds down - until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvest. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.' Terry Pratchett - Author and humanist #HumanistBookshelf
A great humanist sentiment by author Terry Pratchett for #WorldBookDay. He was our patron and is sorely missed. GNU Terry Pratchett
A books podcast I was listening to earlier today mentioned All the Beautiful Sinners while talking about whether Stephen Graham Jones and Buffalo Hunter Hunter would be an author and book we talk about in 10 or 20 years.
Skwun?
Currently reading Wuthering Heights. Hadn't read it till now because it's always been presented to me as "one of the great Romances" and that genre is not usually my cup of tea.
This is not Romance.
Like Romeo and Juliet, this is teenage lust grows out of control and traumatizes EVERYONE.
Shadowrun Missions SRM 04-00 Back In Business
For the next couple of weeks, Humble Bundle is running a Shadowrun Fourth Edition Complete Bundle. Included in the Bundle are the complete third and fourth seasons of the Shadowrun Missions organized play scenarios. Shadowrun Fourth Edition was my…
Interesting Links — Week of 3/3/26
I got a lot of reading done this last week. Got through Their Eyes Were Watching God and Automatic Noodle, I've also started reading Wuthering Heights with the new movie out. These are a few of the things that have caught my attention this week. Games Virtual…
I once tested how well ChatGPT could draft a simple boiler plate legal memo for me.
It took me longer to double check and clear out everything it did wrong than just writing it myself to a higher standard.
In completely unrelated news, I've found the Forbes Billionaire List to make an excellent random villain name generator for RPGs.
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
Interesting Links — Week of 2/25/26
My attempts to read more have expanded this week. I actually listened to an episode of the Zero to Well-Read podcast that talked about setting reading goals and deciding what reading more or reading better means for you. (Not at all from this week, so it's up…
ICYMI!
Interesting Links–Week of 2/18
I've been making a concerted effort to do less doomscrolling and spent a lot of the last week reading novels. I finished Twelve Months and started on Sword of Shannara since it's in the 2014 Player's Handbook Appendix E. The effort to not doomscroll means my links…
I'm imagining the reaction to Song of Songs
And the Athenians used their knowledge of the straits between Athens and Salamis to devise a strategem by which they goaded Xerxes into a naval battle where the Persian numbers were a liability rather than an asset.
