Lorc aka Thomas T

'tis the season for a free creepy werewolf game. (Am I doing self-promotuion right? I'm new at this) thelorc.itch.io/what-big-teeth

Courtney Milan - The Governess Affair An iron-willed governess done wrong by a duke, clashes with his merciless factotum. Nothing wrong with it. A couple nice twists for the genre and doesn't hang about. But not quite my bag.

I remember in the 90s/2000s, everyone I read online seemed so clever. And nowadays even many of my favourite creators strike me as insufferable (not you, mutuals). In hindsight I think I was just vulnerable to forceful opinions. This is probably healthier for me.

Micaiah Johnson - Those Beyond the Wall Didn't love it as much as The Space Between Worlds, but that was always going to be a high bar. Nice how the Ashtowners dress and act like Mad Max extras while still being militantly organised, efficient and caring to each other.

KJ Parker - Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead Dirty jobs crew for the church gets embroiled in bullshit at an ecumenical council. After a disappointing set of very samey KJ Parker books this one actually does things a little different (though still 100% in his bailiwick) and I'm all in favour.

Nick Harkaway - Karla's Choice Dirty secret is that le Carré books are always great, but they don't always do it for me. But I'm a Nick Harkaway fan and this turned out worth the punt.

4 more ogre conversions painted up tonight! Really happy with these boys! Amazing what a little head swap and effects paints can do!

I miss Orc Stain.

Cat is shape. #cat #cartoon #webcomic

I miss Orc Stain.

It Ends was such a great film. Four friends in car on a road that goes on forever. One of those low budget films that relies on a tight premise and perfect execution. It only gets described as horror because genre is marketing, and "horror" is where we dump fun stuff without neat answers.

i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol

Grace Curtis - Idolfire Two young women questing for the same thing from opposite ends of the continent. Failspartans, history, class privilege and country ambition. Always a fan of good fantasy novels that know what they're about and get it done without resorting to a trilogy.

Should... someone tell them?

I really need to remember to post more often 😅. Been playing This is Not a Test 2nd edition. This is my raider crew. #miniatures #miniaturepainting #wargaming #minipainting #wargames

I'm so tired of RPGs that aren't about anything.

KJ Parker - Pulling the Wings Off Angels Petty criminal gets caught up with a plan to kidnap an angel and blackmail god. But is everything as it seems? Yes.

KJ Parker - Prosper's Demon Exorcist runs into a difficult demon. Amoral protagonist with a cunning plan they don't share with the reader. Interesting pseudo-historical profession details. Classic Parker. But mini-sized and with a punchy ending.

Robert Jackson Bennett - Vigilance American dystopia where mass shootings are deliberately engineered and commercialised TV events. Abrupt and predictable. I guess it's hard to be subtle on this sort of topic because reality has a habit of being even dumber.

I think that's the first time I've DNF'd a book because of the author's dialogue tics.

Joe Abercrombie - The Devils A Dirty Dozen of heretical misfits protect the Empress of Troy from assassinations on a travelogue of alt Papal Europe. Plays it very straight - I kept expecting twists that never came - maybe overlong for something so straightforward. Still good.

Love a book where everyone's happily paired off and we've reached the destination and the corner of my ereader says "71% complete".

All I'm saying is that if you're drawing anthropomorphic manifestations of the seven deadly sins and your lust is a sexy lady? Then your gluttony should be a hamburger.

Today is the last day of my Summer Sabbatical and I can at last upload the first fully completed fruits of my unsupervised game design escapades! severalseals.itch.io/drake-barcod... & severalseals.itch.io/foleynauts

I'm almost entirely on Linux now, but there's one or two things I still need to boot into WIndows for. So, under windows, the mute button on my headset will mute my mic, but can't unmute it. Turns out there's, like, five different places to control that in Windows, and they're not all in sync.

KJ parker - Making History A group of scholars is asked to fabricate an ancient civilisation. Of course there's only one story that follows from that premise, but a KJ Parker book that's not about a war is a rare treat.

Travis Baldree - Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk Fantasy murder mystery. And talking of books that leave things unsaid, here's a story that's exactly one scene too long. Like it was stapled on to the end to explain all of the things that didn't need to be.

Grady Hendrix - The Blanks Rich happy family on a rich holiday island with one tiny problem. Lovely horror weirdness that isn't easily explained or boiled down to a simple metaphor.

Anne Leckie - The Long Game An alien discovers that humans live so much longer than its own species, and decides to do something about it. I do love when a book leaves the important things unsaid. The narrator's joy is so depressing to a reader who can see what's happening.

I don't normally bother posting the short stories I read, but I got stuck in a promising novel that turned into a real slog. And it's nice to be excited about reading things again.

John Scalzi - 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years I'd sworn off Scalzi, but glad I gambled on this. It's good to remember that he has more than one mode. It's a time travel story, but not that sort of time travel story. Sad and peaceful.

Scott Lynch - The Wizard Who Kept Himself Suspicious Murder! at the wizards' convention. Deliberately retro, like something from the golden age of pulp fantasy. Good solvable mystery and cute touch that an unresolved twist was itself the twist.

Robert Jackson Bennett - The Lion's Tusk Our detective narrates how they solved a historical murder from documentary evidence. Decent mystery and maintains the bio-fantasy themes of the larger series. A fun aside.

It's funny how when an rpg doesn't tell you what it's about, that hravily signals what it's going to be about.

Being annoyed at people who disliked the same book I disliked, but for the wrong reasons.

@muncie.bsky.social Hey you don't know me but I love your comics. What's the over/under on getting a website to host your comics? I'd really love if there was an easier way to point people at your webcomics, and/or a bingable archive. Thanks for being cool regardless.

Scarlett Thomas - The Sleepwalkers Epistolary novel about a pair of Honeymooners being relentlessly awful to each other. Then things get worse. Leaves a lot unsaid.

Didn’t finish my latest book. If everything’s turned up to 11 (in between the lengthy bouts of exposition), then it’s not dramatic, just fatiguing.

David Mitchell – Utopia Avenue Story of the rise of a fictional 60s pop band. Made me fall in love with every single one of those characters, warts and all. Such an evocative sense of time and place. But I bet the horology subplot would annoy people reading it as a standalone.