@maddambeltaine
He / him. Perpetually exhausted but still somehow smiling. Chief llama at Albert the Llama Enterprises. Banner art by @kanizo.bsky.social and PFP art by @jaunty.art Find my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/albertthellama
Picking up our monthly pathfinder 2e game today after a long hiatus... Just hope I can remember how to play my character!
If you find yourself following someone who is called woke ginger or pissed off nurse or whatever, they’re not your ally. Your ally is someone with an obscure Pokémon avatar called like ant piss aficionado
The cover to Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
Book 12 of #adamreads2026 down - Half a War, by Joe Abercrombie, finishing off the Shattered Sea trilogy in blood and fire. A great conclusion to a great story. I still think I prefer the First Law trilogy over this, but it's still a belting read, gripping from start to finish. Loved it!
Filthy Ken doll, looking like a complete sex pot.
MALVERN GAZETTE: Severn Trent finds Ken doll and wet wipes in sewers
…and just look at him, the filthy devil. He’s loving every second of it.
A podcast thumbnail for dice company depicting a space ship flying towards a larger broken spaceship.
A podcast thumbnail for dice company depicting a space ship flying towards a larger broken spaceship.
The first of the series of DARKSTAR illustrations for @dicecompany.bsky.social and their Mothership TTRPG game - BOOMERTOWN
#myart | #Sci-fi | #TTRPG | #Podcast | #Darkstar | #Dicecompany
Find more on Patreon - www.patreon.com/cw/RRH_Art
@tammi.bsky.social Finally got chance to read The Library #1 and it was bloody brilliant! I especially love Rook 😁
Thank you so much for letting me read it!
I promised @gregjenner.bsky.social I'd share a bit more about John Hodgson the 173-page footnote guy.
Let's start with a note her wrote to himself while dying:
"I have raised persons and families from oblivion, while the genealogies of the great interest myself no more than those of the poor." /1🧵
This one in particular goes so hard, I love it!
Yeah, that's brilliant!
They say it's the hope that kills you.
Maybe it would. Hope killing you doesn't sound so bad, in the grand scheme of things. Better than despair. Better than disappointment - and disappointment was a regular caller I knew all too well.
That delivery was never coming.
This week on the Untitled History Podcast:
In 1901 Colonel Alfred Redl became head of counter-espionage at the Austro-Hungarian Evidenzbureau.
What nobody knew was that Redl was a Russian Spy.
Join @jessealexander.bsky.social and I as we explore his dramatic rise and fall #history
What happened is I mentioned this absurd idea to a BBC producer and now I am writing an afternoon play for Radio 4 called THE CALL OF CTHUDO, to be recorded sometime in June with (ideally) various Green Wing alumni doing their best 1930's detective voices.
Hi, I'd like to invite you to my £0 BlueSky GM course:
1: get an RPG you like
2: get together with folks you like
3: play some games
4: keep doing the bits that were fun
5: repeat
Thank you for attending - your imaginary certificate is in the post!
🙂
not writing fantasy as in complex magic systems but writing fantasy as in sweeping, epic confusion - what gender is the god with ten dicks and ten boobs. seven thousand wizards with a name beginning with F. the king is a tombola. magic goblin nukes. the elvish calendar is a spoon
One for @juliansimpson.bsky.social – a new Numbers Station. Link courtesy of @johnnylogmar.bsky.social
www.rferl.org/a/mystery-nu...
Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
SEAT THYSELF WITHIN THE GOLEM SHINJI declareth an embroidered man, in embroidered letters, for lo, 'tis one of those Bayeaux tapestry memes, wherein the existing assets of the aforementioned medieval sewing fest have been cunningly arranged to resemble some sort of 14th century mech
Lo
Tchaikovsky would be hard pressed to find a better-fitted crew for this mission than the RRD folks. Solid choice, and an amazing series of books if you haven't gotten into reading them yet.
Tryck is a rather stubborn monkey-lizard.
Listen to see if she has other wonderful qualities as well!
@forcemajeurepod.bsky.social
Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).
DM/GMs - what do you do when the players destroy a key plot thread?
We call this a "Jessica Ryder moment", after the time our gang accidentally killed a key NPC (hear the full story here 🎧🎲👇)
marker drawing of a halfling in a low fighting pose with leather armor and two escrima sticks
Jocelyn the halfling, one of only a few recent commissions not for commercial use. This marker style is rapidly becoming my favorite way to do characters.
My halfling, in fact! She's got some shit to work through...
Beautiful work as always from Izzy!
butterfly meme, guy is labeled business genius, butterfly is labeled DUMBEST FUCKING IDEA YOU'VE EVER HEARD, he is thinking 'Is this a solution?'
CEOs weighing in on the Strait of Hormuz:
[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm in a bad mood right now becausse of issssuess with the new harry potter tv ssseriesss
Kathleen Stock: i heard about the on-set bullying
Stock: someone should turn those bratty kids into blueberries!
Rowling:
Rowling: ok um
Atst walker made yellow with Warhammer orcs all over it
Now that is a proper damn warrrgghg
What’s your go-to “comfort fiction”?
My monthly newsletter includes a Comfort Fiction section and I’m always looking for things to include 👉 alexmorrison.co.uk/newsletter/
The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. It's really not my usual sort of books but they're beautiful and human and kind. Also, pretty much any Discworld but especially the Death and Guards series. Lastly, Legend by David Gemmell, the book that started my love of fantasy. All time fave.
