brazen-guff.bsky.social
Still sorting things out on here ... hold the line ...
Library systems, ux, ttrpgs, cycling, books, veganism, politics, folklore and folk horror ...
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I am aware of Dan Snow's work and respectfully disagree.
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And Dan Snow is a posturing nationalist mountebank masquerading as a historian.
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Stonehenge is nothing more than a bad theme park, yours a Moonraker currently in exile in Yorkshire.
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As did the rest of them - lining up to kiss the ring of a fascist.
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I still need to have a serious word with Past Me about variable names, though. I'm not sure I've moved on sufficiently since launching a live system at UWE which used blah.txt to record some of its outputs.
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I'd always intended it to be a #folk #folkhorror campaign without fully understanding why. It feels like that is changing. #ttrpg #osr
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Ideas bubbling up courtesy of the usual suspects @weirdwalk.bsky.social, @benedge.bsky.social, @bnjmnmyers.bsky.social, Andrew Michael Hurley et al. Things feel like they're coming full circle -
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(Dune! I hope it's Dune! 🙏) There can be only one guide for such a slightly frazzled journey through endless time and other worlds - The Drude open.spotify.com/album/18xR78...
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WWII courtesy of Achtung Cthulhu and Eat the Reich, Old School Essentials, Vaesen, Coriolis, Outcast Silver Raiders and whatever comes next
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Same here!
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Things took an altogether more sinister turn as Barger took the lift 70m down to the concierge largely courtesy of soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/s...
What the hell was a dog doing down there?
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Unfollowed ...
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Dammit! Peaked too soon - was hoping to be the Follower of the Beast.
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I've a feeling this may all sound really obvious, but to me it's a genuine epiphany that I'd love to explore in more detail.
Thanks for attending my TED Talk etc. etc.
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... the bloody history of the countryside, projecting its violence onto those Others who we should in reality feel kinship towards as they too are victims of the same timeless struggles as us, writ large in the folk tales of their own lands.
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... but I think it's largely because of that class violence inherent in our landscape expressed far more eloquently than me by Hurley, and the relevance this will always have in combatting the fables of fascism which try to subvert ...
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I've been ruminating on why I find myself drawn to #folk and #folkhorror a lot. A childhood that spanned the 70s and 80s in rural Wiltshire is certainly a factor - there are grainy home videos of us maypole dancing at school that look like scenes from an undiscovered folk horror masterpiece ...
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... "far from Britain being a green and pleasant land built on ancient codes of honour, it's the place where we hanged people, where battles were fought, where murders were committed, where the rich beat the poor into submission."
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... , drag it to a sacred site at the top of a hill, then sacrifice it so the druid can eat its heart and gain the power to assume its form. Just a standard #ttrpg #osr Thursday #ttrpgtales
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Can highly recommend Obsidian.
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I'm in! Looking forward to hearing what you make of York.
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Singapore Changi, definitely. The only airport I've deliberately arrived extra early at just to look around.
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Ably assisted this evening by the Drude open.spotify.com/album/556FTY...