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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"What if," I said to myself, "you took out the soundtracks and admitted to having liked stuff by artists you've since grown distant from?" www.my9albums.com

My 9 Albums:

Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
KMFDM - Nihil
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Slayer - South of Heaven
Blackmore's Night - Secret Voyage
Solstice - New Dark Age
Earth, Wind & Fire - Greatest Hits
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Synthosaurus - Prehistoric Gods II

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not that these lists ever feel adequate or complete, but I've gone and done another one. www.my9albums.com

My 9 Albums - The sound that made me

Various Artists - The Best of Godzilla 1984-1995
Yoko Shimomura, Isao Abe - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES)
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Basil Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian
Bobby Prince - Doom
Slayer - South of Heaven
Earth, Wind & Fire - Greatest Hits
Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Synthosaurus - Prehistoric Gods II

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's Bandcamp Friday catch. For top-tier melodic death metal, remember to support your local @wraithstormmetal.bsky.social !

New Bandcamp purchases:

All Elite Wrestling - "Out of Time 2.0 (Pac AEW Theme)"
Wraithstorm - "Revenant"
Smoulder - "Witch Wife in an Alien World"
Autumn Night - "My Name is My Anchor"

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I knew I'd done this one before, but for the hell of it, here's a new version with a few different picks.

My 9 Games:

Row 1:
Doom (1993)
Killer Instinct (2013)
Morrowind

Row 2:
Golden Axe
Faith
Jill of the Jungle

Row 3:
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
Tekken 3
Ridge Racer Unbounded

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like I’ve said, this was never one of my favourite films, but it’s not without its assets. Battra is awesome, and Ifukube’s score is really impactful.

A TV screen displays the title card of Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992), aka Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Glaze me for a bit. My Suplex & Sorcery book launch event on Saturday was a success. Would do again, and even better next time.

I gesture at a projected slide with the title “Fuck GenAI - Real-Ass Labour Made This Book”

A slide says, “How It Was Made - Only on Discovery Channel,” and discusses the initial writing and publication of Suplex & Sorcery

I point at the cover of a Jessica Amanda Salmonson novel, on a slide titled “Sword & Sorcery - It’s Not That Simple”

I read aloud an excerpt from Suplex & Sorcery

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, I’m sure I’ve brought up this one often enough…

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm gonna fight the house on Ash Tree Lane

Screenshot from myhouse.wad. The player is wielding the combat shotgun in an area of gray walls and floors, and empty halls and doorways.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Voting has begun and, well, this is certainly a gallery of freaks. I guess you can vote once per day, though, and I guess I don't mind half of them too much. Guess I'll throw one in for not-Cthulhu, aka Madomuh.

Front view of the kaiju Madomuh, who pretty much looks like Cthulhu

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ASCII City is a wonderful place to be. asciicity.live

A screenshot from the ASCII City website. Part of a city is rendered in colourful ASCII characters and shapes. On the left side, the overlay beneath it shows the active camera feed (Feed 032), the street (Horizon Avenue), the district (Signal Green - Terminal) and the status and time (Live - 22:54:35 UTC). On the right side of the overlay is a Sound On button and volume control.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

✍️🧠 Leave it. Leave it. You have yet to write the script to read alongside the PowerPoint. Write the script... Junebug.

A PowerPoint slide of the moniker "June Orchid Parker - Fury Becomes Her," in alternating fonts of Destruction Manual and Street Threat. The background is a wintry wood. In the top left corner, the song "Nervosa - Rebel Soul" is indicated to play during this slide.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes. For example, you all could be doing me a tremendous favour by checking out the Main Event of the Summer, SUPLEX & SORCERY: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Cover of Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker; cover art by John Golden. Varika, a barbarian woman in leather pro wrestling gear, grabs a kneeling, green skeleton from behind by the lower jaw and raises her fist to punch this foe. Behind her you can see ring ropes, a masked chorus, the seats of a Greek theatre and a black-clad Sorcerer with green magic burning around his hands.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things i was frightened of as a child: 1. Thunderstorms 2. Getting in trouble 3. The dark 4. The Abominable Snowman from the Rudolph stop-motion 5. Being bitten by a pinky demon

A Pinky Demon from the original DOOM starts to bite the player

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A tight race across the West. 🙂 mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

A dialect map illustrating areas of the US where people talk most like me. The West is largely covered in shades of red (most like me); the South and East, mostly blue (least like). There are bands and spots of yellow (middling resemblance) that primarily reach from the Northeast down to the South.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It'll be a while before I say much else about it, but the next Astartha story you're likely to see is called "Perishment." A taste of things to come:

Cover of the book "Monsters & Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" by Debbie Felton

Cover of "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris

Art of Princess Athena as she appears in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That said, if any fan artists need/want new ideas for #PetraParker, I have two: 1) Marvel vs. Capcom colours 2) A Petra-cross-Thekla mashup

Spider-Man in one of the ‘90s Marvel vs. Capcom games. He’s in his idle stance and his suit is orange and blue

Thekla hoists her championship belt at AEW Dynamite while Julia Hart (right) brushes back her own hair

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The greatest to ever be. The greatest to ever do it. newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Suplex & Sorcery on GoodReads with a perfect score of 5.00 after 5 ratings and 2 reviews

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s the five-star main event of the summer, for those who want to live, love, suplex, and be content: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Suplex & Sorcery on GoodReads, with a 5.00 rating after 5 ratings and 2 reviews

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“5 stars, no notes” - Dave Meltzer hypothetically Have *you* attended the main event of the summer? Get your copy today: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Screenshot of Suplex & Sorcery on GoodReads, with a score of 5.00 after 4 ratings and 1 review

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok, yeah, I see where I have a certain “type” when it comes to outfits on women

Magik holds her sword parallel to the ground, a giant screaming skull behind her. Art by Kael Ngu.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is completely true. For example, wizard lady and other abject characters could never write good stories about pro wrestling barbarians, or about wandering trans women who murder the villains they come across. breadsonja.wordpress.com

Cover of Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker. Varika, a barbarian woman in leather pro wrestling gear, grabs a kneeling, green skeleton from behind by the lower jaw and raises her fist to punch this foe. Behind her you can see ring ropes, a masked chorus, the seats of a Greek theatre and a black-clad Sorcerer with green magic burning around his hands.

Illustration by Matt Spencer for “How Many Deaths Till Vengeance?” by June Orchid Parker. Astartha, a blonde trans woman, pries open the head of a Minotaur statue while swinging a hammer, revealing the head of an evil politician. As the side of the Minotaur head opens, the villain’s eyeball is pulled from the socket.

Black-and-white artwork for “Fury Be My Goddess.” Story by June Orchid Parker; art by Lur Noise. The image depicts streams of blood raining from a golden eagle onto Astartha, who is crawling on hands and knees through a deep pool of blood, her eyes glowing. The tattooed face of an angel forms the background; a sun hangs over her forehead.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Buying CDs like in the good old days. (These purchases are from the past couple weekends)

Two CDs side by side:
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (left)
Eluveitie - Helvetios

Two CDs side by side:
The Sword - Gods of the Earth (left)
Kreator - Violent Revolution

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

PHOTO: Gary Gygax speaks to Lee Gold on the phone

Shockwave from the original Transformers cartoon says, “Female!”

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Add SUPLEX & SORCERY to your novella bunch today! Read it! Bask in its absolute radiance. Bow down as you would to Divine Dominion. newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... #novella #swordandsorcery #prowrestling #wrestlesky #aew

Cover of "Suplex & Sorcery" by June Orchid Parker; cover art by John Golden

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I kind of love that Doom: TDA canonized the name Flynn Taggart for the Slayer. For this game's take on him as a militaristic swashbuckler of sorts, it's just 👌

The Doom Slayer as he appears in Doom: The Dark Ages, with his cape billowing behind him, his dragon Serrat partly visible in the background, lightning striking in the distant sky.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s the main event of the summer: the pro wrestling fantasy novella Suplex & Sorcery! Varika, a barbarian, meets her match in the sinister Sorcerer and his minions. What will it take for her to put him down for good? newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you are crept hither to see the wrestling, I've got just the novella for you! The main event of the summer, now available in paperback and digital: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

He had concerns about Varika’s views on cats. Fortunately, I was able to assuage those concerns, and tell him it’s all kayfabe. (Mentioning him in the afterword helped, too.) SUPLEX & SORCERY is now available in digital and mass-market paperback formats: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Scrunglepuss, an orange cat puppet, gapes in surprise at seeing his name highlighted on a PC monitor, in the afterword to Suplex & Sorcery.

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June Orchid Parker | Bread Sonja @breadsonja.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I do what I can with the resources I’m given

The beginning of the author bio at the back of Suplex & Sorcery. A black-and-white photo of the author is laid out above the text: “From Saskatchewan, Canada, weighing in at an undisclosed number of pounds, June Orchid Parker! She debuted in New[…]”

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