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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's really fun to make things. Even if it's just to make fun of the Helldivers 2 community losing its shit over trivial bullshit (tanks with casements instead of turrets).

Satirical helldivers 2 comparison between an automaton shredder tank and a helldiver maelstrom tank.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#AlternativeMana Cards increase your Risk score as a cost If your Risk ever reaches 7 then you lose the game. Play a Reset card to set your Risk to zero. Some cards are stronger when your opponent's Risk is higher. You can't ever increase your opponent's Risk. Assemble combos on board to win.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mike Carey - Outlaw Planet Wronged woman with a magic gun learns what makes the world tick. It was like a TV series. In that a strong premise and powerful start kept me reading through an increasingly flabby middle until I finished it out of obligation.

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Unreal Sonia @unrealsonia.com · 23/09/2026

Should... someone tell them?

A green poster with a picture of a toy horse with a bow. Caption reads "Club Lloyd's. The gift horse of bank accounts."

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Joel the NoisyNinja @noisyninjac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wonder if there's a German word for the trepidation you feel when coming near the end of a book and it feels like it might be deferring the ending to a sequel.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Claire North - Slow Gods One of my very favourite authors doing what feels like an Iain M Banks tribute. There's an evil empire that's uncomfortably similar to our own, friendly AI drones, planetary evacuation from a supernova and a firefight in a museum. It's good. It's very very good.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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.

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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

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Drake Barcode: Morse Inspector by SeveralSeals

The moderately educational interactive escapades of a dashing detective in a dotty city

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Artists, drop some creepy art.

Gleefully pulling tight the stitches on his twisted new arm

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セロリ少佐 @celeryensign.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

なんだかEDFやりたくなってきたな #afol #moc #lego #LegoMOC

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals This is not a great book. But even a bad Pratchett still has nuggets of gold. And I know it's one of the books he really, really wanted to get written before he went.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You say something like - "Why did they call it a mochachino and not a choco-latte?" - and there's always aome dork got to explain Italian etymology at you.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Every morning this replays in my head.

Before I take a shower: I hate it in there, the wet world is a bad place
While in the shower: I remember now that this is a good place, it is the dry world that is the enemy

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Serious Sam (2001) your crosshair changed colour - green, yellow, red to indicate an enemy's hp. In just world this would have been adopted universally but instead nope we've just got health bars everywhere now.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I've got a Claire North book in my queue and I'm nervous about starting it. Will it be merely poignant excellence? Or will it deliver a targeted strike to my deepest emotional vulnerabilities?

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

James S A Corey - The Mercy of Gods How a university research group copes (and doesn't) after invasion by an overwhelmingly powerful alien empire. Enjoyed this much more than I expected to. I was invested in the politics and relationships pre-invasion, and the aftermath was suitably dramatic.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

KJ Parker - Saevus Corax Gets Away with Murder The plot of his trilogies almost doesn't matter - it's all about the character arcs. Which is to say, seeing them all being treated like chew toys.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's not a good sign that so much of TV advertising now is basically for money. Gambling, mortgages, pensions, insurance, investments...

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Robert Jackson Bennett - The Company Man Union tensions in an anachronistically advanced 1920s company town. Look, I was REALLY enjoying this. Fantastic grimy, uncanny sense of place and escalating stakes. Then bam, massive 3rd act machina ex deus lore dump and the book just slides to a stop.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Achievement unlocked: Found someone I know had been using my icons without knowing I made them.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief This had some extraordinarily silly bits in it that really tested my patience. On balance I went along with it because it was a fun caper/s. But it demands that the reader suspends a lot of disbelief compared to previous entries.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Coming up to the end of Sword Interval and these are some pretty good last words: "Choose joy, little one. And if you can't choose it for yourself... Choose it for others. "

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It's always fun when it suddenly becomes clear what you've been building.

End step of a subassembly build reveals that it's it's a ????

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Heaven save me from US opinions on UK politics.

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Lorc aka Thomas T @lorc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

KJ parker - Saevus Corax Captures the Castle The plot and characters are exactly the same as every other KJ Parker book. And I'm normally on board for that. Bit of a saggy middle in this one though.

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