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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, let me know when you're going!

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Shoe Queen of Atlantis @salomekjones.bsky.social · 13h

I used to wonder how people survived without the internet. Now I wonder how we survive with it.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 14h

*gnashes teeth* *screams inwardly* If I get a Time Machine, the first line I'm changing is the one about no-one living within a hundred leagues of the Shire. But that one's on the fucking list.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 14h

ARAGORN: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. GIMLI: What, it's autumn with intent there, is it? A: No, I mean - G: Everywhere else, falling's just a hobby, but you're saying in that one specific forest, the leaves only fall when they can ACHIEVE something? A: - G: Goal-orientated foliage, is it?

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Played: MERP Ran: Probably D&D, maybe Fighting Fantasy RPG.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Did you ever read the old DUNGEONEER/BLACKSAND books for Advanced Fighting Fantasy? They were the first game I recall that explicitly used the language of cinema, encouraging the GM to describe the camera panning over the heroes. It even referred to handouts and such as 'props'.

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Gary Moloney @garymoloney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hey #PortfolioDay! You may know me as the writer of WHEN THE BLOOD HAS DRIED from @madcavestudios.com, HIT-MONKEY from Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts, WARHAMMER: AoS: SOULBOUND, or my work at @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social. Open to new comic writing opportunities. 📧: garymoloney93@gmail.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.

John Banville, speaking to Belina McKeon for The Paris Review in 2009:

INTERVIEWER

Do you really hate your own novels?

BANVILLE

Yes! I hate them. I mean that. Nobody believes me, but it’s true. They’re an embarrassment and a deep source of shame. They’re better than everybody else’s, of course, but not good enough for me. There is a great deal more pain than pleasure in writing fiction. It’s only now and then, maybe once every three or four days, that I manage to write a sentence in which I hear that wonderful harmonic chime that you get when, say, you flick the edge of a wine glass with a fingernail. That’s what keeps me going. When I read the proofs of a new novel—which is the last time I will read or even glance at it—I approach it with one eye closed, so to speak, thinking, God, what am I going to find here? And I find horrors, horrors that can’t be fixed. Everything in the text now seems hopelessly flat and deadened. Where I imagined a dancing rhythm, I find clumping and stumbling.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That's exactly the vibe - it's encounters on Level One of Metadungeon

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well, this is for DIE: Metadungeon, so I have an excess of wacky genre shit...

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Philhammer Fantasy Roleplay @thedicemechanic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My favourite fantasy trilogy since The First Law. What happens when the heroes defeat the dark lord? And just what do you do with a sentient demon sword when there's no necromancers left to slay? And what the fuck do immortal elves get up to when they're not singing songs tralala in the valley?

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

New Sea People theory just dropped.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Exactly! The Gutter Prayer and Shadow Saint have earned out, so I get a cut of any future sales of those books.

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Ludonarrative Dissidents are doing a double-length livestream tonight (Tuesday) to celebrate the launch of our season 4 Kickstarter, and we've got special guests Meguey and Vincent Baker, the great minds behind PBtA, to chat with us. Starting 23:00 Europe, 22:00 UK, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nothing inspires an author's desire to reminiscence like reading a royalty statement and seeing how close a book is to earning out. In unrelated news, I was thinking about my LANDS OF THE FIRSTBORN trilogy - what becomes of heroes after the quest is done? www.hachettebookgroup.com/series/garet...

Cover of THE SWORD DEFIANT, showing a middle-aged warrior holding a demon sword

Cover of THE SWORD UNBOUND, showing that middle-aged warrior in front of a burning city. The demon sword seems smug.

Cover of THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT, with a much older version of that warrior and a judgemental sword.

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Narrative Damage @narrativedamagerpg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LOOK! 👀 We have a shiny new website, where you can watch/listen to all episodes, sort by episode type, and meet our brilliant authors turned players! Plus - leave us reviews and get in touch via the contact form! Let us know what you think of our new home! www.narrativedamage.com

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Narrative Damage

An actual play TTRPG podcast where your favourite authors swap their pens for dice and gather together to tell tales. Join them as they explore games including Call…

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

For folks who are interested in what DIE RPG is, this thread popped up on the discord, and is full of folk talking about their experience with playing the game.

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From the rpg community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the rpg community

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

PROCTOLOGIST: Can you explain this resume in your gap?

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ME: Shit, that's a typo. Sorry.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ME: I must decline, for secret reasons.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

INTERVIEW: Can you explain this gap in your resume? ME: If you look closer, you'll see it's no gap at all. He leans closer, off balance. A quick shove. INTERVIEWER: What - ? ME: Don't you recognise me, Fortunado? Don't you know how long I've waited for revenge? I close the gap in my resume.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I were to say "1970s funhouse dungeon design", what tropes or encounters would spring to mind? Already have teleporters, riddles, incongruous chess puzzles...

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 12/10/2026

BOB THE BEER DROPPER: I make the worst decisions ME: hold my beer

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Conor L @conorl.org · 12/10/2026

We studied the Seamus Heaney poem "The Badgers" for the LC. Our teacher insisted that Heaney wished he had been a badger. When Heaney did a talk in our school a few months later we asked him. He said "No, that's stupid. I just like badgers."

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's criminal that our English curriculum doesn't discuss how many of our nation's greatest poets and writers were alcoholic perverts that had WWE-style rivalries with one another.

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 12/10/2026

I think I'm onto something.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Me: Hey, I have an excuse to look at old Dragon magazines for this book. Me, several enchanting but unproductive hours later: oops.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here, have a photo that says "I was much more focussed on working out where the camera is on this iPad than those things you call facial expressions."

The author, unshaven and slightly red-faced, reacts to Grant's birthday as if relative youth was a minor personal affront - not a big enough offence to warrant comment, certainly, more something to be nursed as a grudge.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Random odd thread from gaming history: First published dungeon: Palace of the Vampire Queen (Arguably) First story-based adventure: Ravenloft Then - Vampire: the Masquerade. Vampires beget stories, apparently.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026

Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Merryshire Detective Club GMs, take note.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Rereading SLAYING THE DRAGON and giggling at the novel bits

The pair bickered over it a bit more until Kirchoff relented. “Since it’s a sidekick character, I’ll let you get away with it. What’s his name?” Recalling the moment decades later, Salvatore said, “Off the top of my head, I have no idea how or why, or whatever, I said, ‘Drizzt Do’Urden of Menzoberranzan.’” She said, “Can you spell that?” “Not a chance,” he replied

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919. It’s a topic that appears to have fascinated Wadsworth. I love every single one of his takes on the subject.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is Das Boot subtitled? Yes and yes.

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 08/10/2026

Halfheart, by @lindenalewis.bsky.social (pub by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social) is a superb novel, an excellent epic standalone novel that explores grief and rebuild while playing with narrative ideas. Difficult to explain without spoiling it. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/half... 💙📚

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