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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 16h

My wife, a lifelong Bears fan, loved seeing the woman dressed like Ditka with the man dressed like Ben Johnson kissing during the game last night. We need Chuck Tingle to get on this, stat. The Chicago girls would love it.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m a born and raised working class Appalachian. I’ve lived in the South my entire life. I work in a warehouse in East Tennessee. I’ve never heard of that song. Or its performer.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of “Jon Watts? Why didn’t Lucasfilm hire an experimental French director to do the next Star Wars??? Guess they’ve given up on doing anything INTERESTING!” Yo, Disney didn’t buy Star Wars to win film festivals.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The livestream also gave me the idea that when I finally do a solo story with my s&s spy character Vytos Kallador I can market it by saying “From the same high school that gave you Kane!!!”

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social livestream with Audrey Stollings was incredible!

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A day without sword & sorcery is a day wasted! Here’s a page by Drawnsword of our Crom epic, Crom Courageous! Available in Crom Anthology 1 and 2 at cromthebarbarian.com!

Sword and sorcery art of a funeral of a massive giant king, his corpse carried by demons.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone online: I was at a used bookstore and I found 59 old sword and sorcery books for a nickel a piece! Me: That’s awesome! Me mentally: I hate you.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dam is breaking. Ed Sheeran & Robert Kraft have unintentionally opened the door to more and more artists speaking up in solidarity with Palestinians by standing with @macklemore. theintercept.com/2026/09/16/e...

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran: I’m Irish, actually. Every Irish person: FUCK YOU, YOU BRIT BASTARD

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Miljenko Šimić a.k.a. mishimi @mishimi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

digged this one up from 2024 I think... #comicart #illustration

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I understand the “nothing happens“ mindset when it comes to politics as frustration that it seems change is impossible. As a sports fan, it cracks me up that EVERYTHING in college football has change, when it was seem impossible just six years ago. Maybe that can be of inspiration to you.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a nice little summary of our Moment gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The philosopher Susan Neiman’s new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” is a useful companion to “Profiles in Cowardice.” Like Weisberg, Neiman wanted to explain why so many institutions caved to Trump. She believes it begins with an ethos that disdains virtue as hypocritical or naïve. “When self-interest becomes the basis of reason, evil no longer needs to justify itself,” she writes. “It’s already been mistaken for rationality.”

Neiman cites research showing that “the longer people study economics, the more selfish they become.” The reason, as she interprets it, is that they grow convinced that maximizing self-interest is normal, and that to do otherwise makes you a sucker. The more the logic of capitalism pervades the rest of life, the less room there is for compassion, honor or heroism. Maybe that’s why some of the people most financially able to defend liberal democracy have decided it’s one of the few luxuries they can live without.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey remember for more than a decade after 9/11 the US government and media said Al Qaeda was hiding behind every tree and bush ready to kill people? Here‘s your reminder the US government just 14 years after 9/11 then funded and armed Al Qaeda to take over Syria.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📦 Less than $200 until all backers outside the U.S. get a discount on shipping! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Screenshot showing we are $183 away from unlocking a $5 USD discount on shipping for Canadians, $10 off for everyone else outside the United States.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I only got 25 out of 50 on the DragonCon Star Wars trivia quiz. My goal was to get in the mid-30s. Good news was the ones I got right I actually knew without guessing.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every Republican needs to be questioned if they receive donations from a neo-Nazi.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can I keep up with all the amazing sword & sorcery being written? No. Am I going to stop buying it? Also no.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy birthday to Jack Kirby. Don’t know where I’d be without The King!

A panel of Jack Kirby’s New Gods featuring a sci-fi ship with Orion and Lightray.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you think transphobes actually give a shit about women's sports, I have a bridge I'd like to dump on you.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This week we’ve lost our mom, our dad and our wacky uncle. Fuck, man.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Whee! Just got my digital magazine! And here's me on the Swords Against! side of the flipzine with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social. My story 'Horse and Boar', with great art by @morinfon.bsky.social There’s a story by Milton Davis on the other side. Physical and digital in the Mystic Bull store.

In the Mystic Bull store, cover of the Swords Against! side of the FlipZine, with my story Horse and Boar.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yeah, it’s going ok! Just sobbing in my car listening to Here You Go Again.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you

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Swords Against! Magazine @swordsagainst.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey ya'll. Swords Against! is officially published to the world today. I currently have it set up in the Mystic Bull Games store (that's my TTRPG imprint...and has a functioning website/store). Working on migrating to a dedicated site. www.mysticbull.com/post/swords-...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/08/2026

The best of us. Much love to everyone who loved her - which means everyone. May each of us try to do a fraction of the good she chose to do for her neighbors everywhere.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s really hard to describe what she means to people here in East Tennessee.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

dolly parton should have been immortal.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🔥Behold the cover, by @smuggerby.bsky.social, for a 50,000+ word collection of tales starring the mercurial, magnificent Morlock Ambrosius! These stories by @jamesenge.bsky.social hold many Weird wonders for you to witness... Learn more and sign up here👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Cover art for THE PHOENIX & THE MAKER, Tales of Morlock Ambrosius, by @jamesenge.bsky.social

Art by @smuggerby.bsky.social

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fernando Mendoza probably doesn’t believe my friends and family deserve human rights so fuck ‘im.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Jabba was right

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Alia Atreides, Violet Ray Brandt and Lathra: I guess I have a type.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Update: I’ve finished and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever read.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’ve been reading this since yesterday and 1) It’s phenomenal and I love Lathra already and 2) My vocabulary has improved by a million.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Do you like Karl Edward Wagner's immortal shithead KANE? Then you're gonna love my girl Audrey's LATHRA in her debut novelette DARK SEA SILVER in which Lathra and her fleet are absolute terrors to the realm but mostly those closest to her. Available here: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/dark...

Audrey Stollings' Lathra standing on a boat's prow

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Am I the only one who thinks the G17 Reaper in Starfighter was inspired by this Fisher Price toy?

Fisher Price space toy spaceship from the 1980s

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Star Wars Sessions @starwarssessions.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m on my hundredth viewing of that Starfighter footage lads 😍

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’d say it’s top tier. And it seems pretty clear Cade Skywalker is at least somewhat of an inspiration.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Heck, it's the SUMMER OF SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS! Check out Goatskin's werebeast wrangling, Varika's skeletal summer slam, and San's science fantasy odyssey all in digital formats & mass-market paperbacks here 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

Three sexy Sword & Sorcery mass-market paperbacks lined up in a row, at a slight angle & overlap so you an see the spines. From left to right they are "What Rough Beast?", "Suplex & Sorcery", and "The Barbarian at Dream's End". In the bottom-left of the photo is a caption that reads "NEW RELEASES".

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Star Wars: Starfighter looks pretty sick from what I’ve seen so far! Can’t wait to see the G17 Reaper in action.

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Meet Mari! A street girl who came up fighting her way through the tiered city of Bara-Lu, she now fights alongside Alani against five immortal sorcerers. We needed Alani to have a sidekick and she developed beautifully into a strong character on her own!

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Aquamike @multiversity.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Ninth Jedi is PEAK Star Wars 🙌 Especially the second half. I really really hope they tell more stories in this universe 🙏

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Finished The Ninth Jedi! THAT is some amazing Star Wars!!! (And I hope we get a Season 2!)

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 05/08/2026

My novel LONG ISLAND BABY is Long Island-approved! If you want a horror novel about being trans at the dawn of the Reagan era in the most Reagan era place to ever exist -- an economically collapsing and redlined-to-hell island on the ass end of New York -- you'll love LONG ISLAND BABY

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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’ve only seen the first episode of The Ninth Jedi but so far it’s incredible!

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