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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Something dark has escaped the abyss and it has a table of contents. The Patient Abyss is a poetry collection for anyone who stared too long into the darkness and wondered if it stared back. Spoiler alert: it did. 📖 Out now. #ThePatientAbyss #poetry a.co/d/09eUyk3l

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The Patient Abyss [Stellan, Mark] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Patient Abyss

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My new #book has arrived! 🖤 The Patient Abyss is collection of #poetry set within a mythological framework, in which gods observe mortals with fascination, mapping the abyss between the vastness of the cosmos and the intimate scale of a mortal life. 📖 Check it out now a.co/d/0dJPz7N7

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My debut novel, The Harmony, was the fulfillment of a dream, one that began in childhood as I discovered my love of speculative fiction. My second novel is an entirely different animal. This is my soul, and the words that form the shape of it. Pre-orders available soon.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Last night I dreamed I was back in my old position and one of the managers called me frantically. Our employee, Legolas from LOTR, had been beheaded by an Orc and we had to clean out his desk. We all stood around saying things like “He was the best archer in middle management.”

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Honored to be nominated again 🙏

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Bushidō to iu wa, shinu koto to mitsuketari

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Potato Jolson @thejolson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I bought a replica Master Sword at a Ren Faire today. I took these quick photos but I’ll take some more good photos tomorrow cause this thing is SWEET

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Imagine if Herbert, Camus, and Star Wars got drunk together and accidentally left their story notes on my desk. The result would be a galaxy-spanning, philosophy-laced, sci-fi fever dream called The Harmony. Read it now before my mom buys all the copies. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNNMYL6D

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The Harmony - Kindle edition by Stellan, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Harmony.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It’s my birthday, and my debut novel The Harmony just launched. I’ll save the full launch post for later, but I wanted a moment here for myself. I never thought I’d publish a work of fiction and at 45, I’m only just getting started. Happy birthday to me! a.co/d/1aNb0Kw

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

My debut novel releases on August 31st. A sci-fi epic that reported has Issac Asimov rolling over in his grave.

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Potato Jolson @thejolson.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Okay chapter 10 of Death Stranding 2 is a masterpiece and one of my favorite levels in any game ever #DeathStranding2 #Spoilers

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Fans were upset when the 15th Doctor regenerated into Rose Tyler but Kojima already had the fix. Introducing Debra Wilson as the 17th Doctor. The TARDIS was destroyed by a Beached Thing. I just fixed the whole all 60 years of Who faster than Sam repatriates.

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BattleBorn Poetry @thepoetryarena.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Congratulations, @sisyphusfell.bsky.social! You were selected to be this week’s Voice Of Valo(U)r! 👑 Our next #BornBattleReady prompt word is: LYRICAL Do not post your #poetry here. Battle will commence Friday at 9am EST. The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Rick & Morty may have evaporated from the zeitgeist, but for me it's still the best mix of parody, dark, absurdist, and meta humor ever made. From episode one when Rick tells Morty to shove mega seeds up his “taut, yet malleable ass” it boldly went where no one had gone before.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Got up early to get a little Death Stranding 2 in and now I’m on a mission to rescue a kangaroo while flaming whales crash around me like meteors. Kojima somehow moved the weirdness needle again. He's now lurking in a dark corner of Night City twirling his mustache.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Whenever I see some fanciful marketing puffery like “Now 2x creamier!” I imagine it coming out of a zany Dr. Seuss-style machine. Like the Onceler invents the Cream-O-Matic Guzz-Wuzzler, churning out truffula coffee cream that’s magically twice as creamy.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I just finished South of Midnight. Took all of about 11 hours. I liked it quite a bit. A poignant and gorgeously told tale of generational trauma. The art style looks hand-painted, like it came off a brush and the stop-motion animation is dazzling.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I listened to some video game OSTS today at the behest of a friend and it got me thinking about how music sounded different to our ears in the time of Mozart, due to factors like equal temperment tuning. I feel a time travel story brewing. Working title: Back to the Opera House.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Clair Obscur is one of the greatest games of all time (or GOAL—pass it on) and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. (I was never pretending, I just added that for dramatic effect)

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Today's dramatic irony: Amazon Alexa. It's playing music too loud for it to register the command to lower the volume. It's dramatic irony because Alexa knows something that I apparently don't: it doesn't give a shit about how loud I want it to play music 😂

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The word Monday comes from the Old English Monandaeg, meaning “moon day", a translation of the Latin dies lunae, or “day of the moon.” Fitting, as Monday eclipses your joy, phases your mood, and by 9am you’re shaking your ass at the weekend. Happy Monday, darlings 🍑

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In honor of May the 4th We used to go to this rave in Orlando called Firestone. There was this guy who was there all the time everyone called the Jungle Jedi. Instead of glow sticks he had two full sized lightsabers. Dude used to dance like he was a Sith hunting Jedi. Crazy shit 😂

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 04/05/2025

We were 12 parsecs outside of Dagobah when the deathsticks kicked in…

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I want to be on bluesky exclusively because I fucking hate Nazis and how they are ruining everything I ever loved about my country. But there are some key friendships that haven't moved and most likely won't. I can sacrifice relationships or I can feel icky all over. God Bless America

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I dislike how we use GOTY as the implicit consensus of how good we feel a game is. That's petty, I know, but I've been playing games for 40 years. GOTY doesn't really narrow it down much. From now on, in conjunction with GOTY, I'll be using GOAL (game of a lifetime) like the pretentious asshole I am

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I finished Clair Obscur. Saying anything more would be a spoiler so all I say is the path I choose was pure fucking cinema. The ending shot will haunt my dreams for years to come. A Masterpiece.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Me? Oh, I'm just out here saving the future. Hasta la Vista, baby!

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

How good is Clair Obscur? This game feels like a bespoke Mark game. I love everything about it. GOTY. GAME OF THE FUCKING YEAR.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Sometimes I lie in bed at night and think about how the Dead Space remake, though incredibly peak, failed to include the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star trailer on the start screen and how bullshit that is

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I plan to write a biography of Billy the Kid, telling the true story of how he survived the encounter with Pat Garrett. There will be no research, or historical facts. There may be aliens. He may or may not have been recruited by an intergalactic bounty hunting team. Working title: Billy the Man.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I never played Oblivion, so I'm excited for this drop but I still plan on getting Expedition 33 day one. It looks too good to ignore. I choose both

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Rolled credits on Metaphor Refantazio. Damn, that was one hell of a game.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A trans person is 4x more likely to be a victim of sexual violence but less likely than cisgendered males to commit the same offenses. If you applaud the efforts of Rowling et al, you're not protecting women, you're further discriminating against an already marginalized group. You are a bigot.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Every time I die in this game I debate with the kill screen whether or not fantasy can ever truly be killed.

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Victor Lucas @victorlucas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hey let’s mishandle a pandemic, dismantle the apparatus to help deal with the next one and then start a trade war! The shart of the deal.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I'm not defending Nintendo with the Switch 2 game pricing, but it should be noted I plan to play the Switch 2 from my helicopter as I fly over the disenfranchised proletariat and throw empty funion bags and plastic mountain dew bottles at their heads.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I remember playing Journey Escape for the Atari as a little kid then being disappointed after finding out they were just a rock band. Little me thought these dude actually fought aliens or some shit.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

OK after a few more hours with Metaphor I've come to the conclusion that it's a great game, once you get familiar enough with all the management systems. However, I think the issue is that it overstimulates me. All the bright colors and moving parts and animations. I need to break it up.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I heard Only Time by Enya today and it made me think of the Epic Split Volvo commercial where Van Damme did the split between the two trucks and now I have a psychosomatic pain in my groin.

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Conor 📎❤️ #LaraCroft ❤️ #TombRaider ️❤️ #TombRaider30 ❤️ #gaming ❤️ @conormcl2026.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy 82nd Birthday to #ChristopherWalken! 🎂 From Max Shreck in #BatmanReturns to the Headless Horseman in #SleepyHollow and unforgettable roles in #TheDeerHunter, #PulpFiction, and ‘Catch Me If You Can’—Walken always leaves his mark. Here’s to a legend with a voice (and stare) like no other! 🎬🍿

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm going to give Metaphor Refantazio another go. I find that sometimes I click better with a game on the second go round.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What's that old saying? Crazy wife, fucked up life? I think that's it.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

On the way to the bus stop this morning my daughter tripped walking out the door. Her clarinet went flying and she landed hard on the porch before starting to roll down the steps. Apart from a few bruises she was unharmed but man, the apple does not fall far from the tree 😅

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I went to a wine party at a friend's house tonight. I got tipsy, my wife had to drive home and all I can think about now is that Dragon Age Veilguard got a bad rap.

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