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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 · 09/05/2026

The combat mechanic of hacking/shooting is fun, though it gets a little frustrating in the back half. The central relationship between Hugh and Diane is ridiculously cute.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I finished Pragmata. What a good game.

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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 · 29/04/2026

Whatever your struggles today, you should know I had coffee this morning out of a beautiful mug that you designed. You matter, your work matters. It's time for your journey to begin anew.

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

Thanks man, I miss you too. I hope all is well in your world.

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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 · 02/09/2025

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it!

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

Happy Birthday Andres!! Have a great day!!

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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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rick and morty are playing instruments in a cartoon while rick is singing into a microphone .

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

Hey Mark! Hooe you've been doing well my man!

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

It really is. It feels truly "next-gen" to 🤯

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

Hey man, I miss you too. I decided to pop my head in, see what's up I'm loving DS2. It's better than the first game. Just incredible.

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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

Exactly, it's all fancy ways to say nothing of any value. For some reason those types of marketing slogans also remind me of Dr Seuss and his made up words.

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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 · 23/05/2025

My favorite is probably Ranni's whole questline in Elden Ring. Also the quest Look Upon My Works in Red Dead Redemption is cool.

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Mad Mark Stellan @sisyphusfell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Thanks Mark! Hope you're doing well!

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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

And yes there will probably be hoverboards.

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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

That's a good way to put it. Plus the story, art and music are incredible.

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

GOAL stands for Game of a Lifetime, I realize that might not be clear by context 😂

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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

Yes! If you need someone to test them out let me know. I'm always down.

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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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