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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 8h

I'm reading JG Ballard's final book, Kingdom Come. And it's more than likely I had a small hand in it. The book was written 20 years ago and is about a man looking into his father's death in a shooting incident at a shopping centre. The opening paragraph is excellent...

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Makoto Kobayashi is my favourite manga creator- just not this Makoto Kobayashi (this one’s pretty good tho)

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting idea. How about bingo hit points? Player has to check off boxes when hit (perhaps with different ’flavours’) and a bingo means they sre out of action

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Christopher Marcatili @chrismarcatili.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bluesky friends & strangers in #australia – if you're in the #arts or #creative sector, Creative Australia has recently announced a bunch of its current #grants and #funds Check it out: mailchi.mp/creative.gov...

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October 1 has a few hours left to go, so I managed to start my “A night in the lonesome october” re-read on schedule this year.

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Factions are such an important part of OSR play because the OSR is full of factions that all hate each other, so we really can really imagine what it's like.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I run a Shadowdark game these days and something about this idea really tickles. I must ponder

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All narratives ultimately converge on “Prisoner of Zenda”?

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Robots... OF DEATH #DoctorWho

The Robots of Death from Doctor Who. Three green robots with sculpted faces are surrounded by stars.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just finished Daggerbound - @tkingfisher.com ‘s long-awaited follow up to Swordheart. Great fun, the pages practically turn themselves.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really enjoyed @annleckie.com ‘s Radiant Star. Was not expecting anything so snarky and Barchester-y

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nijigen no mori! Great fun. A wonderful example of fully committing to the bit for a 10 minute theme park intro.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In case you needed some trivia: The Weatherwoman live action movies were inexplicably successful in Australia. I pulled up a random review to check and they also used the word “inexplicable”.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

hey guys I don't read this genre but I'm here to revolutionise it. I haven't read a single book that's done this.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ian Fleming’s “Thrilling cities”? (cw: It’s still Fleming)

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The Pixel Project @thepixelproject.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you're in #Australia & need help re domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT 24-hour helpline at 1800737732 for information, counselling and support.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Ongoing Shadowdark campaign currently exploring @jpcoovert.bsky.social 's Dragon Town & the Darkness Below

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hookland has always been here in Australia. Now there’s a book. @hookland.bsky.social

A slim paperback book. Hookland Fragments by David Southwell.

The cover is stark and woodcut like, showing a bear juggling bones and skulls.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 10/07/2026

Still playing with the details, but Deep Cuts is going to start a new section called "Lost Tales" - obscure, never-reprinted, public domain stories that don't really fit the major focus of the blog but deserve some attention.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The super-efficient world building was a delight.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

The coverplate of the book HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE by David Southwell featuring a picture of the Ghost Bear of Hookland by Maria Strutz and the following blurb:

I firmly believe David Southwell’s Hookland to be one of the great
imaginative achievements of our age. One that will one day be
spoken of the way Lovecraft’s Mythos is now. Hookland is the
folklore of the county that exists on the edge of our vision, an
unseen but sensed Britain that is at once familiar and strange.
It is the land just to the left of where we live. David’s work is
made even more remarkable by his open invitation for all to
come and play there. Though of course visitors to Hookland
must be wary, the county exacts its price from us all. – R.J.
Barker, award-winning author of bestsellers such as The Bone
Ships and Gods of Wyrdwood.

As a visitor I am more frequently in Hookland than the barrows
and chalk downs of my childhood. – Roger Clarke, best-selling
author of A Natural History of Ghosts.

Hookland is gold standard eldritch world building. – Ian
Simmons, Fortean Times news editor.

This a shimmering place of deep time, cold wars, old gods and
ever renewing mysteries.The heartland and home county of the
restless and the outsider, a lamp glow to welcome the lost, a
pole star for those who dare to step into the dark and follow its
glorious glowing ghostlight. – Rose Ruane. Artist and writer of
Birding and This Is Yesterday.

Hookland has been called many things. Psychic shrapnel
embedded in place. A re-wilding of folklore. The English Eerie
told in strange fragments. According to its creator David
Southwell, nothing in Hookland is made up, just remembered
differently.

Hookland Fragments Volume One offers both an introduction to
Hookland and an exploration of its agenda of re-enchantment
as resistance.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Have you seen Moore’s new series “The great when”? Very dense, but compelling.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1) Gossip, esp work or office 2) from sailors gathering in the low parts of the ship Also see old Aus slang "Furphy" (Lie, story) from Furphy brand water carriers used by WW1 troops

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 23/06/2026

Periodic reminder I have a book. You can buy it. Still the only nonfiction work on love, sex, and gender in the life and works of H. P. Lovecraft, his contemporaries, and literary heirs. www.hippocampuspress.com/h.p-lovecraf...

Cover for SEX AND TEH CTHULHU MYTHOS; a Lovecraftian entity pulls open his trench coat to flash a woman walking her small dog.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 23/06/2026

I got a job in the government (MURDER SHE WRITES begins) A double page to fit it all in (the first half only appeared in print). Do you remember those huge UPS things you'd have to sign? They look impossibly archaic now. It has the sort of the name I'd give something, "the DIAD IV".

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I got a job in the government (MURDER SHE WRITES begins)

A double page to fit it all in (the first half only appeared in print). Do you remember those huge UPS things you'd have to sign? They look impossibly archaic now. It has the sort of the name I'd give something, "the DIAD IV".

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Uncertain as to their direction and speed

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Biollante yes? That scene's been stuck in my head for decades

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There’s a memory I didn’t expect to resurface. Definitely played this back in the day. My family were big fans of “The great race” (1965) so this was a natural.

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Great Stone Skull @wiredandteary.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

As a picky young sf fan Galactica wasn’t my favourite, but I played with those toys until they disintegrated.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’ve crowdfunded a lot of zines! They’re available for digital purchase from my itch, and occasionally as print addons in subsequent campaigns. All of my games are stand alone and complete, using original systems to play with some mechanic or conceit I find interesting. itch.io/c/2502210/zi...

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Zines - Collection by pidj

A collection by pidj

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