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On my Time Team shit This lady's straight up medieval ruins making up part of the *inside* of her house. I'm legitimately going ballistic. I'd have a bank of shitty keyboards sitting there 24/7 making the most raw dungeon ass music you'd ever heard. Unreal.

screenshot of the tv archaeology show time team showing a section of medieval stone arches that were incorporated into someone's house

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21h

Read my stories🫵 They're free, 100% human made, short and fun, and there's something for everyone. Use the different pages to check out the recurring worlds! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/archive There's also an ongoing fantasy adventure serial shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/s/the-path-o...

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23h

Hey #gobtober what's up it's the Three Brothers of Slime and Darkness

Compilation of three monstrous goblins. Left: Photo of a ballpoint pen drawing of an extremely stylized and slightly cartoonish goblin facing the viewer, with large toothy maw, long chin with a huge ring though it, extremely long, thin, drooping ears with lots of piercings of rings and spikes, with long earrings in frayed cords of which one is a little disc with a symbol and the other looks like an arrowhead with some scratched symbols. Middle: Black ballpoint pen drawing of a creepy goblin that looks like a blobfish, deep sea fish that deform extremely under surface pressures. This guy has a wide, sagging head with little curled ears with bulbs on the earlobes. He's got wide lips with thin teeth and droopy, wide-set eyes. He has a thin, heavily wrinkled neck with some extra little tendrils on the sides. Right: Ballpoint pen drawing of a creepy goblin with big featureless eyes, a small stunted nose, big curving bat eats with a few earrings, and a big toothy mouth, closed and frowning, the front of the neck seems lighter than the rest and covered in loose, wrinkled skin.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I drew this goblin twice because I wasn't sure it was up to snuff, but now I'm not sure, and it's up to the public to decide which one survives and which is cast into the black flame of the abyss #art #myart #fantasy #goblins

Black ballpoint pen illustration of a goblin facing the viewer, it has a super long nose, sagging jaw, frowning mouth, featureless eyes set inside large, pallid sockets, and a tall had crowned by jagged horns and has large, protuberant fin-like ears

Black ballpoint pen illustration of a goblin facing away from the viewer, so the side, it has a super long nose and chin, gaunt jaw and cheeks, frowning mouth, slit eyes set under heavy brows, and a tall had crowned by jagged horns and has large, protuberant fin-like ears

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Rest of the Path of the Poison gang approximately an hour later

Professor Farnsworth from Futurama with the text "to shreds you say"

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hundreds of these things everywhere

Screenshot of the game Elden Ring of a robed statue holding a sword in a resting pose pointing down

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge Posting Carloman is cheating because he has Kaioken x20 Spidey Sense, so here's a HeroForge Sepp instead. If you want to guess for a dude two steps removed of godhood, I shan't stop you, but Sepp is like 19, very tired, and winging life one beastman attack and mystery at a time.

Digital model of Sepp from my serial The Path of Poison, he's a young man about 19 years old, with olive skin, golden eyes, and dark blond hair. He has a somewhat sombre expression. He wears a baggy green tunic, beige trousers, and tall, slightly loose brown boots. He has his hand on a pack by his side, and carries two bottles in his other hand,

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love my little wizard ring😭 I bought for my birthday like two years ago now? From Alchemy Gothic, an old school UK-based goth fashion and ephemera retailer. I happened upon their store, saw this, and knew it had to be done.

close up picture of a pewter ring with red enamel inset, several magical symbols are visible

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Solitary cavern goblin that can go months without food. They'll take on anything they come across. Those fangs aren't for show, and those big ol' jowls and flabby neck? Some of their prey is substantially larger than them. The gulper eel of the underground! #art #myart #fantasy #goblin

Ballpoint pen drawing of a creepy goblin with big featureless eyes, a small stunted nose, big curving bat eats with a few earrings, and a big toothy mouth, closed and frowning, the front of the neck seems lighter than the rest and covered in loose, wrinkled skin.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

42 chapters of a fantasy adventure serial featuring tragedy, bonding, loneliness, faith, uncertainty, and gnarly poison magic, free for all to read? Hot diggity dang it!!!!!!! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/s/the-path-o... #writing #fantasy #webserial #indieauthor

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How it feels bidding farewell to the JustEat guy who delivered my McDonald's at 1:30am on #WizardWednesday (art: Pedro G. Ferreira)

illustration of a wizard in black holding up a sparking staff as a knight on horseback gallops away, everything is in dark blues and blacks and greys on a moonlit night

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge I don't really think about my voice tbh. I just know how it goes! I figure that's for readers to get😅 So here's two paragraphs I think are good. Rambly, POV-breaking Carloman in the middle of communing with a sky god, full of magical details I delight in. From Shadows & Sorcery #190

Three landwight’s scented bundles. A fistful of Silverden incense sticks. A dozen raw goldleaf rolls. Things from foreign lands, exotic imports the kind of which were enjoyed by the Macha. The sky merely rumbled. Right then. You want potent things, Gaoth? How about a twist of a most potent thrice-dried and desiccated lotus petal, a transcendental meditation aid, pungent beyond imagining and just as strong—a bolt of lightning coursed across the sky as he cast it into the fire, not in a flash, but one long snaking, roaring streak. Carloman retreated into his shoulders for a second. Not the reaction he was expecting.

No, no, Carloman, he thought with a sudden imagined slap to the forehead. What are you doing? Propitiating some surly landwight? Some Khurcham ghost throwing a fit? Strength, you old fool, strength. Strength it was, then. He removed his gem of flame from inside his robe. He wasn’t entirely letting the thought he had take shape, he was just doing it. You want potency, Gaoth, god of sky. He breathed a word of fire on the gem, and tongues of flame burst forth from the smoothed sides and edges. He tossed it in. Their fires mingled: the vigorous, lapping flames of the altar’s fresh blaze, and the primordial radiance of the gem fished from within the earth’s deep. That’s not all, Gaoth. Did you see me coming across the sea, god of what-might-be? I suppose I’ve called on you enough to meet you in kind. The wizard took his staff—engraved with signs and symbols of the gods and guardians of the known world, including Gaoth itself—and stamped it at either side of himself, then drew it between the points he’d made in the form of a barrier. He brought out a fist of the amulets around his neck and felt around for his old World Serpent one, removed it, and placed it around his wrist. Fingers entwined in binding, he bid the Serpent set a coil upon him as he was now. The wizard was sometimes a rash individual, but with cause. And he wasn’t stupid.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why buy anything off Amazon when you can read 800+ human-made dark, high, weird, and gothic fantasy flash fiction tales and 40+ serial adventure chapter over at Shadows & Sorcery for free? shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Call that a Bloblin🫵 These guys live in the deepest, creepiest lake in the world around thermal vents absolutely infested with weird life, and emerge in voracious hordes under full moons. Utterly merciless, brutal, unrelenting creatures. #art #myart #fantasy #goblins

Black ballpoint pen drawing of a creepy goblin that looks like a blobfish, deep sea fish that deform extremely under surface pressures. This guy has a wide, sagging head with little curled ears with bulbs on the earlobes. He's got wide lips with thin teeth and droopy, wide-set eyes. He has a thin, heavily wrinkled neck with some extra little tendrils on the sides.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goblinok Groglinshitz, Master Muckmancer of the Murkmunks, self-styled cult of the slimegod, able to call all manner of forgotten horrors from the mire to which all things eventually flow. #art #myart #fantasy #goblins

Photo of a ballpoint pen drawing of an extremely stylized and slightly cartoonish goblin facing the viewer, with large toothy maw, long chin with a huge ring though it, extremely long, thin, drooping ears with lots of piercings of rings and spikes, with long earrings in frayed cords of which one is a little disc with a symbol and the other looks like an arrowhead with some scratched symbols.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I Have Made Some Purchases. Here's my Bandcamp Friday haul! Mostly dungeon synth, kellersynth/tanzelcore nonsense, some black metal and ambient, some industrial, even a little neofolk. Albums and individual tracks! Plus the entire Chaos Luciferi discography for €1.50, and Mortiis/Gothmog FLACs.

Spheres of Time by Solanum, Skyggevandrer IV by Skyggevandrer (translates to Sky Wanderer), Crypt of the Wizard by Mortiis, Medieval Journeys by Gothmog, An English Garden by Sol Invictus (individual track from the album In The Rain), Seeds of Death by Fading Light (individual track from an upcoming album), The Satanic Gates of Sorcery by Mage Lord, Midnight Campfire Dancing by Herafrog, Continuous Operation by Uninhabited, and Sunken Basilica by Saeculum

Polterwytch - 5 Orgels of the Poltercurse (I have no idea what this translates to, it may be nonsense), and SorrowKrude's EP compilation

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge Here he is! Everyone's favourite grandpa, Carloman!

Digital illustration of Carloman, the recurring MC of my Demiurge stories. He's a stocky old man with a massive mane and beard of silver-gold hair but totally bald crown, piercing amber eyes, and luscious red robes that are flowing but otherwise unadorned, he carries a staff with a carved serpent coiling the entire length, between the coils are magical and elemental symbols, the head is a snake's maw clutching an orange, blazing gem

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge Who knows if I'll manage to keep this up? I certainly don't😭 Some notes: -the self-contained short story is a fine artform -a cup of tea and a bag of Tayto cure all ills (🇮🇪) -every fantasy writer should know about dungeon synth -I aint even human at this point gimme darkness

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who will claim these two legendary scimitars? They work best when used together btw (dex requirement is through the roof so beware) #art #myart #fantasy #swords

long curved scimitar with the characteristic flaring on the reverse near the tip to add a bit of weight for attacks, the blade is sharp and shiny while the reverse is highly decorated with flowing symbols, the handle is segmented and the hand guard bears a square gem

similar long curved scimitar with the characteristic flaring on the reverse near the tip to add a bit of weight for attacks, the blade is sharp and shiny while the reverse is highly decorated with seemingly magical symbols, whole the handle looks slightly insectoid with its segments and the pommel is two short, curved spikes

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got into a convo in the comments of a DS1/2/3 challenge run (bad idea of course) and mentioned how I don't like the way From's design philosophies are changing for speedier, more reaction-based games that sacrifice RPG build variety. I think I finally summed my thoughts up pretty well this time.

Area design allows for a decently varied list of playstyles. But boss design in particular tends to funnel a lot of the general playerbase into a handful of playstyles, not helped by a glut of practically pointless weapons with no niche. This is only reinforced by ER's lazy carrying over of old ideas and bizarre decisions (like two separate burst damage statuses, and statuses and elements having no applicability beyond damage, look to Enotria, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen for infinitely better handling of elements/statuses, Enotria in particular).

I would actually consider Bloodborne as having good playstyle variety since weapon classes can diverge pretty extremely. You're not using a Saw Cleaver the way you're using a Kirkhammer or Whirligig Saw or Kos Parasite. I also prefer its quality over quantity in diversity of movesets and the way weapons let you approach fights. I don't get the same feeling at all in ER. DS1/2 gave players the most options to choose from in terms of how actually different builds actually handled. For example, poise tanking fights, sacrificing nearly all mobility for the sake of raw strength and defense, is no longer possible to the same extent in ER like it was in DS1/2. You might get away with it in a dungeon, but against bosses who spent half the fight airborne throwing out AOEs?

I've been playing ER nearly constantly since release (I'm nearing my 20th playthrough as I type this). It has immense replay value and potential for themed builds, to make your own fun, but in terms of the meaningful diversity of builds, and how varied their approaches are to combat, I think it's sorely lacking. ER may as well just be a purely reaction-based action game at points, and it's sad to see From leaning into that, when the heavy, methodical pace of something like DS1, and how that let them design encounters, levels, and stories just really isn't found anywhere else.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is literally how it feels to post on #WizardWednesday (art: i don't know but i would like to pls)

scene of an epic wizard fight done in pale pastel colours, one wizard is in a bubble conjured with a hand gesture deflecting a massive fireball conjured by the other wizard who has a staff emanating light, between them are flashes of light, smoke, cracked earth, and a giant snake emerging for some reason

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or Vermis by Plastiboo. The now getting slightly tired 90s nostalgic dungeon crawler videogame flavour was presented with art whose texture looks like it might start leaking off the page, and it captured me with such an air of intense melancholy and hostility in every little piece of flavour text.

page from one of the vermis books, a a knight in strange armour and cloak carried a torch through a cramped, shadowy dungeon corridor, they are walking towards us, the art is cracked, faded, very pointillist (made of countless dots) and looks like an old videogame

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Listen. I have two choices. One is safe and boring. One is completely insane. I hate them both.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As I said, big, very interesting ideas here just not given the space to be explored in a meaningful way. It's up to interpretation a little too much imo. Gimme a thesis on this, man, not Richard Burton wandering around all sweaty talking about Pazuzu and Kokumo while Linda Blair tapdances.

a young woman with the subtitles reading "I was possessed by a demon", in the movie she's saying this very casually

shot of a young girl looking rather startled

the young woman smiling and saying "oh it's okay, he's gone"

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So clearly the locusts symbolize mankind not ready for this mental unity, and that the holy people smooth this out. But the demon here, Pazuzu, is also represented by a locust. What's the point of the demons? I guess possession here is a forced, unnatural mental unity healers needs to subdue.

A young African man covered in locusts and with demonic eyes and teeth with the subtitles "I am Pazuzu"

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's themes of locusts, explained that in an agitated swarm of brushing wings they're of one all-consuming "locust mind", contrasted with the idea of a burgeoning cosmic consciousness and that the emergence of holy people across the world are heralds of it (the good locusts who subdue the swarm).

a cluttered scene of two shots overlaid atop each other, but the events in both affecting each other: a priest performing an exorcism, and a young woman attempting to bring an older woman attached to a hypnotic device out of a trance

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay for real: it's a complete fucking mess, a lethargic fever dream with wall-to-wall awkward and stilted deliveries. WAY too many big ideas shoved into too small a space. This is a 700 page novel condensed under two hours. Very visual, though, and Morricone's soundtrack is great.

an hispanic woman in white gown with arms outstretched and grinning in a church with flames creeping up her gown

a field of crops with a line of people rushing alongside it, and a massive black swarm of locusts in the air

a catholic cardinal in black robes with a red sash stands to the side of a large mural of the Christian crucifixion scene

a young woman, facing the viewer, is looking at a man reflected in the glass beside her

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watched Exorcist 2: The Heretic Boorman encapsulated his entire film with these two sentences

Richard Burton, an older man, in a priest's uniform with the subtitles reading "Utterly horrible"

Richard Burton, an older man, in a priest's uniform with the subtitles reading "And fascinating"

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALERT: every story set in the Vision and Faith world (aka Saint Setting) in Shadows & Sorcery is now tagged and has its own page! Read em for free over here: shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/t/vision-and...

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sony emailing me this as if I don't have 3000+ hours in the fucking thing

Phone screenshot of a marketing email for the video game Elden Ring sent me today. The game is four years old and I've been playing it since release.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My friend and I met up to eat junk food and watch TV shows yesterday. He's a lecturer, and was telling me about a debate between him and some of his students about game theory, in which he said "I told ya about the magic circle!" which resulted in me cackling for five minutes straight and this image

black and white illustration of a wizard casting of kind of big weird spell at a dude who seems REALLY scared of it with the text I TOLD YA ABOUT THE MAGIC CIRCLE in massive text on top of it

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay okay okay now that I have a minute to watch this Uh this is straight up Heaven's Gate "ascend to the Halle-Bop mothership" stuff man. I do get more of a grifter vibe off this than, you now, genuinely delusional death cult, but still. I see Pagan Space Jesus is alive and well.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Proving to myself I can break out of my weird tendency to draw things really small by drawing a marginally larger version of another sword I did to do it justice #swordtember #art #myart

Pen illustration of a curved sword, a broad-bladed scimitar with the characteristic flare on the highly decorative reverse side near the sharply curving tip. The front part of the blade is bare of detail and quite shiny. There are lines and curves along the side of the blade that give the impression of it being a rather thick, heavy blade. The hand guard is a large square rounded edges with a gem set into the middle. The handle is ribbed and curved also, with something like a scale-like pattern along it.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some absolute dark powerful witchery and warlockism for #WizardWednesday (art: Nona Limmen)

photograph of a human figure in silhouette wearing claw rings on their fingertips with lightning seemingly cascading between then

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Legendary Curved Blades -Desert Dawn -Dragon Sabre -Steelsplitter #swordtember #art #myart

pen illustrations of three swords. top: long thin curved blade with a thick wavy pattern, a handle that curved back into the hand, and crossguards ending in little balls. middle: a thicker, shorter blade like a scimitar with the flaring near the tip to made it wider and heavier, the handguard is a decorative square. bottom: a much shorter but much thicker cleave in a single clean curve and a central ridge from which the edge descends on the obverse. the handguard is like a boat-shaped base from which the thick blade emerged. the handle is ribbed and straight.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is from the lost episode where a vengeful Anglian spirit puts a blood curse on Tony Robinson

screencap of a warped glitch from a copy of the first series of the archaeological show time team, it is warped green and purple with presenter tony robinson standing hip deep in a marsh

another glitched image with coloured vertical streaks and the image if two people, one pointing into the distance, highly disorted in greens and blues

distorted and doubled over image of an aerial view of english countryside with diagrams overlaid upon it, with text nearly unreadable due to the video skipping

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been doing some much needed housekeeping over on Shadows & Sorcery. You can now find every single Dragonmagick story (unedited, see it evolve in real time!) on its own page. And yes, you do see pages for every other major setting as well👀 Expect to see those populated soon!

screenshot of the dragon magic page on shadows and sorcery, it is a simple list

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got my kitty's ashes back today. Making a little collage to put in the front of the box, I think I've represented her well.

4 by 4 square collage of my cat Callie, one with her face smooshed asleep, one tight close up with big eyes, one mid scream, and one all smooshed and comfy but looking at me

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As for Sepp, I don't describe his personal appearance much, but he was born with really melancholy features. Those, in connection with his genuinely quiet, friendly demeanour, can be disarming. His continued use of hexes may change this... Bless HeroForge for letting me sketch characters😂

Hero Forge screenshot of Sepp from my serial The Path of Poison, a young man with olive skin, dark blond hair, and golden eyes, he wears a baggy green tunic with large sleeves that reaches to just above his knees, as well as breeches and boots. He carries two bottles in one hand, and his other hand rests on a pack by his side.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's situational! Most instinctively pick up on Carloman's round, jolly, friend-shaped aura. But if he's in Wizard Business Mode, that soft round friend becomes a imposing mass of bloody flaming crimson. Sometimes it's to make people feel safe, sometimes its to scare them. Compare and contrast!

Impressively detailed MSPaint doodle of the red wizard Carloman, an aged wizard with long hair and beard a silvery-gold but bald as a coot crown, in rich red but unadorned robes, with a pouch, on his simple belt, and a long wooden staff bearing an orange gem at its top. The wizard is enjoying a snack as he walks and looks very pleased.

Highly detailed digital illustration of the same wizard, now very serious stoic!

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SHADOWS & SORCERY IS FIVE YEARS OLD (and a few days) 216 editions, 820+ stories, 41 serial chapters, multiple worlds with multiple characters. 100% human made. Thank you to everyone who has ever opened an email or clicked a link and had a glimpse of far out worlds of weirdest fantasy!

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

>modern action game >look inside >parry-based gameplay >"got anything else boss?" >"we got incremental damage upgrades and diet soulslike features"

edit of a dragonball z title card that says the horror won't end

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was helping with some major clean up and that is why I am late to GOOD LORD WHAT IS GOING ON IN THERE #WizardWednesday (art: José Benlliure y Gil)

painted scene of a sorcerer's gathering: a white bearded wizard in a high backed chair summons a column of spirits or perhaps a numinous vision (all pretty ladies of course) from a black cauldron on a table before him, surrounding the wizard and enjoying the show are numerous witches, imps in little red outfits, creatures, a demon relaxing with a cat, another cat getting spooked by said relaxing cat, there's one lady who seems either shocked or REALLY excited, and one hooded fiend facing away in shame, fear, or he's just really tired, there's also some massive spiders and snake just hanging out too. The scene takes place in some kind of stone undercroft of a castle or cathedral.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So I watched the American remake of Dark Water It's not offensively bad. But it's no Gore Verbinski's The Ring, and I wouldn't recommend it. This one has less subtlety in every way imaginable, and a pretty awkward, rushed ending, but Jennifer Connelly and Ariel Gade are a good mom/daughter combo.

a rainy, dour street with a little standing by the roadside with a plastic umbrella, a black car is about to speed by

a woman lays on a couch with a hand on her head in a small, dim apartment while it rains heavily outside

a woman, her back to us, has opened a door upon a dark, flooded apartment room

shot of a dark, smoky cityscape of grey concrete, it looks cold and uninviting

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think this has the popular appeal of Ju-On's raw scare pacing, which explains much, but I think this is a better film by miles and slept on. Understated, moody, eerie--and sad. You don't get that in ghost stories a lot. And yes, that is a KissAsian watermark, the way the lord intended

a sepia-toned shot of a little girl with long loose hair sitting before a set of windows in a kindergarten by herself, a woman just outside is looking in at her

a mother and her young daughter stand in an elevator in a pretty dingy grey apartment bloc

as shot as seen from behind some hanging fabric, two feet in white shoes from which emerges long trails of water along the ground

a high school girl in Japanese uniform stands in a bedroom facing away from us, the light is dim around her but is strong from the window she faces, and she's examining a framed photo

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me seeing that Phantom Blade Zero, the new dark fantasy wuxia action game, is just more parry-based combat

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watched Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue (1976) First of all, what a title. Evil Qing officials hunt down Ming loyalists, with lots of twists. Blisteringly paced, sometimes to the detriment of the plot. But plenty of slick editing and martial gimmicks keep the attention. 7.5/10, on the cusp of greatness.

A man in dark robes and wide-brimmed hat stands in shadow in a wide, candle-lit chamber with Chinese characters on a white wall behind him

two figures in wide brimmed Chinese hats, one in red and black, the other in brown, standing opposite each other, facing different ways

an aged buddhist monk in yellow and red robes meditates atop spikes

the ma in black and red from before kneels before a great censer for burning incense, before him are a short series of temple steps at the top of which is the buddhist monk seated

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

screencap of a man with his hand thrust out dramatically, a caption reads "gouge his eyes", it's a from a really weird 80s crime prevention video about how for women to save themselves under attack, this video was watched and reviewed by Red Letter Media on youtube and is where I got the screencap from

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