Recent content by Autumnal

I finished Christopher Ruocchio’s Shadows Upon Time, and lemme tell ya, that was a great ending. The promises made throughout the series get fulfilled, but with a lot of fresh surprises and new context. I am really deeply satisfied. Part of me wants to just go ahead and reread the series right...

Check out David Litwa and Justin Sledge, among others, for ongoing retranslations and reconstructions of interesting people like Celsus, Basilides, and Marcion. It’s a great time to be interested in gnostics. They’re both on YouTube, Sledge as Esoterica.

Choosing only 4 is hard, but way better than just 1. Thanks for the revision.

I don’t know how to answer this. A bunch of these options make me think “Do you prefer blue, round, or sweet?” And there are a bunch I wouldn’t prefer but have zero objection to and would likely use happily if I like the details.

Okay, that’s on my list.

One roller-skates in.

At the cost of a less enjoyable time for everyone else looking at the same thread. Blocking the person you’d be feuding with has the same kind of benefit to the community as treating your trash and waste before dumping them into the surrounding ester and air.

I don’t like Erol Otus’ art. None of his work has ever made me think “Yes, that’s so cool, that’s how I want it to be in my games.” So many others, including a lot of people whose tastes I respect and generally share, do get something out of it that I’m comfortable identifying my reaction as...

I haven’t read Wintersmith. Making a note to fix that. I’m two-thirds through Shadows Upon Time, and it is being a superb conclusion so far. There’s the stuff that’s been foreshadowed since the beginning of the first volume, and things set up along the way, but much that wasn’t foreshadowed at...

Pretty similar, I gather. Egyptian paintings show cats sitting under people’s chairs at banquets, drinking from bowls set down for them and straining at leashes to get scraps of food. A powerful scribe commissioned a tomb painting of him doing his favorite thing, hunting with his wife, daughter...

Maybe I’m just grumpy today - new meds + a cold will do that - but I think sufficiently oblivious ignoring of context to go on about a favorite subject instead is a kind of bad faith. It’s not that hard to pay attention to the basics of what others are saying and to rein oneself in that tiny bit