And Peter O'Mahony is retired so can't single handedly stomp on their hopes and dreams next week.
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And Peter O'Mahony is retired so can't single handedly stomp on their hopes and dreams next week.
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The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.
Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.
*Irresistible
Plenty of other typos alas. Don't write threads without checking them before you've finished your first cup of tea...
And somehow the show did all right in the end.
In the same way people will keep on enjoying SFF even if they don't read a chapter and go Ah that's playing with an idea that first originated in a particular Asimov short story.
It's not about bad/good, it's that multiple lenses on a genre still work
"Don't you see when I saw Ned looking at a statue of Lyanna in the crypt I had all these emotions. If I don't explain the entire backstory of the rebellion and R+L=J theory now how will new viewers even like the show. It will fail if they don't have the precise same emotions I'm having."
Back when Game of Thrones' first episode was airing a forum I was on sensibly split discussion into book readers and non book readers threads and yet there was apparently an irresponsible compulsion for some readers to dive in and explain as if they were doing a great service.
It's about need and the believe people seem to hold that if you don't appreciate a text in the exact same way that they do then how can you appreciate a text at all.
I don't think it's about defending or not old SFF.
Anyone who talks about books like car engines, of course the ones now are better than ones from 1950, is an idiot the same as someone who things there hasn't been anything good written in the 21st century.
I am of course very excited to play it but just thoroughly amused about the path from the base game to this expansion.
The score pad, for Flamme Rouge Grand Tour. It has multiple sections taking 6 teams across finishing points, cumulative time, the green sprinters jersey, and the polka dot climbers jersey.
Let's play Flamme Rouge, it brilliantly stimulates the feel of cycling while only requiring you to play a card and move your rider that many spaces.
Let's play Flamme Rouge Grand Tour:
A bumper load of essays and reviews: our March link round-up is live!
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Decided I might as well give Slay the Spire 2 a go in early access.
Run 1, Ironclad: Die to the first map boss.
Run 2, Silent: Complete all three maps with ease.
#roguesupremacy
#whatifIjustthrowalotofpoisoneddaggers
part who-knows-what of an ongoing conversation with myself, in column form! these are not final, authoritative thoughts, partly because I am just not that interested in final, authoritative thoughts, but I do authoritatively feel that an us vs. them approach to genres is a mistake
I've always had a soft spot for the History plays and both of the Richards take the lead there.
Richard III gives the lead such a fun role and there's just some lovely language scattered all through Richard II.
2027 looking like it might end on a bang.
Book Review: The Salt Oracle, by Lorraine Wilson
Beware ghosts looking for a home says @stewarthotston.com at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...
Who's a big fan of @readingtheend.bsky.social? The whole internet, that's who.
Really pleased Jenny is back at SH with this review on a curious romcomantasy (it's her term, don't @ me).
"Is this a good book? I don’t know. What even does it mean to be good?"
Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@dreddieclark.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
My favorite Critical Friends in a minute - I'm constantly banging the drum that style, the actual words on the page, is something we need to be talking about much more in speculative criticism.
Decided to write about one of my favourite novels - and a 90s SF classic - for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social this month.
China Mountain Zhang is a prescient, brilliantly drawn collage of a China-dominated future from the perspective of people living that future at ground level.
Is there something in the air or is it just the Bader-Meinhof Effect?
In any case have just come across this delightful LOTR based project due to a mention on the RTFM podcast, scrolling a few hexes of things you could encounter in the Shire is a great break from the dayjob.
This week eminent gamesmaster @kierongillen.bsky.social and I got to talking about Mythic Bastionland, which, by sheer chance, we've just played a campaign of!
Hit or *myth*?
I make that joke several times, so please enjoy the repetition.
Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK.
People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal.
We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
When There Are Wolves Again is a BSFA finalist! 🐺 Utterly delighted and in amazing company too. Congratulations to all the finalists!
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
