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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 7m

So weird when my friends & acquaintances get super famous, but even weirder that this happens regularly. Sometimes I feel like one of those Assassin's Creed characters who casually hangs out with historical characters before their big moment.

Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 11h

Ja :/

Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 11h

McDowell's Blackwater series is coming out in Hungarian, but with AI covers, siiiiigh. Anyway, the UK version is cheaper

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 12h

www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

Geometry, precision, perfection in ‘a little object of meditation’

László Krasznahorkai is perhaps best known as the author of the bleak, often incomprehensibly weird Satantango (1985) – the winner of the 2013 Best

www.the-tls.com

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Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 2d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 14h

I also translated from Hungarian to English - some of my short stories and the Edgelands comic book.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 14h

I was also part of the localization team for Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr, King Arthur: Knight's Tale & Legion IX.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 15h

I'm planning to be a more "prolific" translator in the future, but I have translated short stories from English to Hungarian - Ambrose Bierce, W. F. Harvey, Robert Charles Wilson, Lord Dunsany, Laird Barron.

I also translated the End Poem from Minecraft for a literary magazine.

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please

an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 17h

Krasznahorkai 😌

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Two distinct layers of hell:

- Commenters reacting to headline before reading the context
- Journalists writing those headlines

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute favorite. Rich with precise occult references.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

egy nem túl jó novellát, amiben két tini új gépet szerel össze, hogy fusson rajta az Oblivion, de kritikát nem

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Watching FROM. Gonna start yelling WAAALT

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely not 💀

Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Yess, I started writing magictech stories this year, and to my surprise sold one as well. Shamans with chips, spaceships with cogs, terrain-crawlers burning nectar in a cauldron for fuel. FF8 was very much on my mind.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Steinbeck, "In Dubious Battle", read it in two sessions with my 20 year old gummibrain. Lean prose, incredible dialogue. 1984, The Color Purple, The Vegetarian.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fucking buy this, I'm not saying it again

Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Today's $2.99 deal is a doozy! Attila Veres's debut collection THE BLACK MAYBE got rave reviewed when we published it a couple years back, and the follow-up volume is up for preorder on our site. Today only, get this terrific horror collection for just $2.99 on Kindle! www.amazon.com/Black-Maybe-...

Cover for The Black Maybe by Attila Veres

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 1d

Konkrétan van egy internetes vásárlásra szánt bankkártyám, amin mindig csak annyi pénz van, amennyit költeni akarok, macera, de peace of mind

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 2d

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, hey! I'm *writing* again!

Let's talk about a man named named Ramza Beoulve. Let's talk about the "ease at which men are branded heretics..."

Let's talk about revolution.

www.eurogamer.net/the-revoluti...

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times

Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

www.eurogamer.net

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 2d

Keep going, the HQ will expand with new characters, stories, it's the best part. It progresses whether you fail
or succeed, you get stronger either way. At one point I did 10 minute runs. At one point I kept deliberately dying right after leaving to see new stuff.

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 2d

I am a little bit slow with my regular reviews for this blog, but here's a quick panorama of something niche:

🚀🎃 HORROR SHMUPS! 🎃🚀

oubliette37.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Macabre World of Horror Shmups

One one hand, a life-long admiration for slow-paced and spooky literary works. On the other, a seasonal fascination with high-octane arcade games, especially shmups. There’s no way, right? Th…

oubliette37.com

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Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social · 2d

I am a little bit slow with my regular reviews for this blog, but here's a quick panorama of something niche:

🚀🎃 HORROR SHMUPS! 🎃🚀

oubliette37.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Macabre World of Horror Shmups

One one hand, a life-long admiration for slow-paced and spooky literary works. On the other, a seasonal fascination with high-octane arcade games, especially shmups. There’s no way, right? Th…

oubliette37.com

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