Jack Guignol
@jackguignol.bsky.social
Dolorous Exhumation Press | Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque blog | co-host of the Bad Books for Bad People podcast | linktr.ee/Misterguignol
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We're back with our annual Best of the Year episode! Join us to find out what we enjoyed in 2025. We've got monster squads, sleazy tunes, spooky good-time tv, and more! badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 90: Best of 2025 — Bad Books for Bad People
Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2025 and make some recommendations in the world of books and beyond. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose ...
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All that *and* Super Vixens!
Recap of the first rpg I've run this year; very much "Viking Dark Souls" with Runecairn talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/afte...
After Ragnarok
I ran my first game of the year last Friday: a session of Runecairn using a modified version of the introductory adventure in the game's co...
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January 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Recap of the first rpg I've run this year; very much "Viking Dark Souls" with Runecairn talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/afte...
Apparently Yorgos Lanthimos has directed a commercial for Grubhub that will air during the Super Bowl. My money is on fifteen minutes of Emma Stone eating her own foot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Apparently Yorgos Lanthimos has directed a commercial for Grubhub that will air during the Super Bowl. My money is on fifteen minutes of Emma Stone eating her own foot.
This is how you announce that you're my enemy
January 23, 2026 at 1:39 PM
This is how you announce that you're my enemy
Book 8 of 2026: Eric van Lustbader, The Ninja
You'll have to wait until the @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social episode drops to find out what I think of it, but let's just say it's the MOST Bad Books for Bad People book I've ever encountered.
You'll have to wait until the @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social episode drops to find out what I think of it, but let's just say it's the MOST Bad Books for Bad People book I've ever encountered.
January 22, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Book 8 of 2026: Eric van Lustbader, The Ninja
You'll have to wait until the @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social episode drops to find out what I think of it, but let's just say it's the MOST Bad Books for Bad People book I've ever encountered.
You'll have to wait until the @badbooksbadppl.bsky.social episode drops to find out what I think of it, but let's just say it's the MOST Bad Books for Bad People book I've ever encountered.
I've always wondered: if the answer isn't on your character sheet, why do we have them at all?
Stopped myself from making a milquetoast "the answer isn't always on your character sheet, but sometimes it is" post today
This is the thing though honestly, it really almost always is a "it depends" situation
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I've always wondered: if the answer isn't on your character sheet, why do we have them at all?
Book 7 of 2026: @spookypurcell.bsky.social's The Silent Companions
I read a LOT of neo-Victorian Gothics, and with these you're always hoping for the extra seasoning that will set it apart from others in the genre. Friends, Laura Purcell delivers on the crucial unique elements. Highly recommended.
I read a LOT of neo-Victorian Gothics, and with these you're always hoping for the extra seasoning that will set it apart from others in the genre. Friends, Laura Purcell delivers on the crucial unique elements. Highly recommended.
January 21, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Book 7 of 2026: @spookypurcell.bsky.social's The Silent Companions
I read a LOT of neo-Victorian Gothics, and with these you're always hoping for the extra seasoning that will set it apart from others in the genre. Friends, Laura Purcell delivers on the crucial unique elements. Highly recommended.
I read a LOT of neo-Victorian Gothics, and with these you're always hoping for the extra seasoning that will set it apart from others in the genre. Friends, Laura Purcell delivers on the crucial unique elements. Highly recommended.
Shut up, slopfiend
AI sits in billions of phones. Refusing to engage won't stop it, just leaves vulnerable people without knowledge. Demand ownership and control, not abstinence.
Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer
Opinion | Refusing to use AI won’t protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Shut up, slopfiend
If you're going to stand in your Endless gallery and hold my sigil, you're gonna be holding a pizza roll, bud.
January 20, 2026 at 7:43 PM
If you're going to stand in your Endless gallery and hold my sigil, you're gonna be holding a pizza roll, bud.
Three more otherworldly entities in Krevborna: a cosmic aberration that drives scholars to madness (not the tenure process), the murder king, and a plague demon talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/meno...
Menoch, Morokain, Nergazu
Three more patrons for cults and weird warlocks in Krevborna. This time we've got an eldritch scholar of horrid secrets, a biblical lord of ...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Three more otherworldly entities in Krevborna: a cosmic aberration that drives scholars to madness (not the tenure process), the murder king, and a plague demon talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/meno...
Even the cheap n cheerful horror comics I read are shitting on AI. Love to see it
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Even the cheap n cheerful horror comics I read are shitting on AI. Love to see it
Film 7 of 2026: Tilbury (1987)
On the surface, Tilbury is a folk horror movie about an Icelandic imp that can be used to provide food in times of hardship and scarcity, but beyond that it seems to be about a young swimmer's repression and his anxieties about the occupation of Iceland in WWII.
On the surface, Tilbury is a folk horror movie about an Icelandic imp that can be used to provide food in times of hardship and scarcity, but beyond that it seems to be about a young swimmer's repression and his anxieties about the occupation of Iceland in WWII.
January 18, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Film 7 of 2026: Tilbury (1987)
On the surface, Tilbury is a folk horror movie about an Icelandic imp that can be used to provide food in times of hardship and scarcity, but beyond that it seems to be about a young swimmer's repression and his anxieties about the occupation of Iceland in WWII.
On the surface, Tilbury is a folk horror movie about an Icelandic imp that can be used to provide food in times of hardship and scarcity, but beyond that it seems to be about a young swimmer's repression and his anxieties about the occupation of Iceland in WWII.
Man this new AI summary of your emails in gmail fuckin' sucks huh. Also, my friends and I have some conversations it just can't make sense of. Anyway, turning that shit off, damn the consequences.
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Man this new AI summary of your emails in gmail fuckin' sucks huh. Also, my friends and I have some conversations it just can't make sense of. Anyway, turning that shit off, damn the consequences.
Doodled the main character of my novel
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Doodled the main character of my novel
New Bechdel Test just dropped: are you dumb enough to let ai be "creative" on your behalf, absolving you of the joy of being human?
Sorry to the bearer etc etc. I'm not happy about it either. Source: Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on hope, humor, and 'waking up' in dark times - VTDigger
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January 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
New Bechdel Test just dropped: are you dumb enough to let ai be "creative" on your behalf, absolving you of the joy of being human?
Silent Hill(shire Farms)
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Silent Hill(shire Farms)
Book 6 of 2026: Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery
I wanted to read this ahead of the Netflix adaptation, now I've got my fingers crossed that the series captures the wackiness of the novel.
I wanted to read this ahead of the Netflix adaptation, now I've got my fingers crossed that the series captures the wackiness of the novel.
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Book 6 of 2026: Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery
I wanted to read this ahead of the Netflix adaptation, now I've got my fingers crossed that the series captures the wackiness of the novel.
I wanted to read this ahead of the Netflix adaptation, now I've got my fingers crossed that the series captures the wackiness of the novel.
Who would win in a fight: that dude from the Dwayne Johnson award-bait boxing movie that nobody watched or the woman from the Sydney Sweeney award-bait boxing movie nobody watched?
January 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Who would win in a fight: that dude from the Dwayne Johnson award-bait boxing movie that nobody watched or the woman from the Sydney Sweeney award-bait boxing movie nobody watched?
Gonna try to make a mix a month for my homies talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/maxi...
Maximus (Mix for January 2026)
One thing I'm gonna try to do in 2026 is make at least one "mix tape" per month. Forget Spotify playlists; this is the art we must keep aliv...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Gonna try to make a mix a month for my homies talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/maxi...
Film 6 of 2026: Honey Don't
It kinda feels like if a professional production filmed a high schooler's script with no changes.
It kinda feels like if a professional production filmed a high schooler's script with no changes.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Film 6 of 2026: Honey Don't
It kinda feels like if a professional production filmed a high schooler's script with no changes.
It kinda feels like if a professional production filmed a high schooler's script with no changes.
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I’ve worked on over 30 games total, ranging from console to live-service mobile games, and I’m eager to do more. I can write, edit, localize, and design, and I adapt quickly to proprietary systems.
Please consider hiring or referring me for a full-time or part-time position.
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January 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
I’ve worked on over 30 games total, ranging from console to live-service mobile games, and I’m eager to do more. I can write, edit, localize, and design, and I adapt quickly to proprietary systems.
Please consider hiring or referring me for a full-time or part-time position.
linktr.ee/grimdev
Please consider hiring or referring me for a full-time or part-time position.
linktr.ee/grimdev
My solution: play games with cool people rather than talk about them with randos! It was *always* the answer.
The RPG discourse and takes are extenuating and, frankly, off-putting. I'm at the point where I'm getting more detached from my hobby and more into my day job, because the latter has positive outcomes and is non-toxic.
On the other hand I'm beginning to read papers on Sumer sorcery and that's nice.
On the other hand I'm beginning to read papers on Sumer sorcery and that's nice.
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM
My solution: play games with cool people rather than talk about them with randos! It was *always* the answer.
There is literally no good reason to repost twenty things in a row here, man.
January 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
There is literally no good reason to repost twenty things in a row here, man.
Three more otherworld entities served by cults in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/krom...
Krom Krulek, Lilinesh, Malistrad
Three more patron entities with dangerous cults in Krevborna. Krom Krulek, The Crawling King Krom Krulek is a chthonic entity from the Outer...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Three more otherworld entities served by cults in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/01/krom...
Film 1 of 2026: Eyes of Fire (1983)
Eyes of Fire is an incredibly strange American folk horror. A heretical preacher and his flock abscond from their community to settle their cult deep into the "unknown" frontier, but they encounter a "devil witch" and her clay-smeared minions in the territory.
Eyes of Fire is an incredibly strange American folk horror. A heretical preacher and his flock abscond from their community to settle their cult deep into the "unknown" frontier, but they encounter a "devil witch" and her clay-smeared minions in the territory.
January 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Film 1 of 2026: Eyes of Fire (1983)
Eyes of Fire is an incredibly strange American folk horror. A heretical preacher and his flock abscond from their community to settle their cult deep into the "unknown" frontier, but they encounter a "devil witch" and her clay-smeared minions in the territory.
Eyes of Fire is an incredibly strange American folk horror. A heretical preacher and his flock abscond from their community to settle their cult deep into the "unknown" frontier, but they encounter a "devil witch" and her clay-smeared minions in the territory.
Reposted by Jack Guignol
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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