Ricky Broome
@karanthir.bsky.social
Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
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Ricky Broome
@karanthir.bsky.social
· Aug 11
I'm nothing if not self-deprecating.
And I'm not even that good at being self-deprecating.
And I'm not even that good at being self-deprecating.
Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy. Funds will also be made available for tv spin-offs of every short story and the Ravenor and Bequin trilogies.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy. Funds will also be made available for tv spin-offs of every short story and the Ravenor and Bequin trilogies.
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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A second Thor's hammer find this year in Østfold (Norway)
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A second Thor's hammer find this year in Østfold (Norway)
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Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
Wyrd Science (Vol.1, Issue 7) - Wyrd Science | DriveThruRPG
The award winning Wyrd Science returns for another exploration of the strange worlds and new horizons of tabletop games...
In this issue...
Roleplaying Games & the Cold War! What can they tell us ...
www.drivethrurpg.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just noticed I must have ticked a box as our new issue is currently discounted on DriveThruRPG & only around £2 there
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
RPGs vs the Cold War!
Rick Priestley talks esoteric christianity & Warhammer!
Triangle Agency gets weird!
Castle Rat unleash the beasts!
Undaunted's war stories!
& lots more!
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Welcome to a new series of posts titled Peeling Back the Leather where we will be interviewing folks from some small(ish) labels that are operating in the metal community. First up, the ever-resilient @fiadh.bsky.social!
https://loom.ly/5Vs81tM
https://loom.ly/5Vs81tM
Peeling Back the Label // Fiadh Productions
Welcome to a new series of posts run by yours truly titled Peeling Back the Leather (at least until I find a more clever name)
www.heavyblogisheavy.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Welcome to a new series of posts titled Peeling Back the Leather where we will be interviewing folks from some small(ish) labels that are operating in the metal community. First up, the ever-resilient @fiadh.bsky.social!
https://loom.ly/5Vs81tM
https://loom.ly/5Vs81tM
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a fun, free ttrpg set in the (legally distinct and free for use) warhammer 40K world where, instead of being a hulking space marine, you play as a downtrodden and oppressed space serf:
slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
CHAPTER SERF
CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art.
Full PDF downloadable...
slowlorispress.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
a fun, free ttrpg set in the (legally distinct and free for use) warhammer 40K world where, instead of being a hulking space marine, you play as a downtrodden and oppressed space serf:
slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...
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Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.
Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders
Vikings commonly feature in the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). The words víking (the act of raiding) or víkingr (a raider) appear over 180 times across the forty-some texts of the corpus. H...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Officially out in the Journal of Medieval History vol. 51.5, my article on the intersection of viking activity and the Icelandic conversion (c. 1000AD) and how religious concerns shaped saga conceptions of the viking past.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Happy 16th birthday to my favourite edition of #WFRP - the third edition! The preview adventure "A Day Late, A Shilling Short" was released 23rd November 2009, with the Core Box Set following two days later. May it continue to be the most divisive version for years to come!
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy 16th birthday to my favourite edition of #WFRP - the third edition! The preview adventure "A Day Late, A Shilling Short" was released 23rd November 2009, with the Core Box Set following two days later. May it continue to be the most divisive version for years to come!
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Episode 42 of ALILI is a return to the Germanic languages, but with a new guest: Old Norse specialist Jackson Crawford (@norsebysw.bsky.social) of YouTube fame introduces the language and discusses his translations of the Poetic Edda.
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Episode 42 of ALILI is a return to the Germanic languages, but with a new guest: Old Norse specialist Jackson Crawford (@norsebysw.bsky.social) of YouTube fame introduces the language and discusses his translations of the Poetic Edda.
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
A great chat, freely available here:
pod.link/1703401848/e...
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A bit late for tdor but reposting Emilia's article anyway, as most cis people have no idea what long, complicated, cruel and arbitrary bureaucratic nightmares their trans friends have to go through just for recognition of who they are
My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries:
www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...
www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...
Trans-national
The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment and surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic hur...
www.eurozine.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A bit late for tdor but reposting Emilia's article anyway, as most cis people have no idea what long, complicated, cruel and arbitrary bureaucratic nightmares their trans friends have to go through just for recognition of who they are
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Apropos of yesterday's post: a taste of Conan Unconquered open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
Conan Unconquered
A Taste . . .
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Apropos of yesterday's post: a taste of Conan Unconquered open.substack.com/pub/soden/p/...
I see Vikings and Cowboys trending. I'll let my imagination work out why.
I see the #Vikings are trending again, and much like last time, I know I should stop expecting the historical pirates of the 8th to 11th centuries, but every time it happens I always do
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I see Vikings and Cowboys trending. I'll let my imagination work out why.
Happy 16th birthday to my favourite edition of #WFRP - the third edition! The preview adventure "A Day Late, A Shilling Short" was released 23rd November 2009, with the Core Box Set following two days later. May it continue to be the most divisive version for years to come!
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy 16th birthday to my favourite edition of #WFRP - the third edition! The preview adventure "A Day Late, A Shilling Short" was released 23rd November 2009, with the Core Box Set following two days later. May it continue to be the most divisive version for years to come!
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Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done and the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done and the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done and the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done and the sun goes down
And the moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
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DEMONIC LAUGHTER THY CREMATION
LUNGS GASP FOR AIR, FILLED WITH BLOOD
A SUDDEN CRACK, I CRUSH YOUR SKULL
I COME FORWARD
DEATHCRUSH
DEATHCRUUUHUHHSH
DEEAAAATHCRUUUUUUUUUUSH
LUNGS GASP FOR AIR, FILLED WITH BLOOD
A SUDDEN CRACK, I CRUSH YOUR SKULL
I COME FORWARD
DEATHCRUSH
DEATHCRUUUHUHHSH
DEEAAAATHCRUUUUUUUUUUSH
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
DEMONIC LAUGHTER THY CREMATION
LUNGS GASP FOR AIR, FILLED WITH BLOOD
A SUDDEN CRACK, I CRUSH YOUR SKULL
I COME FORWARD
DEATHCRUSH
DEATHCRUUUHUHHSH
DEEAAAATHCRUUUUUUUUUUSH
LUNGS GASP FOR AIR, FILLED WITH BLOOD
A SUDDEN CRACK, I CRUSH YOUR SKULL
I COME FORWARD
DEATHCRUSH
DEATHCRUUUHUHHSH
DEEAAAATHCRUUUUUUUUUUSH
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They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me Broadway was waiting for me
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*leaping out of the bath like archimedes* eureka! a shakespeare-themed mexican wrestling tournament called Luchador About Nothing, eureka!!
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
*leaping out of the bath like archimedes* eureka! a shakespeare-themed mexican wrestling tournament called Luchador About Nothing, eureka!!
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We are forced to agree.
Sword and sorcery fucks sooooo hard
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We are forced to agree.
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I write things, sometimes, that I have no idea what to do with. If you read my post about what I've done since November 2024, you probably saw the line about having drafted the rules and mechanics for a TTRPG about creating art in the Italian Renaissance.
It's not a bad idea, IMHO.
It's not a bad idea, IMHO.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I write things, sometimes, that I have no idea what to do with. If you read my post about what I've done since November 2024, you probably saw the line about having drafted the rules and mechanics for a TTRPG about creating art in the Italian Renaissance.
It's not a bad idea, IMHO.
It's not a bad idea, IMHO.
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Don't know who Janrae Frank is or why S&S fans should care?
Keep an eye out for profile on Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6! Coming soon...
new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Keep an eye out for profile on Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6! Coming soon...
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Pre-order New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2025 on BackerKit
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Don't know who Janrae Frank is or why S&S fans should care?
Keep an eye out for profile on Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6! Coming soon...
new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Keep an eye out for profile on Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6! Coming soon...
new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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Bombarded with "Holiday gifts for HIM/HER" which are full of scented candles and hot sauce? HELL NO.
Get them HEART-RACING SPINE-TINGLING LOIN-GIRDING fiction of the genre which will be filling bookstores next decade.
Be better than bleeding edge. Be NEW EDGE.
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
Get them HEART-RACING SPINE-TINGLING LOIN-GIRDING fiction of the genre which will be filling bookstores next decade.
Be better than bleeding edge. Be NEW EDGE.
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
Shop – New Edge Sword & Sorcery
newedgeswordandsorcery.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bombarded with "Holiday gifts for HIM/HER" which are full of scented candles and hot sauce? HELL NO.
Get them HEART-RACING SPINE-TINGLING LOIN-GIRDING fiction of the genre which will be filling bookstores next decade.
Be better than bleeding edge. Be NEW EDGE.
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
Get them HEART-RACING SPINE-TINGLING LOIN-GIRDING fiction of the genre which will be filling bookstores next decade.
Be better than bleeding edge. Be NEW EDGE.
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
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Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
Coin finds suggest that in the ninth century the northern Dutch provinces – Friesland above all, but also Noord-Holland, Groningen and Drenthe – were different not only from the rest of Francia, but a...
works.hcommons.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
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Did you know issue #0 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, cover art by @gileadart.bsky.social, is 🤩FREE🤩 in digital and priced at cost in soft & hardcover?
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Did you know issue #0 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, cover art by @gileadart.bsky.social, is 🤩FREE🤩 in digital and priced at cost in soft & hardcover?
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...