R Lochlann
@runesword.bsky.social
Fantasy writer. Making cozy and grimdark kiss
Longsword/messer/saber/whatever let's fucking go
Any/all
AI FOAD
Longsword/messer/saber/whatever let's fucking go
Any/all
AI FOAD
Pinned
Stoked to announce that my debut short story, "The Necromancer's One Weakness," has been picked up by the fine folks over at @translunartl.bsky.social
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Time to paint in a thousand shades of black
We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
December 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Time to paint in a thousand shades of black
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Just left a voice memo that was nothing but me saying "TEN THOUSAND SWORDS" in a wide variety of line readings. Honestly? Good use of my time.
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just left a voice memo that was nothing but me saying "TEN THOUSAND SWORDS" in a wide variety of line readings. Honestly? Good use of my time.
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Once again, for Your pleasure and education:
7 WAYS TO GET RID OF GEN AI ENTHUSIASTS!
7 WAYS TO GET RID OF GEN AI ENTHUSIASTS!
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Once again, for Your pleasure and education:
7 WAYS TO GET RID OF GEN AI ENTHUSIASTS!
7 WAYS TO GET RID OF GEN AI ENTHUSIASTS!
When I was a kid I had a processing disorder that kept me from writing (since overcome by years of building a Rube Goldberg machine in my brain) but I could draw scary monsters and spend recess with my best friend (now brother-in-law) coming up with complex lore for our critters.
With all this awful news going on i wanna ask this question once again to fellow artists and general creatives. What got YOU into art? what sparked that motivation to start writing? what made you wanna pick up a camera and start taking pics? Like share with us your reasons.
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When I was a kid I had a processing disorder that kept me from writing (since overcome by years of building a Rube Goldberg machine in my brain) but I could draw scary monsters and spend recess with my best friend (now brother-in-law) coming up with complex lore for our critters.
BG3 is one of my three favorite games of all time but if Larian doesn't cut it out with the AI clownery I probably just won't play Divinity. I don't care if nothing AI-made makes it into the final product, I just simply despise this shit too much to not give my attention to something more deserving.
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
BG3 is one of my three favorite games of all time but if Larian doesn't cut it out with the AI clownery I probably just won't play Divinity. I don't care if nothing AI-made makes it into the final product, I just simply despise this shit too much to not give my attention to something more deserving.
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it snowed yesterday so i had to do another one
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
it snowed yesterday so i had to do another one
So nice to get a visit from the neighbors--I'd been worried about them since it'd been like a year since they last showed up in the middle of the night to scream and cackle outside my window.
(My neighbors are coyotes.)
(My neighbors are coyotes.)
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So nice to get a visit from the neighbors--I'd been worried about them since it'd been like a year since they last showed up in the middle of the night to scream and cackle outside my window.
(My neighbors are coyotes.)
(My neighbors are coyotes.)
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Imagine you were having an affair with the princess you were supposed to be guarding.
Imagine she loved to dabble in the dark arts.
Imagine she disappeared in a lab explosion, and now ya gotta use all your lowlife contacts to get hold of a wizard so your ass isn't on the chopping block!
Imagine she loved to dabble in the dark arts.
Imagine she disappeared in a lab explosion, and now ya gotta use all your lowlife contacts to get hold of a wizard so your ass isn't on the chopping block!
The Dream Quest of Well-known Kawtar – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Imagine you were having an affair with the princess you were supposed to be guarding.
Imagine she loved to dabble in the dark arts.
Imagine she disappeared in a lab explosion, and now ya gotta use all your lowlife contacts to get hold of a wizard so your ass isn't on the chopping block!
Imagine she loved to dabble in the dark arts.
Imagine she disappeared in a lab explosion, and now ya gotta use all your lowlife contacts to get hold of a wizard so your ass isn't on the chopping block!
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"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
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It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
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(Voice beckoning from amulet) please help, I've been trapped in here by a dark sorcerer for 10,000 years!
Me: why dont you just move to a city?
Me: why dont you just move to a city?
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
(Voice beckoning from amulet) please help, I've been trapped in here by a dark sorcerer for 10,000 years!
Me: why dont you just move to a city?
Me: why dont you just move to a city?
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Gennady Novozhilov
December 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Gennady Novozhilov
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Seriously, I'm done, I'm out.
Every day I'm surrounded online by incredible people making incredible things! We simply do not need to give this shit our attention or money.
Every day I'm surrounded online by incredible people making incredible things! We simply do not need to give this shit our attention or money.
December 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seriously, I'm done, I'm out.
Every day I'm surrounded online by incredible people making incredible things! We simply do not need to give this shit our attention or money.
Every day I'm surrounded online by incredible people making incredible things! We simply do not need to give this shit our attention or money.
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With Clair Obscur winning GotY, the genre is now called FRPG.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
With Clair Obscur winning GotY, the genre is now called FRPG.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is historically significant as the world's first Yaoi
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Epic of Gilgamesh is historically significant as the world's first Yaoi
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Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
Sapphic, ultra-violent Princess Bride-style pining romance between a heathen berserker and her Christian childhood best friend as the former goes to war against an eldritch apocalypse and the latter discovers she's a nascent sorceress touched by the old gods.
Time to eat your vegetables again y'all! What's a one-sentence elevator pitch for your book? If you need help, [thing] meets [thing] is a great baseline. #WritingPrompt
December 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Sapphic, ultra-violent Princess Bride-style pining romance between a heathen berserker and her Christian childhood best friend as the former goes to war against an eldritch apocalypse and the latter discovers she's a nascent sorceress touched by the old gods.
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Five of the anti genocide protestors on hunger strike that the British govt have held as terrorists have been hospitalised. This Scottish newspaper is the only news outlet in GB that thinks this is newsworthy.
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Five of the anti genocide protestors on hunger strike that the British govt have held as terrorists have been hospitalised. This Scottish newspaper is the only news outlet in GB that thinks this is newsworthy.
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For 100 years, Disney has employed* some of the most talented people on earth.
For just as long, it has been run by the dumbest, most cowardly, venal little fucks on the planet.
*exploited
For just as long, it has been run by the dumbest, most cowardly, venal little fucks on the planet.
*exploited
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For 100 years, Disney has employed* some of the most talented people on earth.
For just as long, it has been run by the dumbest, most cowardly, venal little fucks on the planet.
*exploited
For just as long, it has been run by the dumbest, most cowardly, venal little fucks on the planet.
*exploited
Sitting pretty atop my TBR pile
Just read the delightful Beating Hearts & Battle Axes anthology of sword&sorcery&romance stories. All were fun, but my faves were @brynhammond.bsky.social's rollicking A Day in Irighaya, T.A. Markitan's fierce Luck is Blind, and the high adventure of @valerievaldes.bsky.social Cold Curse of Drathe.
Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes
Sword. Sorcery. Sizzle. This brand new anthology features six authors telling spicy Sword & Sorcery stories with a romantic relationship at their heart.
www.backerkit.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sitting pretty atop my TBR pile
Ordinary Loss is a Christmas song (though it's Don't Kill Yourself that has the jinglebells) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvl...
HEALTH :: ORDINARY LOSS
YouTube video by HEALTH
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December 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ordinary Loss is a Christmas song (though it's Don't Kill Yourself that has the jinglebells) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvl...
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Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE