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Metal, science fiction, history.

Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.

Fëanor was right.
Pinned
Like this status to help me forge Ferrom, the night-shrouded sword I plan to use to kill the sun.
Not quite the same but I used to work children's birthdays dressed up as D&D monsters. Costumes were made of horrible, cheap plastics and masking tape. The amount of sweat meant I ran through the shirts and pants I used every two months or so because they were too disgusting to keep wearing.
reminds me of driving home from the liquor warehouse at 2AM, drenched in beer and wine from exploding cases, hoping no cop pulled me over.

changing in the garage and throwing everything directly into the washing machine. calluses stained a dark red.

Our warehouse held 60% of the booze in Ontario.
Former sprouts sorter here! Used to work the baby sprouts line at night in the freezer plant on Chestnut Street. I'd walk home at 3 in the morning & leave my boots & plastic apron on the front steps so as not to bring the factory smell into the house.
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Gonna add The Shield Season 5 to my list of top 10 show seasons. Holy shit I loved watching this show.
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please watch Under the Silver Lake
This guy is probably freaking out about AI music
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Morning comes too eeeaerrlllyyy
And night time falls too late
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Considering becoming really weird about martial arts by taking an anatomy course
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's so good that I can't easily listen to Transatlantic because Neal Morse is trying to make his Christian music streaming service that will never succeed or whatever the fuck that man is doing
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I bet it would feel so good to have my pyschosphere self annihilated by a Searing Bolt (lvl 7)
Firing a searing bolt at your phantom image, which travels by way of some tremulous connection in the psychosphere to yourself, thereby destroying you utterly
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Not sure what YOU need this morning but maybe it's one of the grooviest albums ever made. London jazz, Ghanian groove, exquisite production (like some of the best I've ever heard). One of my favorite groups of all time. Throw on the first track, trust.

nubiyantwist.bandcamp.com/album/freedo...
Freedom Fables, by Nubiyan Twist
9 track album
nubiyantwist.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
16 years old me: holy fuck this blind guardian shirt goes so hard
38 years old me: holy fuck this blind guardian shirt goes so hard
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Real treat to chat with the friend @fiadh.bsky.social about black metal, softness, folk music, trauma, overcoming, and more!
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
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 8:45 PM
Everything Is Illuminated In The Light Of Your Mom
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
comics are so good
Wherever I’m With You (Putnam 2027), a co-created graphic novel by Suzanne Samin and me, follows two former best friends from the Bronx: Aran, a Syrian American teen, grappling with his mother’s death,
and Tao, a college basketball star, who have to face life and old feelings once Tao moves back.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I love these functions so much, such a better way to capture adjacency than parent-child relationships
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
HOLY SHIT SURPRISE NEW THE TEA CLUB ALBUM?????? One of my favorite prog rock groups of all time, @pyramidmaster.bsky.social !!!!!!!

theteaclub.bandcamp.com/album/chasm-...
Chasm (96/24), by The Tea Club
14 track album
theteaclub.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Map, RIP Udo Kier. Titanic actor who was also very good as B movie villains
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So good
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Brother Abernathy You Are Kind
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm literally Babi
The King has cleared the night, the King has dispatched the hours; the Powers appear and ennoble the King as Babi. (PTF)
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
lmao imagine trying to penetrate the shield with a fast knife? lmao idiot couldn't be me my knife's low speed is on lock. Idahomaxxing and Gurney-pilled
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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K233.1
Bird
has new clothes made:
flies away
without paying.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Not sure if anyone following me needs this reminder but I am vehemently and materially on the side of trans people. The trans struggle for liberation and freedom is the struggle of us all. Support and protect the trans people in your life in whatever way you can. A better world is possible.
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I am listening to YOB
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Listening to heavy metal on the train is one of the real pleasures of life

hcrtarot.bandcamp.com/album/glimps...
Glimpse Of The Dawn, by Tarot
8 track album
hcrtarot.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM