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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰

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Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?”

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Justice 🇺🇦

@loveon9.bsky.social

3/ One just came in from Boulder Colorado.
Virginia Auroras, USA
Taken by Jonathan Harmon on January 19, 2026 @ Shenandoah National Park, Front Royal, Virginia
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January 20, 2026 at 1:40 AM

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him)

@chrishanrahan.bsky.social

WILD.

January 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM

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John Nephew

@johnnephew.bsky.social

Our blog posts get auto-posted to social media. I don't use FB myself, but went in there to post this. I don't expect to see similar attacks from any Bsky users, but figured I should elaborate on my personal opinion here.

Hey, this is John. I don't do Facebook myself, but I know we're getting some of the usual "keep politics out of your games!" scolding and worse in comments and DMs, so I thought I'd come here to take some of the heat myself instead of leaving it all to our patient Customer Service staffer.
If it really upsets you that we as a corporate entity object to the violence currently being perpetrated against our fellow Minnesotans under color of law -- things like a Hmong-American grandpa (US citizen!) being abducted from his homes wearing only a bathrobe, in sub-zero windchills, to say nothing of Renee Good being murdered with impunity (and the federal government announcing it will not investigate her shooter, but instead is investigating her widow, our governor, and the mayor of Minneapolis) -- there is something wrong with you. If you think it is unacceptable for a family-owned business, its owners, and its employees to express solidarity with their neighbors in these circumstances, there is something wrong with you. Maybe you think this is all a made-up thing. Seek professional help or religious counseling, and God help you when it is on your own doorstep. In the meantime, if you feel you need to block us or burn our games or remove them from your store shelves or whatever, as some way to protect your self-image as a True American Defender of Liberty, be my guest. We won't miss you.
Warm regards from Minnesota,
John Nephew
President, Atlas Games

January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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sean guynes

@guynes.bsky.social

The most recent essay in the Ballantine Adult fantasy reading series is on the first official volume in the series, Fletcher Pratt's THE BLUE STAR, a fascinating novel of court intrigue, gendered magic, and poor people who keep getting screwed over by everyone else:

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Blue Star” by Fletcher Pratt

The twelfth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star (1952), an impressive, short novel of “rational” fantasy about power…

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January 19, 2026 at 11:46 PM

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sean guynes

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This essay was also the soft launch of my new direction with the Genre Fantasies blog and a big part of me "figuring out" what the hell I'm doing (at least -- I'm figuring out). I gave some background to what I'm trying to accomplish with my blog in this (obligatory) year end summary: