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Author: The Bageler
Practical Paul And The Fairy Ring [Courtesy of Scary Stories For The Soul]
GANG I KEEP MEANING TO DANG TELL YOU, I got to do some guest voice-work for an old classmate/Facebook pal who has a podcast about folklore and spooklepations and similar, and asked me to read a short story about why you don’t fuck with the wee folk! Ironically, sharing this with you requires me to…
Other Pursuits, February 2023
Hi all my buddies, I am sleepy from staying up too late looking into alternate writing systems for Klingon, because the defacto pIqaD system is gross and the roman orthography for it is…problematic. But look what I found! Some honorable son of a gun put together a Tengwar mode for it! Quv tej, I think…
Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 3: Reporter, I ‘Ardly Know Her
ONCE UPON A TIME, mistakes were made. And as far as community-service sentences go, I reckon yelling about comics while watching Star Trek: Picard is getting off fairly easy. In f–YO WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MY BOY JAMES CALLIS, HOLY SHIT GAIUS BALTAR IN THE HOUSE! Or w–wait, it’s been some years since my…
Bunkey Musiness (The Sea Of Monsters, Ch. 6)
Camp Half-Blood has a latter-day Wacky Races in the parking lot of an HEB, a tradesperson attempts to bamboozle us into playing Magic: The Gathering, and the first installment of our new hit segment APPLE CHAT! And a BONUS sneak peek of our new TTRPG adventure in the exciting Fishblade system! Find us on Twitter…
Auld Langue Mystique: The Ballistic Omniglossia Of Curse Words
I try preeeeeetty hard to make my posts relatable and have as broad an appeal as possible, but this one? Ohohoho, she is just for me, citizens. Yesterday I finished a run-up of Curse Words, the criminal enterprise/war on decency/gift to humanity by Charles Soule (various Star Wars titles, Eight Billion Genies, Undiscovered Country, Daredevil:…
Books Read September 2022
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Forget It Jake, It’s Fabletown, Part 2: Farmful If Swallowed
So, according to these instructions rubber-banded to a can of vitamin soup that just flew through my—thankfully open—window, I’m supposed to review Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm and see what there is to like about it? What the hell? Who signed me up for this? THE MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, HE’S ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD. (Obligatory reminder…
Like Nick At Nite, But Stabbier (The Sea Of Monsters, Ch. 5)
An upsetting dinner, a sophisticated and agile beverage, casual racism we’re not sure we can tolerate much longer, and surprise visits from Robby the Robot and THE MIGHTY MONARCH! Find us on Twitter @The_Jackson_Two, email us at TheJacksonTwoPod@Gmail.com, and find us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Semiautomagic for early episodes, exclusive preshows and other bonus content you…
Let’s Talk Bookish Week of 2.3.23: Reviews And Spoilers!
Hi how are you, yes, good, I am glad to hear it, what’s that, why yes, I did have to start my 30-hour playthrough of Fire Emblem: Engage over because I THOUGHT that skirmishes were Classic Mode character-death safe-zones, AND I WAS WRONG, and I am so angry that a team of scientists from Norway…