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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords

@glenatron.bsky.social

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GM and producer and music composer for Crudely Drawn Swords, lead guitarist for The Patient Wild, Game Designer for The Hallowed Walk and Trilogy, Programmer, Horse Trainer, dork-ass-loser and now apparently novelist?

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · Oct 17

I've picked up some followers lately so I'll do a new intro post - for many years I ran a very funny epic fantasy podcast called Crudely Drawn Swords, which you can listen to right now. I'm also a musician, programmer, game designer, horse trainer and apparently now novelist? I'm learning to draw.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1h

This is totally insane, clearly sociopathic, and approximately median landlord behaviour.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 4h

Of course @friends-table.bsky.social fans will be aware that "Fleggebit" itself derived from the Old Perpetuan, meaning literally "a bit of a flegg."

DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 5h

Today's Word: Flibbertigibbet
A silly, scatterbrained person; used to describe someone who talks incessantly without much sense. But in Shakespeare's day, referred to a foul demon or imp possessing a person. From Middle English "fleggebit," a name for a fiend or devil.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 4h

To be worth keeping secret something must be true.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 4h

I heard there was a Mambo 4 Lou Bega played and displeased the Lord.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

Autocorrect is going to make me regret that.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

Macdonald's employees prefer a friesian.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 8h

I assume they were all spontaneously obliterated the moment the menswear guy saw those photos.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 9h

Legs clipping through their seats and the floor.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 19h

I still think about the twitter post that said "Took the battery out of my carbon monoxide alarm because all the beeping was making me groggy and giving me a headache" and how relentless the concerned reply-guys were for literal years whenever it got reposted. Being a funny woman online must suck.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 21h

I mean if he didn't want to get caught for an incalculable amount of time he shouldn't have stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator.

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Ali Hancock @alihancock.bsky.social · 1d

Determinism was right, there is no free will, but 50 quid seems quite reasonable.

A sign reads "have you got a will? Only £49"

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

I finished the Dark Lord Davi duology from @djangowexler.bsky.social today and they were a good time. An isekai story with a funny, brash, genre-savvy narrator, snarky asides in the footnotes that made me laugh out loud more than once, and underneath it all; solid characters and a big heart.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 6d

It's hard to pin the blame for the disaster that was the Fourth Crusade on any single individual, but one thing we know for certain is that the pope was Innocent.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 2d

Cyrano de Bullshit-act.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 2d

Housekeepers for the super-wealthy have to mind their manors.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Two configurations: sausage and heraldic.

Tortoiseshell cat, lying on a cushion in a pose reminiscent of a heraldic 'rampant' stance.

Tortoiseshell cat lying diagonally on a cushion like a sausage.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

There's some great Parisian catacombs action in Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris. Also the premise of Jonathan and Mina Harper's daughter, and Professor Moriarty's daughter teaming up to hunt monsters, while Van Helsing junior keeps getting in the way is a lot of fun.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

I love that their question mark was introduced because the Letraset letters were slightly too small and they had a weird gap after the name when they designed the cover for their first EP.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Of course a lot of shows - especially D&D ones where everything needs lots of prep - don't really give us that writers' room feel anyway, but that sense of collaboration and discovery at the table is hard to beat.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

I have noticed this trend over the last few years and a lot of people must like it but I really enjoy the part of AP that is playing the game as well as the performance side of things. I enjoy hearing the players as writers' room, and this style of show is less compelling to me without it.

Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't really paid attention since Infernal Love but it's nice that they're still going.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

The light display said trans rights.

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 1d

Please Be Happy, our comfy yuri visual novel set in a modern fantasy version of Wellington, is currently the lowest it's ever been on Nintendo Switch at 45% off!

Get peak yuri on your Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

photo of a lavender cased Nintendo Switch playing Please Be Happy surrounded by merch for the game as well as pink and white flowers on a pink backdrop

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Finally a properly unhinged literary opinion. Excellent work.

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