Jack Guignol
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Jack Guignol
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· Oct 26
Episode 88: Hotel Transylvania - Lestat Would NEVER — Bad Books for Bad People
Hotel Transylvania (1978) is the first of 25 novels and two short story collections in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s epic vampire series centering around the adventures of the Comte de Saint-Germain. St...
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Bad Books for Bad People is back just in time to usher in the Halloween season with a new episode on Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania, the first book in her long-running series about a Short King vampire who loves good manners and hates satanists. badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...
My Thanksgiving viewing. One of the few Dario Argento movies I somehow haven't seen.
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My Thanksgiving viewing. One of the few Dario Argento movies I somehow haven't seen.
People calling themselves the lumpenproletariat on here to excuse their lack of scruples or ethics really are living up to Marx's note that the lumpen are a "parasitical group" with no revolutionary potential because they don't really understand class consciousness.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
People calling themselves the lumpenproletariat on here to excuse their lack of scruples or ethics really are living up to Marx's note that the lumpen are a "parasitical group" with no revolutionary potential because they don't really understand class consciousness.
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Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Don’t pirate books! And if you do, stfu about it and stop pretending it’s some kind of moral or Marxist or revolutionary stance. Just be brave and own the fact that you don’t care that you are a thief who doesn’t care about artists.
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Anyway, buy some books.
November 25, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Anyway, buy some books.
Genre is like God: people continue to believe in it despite all evidence to the contrary.
It's... really silly to see any such discourse at all.
I thought we all agreed genre was a flexible marketing construct, more aesthetic signifier than a set of hard rules?
We need to be more relaxed about this sort of thing, it's such small potatoes.
I thought we all agreed genre was a flexible marketing construct, more aesthetic signifier than a set of hard rules?
We need to be more relaxed about this sort of thing, it's such small potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Genre is like God: people continue to believe in it despite all evidence to the contrary.
I got a copy of this last year at a flea market and it is amazing
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I got a copy of this last year at a flea market and it is amazing
Last batch of Krevborna ancestries: cambions, dhampir, lycans, oh my talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Tainted
This post covers the last batch of "ancestries" typically available in my Krevborna games: the tainted. The tainted are deviant branches of ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Last batch of Krevborna ancestries: cambions, dhampir, lycans, oh my talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The REAL Oldhammer
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The REAL Oldhammer
Mix-making is only a dead art if we stop making them
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mix-making is only a dead art if we stop making them
I know I have just about zero reach with professional authors, but nobody had nothin' to suggest here.
A couple days ago a I saw a bunch of published authors bemoaning people using those info-graphics with the arrows and tropes to try to find the audience for their books. I don't love those graphics either! I'd love to hear about successful alternatives to them.
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I know I have just about zero reach with professional authors, but nobody had nothin' to suggest here.
This soap has pleasing colors
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This soap has pleasing colors
Check out this pizza I made
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Check out this pizza I made
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Bugonia is a Thanksgiving movie because people are trapped in a house they don't want to be in, forced to have political conversations, all the while pretending the food tastes great
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bugonia is a Thanksgiving movie because people are trapped in a house they don't want to be in, forced to have political conversations, all the while pretending the food tastes great
Misery might love company, but get someone else to be your wingman in Hell, please and thank you.
Lots of people showing me Twitter posts today. Not a huge fan of “here’s this stupid statement by idiot you’ve never heard of” variety of posting. Amplifying random Twitter dickhead has no good effect. My god that place is a cesspool.
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Misery might love company, but get someone else to be your wingman in Hell, please and thank you.
You never see kids begging their parents for a box of Cracker Jacks at the grocery store anymore.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You never see kids begging their parents for a box of Cracker Jacks at the grocery store anymore.
Final adventure in this Krevborna campaign. Turning off the lights on my way out talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Last Stand of Grigori Trask
We finally wrapped up the Krevborna campaign that started in July of 2024. There were many times when I thought this one might just be scrap...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Final adventure in this Krevborna campaign. Turning off the lights on my way out talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
A couple days ago a I saw a bunch of published authors bemoaning people using those info-graphics with the arrows and tropes to try to find the audience for their books. I don't love those graphics either! I'd love to hear about successful alternatives to them.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A couple days ago a I saw a bunch of published authors bemoaning people using those info-graphics with the arrows and tropes to try to find the audience for their books. I don't love those graphics either! I'd love to hear about successful alternatives to them.
Isabel Canas's The Hacienda has that thunder
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Isabel Canas's The Hacienda has that thunder
Not every character in Krevborna is born of natural means talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Created
Today's blog post continues the exploration of non-human people you might play as characters in Krevborna. This time we're looking at "the c...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Not every character in Krevborna is born of natural means talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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there's this pattern you see now where movies that are received very very well during their theatrical runs suddenly get a bunch of half-wit takes as soon as they hit streaming/digital release, and I'm convinced it's because of the influx of people half-watching the movie while on their phones lmao
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
there's this pattern you see now where movies that are received very very well during their theatrical runs suddenly get a bunch of half-wit takes as soon as they hit streaming/digital release, and I'm convinced it's because of the influx of people half-watching the movie while on their phones lmao
OSR guys really be like "Games are at their best when they confront the human condition, when they explore the depth of human emotions and pit the rules against the players' desires. Anyway, here's another defense of rolling d6 for initiative."
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
OSR guys really be like "Games are at their best when they confront the human condition, when they explore the depth of human emotions and pit the rules against the players' desires. Anyway, here's another defense of rolling d6 for initiative."
Ice creams of autumn
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ice creams of autumn
Viking sitcom called Jarls in Charge
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Viking sitcom called Jarls in Charge
Wild to see praise for what was the most disappointing, by the numbers book I read this year, but hey man not everything is for me and it takes all kinds.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wild to see praise for what was the most disappointing, by the numbers book I read this year, but hey man not everything is for me and it takes all kinds.
Sometimes it feels like people believe they can shout a different reality into existence
Thousands of angry leftists spreading dishonest clout-seeking bullshit feels like the Right winning.
There’s this thing where the extremely online left (👋 ) speaks in hyperbolic terms about the the Right and the Right is *so* bad that all the hyperbole *feels* correct or at least warranted but man when it gets into mis/disinformation, it’s very dispiriting.
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sometimes it feels like people believe they can shout a different reality into existence