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Rom Parsons
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Reader and writer of sword and sorcery.


Pfp by Simon Underwood.

Free Crom the Barbarian story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDMKmTmEfFd-7LGFFw13ce6o_CstlCwV

Link to preorder Crom Anthology 1: https://www.cromthebarbarian.com/
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Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · Oct 16
Here’s art of my sword and sorcery character Alani of Kedem. Her first big adventure, Citadel of Swords, will be coming out probably early next year.

Art by James Anthony, @ shelobslairofdrawing on IG! He’s providing 17-20 pieces of art for this story!
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Here is a page of Alani the Chainbreake, the graphic novel I wrote, with art by James Anthony.

This is Mari, Alani’s intense and wild sidekick. She eats rats and has an affinity with all lizards.
Art of barbarian woman.
December 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the Blanc movies so far. Really didn’t know where it was going a few times.

One overt Star Wars reference and definitely a few thematic references.
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Makers of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979): When the mole talks about why he spied for Russia, have him say anti-capitalist stuff. It’ll sound like crazy USSR propaganda.

Makers of TTSS (2011, after the financial crash): When the mole talks about why he spied for Russia… have him say “idk, lol”.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙‍♀️

Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩

Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats

Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Issues five six and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery five, six, and seven in softcover. They're layered vertically so you can see just the title and issue numbers of six and seven, then the top half of issue five. Issues five six and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery five, six, and seven in hardcover. They're layered vertically so you can see just the title and issue numbers of five and sis, then the top half of issue seven.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Now available for general purchase:

Astartha returns in “Fury Be My Goddess” to do battle with a cruel priest and his worshipers. With an iron mace and a young companion, she is ready to fight—but will Heaven put its thumb upon the scale against her? Find out in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6!
New Edge Sword & Sorcery – New Edge Sword & Sorcery
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December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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T-Rac???
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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It’s #GivinTuesday today, so I give you Vark Tromos, ambitious #Givin Infochant!

“Listens more than he talks.” Devious. Unscrupulous—w a trick up his sleeve, even when his back’s to the wall!

So pleased w this #WEG-inspired #StarWarsRPG commission for feyyro on sw twt, great client to work with!
Alt-text: Black and white artwork by me! Depicts a cool but sketchy Givin with a wary but calm and collected expression. His mouth is more "let's wait and see" than Munch's Scream. He's leaning up against a wall. The wall is "just" negative space, as I've found I don't do backgrounds, and is defined by his shadow rather than any line-art proper. The Givin is wearing a sick leather jacket with ribbed piping going the shoulders and sleeves. He wears a knit kind of pilly-linty tunic (not unlike Sidon Ithano's) under the jacket, and a utility belt with a largish pouch, big enough for an old school T1 calculator. He has boots with spat-like covers (not unlike the first action figure for Kyle Katarn), and he has one leg up, bent at the knee, foot on the wall behind him. He is pulling open his jacket and reaching for something unseen from inside it. Character is drawn in a high-contrast, shadow-heavy style with halftone shading/rendering in homage to the B&W artwork of West End Games Star Wars RPG! This artwork was a commission for client Feyyro's RPG character, Tromos — a Givin infochant! My signature is dated 9-24-23, the date I finished the piece
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"The mounds have been here since the time of the Titans. Kings buried in them… great kings…"
Acrylic painting from the John Milius film 'Conan the Barbarian'.
Painting. A large armoured skeleton sits upon a throne surrounded by weapons and goods. Conan falls into an ancient tomb and discovers the giant remains of, well it's up for discussion but the majority of people say it is an Atlantean king or general.
March 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Hey, @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! Check this ou!
romparsons.bsky.social Rom Parsons @romparsons.bsky.social · 18d
You can purchase NOW at cromthebarbarian.com!

More than a dozen creators! Comics! Prose! 256 pages, all with the old school, black and white, DIY-style! Sword and sorcery at its finest!
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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You can purchase NOW at cromthebarbarian.com!

More than a dozen creators! Comics! Prose! 256 pages, all with the old school, black and white, DIY-style! Sword and sorcery at its finest!
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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He's faced legends. Now he faces the system.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Mad Cave Studios presents BARBARIAN BEHIND BARS, in stores February 11th, 2026 - Now in previews!

W: Elliott Kalan
A: Andrea Mutti
L: Taylor Esposito

Details: https://bit.ly/4rjFSKb
He’s Faced Legends. Now He Faces The System. Mad Cave Announces Barbarian Behind Bars! - Mad Cave Studios
This February, Mad Cave Studios is proud to present BARBARIAN BEHIND BARS—a five-issue prison-action-fantasy miniseries that throws high adventure and hard time into the same cell. From writer Elliott...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It’s here! My first published comics work! In Crom Anthology 1 there is a story with art from Drawnsword and scripted by me called Crom the Courageous. So thrilled it’s hitting the outside world!

For preorder details, go to cromthebarbarian.com!
Cover to Crom Anthology 1 featuring a barbarian, a sorcerer, a beautiful woman and a monster.
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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"siri give me one image that shows why oliver loathes politics and the media"
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024 Anthony Fauci, Rachel Maddow and James Carville seen sitting together at Dick Cheney’s funeral in DC.
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The other day @davilorium.bsky.social said: you never drew Red Sonja, it would be cool in your style 🧙🏻‍♀️ Was David right? 🤨 Reel of the process soon ⚔️

#redsonja #marvel #art #artist #fanart #fantasy #traditionalart
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Skeletor is a realistic villain
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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gig economy but for evil henchmen
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Happy Life Day!

Also, on this day in 1983, Marvel Comics editor Jim Shooter asked staffer Bob Budiansky to name a bunch of robot toys for an upcoming tie in comic.

Over the next few days, the Transformers were born.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The boar warrior captain 🐗

#drawing
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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My son is obsessed with General Grievous, one Star Wars character I’ve always been ambivalent about.

The other day he asked if George Washington could defeat Grievous in hand to hand combat.
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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me waking up: i can’t wait to nap
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I guess we'll find out if political gravity still exists in any real way.
In one email from April 2011, Mr. Epstein told Ms. Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his crimes, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” He added that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.”
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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whew

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that President Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Mr. Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. Mr. Trump has emphatically denied any involvement in or knowledge of Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. He has said that he and Mr. Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019, were once friendly but had a falling out. But Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the emails, which they selected from thousands of pages of documents received by their panel, raised new questions about the relationship between the two men. In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage. In another, Mr. Epstein pondered how to address questions from the news media about their relationship as Mr. Trump was becoming a national political figure.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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As someone who literally celebrates Ben Burtt’s birthday, I can’t endorse this enough! We need a hashtag to make this happen!
blastpoints.bsky.social Blast Points @blastpoints.bsky.social · Nov 7
In January, Blast Points will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary. Putting it into the universe that our dream is to have this King on. We’ll talk to him about literally anything.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM