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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Current Affairs Magazine - Animal Utopia

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I’m not really familiar with the genre, so it was cool to get an introduction to it like this

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 4d

It has some truly beautiful imagery and great Narnia names (Puddleglum, Glimfeather, Bism) but the “British boarding school”-ness of that one leaves a sour taste imo

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · Jun 10

The wild coast

A view of a castle by the sea on a foggy morning.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 5d

There are tons of tools for facilitating solo play, but I knew if I looked into them I'd spend too much time looking for the "best ones" so if I'm unsure about something I frame a question and roll high/low on a d6 (follow-up questions as necessary).

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 5d

I recommend it! I'd start with the easiest possible setup for you (in my case that was a loose stack of computer paper, the adventure module and rules open in tabs on my computer, and a dice-roller app on my phone) and just play for an hour to see if you enjoy it.

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 5d

I started my solo D&D game as an exercise zero-prep, setting-less, "just start" play. Naturally it has accumulated a little world over time.

The Eveningstar Gazetteer

I have a bad tendency to tinker with systems and settings so long that I never end up actually running/playing the game. To combat this, I s...

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 8d

My album cover art for The Toad Folk II by Tales Under The Oak

If you want to give it a listen, you can find the album on bandcamp at talesundertheoak.bandcamp.com/album/the-toad-folk-ii

Album cover art for "The Toad Folk II," by Tales Under The Oak. Depicts a lantern-lit procession of toads in medieval dress towards a cave full of mystical turquois light.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 8d

My album cover art for The Toad Folk II by Tales Under The Oak

If you want to give it a listen, you can find the album on bandcamp at talesundertheoak.bandcamp.com/album/the-toad-folk-ii

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 9d

The solo game party hobnobs with orcs and their magic-user finally hits level 2

Delve 10 – Parlay??

A reduced party sets out for the Haunted Halls: Gimwort, Tansybell, Eldred, and Old Dolf. Sassaran has left on her journey with Taravol, and...

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 16d

You can draw the line even if you’re just some asshole nobody‘s ever heard of. We’re all allowed to make moral judgements, you don’t have to cite an opinion poll first

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 17d

I was reading and enjoying Douglas Adams at close to that same age and went on to spend my high school years trying to write dry authorial interjections in my English essays, so I think the problem with Lewis reminding me of his presence is that I just didn't think he was very good company.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · May 2

Heralds of otherworldly Powers, for Ben Laurence's zine "Through Ultan's Door #4"

A wizard in patterned robes and a seashell turban appears in a swirl of clouds, offering a magical feather.

A nearly featureless clay figure sits in a woven cage. A couple of platypus-squirrel hybrid creatures are investigating.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 17d

"(I hope you know what I mean by a voice sounding pale)"

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 17d

I've read several people besides you say that Narnia doesn't condescend to children. And in a way I agree, but also as a ~2nd grader I remember feeling strongly that the narrator was annoying for interrupting the story to talk to me as if I was a baby.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 19d

My milkweed brings the cocoons to the yard

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 20d

I can believe it, because they let Mamoa do a little bit of Polynesian warrior-king stuff in SEE and the amount of passion he throws into it is almost jarring compared to the rest of the show.

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 23d

If I’m being uncharitable I’d say that it’s because it was cut from the movies, but yeah I agree.

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 23d

It reads like a deliberate contrast with all of the dung ages misery but for some reason nobody ever highlights this.

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 23d

One of the things I find odd about how fans (and frequently Martin himself) describe ASoIaF is that it is also full of heightened glamor! The books are full of bright colors, gems, fabrics, smells, banners, heraldry, impossible castles, people fighting in bedazzled parade armor

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 23d

I think it’s funny that nobody ever brings up Gimli and Galadriel, considering it actually happens on the page and of the chaste courtly romances theirs gets all of the good lines.

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 24d

China Mieville, you’re on notice

Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · 24d

“even I need something to work on. I cannot burn snow. But I could turn Legolas into a flaming torch, if that will serve: he would burn brightly while he lasted”

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