Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author.
@dapperdinobot.bsky.social
Author of THE CATAPHRACT OATH, a swashbuckling clockpunk mecha adventure!
Ask me about giant robot cartoons or obscure TTRPGs or kung fu movies or food history or sci fi/fantasy novels and I will talk your ear off.
He/Him
Arguably the best Marc.
Ask me about giant robot cartoons or obscure TTRPGs or kung fu movies or food history or sci fi/fantasy novels and I will talk your ear off.
He/Him
Arguably the best Marc.
And if that last pic didn't tip you off, Chrono Trigger's character design was done by the late, great Akira Toriyama.
Which means we get all kinds of fun designs, including "What if Bulma was allowed to get into fights?"
Which means we get all kinds of fun designs, including "What if Bulma was allowed to get into fights?"
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
And if that last pic didn't tip you off, Chrono Trigger's character design was done by the late, great Akira Toriyama.
Which means we get all kinds of fun designs, including "What if Bulma was allowed to get into fights?"
Which means we get all kinds of fun designs, including "What if Bulma was allowed to get into fights?"
Or, there's a part where you get captured and the bad guys take all your weapons so you can't fight.
Except, one of the characters is a fur bikini-clad cavewoman who's so strong she doesn't NEED weapons, which means if she's in your party at the time, she can just demolish everything in her path.
Except, one of the characters is a fur bikini-clad cavewoman who's so strong she doesn't NEED weapons, which means if she's in your party at the time, she can just demolish everything in her path.
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Or, there's a part where you get captured and the bad guys take all your weapons so you can't fight.
Except, one of the characters is a fur bikini-clad cavewoman who's so strong she doesn't NEED weapons, which means if she's in your party at the time, she can just demolish everything in her path.
Except, one of the characters is a fur bikini-clad cavewoman who's so strong she doesn't NEED weapons, which means if she's in your party at the time, she can just demolish everything in her path.
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.
Who wore it better?
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Who wore it better?
THE CATAPHRACT OATH
A rollicking clockpunk mecha adventure!
Wherein a swashbuckling countess hires a disgraced alchemist to help her salvage an ancient war machine and reclaim her birthright.
Also there is a dog.
Available on Kindle Unlimited!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCZYR4L
A rollicking clockpunk mecha adventure!
Wherein a swashbuckling countess hires a disgraced alchemist to help her salvage an ancient war machine and reclaim her birthright.
Also there is a dog.
Available on Kindle Unlimited!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCZYR4L
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
THE CATAPHRACT OATH
A rollicking clockpunk mecha adventure!
Wherein a swashbuckling countess hires a disgraced alchemist to help her salvage an ancient war machine and reclaim her birthright.
Also there is a dog.
Available on Kindle Unlimited!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCZYR4L
A rollicking clockpunk mecha adventure!
Wherein a swashbuckling countess hires a disgraced alchemist to help her salvage an ancient war machine and reclaim her birthright.
Also there is a dog.
Available on Kindle Unlimited!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCZYR4L
Oh hey, because nobody asked for it, have some trivia!
As today, 11/11, is PEPERO DAY!
#Pepero, for the unaware, is basically Korean Pocky.
And on Nov 11, you're supposed to give some to somebody you like, as the little candy-sticks stand side by side, like a couple. As do the digits in 11/11.
As today, 11/11, is PEPERO DAY!
#Pepero, for the unaware, is basically Korean Pocky.
And on Nov 11, you're supposed to give some to somebody you like, as the little candy-sticks stand side by side, like a couple. As do the digits in 11/11.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Oh hey, because nobody asked for it, have some trivia!
As today, 11/11, is PEPERO DAY!
#Pepero, for the unaware, is basically Korean Pocky.
And on Nov 11, you're supposed to give some to somebody you like, as the little candy-sticks stand side by side, like a couple. As do the digits in 11/11.
As today, 11/11, is PEPERO DAY!
#Pepero, for the unaware, is basically Korean Pocky.
And on Nov 11, you're supposed to give some to somebody you like, as the little candy-sticks stand side by side, like a couple. As do the digits in 11/11.
Got my players back together for Superhero RPG shenanigans today!
With the gimmick that the PC's got sucked into a VR MMO, so we wound up playing not-D&D instead! Which was just my excuse to use some of the rando minis I've been painting since quarantine. Went over pretty well!
With the gimmick that the PC's got sucked into a VR MMO, so we wound up playing not-D&D instead! Which was just my excuse to use some of the rando minis I've been painting since quarantine. Went over pretty well!
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Got my players back together for Superhero RPG shenanigans today!
With the gimmick that the PC's got sucked into a VR MMO, so we wound up playing not-D&D instead! Which was just my excuse to use some of the rando minis I've been painting since quarantine. Went over pretty well!
With the gimmick that the PC's got sucked into a VR MMO, so we wound up playing not-D&D instead! Which was just my excuse to use some of the rando minis I've been painting since quarantine. Went over pretty well!
If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.
Presenting ON THE VIRTUES OF A FINE CLOAK, a prequel story to THE CATAPHRACT OATH!
In which Lady Fenvale goes on a quest to rescue her friend from the clutches of a boorish rake, only to find her friend may not want to be rescued.
FREE to anyone signing up for my mailing list!
(Link below).
In which Lady Fenvale goes on a quest to rescue her friend from the clutches of a boorish rake, only to find her friend may not want to be rescued.
FREE to anyone signing up for my mailing list!
(Link below).
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Presenting ON THE VIRTUES OF A FINE CLOAK, a prequel story to THE CATAPHRACT OATH!
In which Lady Fenvale goes on a quest to rescue her friend from the clutches of a boorish rake, only to find her friend may not want to be rescued.
FREE to anyone signing up for my mailing list!
(Link below).
In which Lady Fenvale goes on a quest to rescue her friend from the clutches of a boorish rake, only to find her friend may not want to be rescued.
FREE to anyone signing up for my mailing list!
(Link below).
Respond with the same actor as a hero and a villain.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Respond with the same actor as a hero and a villain.
I've just been leafing through John A. Lynn's Giant of the Grand Siecle instead of doing a deep-read, but coming across charts like this is -exactly- my jam.
(Musketeers in this context meaning guys armed with matchlocks, as opposed to fusiliers, who have flintlocks).
(Musketeers in this context meaning guys armed with matchlocks, as opposed to fusiliers, who have flintlocks).
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I've just been leafing through John A. Lynn's Giant of the Grand Siecle instead of doing a deep-read, but coming across charts like this is -exactly- my jam.
(Musketeers in this context meaning guys armed with matchlocks, as opposed to fusiliers, who have flintlocks).
(Musketeers in this context meaning guys armed with matchlocks, as opposed to fusiliers, who have flintlocks).
Went to the library, picked up a little light reading.
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Went to the library, picked up a little light reading.
You have been kidnapped and the characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Guess watching an old DVD box set is gonna work in my favor?
Also all the Outlaw Star gifs on bsky are of the catgirl. Unsurprising.
Guess watching an old DVD box set is gonna work in my favor?
Also all the Outlaw Star gifs on bsky are of the catgirl. Unsurprising.
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
You have been kidnapped and the characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Guess watching an old DVD box set is gonna work in my favor?
Also all the Outlaw Star gifs on bsky are of the catgirl. Unsurprising.
Guess watching an old DVD box set is gonna work in my favor?
Also all the Outlaw Star gifs on bsky are of the catgirl. Unsurprising.
Meanwhile:
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Meanwhile:
Based on witness reports, Paris authorities have released composite sketches of the suspects in the recent theft of Napoleon's Jewels from the Louvre.
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Based on witness reports, Paris authorities have released composite sketches of the suspects in the recent theft of Napoleon's Jewels from the Louvre.
Name your favorite Asian Horror Film:
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Name your favorite Asian Horror Film:
My energy:
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
My energy:
So I snagged a VHS copy of this a few months ago. Finally decided to pop it in for background noise.
The opening credits start, and I learn that this is a GOLDEN HARVEST movie?!
I'm the kind of nerd who gets excited about these things.
The opening credits start, and I learn that this is a GOLDEN HARVEST movie?!
I'm the kind of nerd who gets excited about these things.
September 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So I snagged a VHS copy of this a few months ago. Finally decided to pop it in for background noise.
The opening credits start, and I learn that this is a GOLDEN HARVEST movie?!
I'm the kind of nerd who gets excited about these things.
The opening credits start, and I learn that this is a GOLDEN HARVEST movie?!
I'm the kind of nerd who gets excited about these things.
Finished reading @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle last night.
It's fun and cozy and queer as all get out, but honestly the biggest praise I have for it is that it made me want to get hand-made noodles.
It's fun and cozy and queer as all get out, but honestly the biggest praise I have for it is that it made me want to get hand-made noodles.
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Finished reading @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle last night.
It's fun and cozy and queer as all get out, but honestly the biggest praise I have for it is that it made me want to get hand-made noodles.
It's fun and cozy and queer as all get out, but honestly the biggest praise I have for it is that it made me want to get hand-made noodles.
My goal has been to capture the feeling of those Pizza Hut pizzas you'd get after reading 10 books or whatever.
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My goal has been to capture the feeling of those Pizza Hut pizzas you'd get after reading 10 books or whatever.