Caleb Wilson

@astrobolism.bsky.social

193 Followers 301 Following

I read things, I write things, I play and design games sickleburg.com

A screenshot of an error message saying "Error / ! / Not Found / Rate Limit Exceeded / Try Again"
A brown folder on a red couch. There are a few papers in the folder but you can't see what's on them. Several layers of recycled labeling on the folder's tab have led to the label "FOUL ORCHIDS"
I am seen in profile reading on a couch, green plaid shirt, glasses, hat. A grey cat, Wooster, is sitting in front of me, sticking out his tongue.
Paperback book called "Candy Man" by Vincent King. Cover depicts a nearly naked flying man, armed, flying alongside a dog. Maybe?
A message from google, reading: Your Google Account iancowsbell@gmail.com hasn’t been used within a 2-year period. You can no longer sign in to this account. This account and its activity and data are not recoverable.
A nickel, next to and several times larger than a tiny red tomato.
Large green praying mantis on a white bannister, with a hedge backdrop
Painting of a bluish purplish reddish blob, having six yellow eyes and six dangling blue tendrils, on a blotchy greenish background.
Screenshot of a bluesky post, reading: "Absolutely! As Arthur C. Clarke said, "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed."
Two books on a background of red cloth. The cover of Enter The Peerless, by Kyle Winkler, depicts a mobile home glowing with red light. That of Black Brane, by Michael Cisco, depicts a swirling cosmos in a distressed style.
Imagine of a wrinkled green lime, with the phrase "LIME ERGOT" below in slightly spiny handwritten letters.
Hollyhock, blooming in dark reddish purple, with a green wire fence around it.
Two bright orange daylilies and a bunch of green daylily leaves. Each bloom has double petals.
Each hair of the Lud opened at the flapping end and showed a gilded blackness within. These wriggling channels all led to the gaping void whose edges were filigreed with bone. The inner servants clung to the inside of the walls with their teeth and fingernails as the abyss sucked away their robes and crowns as trophies and added them to its layered decoration.
15 books by Michael Cisco tiled on a red couch.
Interstate exit sign, reading "Exit 69, Possum Grape"
Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc. She is looking towards you, upwards, her eyes wide and slightly shiny.
Several jigaw sea monsters, including a sad froglike one, a happy warty one with red lip, red ears, and white tusks, and a tall, pink and greenish speckled one with yellow lips and an elongated head
Jigsaw of a stout fishlike sea monster. Has pink lips with many teeth, spiky fins on its back, and a surly expression
Sea monster in a jigsaw puzzle. It has bulging yellow eyes and short tendrils sticking out of its elongated, pinkish head.
completed jigsaw puzzle, depicting many sea monsters amidst patterned waves
Sea monster jigsaw puzzle, about half completed
Jigsaw puzzle of sea monsters, partially assembled.
Photo of jigsaw puzzle on table. It's mostly incomplete, though the edges are finished, with some larger patches also put together
Cover of book called Red of Tooth and Claw, by Matthew Mitchell & Sam Richard. The illustration is mostly black and white, of a being with a burlap mask, and red teeth showing through.
Square image, a patterned grey crystal, on a pink landscape, before a yellow sky. Below it, in black and yellow text, Anolelona
Coffee cup on a coaster, behind it a shelf of books. On the coffee cup, an illustration by Tove Jansson, of a wizard riding a large black cat in space near a ringed planet.
Dark, blurry photo of a hand holding up a book called The Throne of Bones. Below the titles is pictured an obese ghoul sitting on a literal throne made of literal bones. Some naked worshippers or followers bow below him. The author of the book is listed, Brian McNaughton.
A book propped against a yellow pillow. The book's cover depicts a dim tunnel with an arched ceiling. The title is "Secret Passages and Hiding Places," and the author is Jeremy Errand.
Page from book reading "CAVEAT ACTOR! Underground tunnels are often unsafe. The prudent explorer invariably makes sure someone on this surface is informed before he sets off on his travels underground. It's a rudimentary procedure against premature burial that all should take."
Drawstring pouch knitted from grey, red, and white yarn. A bunch of dice -- four, six, eight, twelve, ten, and twenty-sided -- are spilling from the bag, colored yellow, red, pink, purple, and black (along with a greenish resin star).
blue and white china bowl, with food and spoon: mashed potatoes with beef stew on top (stew containing carrots, beef, and pearl onion in a brown sauce), beside grilled Brussels sprouts, green and brown
View of pink and coral sky at sunset, as seen through the black silhouettes of trees.
Christmas tree ornament hanging on a branch. The ornament is a white glass frog, lined up with an LED behind it so it looks like its nose is glowing red.
Caves of Qud screenshot. A bright pink madpole, looking like a giant tadpole with teeth, menaces the pc in a hallway full of blood and slime.
Caves of Qud screenshot. In this screenshot the player is examining a wall made of compacted bone. On the bone is scrawled the following graffiti: "M* air-puffe* p**try experimen* collapsed t*ank* *o *hat colo** than to eat its young."
Caves of Qud screenshot. Text says: Graffitied bedroll. A goat wool bed fastened with canvas ties. Graffiti is scrawled across the surface. It reads: 'Grave thought[heart] M[bar]on K[square]ng.'"
Screenshot from game Caves of Qud. Scene is in the jungle, with the player reading a book. "You read one of the few legible excerpts from Stalking the Dreamy Corridors: 'I thank thee for a ruin occupied by small fishing communities that traded peaceably amongst themselves.'"
Screenshot of Caves of Qud.
The boxes of two board games propped on red fabric. The Wilmot's Warehouse box is large, with brightly colored, somewhat abstract forms and a smiling Wilmot. The Prey Another Day box is smaller, with wonderfully illustrated day-glo animals.
Video of a book in the form of a tunnel, peering through the round clear window at the front, all the pages stretching back like an accordion. Travelers and monsters, wiggling around.
A book titled House of Rot. The cover is blue with a mushroom-infested orange mask. The author is Danger Slater.
Photo of Lanark: A Life In Four Books by Alasdair Gray, lying on red fabric. The cover is a painting, also by Gray, of a gloomy, expressionistic streetscape in a muralistic style.
Writer Caleb Wilson pretends to read a book about ferns while smiling at the camera. He has actually been reading the book, and recommends you read it too, but he was only pretending to read at the moment this photo was being taken.