Karl "deadlight" Williams

@deadlight.bsky.social

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He/Him 28mm wargaming, P&P RPG, old stones (like, really old), tech (but, you know, the good bits), radical politics ("radical" like every person deserves to live), folklore, etymology. Other stuff too...

An exploded diagram of a wheeled rhino tank non-gw alternate sculpt
A colourful scattering of flowers on top of a granite stone at the Merry Maidens with the remainder of the circle blurred in the background.
Test image.
Test image
A photograph of Chernobyl nuclear power station, taken in 2014, showing the first sarcophagus, auxhillary buildings, and the memorial.
A plastic box containing games workshop manuals and suppliments, mostly from the 80s and 90s.
A somewhat roughly made but functional steel knife with a paracrod wrapped handle.
Screenshot of Google maps in the Gulf of Mexico showing the caption "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
A met office weather map showing a heavy storm passing London, the majority of which is in Central and Northern London.
Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) in the 1995 movie Hackers, leaning out of the back of a police car and yelling "HACK THE PLANET"
A very cute black and white cat looking at the camera with crossed front paws as she suns herself, indoors, on a blanket.
Photo of Musk mid-way through his dorky nazi salute, flipped upside down, with crosses over his eyes to evoke the fate of all fascists.
The original Rogue Trader sentinel
Kroots
Dictionary screenshot: "noun, Plural deer, (occasionally) deers
A simple, inexpert pencil sketch of a crouching humanoid figure. It is squatting low and bending its twisted body forward. It lacks facial features other than a mouth, its back is hunched and its ribcage seems too lage for its other proportions. Its neck is elongated so it's head juts out too far. Its skin is pock marked and dotted with tumerous growths. Its left hand is in the viscrea of a dead rat and its right hand, which is mutated into a long boney blade, is placing some of the rat meat into its slit mouth.
A diagram headed "Life of a software engineer" (obviously crudely modified from the "life of an artist" diagram in the previous skeet). A time line from birth to death. The first two segments are "gifted kid", the next 4 are "endless burnout", a small one-segment gap is marked with a cross and labelled "I am here", then the time line continues the last 3 segments to death are labelled "an old weirdo with a home studio" and the crude addition "weird art, hobbies, gardening, cooking, hiking... Rarely touching a computer
A wargame miniature of a sinister sorcerer appearing to gesture with his hand through a metal grating behind which is a pinky demon. The caption reads "is this a friend?", riffing on the butterfly meme
A small, two-storey wargame terrain setup using card and plastic bulkheads. Painted a uniform rusted metal colour.
A 28mm miniature of a masked warlock seemingly barging through a door in an incredibly detailed model of a library in a fantasy dungeon. An orc is menagingly appearing from the edge of the picture.
Views of the top, side and front of a slice through Karl's brain from a MRI scan
VHS-quality film still of Satanic graffiti overlaid with a very dated looking caption reading "Heavy Metal, Videos, Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Comics, Sex, Symbols/Power, Cartoons, Drugs"
A cropped photo of Karl's face with a plush sugar glider toy on his head.
Selfie style photo of Karl standing in front of a large, rusted mechanical claw behind a small radiation sign in the woods.
A photo of "Roadside Picnic" bar and grill, Chernobyl, Ukraine
Stone carved in complex, decorative Arabic script
Karl coaxing a black cat to say hello through a metal railing