Patrick DeWind

@dewind.bsky.social

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Nothing exciting, really. TTRPGs, medieval reenactment, woodworking, programming, philosophy, and a whole lot of reading.

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John Astin as Gomez Adams holding a cigarette with a manic look in his eye with the caption, "Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it won't be fun."
Wee birb sitting on a sheltered sidewalk watching the rain fall.
Obi-Wan Kenobi saying "The daily standup. You will never find a more wretched hive of Scrum and villainy.
Chicken pot pie fresh from the oven sitting on the stove in front of a blue tea kettle and next to the baking sheet that for once was not necessary to catch drips. Now it is cooling for an agonizing 15 minutes while my stomach rumbles at the wonderful smell.
The surprisingly accurate to the story cover of Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree featuring a serious looking elf drawing a sword, a ratkin sitting on a wagon writing a letter, a rather manic looking red-eyed goblin, and an unimpressed horse all standing in the woods near the mountains.
Cover for Hannah Nicole Maehrer's Accomplice to the Villain featuring a series of signs, an alligator holding a sword in its mouth, some books, and a crown wearing frog holding a sign saying, "Yass!"
The cover for Jim Butcher's Proven Guilty featuring the character of Harry Dresden who is inexplicably wearing a hat, standing on a dank street in front of a bar.
The cover of Persuasion by Jane Austen featuring a period portrait of a rather lovely looking woman.
Ares (left/back) and Athena (front/right), my two cats, curled up on a chair together. They're old, and Ms Athena has thyroid issues so she's aging faster. They were littermates so they look much alike, gray tabby and white.
Screenshot of an Oglaf comic showing I'm the 666th person to like it. The comic is a proverb about harlots, picky men, and God's disappointment at missing holy book chapters.
Sherlock Holmes showing Dr. Watson something funny.
Sting standing in a ring of candles holding a candle. You can even see which one he took!
End title splash saying, "Stars of the Roller State Disco by Michael Hastings". The words are mostly written in something looking like the OCR A font, trying to look all futuristic back in the 80's.
The cover art for Simon R. Green's For Love of Magic featuring a man holding a shining blade struggling to get out of a painting which is full of tentacles and monsters trying to pull him in with the assistance of a fearful looking blonde woman next to a painting of Frankenstein's Monster. There's also a Rubik's Cube conspicuously on the floor.
The cover for The Regicide Report by Charles Stross including a bunch of objects on a tabletop such as a cup of tea, a stamp, a notebook and pencil, a coupel pictures including a royal casket, a manila envelope, and a pair of binoculars.
Cover for Gene Wolfe's The Wizard featuring a stately knight standing upon a rock holding his sword with green cape flowing while behind him stands a pale white ogre, who he's totally buds with, of course.
The cover art for Simon R. Green's The God Killer featuring a fantasy combat between a man with an axe, a woman with a sword, and a short dude in a fur cloak.
Obi-wan Kenobi saying, "Doug Ford's office. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy," to Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, and C3-PO.
Shauna Sassi from Nightbreed, a pretty woman with a distorted nose and long sharp quills instead of hair. Definitely at the crossroad of creepy and hot.
Popup window saying, "We noticed that ads are not being displayed" followed by some yadda yadda about how that's terrible for the economy instead of apologizing for the ads making the site utterly unreadable.
Cover art for Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames featuring a band of five old and grizzled fantasy adventurers ready for another fight.
The cover of Winner Takes All by Hawk and Fisher featuring two women fighting with swords in the foreground, and two guys fighting in the background, one with an axe, and one with a sword. Politics as usual, am I right?
A poster for Dark City featuring the protagonist, a man in a suit, screaming as he is affixed Christlike to a clock face, with a dark blue skyline in the distance.
Cover for Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrr featuring a red background, a tilted bookshelf, a long braid of blonde hair suspended by manacles next to a severed hand and a sign holding frog, a unicorn horn mounted as a trophy and a spiderweb that spells "Villains Rule".
A distorted house with the caption "You divided by zero, didn't you?"
The cover of Run with the Hunted by Jennifer R. Donohue featuring a cascade of diamonds as viewed through the totally awesome VR headset of a daring hacker.
The cover art for Stars and Bones by Gareth Powell featuring a spaceship before a sun. WAY too close to a sun.
The cover for God's Junk Drawer featuring a dinosaur skeleton.
The cover for Charles Stross's The Hidden Family, featuring a woman walking down a set of stairs, which probably wouldn't mean much out of the context of the book, but a careful eye will know it is from the second alternate Earth, and the person is holding a magical locket.
The cover for Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer featuring a sign holding frog, swords, polearms, a crow holding a magic wand, arrow-riddled helmets, books, a poster, and a few magical gizmos.
The cover for Simon R. Green's Hawk & Fisher featuring Hawk, a big scruffy guy with an eyepatch and a big axe, and Fisher, a significantly less scruffy looking woman wielding a nasty looking sword. Fantasy's number one married city guard team are standing in front of a closed portcullis looking ready for a fight, which true to form, they usually are.
Cover of The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst featuring a winged cat and a greenhouse (presumably enchanted) in the snowy distance.
A gray squirrel on a branch eating a nut completely unbothered by the weirdo taking a picture.
Ares, the cat, curled up in optimal napping position with his napping arm deployed and tail safely constrained.
Two cats, Athena on the left, Are on the right, snoozing next to/on the wife's legs respectively while we watch The Blacklist. They find James Spader's voice soothing.
A big pan of cottage pie fresh out of the oven ready to be devoured by the wife who kindly asked her husband (me) to make it.
A bee on a sidewalk.
A crow sitting on a barren branch.
A foggy day on campus.
A pair of lichen covered benches.
Meme showing one panel with two eggs on a table with the caption, "This is your brain." The second panel shows an egg frying in a pan with the caption, "This is your brain on oxide smacks."
Screenshot from Amazon with the choice of one-time purchase for $15.76 or "subscribe and save for $15.76.
Screenshot of Google's Ngram search where when asked to compare can not (two words), cannot (one word), and can't, replaces all three different search terms with the same thing.
Blix, a goblin from, and protagonist of, the 1985 movie Legend, explaining their finer points to their boss, Darkness.
A picture of a 53" x 53" tablecloth impossible draped over a rectangular table with equal amounts of cloth hanging over on all sides.
Meme of ObiWan, C3PO, and Luke from Star Wars with the caption, "LinkedIn. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
A crow sitting in a barren branch against a gray sky.
Title screen for the old video game Drol from 1983.
We are not the same meme featuring Giancarlo Esposito in a suit straightening his tie with the caption, "You activate beast mode. I activate org-mode."
Cover art for Oddjobs 2: This Time It's Personnel by Heide Goody and Iain Grant featuring a redheaded woman having a meeting with a celestial horror.
Cover art for the audiobook of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens narrated by Tim Curry.
The cover of Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn featuring a red silhouette of a hand with a white pearl bracelet holding a black knife.
The cover of Illuminations by T. Kingfisher featuring a green wall with charcoal doodles upon it with a gold drawing of a flying crow holding a paintbrush in its beak. Along with the title and author are the words, "Magic. Mischief. Mandrakes."
Picture of my phone's lock screen featuring two cats (Ares and Athena) cuddling.
The cover of Wise Up: Irreverent Enlightenment from a Mother who's been through it, featuring Karen Duffy smiling brilliantly.
Quote from Charles Stross' Hidden Family. "It depends." He raised an eyebrow. "I don't deal in spying, sedition, or popery."
Caption from Steam that says "You have played for 69 hours. Would you recommend this game to other players?"
Cover of Aliens Vasquez by V. Castro, featuring the title character viewed from above while four aliens look down upon her in ambush.