Disco Stu

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Formerly @epiphanyengine at Twitter, disco_stu on Discord. Mostly lurking, occasionally talking about analogue games. Melbourne, he/him. No dickheads no fascists no terfs.

Night sky, Florence.
Piazza Navona, Rome.
Book. Coffee. Something burger-like but yet, not one.
The boardgame Maria (2009), depicting France, Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire.
A picture of the following novels: Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Jeff Vandermeer’s Hummingbird Salamander and Dead Astronauts, Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Player of Games by Iain M Banks and TH White’s collected Once and Future King.
An image of an open page in Jeff Vandermeer’s Dead Astronauts.
John Company, a slightly satirical board game detailing the horrors of the East Indian Company.
A dog, barking at a nonplussed cat behind a window: Dog: 7th player with opinions on Distant Suns house rules Cat: TI4
Arcs, a board game by Leder Games.
Gary Chalk’s illustration of a dwarf from the Takisman board game. Beard, axe, armour, they’ve got the works.
A picture of the ‘Ghoul’ character from the Talisman board game; a foul, fanged creature lurking behind a gravestone.
A picture of the board game, Arcs.
A book open on a person’s lap, to pages 70-71 of Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer. Behind the book, a pair of glasses are balanced on the leg, thanks to a wee bit of astigmatism that kicked in late 2024.
A copy of Tolkien’s ‘The Return of the King’, open to its final page.
Four images of the dinosaur, Deinonychus, displaying how we think they may have looked over time. The first two are leathery monsters, almost iguana-like, while the last two images show a lithe, feathered creature with vestigial wings as part of its short forearms.
A copy of Return of the King open on a lap. The interior of a train carriage can be seen.
An old copy of The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien, open to a page entitled ‘Journey to the Cross-roads’.
A character token from the Arkham Horror board game, alongside a small miniature tentacle (not a normal piece but we added it to the game for thematic purposes.)
A picture of the Arkham Horror board game, its second edition. It displays the cities of Arkham and Innsmouth, along with a number of strange dimensions such as the Plateau of Leng.
A copy of The Two Towers, open to the second chapter entitled ‘The Uruk-hai’. A copy of The Atlas of Middle-Earth is barely visible behind it.
A yellowed, dog-eared copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, open to a page entitled ‘The Council of Elrond’.
A copy of Fellowship of the Ring open on a cafe table. It’s open to a prologue page entitled ‘Concerning Hobbits’.
A picture of the Twilight Struggle board game, showing a world map with power levels for US and USSR. It’s a 2-player competitive game about the Cold War.
a Samoyed dog sitting in front of Christmas decorations, wearing a golden star-shaped collar and what looks like antlers. He is smiling and really happy to see you, as indeed are all Samoyeds.
A Samoyed, seen from below.
A picture of the Vast board game, with chunky wooden meeples.
A picture of Vast: the Crystal Caverns by Leder Games. A knight is blocked from the cavern entrance by a combination of goblins and ghouls.
A screenshot from Spotify, “your top song was The Signal [mixed] by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Boys Noize. You were in the top 0.005% of listeners globally.”
Screenshot of Spotify, with the caption: “January was your Pirate Fantasy Power Metal phase”
A picture of the board game Black Angel, showing some wee robots sitting around chilling.