what is this?

This is my personal website: a small part of the fight for a human-focused web. I upload my work here.

personal blog

• [2024-12-21] ~ What did I enjoy in 2024?
• [2023-12-23] ~ What did I enjoy in 2023?
• [2022-12-30] ~ What did I enjoy in 2022?
• [2022-07-16] ~ What did I enjoy in the first half of 2022
• [2022-05-09] ~ The Production of Paradise/Place
• [2022-01-09] ~ What did I enjoy in 2021?
• [2021-10-04] ~ We live in the Wired now

writing blog

• [2025-04-19] ~ Archeological Adventure Sites & a Dungeon-fill Procedure
• [2025-04-15] ~ The Malesch Valley 3: cursed boulder-field
• [2025-04-10] ~ The Malesch Valley 2: ancient scrub
• [2025-04-08] ~ The Malesch Valley 1: war-torn marsh

tabletop role-playing games

Over 2024 I wrote at least one scenario or setting a month. It was the best thing I've ever done for my writing and layout. Please have a look.

• [2024-12-31] ~ stones, hills and churches - twenty hexes: a summation of how far I've come.
• [2024-11-23] ~ Underwrekin - dwarvish mines under the Wrekin.
• [2024-10-30] ~ Between the Boughs - twenty four folkloric woodland hexes.
• [2024-10-01] ~ The Mists of the Mynd - my take on the The Lost City genre.
• [2024-09-18] ~ The East Lake Survey - writing jam ran by the Thinking Adventures Discord.
• [2024-07-31] ~ The West Midlands 2: The Lay of the Land - expansion to the West Midlands!
• [2024-06-27] ~ The Pyramid of Peril - cult pyramid full of giant ants.
• [2024-05-30] ~ The West Midlands - anti-west-marches based on Birmingham.
• [2024-05-08] ~ Named Weapons in your Fantasy Games - optional rule inspired by Boasts.
• [2024-04-30] ~ Three Dens of Devilry - a sea witch, a barrow, and a tomb.
• [2024-04-21] ~ Lands of the Lost Lake - hexcrawl inspired by Turner.
• [2024-03-27] ~ The Depths of Delirium I - a Cambrian dig-site and failed prison.
• [2024-02-29] ~ The Hole of Heresy - heretical saints in a sewer.
• [2024-02-15] ~ The Facility of Fatality - Lethal Company in OSR.
• [2024-01-26] ~ The Tracks of Torment - part of the Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam.
• [2024-01-09] ~ The Canyons of Kerad - follow-up to Keyhaven Keep.

And here's some older systems and scenarios. I still use some of these ideas!

• [2023-11-14] ~ Caverns Below Keyhaven Keep - submission for DURF JAM 2023.
• [2022-12-31] ~ METROPOLE: DÉRIVE - a solo game about attuning to urban affect.
• [2022-09-29] ~ Crush Depth - pulp adventure in a noir 2000-Leagues-Under-The-Sea world.

Remember: real artists ship.

we're in the zone now

This is my undergraduate dissertation from April 2022. It reviews the concept of 'The Weird' and how it relates to geography and climate change. It's old, overly verbose, and full of comprimises (word-limits and hitting requirements for examiners) but I hope you enjoy it regardless.

• [2022-05-08] ~ We're in the Zone Now: Weird Geographies for the Anthropocene

Other academic essays:

• [2023-01-14] ~ The City and The City and Urban Inequality
• [2021-08-23] ~ Introduction to the Weird
• [2021-06-13] ~ Citizenship and Civil Society
• [2021-03-10] ~ Ethiopian media perspectives on the GERD