Zak Sabbath

In 2019 when i was going to college I saw a thing online where everybody in the RPG community was saying that Zak Sabbath was being accused of abusing his ex girlfriend.

I don’t remember exactly what I read but I ended up writing something along the lines of “Zak is an abuser fuck Zak” on my blog

Now, having not thought much about it since, but looking at the story with hindsight, he didn’t do it. I deleted the post a long time ago and no one reads my blog anyway (thank god).

He’s had to go to court over this shit, had his whole life fucked up and had to deal with a shitload of nerds on the internet self-righteously treating him like an evil person because of some bullshit they read on the internet and repeated for virtue signaling points. At this point I think I was just being a dumbass in liberal arts school who heard “believe all women” and that seemed like the thing to do. I didn’t think hard enough about what it would do to repeat an accusation without actually knowing if it was true.

On his blog (which before his cancellation I really liked reading*) he said something about how when people apologize for making public accusations he expects public apologies. This is that, I shouldn’t have jumped on the bandwagon and I should have known better than to believe serious accusations without real evidence.

Anyway, @Zak, glad you’re alive and still making cool stuff. I’m sorry that I repeated the shit that wasn’t true. 

*this isn’t the point at all but just as a note of like, honest reflection, I remember reading the accusations on my phone in my dorm building and feeling genuinely sad and upset about it, that this artist I really had been inspired by and who I had been following online for years at that point had turned out to be this bad guy. I guess maybe that’s important to remember that I felt a sense of like, betrayal or disappointment that this guy I admired was a bad dude. 

I don’t really know if it’s fucked up to think this, but part of me is glad to realize the guy isn’t a bad dude. His art is rad, one of the best to ever make rpg books, and in general a very excellent painter and haver-of-good taste in elfgames and fantasy art.

I feel kind of worried about posting this but I think it’s the right thing to do to apologize because that dude has been through way way too much shit and I didn’t mean to be a part of that.

BLACK SORCERER ZERO

i am starting initial work on a new comic / fantasy zine tentatively titled BLACK SORCERER

i want to include art, writing and collage material, as well as put out a slowly publishing serialized dark fantasy comic book

the overal theme of the thing will be occult/mystic/mythological narratives about space, the moon, the stars, the void, and the ocean, stuff like that

stuff like this ^

i have a specific interest in magickal philosophies about death and non-dualistic ideas about the meaning of life and death together, and if i can write anything worth sharing that will go in the zine too

if you make art of guys with swords, I want to give you money to put your art in my zine. please email me at blacksorcerer00@gmail.com

if you make writing also email me 

if you are a fan of fantasy / dark fantasy and want to pitch ideas or recommendations for the zine email me

irregardless check out the zine when its done 

9/11

anybody got any interesting conspiracy theory info about 9/11?


i'll start



the x files spin off tv show The Lone Gunmen has a pilot episode aired in March 4, 2001.

astute observers will notice that that is a few months before 9/11 happened.

nonetheless the plot of the episode bears more than a striking similarity to the events of the 9/11 attack.

now im not trying to say the deep state decided to further dab on the american people by not only planning the 9/11 attack* but by airing a very cheesy episode of a TV show about paranoid conspiracy nerds which would foreshadow some sort of pre-knowledge of both the plot to do 9/11 and also the subsequent conspiracy narratives that would be astroturfed or genuinely spread in the aftermath of the event. i'm not saying that at all. No Way is that what i am saying.

there's no way the deep state would have those kind of connections at the Fox network in 2001. And besides, would Fox Mulder really lie to you like that? Are you trying to tell me that the people who introduced the world to the beautiful Dana Scully are actually in bed with the TV-entertainment-media arm of the evil power network that uh idk i lost my train of thought

are you trying to tell me that the fox network are doing psyops??? i refuse to believe that the simpsons isn't the greatest TV show of all time 

* which was used to justify the next 20+ years of imperialist bloodshed in the middle east in order to make money off of oil, weapons, heroin, and destabilize the region whether they "did it" or let it happen or not or whatever

anyway just watch the X files

its a good show

happy 9/11

keep never remembering not to never forget

the flail of epic fail

new cursed/magic item

random google image search for tattoo of a flail idk who made this 

 when you roll a 1 when using the flail consult the table

1d20 epic fails

1. The flail falls out of your hand as you're swinging it and ricochets by accident off of every enemy in sight.

2. The flail falls out of your hand as you're swinging it and ricochets by accident off of every ally in sight.

3. The flail destroys the armor of whoever you're attacking.

4. the flail hits you in the nuts

5. the flail chain wraps around your legs causing a comical pratfall

6. the flail chain wraps around your enemy's legs and then their legs fall off

7. i ran out of ideas here but you get the point

8. this is the genre of youtube video i was trying to make a shitpost about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJcERONicRQ

9. you know 

10. like "epic fail" but its a flail

11. get it?

12. it's not a very good joke

13. you can stop reading now

14. this isn't even a table 

15. i feel stupid for typing up all the numbers without even having enough ideas for like 10 entries

16. let alone 20

17. seriously don't read this far

18. im seroius

19. fuck that was a typo

20. i meant im serious 

when you roll a 20 you score the normal critical hit effects but the flail also swings around and hits you in the face dealing 1d8 damage in addition to the damage it deals to your opponent

sci fi mood board

here is my personal cinematic science fiction canon 

when i think about the future it is rendered in the images given to me by these 10 movies:

1. The Thing (best movie ever, i have nothing to say about it other than it is the best argument for why nihilism is actually cool and kind of truthful)
2. Alien (really good) + Aliens
3. The Ring
4. Videodrome
5. Scanners
6. Terminator + Terminator 2
7. Escape from New York + LA
8. Total Recall (best movie ever # 2)
9. Robocop + Robocop 2
10. Stalker (to be honest I have a hard time paying attention the whole time to this one, but i love the philosophical angle and the aesthetics of this one. Need to rewatch. Still haven't seen Solaris.)

terrain modelling

new post time

last i used this blog i was working on a Death Knight themed dungeon called Godskull Megafortress.

part of the preparation for running this dungeon was the creation of a 3d terrain model of the fortress

here's some sketchbook/process photos the terrain building project

graveyard terrain project + IRL graveyard photos