Kalpar

They/Them | Writer | Historian | Ferroequinologist | &c, &c

[thekalpar]

Obligatory Pinned Post

Hello, everyone, this post is to provide a little more info/links about me for those who are curious.

Who am I?

My name's Kalpar, I'm an indie/self-published author of sci-fi and fantasy stories. You can find out more about my books and sign up for my newsletter at my website www.thekalpar.com There are also links to my other social media profiles where I tend to do more of obligatory promotion.

I also have a very, very small Etsy shop where I have a collection of stickers available, which you can locate here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ironhammerpublishing/

What's this blog about?

Honestly, mostly just for personal enrichment. A lot of social media is garbage so tumblr is me looking at things that bring me joy. This includes but is not limited to: Stardew Valley, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Murderbot Diaries, Trains, Calligraphy, and Discworld. Also pictures of minis that I manage to paint.

I reblog. A lot. Be prepared for that.

Tags of Note:

#now that's what I call internet - My personal tag for posts that I definitely want to find in the future. Basically stuff that I consider the sort of thing I come to the internet to see, makes me feel better about life.

#kalpar - Anything that I wrote/created myself and self-promotion posts

#traincore - A friend of mine suggested making traincore a thing. Honestly I tag train things with this. I like trains. My favorite color is trains. Choo choo.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[autistook]

LOTR & HOBBIT TEXT POSTS

[plaguedocterlamb]

Partway through my crusader marine! I play blood angels but these templars models are so cool I thought I should paint some up and just proxy them as blood angels.

(Ps. They look better in this color scheme anyhow)

[washed-up-wurmcoil]

Save me lois McMaster bujold... take me to the beautiful place where writers actuallu engage with their worlds politics...

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[mr-sardelli]

Monstrous Regiment: The Worst Cup of Tea Ever Made by a Serving Soldier

...backing away as long as possible so as not to miss the end of the tragedy. Then she turned and ran.

‘Oh, sugar!’ Polly tipped some into the worst cup of tea ever made by a serving soldier and ran back to the clearing.

[slunch]

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

[bitchking-of-angmar]

The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[washed-up-wurmcoil]

Thinking about the mountains of mourning again...

[greenfinchg-illustration]

[NSFW] I decided to add some color to a few of my sketches.

[segamascott]

[rnismatch]

you dumb asshole, you just won $0,000

[tamagotchi]

😍fuck

[twilightarcade]

looper

[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

[maxbuck]

When the character is harmed 😁😁😁😁

When the character is harmed and it has Implications .

[devilishdescent]

>the goblin leaps to attack!

>the goblin misses!

>the goblin has scraped his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

[kepochaika]

"The beast screamed inside Vimes. It screamed that no one would blame him for doing the hangman out of ten dollars and a free breakfast. Yeah, and you could say a swift stab now was the merciful solution, because every hangman knew you could go the easy way or the hard way and there wasn't one in the country that'd let something like Carcer go the easy way. The gods knew the man deserved it…

…but young Sam was watching him, across thirty years.

When we break down, it all breaks down. That's just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough you can bend it in a circle, but you can't break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there's nothing unbroken. It starts here and now.

He lowered the sword."

(C) Terry Pratchett "Night Watch"