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Went to Corfe Castle.
Corfe is old English for gap, here in the hills which define and obstruct access to an area called the Isle of Purbeck.
Norman invaders replaced earlier Saxon and I dare say much earlier fortification with a motte and bailey castle, strong and on a hill.

It figures in the #SciFi novel #Pavane by #KeithRoberts which is well worth reading.

It was slighted by Parliamentary forces after holding out during the Civil War. That's slighted as in blown up.

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Nice! Thanks for sharing this- i love this kind of brain science!
(And also scifi etc!)

"While this wouldn’t be true of all readers, for those who are biased against SF, thinking of it as an inferior genre of fiction, they assume the story will be less worthwhile, one that doesn’t require or reward careful reading, and so they read less attentively..."

okay i'm sick and running behind BUT THIS SUNDAY AT 9PM EASTERN (that's 1am Monday UTC) ONCE AGAIN RISES i gotta stop yelling hold up The weekly monster movie watch party! Come watch a bad movie with us, it's fun.

This week we're watching Grizzly (1976), in which *yet another* director rips off Jaws, this time with bears. Frankly, I think it's gonna have a long way to go to beat Cocaine Bear.

The flick's available on Tubi with ads over here: tubitv.com/movies/515867/grizz

Or YouTube over here: youtube.com/watch?v=ap769z_7Kj

Or you can download from Archive.org over here: archive.org/details/grizzly_20

Just hit play on Sunday at 9pm Eastern and toot along! i'm gonna go lay down

tubitv.comTubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. We are not available in Europe due to changes in EU laws.

books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
owentyme.itch.io/starwitch

The dreaded, undead queen of the pirates kidnapped Amelia Blackwell’s sisters and left her ship damaged, with almost zero fuel. Without her sisters, Amelia is a dead woman, so she mounts a desperate attack on the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

@fantasy @scifi
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #actionadventure #fiction

They are a peculiar species that thrive in the arid plains. Telepathic and featureless, they often wear masks to facilitate interaction with humans, and scavenge gear from those who don’t survive the heat.

#osr#ttrpg#art

#WordWeavers
SC POV: What's your favorite color to wear?

"You know me. I came to colony just like all of you. I wore the Hessian for a year, like all of you. I trained most of you in Green, and now I wear the Orange."

(ed: Like most cults, The Daughters of the Iron Drum create a hierarchy to delineate new members, and increase their sense of belonging when then graduate to some arbitrary level. This standard brainwashing technique worked well on Brandy in Desolation.)