The Harping Monkey
an odd and diverse collection of writings from a wandering madman named Mick Bradley
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Signal Boost: A Fate Core Sneak Peek of Clark Valentine’s Kriegszeppelin Valkyrie
Here’s a signal boost for another great Fate Core sneak peek from Evil Hat, the awesome flying-aces-&-uberzeppelins pulp setting Kriegszeppelin Valkyrie by the incredible Clark Valentine. I’ve seen an early draft of this FateWorlds setting and I’m in love with the concept. Clark was a big part of the Dresden Files RPG team and he knows [...]
Signal Boost: Fate Core Art Explosion
Over on Evil Hat’s Web site, there’s a new gallery of artwork that’s going into the Fate Core book from artist Kurt Komoda. I love the style and variety, and the depiction of female characters is promising.
Vigilants and Vagabonds: The Aethership *Wossitsname*
One of the first ingredients tossed into the V&V project cauldron was my creation of a Lego Steampunk airship. I’d seen several other cool bits of Lego Steampunkery online and I wanted to try my own. The ship part came together easily enough and the huge…
Embers of Imbolc
I’m sitting here tonight learning how to make chain-maille jewelry, I’ve got a new leather mask drying in the other room, I’ve made several other nifty things this past week that’ll go up on my Etsy store soon, I’m thinking all kinds of thoughts about fools and vagabonds and how I’m not inclined to let [...]
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Leah Ellison Bradley: Making Something of It
- Cultivating Contentment May 24, 2013There are so many things I want to give my children, but I’m convinced the greatest gift I can ever give them is a sense of contentment with what they already have. I’m learning it’s a daily lesson I must teach them – partly because the consumer culture in which we live sends the exact opposite […]
- Change of Plans May 21, 2013Several months ago, I agreed to preach on Pentecost Sunday, at the church where my parents worship, in southern Illinois. I like pulpit supply work, especially when the obligation provides an excuse for my little family to visit my parents for a few days. But as the dates for this trip drew closer, the vision […]
- New Life for an Old Chair May 3, 2013There is something deeply satisfying about rescuing an object bound for the trash heap and giving it a second life. I enjoy the challenge of trying to see the object as something other than what it was created to be and find the creative process much more enjoyable than when I have a pile of […]
2013: The Year of FATE
Signal Boost: A Fate Core Sneak Peek of Clark Valentine’s Kriegszeppelin Valkyrie
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Me: Mick Bradley
I'm a: Father, husband, geek, emergent hippie roleplay gamer, artist, writer, creative, music lover, feminist, Progressive, dog guy, Steampunk, Clockpunk, pirate-fetishist, fantasy-speculative fiction reader, mythophile, Celtophile, dreamer, mythopoetic monkey-fool, drama queen, emotionally unstable turtle, football fan, mask-maker, LEGO player, Autism-spectrum dancer, podcaster emeritus, wannabe-punk-hipster, redhead-lover, sojourner, seeker, questioner, postmodern whiner, mostly male but proudly more than a little female, human.
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