Nathan Long

@nathanrlong

Former writer at inXile Entertainment, novelist, script writer, game writer, general plot hammerer - He/Him

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Nathan Long@nathanrlong· 8d

Cast shadows from a tea cup.

A white "Calamityware" cup with blue designs in a patch of sunlight on our kitchen sink. The sun striking the cup is bouncing the designs onto the surface of the sink in a fan-like reflection.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· 25d

To my everlasting shame...

Balatro from my Steam library. Total time played 1343 hours.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· 26d

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

The cover of Bloodborn, the first Ulrika the Vampire novel I wrote for Black Library, showing Ulrika, a blonde vampire in a red doublet holding a candle and a dagger, and smirking with a little blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. Are is by the great Winona Nelson.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Jul 12

Big sky over the SF Supermarket.

A big sunset with a bright stripe of yellow at the horizon, and streaks of dark blue clouds rising up to a stippling of little fluffy white ones, all glorious over a dark supermarket parking lot.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Jul 9

Hella.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Jul 6

A ridiculous achievement, but it brings me joy. I've scored a million points in "Let's Mahjong," an app where you play Hong Kong mahjong with real people. It's taken me seven or eight years to get here. (Yes, I'm using Lili's account.)

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Jul 2

Why are we talking about Hugo Weaving?

The actor Jihae as Anna Fang in Mortal Engines, looking incredibly suave in a red suit and a high pompadour.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Jun 6

Not sure why, but I think @christafaust.bsky.social would like this lamp.

A hanging lamp of metal and glass where it looks like the metal is straps, and the glass bulges out between them like flesh.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 30

Thai plum red tea.

A photo of a to-go cup of Plum Red Tea from Cha Tra Mue tea shop. Below the photo is a caption, "Warning: Acquired Taste! A bold mix of our signature Thai Black Tea and salted plum.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 15

My actual parents. (that's me in the middle)

Nora (Myrna Loy) Nick Charles (William Powell) look lovingly at each other over the head of Asta, their dog.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 10

Playing with ideas for custom #mahjong sets. Not touching the traditional designs for the suit, honor, and flower tiles, which are perfect as they are, but imagining new color combinations, materials, and themes.

A sheet of ideas for mahjong sets with a Colors of China theme, each of a different color—Celedon, Red Lacquer, Jian Green, Jun Blue, and Terra Cotta.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 5

On no.

$Some punctuation marks that make the burger in the Burger King logo look like a bun-bodied spider. /(")\ () ()$

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 5

May the Fifth be with you.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· May 3

And for you youths who don't get the other reference, this is S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall.

Actor S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, wearing round glasses and looking a bit overwhelmed, with a bunch of ticker tape wrapped around his neck.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 17

Mahjong container experiment #2 is a success. Army surplus dopp bag fits an entire medium size set of tiles, including dice.

An empty wooden mahjong carrying case, and an unzipped canvas dopp travel bag showing mahjong tiles and dice inside.

An empty wooden mahjong carrying case, and a zipped up canvas dopp travel bag showing that it closes when full of tiles.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 15

Yay! I bought a used make-up case on-line, hoping it would make a cool travel case for one of my mahjong sets, and it fit! Very excited!

An old leopard print caboodle make-up case on a blue couch in front of a pillow with an embroidered tiger on it. The case is closed.

An old leopard print caboodle make-up case on a blue couch in front of a pillow with an embroidered tiger on it. The case is open, revealing a set of mini-mahjong tiles, 3 six sided dice, and a wind indicator die.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 15

And, done. A few minor alignment problems, but not bad.

The completed box for my game, Airship Assassins. With printed sticker paper wrapped over a donor box (Poetry for Neanderthals we hardly knew ye). The box is sitting on my cutting mat on my messy desk.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 15

Working on a new board game idea, and taking care of the important part first - the box cover! #boardgamedesign

Box cover art for a game I'm working on called Airship Assassins, that is trying to mimic the title card and advertising of an old black and white movies. The top shows a zeppelin in flight behind the words Airship Assassins. The sides have b&w photos of the assassins, with the words "Each one a killer" beside them.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 13

This one, for me.

Conan the Destroyer by Frank Frazetta. Conan crests a wave of enemies, swinging an axe as the die and fall.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 10

Fucker stung me.

A bee resting on a gate spike, which I touched as I opened the gate, and got stung for it. Not sure why it's still there. Possibly it was already in bad shape?

A comparison of my two ring fingers. The one that got stung is cartoonishly bulbous.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 5

Real, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth vibes.

Ed Roth art of Ratfink in a red 57 Chevy, with one hand on the stick shift, and the other on a glass full of eyeballs. Behind him is the word, OUTRAGEOUS.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 5

They remind me of a burrito I ate once:

A burrito on a plate, which, due to the way it's folded and some griddle marks looks like it has a sad face.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Apr 3

The ridiculously overcomplicated chart I made when I was trying to learn mahjong and thought it was more complex than it actually is. Not really useful, but I had fun making it.

A huge flow chart that's supposed to tell you how many points different mahjong hands score, but it's all a bit of a jumble, with too many arrows and boxes. And some of it is wrong.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 31

Sprinkled a couple of wild flower seed packets into these tubs a few months ago and for a loooong time nothing happened. Then suddenly...

A pair of raised tin flower beds next to our back patio, overflowing with orange and purple wildflowers.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 27

Immediately reminded me of:

The early comic book character Buster Brown and his dog. Buster has a page-boy hair cut, a red hat, red jacket, and short pants.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 23

Here's the cover image of the game, and the rules, which are printed on the inside of the envelope it comes in.

Front cover of a game called Cat Tree, showing a smug cat on a perch at the top of a cat tree, while a intent cat creeps up on him from below.

The inside of the envelope that the Cat Tree game comes in, which is printed with the rules and an example of how the tiles and tokens can be laid out as you play the game.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 23

Chaos at the food trucks tonight.

A line of food trucks parked on the street outside a parking lot in San Gabriel. Smoke rises from a grilled skewers truck.

A menu picture of a bowl of wonton soup. Oddly, the english word under the picture just says "Chaos"

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 20

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 20

A Dune poster generated using the pixelframe Dune font generator. It says "DUNE IS THE SOUND EVERY DENIS VILLENEUVE MOVIE MAKES.

Nathan Long@nathanrlong· Mar 19

Post a picture of who you wanted to be as a kid.