Mark Meredith

@dicemonkey

Author of “Song of the River Prince,” “Curse: The City of One Thousand Martyrs,” and “The Doom of Blackwinter.” He/Him

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Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 19d

Liking the look of this new X-Men team.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 20d

We each opened a pack last night and had to play with what we had. The others ended up with some five-masters, and I had… one two mast ship and a fort.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 21d

Putting together a big PDF. It'll likely be quite a long time before it actually gets put out there, but it would have all the best known heroes and villains and locations, all in one place. It's getting harder and harder to get ahold of official MHR content. #MarvelHeroic #MarvelRPG #Marvel

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 22d

We’ve even got a logo for the week!

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 23d

This is the dude who’s got middle school boys hating on women, meanwhile he’s dressed as a middle-aged mom circa 2010 with his Toms shoes, purple billowy blouse, and capri pants.

Andrew Tate with a purple shirt, black capris, and black shoes with no socks, getting arrested.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 25d

This morning, the sky forgot how to be blue. It dressed itself in the color of old photographs, And every breath feels borrowed from a campfire's flame.

A morning sky filled with smoke over a suburban neighborhood.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 26d

Proof of Life

You’re in the kitchen
cutting an apple badly,
leaving too much fruit
around the core.

The radio is low.
Your socks don’t match.
You ask if I’m listening.

I am.

I am listening
to the knife against the cutting board,
to you breathing,
to the ordinary miracle
of not having to miss you.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· 29d

Hell yeah, @thiseffingm.bsky.social!

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 8

From Tony Marquez at the FB page Memes of Production, it says "McConnel has Recovered." And has John Fetterman looking like Krang's humanoid suit from TMNT, with McConnel's face replacing Krang's face.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 7

Jack from 30 Rock saying "Lemon, it's Tuesday."

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 7

I don't know if this front page of @rpgtrader.bsky.social is random or not, but it's nice to see my own RPG, Awesomesauce 2, on the front page.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 7

Which one should I go with, inviting friends over for some Marvel Heroic?

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 7

I hope that we get to see Zendaya with the classic Athena Promachos look, helmet perched on her head, in The Odyssey.

A marble statue of Athena with her helmet perched on her head.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jul 1

After 20 years of service, I am now retired from the U.S. Navy. What a long, strange, incredible journey it has been. After six years on active duty, I went on to serve an additional five years of full-time active duty across the next 14 years.

A shockingly, devilishly handsome man in navy fatigues sitting in an office smiling at a camera.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 30

An IMDB article labeled "Hollywood is hunting Reddit for the next big movie idea after "Backrooms."

The image below it is from r/alternatehistoryhub, which says "What if Jackie had brought a rocket launcher to Dallas" And the image shows Jackie Kennedy standing in the back of the car shooting a rocket launcher.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 30

Watching The Neighborhood, and… hey! It’s @tomlommel.com!

A mustachioed man with glasses on a plane.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 26

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 25

Finished up two models tonight. I love my bosses. #warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k

A big boss, armed with a large nasty axe. He is covered in rust on all his armor.

A warboss armed with a power claw. He is covered in rust.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 24

Imagine the cantina scene from Star Wars, except when Obi-Wan and Luke arrive there's only one captain with a ship for hire...
[image of Hondo shouting "Kenobi!!!!"]

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 24

I am War.

I do not hate you.
That is the worst part.
I am not a beast with a grudge.
I am not thunder looking for a house.
I am a machine that learned to pray
in the language of gun oil.
I am the beautiful lie
with medals pinned to its chest.
I am the parade before the body bags.
I am the speech that shines like a blade
under bright lights.
I am the map spread open on a table
while somewhere
a boy is spread open in the dirt.
I make strangers of sons.
I take them laughing,
full of bread and music and bad jokes,
and return them quiet,
with winter living behind their eyes.
Or I do not return them at all.
I leave them in fields
where poppies bloom red enough
to make poets seem cruel.
I leave them beneath oceans
that keep secrets better than governments.
I leave them in pieces so small
their mothers must bury rumors.
I turn houses into mouths
that scream smoke.
I turn hospitals into questions.
I turn roads into veins
and fill them with people
carrying everything they used to call home
in one plastic bag.
I have watched a man
dig for his brother with a soup spoon.
I have watched a girl
draw her family in chalk

on the wall of a shelter
and leave space
for the dead to stand.
I have watched the moon
look down on a battlefield
and cover its face with clouds
like even God
needed darkness.
And still,
you feed me.
You feed me fear.
You feed me pride.
You feed me borders drawn
like scars across the earth.
You feed me songs about glory
until boys mistake the coffin
for a doorway.
You give me your brightest minds
and ask them to make fire smarter.
You give me your metal,
your math,
your sons,
your daughters,
your language.
And I give you back silence.
A silence so large
it has its own weather.
A silence that sits at the dinner table
in the empty chair.
A silence that wears a uniform
in the back of the closet.
A silence that wakes the veteran
at 3:17 every morning
with a hand over his mouth
and the old battlefield
burning behind his teeth.
I do not end
when the treaty is signed.

I keep living
in the missing limb,
in the locked jaw,
in the child who flinches at fireworks,
in the widow who still buys two apples,
in the country that cannot remember
what it sounded like
before the screaming became history.
I am the inheritance
no one admits they left you.
I am the blood under the anthem.
The bone beneath the border.
The black flower blooming
from the barrel of every gun.
And when the last soldier falls,
when the last city lowers its burning head,
when the last mother runs out of tears
and the last flag hangs heavy with rain,
I will still be there,
licking the salt from the earth,
whispering,
Again.

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 24

Behold, mortals!

The cover of Courts of Rememory, the Fey and their kind of Song of the River Prince by Mark Meredith. It shows a glowing figure beneath a tree.

The fey remember what mortals try to forget.
Beyond the safe banks of the Riverlands, past the familiar lanterns and the roads that still answer to maps, there are courts older than kingdom, oath, and grove.
They gather in drowned shrines, thornwood groves, moonlit gardens, abandoned chapels, and forests where the trees have learned too many names.
these are not monsters waiting to be slain. They are hosts, rivals, judges, witnesses and keepers of old debts. They may offer you comfort that
may trap you, bargains that may save you, songs that may change you and truths that
may not be ready to be spoken.
Courts of Rememory opens the hidden doors of the fey realms for Song of the River Prince, presenting strange courts, archey, lesser fey, rituals, borderlands, songs, tales, and unsettling wonders for your table. Within these pages you will find beauty with teeth, kindness with cost, and memories pressed like petals betreen pages no mortal band can open.
Step carefully.
The path is narrowing

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 23

A city guard from Skyrim standing in front of the Reflecting Pool: "Stop right there criminal scum! Your days of sabotaging The Reflection Pool are over! You're coming with me, it's off to jail!"

A city guard from Skyrim standing in front of the Reflecting Pool: "You Antifa vandals think you can get away with the dirtying up our nation's pride and joy - one of the tallest buildings in the world, if you measure it sideways!"

A city guard from Skyrim standing in front of the Reflecting Pool: "You fools just want to distract from the great achieveements of our administation, such as replacing the Venezuelan president with his vice president, winning the Iran War 48 times, and... others!"

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 22

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 20

Happy 11th edition day to all who celebrate!

From Muppet Christmas Carol: Scrooge “you there! Boy! What day is it?” Ben the bunny wearing a space marine helmet: “today? Why, today is 11th edition day, sir” Scrooge: “I haven’t missed it after all!”

Mark Meredith@dicemonkey· Jun 19

July's micro-RPG is Mechanica, alongside a short story set in the same world. In Mechanica, players are required to be evenly distributed between Pilots and the Mechs they guide. Mechs have their own minds after generations of battle. Can the two of you work together to defend Camp Severin?