This Is Your Narrator Speaking https://shearwriter.com/ Benjamin Shearwater Sat, 02 May 2026 00:31:15 +0000 games I read or played in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/games-i-read-or-played-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Blue Prince You recently inherited a mansion. It’s all yours - if you manage to unlock all the rooms. The Book of Hours You are an amnesiac librarian washed up on a strange shore. You must gather resources to unlock rooms and crack open books, slowly restoring Hush House to its former glory, uncovering its past in the process. Magic: The Gathering Collect pretty cards! Demolish your friends! Orbital Blues You’re a sad space cowboy tryin’ to make a living in corporate outer space. The Wildsea You are a sailor on the wildsea, an ocean of vibrant, green, growth that’s overtaken the planet hundreds of years in the future. Ships have chainsaws mounted to the prow. You play as a cactus if you want. Or perhaps sentient fungus. Or a collective of spiders piloting a corpse. This is normal. Would you like that?]]> Blue Prince

You recently inherited a mansion. It’s all yours – if you manage to unlock all the rooms.

The Book of Hours

You are an amnesiac librarian washed up on a strange shore. You must gather resources to unlock rooms and crack open books, slowly restoring Hush House to its former glory, uncovering its past in the process.

Magic: The Gathering

Collect pretty cards! Demolish your friends!

Orbital Blues

You’re a sad space cowboy tryin’ to make a living in corporate outer space.

The Wildsea

You are a sailor on the wildsea, an ocean of vibrant, green, growth that’s overtaken the planet hundreds of years in the future. Ships have chainsaws mounted to the prow. You play as a cactus if you want. Or perhaps sentient fungus. Or a collective of spiders piloting a corpse. This is normal. Would you like that?

]]> https://shearwriter.com/games-i-read-or-played-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:20:54 +0000 other prose I read in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/other-prose-i-read-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Short Stories The Sin of America by Cat Valente Articles, News, etc. The Talented Mr. Bruseaux by Matthew Wolfe Gettysburg by Kirtan Nautiyal From Antarctica with Love by Allegra Rosenberg]]> Short Stories

The Sin of America by Cat Valente

Articles, News, etc.

The Talented Mr. Bruseaux by Matthew Wolfe

Gettysburg by Kirtan Nautiyal

From Antarctica with Love by Allegra Rosenberg

]]> https://shearwriter.com/other-prose-i-read-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:17:22 +0000 things I listened to in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/things-i-listened-to-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[\[I’ll tidy this up later!\] Writing's on the Wall by Role Model Ankles by Lucy Dacus Begin Again by Jessie Ware Ruby Ibarra’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert TANGK by IDLES All of It Was Mine by The Weather Station Better Now by The Weather Station Robber by The Weather Station POP POP POP by IDLES Grace by IDLES]]> [I’ll tidy this up later!]

  • Writing's on the Wall by Role Model
  • Ankles by Lucy Dacus
  • Begin Again by Jessie Ware
  • Ruby Ibarra’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert
  • TANGK by IDLES
  • All of It Was Mine by The Weather Station
  • Better Now by The Weather Station
  • Robber by The Weather Station
  • POP POP POP by IDLES
  • Grace by IDLES
]]> https://shearwriter.com/things-i-listened-to-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:16:57 +0000 things I watched in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/things-i-watched-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[\[Will tidy this up later!\] Shows Foundation Seasons 1&2 For All Mankind Actual Plays The Unsleeping City A Court of Fey and Flowers Videos Kendra Gaylord on the post office Field Notes screening]]> [Will tidy this up later!]

Shows

Foundation Seasons 1&2

For All Mankind

Actual Plays

The Unsleeping City

A Court of Fey and Flowers

Videos

Kendra Gaylord on the post office

Field Notes screening

]]> https://shearwriter.com/things-i-watched-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:14:56 +0000 books I read in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/books-i-read-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Nonfiction For Now by Eileen Myles On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury Why I Write by George Orwell Letter to the Americans by Jean Cocteau How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie Ghostways by Robert MacFarlane, Stanely Donwood, and Dan Richards 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso 107 Days by Kamala Harris \[IP\] Working and Thinking on the Waterfront \[IP\] Wild Faith by Talia Lavin \[IP\] We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zac Ozma \[IP\] Fiction: Romance A Love/Skate Relationship Bed and Breakup My Best Friend's Honeymoon Score All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey Fiction: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Speculative Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce The Employees by Olga Ravn Poetry Changing Woman by Lindy Hough One Hundred and One Poems of Romance Norma Jean Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Arm in Arm by Remy Charlip Chicago and Other Poems by Carl Sandburg Ledger by Jane Hirschfield]]> Nonfiction
  • For Now by Eileen Myles
  • On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  • Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  • Why I Write by George Orwell
  • Letter to the Americans by Jean Cocteau
  • How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
  • Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie
  • Ghostways by Robert MacFarlane, Stanely Donwood, and Dan Richards
  • 300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
  • 107 Days by Kamala Harris [IP]
  • Working and Thinking on the Waterfront [IP]
  • Wild Faith by Talia Lavin [IP]
  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, edited by Ellis Martin and Zac Ozma [IP]

Fiction: Romance

  • A Love/Skate Relationship
  • Bed and Breakup
  • My Best Friend's Honeymoon
  • Score
  • All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey

Fiction: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Speculative

  • Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
  • The Employees by Olga Ravn

Poetry

  • Changing Woman by Lindy Hough
  • One Hundred and One Poems of Romance
  • Norma Jean Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
  • Arm in Arm by Remy Charlip
  • Chicago and Other Poems by Carl Sandburg
  • Ledger by Jane Hirschfield
]]> https://shearwriter.com/books-i-read-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:10:15 +0000 comics I read in 2025. https://shearwriter.com/comics-i-read-in-2025?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Jerusalem by Guy Delisle Lois Lane: Enemy of the People Power Fantasy: Vol. 1&2 Minor Threats Seeds Hawkeye Marvels (Remastered) by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross Goliath by Tom Gauld Notes from the Shadowed City by Jeffrey Alan Love The Thousand Demon Tree by Jeffrey Alan Love The Last Battle at the End of the World by Jeffrey Alan Love Saga Astro City Metrobook Earthdivers Superman: Birthright All-Star Superman Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow The Human Target]]>
  • Jerusalem by Guy Delisle
  • Lois Lane: Enemy of the People
  • Power Fantasy: Vol. 1&2
  • Minor Threats
  • Seeds
  • Hawkeye
  • Marvels (Remastered) by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross
  • Goliath by Tom Gauld
  • Notes from the Shadowed City by Jeffrey Alan Love
  • The Thousand Demon Tree by Jeffrey Alan Love
  • The Last Battle at the End of the World by Jeffrey Alan Love
  • Saga
  • Astro City Metrobook
  • Earthdivers
  • Superman: Birthright
  • All-Star Superman
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
  • The Human Target
    • ]]>     https://shearwriter.com/comics-i-read-in-2025 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:09:11 +0000     An old doodle. https://shearwriter.com/t62xn32zwvg4amdd?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[An old doodle. An old doodle. A few pages later, I was writing out ideas for a haunted house TTRPG.]]> An old doodle.

    An old doodle. A few pages later, I was writing out ideas for a haunted house TTRPG.

    ]]>     https://shearwriter.com/t62xn32zwvg4amdd Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:35:18 +0000     Who I am: Jack-of-all-comms-trades by day. https://shearwriter.com/who-i-am-federal-employee-by-day?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Who I am: Jack-of-all-comms-trades by day. Writer and doodler...also by day. (Like most folks, I prefer to spend my nights asleep). What this is: An open notebook, something like Cory Doctorow's Memex Method: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/]]> Who I am: Jack-of-all-comms-trades by day. Writer and doodler...also by day. (Like most folks, I prefer to spend my nights asleep).

    What this is: An open notebook, something like Cory Doctorow's Memex Method: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

    ]]>     https://shearwriter.com/who-i-am-federal-employee-by-day Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:05:50 +0000     test post https://shearwriter.com/test-post?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[ Here we come to a turning of the seasons witness to the arc towards the sun... - The Decemberists, 'Don't Carry It All' Here I am in one-room condo. Here I am, slightly drunk midday on the weekend, yearning for peace. Maybe this can be a commonplace book online where I think aloud. Maybe it can be a way to synthesize all my thoughts and experiences and the things I want to think more about in a way that doesn't put pressure on me to be polished, and allows me to be indulgent, and yields more.]]>

    Here we come to a turning of the seasons witness to the arc towards the sun... – The Decemberists, 'Don't Carry It All'

    Here I am in one-room condo. Here I am, slightly drunk midday on the weekend, yearning for peace.

    Maybe this can be a commonplace book online where I think aloud. Maybe it can be a way to synthesize all my thoughts and experiences and the things I want to think more about in a way that doesn't put pressure on me to be polished, and allows me to be indulgent, and yields more.

    ]]>     https://shearwriter.com/test-post Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:31:11 +0000