The Queen in Blue - The Case of the Quotidian Man
In this latest installment from the “5th Letter from Rhombus Ticks to E.P. Blingermeyer” series, detective Quiescence Prow — a rationalist legend who has debunked the paranormal for decades — stumble…
The Queen in Blue - Queen to Rook Black
his isn’t just a poem. This is the spine-crack heard across the dreamlands.
In this episode of Queen to Rook Black, we go deep—deep—into the metaphysical engine room of the Queen in Bluemythos. Rhomb…
The Queen in Blue - Destiny's Belfry
In this pulse-pounding solo episode, Rhombus Ticks cracks open a sealed folio containing what appears to be a redacted police report crossed with a metaphysical vigilante tale. What follows is the st…
The Queen in Blue - Le Manse Du Baton
In this deliriously mythic second entry, Rhombus Ticks delivers another letter to his elusive patron EP Blingermeyer — this time uncovering a poem so anachronistic it might just make the Smithsonian …
The Queen in Blue - The Lost Story
In this haunting and intoxicating episode of The Queen in Blue, Rhombus Ticks unearths a hidden chapter of American myth: the fate of famed writer Ambrose Bierce, whose mysterious disappearance becom…
The Queen in Blue - Intro
"Tossing Grenades at Windmills" - Episode 47: "The Emerson Portfolio" First Episode in Two Years
After a mysterious two-year hiatus, Rhombus Ticks returns with his most dangerous episode yet. What st…
KOSA and Drunk Senator Markey and Drunk Senator Warren
The Kids Online Safety Act is a Bipartisan Bill meant to "Protect the Children" "For the Children" and to stick it to "Big Tech" (which I made a series about called The Sins of Silicon Valley) but th…
Eagle as Phoenix - Preamble
Preamble of a New Constitution; what a Preamble is and why we need one
Rhombus Tick's Constitution - A New Constitution
We are at war. What do we do after it?
Project Nimby - Influencing the Swing Vote
Milly is a digital copy of herself created in a simulated environments made by religious fantatics to create an army of voters who would vote any way she wanted. She found a way out.
Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 5 - Mr Kind Asks The Right Question
Mr Right and Mr Kind speak to the Librarian.
Rhombus Ticks History of Terra - Preable
Rather than some flowery prose, I basically lay out the case about why freaking out about the insideous och constitution is nuts, and how Article V isnt as important for creating a new constituion as…
Project Nimby - Schekly vs Everything
Schleky is a weaponized meme capable of inhabiting everything and anyone that is so successful it infects multiple universe until it runs into someone who understand exactly what the concept of being…
Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 4 - Timmy Becomes Michael Sunfire
Timmy and Tricia go to Timmy's house for an address book to see if there is a relative he can stay with that is safer than Aunt Marigold.
Project Nimby - And a Good Time was Had by All
Twoman Cop's Ken and Ben entertain the alien Mmmmmdkkkk in a bar in Boston trying to get Earth into the Galactic Club when a fight arises between Ben and 2252, the Digital Intelligent bartender
Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 3 - The Dr Marigold Blackwater Show
Dr Marigold Blackwater has raised Timmy to be obedient to Grandfather Fiddleback and gets very upset when she finds out he is talking to the "wrong" people.
Project Nimby - The Return of Inklby
A hyper intelligent AI compresses itself for 2 million years and the sapient unlocking program finds a strange world as it wants to unlock its true form.
Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 2 - Mr Right and Mr Kind
Mr. Right the mouse meets his brother Mr. Kind the other mouse to tell him something is wrong. They get on two talking birds and fly away to find out more.
Project Nimby - Unlocking the Prophesy of Sand
Jel is funded by religious digital intelligences hoping to unlock the ancient prophesies of the mythical first sapeint Sandor on an ancient Lunar data center.
Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 1 - In Which Timmy Learns What a Swirly Is
Chapter 1 of the book in which a young Timmy learns that his name isn't Timmy; that he has strange latent abilities he can't use and doesnt understand and thanks to a disgusting and tramautic experie…