Substacks recommended by Jan Lionsnest

Recommended by Jan Lionsnest

The World as We See It. Satire Delivered to Over 1 Trillion Subscribers!

Rediscovered Realms newsletter reconnects you with old-school heroic fantasy worlds of epic role-playing games, unearthed magazines, forgotten gamebooks and enchanting art.

Celebrates old school fantasy in a fun (and less-filling) way.

- Jan Lionsnest

End of the Bench

By End Of The Bench Sports

The fakest news in sports.

Sports were better when everyone died.

- Jan Lionsnest

The Mother Faulkner

Daily Literary Satire: Fake Literature News, Clickbait, and Yellow Journalism

Honesty is the Best Probably

By John Bluff

In this newsletter I share embarrassing stories of personal failure. Someday I hope to run out of them.

The King is the best. But perhaps honesty is a close second.

- Jan Lionsnest

Ballads of the Distant Reaches

Ballads of the Distant Reaches is an anthology of illustrated fantasy short stories.

Absorb thy mind in ye olde fantasy from the reaches beyond.

- Jan Lionsnest

The Gargoyle

By Rian Casey Cork

Weekly newsletter exploring themes of authenticity, creativity, and curiosity.

Rian is a fine writer, and a friend and contributor to Ye Olde Tyme News. Thou shan’t regret reading The Gargoyle.

- Jan Lionsnest

The Laughing Gallows

By Jim Hodgson

The finest comedy ever written about the worst time to be a comedy writer.

Dost thou enjoy laughing and/or being sent to the gallows? If so, then Jim's publickation may be for thee!

- Jan Lionsnest

Fictionistas

By Jackie Dana

A collaborative community for fiction writers on Substack

Ierbosofii

By Tibi Codorean

Filosofii la firul ierbii, speculații existențiale, povești scurte și umor în diverse forme de agregare (dar majoritatea scrise). Pe scurt: posibil cel mai amuzant newsletter la care te poți abona și gratis, și pe bani.

Unfortunately, I don’t speak Romanian.

- Jan Lionsnest

Duffel Blog

By Paul Szoldra

America’s Most Trusted Military News. “They’ve made a lot of fun of me and I’ve enjoyed every bit of it.”—Secretary of Defense Mattis

Ye military's fynest news source. King-approved.

- Jan Lionsnest

Situation Normal

By Michael Estrin

Stories for people who enjoy humor with a side of humanity and a dash of insight

Jocular observations from a humorous fellow. Always makes The King chortle.

- Jan Lionsnest

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Mere words cannot describe, but The King doth approve.

- Jan Lionsnest

The Onion: 20 Years Later

By James daSilva

A weekly review of The Onion from exactly 20 years ago to laugh, see what holds up and revisit pop culture references we forgot about.

Great half-fortnightly analysis of each issue of the Onion from onescore years past. King approved!

- Jan Lionsnest

The Chatner

By Daniel Lavery

A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.

“My wife left me for a scribe last week. Says she can’t resist a man in cuneiform.”

- Jan Lionsnest