Greetings!
I'm so glad you've found your way to my little corner of the internet! This website is still very much a work in progress, and probably always will be, but my plan is for it to be a way to consolidate all of my writings, projects, and personal nonsense to a single centralized place so that if [insert platform here] goes tits-up, I don't lose everything I've ever done.
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- Ollie
Site last updated 2.5.2026
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On Wizardry, Books, and Memories
10 October 2026
Like many other millennials, I got REALLY into fantasy when I was about nine or ten. I won’t directly mention why, except to say that if you were a millennial of a certain age you almost certainly were swept up in that particular cultural zeitgeist, but part of the result of that was that you could have slapped a “fans of [that series] will LOVE this book!” sticker on the German language manual for a 1972 Volkswagen Superbeetle and I would have read it. 90% of them had little or nothing in common with said series except for the genre (in the loosest sense possible), but that was kind of my gateway. See More
Latest Writing
patience my brother (and patience my friend)
Chapter 37: Chance the Moon
Posted on 12 October 2026
It was a shame it was November. Jon sort of would have liked to wear short sleeves. He’d considered wearing them under his jacket, but one look at the bare limbs of the tree in the garden flailing in the wind and he’d known that would be a terrible idea. Instead, he’d donned his university jumper—as much to make a point, if necessary, as to keep himself warm—and settled the wool flat cap that had once been Edmond’s onto his head before venturing out into the streets. Continue