spudWorks began life as the personal writing website of Colin Andrew Ferm. An archive of those “stories” and essays can still be found here. It’s been helpfully archived and the design has been lovingly recreated.
Today it is hopefully more. Today spudWorks should be a site that talks a little more about culture, what’s on TV, what’s in the movies, with a special interest in science-fiction specifically. Additionally, as our founder has gotten older, he’s also regressed and has returned to painting miniatures and playing war games with them. So there will be a special focus on that and the worlds in which they inhabit.
Hopefully it’s interesting to someone. After all, who launches a new website in 2026? But, fuck it. We’re stranded in Hamburg, Germany and don’t have a whole lot else to do.
Use of AI
This site makes heavy usage of AI. We used it to create the theme on which this site runs, we use it to create comic versions of our gangs, and we use it to illustrate our fiction.
Arguments can be made that using AI denies real artist work. But that argument assumes a budget for artwork that doesn’t exist. This site subsists on the income of its founder, the work he’s willing to put into it, and the AI budget he already has. Assuming there was ever a real artist job with this site was always a fallacy. No one is put out of work by our use of AI. There was never a job in the first place.
If you don’t like our AI policies, our content, or our view on the hobby, we politely invite you to leave.