I hadn’t thought of this for probably 40 years and those neurons just woke up to remember the lyrics.

I cannot for the life of me remember what our MUDD was, but I still remember our local BBS because it was called the Forbidden Playground. It was not some weird sex thing, just your normal early 90s BBS but that didn’t stop my mother from losing her mind when she saw the ASCII title banner though.

The first picture I downloaded was a monochrome Batman logo bmp. A few years later someone found a 16 color one of Jenny McCarthy topless from Playboy and spent all night downloading it. We all had to stop by his house on the walk to school to check it out.

Edit It was MajorMud. I found a relatively recent article where a guy researched the BBS some.

More bleak than the Chain of Dogs, the Children of the Dead Seed, Beak’s candles, The Snake?!

I have had Bakker on my radar but I have to be in the right mood for fantasy.

I feel like this might be a terrible suggestion to start with. It has ruined fantasy for me. Nothing else I’ve found has come close, the worlds feel half baked, the stories mediocre, the characters forgettable, the scale a fraction of Malazan’s.

Erickson can get me more attached to a throwaway character that is introduced and killed off in a handful of pages than some authors can to their main character.