When I ate meat they were always more exciting in principle than reality. Like so much other meat tbh.
They were really an excuse to enjoy the gelatine tbh. And they were only *really* good with pickle in them.
Two black cats half-cuddling on some blankets. They are both looking slightly away from one another, thoughtfully
When you can't decide whether to groom your sister or punch her in the face.
Love? Or violence? The eternal dichotomy of Cat.
pen on paper drawings of the ammonites Diplomoceras, Nipponites, Mariella and Hypoturrilites. Drawings are simple pen outlines with grayish shading.
heteromoprh ammonite sketches! trying out new brush pens and gray pens to practice for new painting.
based heavily on art by Satoshi Utsunomiya
Add to this, of course, the 100s of previously employed academics who are now out of work or whose jobs are at risk and the 100s of academics in fixed term positions trying to find permanent roles.
Did you know that I have a Ko-Fi Shop? Where you can buy all my self-published collections, novelettes and novellas?
Well, now you do!
Horror short stories, dark fantasies, medieval shenanigans and more!
#booksky 📚💙
I deliver a friend
Transparent version for all your nonbinary invert needs.
Yep, definitely AI - the signs are mostly gibberish
As one of those admins... this is appreciated. 🫡
Featuring:
Old Habits Die Hard
12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint.
Featuring:
- heists
- monks
- demons
- demon monks
- relic cults
- battle trauma
#booksky 📚💙
Anyone know of any UK-based pixel art animators looking for freelance work this year? Asking on behalf of a friend's project!
I have a few but they include:
Tampopo
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Pacific Rim
The Green Man
Willy's Wonderland
Whisper of the Heart
The segue was like if Sinners got to Rocky Road To Dublin then had close-ups of every character's mutilated genitals for no reason
Bonus points for the time the cis director name-searched to explain to upset trans women why his film wasn't transphobic.
All You Need Is Death could have been a fun horror about cursed folk music but halfway through just drops all the good bits to randomly pivot into transphobic tropes that had nothing to do with the first half of the film.
I worked out Ari Aster was an ableist back after "autism is demons" in Hereditary and everything I have heard about his other work has vindicated me.
screenshot of google doc that says the following: Trans Metal Comp; Hi!! We're putting together a compilation album comprised of metal tracks composed by trans musicians and are currently seeking submissions! The album will be released on Bandcamp on June 26th and all sales will go directly towards individual trans folks' fundraising campaigns. We had initially planned on donating to an organization, but the fact of the matter is that right now, trans people need money, and the best way to help is by giving directly. We will be as transparent as possible with where the money goes and boost who we can. If that sounds good to you, read the guidelines below and come headbang along with us! \m/ ALL subgenres of metal permitted. Power metal, deathcore, crossover thrash; as long as it's some flavor of metal or has clear metal crossover influence to it, we'll likely accept it. Whether or not specific submissions are accepted is at the sole discretion of the organizers. If we end up not using your work for any reason, don't feel discouraged! It likely just didn't fit the vibe we're going for. NO tracks made with or containing anything regurgitated by "generative" AI NO Nazi shit. If you're trans and also a Nazi for some fuckass reason, look elsewhere. And get your damn life together. NO cis-led solo acts. If your band or project has cis people involved, that's fine!! As long as at least one member is trans and plays an active role in the performance and/or songwriting, feel free to submit. Up to TWO tracks per artist; up to two songs under the same name will be accepted. If you have or are involved with multiple projects, as long as they're distinct from each other and under different names, feel free to submit up to two tracks for each. You must own the rights to the music you submit; any tracks submitted must be owned by you or with the permission of whoever does, and you must personally be involved in the track in either its composition, performance on the recording, or…
are you:
trans?
a metal musician?
want to contribute to a compilation album that will raise money directly for trans people in need?
then what the fuck are you waiting for?? get in the pit!!
forms.gle/dhtLGhurrwQs...
And I believe a census of Picts (as far as we have sources for them) would descend into a list of people called Bridei
A brown goose with greyish-pink feet, a black and beige marbled pattern on its head, and white underside. Its beak is orange with a slightly hooked black tip.
Behold this friend.
Yeah, it sucks. The bigger the charity/advocacy organisation, the closer they want to be to where money and power are, the likelier they are to consider "inconvenient" minorities and issues less of a priority is a pattern I've seen in a couple of sectors. Sadly.
Morning Womble! I'm reading a collection of W Somerset Maugham short stories and really enjoying the messy slices of life.
I've known trans employees at Stonewall (who are no longer there) and from what I've heard from them I can't say I'm surprised at a stance like this from Stonewall.
I also had Cadfael to blame but that was a less common one (and one only apparently relevant to medievalists who were raised Catholic. Based on my sample of two people)
Probably, based on the undergrads in years below me, LOTR and BBC's Merlin also had a lot to answer for.
I read a lot of Redwall. I went on to do medieval studies. Now I read a mix of mostly horror, some SFF, and classics and am getting into litfic.
We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!
Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!
I still remember the panic of realising I'd been confusing two or three different yet related Haralds in a 3 hour exam with 10 minutes to go.
On my undergrad there was a running joke that every single noblewoman in England between 900-1066 was called Ælfgifu.
See also Medieval Scandinavia. So many Ólafrs and Haraldrs.
I put so many hours into Golden Sun as a kid, but in hindsight the game was not as good as it could have been
Three hours into Octopath Traveller 0 and it's really scratching an itch.
The itch being "what if I could play Golden Sun from the beginning again, but it was good"
