whom shall I speak today? Brothers are mean, The friends of today do not love. To whom shall I speak today? Hearts are greedy, Everyone robs his comrade's goods. To whom shall I speak today? Kindness has perished, Insolence assaults everyone. -"A Dialogue Between Self and Soul," Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1991-1778 BC

Incredible piece of Ancient Egyptian Literature
#booksky 💙📚

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King and Witch Child by Celia Rees, followed very closely by Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George.

Gen Z and Gen Alpha will only read the footnotes and the blurb at most 👀🤣

You get to have dinner with four authors of times past. Who do you pick?

I'm absolutely having dinner with my homie Tolkien, CS Lewis, Anne Brontë and George Orwell.

You?

[ #booksky ]

Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley and Voltaire. 😊

It's horrendous in the UK too, post Brexit we have no opportunities at all and any work that links with my qualifications and experience... I get told "you're overqualified" 🙄 Want funding for any sort of business? You have to sit in a room with several ageing relics only to be told, no. 😂

The only bad story, is the one that isn't written.

Even that one you crumpled into a paper ball and tossed into the bin.

#writersky #authorsky #amwriting #writing #author #advice #inspiration #motivation #wordsmith #writingadvice

Oh hi, the northeast exists too.
Newcastle - Labour stronghold, Durham voted Reform and deeply regret it. Maybe do some outreach here? 👀

I agree!
Maybe we should either go back to the days of bartering goods/services instead of cash, or, collectively buy a large island and build something new where the current bullcrap system doesn't exist.

Cartoons from that era aged like fine wine! (Sadly).

And Starmer kisses his piss-filled wellies behind closed doors, what president Turnip wants, salacious plum does. Please can other leaders/politicians call him out too?!

Typhon, no question. 👀

The trouble with Newcastle is, that it's been a Labour stronghold for decades and it's the same two age groups that continue to vote for them despite the mess Blair made, 14 years of Tory neglect and now Starmer thinking England ends at Manchester.

You're missing Boris Johnson and Starmer in that cartoon.

How about the US in any sense stays away from Europe... Until you sort your own corrupt, evil, horse shit filled cesspool out, including your human rights violations, you've got no business bleating on about democracy and corruption. (See Nvidia, Trump, Palantir et al.)

I had the same experience with stag/deer/snake images and signs for a while, turns out Cernunnos was reaching out, been working with him ever since. 🙂

As someone who owned a (very) chunky cat, agreed 🤣

I saw cats and norse-inspired, and that instantly had me sold 👀😁

In a 1991 documentary that Trump suppressed, Christopher Reeve comments on Donald Trump:

"𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥."

Don't forget the northeast exists! Labour and Conservative have made that mistake for decades.

If that pattern continues, I hope Newcastle holds a secession referendum to become part of Scotland instead.

Just got my final rejection letter from the queries I sent out and honestly?? I’m so glad I decided to do self-publishing. Querying is a humiliation ritual 😬

I will succeed because I’m insane, not because some stranger decided I was worth their time

Can we get Corel Paintshop Pro 2022/23 compatibility? If that happened it would really give more share to Linux and as a creative that refuses to use Adobe in any sense, it needs to happen! 😊

Your art style I'm amazing! I love seeing your work every time you post 😁.

Let people enjoy things.
The only place in society that should be age capped, is politics.
After the last thirty years, I think we have proof that the older one gets, the less in touch with the world/reality one is. Just take a look at our recent/current "leaders".

The way Adobe will not take no for an answer when it comes to AI. Like LEAVE ME ALONE I SAID NO!

Are we going to end the apparently "special relationship" with the USA?
Because let's face it, Iraq - needless death, 2016 election - no probe or investigation into hacking/involvement and recently - "we're not getting involved in the US tantrum in Iran (but we did". 😑

The way I see it, is only pigs eat slop. The difference between AI shills and pigs, is that pigs can still think for themselves (and they're cleaner).

Your biggest brick wall is the north-east. Newcastle has consistently voted Labour for more than 50 years, Durham are a Reform cesspool and Sunderland thinks the check marks on the ballot card are a multiple choice questionnaire.