A drawing of Test Card F, with a girl and a toy clown and a blackboard

The wrestlers Kerry and David Von Erich, a drawing

A life drawing of a woman lying face down on a mattress, red and black pencil

A semi monoprint drawing of a monkey, grey, friendly looking

Hello I am Chloe I’m an artist, I sell my original work online. I realise not everyone can afford art but if you like my work perhaps share these kinds of posts, it helps me. There are a few different galleries to browse on my website.

www.chloecumming.com

Such a good album this. First CD, as in not a tape or record, I ever bought.

A black and white drawing of a man with his face set into his chest. A bird's head and neck extends from where his head should be. He also has lil' wings like a wee Cupid-fella.

Plate from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, '𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘪 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪 𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪' (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, circa 1585).

#WyrdWednesday

A terrible form of matter grew in the water when I tried this. I was trying to regrow a whole onion from about a cm though.

Here's a link to my Collected short fiction book out through @shoreinf.bsky.social. I'll be launching the book at Satellite 9 on May 24th 😎

www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

The Passage to Eternity by Gabriel Jurkić, 1918

a figure in white, with a sort of pointy hat and huge white wings, standing in a green forest

woodwose, by lara cobden

Seems a somewhat lenient penalty for skipping a hole.

And now someone has seen a big cat on the golf course and decided to skip the tenth hole and take a four shot penalty rather than go near it.

Ah, The Gospel of Mustaine.

From Merrily Harpur's Mystery Big Cats.

There's a brilliant anecdote about an escaped lion jumping in the back of a copper's car from nowhere and him calmly driving back to the nick with it. Said his daughter used to fall asleep in the back so thought the lion might do the same. Turned out it was trained to jump in cars to be transported.

My friend and I saw a big cat on Exmoor in 1982 | Letter Letter: Steve Jones responds to Max Lury’s report of seeing a big cat on Dartmoor as a child, and not being believed

Currently reading Merrily Harpur's Mystery Big Cats and I'm struck by how many ABC sightings have multiple witnesses. Yet the evidence for them being physical is scant and not as should be expected. Interesting one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Episode 149 - Gavin Miller - Scotland's history with UFOs Podcast Episode · Some Other Sphere · 15 April · 1hr 14min

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 149 - Gavin Miller - Scotland's history with UFOs @drgavinmiller.bsky.social #podcast #paranormal #UFOs #Scotland #Ufology #wyrdwednesday

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youtu.be/lVyZPwJwQpM?... - from 6.47 until the drums come in at 7.21 - Force Majeure indeed!

Such a good book.

I made a doc with some resources for learning about the Trickster

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What are everyone's favorite books/papers of lit theory/narratology/rhetoric/poetics/etc? Asking for a friend who's an autodidact in this area and in a rut and running up against the limits of his knowledge and in constant danger of reinventing the wheel.

ah man that had me laughing. Brilliant. When I got to that ending I thought this would make a perfect viz strip too. Something about the comic timing. Great stuff.

Joe - a dinosaur theme park flash story with hotdogs. Now I don’t normally do this, share short stories on here, but now I’ve got 179 subscribers - I know!

And here’s Joe - a dinosaur theme park flash story with hotdogs.

Give it a go. It comes with or without mayo. And has plenty of dinosaurs.

#ShortStories

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Viz 355

1.45 is no time to wake up.

Sorry I missed your call, I was wandering around

Cheers. That's very true. There's lots more going on now. esp the writing. Like you, I think I need that first thing out there to build on.

Music wise I've made nothing for ages. I'm still playing the piano though. Prob best thing i've done for myself going back to that.
I've managed over a year off the booze too. So there's that. It hasn't really lifted any veil though.

I'm sure it will!
My writing has been pretty polar. Periods of high productivity periods of nothing. Got a few new stories down that I'm happy with tho. Some submitted. One nice rejection. And tying up all the last fiddly bits for my self-pub novel. Not fun. Although I enjoy typesetting apparently 🤷‍♂️

I mean your 'collection' 🤦‍♂️

I hope things go well for you 🤞 Good to hear your daemon is still prodding you to write though. It all builds up. I'd be struggling in your situation. Sounds tough. Sometimes breaks help my unconscious sort writing stuff out, but sounds like yours is busy. I also really want your anthology!

I went camping once and there was a couple at the site who had brought their electric bass guitars along. I would hear them each morning on the way to the toilet having an unamplified slap bass jam inside their tent. It's hard to imagine a happier couple.

Painting in a bold, graphic style of a lemon yellow room with white door to the left, window to the right and fireplace in the centre, beneath the floorboards ears, eyes, scissors and noses grow from black roots or tentacles

Painting created c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us.
Image from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides. The original is presumed lost