we all know I have no life, so:
Posts by Aaron Smithies
a 19th century advert fro Quaker Oats that has been appallingly defaced so it now advertises Wyrd Science
it's true!
shop.wyrd.science
I left my home near Clitheroe to look for work and I'm so homesick. I was looking for a job and then I found a job and, heavens knows, I miss Ribble now.
Why demand a pope be tough on crime when we already have The Bishop?
youtu.be/iqgaX_skm8w?...
Stref
BBC archive is great
Not just a great magazine but a proven antidote to algorithmic slop
It would be great to shift, let’s say, around 1000 more copies of this over the next 2 weeks so we can hire more people and make even better magazines in future (or just not lose money for once & be able to make any more at all 🤷♂️)
Snapped one up!
A paper by an author called AA Aharon
the Key & Peele substitute teacher sketch
the cover to the new issue of Wyrd Science, featuring an illustration of psychedelic mushrooms growing out of a pink skull by tom j newell
what if we put issue 8 of Wyrd Science on sale? What if this got more likes & shares than our stupid jokes?
featuring Dolmenwood, Blades In The Dark, Doomsong, Kamping Kitbash, Lee Gold, The Old King's Crown, weird fiction, aggro comics, dungeon synth & lots more
shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
Never thought I'd see The Heckler collected but here we are. What a wonderful treat!
Kevin Maguire cover for THE DC UNIVERSE BY KEITH GIFFEN
Hell yeah, amzn.to/4bLt3RG
Just-released photo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the live-action Moana
We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.
a framed painting of a shadowy figure standing in a doorway. they’ve got a big ass head and arm but a small boxy body
i don’t like this painting in my hotel
I live in the Dune universe but I'm somewhere else when all that stuff is going on. I have a job and a mortgage. Sometimes I rub synthetic Spice cream on my wrists when they get achey. A Harkonnen once killed three of my cousins with a spear
Comrade(s), I've been trying to think of ways to keep writing (for sanity) while I find freelance work, so I've made a newsletter and spent ages making it look shit. 1st article is up and it's about Nioh 3. Welcome to the gutter.
thegutter.ghost.io
the one weird trick I've found to selling stuff is that you have to explicitly say, 'hey, want to buy our stuff?' like every day until the heat death of the universe
which sucks but it is what it is, so hey, why not buy a magazine today!
A very round, stylised hedgehog sculpture
Neolithic hedgehog sculpture
Illustration of a shouting young man.
This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
White Dwarf's first #WFRP cover was WD82 (October 1986).
One of my favourite facts about Fargo is Kristen Rudrüd who played Jean Lundergaard is the only cast member actually from actual Fargo.
holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff
It is, and it basically has nothing to do with the TV show other than it's about a stuntman. Written by Drew Pearce, creator of ITV2's No Heroics back in the day.