It's a shame there are no creatures on Arena with a mana value of 360 for Ornate Imitations to conjure!

Tiles from the Università station on the Naples metro with cool tech words like "shareware" on

The trains being half the length of the platform thing is the same as Naples, which is tough if you've spent years building a habit of walking as far away from the entrance as you can when getting onto the platform. It does have a station with cool tech words on the walls, though.

These may not be considered classics, but these covers excited me so much when I was a child and my comic collection began with a pile of my dad's old comics.

Ah the Space Crusade ork! A classic! I still have unpainted and half-painted ones of them!

I was going to say this - I think it was conceived of in design, removed, and then put back in during development

I'd naturally go for the spiced potato and cheese but I'm not an experienced enough drafter to know if that's likely to wheel

It was up there with the 45 seconds of Fouracres from the first episode for me. It obviously wouldn't be practical for every sketch to be like that, but I'm glad they're finding spaces for them.

That Helen Birch sketch on #snluk had a timeless* feel to it and I loved it.
*I could have seen something like it in the 90s and I mean that very positively

I'm still enjoying #snluk but I want the swearing back

The figure depicted on the Paracas pottery bowl is typically interpreted as a supernatural or anthropomorphic "flying figure". These figures are common motifs in Paracas art and are believed to represent beings from an otherworldly or supernatural realm. The figure combines human-like traits with other features, such as claws and a three-point mouth. The way the figures are oriented on the bowl suggests they are flying or moving through a different realm, possibly related to the mountains which were considered a supernatural area. Similar figures in Paracas and the related Nasca culture often appear alongside other mythical beings and sometimes incorporate elements like "trophy heads," suggesting a connection to ritual and agricultural abundance beliefs. Paracas art, in general, reflects the culture's deep investment in the afterlife and their dependence on the natural world and agricultural cycles, with these figures likely playing a role in their cosmology and rituals.

Jar with Anthropomorphic Figure
ceramic with resinous postfire paint
650–150 BCE
Paracas
Ocucaje area, Ica Valley, south coast, Peru

#handmade #art #culture #religion #paracas #peru #flyingfigure #afterlife #spiritual #fertility #agriculture #ancientart #ancientpottery #precolumubian #prehispanic

It can't have been that bad if they felt comfortable taking the time to count them

For any given sport, people should only be able to support the team closest to their house. No, you can't move away from your hometown for work and continue to support your old team. If you liked them that much you wouldn't have moved. This should somehow be enshrined in law, maybe international law

I don't agree with this in the slightest but I liked it because it fit the "bad" part of the brief so well

This made me laugh a lot more than perhaps it should have

This is solid gold

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

It is genuinely abhorrent that a major festival would choose to book a headliner who released "Heil Hitler" *less than a year ago*.

The muted outcry to it is truly chilling, too. We are deep into an antisemitism crisis that too many people want to ignore or deny.

Yes but those shiny black jackets weren't as ubiquitous

I had honestly barely thought about Gary Larson for years before coming across that account

I agree, and that's why I would rather they went "we'll let some of the zillion other people who've been Avengers do it for a bit" than "we're tired let's close the team for a bit", but obviously the former doesn't fit with Marvel wanting everything to be a mega event.

I think with things like Swamp Thing and Doom Patrol that makes sense, but every new creative team on titles like Avengers requiring a gap and new issue 1 is silly.

I don't spend much of my life jumping, but if I could do a double jump like in a platform game I'd be like 21 Jump Street, which I think is about jumping

See also the Human League in 1995

The Player (film cover)

Making a note of that url

The Defectors Episode 1 YouTube video by McWoof Films

Here's a thing I am in
youtu.be/BUQAfEi7BSo?...

I'd be gutted if that were a secret because I'd genuinely like to watch it

I'm amazed the independent is so high though

45 seconds with Fouracre was an unexpected blinder. I agree with you about the highs, and I probably laughed most at Undérage, but 45 seconds with Fouracre was so wonderfully specific.

Much better than I thought it would be! It had a much higher floor than I anticipated and the ceiling was genuinely high