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This made me guffaw

The image shows the cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley. The design is part of the “British Library Tales of the Weird” series. The cover features a striking blue illustration of a large anchor descending into swirling ocean depths, with ghostly tendrils or seaweed coiling around it, suggesting something eerie or supernatural beneath the waves. The background is dark, almost black, creating a strong contrast with the vivid blue artwork. The text is printed in a white serif font at the top and bottom of the cover.

The image shows the back cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series. The background is dark, with white and blue text. The top section reads “WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIKE ASHLEY” in blue uppercase letters. Below is a blurb describing the book: it speaks of “choppy waves,” “the choking darkness of the abyss,” and “tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown.” The summary highlights eerie sea stories — sailors facing nightmares from the deep, a tormented U-boat commander, a ship trapped in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea, and supernatural revenge. Further down, a paragraph introduces editor Mike Ashley, describing him as the author and editor of over a hundred books and a leading historian of popular fiction, with notable works including Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers. At the bottom left, the cover design is credited to Mauricio Villamayor and the illustration to Enrique Bernardou. The price (£10.99), social media details for the British Library (@BL_Publishing), ISBN (978-0-7123-5236-9), and a British Library logo are also visible near the barcode.

I have just read a genuinely terrifying short story from this book and am half way through another one. I made a good pick choosing this. (The short story was The Ship of Silence by Albert R. Wetjen)

oh mate some of her love poetry is so steamy! *fans*
They did us dirty!

My dude. i implore you to read some of her love poetry that wouldn't be OK for GCSE anthologies.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56715/...

A photo shows six books laid out on a bed with a yellow and blue blanket. The top row includes Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher, The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, and The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick. The bottom row features The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea edited by Mike Ashley, and Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin. The arrangement shows a mix of fantasy, horror, historical nonfiction, and classic speculative fiction.

*dances around her room* BEHOLD today's book haul! #booksky

RIPD?

A person with short brown hair is smiling softly at the camera. They are wearing bold, round glasses with dark frames and gold accents, red lipstick, and sparkly pink eye makeup. They have a nose ring and a decorative septum piercing. Their shirt is white with a colorful, whimsical print featuring mushrooms and fruit. The background shows a textured cream wall and a hint of a yellow cushion.

Happy Monday lovely people!

ICE Barbie is such lazy casual sexism and not needed here at all. There's plenty to criticise about Noem and her statements without denigrating her because of her LOOKS. Lazy, offensive journalism.

YouTube video by KEXP The Decemberists - All I Want Is You (Live on KEXP)

Day 13 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic
A song from the last album you bought

The Decemberists - All I Want Is You

youtu.be/YzZEtLUaQpk?...

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

bitch what

That looks like Chris Morris

Image of the head and partial shoulders of a woman wearing green cats eye glasses, with their septum and both nostrils pierced and wearing cyan lipstick

Morning all! It's 8.30, I'm up and ready and this lipstick fucking slaps!

YouTube video by Ren Ren X Chinchilla - How To Be Me (Live)

Day 12 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic
How, why or which in the title

Ren x Chinchilla - How to Be Me

youtu.be/SDR7sup3DsU?...

The image shows a man wearing a dark suit and shirt, grimacing with his teeth clenched. He is pointing emphatically downward with his right hand, his arm bent at the elbow. Behind him is a blue-lit wall with a grid pattern. At the bottom of the image, bold white text reads: “He’s doonstairs.” The overall tone of the image is comedic and emphatic.

Ian Watkins

The image shows a page from The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. The visible text reads: ⸻ THE PENELOPIAD Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money. ⸻ The page has a cream background with serif text, photographed in warm lighting.

'We're no more real than money '
Wow, what a banger of a quote this is from Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad

~ Aftermath President Obama reduced the number of United States Army soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but expanded the use of unmanned air-strikes on these countries, as well as Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia. '12] In 2016, President Obama joked in an interview with Stephen Colbert that even he didn't know why he had received the award.!!13] Analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that the United States Army dropped 79 per cent of all 30,743 coalition bombs in 2016. Obama has been at war for longer than any other president in US history. 14] The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. "Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for." [115]

giving the nobel peace prize to someone who approved of indiscriminate military strikes on civilians is an indelible stain on the award.

but enough about Barack Obama,,

This remains one of my all time favourite pieces of writing.

HAHAHA this is perfect

Re-listening to The Book of Dust - The Secret Commonwealth in preparation for the final book of the series and my GOD do I live Michael Sheen

YouTube video by Sub Pop Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Day 11 of #DavesMonthOfMusic
A song with a non-primary colour/shade in the title

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

youtu.be/DrQRS40OKNE?...

oh this is an absolute banger. Best Jamiraquai song. Safe. #totp

Dame Bowers is probably the worst at lipsyncing out of any band I've seen perform on #totp but I appreciate the throwback to a band I'd also almost repressed

I love hippie I can date this episode by the outfits as much as the music #totp

If absolutely forgotten that Peter Andre had released more than one song. I think that was repression. #totp

I'mma have to do it for you... have fun!

Oh what ever happened to Mya? #totp

The image shows five books laid out on a mustard-yellow bedspread patterned with white flowers and dark grey leaves. The books are: 1. A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson – features a dragon in flight on a blue and gold cover, with the tagline “Every fire starts with a single spark.” 2. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood – a striking red cover with black silhouettes of birds in flight. 3. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler – a cream cover with an illustration of a woman in a red dress and headwrap surrounded by falling red leaves. 4. Queen B by Juno Dawson – a black cover with a neon pink and yellow design showing a woman in Tudor-style attire framed by ornate gothic patterns and a pentagram, with the subtitle “Bow Down Witches.” 5. The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez – a vibrant cover featuring a stylised black-and-white photo of a woman with rainbow-coloured streams flowing from her mouth, against a striped pink, purple, and orange background.

BEHOLD my recent book haul! a masterclass of feminist speculative fiction if I do say so myself... #booksky

Oh they most definitely will that! I've only just clocked that you're the artist! Congratulations on a fantastic album!

Well I'm 5 tracks in and I love it! Doesn't hurt that I was a sucker for a bit of dub in my youth