Nick Brett.

Have a spoilt snail with bonus isopods. They're all really into sweet potato!

Reduced curtains, label says the reason is “Deranged”

I don’t know if I want to buy the deranged curtains, even at a discount

I am so excited about this book. It's just a wild fun ride all the way through and I think, hope, people will love Irody.

No one even dies!*

*Some people may die.

torbooksuk: We are thrilled to reveal the cover for RJ Barker's vividly-imagined fantasy, Mortedant's Peril! Irody can speak to the dead. But the living want him silenced. Mortedants can speak to the dead, and Irody Hasp is the greatest of them. Not that they'll admit it. Or that anyone actually likes the Mortedants, in particularly Irody. Nonetheless, Elbay is a city of tradition and it calls for Mortedants to attend a death. But when Irody reads a clerk's corpse, he uncovers a vast conspiracy which sees him framed for the murder of those closest to him. With the eyes of Elbay's nobles, guilds, and villains all turned his way, his execution is only days away. So Irody must work with unwanted allies: a street urchin and a hulking, inhuman mercenary. With danger lurking and trust aluxury, Irody must save himself, hnis friends and Elbay - the terrifying, complicated city he loves. Or darkness wlill fall on them all. Out 21st May 2026. Pre-order now!

Lastly the blurb from TOR.UK.

Same as the previous post but presented as a book. This time the font has more of a 1930s feel.

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit.

I love them both.

Between two towers a fire burns, some crows fly. Behind them are mysterious sigils. RJ Barker and Mortedant's Peril are written in a fun kind of Tim Burtony font. At the top is the tagline, "death is the story of his life."

AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?

Yep, sorted now. Cheers!

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.

"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

At the self checkout it says "Would you like a receipt?" and if you press NO it says "Please take your receipt and bags" and it feels like that's the sort of thing that will get an indie game called "quite buggy" in Steam reviews.

My GTA6 delay opinion is that though it will obviously be brilliant I think I'd actually much rather play a fun blocky indie take on the genre that's fun and on a GTAIII-sized map and is mostly about going really fast over ramps.

Discord link on the post has expired, unfortunately~

*picture of Braelinn, with Uggs, Lululemon, and a PSL in hand*

This Woman is Your FRIEND
She Fights for FREEDOM

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism

I can't explain the freelance squirrelbrain experience better than having eight million pressing things to do, and still being instantly destroyed by learning about an incandescently angry rock from thomas the tank engine. Read the thread, abandon all focus :'D

I'm sure it's too early in the day to be cry-laughing at an aggressively vengeful boulder, and yet...

Boulder had a replica built for display at the hara model railway museum. This can be proven by the difference in the ridges between the replica and the official prop - WHO CHECKED? WHO WENT YEAH LETS CHECK IF THIS WAS MODELLED OFF THE ORIGINAL BOULDER PROP AND NOT ANY ROCK WITH A FACE. WHO CHECKED?

My friend just told me about boulder from Thomas the Tank engine and I think he might be the funniest character possible to me conceptually

Slightly sent by the idea the smaller species is surviving because it's too dark to see. Half a colony of spiders just treading heavier and lowering their voices. Desperately twanging threads, yeah I'm bloody enormous me, mate, watch out xD Four pairs of lifts each and all the hope in the world.

Rough landscape digital painting of some green cultivated fields surrounded by trees, clouds and mountains.

Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

Do try to keep struggling conservatives in your thoughts during this trying time. It's quite funny to dwell on! They're very upset. Go on, it'll cheer you up. It's hump day, treat yourself.

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

Alas, I can only dream of what a paradise New York City must be, with pizza by the slice and talking trash-can puppets. Here in grimy old London, pizzas can only be purchased whole and every single puppet is haunted.

Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.

Spoiler alert: Judging by this photo, someone dies in the new Paddington musical.

This looks like it was the first dinosaur to see the meteor coming

This is what sci-fi is afraid to depict. The struggle of getting crispy wings in low to zero gravity. The shame of leaving dots of grease everywhere as a slippy one richochets around like a saucy bullet. THE DIP. FLOATING. OUT OF REACH.

the real space race is being up there chilling having a bbq and a couple of cold ones and maybe like a sick porch