S.E.Clark

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

"We believe that the president is not a monarch...We believe he has no more business dispatching troops to Portland or Chicago or Los Angeles than King George had dispatching troops to Lexington. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

@bsky.app you've got a call !

Bonjour à tous ! 🙏
#Mood

C'est Lundi.......

“Bittersweet Season”, 40x30, acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas.

Pinkish pelican putting its beak around someone’s shoe

My feed is full of depressing and serious things, but there IS still beauty and fun in the world, so here’s a pelican in St James’s Park gently trying to filch @davidho.bsky.social ‘s shoe. It decided it wasn’t worth it and solemnly set about collecting leaves in its beak to make a nest on a bench.

sublime

Important for writers whose books have been used without permission for AI training--this is the class action lawsuit against Anthropic. Find your books in the LibGen database, and fill out the form on the law firm's website.

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds” In 1983, Octavia E. Butler published “Speech Sounds” in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, a short story that would win her her first Hugo Award a year later. Written, as Butler put it in the…

Aaron Boehmer examines the hope in human connection and Octavia Butler’s “speech sounds.”

John Martin's front piece for Thomas Hawkins' Book of the Great Sea Dragons

Tellings Issue six: short fiction by S. E. Clark

So happy to announce my short story "Tellings" has found a home at The Orange & Bee! Thank you to the editors for choosing to include my little tale of tales in your enchanting publication. If you're interested in reading, find it here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/tellings

Another summer session of Hawking filming in the can! We are blessed to work with the most fun, talented, and dynamic cast you could imagine-- thanks to our amazing cast and crew for making this dream a reality!

Photo by Kim Dauber.

#bts #slimetutorial #victorian #steampunk #superhero #proshot

Losing Control How tech became impossible to understand, and thus, impossible to control.

My latest newsletter is about the tech industry's desire for control over their customers, and how that, in turn, leads into worse products that are harder to understand.

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Here's how you can reach the Trevor Project without the national number: www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

Mrs. Hawking by Phoebe Roberts and Bernie Gabin Videos relating to Mrs. Hawking, the new steampunk series of plays by Boston-area writers Phoebe Roberts and Bernie Gabin. Discover the high-action superhero caper of what Sherlock Holmes would be lik...

We are so close to 500 subscribers on the Mrs. Hawking Youtube! Will you give us a follow to help us get over the line?
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#mrshawking #slimetutorial #victorian #victorianhistory #steampunk #superhero #superheroshow #jacktheripper #newplay #costuming #proshot #19thcentury

a little joy

Probably the hardest image of scientific malpractice ever captured. Archeologist Manuel Esteve Guerrero rocking a freshly discovered hoplite helmet.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

Black square with green, yellow, and white text that reads "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -- Suffering the Other -- A weird fiction anthology to benefit Transgender Law Center and RAICES -- Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan -- Seeking original and reprint dark speculative fiction about out-groups and the effects of prejudice and persecution -- Submission window: March 30 - May 30, 2025 -- See DimShores.com for full submission guidelines." The Dim Shores logo in white appears after the txt at the bottom of the graphic.

Please share: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Really excited to be doing another book with @mrsteeleyogirl.bsky.social, especially one that feels so very necessary right now. Send us your on-topic speculative fiction stories and let's raise some money for transgenderlawcenter.org and raicestexas.org!

Photograph of ghost pipe, Monotropa uniflora, growing out of the decomposing leaf matter of a forest. The ghost pipe are a bone-white color, starkly contrasting the dark brown leaves in the background.

Monotropa uniflora, or ghost pipe, a strange little plant that often grows in shady forest underbrush and decaying leaves. I distinctly remember the smell of their environment; musky, earthy, and pungent with rain from an unusually wet spring.

#photography #naturephotography #📸 #flowers #ghostpipe

Yes! A pollen-collecting floof.

And so the great blooming starts--soon the sound of bees will drone in the air, the warm hand of the sun will rest against the small of your back as you press seeds into the earth, a promise to tomorrow.

#📸 #photography #flowers #naturephotography #spring

An American Robin stands in a field of green grass, the spring sun catching the feathers of its blazing orange chest

The birds return; a flash of an orange breast, signaling the arrival of spring.

#photography #birds #americanrobin ##naturephotography

🏳️‍⚧️ The U.S. Senate rejected a GOP-led bill barring trans women and girls from school sports, preventing invasive scrutiny of all female athletes. Every kid deserves to play. #TransRights

The Fiction of Peace, the Fantasy of War - from Fantasy Magazine issue 66, by C.L. Clark

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It's around this month I start thinking about spring, how the air will soon be filled with the perfume of lilacs, so strong the scent will near knock you over.

#photography #flowers #naturephotography #macrophotography #📸

Double-sided cards with QR codes linking to info about our screening at #Boskone this month!
Catch GILDED CAGES at 2:30pm and MRS. FROST at 4pm on Sat 2/15 in Harbor 1 as part of Boskone 62 at the Boston Westin Waterfront!

#mrshawking #slimetutorial #proshot #victorian #steampunk #superhero