J.A. Prentice

Flagstones set loosely in a grassy hill amble down to the wall of castle ruins built of uneven stone. An opening, like the vertical slit of a cat's pupil, provides a view down to a verdant field ending in dense darker woods followed by placid water. Light glints over the surface and filters through the eyelet set in the wall bathing gold blades of wild growing grass. In that line of light, a butterfly spreads yellow and black wings wide to catch rays on one of the smaller stones on the path.

WARMING HER WINGS (2012)
Acrylic on Panel - 11" x 14"

In fall, the sun sets on the west side of our property to shine through the trees. On a humid day, the light seems suspended in the thick air, spreading against the dark shapes of the trees, fanning golden brilliance across the green lawn. 1/5

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still from Forbidden Planet of 2 soldiers approaching their flying saucer on a desolate planet

still from Silent Running of a domed forest floating in space

still from the Black Hole of a lone ship floating in the depths of space

mostly I'd want something that could get back to Star Trek's horror inflected roots without feeling too far into the stock space horror we've been populated with lately? something that evokes that vibe of "it was a lonely night in outer space"

my ideal Trek show would be about a deep space explorer ship in the vein of something like the years long polar exploration vessels from real history, sort of try and roll it back a little to TOS' "5 Year Mission" thing but with a touch more Voyager style "genuinely out of reach" vibes to it

The essay: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “From Elfland to Poughkeepsie” (1973), or how the fantasy genre was suffering from market incentives and waning intentionality in its writing. I'm not certain many contemporary publishers have read the piece.

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Cue up that stirring John Barry theme song!

OK ok so they got the year wrong—time wars and all that. But the journey must commence!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpX...

Thinking of the long game for the "Gods and Monsters" phase of the cinematic DCU and Jim Gunn, when you get to HELLBLAZER, remember: it rhymes with "Fine"

Screenshot of the smoke levels around the greater Seattle metro area. Ranging from 59 to 98, they’re not ideal!!

Friends and foes coming to Worldcon, please be aware that Seattle’s smoke season is officially underway. Don’t leave your masks at home!

Of course the most politically suspect of GRRM’s worldbuilding gaffes is the way he presents the peasantry as disinterested in politics.

Space Unicorn!

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Whenever there's an MCU project, Marvel Comics always makes sure they have a low print run of any trades related to that movie or show

I just want to note that policing online pornography is not in fact in any way shape or form medieval.

The Spear of Destiny, according to this book's blurb, has been owned by "the most powerful men in history: Constantine the Great, Atilla the Hun, Adolf Hitler."

It then goes on to proclaim that "now, it has fallen into the wrong hands," suggesting that all those previous hands were the right ones

This is my show, I wrote it! We’re about to begin releasing our third season (Ep 1 drops Thursday) and I’m insanely proud of it and hope you’ll listen. Only zero dollars per episode!

As a lifelong Farscape fan, I’m 1000% in agreement. Give us alien beasties with tentacles and ovipositors and huge gaping maws and just about anything else you could think of

Went back to the Kirby exhibition at the Skirball for the second time. Love seeing all that work in person.

a close up of a creature with a netflix logo on the bottom Alt: a close up of a creature with a netflix logo on the bottom

Do you see my vision?

This will probably be mildly fun but I really wish they'd instead done an episode where they go to a planet inhabited by Jim Henson Creature Shop puppets. Give us some really strange new worlds.

Every story should only be as long as it *has* to be and as short as it *can* be. If that means it ends up being 1000 words, that's what it's meant to be and you should be happy with that. If that means it ends up being 70,000 words, same thing

Timothy is a shit but Starmer is the one who painted a target on deliveroo drivers' backs.

This is Starmer's fault btw

i think it would be sad when rutger hauer dies in blade runner even if he hadn't seen cool stuff

"When I was in HS, Charlie Brown absolutely had hoes. Charlie Brown was swimming in hoes."

I love how My Adventures With Superman wasn’t allowed to use Lex at all, like DC had an embargo on him for Reasons, and then they just used him anyway and the response was “what are you gonna do about it”

The best part of Knightfall is Nightwing meets Harold, the mute hunchback mechanic who lives in the Batcave, and goes “who the fuck is this”, and Tim explains his deal like it’s totally normal

Power Man 2 tells Wiccan he hates his code name and asks if he's actually Wiccan.

Power Man reiterates, asking if Wiccan is actually a pagan practitioner.

Power Man says you don't get to wear somebody else's belief as a cape.

The younger Power Man actually called Wiccan out on this. It's pretty great.

Tom Baker during "Image of the Fendahl". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

logging onto Bluesky

See the biggest problem is that I've locked them in a room with the god. Which sort of limits the options. (I think I may need to rethink this a little.)