Nicholas Nada

And now I've misspelt Phil Kay's name, I guess we never will be friends. Ah well

I used to see Scottish comedian Phil Kaye a lot when I lived in the west end of Glasgow. He was a beardy longhair, as was I and most of my friends, so each time, I'd recognise him and do the same sequence of facial expressions: oh hi friend! Wait, no, that's Phil Kaye. Aw, I've done it again!

Little work in progress video for Seated 6. First time I’ve tried one of these (no planning happened!).

#draw #drawing #sketchbook #sketch #workinprogress

Digital sketch of a tabby cat in blue against a golden yellow background

long week, blue frankie
#art #cats #sketch

A letter to Viz comic saying, "Olay keep claiming they fight the 7 signs of ageing. Does that include becoming more right wing? Because that’s the really problematic one."

Fantastic letter to Viz

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Pie chart: 74% hydrogen 25% helium 1% other (in tiny font)

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Man face

1 min sketch.

Pink Opaque - Bringing Back The Humans (self-released) - popoptica Sheffield futurepop duo Pink Opaque release second single Bringing Back The Humans - an anthem against AI and celebrating the quirkiness of people

We are dead proud of this amazing review of Bringing Back The Humans by @sarahlay.bsky.social 🫶🤖

Check it out eh? 👇
popoptica.com/2025/10/14/p...

That's lovely!

An A5 size drawing of harvest mice in a wheat field. The mice are climbing stalks of wheat. The artwork is in browns, beige and peachy tones. It is on peach toned pastel paper. Harvest mice are Britain’s smallest rodent, weighing only 4-6 grams. In the British Isles, harvest mice are mainly found south of central Yorkshire, although they do also occur in Scotland and Wales. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper Size A5 (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3")

Harvest mice among the wheat stalks. A little autumnal piece, A5 size (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3") on pastel paper.
folksy.com/items/8561646

#HarvestMouse #AnimalArt #Autumn #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #PenAndInk #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop

A low light pink flower pattern wallpaper with black paint drips on the upper left corner. In the middle is a hand embroidered human skull with a male house sparrow standing on top. Both skull and sparrow are looking towards the left.

"Sparrow And The Skull"
Thread painting
This is the only hand embroidery on wallpaper full image artwork I have ever made. I love it but it was incredibly fragile to make. I've only shown it a couple of times because I couldn't part with it, but it is in my webshop.
#Stunday #31DaysOfHalloween

Whoever said two wrongs don't make a right has never tried to plug in a USB cable

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Nothing says "I'm a generic-looking white guy" like opening a game's character creation screen, seeing the default option, and, without making any changes, going, "yeah, that's pretty close" (although, that might say more about what some games consider "default" than it does about me...)

A poster for the movie, House of the Long Shadows, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing

We watched House of the Long Shadows tonight. Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing - how could we say no? Very silly but a lot of fun - and surprisingly gory in places, for something made in a rather Hammer Films style

SG1 and Atlantis play on a loop in our house too. What more does anyone need?

Rewrite a horror to be zine-acceptable:

Stephen King's IT (didn't hurt us, we're fine)

Philosophical conundrum: if a horror zine would reject Nightmare on Elm St, Seven, the Exorcist, the Omen, Frankenstein, Dracula, and every M. R. James story, is it still a horror zine?

I love your uniquique approach to spelling!

Whenever I'm on a crowded bus I think to myself, "I can't stand telepaths" just to see if anyone looks around

A scratchboard portrait drawing of Frankenstein's creation, in white on a black background.

Oh, go on, since it's the start of spooky season, I drew this for you

Post a meme made by you

✨ We’ve Moved! ✨

Thank you to the 42,890 people who have signed, shared and supported our letter so far: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community.

🌐 NotInOurName.org.uk

A scratchboard drawing of a human skull in white on a plain black background, facing off to one side, jaw slightly open

A photo of a human skull against a plain white background, facing off to one side, jaw slightly open

September 30/October 1st

Iain Banks: the final interview Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Thank you so much!

Happy 50th anniversary, Brad and Janet! #RockyHorror

A fox in the middle of the illustration is wearing a light green sweater and holding a cup of tea. Surrounding him are a bunch of ‘Autumn’ objects - a scarf, umbrella, mushrooms, socks, books, pencil, apple and leaves changing colours

HAPPY FALL Y’ALL ! 🍁🍂

time for cozy sweaters, fluffy socks (!!!), rainy days, changing leaves & pumpkins!

my absolute fav season - i could live in a cozy autumn town forever.

whats your fav part of Fall? ✨

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Scooting around the map on Rightmove, daydreaming of a life elsewhere