Rachel (ish)

Monochrome horse heads looking left on a cave wall

May you have the energy of these fabulous Ice Age beasts as you enter the lunar New Year of the Horse! 🦣🐎

So say we all

a skier yelling

a skier throwing his poles in anger

a devastated skier holding his head with both hands, a ski-rrender cobra

a skier lying down off to the side of the course and covering his face

Vermont-born Norwegian skier Atle Lie McGrath heads into the final run of the slalom with a massive half-second lead, but misses one of the first gates, hurls his poles as far as he can, and lies down off to the side of the course

Where ARE you?

Don't eat dodgy chicken!! Honestly if you get sick from this

Maybe it will happen today

It is vital to increase the birth rate to offset the number children that I, as a single childless woman, trap in the oven of my gingerbread cottage in the woods every day

[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.] JOEL: Honey… what are you doing? BRANDI: Can’t sleep Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year. While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition. JOEL: Brandi… you're talking strange... BRANDI: Dammit Joel. It’s time you knew. You're a Netflix character. [Joel looks shocked] BRANDI: Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue. Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the - JOEL: Stop explaining, Brandi! [Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room]. JOEL: So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and... BRANDI: Yep... Warm/cool colour graded. [Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]: SECOND SCREEN - A Netflix original - [Ends]

A collage of photos from a Boro sewing session

On Saturday we had a Boro sewing session in the Lend & Mend Hub - in collaboration with the Orkney Japan Association and Soulisquoy Printmakers.

Boro is a traditional Japanese technique that involves patching and stitching to mend, strengthen, and extend the life of garments.

Handwriting that reads 'my nephew Innocent Whale'.

#EarlyModern Name of the Year: Innocent Whale*

🐋 🐳🐋🐳

*they are, of course, all innocent

A sick bunny lies in bed, with an ice pack balanced on their head and a bowl of soup. A cat is next to them on a cat bed, also with an ice bag.

Daily bunny no.3231 will get well soon

Illustration of the Chinese zodiacs, this is the year of the honse. Cny is on February 17 this year~

Year of the horse soon 🐴🧧
#art

Well done, that's brilliant 👏

'my Body I direct to be kept one week at least before interment or longer if it can without being disagreeable'. Elizabeth Ford's will, 1786.

I've been reading a lot of 18th-century wills this past week and if there is one thing I've learnt is that people were very worried about being buried alive.

We had big fluffy snowflakes today. That was nice

a close up of a white background with a few spots Alt: From the TV show Blake's 7 - the character Gan lying on the floor as smoke engulfs him, shouts "I'm not worth dying for!" and rocks tumble

👀

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably.
CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

Absolute scenes

The most beautiful dog 😍

A crane walking from right to left in the image in front of a pond.

Two cranes walking from right to left in the image in front of a pond.

Two cranes flying away from the viewer over areas of vegetation of different kinds.

A crane flying from right to left in the image over a pond, with a second crane standing on the far bank of the pond and three cows grazing in the background towards the left of the image.

#Cranes at Willow Tree Fen, Lincolnshire today.

it’s hot if you alt text your art

4 frame comic. a street journalist, off frame, asks someone with long hair exiting the subway : miss! do you think it's fair for biological female athletes to be forced to compete with transgenders? she replies : that's not a question. every year, new studies show that trans women have no inherent athletic advantages over cis women. science and research have settled this already.* *a meta-study published this month in the british journal of sports medicine reviewed 52 studies with 5252 trans athlete participants. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198 what's unfair is how female athletes, cis or trans, must endure constant, unrestrained sexual misconduct throughout their formative years to simply get a shot at competing at an elite level. just last month, a report* showed that 88% of surveyed u.k. elite athletes of the int'l women's sports collective reported sexual misconduct, and 40% reported sexual abuse. 93% of the time, perpetrators were cis men. *"Women’s experiences of sexual misconduct working in UK elite sport," summary report by Lindsey Simpson, 2026

That's not a question.

Hive still exists, thankfully

orange kitten in toy truck Zamboni cat ready for kitty figure skate championships '

Zamboni Cat 🥺

kitten lying on back on bed Luge cat practices in its sleep

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

I would never perceive you, Gonzo

chibi drawings of Ed and Stede. they both have their eyes closed and their heads are touching like they're kissing. they have both arms reaching out to one another, and both have one leg popped up behind them.

happy valentine's day!

#ofmd #ofmdart #gentlebeard

So we're on the home stretch, only a few weeks left till the anniversary of mum's death, and this time last year we knew it was coming but obviously not exactly when. The last valentine was clearly the last valentine but which would be the last conversation, which would be the last hug?

I'm so sorry. It is such a shock when that happens