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When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

Not Quite Dead: A Show About Vampires | Season Four The 4th season of an original vampire audio drama good enough to sink your teeth into. By Eira Major.

Not Quite Dead, an original vampire audio drama by @hangingsloth.bsky.social is currently crowdfunding its fourth season!

Check out the campaign, and the rewards you could receive at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/eir...

A small crepe with wobbly edges, decorated with red syrup reminiscent of blood

£100 Vampancake!!

I’m crowdfunding for NQD S4 and as it is also pancake day here, I thought I’d make a vampire themed pancake for every £100 in the pot!! This one has a blood splatter.

Donate here: tiny.cc/nqd4

Projected speaker numbers and dormancy risks of Canada’s Indigenous languages | Royal Society Open Science UNESCO launched the International Decade of Indigenous Languages in 2022 to draw attention to the impending loss of nearly half of the world’s linguistic diversity. However, how the speaker numbers an...

New paper!

doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Many of the world’s languages are endangered, but how we identify which are endangered is essentially by counting how many people speak that language.

…but…

(from a few winters ago!)

there was a mouse living in the oven mitt on our porch 🍂

BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight

A pair of brown Mycena with delicate translucent caps grow in a colony on the side of a decaying log All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

At literally no point in this sentence can you predict the next word

Ohhh I see. I’ve been hyping up the Fantastic Four for years and y’all don’t read the comics but now Marvel Rivals introduces a Sue Storm with a huge ass and suddenly everybody loves the Fantastic Four and is making fanart of the Fantastic Four

*looks at you funny*

A digital drawing of a page completely filled with flowers, and among them are tiny little hills, trees and a small white cottage.

Flower life!

#art #illustration

Episode 2: The Captive Turnabout. Featuring an image of Verity Gavèlle.

The Disaster Lawyers are 🔴LIVE with more Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit! We enter the final part of the Captive Turnabout...

Featuring @ripadip.bsky.social @tonytempest.bsky.social @theunlikelyone.bsky.social @natrasca.bsky.social

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Today's National Cake Day, so spotlighting the work of renowned Chinese cake artist Zhou Yi, who combines Chinese art, traditional miansu (dough sculpture) and Western sculpture techniques, to create these breathtaking fondant designs. The one of the right is called "Nine Tails". 1/

I will never understand English muffins. They're not English. They're not muffins. But most importantly, how the hell did we decide "you know what? Let's make something that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike crumpets."

Turning 23 today 💪

Photo of four Puffins standing in a large patch of flowering Mayweed. All looking in different directions, the Puffins have white chests and bellies, and upperparts which are black save for each side of the face (white) and colourful beaks (red towards the tip, blue-grey towards the base, with yellow lines). The flowers of the Mayweed have white petals and yellow centres.

Starting a new #PlumeScrolling thread with the pic used by The Puffins on the cover of their first album. It featured classics such as Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Sprat After Midnight), Diving Queen, and Thank You For The Sand Eels, as performed on Clifftop Of The Pops.😉 #Birds 🦉 #UKWildlife 🌿 #Puffins

this is a cow

Enjoying how easy it is to tell whether I’ve just been put on a list of writers (“you have been followed by Elizabeth Paretti, Seb Belson, Sylvie P. Clare and Madeleine Madison”) or a list of game designers (“you have been followed by dustbones, a little acorn, it’s me jessssss, and BEN”)

Grimshaw, Populous and Hopkins projects included in mass 90s listing bid The Twentieth Century Society’s Coming of Age campaign is calling for the listing of 10 buildings th...

Some corking 90s buildings in this mass listing bid by the C20 society www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/grimsha...

'I'm Nobody'
Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)

Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.

A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲

Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
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A wooden model of a sailing ship.

A wooden model of a sailing ship.

A wooden model of a sailing ship.

A wooden model of a sailing ship.

The Norwegian merchant brigantine Leon was built in the town of Larvik, in 1880, and Porsgrund was her home port. Her most common duty was the trade of goods between the British Isles and Norway.

Here’s a thread on the #history of this #ship.

🧵This is a thread about Reply Guys. I like it when posts go viral coz I'm a big show-off and the internet is responsible for most of my career. When you go viral you get new followers, fun replies, sometimes even industry interest omg. But you also get: Reply Guys.

landscape poster with rich dark blue background and a pattern of red moths. in the centre, a bigger, pale blue moth, surrounded by the words 'happy 4 months! remnants. and thank you for over 50k downloads!'

Last Friday marked the four month anniversary of Remnants' launch!!

I missed posting about it on the day as I was getting ready for an extremely busy weekend, but it's very exciting. The show is now a third-of-a-year old, and is coming back from its midseason break TODAY!!!

Breakdown:

xi- = imperative prefix (for commands)
yolchicahua = become courageous, from "yol=" (heart) and "chicahua" (become strong) so lit. "for one's heart to become strong"

iuh [X] in iuh [Y] = [some action] as much as [something else]
ti- = 2nd person prefix
hueliti = be possible
-z = future

Revolutionary Nahuatl Lexicon 11-18-24

Be courageous.

Xiyolchicahua.

(shee-yohl-chee-KAH-wah).

OR

Be as courageous as possible.

Iuh xiyolchicahua in iuh tihuelitiz.

(eew shee-yohl-chee-KAH-wah een EEW tee-weh-LEE-tees)

(Literally "become as courageous as you can.")

OH HI THERE

Carmen, Nashville Opera

American Apollo, Des Moines Opera

2024 NFL DRAFT, Detroit Michigan

Lost Lands 2024, Legend Valley Ohio

Here are some examples of work from my day job over the last year. Don’t let me fool you, some jobs are one color and very boring, but then there are sets like these.

Ugh. I hate going to the dentist. I don't know which is worse - when they give you that picture of a hot air balloon in the distance to chew on, or when they ask you to bite the smallest letters you can