kes beacon, sea beckon

Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters

Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm

I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

When I was running tabletop RPGs I would always say that it's go big or go home, and if we go home there's no game. Always do the big thing!

Having spent the last couple of weeks with my parents, I can totally attest to this. It's maddening. It's frustrating. It makes me furious.

Newest watercolor is Yi, the weird (even by dinosaur standards)bat-winged feathered baby-dragon-lookin theropod. I sketched this pose with a red marker on a scrap of lined paper like 10 years ago and finally decided to paint it this week.

Wips for my friend

A digital illustration of a small, fluffy baby dinosaur sitting in a person’s cupped hands.

It’s dangerous to go alone.
Take this.

'Which lake?! WHICH LAKE, MOTHERFUCKER?!'

Dyke knights wip! ⚔️

A pile of finches (4 society finches and 1 zebra finch), simply referred to as The Stack

LOOK AT THESE DUMBASSES

Thank you to @hafrun.bsky.social for drawing my boys as the dorky blobs they love to be

"Spotted at last week’s Sirplus sample sale: Michael Gove. He bought jumpers (but did stop to consider the posh boxers) and was left slightly red-faced when the cashier asked him for his name, and then “how to spell Gove”."

from today's popbitch, a lesson in how to politely remove any dignity from any of these asshats you might encounter. love this. imagine the joy of "and how do you spell Cameron?" and still getting it wrong. no managers can tell you off, is the joy of it

Why is it that every time I work on my novel nature calls

A purple haired elf knight wails on her guitar,, I hope you’re ready to be destroyed 🎸🎸🎸 Prepare yourself for more of my bard warriors 😁💕

Bard Knight 01 🛡️
Dost thou shred? 🎸

Watercolor artwork depicting wormbo going down a slide.

Worm Slide
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

Also, like for Meat in the Machine, I feel like I constantly have to invent torment nexii as setting background and I'm sitting here like. I hope nobody invents *my* torment nexus.

I have tried to write this scene like 7 times and at least 4 are because I know some combination of characters have to get arrested, there are three candidates, and apparently I need to try every single combination before I get there.

It is with great joy that i can say Project Hanuman is shortlisted for best novel
In the BSFA awards @bsfa.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

i also have a story in the short listed anthology, Creative Futures

If you’ve not yet read either now is the time!

Congrats to all the finalists.

I hate knitting crown decreases more than 90% of other knitting tasks

Not that you give a fuck but here He Is

YouTube captions have gotten so bad lol

To be absolutely clear: this is the lowest percentage of the vote in a by-election for the Conservatives or Tories since the party was founded at the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

anyways we need more trans stories, more trans love, more trans knights, elves, heroes, villains, scoundrels, and damsels. more trans art now! 🏳️‍⚧️

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Toad making intense eye contact

How does an animal the size of a tangerine have so much swagger

If I've developed an intolerance to a staple part of my diet I'm going to file a very pointed letter of complaint to Someone

Two black and white illustrations of Empty Beasts, drawn by Sfé.

Some more empty beasts that i drew. Pulled out from the original set of 12.

#sfedrawing

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

⚡️Bass 🎸⚡️

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🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

That sound you heard was @margueritekenner.bsky.social adding this arrow to her quiver.