Laura E. Hall

GDC! See you tomorrow! (?)

a silhouetted young girl leads a massive (like really massive) black dog/wolf over a sharp red landscape and a black sun

pet

When did the game of darts become associated with pubs? We all know that in the UK if you want to play darts you head to the pub. But where did this association between pubs and darts begin?

BLOG POST: Dartboards and pubs go together, everyone knows that. But how long has that been the case? And, actually, how old is darts as a game? 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2026/03/when...

A drawing of six weird eldritch dudes all spiked and looking like they got bad attitudes

Weird dudes from two weeks ago

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Quote this with your “eye strain” art!! 💥

Notably Arc Raiders pairs you with other people who play in the same style that you do. So if you grief a lot you’ll be paired with griefers etc

Digital painting of a fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attracts butterflies.

Digital painting of a deer centaur. He has long snow white hair that drapes over his chest, goatee, and a pair of velvety black antlers with a blue-ish sheen. His centaur body is of a black stag with a white belly. and white spots sprayed across its back. On its back is also a pair of medium sized butterfly wings with blue markings and coloration. He is wielding a staff that's seemingly made of gnarled organic material, perhaps wood, and on its end is a pair of reptilian hands, holding a white crystal ball. There is a flurry of black and blue butterflies swirling around him.

Digital painting of a centaur with unicorn horn on his forehead, and big butterfly wings. He has elegant hair and tail that is flowing in the wind.

Digital painting of a fairy. He is wearing a white tunic/skirt, he is wielding a star wand, and he has giant morpho butterfly wings. He is sitting on the back of a white horse-rocking chair.

morpho fairies

If you were going to buy an encyclopedia set as a gift for a young person growing up today, which one would you get? Contemporary or vintage?

If you were going to buy an encyclopedia set as a gift for a young person growing up today, which one would you get? Contemporary or vintage?

I have never played it but these threads have sold me!

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

*saying affirmations in the mirror* I am a big horse. I am a beautiful horse with powerful legs. I am fifteen hands tall. No one can catch me because of my powerful horse legs and wild nature. I have all the apples I want

Article screenshot: Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. They’re trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They don’t realise they’re trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.

I have worried about what I've seen as my own decreased ability to focus but this article has really shifted my thinking. It's so so interesting. aeon.co/essays/what-...

a tarot card of the magician. the right hand is pointing upward, the left downward. his head is a floating skull, his rips and sternum are exposed. behind him are the minor arcana symbols sword, staff, chalice and pentacle. he's framed by blue thistles and stars

trying a style for a tarot deck. i wanted to illustrate my own cards for ages. let's see how this works out. #tarot #illustration #artsky #fantasy #horror

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

A black - white cartoon explaining the different ways sites get buried

It's really fabulous to wake up to 9k followers 😮🥳. Diolch yn Fawr / thank you everyone 🙏

As a thank you - here is my 1994 Toby the Trowel explainer: 'How Sites Get Buried' 🤔

Surely the most common question ever asked of an archaeologist in a trench..🧐🏺

📷 My own, from younger days

a drawing of a goblin in a round circle, the goblin is wearing armour and a helmet and red and white striped socks

Hobgoblin!

A low poly rat I made. Thank you

If you see this you MUST open blender and make a low-poly rat. I just did it and it made me happy

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Painting of a tuxedo cat looking at a cell phone at an open-air market while a white cat offers it melon; there are several cats at the market.

Cat looking for a tutorial on the internet on how to tell if a melon is sweet

Same tbh

Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.

Oh wow, I forgot about this track! That whole soundtrack is so great. I probably still have my CD somewhere…

tumblr post from user threedollarsdotcom: "weve decided not to move forward with you at this position because a meteor has hit our office and destroyed the whole shit big mode. we hope your job search goes well"

games industry

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Pixel art text mode style picture of a tower standing by a cliff. The tower looks ancient and mossy, made of pinkish stone. Birds are standing on the building top. there is rocky platforms at its base as well as a little tree, some stairs and a character standing. The building got a lower entrance and a higher entrance leading to a higher level on the cliff on which a little building blends into the mountain.

The old tower

#textmode #pixelart #gamedev

Shooting script has leaked.

Been enjoying these little video dairies on archaeological science experiments in round house building.

And, as always, if there is anyone who would like to share anything in regards to this story, the making of TRAIN DREAMS, or film production in Washington/the Pacific Northwest more broadly, my email is chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com.