A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #557,807, E.E.C.Kirby @eeckirby.bsky.social, joined on Aug 13, 2023"
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #557,807!
Been laughing at this for hours.
Kim Yeji, olympic gold winning Korean markswoman
When you've just used a semicolon correctly
Newspaper clipping headlined "!2 Boys Rout Fascists." Twelve boys, some of them less than 10 years old, went to Weymouth beach and barracked Mr. Robert Saunders, a Fascist speaker. He ignored them, so they went away and returned with toffee tins half filled with stones. Using the tins as rattles, they made so much noise that Mr. Arthur England, a 63–year–old Weymouth magistrate and superintendent of the beach, approached to stop them. A crowd of holidymakers, sympathising with the children, booed Mr. England, and a sock filled with sand caught behind the ear. In the sand battle that followed the Fascists were pelted off the beach.
My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
Ouch Flavored Chips
A cartoon of three boys in a schoolyard fight. One labeled “Chaac” is knocking the teeth out of another (labeled “Poseidon”) while a third (“Tlaloc”) looks on, eating popcorn
Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall.
They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
Is there a service I can hire for someone to read my query package and help me understand why I’m still getting ‘I like the concept but it’s not for me’? I feel like I’m missing something 🧐
Love this article on the nature of the Bechdel test and Greek mythology by Rosie Hewlett:
www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/hist...
Ho do you drag yourself out of the query funk?
I’ve had over 20 agents tell me a variation of ‘there’s something here but it’s not right for me’. If you’re a literary agent actively looking for mythological retellings like ‘Medea’ and ‘Circe’ please let me know, I have something to send you 🙋♀️
Whispers on the wind - Pre-Raphaelite painting of a woman looking at a dark sky
'The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.'
-Emily Brontë
🎨Edward Robert Hughes
#BookWormSat
Does having Whattpad views help you get a book published? #writers #writing
Went to do the post Christmas tip run and found an old box in one of the skips that is definitely not haunted. It was also full of photographs that are definitely not cursed.
The box says it would like to be taken home and kept in the bedroom, which seems like a great idea to me, let's do it
The Apothecary
Adds "salt-hag" to list of potential careers
Reviewers and Beta readers who have read my mythological retelling in its entirety have really enjoyed it. The problem is that the opening is too ‘soft’ to grab agents. I’m not a huge fan of in media res but I’m looking for tips and tricks to make it more appealing? TIA for advice ❤️ #writing #writer
Thank you - I’ll have a look
@sknigge.bsky.social I saw on you MSWishlist that you’re looking for Greek myth for MG. I have been looking at this but have no idea where to start turning my Myth scripts into MG content. Any tips?
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are at a store, looking at a tall shelf of goods. The box that Blue is pointing at is at the very highest shelf, far beyond reach. Green: Which ones do we need? Blue: The top ones. Green turns around, looking at Blue over his shoulder, as Blue starts reaching up towards the desired package. Green: Don't start climbing, I can find a latter. Blue: I've got this. Green still talks to Blue as he makes his way through the store, looking for the ladder. Green: Do not climb the shelf. Blue: Don't worry, I've got this. Green returns to the scene, carrying a ladder over his head. The desired package is missing from the row on the top shelf. Blue is holding it, and looking at Green with no regrets. Green: ...You climbed the shelf. Blue: I got it.
Ohh that’s… that not goals…
4 niedliche dinosaurier
friends not fuel
The death of Prince Terasarin of Sartar, who "was killed when a stray moonbeam blinded him as he climbed a cliff to escape a hungry dinosaur."
This is the kind of nonsense thought gremlin I needed today thank you 🙏
I love being a teacher, but damn am I tired.
#EduSky
money isn’t real but mushrooms are
JULIET: I will kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them!
*kiss*
ROMEO: (throwing his voice) Maybe there's poison on his dong?
