Oh please...

Watching MOTU. Have been looking forwards to this.

From a long-standing industry professional: that I had to explain absolutely everything - every word, every phrase, every setting, every historical or cultural reference - as I entered the narrative... ...and the whole thing read like info-dump hell. You don't have to explain everything as you...

Finally fixed my website today, you can once again read (and watch!) the entire history of the Warhammer World Rhino: pdfcomic.net/bread/ Including several surprising facts, the repaints, and studio production photos.

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And BACK to the Dentist we go. Again. Pray to the Emprah for me, because she really, really, REALLY needs to fucking fix it, this time 🙏

Teeth have now been hurting me, again, for over a week. Have no fucking idea how the same tooth (now with no nerves, thanks to the root canal) can still be hurting this much. Abscess maybe, I don't know. Whatever it is, it's BACK to the Dentist tomorrow, and this beast is coming the fuck OUT 🦷

“stories about rezu fuzoku depict women, both workers and clients, stepping outside the patriarchal system. And it is precisely this that makes them so compelling.” Creators and lesbian sex workers collaborate in a groundbreaking new #manga genre www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

Was delighted to provide a (very well deserved) cover quote for this, and equally delighted to see it shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards :)

Was eight years old, and remember wanting a pair of these <so> badly!!

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

From the mating-bullfrog bellows of my neighbours... there's some sportsball thing going on?

Behold! Good tidings! My commissions are open again! I don't have much time so I can only take one (big one) or a couple (little ones) - first in first served! ko-fi.com/aylameridian... Some examples -

More and more love for solid state format. Own your music, films, games, play them and love them. Less of this 'You will own nothing and you will be happy'.

Do you have what it takes to be the next 2000 AD creator? The @2000ad.bsky.social Artist and Writer Talent Search returns to Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2026! Find all the details here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/2000ad

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godspeed, my dudes.

A half a million-pound lottery funding boost has kick-started a Woodland Trust project to protect Sherwood Forest’s most treasured trees. www.news-journal.co.uk/woodland-tru...

The Arts Council in England have just launched their Responsible AI Leaders scheme. No idea what good leaving angry comments will do, but left one anyway. It betrays everything they're supposed to stand for 🤬 www.instagram.com/p/DaDaVOIDId...

Part 103 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice 1600s. The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed

Oh no :(

A lot of discourse today about the failure of superhero movies, but it needs to be stressed that Star Wars and Masters of the Universe underperformed the same way. We need to stop making movies for 50yr old white men and make them for Gen Z. They're going. Obsession is in its 7th week in the top 5.

Appreciate this might seem like a Norfolk-centric problem, but eventually these things are going to be everyone's problem. Appreciate it if people could sign this, thanks! c.org/5TMdZBqxzF

This is my cat Aces and me in 50 years

Okay, enough scrolling. #Tea, and we try and write something about brutally freezing mountain valleys, which seems like big ol' disconnect, in this weather.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. That, and the PR repeatedly, massively backfiring, and the data centres, and the power grid, and the water shortages, and the soaring prices of computer components, and and and...

Another WH40k book done, this one being The Book of Martyrs, which is esentially a set of three novellas with a framework around them, by Alec Worley, Phil Kelly and Danie Ware. I enjoyed it but I have a strong feeling I read this before, though I don't remember doing so.

Cooler There's a breeze We can breathe We can sit out and have a cup of tea, and we can free the (very grouchy) cat, without risking him becoming barbeque. And I can finally get back to my walks And to some words, we hope, as I've no <clue> what exhausted garbage I've been barfing up, this week

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

And on that note (and as it's genuinely a wee bit cooler this morning), we try, once again, to make with the words. Can we sentence a string together today? Only one way to find out...

Ecko very appropriate to the #Matrix vibe, Lugan slightly less so, but hey :) Will you go through that portal, and find out which world is the real one? Or will you never know?

WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up)

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#Tea in the garden. British houses (particularly older ones) are built to keep heat in, and it's actually cool out here.

portrait of the artist as a young tazzy devil 🖤

Woken at four by heat, sickening humidity, crashing booms of thunder and a very spooked kitty, trying to get his nose under my shoulder. Am now sitting here, already sheeted in sweat, and seriously can't wait for this nastiness to be over. <Ick>.

I have bought a ticket to #DragonMeet, though. So if you're there, I'll see you in November! :)

Horrible afternoon, hot and claustro, ended up rushing our ridiculous kitty to the vet, as he was hyperventilating. He's fine (though we gained several war-wounds getting him in the bag), and now BIG sulking and refusing food or fuss. Beast.

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Brain is soup. No make words. Not today. No read book. No play games because controller is too sweaty. All of the grumpy.

Today's typo: 'nuzzle' for 'muzzle'. My melty brain thinks this is hilarious, for some reason.

Humidity climbing. Curtains drawn, fans on, and my hands are still puffing up like overcooked sausages. Might go and live in the fridge.