Francesco Francavilla

Still thanks to this unusual week, next week's movie queue looks a lot like last week's movie queue. Except more movies in it.

Thank you for your valiant posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday 🎨William Stout

New Friday. New Favorites. 1950s Edition.

Drop some MANIACS

How do Native Americans shape the world we all live in? #Indigenous #NativeAmerican

It's been an out-of-routine week, so I haven't done much movie watching. My current #LastFourWatched are pretty much the same as last week's.

Some solo-RPG requires tarots. So I found this cool Lord of the Rings set. :) Now I only need Deify to arrive.

Who is the coolest woman in a movie?

The 2027 #Tolkien Calendar edited by Brian Sibley @harpercollins.bsky.social www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones)

he King and the Beggar-Maid, painted in 1898 by Edmund Leighton

Happy Holly Hunter Holiday!

Another page of my "Walking to Mordor Sketchbook"

Happy Freema Agyeman Day! She's still one of my favorite Companions. Underappreciated, I say.

First two pages of the story I adapted for Weird Tales...

quarterly check-in ✔️ how many watches do you have this year so far?

Inside you are two wolves who draw drapery. One like Kelley Jones, the other like Xaime Hernandez. Somehow they are humping.

#TodaysSoundtrack has the Beat. #MusicLibraryAtoZ I think The Beach Boys win the day, but that's a really good Eurythmics album too.

Where I am when I'm not on Bluesky

I did this segment at the request of @hojukoolander.bsky.social for the @wizardscomics.bsky.social podcast. It’s about @gregrucka.com’s Queen & Country. Should you read the series? Yes. Should you listen to this special episode? Yes. Should you become a Minder at MI6? Not on your Nelly, bruv.

Armoured Mice take down a Carrion Range Trawler in the snow. Work continues on third Gwelf book, The Haunted Garden. More soon. Tally Ho!

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. ~J.R.R. Tolkien Join us this #BookologyThursday as we explore our theme: 🐉Dragons Swords and Sorcery🐉 in literature, art, legends, and folklore. 🎨 Ulla Thynell

If you don't believe that magical places still exist, I ask that you simply walk into your local independent bookstore.

Little cross on Whitchurch Down and sheep yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. These crosses marked out moorland routes for monks and other travellers to find their way across the moor from abbey to abbey. #photography

Hello Wednesday. 🖼️ Alex G Griffiths

Checking out Olivia Dean on @jodycollins.bsky.social's recommendation. Beautiful stuff. Soda Stereo are mentioned in the Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel I'm reading and I had to check out '80s New Wave via Mexico. The other two are "Be"cause of #MusicLibraryAtoZ

Gil Kane covered Giant-Size Werewolf 4 (1975). The GCD list Dan Adkins and Mike Esposito as possible inkers.

New prints now available of "Bilbo's Favourite Walks" which he marked with special red ink on this beautiful map that he hung in his hall. More info in comments and museum-quality prints here: www.miriamellis.com/product-page... #Tolkien #TolkienArt #HobbitMaps

Ever been on a road that you liked well enough but then took a detour and the new road was 🤩🤩🤩? It’s possible something like that happened to me when I finally watched Hobbs & Shaw. Join @michaelmay.bsky.social, @paxholley.com, and I as we talk about this action-packed, cameo-laden funfest!

One hour painting

This series is soooo fun. But we may have hit a snag in finishing it. We discuss options at the beginning of this episode.

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« O Gnomo », 1962 by Antònio Quadros (Portugese artist, 1933-1994) Cover illustration of first Portugese edition of "The Hobbit" by #JRRTolkien Livraria Civilização, Porto, 1962 #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #antonioquadros #bilbo #hobbit #thehobbit

Happy Brad Dourif Day!

“Gen Z was trapped at home for that whole period when they were young. And I think in general, it’s the young people who tend to want to be not cooped up at home now,” said Jesse Bishop, who programs movies for the Main Cinema in Minneapolis.

Happy Lily Collins Day!

« A última etapa para casa », 1962 by Antònio Quadros (portugese artist, 1933-1994) Plate #20 of "O Gnomo", 1st portugese edition of "The Hobbit" by #JRRTolkien Livraria Civilização, Porto 1962 #vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #antonioquadros #bilbo #hobbit #gandalf

Happy Queen Latifah Day!

The Library of Thorvald Boeck (1902) Harriet Backer (Norwegian)

I think OMD wins it today, followed closely by CCR. AOK? #MusicLibraryAtoZ

One of my favorite passages late in the book where Austen gently encourages her readers to cut her some slack and imagine the ending however it's best going to work for them.

A haunting sense of silence in this piece inspired by Rapunzel. Heavy and strikingly beautiful by María José Calderón "I tried to depict the despair and helplessness in that brief moment when Rapunzel’s hopes are cut off. " #beautifulbizarre #darkillustration #fairytaletwist #Rapunzel

Revenge of the Creature. Art by Richard Sala #horrorart

One of my favorite movies.

Devonport Leat above Burrator reservoir this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography

first look at the cover to Rachel Rising #0... Fear Of Death. This new chapter is shipping soon to Kickstarter backers of How To Draw 2026. Available in retail stores this summer. Read this blood curdling comic and the final page hands you off to page one of the Rachel Rising Omnibus.