also, as is tradition, we will be soliciting some unsolicited solicited duck pics on Tues 6 Jan for next year's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay. so, see you then. if you give a duck

Updated the dining table centerpiece for the season.

Seems like a good time to once more show off this guy who hangs out on my desk.

Do you remember this? Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.

The Mourn Watch bag ekes ever closer to perfection.

archiveofourown.org/works/74603301 Great news! They got to finish.

Also here's a Jack Aubrey Special from the man who canonically brought you five minutes of hand puns until someone else in the party had to tell him to shut up.

Great news! I bought a Cricut.

It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year. merl-shop.co.uk (and, yes: we ship internationally!) 🧵

Emmrich is allowed one (1) swear and he will deploy it with surgical precision.

Screams cries throws up etc etc #emmrook

Me: I will write some jolly cosy softcore smut with no real plot Also me, inexplicably, in the last 48 hours: I will insert 1000 words of angst into the middle of it

Today, I have constructed Book! One step closer to binding my own godsawful fanfic in the manner it deserves.

Probably never going to finish this #EmmRook fic so have this bit of something.

Me: I'm done writing EmmRook fic. Also me:

i'm glad the poor sickly victorian child could have a vacation.......

There's no way I can write an entire fic about it but I have an #emmrook concept where Rook and Emmrich take a nice little family holiday somewhere but in order to get there they have to go through a bunch of places that don't like skeletons moving around (understandable)...

Hannnnds. #emmrook #emmrichvolkarin

deliberately avoiding the latest Alien Earth episode to keep alive the dream that this might finally be the episode that the xenomorph enjoys a soothing visitor experience to The Museum of English Rural Life

A terrible thing, to want to write more fic, but not enough to actually come up with an idea that would warrant an entire story. (Yes I'm talking about EmmRook I'm never not talking about EmmRook.)

My first tiny attempt at #fanbinding, the one and only Les Mis fic I've ever written.

Aww yeah, they done!!!

Wife: Do you want to coming swimming on this lovely sunny day? Me: No I want to sit in my office and stare at Blender.

While I wait for the bajillionth prototype of his boots to print, here's a pic of Emmrich in a frilly shirt.

I did it! I got my big gay #emmrook series printed! With unnecessarily funereal black borders and pictures of flowers and beetles! #veilguard #emmrichvolkarin #dragonage

GALAXY NAILS

Here's one for the old folks out there.

Seconds away from causing Problems.

“It makes me think of how the Tories gave nothing to the EFDSS, and how if they really loved England as much as they say they do, it would be a national institution...Conservatives don’t actually like English culture. They don’t care about it.” *slams NAILED IT klaxon*

“I had definitely never seen women morris dancing in small stripy corsets before. I can’t explain the feeling of being in a dance for the first time. It was incredible, it’s exhilarating, and fun and silly. I was completely hooked.” The Progressive Power of Morris Dancing buff.ly/iXQSLUC

Pedro Pascal might be in everything right now but we can confirm that he is not currently in The Museum of English Rural Life

Also, here's my Mourn Watch pin bag! The bag is from Pin and Tonic, as are the two flower pins on the left side. Everything else is from various Etsy shops.

When your outfit for the day is lacking something and you have 20 minutes and a 3d printer. #mournwatch

Vitally important call to action.

'Folk culture is everywhere in Britain. You just have to look for it' Of course, we knew this all long, but @lallymacbeth.bsky.social article in the @bigissue.com is a great read www.bigissue.com/culture/folk...

peace was never an option

Can't paint, can't draw, CAN take vaguely homoerotic photos of dolls. #emmrook #emmrichvolkarin #bjd

For those of you wondered, "Did she paint that old man's nipples?"... Yes. Yes, I did. #Emmrook #Emmrichvolkarin #bjd

Doxzoo: Uploading a full cover spread is for AdVaNcEd UsErS oNlY~~~ Me: Step aside, I have Paint Shop Pro 9

Hmm

Does typography count? I've nearly finished typesetting this fic, with pictures! Lots of flowers! And some beetles, for Manfred.

Can't believe no-one has spotted the Right Said Fred joke in my last fic. I rearranged paragraphs to get it in!

Fun fact: The Biodiversity Heritage Library has 150000 public-domain botanical and zoological illustrations that you can download RIGHT NOW. www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...

don't worry, he's totally supervised #manfred

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Chat, how we feeling about illustrations? (I have zero artistic talent so I'm just googling for botanical drawings of plants.)

The typesetting continues forever. Emmrich's handwriting is Old Scientific Illustration and Rook's is Victorya Handwriting.

Sticking my boys on every available surface 2k25 Left art by @lineupmu.bsky.social, right by Dangerlemonz on Etsy.

Throwback to when the wife and I did Nevarran Valentine's Day dinner.

New album dropping soon