Good god...this is...a trailer for a movie, I guess.

I assume you all have your Rapture tote bags ready?

Heading your way in November! #11 of The Savage Sword of Conan, featuring my 48 page epic 'Tattered Wings', some 25 years in the making! Pre-order now!

Can we all agree that Roger Moore was incredibly good looking?

The most gothic of gothic Batman covers...

Also on Tuesday, September 23rd, flying swine event!

"By the hair it held the head dissevered, hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern..." Dante's Inferno canto 28, line 121.

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Agutan lo lodi l'oja; ewure ko l'olodi lode. A sheep has an enemy in the marketplace; a goat has no enemies. Yoruba proverb. I've never fully understood it, but the context in which it's used is when someone ignores the person they're contending with. A goat is stubborn/tough, unlike sheep. 1/

Full video: youtu.be/jWN3PhnA9_k?...

I lurked in an online discussion. Dude A talking about local history in his town, how his people got gunned down at some point. Other folks disputing the account because it was a week after armistice. Bredrin, communication in and around war zones, especially pre-internet? Armistice took a while.

Door is wrong.

MAKE IT MISTER MXYZPTLK, COWARDS!!!

From 'You Promised Me Darkness' by Damian Connelly

This is what we call an Aunt Sally in the UK. You may know it as a Straw Man. Stancil is...strange.

Yup.

Sure, Grammarly. Your AI is original AF.

Some Moorcock: The Dreaming City, an Elric joint, and The Final Programme, a Jerry Cornelius joint, both have the same set up. A bunch of folks want to break into a place that the hero has unique knowledge of. He wants the place burnt to the ground, but has specific people he doesn't want harmed.

So here's a weird Saturday thing. Two fully grown American women just turned up at my neighbour's house. I say 'fully grown' because they came to see her nine-year-old daughter because, and I shit you not, she said she wanted to learn more about Jesus online. I saw them leave. WTF?

No novel-relevant words coming this morning, so time for freewriting...

Yes, Financial Times, we know. We told you this shit from the start.

What would Ripley do?

"[T]he Left itself does a perfectly good job, and spontaneously, of doing the work of the Right." Jean Baudrillard / Simulacra and SImulation Fuck's sake, guys. You're fighting in front of the fascists.

Oh, good grief. The Left, doing what they do best: self-owning.

Darkseid is.

Jesus Haploid* Christ, everything is shit. I paid for my legal update course, like a good professional. This had two parts, online modules then live portion using Zoom, each taking half a day. Only the idiots neither sent Zoom links nor answered their phones or emails. (*yes, I said haploid.)

Diana, the Huntress. Arthur Rackham, 1921

Preachers under lamp posts. The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Exorcist (1973)

Cruddy commie radical liberals!

Will Stancil is illustrating a point, just not the one he thinks.

"Fist in the air, In the land of hypocrisy..."

I'm doing a legal update for professional reasons. I am bored out of my gourd. I am required to know law stuff, but I am not excited by law stuff. I'm brute-forcing my way through. But I need breaks that include, I don't know, bright lights and comic books and fondue.

There are tears in my eyes. From laughter. Some motherfucker put Molly Southbourne through AI and had it spit out editorial advice for me. And offered me their editorial services. Fool, my Shirley Jackson Award finalist stone and my royalties say, "thanks but no thanks. I'm good."

I have never used any LLM tool. I have never typed a prompt. Other life choices exist, and I'm not saying they're bad. Making my brain work is important to me. Even "mindless" tasks are important to engage Default Mode Network thinking (problem solving while doing something minimally engaging).

Groupmind: anyone know the author and title of an SF short story about a civilisation of strange-matter creatures inhabiting Earth's mantle, which is discovered just as they discover us?

Let me decode the yellow and the blue for you.

Outsourcing your thinking to AI favours oppressors.

The heathen are back upon the wall. (With apologies to Bob Marley).

Just because a salon is nearby doesn't mean a woman will want her hair done there. The headline misses an important part: Black hairdressers make house calls. They can and do come to you sometimes. If someone is known to be good, people would rather travel hours than have a mediocre person. 1/

Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-uh, Cicero...Lipschitz.

Thread. A heads up. I'll be doing themed witch drawings through the month of October, in the new style. (toned paper, pencil , gauche, chalk ) will be offering them daily at a reasonable price (because everybody should be able to afford art) Will be first come, first served though...

On this subject, can any of your correspondents remind me of a book I read where human beings travelled in a huge ship for generations to colonise a faraway planet, but had to give up because of lethal microbes? I enjoyed it a lot but have forgotten the title.

This Alien: Earth universe has no microbes because there's totally no way sample alien fauna brought back from god-knows-where can possibly have a microbiome that humans need to beware of. So, come in to the lab. It's safe. Respirators? Pfah! Eye protection? Don't be woke.

Today, I feel like a B-Side song. (I'm also weirdly sad that a whole generation of folks will never experience a life that makes 'B-side' make sense.)

My words of infamy: Remember Manoeuvre Restaurant

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 44 (with apologies to Duchamp). This view showing a naked hand, a bannister, the terminal portion of the handrail, and the newel post. Moderate this, suckers!

Grifters gonna grift.

Admin day, Admin day, Does whatever an Admin day can...