What a beautiful cover! Last day to back the Kickstarter and get it. (Also, I'm pretty sure that red guy in the bottom right is the first look we've got at the aliens the "first contact" will be with...)

This is weird but sometimes I can take the pressure off myself by saying "OK I'm not *really* going to write this now, but if I *did* write it, how would it go?"

Writing advice thread re: first drafts! 1. From my writing pedagogy teacher in college: hot water can't flow if the faucet isn't on. Might take a minute for things to get to the temp you want, but that's okay!

It’s the last three days of @b7comics.bsky.social’s Dan Dare: First Contact Kickstarter. Reintroducing The UK’s first space adventurer to the world with a love of the original stories re-tooled for today. Don’t miss your chance to support this passion project! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Taking a short break from Foolish Earth Creatures to work on an alternative dark-on-light colour scheme for Beyond the Chiron Gate.

(via Private Eye) (gods love it)

The first stretch goal reward announced and new rewards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

This game is actually pretty good! Get it while you still can if you want a Telltale Games type thing based on Star Trek. And it is ridiculous that a licensing agreement means a game like this has to stop being sold. It's a finished artifact, not a live service! Let it continue to exist!

I kind of wish shows would tell you up front whether they're made to be paid attention to or made to have in the background while doing something else, so I don't waste my time treating the latter like the former.

ONE WEEK TO GO! Please consider backing @b7comics.bsky.social' Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel. Written by @alexdecampi.bsky.social pi.bsky.social, colours by @michaelrbwoods.bsky.social with covers by @westonfront.bsky.social & @jhwilliams3.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

I genuinely love this. Astronauts, like kids, know that you do not leave your stuffies behind.

International Day of Human Space Flight! 12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin crewed the Vostok 1 mission, completing one orbit around Earth. 12 April 1981: The first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, Columbia STS-1.

Production rough of my take on the green guy in Dan Dare. www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Looking forward to all the batshit heretical things people will manipulate AI Jesus into saying. Not looking forward to the harmful things AI Jeaus will end up saying to vulnerable people turning to it for help.

just a reminder that I have this cool and fully funded book about spaceships in space and future you will thank you if you pledge for a copy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

OK now I also want a modern graphic novel reboot of Bananaman

remembered a good tweet

"Good" and "evil" don't properly describe the Kirks in the Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within", they should be called "Diet Kirk" and "Kirk Zero".

In today’s Guardian, a nice feature on @b7comics.bsky.social Dan Dare graphic novel by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and some art bloke ;) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

look at this fraggle-ass fish

Dan Dare: First Contact pencils detail. Please consider backing our Kickstarter crowdfunder for this passion project being made with love for the character but retooled for today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Space Goblin goes to the opera! Nell of Lamp Post Projects (lamppostprojects.com) painted this for me as thanks for playtesting their Fantasy Opera games. One doesn't wear a space helmet to the opera, so he's wearing an opera coat with a star pattern.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

Y'all weren't joking about Blue Prince, that game is great

OK this is super cute

I broke my favourite mug :( so I glued it back together to use as a pen holder. Thought I'd share it in case you also need to hear that you're doing a good job and your hair looks nice.

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

This NASA site gives a real-time view of where Artemis II is. Very cool. www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

We have 653 backers for DAN DARE and I would love to hit 700. @b7media.bsky.social is announcing stretch goals soon, we’ll have new pages next week—and maybe even a rough of @jhwilliams3.bsky.social’s hardback cover! The book is WORTH IT, trust me: www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Hit a project milestone today! There's now a single path where I can play through the game without encountering any placeholder text. Now I just need to write the rest of it. write.as/johnayliff/f...

I'm just gonna say right now that Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate (and my other games) are political as fuck, in ways that I intended and no doubt also in ways that I wasn't conscious of but are still there.

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Some process stuff from world building folder for @b7comics.bsky.social's Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel, crowd funding on Kickstarter now! Please consider backing this passion project kickstarter.com/projects/798979572/dan-dare-graphic-novel

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Can I recommend: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (also, everything) Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (also, everything) Ursula le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea (also, everything)

Writer, @alexdecampi.bsky.social, talks about her love for Dan Dare and why the character is still relevant today: “The classic Dan Dare books absolutely rock. And we're remaking Dan Dare so new generations can realise how awesome it is too.” www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

Project Hail Mary is great. A smart and visually impressive bit of space sci-fi, and a cute and funny and heartwarming story about the power of friendship. Maybe longer than it needed to be, but I enjoyed every minute. Glad I saw it on the big screen.

FULLY FUNDED!!! This is now a sure thing, script is already written and Marc is well stuck into the art—get in, friends, we’re going to outer space: www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

The source of so many comic book problems

Our Kickstarter campaign is so close to being funded for the Dan Dare: First Contact graphic novel (the first of 3) from @b7comics.bsky.social by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @marclaming.bsky.social . Please consider helping to make this passion project happen! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

One would think that being able to say "I personally dislike this show, but it'll make a lot of money, so I'll back it" would be an essential quality of being a TV executive. But I guess being an executive is about arbitrarily exerting power rather than making good business decisions.

SO many English Civil War battlefields and castles. I'm from the bit of England where that all went down.

Natasha Weaving, 37, made the chilling discovery on Monday when she noticed colleague Eddie Albington, 38, using his laptop in meetings before fully saying the stupidest shit she had ever heard in her life.

Just had an idea for a game where you play a genetic engineer creating mutant waterfowl: A roguelike duckbuilding game.

Huge thanks to everyone who’s back our Kickstarter campaign for the Dan Dare graphic novel by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @marclaming.bsky.social. Stand by next week when we’ll be announcing our most excellent cover artists and the chance to have a signed limited edition poster. Spaceship Away.