Watching Twilight with my son. We've both seen it many times, but he hasn't seen the last two in the series (Breaking Dawn 1 and 2) so we're starting from the beginning. #film2026 no.3

#WyrdWednesday “But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” Rudyard Kipling. The Cat Who Walks by Himself.

Mosaic of a Wild Boar on the Northern Aisle Floor of the Byzantine Church of Petra https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-a-wild-boar-on-the-northern-aisle-floor-of-the-byzantine-church-of-petra-550

Story seven in penguin Weird Fiction: 'Where their fire is not quenched' by May Sinclair. A few pages in, I'm already painfully sad. "She made him lend her the books he read. But always, when she tried to talk to him, he let her see that that wasn't what she was there for" #amreading #shortstories

That weird buzzing noise you’re hearing? That’s just the sound of your thoughts getting louder.

Advice from a Caterpillar for #WyrdWednesday Illustration by Tove Jansson 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland', 1966.

Cooking tip: Double the oven temperature to cook the food in half the time. If the food burns that simply means you are impure of heart

#WyrdWednesday 🦊 Meet Reynard the Fox, the legendary talking fox of European folk tales—master of cunning escapes! In one classic yarn, he outsmarts pursuing hunters by disguising himself as a priest and slipping into a church, using quick wit & sly deception to vanish right under their noses.

"her own lawyer...tried several times to cut short her story. But she went on to the end, with a kind of hypnotized insistence, as though the scenes she evoked were so real to her that she had forgotten where she was & imagined herself to be re-living them." Wharton, Kerfol #amreading #shortstories

‘‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. ‘Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!’’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #WyrdWednesday 🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)

According to Aesop, an ass donned a lion's skin to terrify the other animals. He saw a vixen & tried to bully her, too. But she talked back: "I can assure you I would have been afraid of you, too, if I hadn't heard your braying." Moral: a fool & a faker will always tell on themselves #WyrdWednesday

I think I should add waking up through the night as one of my hobbies.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Came home and sat down and did a Aubrey Beardsley and Harry Clarke inspired mari. I liked the turn pose Mari Ystrad did

A charming #Greek terracotta aryballos in the shape of a hedgehog 🦔. The vessel was used to hold oil. Dating 6th century BC. On display at Antikensammlung München.

Obliged to the ordinary enchantments.

Morning. Merlins, John Leigh-Pemberton.

one of the stark few unmitigated good things to come out of punk rock was the spirit of volunteerism and DIY that kept the scene going well beyond its mass-cultural expiration date. We discard that spirit in favor of unbroken professionalism and bag-securing at our peril.

Your in her DMs, I don’t know who you’re talking about. We’re pretty much the same person.

Example chaos. Vent shrimp (Rimicaris exoculata) at a hydrothermal vent 3600 m deep in the Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcbF...

Example unbothered. Sea pigs www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9no...

Deep-sea animals have two modes: absolutely unbothered or deeply committed to chaos.

Punk cat socializing with locals and forming a real sense of community (commission)

Clowns to the left of me, ninja turtles to the right Here I am Down in the sewers with you

It's all in my head, which is where everything that's true lives.

Goodnight from Brighthaven’s Princess Caroline Hotel, gaunt and uneasy on a night when its ghosts outnumber its guests. Goodnight from Chris Bowland, encountering the plough light spilling through the windows of St. Berenwald’s as a profound blessing. Goodnight from Hookland.

I like how this gag turned out.

Hands

Finally starting to get some battleaxes in progress using paint, pastels & marker on backgrounds made from paper bags, midcentury magazines & wallpapers & duplicates from my Babycham mat collection. Just laid down the first couple of loose layers, a long way to go but it’s a joy to get them underway

Me: It seems fate has caused our paths to collide yet again. Do not fucking look at me or speak to me. Wednesday:

did i waste my life? not all of it yet. getting there

Me: Come on now give me some of that sweet sweet optimism Third coffee: Best I can do is detachment

Hellenistic gold wreath, 3rd century BC. A dazzling example of ancient goldsmithing! 🤩 From Pergamon (modern-day Bergama), Turkey. Istanbul Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Tuesday 🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

You've only got 1 life: U can use it to do good, to live & let live. Or you could use it to hate others, harass them, cause pain. But please know, you'll die. There's no other ending. We all go at some point, so it's up to you if you want to use that 1 life U got to do some good or to be an asshole.

One thing can be two things at once.

If my grandpa knew how little we spent on his funeral, he’d turn over in his cardboard box.

The Annunciation. Virgin Mary https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/the-annunciation-virgin-mary-1030

On 13 January, T.A. 3019: after escaping the wargs, the Fellowship of the Ring reach the West-gate of Moria, the Doors of Durin. Speak, friend, and enter! #OTD #Tolkien #Booksky Image: Moria by Lída Holubová

Not enough of you read cereal boxes as a kid eating breakfast, and it shows.

#vss365 #stoop #Poetry #Moments at dusk, your shadow stoops long mine stoops to touch yours fingers of gray merging to black we feel day’s end curve gently as our shadows lengthen and vanish

Georges Méliès, true to his stage roots, demonstrates no strings in THE MERMAID (1904). While his special effects are justly acclaimed, I think he also deserves credit for being among the first performers to understand how to play to the camera.

Time to return to Will Self?

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

my body is ready, lfggggg

Nine Simone,

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Life on the Tide Line’ (Shell Guide, 1959) Artist : John Leigh-Pemberton

Twin Peaks: A key, found taped to a page in Laura’s diary.

More on the nature of haunted houses by Edith Wharton, from the story ‘All Souls’’.