Was on a Beowulf deep dive over his name and reading arguments that it couldn't actually mean Bee-wolf (bear) due to Old English names not usually being kennings heavy going into the linguistics of it but seemingly not acknowledging there are other kenning names in the poem itself (Hondscio)

interesting seeing fascists reacting to the bravery of ordinary people risk their lives for their fellow community against ice by being scared and confused by it I find it fascinating because its genuinely like theyre tolkien orcs lmao they have completely no comprehension of community or empathy

I hope that the new HBO series draws new attention to Gary Gianni's magnificent Dunk & Egg illustrations.

Still working away on the next Malky Dungeon comic btw, its a shortish one so not sure if just to release the entire hing in the wan go or in batches as I finish them

OPEN ACCESS - 'Stone and the gods: religious cognition and stone carving in first millennium AD northern Britain'. This World Archaeology article examines the origins of naturalistic stone carving in Northeast Scotland. Download, read, and share widely! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was curious if anyone had analysed the Robin scene in a knight of the seven kingdoms? Just wasn't sure as I think its only in british folklore the idea about a loved one being near if a Robin appears?

Bird report: Bullfinches foraging in a field

there he is

seeing what the yanks are planning to do in Gaza you can understand exactly how the american and british empires directly inspired hitler and his plans in the east you exterminate the natives, drive them into smaller reservations to slowly die off then you build roads and condos for the master race

I know its just social media you could say whats the big deal? But there was a time online where despite not being an academic there were groups happy to let me see their translations of obscure historical works or research and I'm sad at the thought others wont get to enjoy that connectivity

I can't tell if its just a combination of the world falling apart or getting old or the nature of the medium has changed but I miss the possibilities of connection on social media whether friendship or academic or research it feels a smaller world now

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

For the 1st time, archaeologists have direct proof of far-flung social networks during the last Ice Age. “In times of climate crisis, cooperation—not conflict—was a successful strategy,” says @cnrs.fr's @solangerigaud.bsky.social. “It’s good to recall that as a lesson from our past.” 🏺 @science.org

my favourite Log Lad was trying to impress the female thats been staying in his territory today

Something I'm really interested in is how to depict mythical beings/ concepts. Was quite happy with how this drawing I made inspired by the Ribe skull fragment turned out, where a pesky Dwarf has been caught in a charm.

my favourite Log Lad was trying to impress the female thats been staying in his territory today

Bird report: Song Thrush

instead of this simulcra shortbread shite the council should pay me to paint a new mural of the knight charging out a cinema that used to be part of the Govan lyceum (rip)

saw some discussion over some yank political commentator claim the communist quest in DE was the weakest part in the game-I found it one of the most moving aspects of the final cut. Choosing to work through the initial cliches/obvious tropes/ the cringe of the students can lead to something profound

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

because im such an insufferable nerd i keep thinking about that bit in the silmarillion where Morgoth gets mad he can never find the imperishable flame to create his own world and so he has to just corrupt the world that is instead and how thats what ai feels like to me

I just finished reading House on the Borderland and I'm grateful the edition I have has a foreword and afterword by Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair because it does my nut in trying to find critical and thematic analysis online and there is fuck all other than sarky plot summaries

it might look to the amateur that i've been doing fuck all drawing but in actuality I've been focusing all my energy into a single comic panel using Goya's 'Boy staring at an apparition' painting as inspiration for depicting a demonic boar bogle, thank you for your patience

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Anyone else read any of William Hope Hodgson's work? I was really struck how the Night Land pre-empts Lovecraft with cosmic horror with a setting where we're actually through the looking glass of the reality breaking terrors having already broken through and where did that concept come from?

I got an amazing pic of Log Robin today just before he shot off to defend his realm

saying "Don't take the bait" as government fascist thugs are literally breaking into peoples houses to take them away to brutal internment camps is the exact sort of patter i expect from a party that committed genocide when it was last in power yeah

Anyone else read any of William Hope Hodgson's work? I was really struck how the Night Land pre-empts Lovecraft with cosmic horror with a setting where we're actually through the looking glass of the reality breaking terrors having already broken through and where did that concept come from?

I know this would just have most likely have been a curiosity at the end of a long trade route and may have taken up a new meaning for its Norse owner but I still can't help but imagine what a Norse saga about Buddha would have looked like ...

you'd think after all this time I'd know- but no every fuckin time I'm back down the style mines trying to figure out how to draw all over again

still stuck in the comic trenches at the moment, still excited to do a new short Malky Dungeon story but I keep feeling my art should look better than it is

Holy hell. The description of death row in apartheid South Africa was one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. Also. This guy wasn't fucking around.

Bowl with Hares, Iraq, possibly Baghdad or Basra, Abbasid Period (750-1258). Earthenware, luster-painted on opaque white glaze. Height: 10.2 cm; Rim (Diameter): 22.5 cm; Base (Diameter): 8.9 cm, 1941.22 © Toledo Museum of Art www.alaintruong.com/2026/01/bowl...

I don't think I've ever seen Robins partner up as early as this before? Everywhere else they're chasing and beating the shit out of each other but the Log Robin is just singing away to the other one.

this was the animation, was struck by how some of the Steppe sculptural figures reminded me of some Norse art www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJY...

was trying to look up an old animation there and the way so much of the internet now is just composed of ai hallucinations genuinely makes me want to punch someone

do you ever think about the time scott adams was on babylon 5

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

thinking for no particular reason how good that one scene is in Deadwood where after the Pinkertons have been terrorising the local community for several episodes Al Swearengen just goes and fuckin beats the shit out of one of em www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC_...

Bird report: Bullfinch

my liege

spending my days going for numerous walks in the woods, having birds fly over to me for food, making big bowls of soup, reading old books about ancient lore - realising I've went full Hobbit this winter ...

I really hope this place can still take off, it still feels overly american dominated tbh i need to see more people from the world over to filter through ...

I needed this

I endeavour to be frugal but every so often I get a sudden urge to obtain centuries old volumes of Ossian