The Snow Queen, by Edmund Dulac, 1911.

AHhhhh it looks so good! January 2027! The start of next year would be a cozy one!

Discworld 33 - Going Postal Absolutely LOVED this one. @rhi.bsky.social @discworldofficial.bsky.social #Discworld

Ooooh boy am I now paying the price for my inability to sleep until 3am last night. Every eye blink is a gamble now. Will it open again? Or will I be sent to the shadowy realms of 6pm naps that will fuck everything up again?

This obsession with hyperrealism is honestly so tiring. People just assume that more realistic graphics = progress, and it’s such a limited way of looking at things. When everything is chasing the exact same “realistic” look it all starts to blend together

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Ser Duncan the Tall and Egg from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Also my first attempt with the watercolour set I bought in Japan. Results are... uhhh.:: mixed.

cropped ver. + #discworld + #samvimes +

I was wondering why my dog suddenly left the room and stared at me from a distance. Turns out she doesn't like me packing the work bag. Probably because it's a large, strange thing with many odd sounds, especially the rattling box of Halls mint. Sorry girl, I'll pack outside the room next time.

sinners my love congratulations on winning best picture (in MY award ceremony)

Here's an unused arcade Alien vs Predator concept that never went anywhere. Did this right after Prey came out yearsssss ago (and have a lot more art that we used for a whole pitch doc) I still dream of this becoming a reality.

Had such a busy day that I didn't really pay much attention to the Oscars, but I am glad K-Pop Demon Hunters won, I'm happy MBJ won, and One Battle After Another is a worthy Best Picture. I ought to go check out Train Dreams, Hamnet, Bugonia, and Marty Supreme though.

The last four animated feature Oscar winners have been quite diverse picks now that Disney/Pixar has lost its stranglehold on the category

the lesson to be learned here is that when you let artists and creatives cook, instead of doing everything possible to increase shareholder returns, you get creative art that becomes immortal and inspires everyone!! you will always fall short when you don't trust the artists to do what they do best

I was in tears earlier today as i fear this will most likely wipe me out financially. I know i should have made this post a month earlier. I was struggling so hard with asking for help. This is becoming dire, as the date of surgery is in about less than a month💜 I would appreciate a share!

Finished The Shepherd's Crown! I tried to savor this one, as it's the last Tiffany Aching book (also the last Discworld book 🥲) and I'm not ready to leave these characters. Another terrific read, filled with optimism for the future - an apt ending, in many ways.

It's good to have colleagues who are avid fountain pen users. Just learned that one of the sampler inks I bought (Troublemaker, which does make some trouble) is dryer to use, and now I have a few inexpensive brands to try out if I want to.

GNU Terry Pratchett 🪻🖤 @terrypratchett.bsky.social

After waffling for months about whether to get a new phone, I have now gotten used to the many quirks of my aging, seven-year-old Note 10+. Sure it's a little slower and the battery wasn't what it used to be, but so long I'm diligent with charging it still works well.

Still slowly chipping away at Silent Hill f. 30-40 min sessions are the best I could muster without feeling nauseated, though thankfully the game accommodates short sessions pretty well.

Gahhhhh holding out for the IMAX release of Whisper of the Heart in this part of the world! We've gotten Princess Mononoke last year, so here's hoping! It's not a top Ghibli outing for many, but this is a personally important one for me, and an all-time classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lX...

I guess nearing 40 means having a mysterious nerve/muscle sore near the butt, which then curiously went away, only to return in the middle of the night making sleep rather uncomfortable, and then vanish in the daytime.

I've been blessed with good pens lately. My wife's Kakuno has converted me to fountain pens. I've bought a couple of ink samplers to try out, too, so that's something to look forward to. Then my friend gifted me a Kokuyo ballpoint pen, which I've been using on-the-go regularly.

It appears that I may have partied* too hard yesterday. *(partying up with stalwart friends in Sunderfolk to defeat an invading ogre queen well into the night)

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

I was at a birthday party with my wife and our daughter today, and I sure as fuck forced some conversations that other parents weren't ready for -- about the shallow hypocrisies of their bourgeoisie values, leaving their children in tears!! They seemed fine with us being gay married.

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

Baby Assassins: Nice Days is the best Baby Assassins yet. It's all in the long takes. Long takes that showcase the physical prowess of our main stars and the creatively choreographed fights, and long takes of the girls just connecting and finding peace and joy and safety with each other. So good

Summarize your current/future works-in-progress in a few words: 1. Accursed bride has an arranged marriage with a were-monster 2. The best friend of The Chosen One reckons with an uncertain future 3. A family has a cross-country journey to put their zhiangshi patriach to rest

'The Wild Robot' will return, and in good hands. ‘Nimona’ director Troy Quane will direct, and DreamWorks vet Heidi Jo Gilbert will co-direct 'The Wild Robot Escapes,' with Chris Sanders returning to write the screenplay. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Reading The Last Unicorn to my kids; just nobody writes like Peter Beagle. Watch the way he starts with humorous imagery, slides into this aching Romantic mode, and ends with a sentence that will haunt your heart; all with just the simplest, clearest prose. And every page is like this.

EXCLUSIVE: Watch the first teaser for Cartoon Saloon's 'Kindred Spirits,' the new animated feature in development from studio co-founder Tomm Moore ('The Secret of Kells,' 'Song of the Sea'). www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

My late father was a retired gangster. He was a "Tai Lou" (Big Brother) and I didn't know the extent of how involved he was until his funeral, which went in part like a triad funeral. Amazing how much of it was shielded from us. (Or maybe I was just daft).

I'd assume the Bluepoint devs would've been valuable for this strategy. I hope they keep the talented folks at Nixxes. Don't destroy more livelihoods and throw away decades of institutional knowledge + team cohesion.

You’re trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? In Gifu City, albeit an illustrated one, while two particularly smart teenagers go about trying to be "ordinary people" and eat perhaps too many desserts.

I had a good break, but I do regret not sleeping in at least one day. Like, sleep till noon kind of sleeping in. Just let the morning go by without me doing anything but becoming part of a blanket burito.

So these bubble animations were made with clear gel in this sequence from the movie "A New Dawn".

"Skip and Loafer" - Mitsumi Birthday Visual! Season 2 has been confirmed, with the release date yet to be announced.

Doodling and writing on a new Midori notebook (a birthday gift) while listening to the new Gorillaz album, which is great, making today a really great day so far.

Gorillaz "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God".

And you can tell that people take it seriously by the fact that Shogakukan's first response was pretty nothingy but then they posted a second response that had a more "sincere" tone. People didn't let them get away with the first one...

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Played quite a bit of Sunderfolk with friends yesterday, though I do wonder if we're perhaps too slow at playing because one mission took us more than two hours at least and we've only just moved to Chapter 2 of Act 1. The game is amazing though, truly a fantastic co-op experience.

Woke up wondering why I set my alarm so late on a work day only to remember that I took Monday and Tuesday off. I still need to serve my primary employer aka my dog though.