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Figure detail from PATHLESS featuring a barefoot woman in a long black dress with subtle purple accents at the waist, cuffs, and neck. Her feet are awkwardly position on a rock in the path through a golden field of wheat. As she cranes her head back, her fingers touch the thin black band around her neck holding a broach.

Detail from PATHLESS featuring an orange butterfly perching on a tuft of golden wheat shifting in the breeze.

This didn't make any sense. I finally had to stop and realize that it was OK to give myself the freedom to paint something beautiful. If I just relax and trust the process, the themes emerge and the art takes care of itself. 2/2

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Actually, in all seriousness, I'm really impressed, it's crystal clear.

Is it a sail boat? ;-)

I fell out of using them back in the day after my infrared connector broke, and then by the time nostalgia had kicked in, so had my Mum's spring cleaning.

Ive been missing my Psions a lot recently. I bought a psion-ish keyboard for phone and tried to track down an emulator. Do you know of one? I've found a web version, but I'd like one I could actually use and export the documents (I seem to remember rtfs?).

The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren Vampires who knit A troublemaking witch Who killed Granny — and is she really dead?  At a crossro...

I've been on a spree of reading this series of murder-mysteries. They are easy to read, have a layer of humour, a cast of likable characters, and have just a bit of magic in the background.

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I'd really love a sequel to Crudrat, but also more of Alessandro Tarabotti...though, to be honest, anything you write that makes you happy is good with me 🙂

I've literally just finished listening to the latest Sword & Laser. I love the photo: great podcast, awesome authorbeast 😃

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I just love these stories. Other Portal Future books get more epic or romantic, but these novellas are just perfectly balanced treats. Also, joy of joys, Ms Edwards is releasing the next story, chapter by chapter, on her Patreon! I'm so happy right now! #BookSky
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I reread it along with the Milieu books. They were more beautiful and powerful than I remembered, but also far more disturbing.

I adore this

My new standard reply to weird macho guys: "You can come to Buffalo Wild Wings but don't say stuff like that."

Looks pretty cool to me 😃

Are these still available? I can't seem to find the "take my money" button on the website.

I am an adult and do not wish to get a credit card just to prove my age.

I'm rereading the Hive Mind series by the amazing @janetedwardssf.bsky.social . A fascinating setting, Conan Doyle level mysteries and characters that you care about. I just love this series (and everything by the author).

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I was in Kuwait in the 50sC. Not a fun experience.

Brilliant

I too played on a black and white tv and thus developed a highly trained eye for specific shades of grey.

I love that book and I love your artwork, yet I have never seen this cover. Knowing the story this illustration is deeply evocative. Thank you so much for sharing.

Book cover for "This Time of Darkness" by H.M. Hoover. The illustration shows a young boy and girl emerging from a metal tunnel into a green wilderness.

This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover. Totally blew my mind. Tracked down a copy as an adult and it held up.

Autistic Pride Day welcome break from Autistic Shame Year Autistic Pride Day is to provide a much-needed temporary respite from the remainder of a year spent marinating in shame, it has been rumoured.  The event, which takes place today, the 18th of June, en...

“It’s a lovely rest from having to think about the time I was 11 and congratulated a family friend on a pregnancy that turned out to be a food baby. Or the day I tried to join in a thing called ‘banter’ and made Ryan Wilkins cry so hard his mum had to come and get him from sixth form.”

Thanks for posting. I'm interested in all the things, but I'm mostly here for the BBC/Acorn stuff.

Medieval is how an archaeologist gets on you if you use the term Dark Ages in their presence.

I loved book 3, it has a bit of a different feel, more of a mystery, but I thought it was excellent. I'm really looking forward to book 4 too.

Great series!

This genuinely happened to me in school. I just kept politely correcting my teacher's mistakes until he said "Well, why don't you take the class, eh?". I went up the front and ran the rest of the lesson.

Same!

You are right. People are people, your child is your child. I don't see why understanding these facts would be age related.