Dana 🔪

Ruth, a pearl white dragon with green eyes, poses regally with wings spread against a cliff face. Her rider Jaxom rears back, saddle-mounted just above her wings. A foreclaw grips rock as the other releases, flexing like fingers. Ruth's tail, marked with a parallel ridges of short spikes and ending in a spade-shaped tip, curls forward around her back leg. A tiny dragon grasps Jaxom's finger, perching like a bird. Across the misty valley, a group of dragons take flight, soaring past the Red Star which hangs in deep blue sky like a bloody moon just above the jagged spine of mountains.

Taking a look back at The White Dragon, the Anne McCaffrey book that changed everything, as we review the 20 covers published in the year 1978 in this week's newsletter:

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World of Warcraft opens the doors of IRL estate agent pop-up to celebrate Player Housing Visit Azeroth Homes in London at the end of January for expert advice on building and decorating your first home in WoW

More info here. Hope to see you there! 🏡 www.gamesradar.com/games/world-...

CALLING ALL BUILDERS 🛠️ We want to see your WoW houses – and we want to show them off!

For a chance to feature in The Great Housing Showcase, which will take place live in London and will be broadcast on Twitch, drop us an email with images or a video walkthrough of your build

As someone who loved Helix I would not object to this. 🤷‍♀️

My family is hospitality and retail and blue collar workers, and I busted my ass to get a degree and then another degree, and having white leftists from professional families whine that they can't bear to fill out a ballot twice a year every two years bc Dems aren't perfect makes me want to scream

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Magazine cover for AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES dated November 1982. Below the title reads “Combined with Fantastic Magazine” and “Founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback"

Cover for AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES November 1982, the relaunch of the magazine founded by SF legend Hugo Gernsbach. 3/3

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A man in a red spacesuit stands on an asymmetrical rock perch with a black dragon wrapping its wings around him protectively. Seen in profile, the dragon's maw burns with intensity matching its golden eyes. Wisps of smoke trail from the long crack of its mouth. The man's domed helmet is off, hanging just over his shoulder. He balances the butt of a long rifle on his hip. The yellow silk scarf tied about his neck flutters in the breeze. The sky behind is a gradient of acidic green giving way to yellow.

AMAZING DRAGON (1982)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30" x 19"

When Amazing Stories commissioned me to do the cover for the premier issue of their newly redesigned magazine, I decided that the painting should encompass both the realms of science fiction and fantasy. 1/3

PRESS HOME > TV > TV FEATURES Down to Puck: Why Women Are Going Wild for 'Heated Rivalry® The Canadian series with explicit male-on-male sex scenes has tapped into a long-overlooked corner of the audience - and caught Hollywood by surprise hollywoodreporter.com

Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.

So all American pet owners are in agreement that this night is tied with July 4th as the worst of the year, right? #HappyNewYear

Casio QL-10, combination calculator, alarm clock and... cigarette lighter.

There's only one true calculighter

still from Starship Troopers of Michael Ironside saying "They sucked his brains out"

If you hit play on STARSHIP TROOPERS at exactly 10:32:46 PM on New Years Eve, the first thing you'll hear in 2024 is Michael Ironside saying "They sucked his brains out." Start your new year off right.

A black cat sleeping tucked into a red and white blanket with a polar bear design.

Idk why he looks so dead in this photo but I promise I can feel him purring against my leg. #cats

Next Christmas I think I’m going to treat myself to one of these silver plated tray and spoon sets so that I can serve my jellied cranberry sauce in style.

That's even better than the people I saw calling minimum wage grocery store cashiers "food cops."

We left our hearts in Undermine, so I brought it to my house 🗑️💥✨

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#warcrafthousing #undermine

It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency

Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn on What ‘Pluribus’ Is Really About, Why Hollywood ‘Needs More Heroes’ and How Silicon Valley Has ‘F—ed Up the World’ Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn unpack the first two episodes of 'Pluribus' and slam AI: 'Silicon Valley' has 'f---ed up the world.'

"AI is the world’s most expensive & energy-intensive plagiarism machine. ...there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. ...they’re selling a bag of vapor"

WoW Housing Tutorial | Custom Windows YouTube video by Building Mouse

Custom Windows tutorial by Building Mouse

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lauren @NotABigJerk For everyone visiting their parents this week: LG tvs call it TrueMotion Roku/TCL calls it Action Smoothing Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus Sony calls it MotionFlow Panasonic calls it Intelligent Frame Creation Amazon Fire TVs call it Motion Processing 12/25/22

Team B

a group of people are sitting around a table in a conference room . Alt: a group of people are sitting around a table in a conference room . A man jumps out the window.

I know Bluesky has made it, because the trending topics are now every bit as cursed as Twitter used to be. Can ONE DAY go by that doesn't make me want to just

Rainy days are great for watching Mike Flanagan shows. 🌧️

I misinterpreted this for a moment and thought you had beef with all musical acts from the city of Chicago.

Oh so Platner just decided to get rid of the Nazi tattoo because he wanted to become a powerful politician, that tracks.

I just saw someone go "Bernie isn't a Leftist, he's a Liberal" because Sanders defended the tat-enkopf guy, and the poster wanted to blame liberals for being ok with that.

A lot of people's brains are breaking. I know we're all under a lot of stress, but don't let it happen to you.

"you're only a leftist if you're doing everything I agree with, otherwise you're a sparkling liberal"

also, how does Platner claim that he had no idea what a Totenkopf was or that his tattoo was one until a week ago when this Reddit conversation he was part of 6 years ago was all about a soldier with a Totenkopf where people discuss the difference between an SS Totenkopf vs. a Punisher skull etc.

My idiot brother once accidentally got a Nazi adjacent tattoo. The moment he learned what it was, he stole a stereo and pawned it to pay for a cover-up.

Even sketchy people know it's immoral to wear a nazi tattoo. There's no excuse. If someone has a nazi tattoo it's because they want a nazi tattoo