Ayfa, Sister of Battle ⚔️

Commissioning Per was like experiencing a magical girl transformation of imagination into art.

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Oho check THIS out 👀🌊🐙🦭🪸🦑🐋🌊

Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

Always fun to watch American influencers/creators putting their Irish flags in their bios when it's sexy to be rebellious and cosplay your great-great-grandparent. For some reason the flag goes away after a while. Did they stop being 1/16th from Ballinasloe, or did the zeitgeist move on?

Write what you know, I guess. (Final submission: DONE!!)

It must have taken me two hours at least to get this done.

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

Finished the introductory scenario tonight, oh my gosh what a treat. Multiple fails led to the most outrageous confrontation with the killer, ludologically delicious, narratively tragic. Had such a great time, looking forward to mooooore!

I did it? I finished it? Think I've just completed my second Masters? ... What do I do now?

Can't believe I'm writing a research proposal about animal-assisted trauma interventions, while I periodically take breaks to pet the large orange house-tiger that has decided to sprawl in front of me on the desk. Somatic downregulation indeed.

SO excited and pleased to see the name of a good pal, @peculiarplanets.com as a CRIT Award winner. Riley is a stellar roleplayer, bringing everything and more to a table, it's always such a joy to share a scene with them. Well deserved. (Oh, and check out @tumblethrupod.bsky.social too!)

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Does no one remember Garvaghy Road? Jesus christ.

Vaguely chronological, played the absolute living daylights out of all of them.

Been pretty normal and level-headed about this album, actually, music.youtube.com/watch?v=A256...

Big exciting prize for whoemever can identify which one of these is my Masters thesis, and which one is my wood elf lore doc.

OKAY. LOCKIN IN. Thesis/proposal is due in two weeks. I have a topic, literature review, and methodological framework down. Writing about something close to my heart while also keeping a safe, professional distance from it. It's a good exercise for managing impartiality while caring deeply.

Dune: Messiah special advance screening tickets booked. I am NOT playing around about this.

Running, not walking, to my Warhammer Fantasy GM

Fuck Sheeran. Fuck late-stage capitalism. Fuck the ruling class favouring the colonising oppressors. Fuck rich English people leaning on their Irish roots to avoid having to think about their own country's sordid past. I will ALWAYS stand against genocide go deo. An Phailistín go brách. 🇵🇸 🤝 🇮🇪

Can't lift heavy things (for now) but I sure can cycle at near light speed through the fields at the foot of the mountain where I live, which is a pretty good substitute, for now. (I'll need padded gloves to deal with the wrist shock absorption though, holy ouch)

I personally find it amazing that people chose to beef with a dude who could shoot an arrow through their throat from 50 metres away

Good. Absolutely bizarre of the tour to expect Irish performers to stand with Sheeran here. We'll be taking Galway Girl and giving it back to Sharon Shannon and Mundy, thanks.

Me: cool breeze, scent of leaves in the air, sun warming my face. I think it's time to get back to lifting heavy stuff at the gym My scheming C-reactive proteins, gleefully elevating: actually how would we like to get some arthritic symptoms instead

Stone. Gouache on paper. 4th one for #septempera. There's a village near where I live where there's this tree that awkwardly hugs the last remnants of a stone wall. I've been wanting to paint it for a while. And I took the chance to put in a tiny homage to a favorite of mine, Rien Poortvliet.

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

Watched Coyote Vs Acme yesterday. Honestly, almost full marks and that was so unexpected. Full of heart. My grandfather loved the Looney Tunes (especially Foghorn Leghorn, found him hilarious), and we'd watch them together all the time when I was small. He'd have loved it.

Writing a thing for a thing and I already hate it, myself, everyone else, and I want to set everything I've ever made on fire and delete myself from all history books. So things are going well

Just had a big ole bowl o'chilli and a cuppa tae while wrapped in a soft blanket. Think it might be autumn, lads. 🍂☕

Let’s not forget what Ursula K. Le Guin had to say about JKR and Harry Potter.

Midnight of the Century? With some of my favourite people? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within my computer? Don't mind if I do!

Always blow a kiss to your homies at the end of a call, just so they know ya love em.

Ended up having a really good day. Makes ya think.

Me: god I'm so evil rn. Feel horrible about myself. Nothing I do can get me out of this funk- Me: *holds a sword for a few minutes* Me: ah, right, okay,