Is this a pre-order I see before me?!

It is! Coming December 5th, the fourth of the Saint of Steel books!

You can pre-order now wherever fine ebooks are sold*, and paperback orders are available from Argyll Productions! And Patreon patrons get it free, probably a few hours before midnight my time on the 4th.

This is Shane and Marguerite’s book, and it’s a chonker at 130k. There may even be a few more tidbits about the death of the god, in amid the adventure, romance, demons, and semi-accidental destabilization of the world economy!

*UK readers, you may have some glitches—OrbitUK is taking over the distribution there and we’re still ironing out transferring territorial rights—if the pre-order gets canceled, just re-order, it’s not you, it’s not even me, it’s the vast machinery of international commerce. But you also will get a snazzy paperback printing of all four books next year, which will not require ruinous shipping to the UK!

GIRLY JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT CYERCE ELEGANS

If Cyerce nigricans is a butterfly, then this is a fairy... Cyerce nigricans for comparison:

I find it funny whenever i make a sea slug post that gets more notes than expected, like. Yeah, I'm winning at the webbed site (<- made these posts in a sea slug obsessive haze. No one could have seen them and I still would have kept going. It's my enrichment)

Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

Festivities 🏮🏮🏮

A reimagining of a piece with the same name I did in 2017. I spent a lot of time with this painting! This artwork was part of my solo exhibition ‘Ripple’ at Gallery Nucleus back in August of 2023💕✨

Hannah Jensen is a New Zealand artist who hand-craves images into layers of acrylic paint, a technique she created in 2003.

art_dailydose

Here’s johnny

Hey, it finally uploaded! Lots of people have had questions on this, so let me break this down. It's not actually a hard project.

Materials:

Tools:

The clock doesn't have to be special, but it does need to be deep enough to contain the display pedestal plus about a quarter inch of clearance. I had to cut out the back of my clock to get some extra depth, and added a backing piece of foamcore for that. Ideally, you should spraypaint the inside of the clock silver, white, or another reflective color to help the light bounce around inside. Cut a hole to thread the USB power supply inside.

The star print needs to be the diameter of the clock, and gets glued to the matboard. (I used a PVA glue, because I had it already.) Matboard is ideal for this--it's basically the paper version of plywood; it's lots of heavy sheets laminated together. It's about as dense and light-blocking as paper can be. It's tough to cut though, so take your time. I marked out the edges of the glass clock face on the print and worked slowly. I then used the leather punches and needle tool to punch holes in random spots on the map, and sanded the back to remove bumps caused by that process.

The rotating internal layer gets cut to be the internal diameter of the clock, minus about half an inch. Black foamcore is ideal. I used white because I already had it, but foamcore doesn't take paint well so this wasn't great. Trace the star holes onto the foamcore circle, so you know how far out to take your openings. The openings can be totally random, whatever size you want; as it rotates, different areas will allow light through.

The LED strip gets attached to the back of the clock, using tape. The display pedestal needs to get centered on the back of the clock (be precise!) and hot glued in place, and then the perforated foamcore gets glued onto that. Check that it is not catching at the edges as it rotates.

The whole thing can then be sandwiched back together, with the USB power cord tucked in to power both the LED strip and the rotating display pedestal. Let me know if anyone else makes one!

Hamster's In Dungeon And Dragons

I need a full version of this PRONTO

body: small spirit of adventure: massive

Here @wizardshark have a nine hour version of it

@monsterthalia ALL THE LEAVES ARE FROGS AND ALL THE FROGS ARE LEAVES

Girl help, my morphing tessellation art came to life.

Cooking protip: there are a lot of vegetables that you can use to bulk out a meal by adding as much as you like! But chilli peppers are not one of them!

derin what happened

I think that question is adequately answered by my cooking protip

nope, not even close.

we're hellsitians, we need everything spelled out in excruciating, anatomically correct, unforgiving, mindnumbingly exact, hot, fancy-ass corn-speckled & pea-ridden detail.

spill all the deets coward please, derin.

ALL of them????

If it helps it was a small harvest, I am a terrible gardener

cc: @petermorwood (re: the situation in the kitchen's front window)

I love cinnamon. But cinnamon essential oil is not a cooking ingredient. Especially on fried eggs.

Everyone pay attention to this guy's cooking instead of mine

I love that “renowned fantasy author/screenwriter Diane Duane tags her husband renowned fantasy novelist/screenwriter Peter Morwood in your post about Bad Cooking Ideas” is a genre of Tumblr-famous

She interacts with all my cooking posts and every time I find myself reflecting on the fact that influential fantasy author Diane Duane knows me as That Person On The Internet Who Cannot Cook

[ID: The video begins with a person showing the package for a padlock. Over the video is a TikTok comment which reads "master lock has a bounty on this mans head". The person making the video begins narrating: "You won't believe this lock's special feature. It's a Master Lock model 570 maximum pick resistant pad lock. It has 5 pins, including some security pins and, if you look carefully inside the key weight, you can actully see where they put the disappointment." The video ends with the person jamming a pick into the lock, which opens it instantly. end of ID]

As a lockpicking hobbyist: it really is like that.

I have many padlocks (and other, uh, lockable devices) to which I probably have the keys somewhere but it's frankly quicker to pick (or in some cases, technically bypass but what most people would still call picking) the lock than find the right key.

And usually yes, that quickly.

And those tiny padlocks, to go on luggage (or, uh, other things that need tiny locks)? No need even for lockpicks, a paperclip will suffice to open it in 0.1s

Now I'm used to seeing this sort of thing as I frequent the lockpickinglawyer's youtube channel so I am familiar with how Masterlock's products consistently fail to resist even the most low skill picking. Which is why when I heard the brand "masterlock" and saw the person had a wave rake (a tool for low skill picking) I knew this wouldn't take long...

I was not expecting the visceral nature of this picking; the single thrust and twist, the casual toss, the verbal disdain, the sense like you just watched something be swiftly gutted.

It was an experience.

Toothless through the years! Dating even back from 2010! ^o^

Hey y'all! I know you love drawing references over here, so I wanted to show you a preview of a set that one of my Patrons requested.

If you like this stuff and are able to, please consider supporting me via Patreon (where you can find the extended photo set, including shots from cover and up a tree), or dropping a few quid over on Kofi. It means the world to me, and helps me keep going with my archery shenanigans!

And as always, please tag me in your art if you're comfortable to! I love to see it ❤️

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.

Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.

We made a whole-ass fish.

The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.

Oh i forgot to add

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.

the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!

the blog killing axolotl is one of my favorite things that has ever happened on this website because talking about it afterwards sounds like an inside joke or perhaps a prank. like always be on the lookout for the blog killing axolotl. he can kill your blog. it happened to me once trust me.

there’s this very specific image of an axolotl plushie with the phrase ‘i am at my limit’ that i’m not posting for obvious reasons (even though i’m inoculated because i tried to post it before) that if you try to post it tumblr will immediately delete your blog. like completely. your blog is just gone if you try to post the image. you can get it reinstated but you have to go to staff and be like ‘hi my blog was killed by a picture of an axolotl can you please give me it back.’ we found this out completely accidentally when brianna brucespringsteendotcom made the image and then posted it and then her blog was just gone, at which point we started to experiment. anyway, a while later we found that if someone submits the image and you don’t know what it is and you try to post it it will also nuke your blog. this obviously all sounds like an incredibly stupid internet hoax so when you try to warn people about the blog killing axolotl you just sound like you’re trolling but i promise you, from the bottom of my heart, that we are not.

people in the tags are like ‘i don’t know if this is true but it sounds wild’ i feel like the old man you meet in the first five minutes of a horror movie that tells the teenagers on spring break not to visit the creepy old house at the end of the road

FAQs:

1. Is this the image of the axolotl plushie with the fire behind it?

NO! that is a different, more well known axolotl image that does not delete your blog.

2. Can I see the image?

for obvious reasons i'm not reblogging it to this post. however, since so many people asked, i put it safely in a google doc for you. go nuts.

3. hey, i remember this! it was over a year ago. does this still delete your blog?

someone in my askbox has informed me, under certain circumstances, yes. and that image is live, so be careful with it.

4. have you figured out what causes it?

same person in my askbox said this

which was my first theory before i went down the source code rabbit hole, although there must be a certain threshold for editing it since in the past people have posted censored versions where it still deletes your blog.

5. can i use it as my icon/can i send it to someone in dms/can i upload it if it's not in a post/can i post an edited version of the picture?

back when this first happened if you did any of the above it deleted your blog, unless it was pretty heavily edited (someone in my discord put him behind bars - you know like he was caged - and i think when we uploaded that it didn't delete the person's blog? i could be wrong though). see the above ask for the most recent information. someone in the notes earlier (don't remember who, sorry) also said that you can upload the original via mobile and it kills your blog, but if you try to post it on desktop it blocks it from being uploaded, so that's also another route you could go if you want to experiment.

6. why have i never heard about this before?

spnblr is more complex and layered than you can possibly imagine it's not my fault you can't see it for the majesty it is.

7. this still sounds fake.

hey man, weird thing to lie about. but the picture and all the information you need to test it out is right here. post it to you blog. go on. prove me wrong. 🙂

8. didn't people try to remotely delete neil gaiman's blog by submitting that image to him?

we did do that yeah.

october's bunnies 🍂 my friends, only two more group pictures left until the end!

LOKI | 2X02: BREAKING BRAD

Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), family Tichodromidae, Switzerland

photograph by donini_photography

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