A Few Answers to a Lot of Questions
1: The art you see here is not the cover art.
2: I am adapting the book, not the show.
3: No, the characters will not look the way they look in the show.
4: The characters in the book generally don't look like the characters in the show.
5: I can't use the likenesses of real people. Who do not look like the characters in the book, anyway.
6: Crowley does not have red hair in the book. So he doesn't have red hair in the graphic novel.
7: Crowley in the book is only supposed to look about 24 years old. Aziraphale is only supposed to look about 30.
8: Everything I do goes through Neil and the Pratchett Estate.
9: I love the show as much as you do, but it's not the book.
10: I love the book as much as you do, but it's not the show.
11: Yes, I wrote the script and am doing all the art. I am as faithful to the source material as possible.
12: Yes, it's a lot of work.
14: Publishing via Kickstarter enables the creators to maintain complete control of the work.
15: I hope you enjoy the graphic novel. I'm not going to talk about it too much because I need my energy for work.
Have a great day.
Y'all ever get so excited about a scientific paper you're reading that you get chills???
So I thought to myself
Huh, a lot of our invasive species come from China and Japan
And then I thought, huh, I should look up what Kudzu is like in its natural habitat
And I found this article by a team of scientists investigating the history of Kudzu in China
And ohhhhh my goddddd. I'm vibrating with excitement over how cool this is.
The first bombshell that turned my brain inside out:
KUDZU IS NOT WILD. IT IS SEMI-DOMESTICATED.
In China, Kudzu has been a fundamentally important plant for food and textiles throughout history. We have Kudzu cloth that is 6,000 years old!
THIS PLANT CLOTHED AND FED ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AND MOST ENDURING HUMAN CULTURES ON EARTH
and in turn
HUMANS SHAPED AND SELECTED FOR ITS TRAITS
*AND*
in its natural range, humans are the main "predator" of kudzu
"Harvest by humans appears to be the major control mechanism in its native areas."
Kudzu is like that because it co-evolved with humans.
WHAT
YALL
This means
That Kudzu is so highly invasive because—just like most plants evolved to be grazed by herbivores and/or eaten by caterpillars, keeping them in balance with everything else—Kudzu basically evolved to be harvested by humans
The other half of the ecological partnership that keeps Kudzu in balance with everything else isn't a caterpillar or a hoofed beast. It's us.
Wait, you can spin kudzu? Why aren't we harvesting and marketing this as the newest eco friendly fiber for hand spinners in the US? The market may be small, but I guarantee you with the "spin" that you can use your hobby to fight invasive plants and save the earth that people would pay money to have it sent to them.
Someone send me a sample of kudzu bark and I'll do some research on how they got the spinnable fiber out of it.
Of *course* someone has figured it out already:
http://fiberhousecollective.com/invasive-fiber-study-group/2021/12/5/meeting-1-weaving-with-kudzu-amp-bast-fiber-processing
If you live in areas with kudzu, go get some and spin it!
Hell yeah
Fascinating.
I’m really enjoying watching the Jeopardy Masters Tournament. One of the things that cracks me up the most is that James keeps getting described/describing himself as a gameshow villain, but then either he does something nice/non-intimidating or it’s revealed he did something really nice in the interview part and all it keeps reading as to me is…
James: Honestly, I’m just so evil. So full of darkness. I feed off of the souls of those I play against, I strike fear into—
Ken: It says here you sleep with a teddy bear?
James: He’S MY SECOND IN COMMAND IN MY ARMY OF DARKNESS!
So excited to be cast as an Ensemble Nun in a local production of The Sound of Music !
Happy Good Omens book anniversary! I tried to get these two to get up and do something to celebrate but they were busy 😌
Good omens animation/Do I wana know
It’s finally done guys. It’s 3am & I can rest in peace now (=v=)
crowleys–angel
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS SO GOOD???????????
Source: youtube.com
Love at First Sight by Wislawa Szymborska
They’re both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
Since they’d never met before, they’re sure that there’d been nothing between them. But what’s the word from the streets, staircases, hallways— perhaps they’ve passed by each other a million times?
I want to ask them if they don’t remember— a moment face to face in some revolving door? perhaps a “sorry” muttered in a crowd? a curt “wrong number” caught in the receiver?— but I know the answer. No, they don’t remember.
They’d be amazed to hear that Chance has been toying with them now for years.
Not quite ready yet to become their Destiny, it pushed them close, drove them apart, it barred their path, stifling a laugh, and then leaped aside.
There were signs and signals, even if they couldn’t read them yet. Perhaps three years ago or just last Tuesday a certain leaf fluttered from one shoulder to another? Something was dropped and then picked up. Who knows, maybe the ball that vanished into childhood’s thicket?
There were doorknobs and doorbells where one touch had covered another beforehand. Suitcases checked and standing side by side. One night, perhaps, the same dream, grown hazy by morning.
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Source: halliebateman.com
Yay, I've collected all 12!
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Putto playing a trombone, Carlo Ludovico Castelli, Schlosskapelle, Saalfeld, Germany (1704 - 1714).
Disney vs. DeSantis is so funny because it's like. Neither side even wanted to get into this. Here's how it's supposed to go: Politician does something stupid. Corporation disavows politician after public pressure. Politician disavows the disavowing. Nothing changes for either party.
But then the Florida governor got stars in his eyes. He saw an opportunity to bolster his standing before the presidential primary. He wanted to be the one who took on The Mouse and won. So in retaliation he decides he's going to tear down the decades-old agreement Disney uses to govern Disney World's district.
And just like that, Disney's batshit insane legal department turns towards Florida like the Eye of Sauron spotting the ring at Mount Doom. They smell lost profit. They smell blood.
Disney will use any and every strategy they've accumulated over the last century of lobbying congress and DeSantis can't back down lest he admit Mickey Mouse beat his ass. He's lost control of Disney World's district even more than he already did. Now he's getting sued.
This all started because Disney was pressured into backtracking their political contributions to Florida and disavowing the Don't Say Gay law. Now they're fighting for something they actually care about: their profit margin. Disney is not an ally to queer people and they're an enemy to progressives, but damn am I rooting for them to keep humiliating the greater evil for the time being. This is high comedy.
Hehe let me pretend I'm gonna analyze this like there's clues or someth--
--wait WHO ARE YOU????
I scribed all the spells my wizard learned in our last D&D campaign!