chainborne.bsky.social
Bookseller (British, bearded, bespectacled, bald). Fantasy-fan. Sci-Fi guy. Word-nerd. He/Him.
On a mission to read all the middle-grade science fiction books.
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I'm never going to be able to eat Dim Sum again without thinking of this show.
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Short mystery/intrigue stories in a fantasy setting, with a low-stakes puzzle or problem to be solved.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric & Desdemona novellas being the archetypal example.
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Derek the menswear guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) pointed out that the T-shirt evolved from the Union Suit, which itself originated as a women's undergarment. I don't know if that counts?
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It's annoying that Static Shock (& The Zeta Project) is one of the only DC Animated series not yet released on blu ray.
The only others I can think of being Justice League Action, and both versions of DC Super Hero Girls. Oh, and Teen Titans Go! (besides season 1).
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I see a lot of authors talk about running searches for crutch words, & trying to get the count down out of the hundreds. 😊
I imagine there's also a lot of agonising over commas.
But that's nitty-gritty stuff, you're probably also looking at pacing & structure, and are there any leaps of illogic.
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Actually we're all bots, and you are the last real person on the Internet.
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Thanks! That doesn't look familiar, and my phone still lasts me through the day so hopefully all is well...
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Yep, I think they're really leaning into the cosy romantasy element and stating it loudly & proudly.
Makes a nice change in some ways from the era of just putting a tasteful photo of a chalice & some rose petals on the cover. 😁
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I have a 4a and this is the first I've heard about this issue. 😬
Never had any email from Google except for my "Welcome to your new Pixel 4a" back in 2021. Fingers crossed this means my model is unaffected. 🤞🤷♂️
Got one for my elderly mum too, guess I should check her emails!
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Oh, it's not. 😄
But they have a similar style!
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Is that Hunt Emerson? He did an irreverent illustrated version of The Rime of The Ancient Mariner that was actually really helpful in understanding the text.
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"...a language spoken by kings and conquerors, philosophers and artists.", as someone once put it.
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Oh! We have her book in stock! 😁
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I'm planning on being Harry Dean Stanton in Escape From New York.
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Really evocative of those classic 90s era Fantasy covers. Love it!
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The virus, riding my phlegmy cough into the free air: Thanks for everything guys, see you around!
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Trying the same made me realise that in all those movie scenes where the hero has to haul themselves up over the edge of a precipice or dangle from a ledge, I would simply just die.
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Reminds me of the time Alan Moore was called out in an interview over his claim to be able to do real magic...
youtu.be/Y8P8WXXT1DM
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We regularly have to make a lot of parents aware that the book has definite adult themes, and isn't intended for a tweenage readership.
But from Mara's post it sounds like a problem that maybe takes care of itself.
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If you upload an animated gif as a video it works. 👍
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Chris Wooding's Retribution Falls is basically Steampunk Firefly. 😊
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I only saw this post *after* I already googled and found the book's page on penguinrandomhouse dotcom.
Excited to see the cover reveal!
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This was me watching Bugs Bunny cartoons featuring "Yosammity Sam" and reading about "Yosemite National Park", and not connecting the two until years later.
I guess I thought it was pronounced "Yohz-might".
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Reminds me of this classic...
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I think on BlueSky, if the quotee blocks the quoter, the QRT stops being visible.
At least that's what I'm assuming, because I don't block a lot of people, but I see quite a lot of blocked negative quote-tweets.
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Even American gangsters hate Nazis...
youtu.be/uyRknVzkVcQ
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Presumably so your stomach doesn't emit growling noises in the middle of a session?
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I mean, it worked in the context!
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I'm the UK, pilau rice I think.
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But then again, I don't go around calling The City of Lost Children "La Cité des Enfants Perdus", so I guess there's some inconsistency to my sensibilities.
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...and I also learned if you're uploading an animated GIF to BlueSky, you need to upload it as a video rather than an image file.