Adrian Bott

@cavalorn.bsky.social

Author of MG/YA fiction & game stuff. Rants about folklore. Opinions my own. He/him. Lead Writer for Warframe (you shiny things). Leopards, faces etc.

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

oh my god, those naïve idiots saw him on TV pretending to be competent as part of a TV show, so they thought he was ACTUALLY competent, so they PUT THE DAFT OAF IN CHARGE? And of course he was completely out of his depth? wow I do love Galaxy Quest (1999)

From 1789: this is the earliest known visual depiction of the Easter Hare, who would ultimately become the Easter Bunny Please note that he is bringing the eggs in a basket, thus settling the question of whether the bunny lays the eggs or not

An illustration from 'National-Kinderlieder für die Zürchersche Jugend' (1789) showing the earliest known depiction of the Easter Hare, along with a basket of Easter eggs, and a mother and children hunting for the Easter eggs in a garden

"A sneak peek at the HD restoration of the #Ulysses31 series. This new scan fully reveals the richness of TMS's work, including the character designs by Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno. I never imagined I'd be able to rediscover this cult classic in such high quality. Thank you! 🤩" Oh my.

MickeyLD@mickeyld.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Aperçu de la restauration HD de la série #Ulysse31. Ce nouveau scan révèle pleinement toute la richesse du travail de TMS, dont le chara design de Shingo Araki et Michi Himeno. Jamais je n’aurais imaginé pouvoir redécouvrir un jour ce titre culte dans une telle qualité. Merci! 🤩

So the current year's crop of Eostre discourse contains a lot of protestation along the lines of: 'but why would Bede, a Christian monk, invent a pagan goddess?' and 'but why would Bede, a revered historian, lie?' & it's past time to point out what the problems with Bede's account actually are:

The pagan Spring Equinox festival of Ostara is not the antecedent of the Christian Easter, because the pagan Spring Equinox festival of Ostara was created in around 1973. I appreciate that a statement like this warrants some substantiation, so bear with me.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Claiming that Easter is a pagan festival is like claiming that the American city of New York was conquered by Viking warlord Ivar the Boneless in the year 866, because it is named after York.