<Herzog Voice> Mucilaginous cubes of torment. Glistening colours, but of a preschool whose walls are daubed with despair. Why so acrid? How can a benevolent god so deform a thing of nature, the root crop, into this abysmal being? </Herzog Voice>

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social Ahoy there! This app apparently thinks I'm a child (which I am, but only emotionally) and won't let me access DMs. Did you do this age verification malarkey? How can I tell it I'm a withering husk?

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I think the author started crying halfway through

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3mo ago

This is not how you do a headline, Space Daily

Another of Ruby's paintings - "The Music Room" (Oil, 61 x 61 cm). Many of her works feature rooms impetuously abandoned by someone mid-work, and I find that slightly unsettling and very charming, and possibly worthy of psychological investigation. #art #painting www.instagram.com/p/C2N2wCXh1A...

A.Valliard@valliard.bsky.social · 2y ago

My mother has recently taken up oil painting, and is a little anxious about it, if anyone has Instagram and would care to cast an encouraging eyeball over her work? 'Tis here: www.instagram.com/rishinjerro/ #artsky #oilpainting

My excellent idea is to have a late afternoon coffee instead of a snack because dinner will happen in the next two hours & I’d rather not spoil it & want, instead, to live in hell & feel my teeth grow new nerves & experience a deep interior trembling that resembles panic until then.

"The first questions are easy. The first, it's a picture of a shark, a lion, a horse, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?' But by the end … they say I'm the only person ever to successfully draw a clock face. One doctor said it didn't look like a clock face. He's not a doctor anymore."

As it’s the anniworsery of this nonsense, I have created a little free downloadable sample as a generalised punishment. It’s 3 levels of the hell flung up as a PDF on Bookfunnel. Download at whim! dl.bookfunnel.com/4jmf3hjokz #booksky #artsky #absurdism #fantasynovellas

A.Valliard@valliard.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Being a Compendium of Fallibility, a Bestiary of Artistic Fears & Foibles, and an Unhelpful Travel Guide to the City of Lost Intentions, with particular notice paid to its denizens—the transmogrified souls of self-damned artists—in the dubious company of Montcorbier, a disaffected psychopomp."

Barnard 175, a dense cloud of interstellar dust. It's 1400 light-years away in the constellation of Cepehus and is part of the much larger molecular cloud complex known as the Cepheus Flare. The illuminated region is the reflection nebula VdB 152. About 7 hours total integration over two nights. 🔭

(Ah! There's a #skybrarian #booksky hashtag thingy! HATS OFF TO LIBRARIANS IN GENERAL THEN 🍷!)

A.Valliard@valliard.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delightful people with amazing nails finding my wretched little book at obscure libraries is the only thing distracting me from the rampant horrors of the world. Apparently there are THREE copies at San Francisco Public Library (for whatever irrational reason). Thank you, kind and unusual librarian!

Great news for the many fans of author, Rob Palk

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · 4mo ago

Salt has signed a two-book deal with Rob Palk, including a new novel and a reissue of his debut. Christopher Hamilton-Emery, director of Salt, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to The Crowd Pleaser and a reissue of Animal Lovers from James Wills at Watson, Little.

Delightful people with amazing nails finding my wretched little book at obscure libraries is the only thing distracting me from the rampant horrors of the world. Apparently there are THREE copies at San Francisco Public Library (for whatever irrational reason). Thank you, kind and unusual librarian!

Asking ChatGPT to evaluate my research idea

As it’s the anniworsery of this nonsense, I have created a little free downloadable sample as a generalised punishment. It’s 3 levels of the hell flung up as a PDF on Bookfunnel. Download at whim! dl.bookfunnel.com/4jmf3hjokz #booksky #artsky #absurdism #fantasynovellas

A.Valliard@valliard.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Being a Compendium of Fallibility, a Bestiary of Artistic Fears & Foibles, and an Unhelpful Travel Guide to the City of Lost Intentions, with particular notice paid to its denizens—the transmogrified souls of self-damned artists—in the dubious company of Montcorbier, a disaffected psychopomp."

We should all write a novel called something like “The Invisible Metallurgist of Accidental Regrets” or “The Afternoon Society of Disconsolate Ferrymen” and retire to a vineyard in Crete.

Watching Withnail for the hundredth time. There’s something eternally poignant and relatable about a flailing wet thespian with plastic bags on his feet trapped in a liminal landscape. #📽️Film

Read this (FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING by @erinvincent.bsky.social) in one sitting last night. Absolutely tremendous book. Invents a new genre (biblionumeromancy?) while powerfully investigating grief and randomness and weird resonances across art and life. Couldn't recommend it more highly.

Melbournians should absolutely put their fancy pants on and go to this shindig (shindogg?) to support Mr Winkler's masterful and peculiar literary endeavours.

Michael Winkler@micwink.bsky.social · 5mo ago

All welcome, bring your mates.

Wearing a little bow tie to the poetry reading.

Love! Laughter! Tremendous sheep costumes!

A.Valliard@valliard.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If any Sydneysiders feel like a respite from all the horrors of the world, there's a delightful production of "As You Like It" on at Flight Path Theatre, ending this Saturday, alas! Very much worth a romp to Marrickville! #shakespeare #ink #art

If any Sydneysiders feel like a respite from all the horrors of the world, there's a delightful production of "As You Like It" on at Flight Path Theatre, ending this Saturday, alas! Very much worth a romp to Marrickville! #shakespeare #ink #art

Instead of just outright banning killer robots in the classroom, we should be having discussions about the *ethical use* of killer robots

Trans people want to have sex and make art and talk about sports and do all the shit everyone likes, and instead we have to think about Nazi freaks all day. This sucks eggs.

Am finally part of a book group where I feel as though I fit in, so watch me proceed to alienate everyone in the group in a fit of social overexcitement as I failure to notice boundaries/cues.

I wrote this faintly overladen piece during a vestibular migraine, and I think it shows. Deep gratitude to Sūdō Journal for including "An Inconvenience to the Insouciant" in their latest illumined volume. sudojournal.com/latest-issue/ #pasquinade #poetry #satire #hellscape

Horribly, pathetically pleased by this monstrously kind review because terrifying my fellow writers back to their work was precisely the reason I wrote the wretched thing. Lest we all be trapped in a procrastinating hell of our own devising! #booksky #writingcommunity #weirdfiction

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain. Shame, really!