Simon Spanton

A hymn to the fantasy genre itself.

Wall check.

Jodhzilla.

It is THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY book.

The Last Unicorn? Absolute classic. Only read it earlier this year. Found out exactly why it's a classic.

Portal number 683.

Today's doodle.

LOLLOL

Blood on the floor :)

I am extremely pro-Tom. But the proposed RofP appearance gives me the dreads.

Still processing the Tom Bombadil schism between me and my boss from yesterday at the @cymeraf.bsky.social festival.

Uncertain times.

Heading to @cymeraf.bsky.social. with my Angry Robot hat on. Do say hello if you're minded. Will be there all day today and tomorrow. I'm the very tall one with the grey beard and the vaguely bewildered expression above it.

Totally.

There is pizza.

Snails up a tree.

Dear God.

Lev.

You are cruel and calculating - luring book and cat lovers in with a photograph of your glorious cat but using a depth of field that blurs out the titles on your bookshelves.

Me, even on Thursday.

How is it that we have ended up trapped in an abusive relationship with these shitlords?

Glob bigger surely? Globule feels about right. I'm also going to be controversial and say that globule and blob might even be synonyms. A blib smaller than either.

Life is capricious.

May you be drawn. May you reach lather.

I definitely want soap jellyfish, so this is the best news.

We need @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social to translate.

I mean, Babe and Happy Feet made well over half a BILLION between them. But maybe they don't mean those George Miller films.

What slowly happens when you top up the handwash dispenser with liquid soap of a different density.

My experience was similarly discombobulating.

Aaand done. My fourth time through four operas across fourteen CDs.

One word review? Bonkers.

Slightly longer review? Bonkers. Sometimes frustratingly so, sometimes wonderfully so. Overblown, surreal, sublime.

PS. My German is nowhere near good enough for me to have any idea of what's going on.

Ah, I fear not - plan to be there for too long each day.

I will be at @cymeraf.bsky.social, with my Angry Robot hat on (well, badge actually though an actual hat would be fab) this weekend. Do come and say hi if you're minded.

Will be there. Ditto!

Haha.

These photo op gaffs are hilarious mainly because they NEVER learn from previous howlers.

Or any tellies. Or phones.

"What if poor people just worked harder, then they'd get more money and not be poor anymore."

Totally awesome soundtrack too.

Dr Rehaminator @drrehaminator.bsky.social

Full stop, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai is one of THE BEST Forrest Whitaker movies you will ever watch. If you haven't seen it, you have messed up at watching movies.

1 week ago

Making tea music.

Struggling with the fact that this was released 19 years ago.

Sigh.

Thirteen to go, even.

It is. Info in alt text. He also did the interior illustrations (which are amazing).

You know it makes sense.

May be, maybe not.

The Mouse That Achieved Low Orbit.

I guess to minimise contamination of said meteorite. Unless we're talking a Quatermass aligned incident...

Pretty much.