yes I am indeed alive I just forgot I had this account
'Columnar jointing' is a phenomenon where cooling liquid magma fractures in lines of force parallel to the surface, often in regular polygonal 'tubes' that reflect magma chemistry. The size and shape of the columns are determined by composition and cooling rate. (📷: Perspectives, Giant's Causeway)
the dillons are one of my all time favorite illustrators. always love seeing their work!
Leo Dillon [SFE entry: sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dillon... ] died on this day, so here's some examples of his cover art (made in collaboration with Diane Dillon). The 2nd was for Tom Reamy's "San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories":
also barring a thyroid condition (yet to be determined) my body decided that the thrilling new response to allergy season would be full body hives
absolutely fun and normal when your blood pressure is extremely elevated every time you go to the doc and despite being warned the nurse almost panics when she sees the number
Sorry to say but Phillip k Dick would love that we invented robots based on people but the people lie too much and so the robots can’t help but believe it. He’d laugh so hard
you know when bilbo talks about how the ring made him feel thinned out, like butter spread over too much toast? i felt that. also all that elf shit.
When you want to see your OC, but you are like... that'd mean drawing. So you lay down and close your eyes and think really hard about your OC instead. Close enough.
Nine years ago today, May 24, author Tanith Lee died from breast cancer. She wrote in a plethora of genres and stories. From sword and sorcery to cyberpunk, and from vampire fiction--both Gothic and sci-fi--to dark fairy-tales, she made a name for herself. Time for her resurgence.
