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Kubobukata, chthonically fatigued @kubobukata.bsky.social · 8h

Potatober #14: Boy with Potato, after Johannes Van Hoytl the Younger.

A clumsy ink drawing of a young man in Renaissance garb, holding a potato and pointing at it. An inscription to the left and right reads UNICUS FILIUS DUCATI UNDECIM, ANNO D MMXXV.

Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 10h

Man, this is how I feel about everyone who leaves R4 to have a brilliant career on HBO or some such. Happy for them, and vindicated, but also, out of reach.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 17h

I am feeling very smug that my Connections-conditioned self has always insisted on knowing how to do things 'the old-fashioned way'. Hard to do when the infrastructure is set up to be digital, but at least I know how ....

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 17h

Thank you 🙏

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Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 18h

I'm ordering cards tomorrow morning, so this is your last day to get orders in if you want a guaranteed number of them, in time for you to send out in December!

Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 3d

Also, head on over to MY shop at ko-fi.com/tealin/shop to pre-order some polar-themed midwinter cards so I know how many to get printed!

An illustration of the Cape Evans Hut beneath Mt Erebus in the Antartctic night, with the first verse of 'In The Bleak Midwinter' superimposed, formatted like a Victorian prayer card.

A colour illustration based on Ponting's photo of the Cape Evans midwinter tree, 1911.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 19h

One of my friends in Antarctica had brought a paperback of Worst Journey to re-read while there. He discovered his colleague had never read it so he tore it in two from where he'd got to and gave the first half to his friend to read. It's one of the most touching things I've ever seen.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 20h

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

I used to agree with you, and then I got into a field of study which involved a lot of cross-referencing, and now I mark stuff like crazy (in pencil). Harvesting the obsessive marginalia of a predecessor made me realise its value.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

It's OK to have a plot that's been done before so long as your characters are genuinely engaging and you carry the reader along and have fun. (This also goes for film.)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kubobukata, chthonically fatigued @kubobukata.bsky.social · 1d

Potatotaber #13: Landscape day. The Hills of Tatws, Mid-Wales.
This is absolutely how that works.

An ink drawing of a landscape with mountains and a hint of sea in the background. In the foreground, two four-legged potatoes are ... grazing? Their size suggests and a ewe and a lamb, but they're potatoes. I don't know either.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

Awww that looks so good :')

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

Wall, wall; reed fence, reed fence! Spurn possessions and preserve life!

Lunar Games … Stories from Mesopotamia @lunargamesuruk.bsky.social · 1d

This is called Mudhif. It is made entirely from Reeds. Traditionally built by the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq.

Earliest archeological finding of this style is around 6000 BC

#mesopotamia

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 1d

Happy Britainniversary!

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Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 1d

I've been interviewed by Swoop Antarctica about my journey to Worst Journey and how I'm approaching the material! www.swoop-antarctica.com/blog/worst-j... I'd like to think Antarctic travel folks will Get It, but hopefully other folks will, too.

From Disney to Antarctica: The Best Journey in the World? - Swoop Antarctica Blog

An interview with Sarah Airriess about her graphic novel adaptation of 'The Worst Journey in the World' about Scott's last Antarctic expedition

www.swoop-antarctica.com

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Clanging the bell on this again

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

I'm doing the children in read auction again this year! Signed & inscribed paperbacks of Cursed Under London and Cursed in the Lost City up for grabs! www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

Children in Read 2025

'The Largest Signed Book Auction In The World'Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds a...

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 2d

Have you listened to the musical Nevermore?

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 2d

Truly the best of all possible outcomes.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 2d

Also he might like some company in there.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 2d

Hocketts @slepkane.bsky.social

A church hymnal showing the first verse of "we plough the fields and scatter" which was a plot point in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme s.9

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Kubobukata, chthonically fatigued @kubobukata.bsky.social · 3d

Potatober #11: The reason Magritte used an apple instead of a potato is that no normal person cares what is behind a potato.

An ink drawing that badly copies Rene Magritte's "son of man" painting: A man in a long coat and bowler hat standing in front of a wall. His face is obscured by a potato.

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 3d

Humans are like "I'mma invent the most convoluted and labour-intensive way of making pictures" and other humans are like "I'mma use it to make weird little guys move around" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinscre...

Pinscreen animation - Wikipedia

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Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 3d

Also, head on over to MY shop at ko-fi.com/tealin/shop to pre-order some polar-themed midwinter cards so I know how many to get printed!

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Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 3d

It's some sort of Bookshop Day today! Did you know you can get my book in shops? It's true! Even if the shop doesn't have it today, you can ask politely and they can order it in JUST FOR YOU! worstjourney.com/2022/12/17/t...

Hit The Shops!

[updated August 2024] The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel is published in the UK by Indie Novella and distributed by Central Books. You should be able to order it from any bookshop, b…

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