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Keith W. Dickinson
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Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist.
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Bought a load of yum yums at the Greggs Outlet as a treat for everyone. Got back to the office to find out it's National Cake Day, and that there's already a buttload of cake available. Talk about stealing my thunder. 🤨
Several boxes of Greggs yum yums on a table next to a selection of sponge cakes and a sign that reads National Cake Day.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My first piece of Christmas cake. Won't be my last.
Close on a half eaten slice of Christmas cake in my hand.
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The same thing has struck me watching cooking programmes vs their junior versions. They could be helpful, and encouraging, and kind, as they are with the kids, but it's easier/more entertaining/less effort to be cruel and dismissive. We fix that attitude we go a long way to fixing the world.
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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This is for book three of the Hammesmyth Tales. Books one and two are available now. #steampunk

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books2read.com/DragonflyDel...
Promo for books one and two of the Hammersmyth Tales. The two books are against two different backgrounds representing their settings, one a steampunk city the other a colourful sky.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Rossy will also draw aliens in disguise if you ask him nicely. 😊

#AttackMars
Coloured pencil sketch. Four aliens standing in a kitchen dressed in so much tartan - kilts, scarves, tam o shanters - you almost can't tell they're aliens... almost.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Not to sound like an old geezer, but we are absolutely living in the future.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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For the #Discworld fan who has everything.
A pile of jigsaw puzzles featuring all the Discworld characters, by Paul Kidby.
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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You've got to turn it around
And put your feet on the ground
Gotta take ahold of your soul

I'm turnin' it loose, footloose
A photo of The Pope, who appears to be passionately singing into a microphone while lots of catholic religious figures mill around behind him.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Something like this but, y'know, good.
An extremely rough sketch. Pen on notepad paper. Three people shapes holding weapony things, standing in front of a vague fish-like ship thingy, with smaller figures either end of the ship peeking round at them.
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I wish I still had my old typerwriter, the one I got for Christmas when I was eight. It was beautiful.
A beige Smith Corona 1967 Corsair portable typerwiter, with its lid in the background. The keys are white, with a couple of red ones in the top corners.
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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4pm fry up. Thanks, night shifts. 😒
Sausage, beans, hash browns, mushrooms, buttered bread.
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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👍
Photo of TV. Lex Luthor and Otis breaking out of prison. A spotlight casts their shadow on the wall. Otis makes bunny ears on Luthor's shadow. A plate of chips, ketchup, and two slices of bread, ready to make butties.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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In motion. 😏
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Did I share the Olso waterfront at night? It's nice.
Buildings along the waterfront at night. They're well lit, their lights reflecting off the still water.
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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I don't have a pet pic, but I do have this cutie from puppy yoga.
A two picture collage. A smooth haired light brown pup with big floppy ears asleep in someone's lap, curled up into a little ball, and a close on the little cutie's wrinkled face.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A bakery has been found. Their bread is huge!
A massive loaf of bread on a kitchen counter. The mug in the background shows it to be at least four mugs long and three wide. The front of Mayya Bakery. A glass door in black in a white wall surrounded by res brick with a simple name logo above it incorporating a stalk of wheat.
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Almost go time. Next stop Manchester.
A Ryanair plane on the tarmac, seen through an airport window.
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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And just like that we're back.
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This place absolutely clears out at half time.
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Not a bad seat for the ballet. Hope it's good. I put on pants (and paid a fortune) for this.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Somehow a tea and pastry yesterday cost me £8, but a tea, pastry, and a sandwich today cost me £19. I think someone took advantage of the foreigner.
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Today has been a bit much so I'm giving up. No more sightseeing for me. I'm in a cafe then I'm going back to the flat until the ballet later. I'm done in.
In a cafe table, a vegan roll full of sweet potato, beetroot and lettuce, a large cinnamon pastry with a dollop of custard in the middle, a cup of tea, a glass of water, and Brandon Sanderson's The Well Of Ascension.
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Then as mentioned, finished the day with tea and reading, before wandering home to wonder what I'll be doing tomorrow.

See you then for more of the same, only much wetter. Apparently it's gonna rain... a lot.
From a bridge over the central station, the lines and platforms are lit up orange, surrounded on all sides by offices buildings with white light in the windows, whilst a full moon watches over all in a semi cloudy night sky.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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After the museum I spent a good twenty minutes just sitting by the fjord, enjoying the silence. It can get a bit much being touristy all the time. Sometimes you have to just be. The lapping of the waves, the blowing of the wind, the caw of the odd moody seagull. Perfection.
Fjord panorama. Dark water along the bottom, cloudy skies above. A thin line of hills along the centre. The sun is setting off to the right, throwing pale yellows into the sky, yellows that reflect off the choppy water. Pale blue peeks through the clouds, whilst the silhouette of a building nudges into the right hand side of the picture.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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And I was good in the gift shop even though my steampunk ass was very tempted. Just a zeppelin fridge magnet for me.
In a glass case in the gift shop. A brass compass on a chain, another larger compass, and several pocket watches.
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM