Category: Fresh News
Dec 25
Merry Christmas!
Dec 22
Worldbuilding Wednesday 12/22/21: The Best of
xxxxTwittersnips (Christmas)
I love randomizing Christmas things. Carols, scented candles, and various mascots (Rudolph, et. al) are all open to various possibilities. Here’s a list of the ones I posted on Twitter 2019 – 2020. Oh, and if someone can point me to where I can buy Joyce the Three-Nosed Doll, let me know! A …
Dec 20
Hurray for Mrs. Claus
Mrs. Claus is a second-string character in the annual Christmas story, behind Santa himself, his elves, and his reindeer. She is usually depicted as elderly, smiling dispenser of cookies. Except when she’s not. In the pic above she’s a vicious ax murderer (in advertising art for the Christmas horror flick Mrs. Claus) while below, she’s …
Nov 22
Whatcha Dune?
Projected poster art for Jodorowsky’s Dune, the movie that never was. Paul Atreides/Muad’dib is at center. The names of the designers are at lower left, and if you follow their work, you can pinpoint what elements of the illustration they worked on: Foss the spacecraft, Giger the sandworm, Moebius the characters and perhaps that landscape. …
Jun 02
Another Summer of Narnia
x Yes, it’s going to be another Summer of Narnia here on my blog! I’ll be tying up some loose ends from last year’s Summer of Narnia, as well as introducing new topics and insights I’ve found since then. Keep visiting!
Mar 17
Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/17/21: The Best of
xxxxTwittersnips (Off the Map)
You have to look closely at this map until it begins to look a little familiar…. (It’s Europe with water and land masses reversed and relabeled as new countries.) Like the map, here’s some places that currently don’t exist, but could. Imaginary Places German cities / towns Ulmesslen, Münrach, Spargán, Amsprechtdanberg, Munsilacht Icelandic cities …
Feb 15
Reading Challenge 2021
“I particularly enjoyed the fable about the Leopard changing his spots.” My Authors Water Cooler Reading Challenge selections for 2021. Out of a list of 50 categories, the participant chooses 12, the idea being you read one a month. I hope I do better at this year’s than last year’s. Last year, it seemed …
Oct 28
Private Island
” After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine [ * titters girlishly * ] I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time. ” Yup. May history bless the Kardashians with …
Sep 30
Farewell to Narnia
Guess I can’t stretch this summer out any further, can I? It’s time to say farewell to Narnia, at least for this year. I still have some articles to finish and will be doing that.