Bevan Thomas
@bevanthomas.bsky.social
Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
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Make Art (3/4)
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Make Art (3/4)
The Romans reported that Norse tribes worshiped the earth goddess Nerthus. Some scholars think she's twin sister of the sea god Njord. Her name sounds like a female version of his, just like his daughter's name (Freyja) is a female version of his son's (Frey).
🎨Emil Doepler
#WyrdWednesday
🎨Emil Doepler
#WyrdWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The Romans reported that Norse tribes worshiped the earth goddess Nerthus. Some scholars think she's twin sister of the sea god Njord. Her name sounds like a female version of his, just like his daughter's name (Freyja) is a female version of his son's (Frey).
🎨Emil Doepler
#WyrdWednesday
🎨Emil Doepler
#WyrdWednesday
A lindworm is a monstrous reptile from the folklore of many European countries (including Germany and Scandinavia). Though otherwise serpent-like, they are often depicted with forelimbs. Anything a lindworm sleeps on will increase as the monster grows, including piles of treasure.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A lindworm is a monstrous reptile from the folklore of many European countries (including Germany and Scandinavia). Though otherwise serpent-like, they are often depicted with forelimbs. Anything a lindworm sleeps on will increase as the monster grows, including piles of treasure.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
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In Donald Duck Legacy #390 by Michael T. Gilbert, Donald Duck is the “Master of Disaster"--wait, is he the master of fixing disasters or creating them?? Out today! https://ow.ly/biNk50YcCix
February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
In Donald Duck Legacy #390 by Michael T. Gilbert, Donald Duck is the “Master of Disaster"--wait, is he the master of fixing disasters or creating them?? Out today! https://ow.ly/biNk50YcCix
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Alright, what the hell. Anything to break me out of the doom-and-gloom brain.
So we're going to dissect R. Alain Evert's classic 1974 essay "Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman"
So we're going to dissect R. Alain Evert's classic 1974 essay "Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman"
Debating something stupid. Who wants an off-the-cuff scholarly dissection on Lovecraft and sex on Blusky?
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Alright, what the hell. Anything to break me out of the doom-and-gloom brain.
So we're going to dissect R. Alain Evert's classic 1974 essay "Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman"
So we're going to dissect R. Alain Evert's classic 1974 essay "Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex: or The Sex Life of a Gentleman"
It's annoying when there's a toy of an iconic vehicle but not a toy of the person who's supposed to drive it. Like, it really bugged me as a kid that in the toys based on the "Shadow" movie, there was Moe Shrevnitz's taxi cab but no toy of Moe, so the Shadow had to drive himself around.
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It's annoying when there's a toy of an iconic vehicle but not a toy of the person who's supposed to drive it. Like, it really bugged me as a kid that in the toys based on the "Shadow" movie, there was Moe Shrevnitz's taxi cab but no toy of Moe, so the Shadow had to drive himself around.
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In 1917, a group of talented cartoonists work at a groundbreaking magazine, The Masses, one of the most provocative publications ever seen. Art Young, Boardman Robinson, Cornelia Barns, and others, are among the greatest satirists who ever put pen to paper.
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
In 1917, a group of talented cartoonists work at a groundbreaking magazine, The Masses, one of the most provocative publications ever seen. Art Young, Boardman Robinson, Cornelia Barns, and others, are among the greatest satirists who ever put pen to paper.
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Bizarro: Me am not Bizarro. Me am not here right now to not don’t fight with anyone who isn’t not you, Unsuper person of nonspecific gender.
Supergirl: it is too early to deal with you right now
Supergirl: it is too early to deal with you right now
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Bizarro: Me am not Bizarro. Me am not here right now to not don’t fight with anyone who isn’t not you, Unsuper person of nonspecific gender.
Supergirl: it is too early to deal with you right now
Supergirl: it is too early to deal with you right now
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February 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Goofy uuuhh Dimensional Shambler type guy ✏️🕷️👹
September 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Goofy uuuhh Dimensional Shambler type guy ✏️🕷️👹
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It's a Teach English Tuesday! James F finds new opportunities and we learn more about the Mira city Gaijin community.
#teachenglishinjapan #teachenglishtuesday
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#teachenglishinjapan #teachenglishtuesday
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Teach English In Japan
James Kelly is tired of his job and decides to go for a change of scene. So he departs for Japan. At the same time, James Friesen is also bound for the same place. Follow the adventures of two…
www.webtoons.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
It's a Teach English Tuesday! James F finds new opportunities and we learn more about the Mira city Gaijin community.
#teachenglishinjapan #teachenglishtuesday
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/te...
#teachenglishinjapan #teachenglishtuesday
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/te...
Lofn is an obscure goddess of love from Norse mythology who has special permission from Odin to encourage love and marriage between people who had been forbidden to be together. As nothing else is said about Lofn, it is debated what exactly this signifies.
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#FairyTaleTuesday
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Lofn is an obscure goddess of love from Norse mythology who has special permission from Odin to encourage love and marriage between people who had been forbidden to be together. As nothing else is said about Lofn, it is debated what exactly this signifies.
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Alphonse Mucha
#FairyTaleTuesday
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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I love this! All the characters from the Moomin stories now has their unique personal sign in Finnish-Swedish Sign Language!
"Too-Ticki" "Mårran" "Snusmumriken". 🥰
#Moomin #SignLanguage
yle.fi/a/7-10092153
"Too-Ticki" "Mårran" "Snusmumriken". 🥰
#Moomin #SignLanguage
yle.fi/a/7-10092153
Så här tecknas Muminfigurernas persontecken på finlandssvenskt teckenspråk
Lista på de vanligaste muminfigurernas persontecken.
yle.fi
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I love this! All the characters from the Moomin stories now has their unique personal sign in Finnish-Swedish Sign Language!
"Too-Ticki" "Mårran" "Snusmumriken". 🥰
#Moomin #SignLanguage
yle.fi/a/7-10092153
"Too-Ticki" "Mårran" "Snusmumriken". 🥰
#Moomin #SignLanguage
yle.fi/a/7-10092153
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.
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Valentine's Day was an unremarkable saint day until the High Middle Ages, when bird-watchers remarked that bird breeding season began in mid-February, and Valentine's Day was chosen: birds remain a key motif of this day for love birds. #FairytaleTuesday
February 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Valentine's Day was an unremarkable saint day until the High Middle Ages, when bird-watchers remarked that bird breeding season began in mid-February, and Valentine's Day was chosen: birds remain a key motif of this day for love birds. #FairytaleTuesday
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“A screech-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and cried three times ‘Shu hu-hu.’”
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday
February 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
“A screech-owl with glowing eyes flew three times round her, and cried three times ‘Shu hu-hu.’”
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #owlishmonday
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“The King’s only daughter had been carried off by a Dragon”
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
“The King’s only daughter had been carried off by a Dragon”
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration
(Grimm)
🎨 Arthur Rackham
#goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration
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That’s what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
That’s what’s up.
In Greek mythology, Eros (called "Cupid" by the Romans) is the god of love. In later versions, he is the son of the goddess Aphrodite. However, in earlier versions, he is a primordial entity, the fourth being to be created (born just after Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus).
#FairyTaleTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
In Greek mythology, Eros (called "Cupid" by the Romans) is the god of love. In later versions, he is the son of the goddess Aphrodite. However, in earlier versions, he is a primordial entity, the fourth being to be created (born just after Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus).
#FairyTaleTuesday
#FairyTaleTuesday
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🟠nobody brings this up but it's crazy these 2 radically different yet both excellent takes on the devil came out the SAME year 1985
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 AM
🟠nobody brings this up but it's crazy these 2 radically different yet both excellent takes on the devil came out the SAME year 1985
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Antarctica is the perfect counterargument to anyone who thinks near timescale space colonization is a good idea. “The moon has minerals we could extract!” So does Antarctica. It also has air and won’t degrade your bone density or give you cancer. And yet, no one wants to live there.
We have never built a permanent human settlement on Antarctica, a place with natural radiation shielding and ready access to air and water.
If living on the moon was a feasible option, we would’ve attempted it a long time ago.
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Antarctica is the perfect counterargument to anyone who thinks near timescale space colonization is a good idea. “The moon has minerals we could extract!” So does Antarctica. It also has air and won’t degrade your bone density or give you cancer. And yet, no one wants to live there.
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Chappell was right
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Chappell was right