The naming after British towns really tickles me for some reason. What shall we call this new home in this new land? Same as the last one? Sure, why not. Can't have enough Plymouths can you?

Fair play to this vole. It will eat well this winter.

Imagining you dressed in rags, half-subsumed by shadow, growling, "I'll buy it for a high price!" about a plastic croissant.

Which on the plus side, takes absolutely fuckin ages.

Aw man <3. I have really struggled coming up with a style for these maps (and the book as a whole). I am not good at replicating either the naive style of the early 18thC or the dry abstract cartography of the late 18thC. So I've just said fuck it and gone with this over-rendered fantasy-map thing.

Same, I really, really need to get off Spotify. Aside from being a deeply hateful company, Spotify's discover algo has become fixated on ambient world jazz. Which, you know, is fine. But.

I was *just* listening to this! That album was a favourite for a long time, but she's not on Spotify, for probably good reasons, so dropped off my radar for a few years. Very happy to have rediscovered her while digging through a folder of mp3s.

If you want to hone in on this skill, working with a set palette is a great way to start. The DB32 that comes default with Aseprite is superb and really encourages you to combine those colors in interesting ways!

Love these, Mike. Intensely Londony.

I agree with this but have rationalised this as being *more* sophisticated, possibly because I'm just very conceited, but at least partly because the monster of the week stuff was so grounded in weird folk traditions whereas the realm-level melodrama feels gaudy and insubstantial.

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