the spark of joy i feel at the end of the day when i close my Work folder and open my Personal Work folder

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄
🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

This print always gives me Studio Ghibli vibes, it especially makes me think of Swamp Bottom in Spirited Away.
🎨'Rain at Omiya'- Kawase Hasui, 1930.
#JapaneseArt #shinhanga

The Winding Stream Party(曲水流觴) is a Chinese tradition where participants gather by a winding stream, composing poems while awaiting cups filled with rice wine to float down to them. #fairytaleTuesday #folklore
It originated from the Shangsi Festival, which falls on early March , the third day 1/2

I have nothing serious to post just now, so here’s the magnificent sign found in my favourite bakery at Nagoya Station.

'Scry Me A River' – this is the article about the Rivers of London RPG that appeared in Wyrd Science magazine earlier this year. The game's line editor Lynne Hardy talks about her first meeting with RoL creator @benaaronovitch.bsky.social at a book signing, and how things unfolded from there...

In Chinese #mythology, the River God’s marriages are well-known, but the Tang Dynasty(618–907) reveals a rarer tale—the River Goddess, a dragon in human form seeking a husband.
Grateful to the king who fulfilled her wish, she gifted a magical sandalwood drum. Story&source in image ALT.
#folkyFriday

a spell for vanishing (2023)

#art

the first sacrifice

Ohayou Bluesky. It’s cloudy here. Let me tell you about another trend among Japanese artists. They're moving to Xfolio from pixiv nowadays. Xfolio clearly says they ban all of genAI images, while pixiv is pro-AI. Many AIbros have tried to spam Xfolio, but they have been swept off into the dustbox.

A little intro pack of my work : )

(1st-last: personal piece, Valve Chinese New Year banner, Monsters & Dames for ECCC, D&D DM board)

The witch who reads the omens of land and chooses to ignore them, has no advantage above those lacking the skill. Sometimes wisdom is as simple as recognising good advice. Acuity in knowing which paths not to take is as important as any spell. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Witchcraft

No one can be said to have peaked while they are still doing their thing. That's a "complete body of work" judgement. I have seen remarkable late-career work, most recently from David Crosby, whose album "Here If You Listen" is as good as his famous classic work imo

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...