By day: Gardener and conservation communicator. By night: Fantasy writer and enthusiastic nerd. Without ceasing: trying to pray.
Chippenham, England
Joined August 2011
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Stuffing environmentalism in a box and marking it "liberal" is an awful idea, in church and in politics. Care for creation should go hand in hand with fiercely orthodox, joyfully weird transcendental faith, and folk of all political stripes should be welcome in the coalition.
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I’ll never have a second team but if I did it would be Bayern Munich after playing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ on German soil to salute Harry Kane. Lots of stadiums in England wouldn’t play it for risk of offending someone…so hats off to Bayern! 🫡 🇩🇪 🏴 🤝
Finished Farseer Trilogy. My copy of Dune Messiah arrived today, pre-reading for the movie, but it's too soon. 4 months my imagination has roamed the Six Duchies and it's too soon to up sticks and head off the Arrakis just yet.
Was forced to visit a Starbucks today and couldn't even console myself with pumpkin spice because they've already swapped it out for their Christmas drinks range. We haven't even had Halloween yet. Madness.
Of his many iconic roles, let's not forget Patrick Stewart was one of the funniest cameos ever to appear on Frasier, and that's a very high bar to clear.
Watching the Arsenal with my eldest daughter, 3pm Saturday kick off on a rainy October afternoon in North London. Family heritage.
A towering display 💪
This afternoon's Player of the Match, as voted for by you, is Big Gabi 🏅
🤝 @WhatsApp
ALT Graphic for today's Player of the Match. Text reads: POTM. Gabriel Magalhães. 23.10.26. Everton. Emirates Stadium.
Looking at the names the UK Storm Centre has prepared for 26/27 and I feel they are raising expectations by planning for a Storm Olaf.
Tried to take the traditional first fire of the season photo, and it looks like we have Calcifer living in our stove.
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Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, that's relativist garbage. These covers by Vance Covax are objectively beautiful. That's not my opinion. I don't make the rules.
i am trying to post less politics content, but the French riots are such a dire warning it seems dereliction not to share what's happening
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A French woman says that the rioters and looters broke into her building and threatened her with rape while she was holding her child in her arms.
“That’s collateral damage” responds the feminist activist Bettina Zourli who holds a Master’s in gender studies and focuses her work on gender norms, motherhood, reproductive rights, and voluntary childlessness (“childfree”)
She describes herself as “feminist, childfree and Antifa”
Zourli also says that all the stores getting looted also constitute a case of collateral damage and that the revolution, which she supports, must be violent.
She has lectured in gender studies, including at the University of Lille and Université Rennes.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Loose retelling of the Passion narrative and Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen,” plus a bit of Le Morte d’Arthur
Prince Caspian: A riff on Hamlet, with a dose of Norse myth and medieval romance
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Odyssey and the imrams (medieval Irish tales about journeys across the sea in pursuit of wonders)
The Horse and His Boy: a loving homage to The Arabian Nights
The Silver Chair: a medieval quest narrative with nods to Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene and Tam Lin
The Magician’s Nephew: Paradise Lost meets Edith Nesbit
The Last Battle: Edmund Spenser (Mother Hubberd’s Tale) and The Book of Revelation
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre.
LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy
Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey
The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress
Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights
Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi!
The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy
very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book
Assume there needs to be some sort of nerdlord anointing ceremony, presumably presided over by Henry Cavill.
Mainstream news rooms across the radio finally having to admit "peaceful protests over cost of living and poor school resourcing have turned into widespread rioting". Imagine that stung.
Just watched a 2009 anime in which a rogue AI breaks out of its sandbox and causes carnage on a social network that is running most of the planet's digital infrastructure.
