Misc. Effie's blog https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/ en-gb <p>Inktober 2025 selection!</p><p>(See all <a href="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25.html">here</a>)</p><p>Day 5: 'Deer'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_05.jpg" alt="Rough pen drawing of a deer." /></p><p>Day 6: 'Pierce'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_06.jpg" alt="Pen drawing showing a nude figure straddling a wyrm-like creature while stabbing it through the heart with a sword. The figure is wearing a jester-like hat and what could be clown make-up, though it could also be a mask. The figure and wyrm are surrounded by very large dino nuggets." /></p><p>Day 9: 'Heavy'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_09.jpg" alt="A rough pen drawing after Rubens' Bacchus with certain changes. A large and heavy bearded man staggers forward supported on either side by two figures, a satyr and a human probably. The satyr holds an ice cream above the man's head." /></p><p>Day 11: 'Sting'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_11.jpg" alt="Pen drawing an enormous bug person stinging a rat person. The rat person is fruitlessly holding a lance." /></p><p>Day 23: 'Firefly'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_23.jpg" alt="A pen drawing of a larviform firefly in a wide-brimmed hat facing toward a pleased-looking face with one large arm, protuding as if to hug the firefly. Both are in a verdant meadow. In the distance the moon is visible over mountains. Beneath the drawing is written Detective and Farmer, suggesting that the firefly is Detective and the face is Farmer, a dynamic crime-fighting duo." /></p><p>Day 25: 'Inferno'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_25.jpg" alt="Pen drawing of a landscape bombarded by flaming comets. A medieval city burns beneath a very very starry sky. In the foreground a devil-like figure is dying on the grass." /></p><p>Day 26: 'Puzzling'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_26.jpg" alt="Pen drawing of a minotaur sitting and weeping surrounded by effigies of the Lord Bruggis and pears. Bruggis has a small, angry, moustachioed face framed by the words Human or Animal." /></p><p>Day 28: 'Skeletal'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_28.jpg" alt="Pen drawing of an oss, a cloaked figure with a horse skull head. It is holding a three-pointed stave and wearing poulaines. There are candles on the skull." /></p><p>Day 29: 'Lesson'</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/inktober25_29.jpg" alt="Pen drawing. A long and coiled wyrm is speaking with a wizard. The wizard is holding a book." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#01112025_1906 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_1125.html#01112025_1906 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:06:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250729_195253.jpg" alt="A photo of an unfired clay plate. It is decorated with a drawing of an inflatable lard cowboy." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#04102025_1612 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_1025.html#04102025_1612 Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:12:00 +0100 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/Screenshot_20250811_190932_Samsung Notes.jpg" alt="Bah, bah, a black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir! Oh yes, sir! Three sour hogs. One for my Master, One for my Dame, One for my Little Boy, And none of them for thee." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#24082025_1328 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0825.html#24082025_1328 Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:28:00 +0100 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/ElgaleonDay.jpg" alt="A group of buildings by a road and a railway." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/ElgaleonNight.jpg" alt="A group of buildings by a road and a railway at night." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#17082025_1901 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0825.html#17082025_1901 Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:01:00 +0100 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250520_110709.jpg" alt="Newspaper headline from the St Ives Times in the 50s, reading: She paints and protects pets, questions on fish and fabrics." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#05072025_2320 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0725.html#05072025_2320 Sat, 05 Jul 2025 23:20:00 +0100 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/20250626_150757.jpg" alt="A collage. To the right, a Victorian child in a glittery semi-circular hat. To the left, an abstract zig-zag and stripy pattern. Underneath is written, 1 evening pizza." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/20250626_150806.jpg" alt="A collage. A gilt frame within which is a fish with its tongue stuck out. Underneath is written, squeeze my bum." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#26062025_1625 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0625.html#26062025_1625 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0100 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250418_170117.jpg" alt="Photograph of a pink camellia in a glass jug of water. Shed flowers are on the ground around it." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#27042025_1559 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0425.html#27042025_1559 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:37:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_01.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_02.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_03.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_04.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_05.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_06.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/devises_07.jpg" alt="A spread of emblems." /></p><p>Daniel De La Feuille, <i>Devises et Emblemes: Anciennes & Modernes tirees des plus celebres Auteurs</i>, Augsburg: Lorentz Kroniger & Gottlieb Gobels, 1699, <a href="https://archive.org/details/devisesetembleme00lafeu" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#26042025_1437 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0425.html#26042025_1437 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:37:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250310_180316.jpg" alt="Blurry photo from a bus window of the sunset over fields and Cornish hedges." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250310_181245.jpg" alt="Photo from a bus window of winter trees. They form curving shapes against pink sunset sky." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250314_124501.jpg" alt="Diagram from the book Fictioning by David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan. It shows a landscape, over which are overlayed overlappeing lines. These are labelled, spatial network of priveleged locations, thresholds, summits, boundaries, crossing points, etc. At a particular point in the landscape a multi-layered cone is projecting upwards. This is labelled, temporal network of priveleged moments." /></p><p>David Burrows & Simon O'Sullivan, <i>Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy</i>, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, p. 90.</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250312_183759.jpg" alt="Grainy photo of the almost-full moon shining through a billowing cloud." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250312_193137.jpg" alt="Grainy photo of the almost-full moon illuminating dramatic clouds." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250313_095002.jpg" alt="Photo of the ocean. It is very calm and sparkly, reflecting the sun and the clouds above." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#14032025_1240 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0325.html#14032025_1240 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:40:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/fortuniuslicetus.jpg" alt="Plate from the 17th century book Fortunius Licetus de Monstris. Deformed human figures with no face or no limbs, a crocodile snake, a boar and a head on a leaf." /></p><p>Fortunio Liceti & Gerardus Leonardus Blasius, <i>Fortunius Licetus de Monstris</i>, Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665, <a href="https://archive.org/embed/fortuniuslicetus00lice" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>, p.70.</p><p>&ldquo;One can imagine Caliban struggling to pass from [Hieronymus] Bosch's world to Michelangelo's, striving to adandon the Flemish painter's botanical bestiary of mystical symbols for the clarity and dignity of the Italian's anti-landscape. At the same time, in trying to make that crossing, perhaps he stumbles on and, in the process, articulates the necessity of each field to the other, but only as its excluded term.&rdquo;</p><p>- Julia Reinhard Lupton, &ldquo;Creature Caliban,&rdquo; <i>Shakespeare Quarterly</i> 1 vol. 51 (Spring 2000), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902320" target="_blank">JSTOR</a>, p. 22.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#04032025_1344 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0325.html#04032025_1344 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:44:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/palmer_weald.jpg" alt="" /></p><p>Samuel Palmer, <i>The Weald of Kent</i>, 1833 (source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Palmer_-_The_Weald_of_Kent_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg#/media/File:Samuel_Palmer_-_The_Weald_of_Kent_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>).</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#04032025_1322 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0325.html#04032025_1322 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:22:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/eunuch.jpg" alt="One of my neighbour's cats who sits at my kitchen window. She is staring, wide-eyed, through the glass." /></p><p>A scheming eunuch.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#25022025_1321 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0225.html#25022025_1321 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:21:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/tears.jpg" alt="Some teardrops." /></p><p><b>Bits from <i>The Crying Book</i> by Heather Christle:</b></p><p>&ldquo;A person who 'cries for the moon' wants too much--wants, in fact, more wanting--weeps into the lack. You can't make a wish upon the moon.&rdquo;</p><p>- p. 38.</p><p>&ldquo;Careful inquiry [...] concerning the substance of the moon show that eighteen children, averaging five years, thought it made of cheese. [...] It is made of rags, 3; or the man in it is stuffed with them; it is a picture with yellow paint, 4; made of yellow paper, 3; putty, 1; gold, 7; silver, 3; honey, 3; cotton, 3; a lucky stone, 1; a cake of ice, 5; of many stars, 3; air, 1; gas, 2; brass, 4; a plate, 3; a balloon, 3; clouds, 8; a ball, 2; tallow, 2; a lamp, candle or gas, 10; of light, 4; of dirt, 3; water, 3; cloth, 2; a bundle of sticks on fire, 1; milk, 1; butter, 2; felt, 1; lightening, 3; made of dead people who join hands in a circle of light, 1; some bright dish hung up, water and dirt like the earth, 1; a dead skull, 1; a water pail, 2; it is God, Christ, or any one else, 8; is the face of head of some dead relative or friend, 5; stuck out through the clouds, or the body goes straight toward the sky and is hidden from us by the head.&rdquo;</p><p>- J. W. Slaughter, &ldquo;The Moon in Childhood and Folklore,&rdquo; <i>The American Journal of Psychology</i> 2 vol. 13 (April 1902), p. 297.</p><p>&ldquo;When three M. was given a doll, which she cherished till arms, legs, and hair were gone, and it was a painful sight, her mother burned it; though she had plenty of others far prettier, she cried all night and almost all day. Her intense grief lasted a week. Three years afterward I asked her where Alice was; she began to cry and said: 'Why did you burn it, I loved it so, and she loved me. She is in God's house and sometime I will see her.'&rdquo;</p><p>- G. Stanley Hall & A. Caswell Ellis, <i>A Study of Dolls</i>, New York & Chicago: E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1897 - p. 17.</p><p>&ldquo;The difficulty comes from people who do not dig or spend time in holes thinking that the holes ought not to be so wet, or dark, or full of worms. 'Why is your hole not lined with light?' Sir, it is a hole.&rdquo;</p><p>- pp. 120-121.</p><p>&ldquo;<i>There were chairs where I'd sit,</i> she tells me, <i>and suddenly realize I was there</i>.&rdquo;</p><p>- p. 146.</p><p>&ldquo;I would like to grow this way. I would like to find myself full of these wondrous fish, crying and laughing and strange.&rdquo;</p><p>- p. 152.</p><p>Heather Christle, <i>The Crying Book</i> (London: Corsair, 2019).</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#25022025_1226 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0225.html#25022025_1226 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:26:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-1.jpg" alt="A fairy stands over a human skull, messily eating a ice lolly. A red rose grows out of the skull and blood pours from the skull's mouth." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-2.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: A banner reads 'one day before', behind it a view of the Banquet Witch City, medieval spires and modern apartment blocks. Detective Halligan is visible through a window, smoking and listening to answer machine messages. 2-4: The first message is from Al's Pizza Palace, asking for a bill of 275 pounds to be paid. Halligan pats their stomach, saying 'Wow! That's my personal record!' 5-6: The next message is from Melanie Turner asking why their had not heard from Halligan. Halligan looks out at the cityscape." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-3.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: Detective Halligan continues to listen to answer machine messages, the next one is a mysterious threat 'let me give you some advice, don't interfere with out affairs.' 2: 'What?! Who was that?!' 3-4: A headless figure with wings flies through the city sky. There is a large eye in its torso. 5: Halligan listens to the next phone message, it is from their chief, Miller who is very annoyed with Halligan for not showing up at work. 6: 'The Chief. I'm glad I've got that behind me...' 6-7: The headless winged figure enters a room through a window and alights on Lord Sinclairs hand. It whispers to them. 8-9: Halligan leaves their office carrying a bottle of red wine. They enter Janet's office. 10: 'It's me again, Janet.' Janet is at their computer eating a Victoria sponge cake, 'hello, how's your case going?'" /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-4.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: Halligan addresses Janet, 'Janet, I need a database enquiry. Have you got time?' 'Of course,' says Janet. 'Have you got the form for me?' 2-3: Halligan produces the consent form, it is a rough drawing of Cupid Revived by Psyche's Kiss by Antonio Canova with a worried worm drawn underneath. 4: Janet says, 'good, well go ahead then.' On the computer screen is an antlered figure in a gridded landscape under a moon and star constellations. 5-6: Halligan says they are looking for information on a group called the Circle. The horned figure searches through various cubes until one is found. Janet says, 'yes we've got something, an order of neo-druids. The head of the group is called Lord Sincalir.' 7: Halligan requests a printed copy, 'of course,' says Janet. 8: 'Would you mind telling me what these neo-druids have to do with your case? Is this one of your usual mad ideas?' 9:'I don't think so,' Halligan says. 'I'll have a closer look at these people anyway.'" /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-5.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1-3: Dorothy and frogman Larry from the novella Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls sitting on a sofa. Larry is much larger than Dorothy so she nestles in his froggy lap. Larry is wearing his disguise wide-brimmed hat and special big sandals, Dorothy is wearing a red polka-dot dress. They are reading The Story of the Eye. The sofa is patterned with cacti and there is an Elvis cushion of course. In the background, out the window, an enormous moon is visible, rising over palm trees. Flanking this panel are two frogs in horned masks holding phallic weapons. 4: Janet says to Halligan, 'well then, happy hunting.' Halligan says, 'Good. Thanks a lot, Janet. I have to go.' 'Okay, see you later.' 5: Halligan has the printout of information on the Circle in an envelope. 6: It is now night and Halligan travels through the Banquet Witch City in a train. The train travels over a tall viaduct, beneath are brightly illuminated towers. A huge moon shines overhead. 7-8: Halligan walks towards an apartment door. Inside, Melanie is asleep in a bed. There is an open book on the duvet and empty beer bottles on the floor. 9: Halligan pushes their envelope through Melanie's letterbox, 'that'll do it. That should be enough for Mx. Turner to find me in case something happens to me.' 10: Melanie is awakened by the flopping sound the envelope makes coming through her door. They are visibly crying. Melanie doesn't seem to be doing too well tbh." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-6.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: Halligan's printout of information about the circle with a sprig of witch hazel. It reads, 'Lord Sinclair, 234 Winchester Street, Head of the Circle,' underneath Halligan has written 'for Melanie' and three kisses. 2: Melanie and friend approach a house surrounded by pinre forest. A sign reads 'welcome to Fongy Spoam'. Melanie is an animal-person-creature, so crawls along the ground. They are held on a leash by their friend. 3: Melanie and friend approach the window of the house, inside are four skeletons in ruffs and conical hats. The skeletons are hissing. 4: One of the skeletons, hissing, throws two dice. 5-7: Lightening flashes over the forest and torrential rain begins." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-7.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: A bright pink blob moves through the rainy forest. 2-3: Melanie notices a tiny stone circle on the group by their feet. 'There are some stones here.' The tiny stones have distressed faces. Pink blobs float about. 4: The skeletons hear Melanie speaking. 'What was that?' 5: They look out of the window into the rain, but there is no-one there. 'Nothing to be seen.' A pink blob floats by, unnoticed. 6: The skeletons turn back around, 'must have been a bird or something,' 'hhhiisss,' 'get back to your post.' 7: The pink blob flies high into the dark sky." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/banquetvvytch4-8.jpg" alt="A page of comic panels. 1: A bright pink blob flies over the night landscape like a comet. It passes from rainy forest to starry countryside. The lights of small villages are visible. 2-3: The blob shoots through a window into an empty room and disappears, leaving Melanie and their friend who exclaim, 'oh no! Where are we now?' 'This is like being in a ghost train!' 4: 'This must be Lord Sinclair's study,' says Melanie. There is a desk further into the room. On the desk is a computer with candles burning on top of it. The desktop wallpaper is someone's butt. 5: Melanie's friend opens a file browser on the computer, 'that looks interesting' 6: 'Voila! Open!' They open a folder and an image of an amulet appears on screen. It is shaped like an upside-down heart and has a grotesque drooling face. Melanie says, pointing at the screen, 'this is the Amulet of Transformation. It seems to be really important for Lord Sinclair.'" /></p><p>Larger version <a href="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/banquetvvytch4">here</a>.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#22022025_2137 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0324.html#22022025_2137 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:37:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/20250218_160651.jpg" alt="Digitally coloured biro drawing on a Cornwall Libraries temporary library card form of a horned figure reaching forward with a sword." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#18022025_2343 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0225.html#18022025_2343 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:43:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/17c-sm.jpg" alt="A drawing of Dorothy and frogman Larry from the novella Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls sitting on a sofa. Larry is much larger than Dorothy so she nestles in his froggy lap. Larry is wearing his disguise wide-brimmed hat and special big sandals, Dorothy is wearing a red polka-dot dress. They are reading The Story of the Eye. The sofa is patterned with cacti and there is an Elvis cushion of course. In the background, out the window, an enormous moon is visible, rising over palm trees." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#17022025_2302 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0225.html#17022025_2302 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:02:00 +0000 <p>Goblin Week 2025 retrospective!</p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb8.jpg" alt="A head-and-shoulders drawing of a butch goblin. They are making eye contact with a duck-dragon-looking sock puppet on their left hand." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb9.jpg" alt="Roundel in which is a drawing. A goblin in a muzzled helmet is knighting a second goblin in a mushroom hat and low-backed dress using a fork-shaped sword and a flower. The goblins are in a forest, in the distance stone circles are visible. The ground is covered in mushrooms. In the foreground, at the bottom of the roundel, is an open bag of fish and chips, also a frog-wizard with a wooden chip fork." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb10.jpg" alt="A rough drawing of a goblin in a tree messily licking or eating eggs. The goblin is wearing a pink Stetson hat, a ruff, harlequin-chequered socks with spurs and clown makeup. Above their head is a cube containing a collaged image of a flowering cactus." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb11.jpg" alt="Drawing of a goblin wearing a cropped sweater. The sweater is embroidered with a scene of a burning Sienese-style medieval city. In front of the city a battle is taking place between goblins and dog-headed soldiers. Leading the goblins, and in the centre of the sweater, is a goblin witch riding a red wyrm." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb12.jpg" alt="Drawing of a librarian goblin. They are wearing a sweater over a rumpled shirt, leggings, round glasses, Fila Disruptor trainers and a sword tied to their back with string. On their sweater is a design from a Cornwall Library Service sticker: the Cornish crest and the words free with Cornwall Libraries in a circle. This is partially obscured by the pile of books the goblin is holding. On top of the book pile is a stained mug with an eye symbol on it." /></p><p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/gb1314.jpg" alt="Drawing of a goblin standing under a triumphal arch, a large moon is visible through the archway. The goblin is wearing a ruff, short cape, greaves and spiky boots. They are holding a wine glass and a tiny fast-food restaurant. The arch is decorated with castellations, two goblins licking an egg and pizzas." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#26012025_2237 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0125.html#26012025_2237 Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:37:00 +0000 <p><a href="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/wouldu.html"><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/wouldu-s.jpg" alt="Oil painting roughly 6 inches square. Inside a red sheared square is a satyr holding a worm-person on a leash. The satyr is wearing a green mask and nothing else, the worm-person is wearing a crown of ivy leaves and is sticking out their very long tongue. This is all fine. Above the worm-person's head is a possibly-extruded frame within which is a hand holding a goblet in front of an archway. Yellow comet-like objects surround the hand and goblet. Outside the red square, at the bottom right of the painting, is a suggestive pink blob wearing a ribbon tied in a bow." /></a></p><p><i>Would U Still Love Me if I was a Worm</i>, 2025, oil on panel, 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#23012025_1534 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0125.html#23012025_1534 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:34:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250117_154053.jpg" alt="Detail from a work in progress oil painting. A hand in front on an archway holds a stemmed cup decorated with dancing figures. Overlaid is a pattern of comet-like shapes." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#17012025_1631 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0125.html#17012025_1631 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:31:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250116_232244.jpg" alt="Grainy photo of a waning full moon, glimpsed through clouds." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#17012025_1448 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0125.html#17012025_1448 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:48:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20250107_124938.jpg" alt="Work in progress painting. A satyr is gesturing towards a worm-person on a blue and red geometric background." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#07012025_1339 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_0125.html#07012025_1339 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:39:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/AbominableSnowmen.jpg" alt="Three yeti robots are walking down a rugged hillside." /></p><p><i>Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen</i>, episode 2, 1967.</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#27122024_1537 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_1224.html#27122024_1537 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:37:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/images/Snapshot297_001.jpg" alt="Second Life snapshot of hanging Hogswatch decorations. A Hogfather flies his boar-drawn sleigh through a pine forest. He is holding up a large sausage in season's greeting." /></p><p>Happy Hogswatch!</p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#22122024_2056 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_1224.html#22122024_2056 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:56:00 +0000 <p><img src="https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/20241214_190611.jpg" alt="Low quality photo of the almost-full moon over the sea. The moon is framed by dramatic clouds, lights are visible in the distance over the water." /></p> https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog.html#19122024_1508 https://thmnwhhsfld.neocities.org/shipsblog/blog_1224.html#19122024_1508 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:08:00 +0000