My sci-fi horror novel The Prospect releases today!It's also the first day of Pride, so worth letting you all know it features some (I think) delightful queer characters, most notably a loveable trans man with a fondness for classic (ancient by their standards) horror movies!

You can find the book here, it's available phsyically, as an ebook, and it's also on Kindle Unlimited!

I’m obsessed with this man

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

he Prospect received it's first review from an advanced reader on Goodreads, four stars and some very kind words! Thank you Elisa! You can read Elisa's full review here.

Late night thoughts

#kittycatandmanlyman

Thanks to the awesome @simply.hamish on Instagram for bringing this fabulous interview to my attention. Pic via @flanaganfilm

Imagine being such a prude that not only are you homophobic, you also think calling somebody a pirate is an insult.

Yo ho ho fuckers.

Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

I wrote a book! It's a sci-fi horror with a tasty helping of gore and body horror and delightfully unpleasant things happening to people who mostly don't deserve it. It releases on the 1st of June! You can already find it on Amazon (UK) (US) (CANADA) (You'll have to google others, it shoudl be easy to find) And it should be available other places too once the release date rolls around. It has male characters who are overtly affectionate and loving of one another, badass older ladies, a horror creature that (I think) is quite distinctive and fun and unique, a prominent trans man who is a massive nerd, depictions of terrible things happening to eyeballs, references to Matthew Lillard and so much more. Also, the eBook will be on sale for 99p (or your local equivalent) for the first week it's out. If you like horror, try it maybe~ Here's a little vibe chart of what you can expect from the back of the book:

out of curiosity have you by chance played/heard of a game called Pyre?

I most certainly have, Super Giant's most under appreciated masterpiece~ Hedwyn my most beautiful and wonderful boi, my Internet Namesake.

I'm so glad Hades and Hades 2 are these huge successes everybody playing them please go back and play Pyre too.

Bad Space Comics: The Suit

Alien prop at a UFO museum from National Geographic: January (2000) photo: Peter Essick

I don't play Genshin anymore, but I like the look of this new lady Articuno.

*heavy southern accent*: terfs aint got no friends

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi

Female Mimics magazine 1965

Stinky group of gamerz

It came to me in my fever dreams

tag yoself, I’m Chilskyrim