Merely Christian; husband to a redhead wife, father to SIX redheads. Someday, in this life or the next, redheads will have our vengeance; woodsmith
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Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
These pages take a long time because I'm doing them the hard, slow way, watercolor & ink.
For heaven's sake if this project interests you —follow me. I'm doing the math and I need the first story to do extremely well if I'm going to make the money work.
I want passion to win.
The first 4 pages sans text for PetraCor, my Anglo-Saxon graphic novel.
Each chapter is a self-contained episode. A early-medieval Twilight Zone structure with stories inspired by Dante, English and Celtic fable, and the real history of 8th century England.
I can't wait to start drawing creatures. The truly strange stuff. That's certainly a highlight.
But the heart of the story is two men --one a Saxon thegn whose life of bloody conflict has left him searching for meaning, and the other a young Lombardian exile whose aristocratic family was unseated by Charlemagne's conquests in Italy. With all lost, he lives in the present.
Thrown together, they wander the length of Albion on a path to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne, navigating the layers of cultures that centuries of conquest had brought to the isle.
Saints, monsters, druids, wicked gods and men, nature and the ruins it has reclaimed pepper the road between Wintanceastre and Lindisfarne in Anno Domini 793.
Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
It wasn’t just a terrible Star Wars movie, it was both a terrible movie, and a terrible Star Wars movie.
Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
Comic cons are pretty good for selling my wares. Just had my first con ever that failed to break even.
The good news: you can cure this by buying my work from my adventure/comedy Greek mythology phase in order to fund my drama/mystic Anglo-Saxon phase.
carthageworkshop.com
Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
Hospitals, notable for their secular origins…
Be atheist. Be happy ❤️
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Catholic Church is the largest provider of Healthcare in the world. Including approximately:
Hospitals: ~5,377 to 5,500
Clinics and dispensaries: ~14,000 to 18,000
Homes for the elderly, disabled, and chronically ill: ~15,000 to 16,000
Orphanages: ~8,500
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_…
Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
Or – hear me out here – you could recognise that a life of joy and purpose is freely available to anyone who turns away from sin and selfishness, and toward the Author of Life. Much better than a lame, damaging second adolescence.
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis
1. Date a 24 year old
2. Quit drinking and tell everyone you don’t drink anymore
3. Drink heavily 3-4 times a week
4. Train for a marathon and or Hyrox
5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate)
6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs, guy tries too and fails?
7. Get divorced to feel something
8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism
9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, gardening, handstands
10. Get very into video games
Hagrid was fiercely protective and could tank spells like nobody’s business
Why did the Order of the Phoenix choose Hagrid to escort Harry from Privet Drive in Deathly Hallows when he was arguably one of the least capable wizards for the mission?
He never completed his magical education and his wand was snapped in half,wouldn’t Harry have been safer with a more skilled wizard protecting him?
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maidenlike, guest in a hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. The man who combines both characters – the knight – is not a work of nature but of art; of that art which has human beings, instead of canvas or marble, for its medium.”
C.S. Lewis
May our sons in their youth
be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars
cut for the structure of a palace;
may our granaries be full,
providing all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our fields;
may our cattle be heavy with young,
suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;b
may there be no cry of distress in our streets!
Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!
Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!
Psalm 144:12-15
Elijah the Middleborne retweeted
Lots of people forgetting that giant corps essentially shut off the Internet for any customer they felt was insufficiently condemnatory of the Jan 6 riots
They hadn't even broken any written rule. They just didn't like them so no Internet for them. Starlink's policy is way more clear and fair.
Listening to the Harry Potter Full Cast Audio and it’s hitting me again just how brilliantly and easily Rowling captures character archetypes
Especially the Sperm Whales who guard us against the eldritch demons of the Deep
The “redefining time jump” is a measly 5 years
Prime Video's The Rings of Power is set to make a major shift in Season 3 with a time jump that will redefine Middle-earth. bit.ly/4i5oaYn
ALT Prime Video’s Most Rewatchable Fantasy Series Is Making a Major Shift in Season 3