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Mike Stevens. This is some stuff I found and some thoughts I had. I'm also at @getmikestevens & @yomikestevens

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Drew Struzan

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"Life fucks us all" | ATOC

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NECROBANE

Cover art I did for 'Necrobane' written by Daniel M. Ford, and published by Tor Books. This is the second book in the swords and sorcery series following Aelis De Lenti. She's journeying deep into the snowy wilderness with Maurenia, the mercenary she's fallen for, and Tun her half-orc friend, to find an immense necromantic power to stop an undead army, and prevent a war. Tun is a returning character. A fur trader, naturalist, and close friend of Aelis. I again had to interpret what he was going to look like based on my reading of the text. Admittedly, I didn't get to read this one because of the schedule, but he is described in the first book, so I had it. Tun is a Nordic word and given he comes from the snowy mountains of the North and has braided hair I read him as a viking orc, which sounded cool to me and hopefully it is to you too. Thanks to AD Esther Kim!

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A nice 2 car garage | ATOC

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Fixed.

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Catwomen, by Dakota Randall.

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I very deliberately haven’t ridden a rocket in a very long time now, but man... Ukrainian designer Ivan Zhurba's Ichiban project is pushing me.

Ichiban Motorcycle: One Ukrainian's Japanese retro two-wheeled dream - Realcool

It's been nearly 20 years since my motorbike obsession came to an abrupt and skidding halt, but this Ichiban concept is making me rethink th

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Ghost in the Shell (1995)

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Cowboy Bebop TV Series (1998)

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Angel Olsen.

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Photo: Ron Church, sometime in the 1960s.

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Nintendo Switch 2 revealed, officially! *squeal* And new Mario Kart! *dead*

Looks like it won't be available until around June, but still... excited!

More piccies on the blog!

OFFICIAL: Nintendo Switch 2 revealed & new Mario Kart! - Realcool

Whoa whoa whoa. Here it is, on Nintendo’s own YouTube channel: The Nintendo Switch 2 is now official!

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“Success is not final…” | ATOC

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They're not wrong, you know.

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Futurama as a dark 80s movie. Pure genius, would watch the David Lynch adaptation every night. via Four Finger Discount on FB.

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You can do this.

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Mr Hipp when are you coming back to tumblr? It needn't even be all day.

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Hi Neil, what's your opinion on the rewrite of Roald Dahl's works in the name of "making it available for all"?

Thanks.

I'm a lot more comfortable with this kind of thing when it's done by a living writer to existing work. I remember as a kid picking up a copy of John Masefield's Collected Poems, and seeing a 1930s errata slip in the book, which said "in the poem London Town, replace

“‘And craftily fares the knave there, and wickedly fares the Jew.’

with

“‘But wretchedly fare the most there and merrily fare the few.’"

And I nodded my 9 year old head in approval. Someone had pointed out to the poet that that line was awful, and he had fixed it.

I can't imagine anyone deciding to fix that line after the poet had died, though.

I removed a line from "The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish" (over the objections of my editor, who wanted to keep it) because too many people had reached out to me and told me it had upset them or their children on reading it, and I realised it was being taken in a way I hadn't intended. So on later editions it went away.

And having said that, language changes. Enid Blyton's children's books have been rewritten, her children renamed (farewell Dick and Fanny) and so forth, with the idea that the Blyton estate is a commercial entity that wishes to remain viable. The Dahl estate is in the same place. So is the Dr Seuss estate -- and they chose to simply let some of the earlier books go out of print. There comes a point where it's not about art, but about sustaining a commercial entity. And I don't know what I think about that.