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A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: New Kingdom

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Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.

Nina Dul

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Hi Neil!

I just finished watching Dead Boy Detectives and loved it!!

I have a question about it, though:

There is a finnish painting called ”Lemminkäisen äiti” by artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, which really reminded me of the washer woman painting !! :))

I was wondering if there was any chance that it was inspired by it or if it’s just my imagination :D? (Really cool either way)

(Here’s the painting, it’s about Lemminkäinen’s mother griefing the death of her son, based on Finland’s national epic Kalevala)

I personally have always loved that painting -- i first saw it in the Helsinki art museum in about 1997 and it was my second favourite painting there.

But I don't know the answer to your question.

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And you have a date with death…

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silly redraw but its moa with percy jason and piper praying to dionysus/bacchus to help them fight the twin giants

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So he met Percy who's just this kid and immediately in no particular order-

Called him by the wrong name

Pretended to be his father while this kid is in absolutely emotional instability after losing his loving mother and in a turmoil over kicking his absentee dad's ass

Wrong name. Again.

Tried to dupe him into breaking the laws set by Zeus because demigods can exploit the loopholes of the gameboard that gods can't

(Still pretending to be his dad btw)

(Still wrong name)

Insisted he take on the quest

Said 'who's Sally Jackson?' 🤷🏻‍♂️ (the absolute slander I swear)

Pretended he's chill and relaxed and laid back

The glint in his eyes when he 'advises' Grover to get over his theories about Sally's assumed death

He's a god. An Olympian. Even trapped by Zeus' laws, even laid back and sipping diet coke. He's a god and barely any better than any of the others.

The fucking switch in his attitude when he gets the glint in his eyes that reminds you he's the fucking God of Madness

Calls Chiron a spoilsport

They couldn't have chosen a better Mr D

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dionysus:

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I gotta say, mr d's wine quest was a REALLY good, succinct way of introducing the "heroes can do what gods can't" thing!

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AU where Mr. D claiming to be Percy’s dad accidentally counts as Claiming according to Greek god law or whatever and now all the other gods legitimacy believe Percy is his son, but if Mr. D corrects it, he has to explain to Zeus why he pretended he was Percy’s dad so now he’s like “YEP ol’ Perry Johansson is MY child wowie just look at the little fry, you have your mother’s eyes. Please stop standing next to water or you will blow my cover”

Meanwhile Poseidon is just standing off to the side like “how on earth did I dodge THAT bullet”

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Bacchic Frenzy

I have NO idea why I never posted this piece. It’s over a year old by now, and I still quite like it! So here’s my favourite guy

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real boy redux

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Why do you act 32 even though youre 63

In what way?

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My son (9) is writing a horror story with his friend in a shared notebook at school. I am delighted. He was telling me (in intricate detail) the plot and I mentioned he should read the book Coraline as it had similar vibes. He said he’d seen the movie and found it very scary.

I said he should try the book anyway. Books could be both scarier and not as scary at the same time.

So he asked me about the author and I said, “oh you like him and his writing already!” And he was so confused so I mentioned you were same author that wrote Fortunately The Milk, the Chu’s Day books, and the Blueberry Girl book his sister loved. He was dumbfounded.

Then he asked me why you’d written both Coraline and Fortunately The Milk.

I looked up the answer to the former on Tumblr (thanks for tagging!) and read it and he liked the answer a lot. But we weren’t sure about the latter. I told him it might be similar to one of the reasons you wrote Coraline.l, but that I would send you a message to see if you might answer.

So here’s the question - why did you write Fortunately The Milk?

(He also likes The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish so if you want to answer the same question for that one too, that’d be awesome.)

I wrote Fortunately The Milk because I liked the idea of writing a book with a good dad who did stuff. Dads tend to get short shrift in fiction, especially children's fiction. I liked the idea of making up for The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish...

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the croli in heaven saga starts here

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First doodle of Chris, unfinished (+abandoned)

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Day 251 of posting Good Omens memes Everyday until Season 3