Anthony Baxter

The hardest part about writing is definitely the bit where you have to write.

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?

AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

toys turned into stone at mother shipton’s petrifying well a lobster, toy action figure and a teapot hang from string in a cave, all turned to stone over time

Mother Shipton’s Petrifying Well

Hannah and Zack with cameras taking a selfie

I don't know if I'll ever stop smiling.

We've all done something very special. 💚

William H Macy’s delivery of “Aaaah, What the Christ!” As he storms away from Marge Gunderson in Fargo is one of the all time greats.

I remember when they all had the poster madness.

Riker is such a great example of a dude character that's both peak tier horny AND positive and unproblematic. No shit, that character on TNG was a positive role model of mine when I was young.

I feel like Freud is a bit of a cursed surname.

Thanks. I’ve been getting into making more Asian food this year and bought the bowls especially to compliment my dinners.

Possibly a sad move, possibly a fantastic move, I am undecided.

A bowl of noodles with faux chicken, sliced carrot and spring onion, with some Cavellero Nero

Very proud of dinner

Some kind of mushroom growing from a tree stump

I believe a single jelly ear mushroom growing from a branch

Some kind of shelf of mushrooms growing from a tree

A huddle of jelly ear mushrooms on a tree

Mushroom report:

Some kind of mushroom growing from a tree stump

I believe a single jelly ear mushroom growing from a branch

Some kind of shelf of mushrooms growing from a tree

A huddle of jelly ear mushrooms on a tree

Mushroom report:

Sesame Street Instagram: Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird. Offering comfort in Scary Times: After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

"Why doesn't HP have the same intergenerational relevance as Lord of the Rings"

Because it's mediocre and suffers from a terminal association with cringe millennials. Sorry. You could as well ask "Why doesn't Twilight have the same intergenerational relevance as Dracula."

Yes I like Geese, thank you for asking

I used to wonder how the Romans felt when the Emperor Caligula put his horse in the Senate.

Submitted another short story.

Cross every finger/toe/flipper for me.

A screen grab of the covers of three books: Zadie Smith’s Dead and Alive. Celia Paul’s Self Portrait, and Now It All Makes Sense by Alex Partridge.

Good Afternoon Womble,

I am currently reading Zadie Smith’s latest book of essays, portrait painter Celia Paul’s memoir, and Alex Partridge’s book on ADHD in adulthood ‘Now It All Makes Sense’. Really been on an Essay kick recently. It’s cool to just read a self contained short burst of learning.

Screenshot of Salem from the 90s tv show Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He is a sassy black talking cat. He is asking to be twirled around so it looks like he is flying.

Screenshot of Salem from the 90s tv show Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He is a black cat who can talk. He is being asked if he still wants to take over the world. He says yes. He is wearing a suit with a disgusting tie.

Screenshot of Salem from the 90s tv show Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Here he is having eaten quite a lot of food, being very round, and yelling for more food.

Screenshot of Salem from the 90s tv show Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Here he is wondering if he can throw up in your shoe.

Thinking about Him.

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Yesterday I made a vegan Spanakopita from a vegetarian cookery book called “Plantasia”. It added Kashmiri spice blend to the spinach and cheese mix, along with green peppers and red onion. Possibly one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever cooked and didn’t take a single photograph.

One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

A bowl of ramen

Follow up to previous Ramen talk

Photo of a very pretty duck with beautiful plumage in gentle shades of brown and dark brown contrasting stripes and speckles. Her beak is black and she sits on a heated concrete floor indoors.

This is Violet - isn't she beautiful? For some reasons the other outdoor ducks all picked on her and no matter what social combination we tried she ended up hiding, so we brought her indoors to live with the bunnies and special needs birds.

Making some Ramen today, first time making it from scratch. Quite excited but absolutely unsure what to put in it despite having eaten it numerous times.

Drama on 4 - The Goblin King and Me - BBC Sounds A story about a real-life encounter with David Bowie, marking ten years since his passing.

We listened to this the other night ; a little hokey in that Drama-on-4 way but Culshaw’s Bowie voice is uncanny www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today was one of those days where I just couldn’t get the music right.

Johnathan Strange looking out the window wistfully: I wonder what the Raven King is doing right now.

This sucks.