Illustrator/author. I always say yes to dark/creepy/spiritual/magical/folky projects 👻🎈🐛 Repd @brightchildrens https://xitter.cf/t.co/Hm8LMWJsrk
Liverpool, UK
Joined April 2011
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If you're looking for a Halloween read, I ordered a new print run of The Ghost In The Window - A Paranormal Graphic Novel :D etsy.me/3pxwrZY via @Etsy
Just launched - Divine Feminine Goddess Oracle Cards.
Earlybird offers are only up for 24 hours - go see!
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I have some new cards coming - follow along on Kickstarter - launching soon 🌒🌕🌘
It's also the last chance to get my 1st Ed Wednesday's Child Oracle cards.
It helps so much to build up a pre-launch following and I'd really appreciate your support.
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As an artist with a small social circle, I'd love it if you could follow along with my Kickstarter pre-launch page.
My projects take months of late nights and early mornings and are all human (me) made - just good old fashioned hard work.
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ALT Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, "A.I. IS DATA & CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN. CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO."
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It's the Year of Reading. It's kinda chic to afford children and teens the agency to choose what they read. Respect ALL forms of reading.
It's VERY chic to respect kidlit. It's the most important of all.
ALT It's the Year of Reading. It's kinda chic to afford children and teens the agency to choose what they read. Respect ALL forms of reading. It's VERY chic to respect kidlit. It's the most important of all.
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UPDATE ON GERALD AND THE CROW SITUATION:
Things have escalated.
I repeat.
THINGS HAVE FUCKING ESCALATED.
For those of you just joining us, yesterday I accidentally entered into diplomatic relations with a gang of crows after Gerald stole my good spoon.
Well.
This morning I walked outside and Gerald was waiting for me.
Alone.
Standing directly in the middle of my driveway.
No screaming.
No hopping around.
Just staring at me like a tiny feathered loan shark who had come to collect.
I said, “Morning, Gerald.”
He tilted his head.
I gave him a walnut.
He did not eat it.
Instead, this motherfucker picked it up, walked three steps to the left, PUT IT DOWN, and stared at me again.
Message received.
The offering was insufficient.
So I went back inside and got more walnuts.
When I returned…
THERE WERE NINE CROWS.
Nine.
Yesterday there were seven.
Gerald is fucking recruiting.
And they were arranged in a SEMICIRCLE.
This isn’t a bird friendship anymore.
I’m funding organized crime.
I distributed the walnuts because apparently I pay protection money now.
Everything seemed fine until one of the smaller crows tried taking two.
Gerald immediately screamed at him.
The little one dropped the second walnut.
I have accidentally created an economy.
Gerald controls distribution.
There’s a hierarchy.
There are consequences.
I’m pretty sure I witnessed a disciplinary hearing before breakfast.
Then Gerald flew away.
I thought we were done.
WE WERE NOT DONE.
Twenty minutes later I looked outside and there was something sitting where Gerald had been standing.
A bottle cap.
A shiny rock.
And…
MY FUCKING SPOON.
HE RETURNED THE SPOON.
Ladies and gentlemen.
I believe we have successfully negotiated a trade agreement.
Unfortunately, there is now a crow sitting on my mailbox.
So I still cannot get my fucking mail.
I tried approaching.
He puffed up.
I backed away.
That mailbox belongs to the organization now.
At this point I’m just a tenant.
Anyway, Gerald has officially been promoted to General Gerald, Commander of the Driveway, First of His Name, Keeper of the Good Spoon, Lord of the Power Line, Collector of Walnuts, and Regional Manager of Whatever The Fuck Is Happening Here.
I’ll keep everyone updated.
But if I suddenly stop posting…
Gerald found out I told you.
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As it's officially #cosyseason, we're giving away ONE #folklore book bundle.
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I'm puzzled by quizzes saying 'You may have #ADHD if you do these three things.'
I have ADHD and one of the main issues is that I try not to repeat behaviours because I need the novelty of not doing things the same way every time.
Lots of prints, zines, books and oracle cards in my #etsy store. Go take a look!
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Hello #BookTwitter ! I've been away for a while and my feed is full of people fighting over pretty much anything.
I want to get back to seeing lovely Children's books and book news! I'm a children's book illustrator/sometimes author and I sell prints, original art and zines.
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‘School hasn’t changed! Why are so many more young people unable to attend? Don’t they just have to learn to put up with it?’
I’m often asked all of these questions. So here’s a quick answer.
School has changed since most of us over the age of 30 were there. Starting in 2010 with Michael Gove, there was a deliberate shift in schools to a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’.
This meant, more focus on learning information and facts. Less focus on play, creativity, problem solving and social and emotional skills. There was a philosophy which ignored child development and instead focusing on how to get more information into children and more test results out. More standardised tests have been introduced starting in primary school. Phonics Screening, Multiplication Tables, Spelling Punctuation and Grammar ‘checks’ AKA tests.
Secondary schools have become more controlling. I hear regularly of schools where children walk along lines painted on the corridors in silence. I hear of frequent use of detention and isolation. Parents tell me quietly and say that they can’t complain openly because their children don’t want them to make a fuss. There’s a lot of focus on exam results, and education has become about retaining information.
All of this has a huge impact on children’s day-to-day experience.
More pressure has been introduced throughout the system. There are fewer options for those who don’t enjoy academics. Teachers are stressed, parents are stressed and it all results in stressed children. When they start to say they can’t go to school, the answer is more pressure. When parents complain they’re called vexatious. The answer is fines and threats. No one is listening.
So, no, I don’t think this is the ‘real world’ and they ‘just have to learn’.
I do think that something has changed. Schools have become less child-friendly, and the children are telling us so.
