#baylis

[la-principessa-della-squadra]

🌟✨ To all my amazing mutuals, I just had to share this incredible artwork of my OC Baylis and Ghiaccio from La Squadra di Esecuzione by the talented @gothearts ✨🌟

I'm absolutely blown away by the attention to detail and the love put into this piece. Thank you so much for making my day brighter with your art! 💖✏️🎨

-La Principessa della Squadra

[theartmeg]

It's that magical day of the year—Happy Threshold Day! 🦎🦎🦎

I'm celebrating with very silly crossover art. Don't ask me for the logic behind these, because I don't even understand it myself.

[ljsbugblog]

I want my first bug here to be one of my favourites, Aproida balyi, also known as a very polite lady, as seen here:

there is currently no common name for these guys, and from what I understand they are the only species of the tribe Aproidini/genus Aproida (they fall into the family Chrysomelidae, aka leaf beetles). they are only found in subtropical Eastern Australia. their carapace is the most vibrant green, with a lot of dents and texture!

to finish off, here is a slow-motion video I captured of this female taking flight!

please let me know if you like posts like this! I'm very new to bugblr, but im so excited to have a blog to share my love of entomology with the world :)

[cassettebeastssource]

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Cassette Beasts' release, Jay Baylis of Bytten Studio has made a Twitter thread to share some behind-the-scenes stuff about Archangels:

[iamsweetcrow]

Duckvember Day 19: Friend Duck

"Young Scrooge McDuck's friendship with young Erin W. Baylis may be said to have begun by accident. But Scrooge's curiosity for the theatre and Erin's acting experience led to the two getting to know each other better, even to the point of acting out the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It's a pity that the tragedy happened later."

This is my version of the theatre scene from the comic "Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow".

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Aries SS24 shot by Zac Bayly

[baylardian-1]

local celebrity threshold!janeway from the threshold au

[mttztrading]

She's the queen of beasts, she can smell your fear. In this biosphere, she's the apex predator.

Mean Girls - West End: Act 1

[alaskan-wallflower]

lowkey tempted to redeem an old oc into the outsiders…

[la-principessa-della-squadra]

Formula #1 alternative cover-art featuring my Oc Baylis

[severeprincesheep]

Booktok Girlies Losing Community & Books Aren't Political? 

Soon it'll be 20 years since Stephenie Meyer first published Twilight, a book that while bringing her fame and fortune also brought her an equal measure of persecution to a degree that, to my naive eyes, was astonishing to behold. I've seen much worse since, like the ongoing "fuck JKR" tag proves every day.

And even though I've listened to what her "critics" have had to say these past maybe 15 years that I've been paying close attention, I can now tell you I am yet to hear a single pertinent criticism of her books. People who are equally practiced facing bigotry of other sorts know what bad will looks like, they know what I'm talking about.

It took me a while to finally just accept that all these defamations were coming from a place of prejudice. The same far-right individuals and organizations in America that have consistently defamed her, banned her books from libraries and burned them in public pyres have one objective: that this mistake is never allowed to happen again. Society must not celebrate or give any visibility or power to female-bodied people. Other talented young women with potential and aspirations to greatness must be repressed. They must be made to see what happens when you pursue academia followed by a paid career as a published author, so that they will say to themselves: "It's too much trouble, I'm too afraid, I should just be a stay-at-home mom and if I do write something I should keep it in a drawer somewhere". That's the agenda.

Rule No.1 of misogyny, guys: women must not be allowed to leave a legacy.

One of the hardest pills to swallow was not the dawning realization that men hate women, although that is more than I can bear. It was women's subservience to men and their habitual betrayal of their class. The audience of mostly young girls who passionately loved her books were completely silent when all the hounds came for their favourite female author, and remained silent in the following decades of hate that never abated.

Well, those girls who were teenagers or young adults back then grew up and continued to read, some of them even became authors in their own right... and now they realize that for some strange reason there appears to be an awful lot of hatred for romance and fanfiction and indeed for any kind of literature that women love.

The fascists who believe women should be seen naked and not heard are coming for the newer generation of female intellectuals and there's no one left to save them. And after decades of never standing up for their fellow women they are suddenly quite concerned that Project 2025 is going to erase their favourite books and illegalise their own writings. Oh nose.

It would be funny if in the end Stephenie Meyer, JK Rowling and other women who have been unjustly persecuted and suppressed were the ones who saved the day by using their visibility and money to fight against the on-coming Taliban-like eradication of women's freedom of speech.

But if I have learned anything at all is that any women they saved would then proceed to give all the credit to men instead, and would openly lament the place where help came from and would apologize for being rescued by the wrong lot, etc. They would never be grateful or take back any of their past unfounded accusations or finally understand who is their friend and who is their foe. That is a hopeless case.

So I'm going to take a leaf off of black women's book on this one, and I'm going to say that this is a they problem. It's not my lesson to learn. When they took men's side against women they fucked around and now they're going to find out. In the words of Parkrose Permaculture: "You have shown you will be complicit in your own oppression to gain some measure of proximity to power, some illusion that you're going to be the next Elon Musk (or in this case to gain men's validation)." OK, so now go ask for help from the men who oppress you and silence you, see how that goes.

For years I used whatever voice I had on my blogs to protect women's right to express themselves and to publish books without fear of persecution, while women actively sided with misogynists against the best interests of their class, throwing under the bus even their most favourite childhood authors. I feel like they, not men, have defeated me.

Here is a small reminder of what men were already doing to books written by women well before Project 2025, as women watched with indifference and cooperated with their oppressor. I wonder if when it's their own reputation and their own legacy burning if they'll feel the same heartbreak that I felt. The same loneliness too.

[smokygluvs]

Trevor Graham Baylis - 1937-2018

Inventor, among other things, of the wind-up radio, Trevor Bayliss was my kind of man.

Dedicated pipe smoker (UK pipe smoker of the year 2001, if my memory serves me well).

Grey hair with a receding hairline, neat moustache...

A man with a ready smile and, by all accounts, genial and extremely good company.

A man I would have quite liked to have got to know.

He lived alone, which leads me to wonder whether he ever invited younger gentlemen round to pull on his pipe, so to speak... I certainly would have been there like a shot.

[cassettebeastssource]

Cassette Beasts soundtrack composer Joel Baylis and singer Shelby Harvey had an acoustic performance of “Arrow of Time” during the Cassette Beasts Showcase 2024!

[baylardo]

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