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K.V. Johansen

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Author. Epic fantasy: Blackdog, The Leopard, The Lady, Gods of Nabban, & The Last Road (Pyr). New high fantasy, The Wolf and the Wild King, out Nov 2024. Cdn, living on the Bay of Fundy. I also write as Kris Jamison. she/they www.kvj.ca

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · Jan 12

Hello, new people! I write literary epic fantasy (and a bunch of other things too). You're most likely here for THE WOLF AND THE WILD KING, book I of a new darkish high fantasy duology. A troubled assassin, an outlaw, human sacrifice and dragons in a winter forest. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
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K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King

About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen

www.kvj.ca

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently arts degrees are so worthless they need to be stopped, yet the product of those degrees is so valuable paying for it would bring down an entire industry.

Make it make sense.

Headline screenshot. The leader of the Conservative Party saying we need to "Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English."

Headline screenshot. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, also former Meta employee, claiming that asking artists for permission to use their work (i.e. paying for it) would "kill" the A.I. industry.

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 10h

Here on the coast, I mean. Inland in the province they've had a very little bit more rain in September, but we seemed to have some kind of deflection shield over the Fundy.

K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 10h

It was accurate! @passeriform.bsky.social will be glad to know it's been raining here since noon. Quite heavily at times, too. That's only the second rain since the end of June other than brief dust-dampening showers, and even that other rain was brief.

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 22h

There was a lurid sunrise and now the sky is heavy and grey. I am starting to believe it might actually rain.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 1d

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 22h

"An English degree is a rip off" said by the people who are currently ripping everyone off. They don't want you to be literate, to understand the context, the references or the rhetoric they are using to scam you.

A rip off for THEM. If you can read, write and parse meaning, you're harder to fool.

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 23h

Need the right way into this scene ... listening for a truck in the driveway is not helping.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Chris Nickson @chrisnickson2.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you all so much for giving A Rage of Souls a big publication day boost yesterday. If you keep on buying it, maybe it can leap all the way to the best seller list. Are you game? Yes? Then you know what to do.

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AngryFella @angryfella420.fellas.army · 1d

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 23h

Writing while waiting for a very early visit from the heat pump deep-cleaning guy. No, he did that yesterday. Today he's coming back to pick up the battery pack he left charging in the quince bushes. Luckily I noticed the green glowing light before today's forecast (finally) of rain.
Lithium? Rain?

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

The person who couldn’t spell Britain wants to axe English degrees

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Sue Nichol @staithesartist.bsky.social · 1d

#Hawthorn #tree #landscape #art 25x32” #oils #painting #expressive #framed

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 1d

Redrawing a map of battle on a whiteboard.

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Stephen Cox @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 1d

My view about the crisis in the States is that the very best thing we can do is focus on and fight fascism in the UK, which follows the same playbook, and is paid for by largely the same people. What levers we have are stronger here, and the UK going total fash won't help a soul in the US.

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is just such a no-brainer win for everybody that I hope that it gets rolled out in a much bigger way.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

"The beauties, the antlered, the winged ones, all awash in their sea of blue light...I thought, God help me, seven years of this, and this the first night...I tried to think of Meg and Gavin, but the blue light came between me and my image of their hearth fire, and blurred the sun on the hillside."

A photo of a copy of the 1992 Gollancz edition of Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner. The cover art is by Michael Posen.

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry those aren't vertical. My phone camera and I are still negotiating various things.

K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, you want to see the original Return of the Jedi ad, don't you?

Photo of July 1983 Halifax Mail-Star newspaper, with an ad for Return of the Jedi, Octopussy, and other things, including the band the Blushing Brides playing at Lucifer's.

Photo of July 1983 Halifax Mail-Star newspaper, with an ad for Return of the Jedi. "A Brilliant Imaginative Piece of Moviemaking."

K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 2d

I also wonder where the heck this nest of ancient newspaper is, that it has stayed both dry and crisp, and undiscovered, for 42 years? Must be up in the rafters.

K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder why the chipmunk decided to discard that paper? Tired of reading the same old movie ads? Tired of trying to calculate whether one shilling is more or less than one quarter? Wanted a change of wallpaper to pandemic news (the era of newspapers currently stacked in the shed for gardening).

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