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StLOrca

@stlorca.bsky.social

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Tech writer by day, amateur fiction writer and comics artist by night. Cursed with the Elephant Child’s “‘satiable curtiosity”. Pronounced Ess Tee Ell Orca. All views expressed are my own.

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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 8d

'Early woodcut initials: containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries' selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings, M.D., published in London by Methuen and Co., 1908.

#bookhistory #Historiatedinitials #ornamentalletters #woodcutinitial

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 10d

Holey moley. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 11d

A quick glimpse of a book of hours on parchment, written and illuminated in France, possibly Paris, circa 1500. (UPenn Ms. Codex 2030) #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/4gBvf0m

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 11d

OH HELL YEAH

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 16d

As with many wedding nights, I suspect this too will be known as the Great Disappointment.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 17d

I live for errors like this. They're gifts to us from the past.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 28d

That cover! I am going to read the HELL out of this.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 28d

“Hey, grrrl…”

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 28d

SWEEEET

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · 28d

And the woman who dropped the dime is smugly proud of it, too. Would you be surprised to hear that she’s running for office as a Republican? I didn’t think you would be.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ugh. Thank you, arthritis, for making me wear a stupid brace on both hands. No drawing for at least the next month. So I’ve got that going for me. Yay.

Did I mention the bursitis? Because there’s bursitis.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you gotta go, you might as well go in style.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 28

Superman 1957: Hate is Un-American

Superman talking to a diverse group of schoolchildren, telling them that hate is UN-AMERICAN

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 27

More and more, I believe we’re a test run for the decline of the human race.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow. I would be so paranoid when handling something so old and delicate.

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 24

You know, that's never happened to me. So don't think it has, because it hasn't. Nope. And I certainly didn't mangle the name of a huge, super-important client's company at the beginning of a presentation in front of said super-important client. Didn't happen.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 21

Okay, I’ve messed around enough with this.
#MarvelComics #MachineMan #AaronStack #X51 #fanart

The colorful face of a cyborg staring at the viewer

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 17

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is peak nerd and I am here for every moment of it.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 17

That's like looking at a picture of the Empire State Building and then claiming you've been there.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 16

Brilliant. I recognize St. Peter on the left, but the man on the right is…St. Paul?

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StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 15

A weird WIP I’ve been kicking around.
#WIP #MachineMan #MarvelComics #AaronStack #Android #Comics

A brightly-colored cyborg, with missing parts, stares at the viewer.

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 9

The National Library of Medicine has a paper titled "Royal Dynasties as Inbreeding Laboratories: The Habsburgs".

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not for lack of trying, I assure you. But just try telling these calves who think they know everything!

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Aug 3

As my mother used to say, “That man can just go jump in the lake.”

StLOrca @stlorca.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holey moley!