Leckford’s notes

I started writing a short post about an erotic soap-opera funny-animal comic-book series I remember fondly from the olden days, “Omaha” the Cat Dancer, and it somehow ballooned in to an essay of sorts.

LavenderTowne plays with designing characters after numerating the currently fashionable standards of beauty for men and women—and then swapping them. The result is two good-looking characters who look all the more interesting for mixing things up a little.

The Problematic Author, a zine about an issue affecting a lot of people of the generation younger than me who grew up with magic boarding school books and movies. A mediation on loving flawed media and feeling betrayed by a childhood hero.

Circus artist Antoine Boissereau photographed by by Mateus Porto

How Four Masters—Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio & Bernini—Sculpted David (Open Culture). The city of Florence viewed the biblical David as a symbol of their republic, so it was a popular subject, of which Michelangelo’s is the most famous.

Methaphone is a minimalist fondleslab for people trying to reduce their social media habit but whose thumbs are twitching for lack of something to scroll.

Speaking of Regency fan fic, I blogged about how I discovered Pride and Prejudice during lockdown, prompted by the recent news that Netflix is planning an adaptation of their own.

The Glen and Friends channel has posted separate videos on traditional recipes for two British breakfast staples: (English) muffins and crumpets. The crumpets one opens with him surrounded by antique cookbooks to show how traditional his recipe is. Essential viewing for people writing Regency or Downton fan fic.

Here’s a Gondorian dialogue by Sufficiently Large N, inspired by the fun fact that ‘Gandalf’ literally just means ‘Wand-Elf‘ or ‘Stick-Elf’.