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“After all these years of bearing this pain alone, all I want is for you to hold me, and maybe put me back together again.”

— Sarah Doughty

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Posted on Jul 9, 2026 - 71 notes

“It is true that too many elders are like hidden mushrooms in the forest. Some are delicious, some will kill you. Some are humble at first sight, but potent enough to transform your consciousness. Plenty are ugly, oddly shaped, a bit gaggish to the taste or feel, others as luminescent as a fairy tale. Some provide a deep and rich earthiness that improves any dish that they are placed within.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericblauer/p/you-are-a-wild-mushroom

“It is true that too many elders are like hidden mushrooms in the forest. Some are delicious, some will kill you. Some are humble at first sight, but potent enough to transform your consciousness. Plenty are ugly, oddly shaped, a bit gaggish to the taste or feel, others as luminescent as a fairy tale. Some provide a deep and rich earthiness that improves any dish that they are placed within.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/ericblauer/p/you-are-a-wild-mushroom

Posted on Jul 9, 2026 - 1 note
“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.”

— William Butler Yeats, from Easter 1916.

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“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
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“Through beauty, art cleans the world of our self-obession.”

— Sir Roger Scruton

Posted on Jul 5, 2026 - 23 notes

A Sassanid war elephant by John Blanche, from “Wargaming with Elephants” by Peter Tickler in Miniature Wargames magazine no 8, 1983. Blanche had been converting and painting miniatures and illustrating for Games Workshop since the 1970s but he didn’t become their full time art director until after 1986. Eventually his name became synonymous with his grim-dark “Blanchitsu” style.

I have some old 15mm Sassanid Persians and Late Imperial Romans to touch up and rebase, and it’s always useful to have clear painting references like this for the more colorful historic armies.

A Sassanid war elephant by John Blanche, from “Wargaming with Elephants” by Peter Tickler in Miniature Wargames magazine no 8, 1983. Blanche had been converting and painting miniatures and illustrating for Games Workshop since the 1970s but he didn’t become their full time art director until after 1986. Eventually his name became synonymous with his grim-dark “Blanchitsu” style.

I have some old 15mm Sassanid Persians and Late Imperial Romans to touch up and rebase, and it’s always useful to have clear painting references like this for the more colorful historic armies.

Posted on Jun 29, 2026 - 144 notes