Devon (Human Circus Podcast)

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Podcasting about medieval history at https://humancircuspodcast.com/ Writing fiction, mostly SF with a novel just about done Living with cat in Vancouver, BC

Photo of a delightful/dignified orange cat, outside on wooden post perch and contemplating the future/distance
Photo of a book held against a dark blue background. The books is The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate and translated by David Bowles.
Photo of the novel The Payback by Kashana Cauley.
Photo of wooden shelves holding a wide range of repurposed food jars full of nails. Some of the jars are ready to jump.
Photo of Waffles, a grey cat enjoying a restful head-down.
Photo showing five books on a wooden table: Micaiah Johnson - Those Beyond the Wall Yoko Ogawa - Hotel Iris Annalee Newitz - Automatic Noodles Guadalupe Nettel - Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories Ibtisam Azem - The Book of Disappearance
Photo of the book Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman. Cover features a picture frame within a frame, the inner one containing a partially obscured group portrait.
Photo of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume 2.
Photo of scrabble letters stuck to a grey wall. The letters spell “Total annihilation is impossible.”
Photo of a rain-wet street surface of exposed brick and pavement leading up through the trees and cars to the sunny sky in the distance.
Photo. Splashes of water on the floor form a somewhat horrifying face, or maybe a comedic one.
Photo of the book Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield. The pink cover shows a woman’s face in black with white beets, roots and leaves included, over the eyes. A mysterious hand, scarcely seen but for a protruding thumb, holds the book up against a dark blue surface.
Photo of Bell Press table at Word Vancouver. Books on table include Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues.
Photo of the book The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel against a green wall. A quote on the cover refers to it as “fizzy and brilliant,” if that’s the sort of thing you like.
Some bees and a bear in a 15th-century manuscript (Harley MS 3448). The bees, appearing impressively large, are shown defending their hive.
Photo of shelf at Cross and Crows bookstore in Vancouver, BC. On display is Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues, along with Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power by Carol Anne Hilton.
A photo of a sad face formed by splashes of oil in frothy proofing yeast. Below it, the text reads “5 years since…”
Photo of a shipping container end with a crude but friendly bear (dog?) face painted on it. Trout Lake, Vancouver.
Photo of a large, reddish-gold boy (dog) in the sidewalk sun.
Photo of the book North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher.
Photo of white ceramic mug in the form of a baby’s face, twisted into a yawn.
A wild image of raucous Christmas celebrations, illustration by Kenny Meadows in the December 25, 1847, issue of Illustrated London News. Father Christmas rises above the melee to pour out a hearty goblet. There is dancing and possibly magic afoot.
17th-century illustration of 3 figures. Old Christmas stands in the middle saying “O sir, I bring good cheere.” The man to his left, armed with a sword, tells him “Keep out, you come not here,” while the one to his right says “Old Christmas welcome; Do not fear.”
Photo of Waffles the grey cat, curled up tight on a chair with face tucked in paws.
Closeup photo of a cluster of cat paws.
Illustration from medieval manuscript (BL Yates Thompson 8 f. 294r) showing a rabbit with shield and spear mounted on a hybrid creature whose bearded face protrudes from a snail shell.
Photo of park. Grass in foreground shadowed by skeletal tree line across the horizon. Low winter sun behind the trees.
Photo of coffee cup featuring an image of Brown the bear, shown drinking coffee.
Photo of Waffles, a grey cat. She is emerging from behind a laptop screen in profile and appears to have a cheeky (in both senses) expression.
Colour photo. Upper two thirds show the ocean background. Bottom third shows the wood on which you stand. A sculpted hand clutches at the wood’s edge from below.
Photo of Waffles the grey tabby looking like a haunted painting, reasons unclear.
Photo of Waffles the grey cat, in the window light.
Photo of The Snail on the Slope by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. On the cover an indistinct figure is silhouetted within some mysterious looking woods.
Photo of two library books on a wooden table: The Skin and its Girl by Sarah Cypher and Drawing Climate.
Illustration in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry using Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore, Roo, and Kanga. Eeyore has an arrow in his back half. Piglet is surrounded by soldiers. Pooh marches zombie-like toward a trio of soldiers who hold a pot of honey. Owl dives at a horseman.
Illustration from a 15th-century Italian Book of Hours (Hart 20966, f. 106v). Death smiles back at us, holding a golden scythe and riding a cart pulled by beasts, severed heads under their hooves. Above death, cherubs dangle from grape vines in an elaborate archway.
Photo of book The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez on a wooden table.
Illustration from Adriaen Coenen's 16th-century Visboek (Fish Book). It shows an alarmingly large upright creature towering over some hunters who are armed with bows and a sword. The creature is vaguely penguin like in a somewhat Lovecraftian way, and is raising human arms and hands to either side. The sun shines behind it.
Illustration from Adriaen Coenen's 16th-century Visboek (Fish Book). It is a drawing of the tentacled half of a cuttlefish, limbs swirling into reddish-mauve water.
Woodcut illustration from Everard Digby's 1587 De Arte Natandi (The Art of Swimming). A human figure is shown in the lower-left, swimming through the horizontal lines of the water, their body forming a diagonal that points up and to the right, to where the sun sits in the sky and in the corner of the page.
Medieval manuscript (Harley MS 3244) illustration showing a ship with its anchor caught on a whale. The whale looks startled, fish-scaled, and unusually dog-like around the face.
Medieval manuscript (Yates Thompson MS 26) illustration showing three figures in a small boat with a single sail on top of a mound of water. The figure to the right points upward.
15th-century manuscript (BNF fr. 22532) illustration: a hairy wild man with club on shoulder raises his hand as if waving to the viewer or perhaps gesturing upward to something unseen. His expression is glum.
Illustration in 14th-century medieval manuscript showing a monk and a devil. The devil is reaching out a hand over the monk's head, very much as if it were a sprite reaching out to pluck an eye from a face.
Medieval manuscript (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, folio 117r) illustration showing a brown eel in profile coiled over the water. It has a snake-like pattern to its skin and a charming face.
Medieval manuscript (Yates Thompson ms 10, f. 011r) illustration showing water below and a watchful moon-face in the sky above. Human faces peer out of what seem like holes in the grass in the middle of the page.
15th-century manuscript (Cod. Pal. germ. 794 fol 30v) illustration: a woman in a rust-coloured dress and blue cap washes laundry in the river next to a wooden tub. Writing appears at the top and bottom of the page.
Frog illustration in a 16th-century Italian manuscript. The frog is being sprinkled by rain and looked down on by a watchful sun/face.
Illustration from 14th-century Italian manuscript. A frog is nestled between sections of text. It looks up and to the right where a blue crescent moon sits, cupping water like a bowl.
Illustration from a 15th-century French manuscript. A frog of apparently enormous proportions is perched on a grassy hillside. It is larger than the trees.
Shot from movie The Fall, with the two protagonists facing you in costume against a stonework background.
Photo of Waffles the grey tabby doing a tight curl, face tucked in paws.
Photo of grey tabby (Waffles) contentedly napping and doing some paw curls. She is stretched across lap with laptop in background.
Medieval manuscript image: three sailors in a boat are menaced by underwater hybrids. A mermaid/siren drags a man into the water by his hair. A centaur (also underwater?) raises a bow.
Mermaid in medieval manuscript, looking in mirror and not especially pleased, with a golden comb in their other hand.
Medieval manuscript image of a manticore. This one is gleefully galloping across the page, his red hair and beard going nicely with the green toque.
Four Bell Press books.
Photo of book on wooden table: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. The cover shows an animal skull centred among flowers and leaves against a pinkish background.
Still from the movie Hundreds of Beavers. In black and white, a frightened man races toward you chased by a multitude of beavers (people in furry beaver suits).