Adrian Bott

@cavalorn.bsky.social

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Author of MG/YA fiction & game stuff. Rants about folklore. Opinions my own. He/him. Lead Writer for Warframe (you shiny things). Leopards, faces etc.

An extended quotation from Imagine Magazine #2 confirming that at Games Fair in 1983 Gary Gygax was reported as saying 'A good referee only rolls the dice for the sound they make.'

An illustration from 'National-Kinderlieder für die Zürchersche Jugend' (1789) showing the earliest known depiction of the Easter Hare, along with a basket of Easter eggs, and a mother and children hunting for the Easter eggs in a garden

An excerpt from Venetia Newell's An Egg At Easter (1971) describing, among other things, how Belgian children are sometimes told that an old man has flown with the birds to Rome, to collect eggs from the Pope

Description of an incident in which a luminary of the Folklore Society, Mary Macleod Banks, was annoyed by a Hobby Horse dancer having changed his costume from the previous year's; she felt it had 'spoiled the rite' because it wasn't compatible with her theory of the dance's pagan origins

A woodcut depicting Jack of Lent, a skinny figure riding upon a herring, symbolic of the deprivation of Lent

Wise Kra explains to Melric that he's not really helping people by keeping them dependent upon his convenient problem-solving magic, and that they have to remember how to do things for themselves. Kra gives Melric his magic back, but warns that if he wastes it again it may be lost forever.

Sigourney Weaver is giving two thumbs up while an Alien from the movie Alien puts its arm around her