Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀

@leppeppel.bsky.social

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Author. Engineer. Armchair polymath. (formerly @purpleskull14 and @leppeppel on the bird app) SFFH or STFU | ADHD, Kinsey 2 | Memento Mori linktr.ee/leppeppel

Now that's been charitably described as music
Vincent and Jules from Pulp Fiction, and Vincent is being steered by Remy from Ratatouille
A line graph of my word count for July, with a dotted red line representing daily values, a solid blue line as the running average, and a solid gold line at 700 as a daily minimum goal. I also tried to keep the running average at about 1.0K words. After the first week, the average hovers mostly between 1.0 and 1.1K words. Interestingly, although I missed my daily minimum goal of 700 five times, the average only fell below 1000 three times.
a derpy looking orange cat source: https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1gna6rb/my_moms_derpy_orange_cat/
A 2X2 chart: playing card suit X tool: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) playing card suit X hard substance: Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955) used by a blacksmith X tool: Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) used by a blacksmith X hard substance: Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele in In a Lonely Place (1950)
A florist's van with a stock photo of a fat, tattooed man wearing a party hat and looking shocked at a bouquet of flowers
an okapi (Okapia johnstoni), which despite looking like a cross between a horse and a donkey, is most closely related to giraffes, hence its other name, the forest giraffe
"The Dodecanese (lit. 'twelve islands') are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea" via Wikipedia source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecanese
the promotional poster for Labyrinth, in which Jareth the Goblin King holds aloft a crystal ball with Sarah trapped inside
a person in a giant star-shaped alien costume strides awkwardly toward the camera
Herbert Mundin and Errol Flynn as Much and Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Lauren Bacall poses with her two pet cats. She looks calm and composed and they look like they've never had a thought in their lives.
JD McAgentface grew up in a small town outside of Bend, Oregon. They first fell in love with books at age six when they were left unsupervised in their grandfather’s study on a rainy afternoon, and this laid the groundwork which eventually led to an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown and a career as a literary agent at Bookish Lit. They’re always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing, and love pacey stories full of Voice and characters who feel real and human (even if they’re not humans!) Whether it be SFF, mystery, or thriller (or a genre-blending combination), they want a story they can’t put down and won’t stop thinking about long after they finish reading, with words that leap off the page. They represent many authors from a diverse array of backgrounds, and those belonging to marginalized communities are encouraged to submit their work. They only represent Adult and YA, so no Children’s Books; sorry! On the rare occasion that they’re not reading, JD also enjoys trailrunning, crochet, collecting different kinds of tea, and snuggling with their two cats Loki and Ditto.
"Dream" by M.C. Escher, showing a cat-sized mantid standing on a sleeping (or maybe dead) priest
Negroni's ear furnishings or "aural furniture"
Professor Moriarty of Star Trek: The Next Generation reciting his mantra: "Cogito ergo sum — I think, therefore I am."
The "NOT WHAT I'M CALLED" meme, featuring Cate Blanchett as Galadriel being misidentified as the phrase "carte blanche"
A line graph of my word count for May, with a dotted red line representing daily values and a solid blue line as the running average. After a slow first two days, there's a spike of 2210 on day 4, but I only broke 2k one more time after that. In the latter half of the month, the average hovers between ~1060 and 1120.
Garak jazzhands with the rainbow text "Die mad about it"
The nails on my left hand, painted in the colour and style of the Bisexual Pride flag
"Giraffe" Bi Pride for people who are a 4 or 5 on the Kinsey Scale: mostly homosexual and "incidentally heterosexual" Roughly 90% of male giraffe sexual behaviour is homosexual, but they'll still mate with females when it's time to breed. I thought they'd make a good mascot for mostly gay bisexuals.
Negroni lying on the basement couch
Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971) giving the Kubrik stare: head tilted forward staring slightly up at the viewer
a rainbow flag with the colours erupting from a raised black fist at the bade
a black llama, tall and lanky
A sunset
Greta Schröder as Nina/Ellen in Nosferatu, being grabbed by Orlok's shadow hand
Lon Chaney ("Sr.") who played the Phantom of the Opera and Quasimodo (among many others) for Universal during the Silent Era in the 1920s to ~1930
a cartoon boar-man with five clawed fingers on each hand and four clawed toes on each foot, although suids are even-toed mammals that don't really have claws, per se.
Taxidermy exhibit portraying a Siberian tiger fighting a brown bear, Vladivostok Museum: both are on their hind legs with their forelimbs around one another, and the tiger has its hips pulled back and a wide-eyed expression of panic on its face
Mutant lobsters from the New England Aquarium: blue, orange, split-colour gynandromorph, normal, and yellow
a teal and orange life restoration of Pterodactylus wearing Perry the Platypus' hat
Abraham Lincoln at age 51, February 27, 1860
Strabo, a blind cat
"Oh, hello there!" a jumping spider, possibly a tan jumping spider, Platycryptus undatus
Camel cigarettes ad of a manly man lighting one up
Gedidon, a kaiju I designed in my freshman year of college by combining an elephant, tortoise (or maybe alligator snapper, judging by that tail), giant squid, fiddler crab, bull, and hawkmoth
a typical Bolian from Star Trek
Metallic red, yellow, green, blue, and purple nails on my left hand
Dialogue between a wandering mercenary named Namir and an enby thief called Krys: “I’ve seen it,” Krys told him. “With my own eyes. It was when I had a brief fling with one of the temple’s curates.” “Was that as Krys the young man or as Krys the Lady?” Namir chuckled slightly at his own question. Krys didn’t. “It was as Krys the Rat; neither one nor the other, but as I truly am, and for perhaps the only time in my life, I felt accepted that way! We were going to steal the temple’s treasure and run away together.” In this setting, "rat" is also the colloquial word for a rogue.
A line graph of my word count for May, with a dotted red line representing daily values and a solid blue line as the running average. There are seven days exceeding 1.5k words, but more than twice as many below 1k. After a spike of >3.6K on the 6th, the running average pretty much flatlines between 1k and 1.2k.
a dwelling carved out of a fairy chimney in Uçhisar, Cappadocia with its millstone, earthenware pot, and... satellite dish.
a bat skeleton
A photo of a mountie hat with a Microsoft Paint doodle of a man with very impressive mutton chops made of two whole sheep
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
an illustration of an Elder Thing from H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness by Tom Ardans
animal scat in situ
Radithor, a radioactive patent medicine brand of distilled water containing at least 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium-226 and 228 isotopes
an alien chest-burster costume prop which straps to your chest (optionally), and it looks more than a tad phallic
Chakotay, complete with boxing gloves and face tattoo, in the infamously shithouse Star Trek Voyager episode "The Fight" S5E19
Still from a video showing medieval marginalia with the caption: "The same way people don't explain their memes today, scribes didn't annotate their..."
a dagger with a handle shaped like the vajra https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23064
Archeops, the Archaeopteryx pokémon
a shot glass shaped like a tiny beer mug
John Carradine as Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944)
A line graph of my word count for April, with a dotted red line representing daily values and a solid blue line as the running average. There are spikes exceeding 1.9k words on the 14th, 16th, 22nd & 23rd, and ultimately on the 30th, but there are also drops of <200 on the 11th, 18th, and 25th.