StLOrca
@stlorca.bsky.social
Tech writer by day, amateur fiction writer and comics artist by night. Cursed with the Elephant Child’s “‘satiable curtiosity”. Pronounced Ess Tee Ell Orca.
All views expressed are my own.
All views expressed are my own.
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Yes! New anthology All Hallows Eve, edited by the redoubtable @datlow.bsky.social, has dropped! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
September 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Yes! New anthology All Hallows Eve, edited by the redoubtable @datlow.bsky.social, has dropped! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
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*too-toooooooot*
July 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
*too-toooooooot*
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#PPOD: The aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken on June 5, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir 🧪 👩🔬
July 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
#PPOD: The aurora australis arcs over Earth during an active solar event in this photograph taken on June 5, 2026, from the International Space Station as it orbited 271 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir 🧪 👩🔬
Jordan Walker getting booed has a completely different vibe from your workaday, run-of-the-mill Philly disapproval.
#mlb #asg #vivaelbirdos #homerunderby
#mlb #asg #vivaelbirdos #homerunderby
July 14, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Jordan Walker getting booed has a completely different vibe from your workaday, run-of-the-mill Philly disapproval.
#mlb #asg #vivaelbirdos #homerunderby
#mlb #asg #vivaelbirdos #homerunderby
For a friend over on #ComicFury, it’s the distaff dynamo, #DemonGuyLady! Your world will never be the same! #demonguy #fanart
July 10, 2026 at 1:08 AM
For a friend over on #ComicFury, it’s the distaff dynamo, #DemonGuyLady! Your world will never be the same! #demonguy #fanart
New, for #PrideMonth, it’s Capers! magazine. This month, we interview the X-Men’s Kate Pryde about her bisexuality and standing up for human rights, be they gay, mutant, or otherwise. #capersmag, #digitalfanart #xmen #civilrights #gayrights
June 8, 2026 at 2:21 AM
New, for #PrideMonth, it’s Capers! magazine. This month, we interview the X-Men’s Kate Pryde about her bisexuality and standing up for human rights, be they gay, mutant, or otherwise. #capersmag, #digitalfanart #xmen #civilrights #gayrights
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If you think your cat is a menace, spare a thought for 15th-century monks. This manuscript from 1420 has literal ink-stained cat paw prints right across the page. Scribes have been dealing with the "if I fits, I sits" rule for 600 years. 🐈📖 #BookHistory
May 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
If you think your cat is a menace, spare a thought for 15th-century monks. This manuscript from 1420 has literal ink-stained cat paw prints right across the page. Scribes have been dealing with the "if I fits, I sits" rule for 600 years. 🐈📖 #BookHistory
Reposting because I screwed up my links: @dbellingradt.bsky.social brings the quirky, amusing, and overlooked aspects of #BookHistory and I want to be him when I grow up.
Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin Frieß... #bookhistory
March 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Reposting because I screwed up my links: @dbellingradt.bsky.social brings the quirky, amusing, and overlooked aspects of #BookHistory and I want to be him when I grow up.
@gerryanderson.bsky.social It’s a rework of an earlier piece from 2024. I think this one works a lot better—much better flow. #gerryanderson #stingray #supermarionation #filmposter #troytempest
March 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
@gerryanderson.bsky.social It’s a rework of an earlier piece from 2024. I think this one works a lot better—much better flow. #gerryanderson #stingray #supermarionation #filmposter #troytempest
Oh my GOD this is too funny!
I see text emoji's in this ornament from an eighteenth century news print. #textemoji #newshistory
February 27, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Oh my GOD this is too funny!
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What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
What's up, Doc? Channeling his best Bugs, a bunny bashes the cymbals in the top margin of f. 313v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
🔗: https://bit.ly/4qhgXWu
@gerryanderson.bsky.social It's a Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlet crossover! Destiny is detached to International Rescue as pilot of the prototype Spectrum Worldwide special ops fighter.
#gerryanderson #thunderbirds #captainscarlet #internationalrescue #spectrumworldwide #destinyangel
#gerryanderson #thunderbirds #captainscarlet #internationalrescue #spectrumworldwide #destinyangel
February 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
@gerryanderson.bsky.social It's a Thunderbirds/Captain Scarlet crossover! Destiny is detached to International Rescue as pilot of the prototype Spectrum Worldwide special ops fighter.
#gerryanderson #thunderbirds #captainscarlet #internationalrescue #spectrumworldwide #destinyangel
#gerryanderson #thunderbirds #captainscarlet #internationalrescue #spectrumworldwide #destinyangel
Thanks to @dbellingradt.bsky.social for this image. Roald Dahl and Doctor Seuss would approve.
Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians
January 18, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Thanks to @dbellingradt.bsky.social for this image. Roald Dahl and Doctor Seuss would approve.
For every woman who knows her place, or should.
Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book's pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For every woman who knows her place, or should.
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If you are giving away 📚 these days as presents, why not do it like Sigismund Meisterin (left) in 1457?
The Augsburg-based monk gave his book - a history of #Augsburg - to Sigismund Gossembrot (right), maybe through a giant golden Initial, surely making an impression.
#bookhistory #booksky
The Augsburg-based monk gave his book - a history of #Augsburg - to Sigismund Gossembrot (right), maybe through a giant golden Initial, surely making an impression.
#bookhistory #booksky
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If you are giving away 📚 these days as presents, why not do it like Sigismund Meisterin (left) in 1457?
The Augsburg-based monk gave his book - a history of #Augsburg - to Sigismund Gossembrot (right), maybe through a giant golden Initial, surely making an impression.
#bookhistory #booksky
The Augsburg-based monk gave his book - a history of #Augsburg - to Sigismund Gossembrot (right), maybe through a giant golden Initial, surely making an impression.
#bookhistory #booksky
@gerryanderson.bsky.social, because I can't stop torturing myself, here's the redesigned SPC I was working on. It's...adequate, I suppose.
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spc
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spc
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@gerryanderson.bsky.social, because I can't stop torturing myself, here's the redesigned SPC I was working on. It's...adequate, I suppose.
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spc
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spc
@gerryanderson.bsky.social, see what you've started? SEE?? (Not as amazeballs as the OG, but what is?) Still needs some tweaks, I'm happy overall. #gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv #fanart
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
@gerryanderson.bsky.social, see what you've started? SEE?? (Not as amazeballs as the OG, but what is?) Still needs some tweaks, I'm happy overall. #gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv #fanart
Dammit, reposting: @gerryanderson.bsky.social, here's my redesigned SPV for Captain Scarlet. (My designs certainly don't approach the awesomeness of the originals, though.) This time, I remembered the background.
#gerryanderson #fanart #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv
#gerryanderson #fanart #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Dammit, reposting: @gerryanderson.bsky.social, here's my redesigned SPV for Captain Scarlet. (My designs certainly don't approach the awesomeness of the originals, though.) This time, I remembered the background.
#gerryanderson #fanart #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv
#gerryanderson #fanart #captainscarlet #spectrumworldwide #spv
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AND NOW...SUPERCAR!
#gerryanderson #supercar #mikemercury #fakemovieposter
AND NOW...SUPERCAR!
#gerryanderson #supercar #mikemercury #fakemovieposter
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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AND NOW...SUPERCAR!
#gerryanderson #supercar #mikemercury #fakemovieposter
AND NOW...SUPERCAR!
#gerryanderson #supercar #mikemercury #fakemovieposter
Hey, @gerryanderson.bsky.social, here's some fanart WIP of the Spectrum Patrol Car from Captain Scarlet. It can't top the blazing awesomeness of the original, but then, who can? Thank you so much for the adventure!
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumpatrolcar #fanart #mysterons
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumpatrolcar #fanart #mysterons
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hey, @gerryanderson.bsky.social, here's some fanart WIP of the Spectrum Patrol Car from Captain Scarlet. It can't top the blazing awesomeness of the original, but then, who can? Thank you so much for the adventure!
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumpatrolcar #fanart #mysterons
#gerryanderson #captainscarlet #spectrumpatrolcar #fanart #mysterons
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Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
Educational, Customisable, and Anti-Plague: Investigating the centuries-long development of a one-of-a-kind early printed music book
Marika Fox, University of Antwerp During my recently completed REBPAF internship at Maggs Bros. Rare Books and Manuscripts, I had the opportunity to work with a lot of fascinating books— but none w…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing
Based on a conversation with some friends, I present Cleoraptra!
#digitalart ##trialbypun #affinitydesigner #fantasyart #fantasysky
#digitalart ##trialbypun #affinitydesigner #fantasyart #fantasysky
October 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Based on a conversation with some friends, I present Cleoraptra!
#digitalart ##trialbypun #affinitydesigner #fantasyart #fantasysky
#digitalart ##trialbypun #affinitydesigner #fantasyart #fantasysky
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'Early woodcut initials: containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries' selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings, M.D., published in London by Methuen and Co., 1908.
#bookhistory #Historiatedinitials #ornamentalletters #woodcutinitial
#bookhistory #Historiatedinitials #ornamentalletters #woodcutinitial
September 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
'Early woodcut initials: containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries' selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings, M.D., published in London by Methuen and Co., 1908.
#bookhistory #Historiatedinitials #ornamentalletters #woodcutinitial
#bookhistory #Historiatedinitials #ornamentalletters #woodcutinitial
Holey moley. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
A quick glimpse of a book of hours on parchment, written and illuminated in France, possibly Paris, circa 1500. (UPenn Ms. Codex 2030) #medievalsky
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🔗: https://bit.ly/4gBvf0m
September 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Holey moley. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.