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margaret owen's terrible adventures

@what-eats-owls / what-eats-owls.tumblr.com

Mostly I draw what I want and put it up here. Thanks for stopping by!

Some signs this is AI:

  • the lower level of the house should be visible through the tunnel
  • The windows are an inconsistent mess
  • The vines smearing into the weirdly sloping walls
  • The bannister merging from the bridge into the second-story veranda is another inconsistent mess
  • Weird lopsided pillars on the ground-level house arches
  • The stone pattern on the bridge/tunnel is purely aesthetic, the sides don’t match and the structure of the masonry is nonsense

Broadly, AI struggles to render repeating uniform architectural details (rows of windows, spindles in bannisters, brick/stone patterns, etc.) It also struggles with logical extensions of partially obscured elements, e.g. the tunnel not showing the house. If in doubt, check those things first!

“hey Margaret how’s the tour announcement graphic coming” “nice and heretical just like you asked” 😇

Y’all I will be getting on not one, not two, but SIX PLANES for this, please clap!! And please come to your nearest event so if plane number six does me in, you can say you knew me before I was famous 🥲 but also because we be signing books and giving out preorder prints at every stop! If you can't make it, you can preorder signed copies from my tour stops—and I'll be swinging by Third Place Books before the start of the tour, so if time of the essence, their preorders will ship earliest!

packing for this has been a two-day process so if you are coming to one of these events this week, know I have put in the WORK to be there!!!

I’m so excited for the new book. I wanted to check if there are any bookstores you prefer to support (or any you work with for signed and or personalized copies)?

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Third Place Books is my local indie! I'll be visiting them on Sunday to sign preorders and sneak some prints in, and don't forget to submit preorder receipts for the enamel pin!

You mention that chapter 5 of The Fallow Year has spoilery stuff. Does that mean for Holy Terrors?

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The closest thing I can think of to saying that is a content warning at the beginning of chapter 5 that contains mild spoilers for that chapter! TFY itself can't really spoil anything in HT since it concludes well before the start of HT.

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

the problem with writing my politics into my books is that something like this comes along and I can’t talk about how I depicted this exact dynamic without sounding like I’m shilling 🥲 but “cruelty itself is a flex” is an extremely elegant distillation and I hope OP is having a great day!!

This is huge: You can now buy ebooks from Bookshop.org, a website that helps boost sales to local independent bookshops!

To read an ebook purchased from Bookshop.org, you must use their own app (for a mobile device) or read it in a web browser. So, unfortunately, you can't (yet) send it to your ereader, but still, you're able to buy ebooks and also share a little bit of that profit with your local bookstore, if they're an affiliate!

I would really encourage people to check this out. During times of instability it is important to support your local economy. Instead of giving your money to Amazon so Bezos can add to his dragon's hoard, why not give it to a local bookshop where that money will go to real people who actually love books and provide a community space for readers?

And I do mean local! You can choose exactly which bookshop your money goes to when you buy from this website! If you don't have a local shop, the profits are still divided among the indie bookstores.

Now that they are offering ebooks it just makes it that much easier for us booklovers to ditch Amazon. I know I already do all of my ebook reading on my phone so it's a no-brainer for me.

Which of your characters needs to beware the Ides on this fine day? :)

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I tried to count up all the named character deaths in Holy Terrors and unfortunately realized the best answer is that the list is in the double digits, involves fractions, and poses some big theological questions! HAPPY IDES

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mamacastiel

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

no one tell him

This is it, lads. The post that started us on this path 9 years ago.

I sure hope no one told him.

Its that time of the year again. Praise

I’m not like, super religious but I do celebrate the major holidays (an ides’er and greason’s tumblric)

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