Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes

Sheer madness at work this week with masses of people coming into the museum to see the Eric Gill exhibition. You can say what you like about him as a man - incest, paedophilia, bestiality all freely admitted to in his diaries - but he seems to be a very popular artist.

This means I can't write during the quiet times, because there aren't any. As usual when on edge, I've reset to default and if I can't write my stories at least I can draw them. So below are the first couple of pages of a graphic novel about Atei and Anatolios. WARNING - this is NOT historical from the point of view that I'm making no attempt whatsoever to capture the authentic flavour of Ancient Greek or Scythian conversation. They are just guys and I don't think guys have changed that much in the past 2300 years.

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I'm posting it because I'm absurdly pleased with my eagles. Whether I'll be able to do a similar job of the fellas I don't know. Fingers crossed.

Yeah I forgot yesterday, but then yesterday was the type of day where I'd have put something like "I'm happy today because the dog wasn't sick on my shoes". yesterday was just - *snarl*.

But today - I saw this on vashtan's journal and it made me very happy because the song is called Atay, and my story about him [4th C BC Scythian warlord who told Phillip of Macedonia where to stick his phalanxes] is coming along fairly well, though I'm getting frustrated with things like not being able to find out the exact dimensions of the wagon they used to live in, and whether they had musical instruments and whether they WERE as tall as they appear to be from some of the pictorial evidence or is is just artistic exaggeration.

Still the video is fun, if 1500 years too late, and displays the level of ferocity I'm going to have to write a few times *practices grrrring*. It'll make a nice change from schmoop.