A Cork Composer 🇮🇪☘️🎵

One and only.

@stephenRB4 You're very welcome!

@RAMoulds Thank you 🙂

Some of my followers consistently clutch at their pearls whenever this dark fantasy and horror writer/editor/reviewer/reader/watcher dares to talk about dark fantasy and horror. Have I somehow misrepresented what I do? Have they somehow got lost while trying to find ‘rainbows and unicorns’ Twitter? Anyways, I won’t apologise for my content. Expect much more.

@Kristinartz Yes

Do you believe losing a pet hurts as much as losing a human loved one?

@ThatEricAlper Time alone.

What's something you've learned to appreciate as you've gotten older?

I confess that I resorted to hybrid publishing to get my book out. Does that make me a bad person? 😁

@PaulPitt1967 I've found that there are many lovely people here. It just takes patience and kindness.

Think I preferred life before the internet and Twitter when all the easily offended could do to vent their spleen was write into Points of view🤦‍♂️

@ThomasBramel @musicandroots Sadly, yes.

@RAMoulds @musicandroots It’s true that the muse takes leave now and then.

Does anything happen on this app anymore? I remember classical music twitter being more lively.

@ThomasBramel @musicandroots I've largely stopped producing music altogether. That may change in the future, but we'll see.

@musicandroots @RAMoulds It could be a function of my age, but active discourse about music no longer interests me. Energy is better spent birthing what begins as a tiny glimpse of inspiration. The labor is intense and requires deep focus and focus upon the deep. X isn’t much help.

@tolkienthoughts Rage? Derision, more like.

I don’t understand the Odyssey rage. No one’s seen the movie. If it’s bad, who cares? If you love the Odyssey, read it! I don’t like Peter Jackson’s films. Instead of watching them, I just…read Tolkien’s books. I know it sounds impossibly hard, but you can just…read. It’s easy!

@CarlBovisNature We often see mallards on the lawn of the hall, or flying over the river, but no ducklings as yet.

If you see this photo, please leave a comment! 😀 Have you seen any cygnets, goslings or ducklings yet this year? 😍🐦

@musicandroots @ThomasBramel Well, for my part, I confess that I haven't had much musical or literary news to report. It may be my age, or the inevitable reduction of creativity to a slow trickle. I won't be so unkind as to blame it on a scarcity of such things in Cork. 😁😉

@ThomasBramel @RAMoulds That fair. I just remember a lot more vibrancy. Many of these folks jumped to Bluesky. But even after that things were more robust here for a while.

@jall69 @buitengebieden Archie is too busy producing his own line of aromatherapy to worry about flowers.

@buitengebieden @RAMoulds Calling Archie … here’s one for you 🐶🌼

He likes smelling flowers.. 😅

@gofishh77 Yes!

You can book this French Bulldog as part of your experience at this San Francisco dentist's office. If you’re an animal person and want some love while you get your teeth done, they have you covered. Are you in?!

The pre-emptive backlash against Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus isn’t because they’re dicks It actually shows audiences are brilliant It shows people love entertainment and they truly want IMMERSION They genuinely want to lose themselves in a story But you can’t do that when there are such palpable obvious dickish moves that deviate from authenticity so aggressively - especially when people know they’re having an agenda pushed on them that has nothing to do with the actual story Again it destroys immersion in the tale And of course people can reinterpret historical source material and give a twist to things - but the kind of woke twist we’re seeing isn’t novel, it isn’t subversive, it isn’t fresh, interesting or thought provoking - it’s just absolutely hack, tedious, passé, boring and utterly yawn inducing Just give people something real - as real as possible - so they can lose themselves Stop pulling people out of a story and trying to make them aware that you’re superior to them because of your dull cultural and political onanism

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Bumble is moving towards AI use in its matchmaking, but I think it will fail because many women find some excitement in rejecting men. Classical music is full of this mentality. Thousands of musicians who wanted to be the next Mozart, only to find out that 99.9% us will not be. They’re very pissed off and resentful, so they find joy in tearing others down. In fact, some people only feel they can elevate their feelings of themselves by tearing down others. Classical music might have the highest rate of colleagues who will tell you to quit for your own good out of concern for your well being with a maniacal sneer on their face.

Elliot Page for her fitting in Odyssey

Double the paws, double the love...🐾🐕

@stephenRB4 ...no attention to the maiden aunts!

@stephenRB4 How have we become such a milque-toast, pearl-clutching community? I am constantly surprised by all the tutting and finger pointing we encounter here. Does participation in social media rob EVERYONE of maturity? You do what you love, Mr Black, and pay...