Pigeon Shaman

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‘As the mayor’s skin turned to seed, he pleaded, one last time. The pigeon shaman ignored his cries. The flock arrived. Hungry.’

The pigeon shaman, the avian avenger, taking out her fury on the poor fella for his anti-pigeon measures. She’s also taking her Fears to both a Threadless and Etsy store near you!

Little Fears on Etsy: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears

Little Fears on Threadless: littlefears.threadless.com

As she’s a new release, and I adore her, you can message me below or email me at fears@gmx.co.uk to get her A4 print for just £8 + P&P. Offer ends Saturday, June 9th.

You may also know that Seeking Hydras cover has returned to my Etsy store this week.

And do you know what? As I’m using up my entire year’s marketing quota in just one post, I’m also going to link to the book this image came from. Seeking Hydra.

Seeking Hydra is available on Amazon for £4.99 for an ebook or £12 in print. And gosh darn it, does it have a sexy cover. Feel free to judge.

Amazon link: amzn.to/2xu57T0

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Aries

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A return to the astrological characters this week for #Colour_Collective. Aries the ram. She’s a colourful lil Fear, and I always wanted to return to her and re-shape her body.

Ooo, yes! And speaking of astrological signs, Virgo is now available on my Etsy store.

Grrr! Lookin pretty villainous there, missy!

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Cabinet Hiss

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Lost Leads – ep. 10

Lily cocked her head, “did you hear that?”

“A hissing,” replied Sally, “where’s it coming from?”

Lily opened the cupboard. “Cripes, a snake!”

Sally grabbed a broom for protection. “Is it a dangerous breed?”

“Well,” said Lily, “it looks like the snake is exactly 3.14 metres long.”

“What’s that mean?” asked Sally.

“It’s a pi-thon,” replied Lily.

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Chilly Death

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Lost Leads – ep. 9

“What else have the team found?” asked Lily.

“There’s a body in the freezer ma’am,” replied Sally, leading Lily through to the kitchen.

“My word,” said Lily. “She’s crammed in there. Any signs of what killed her?”

“Not that we can easily see,” replied Sally. “She’s been in there a while. Frozen solid.”

“Well I guess,” sighed Lily, “this is a cold case.”

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Diamond Dash

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Lost Leads – ep. 8

“Is there anything missing?” asked Lily.

“We’re not sure,” replied Sally. “We found some empty boxes in her bedroom.”

“I see,” said Lily, wandering through to the bedroom.

“Small jewellery boxes on the dresser ma’am,” said Sally. “H. R. Maguffin Jewelers. A diamond specialist if I recall the name correctly. All boxes are empty.”

“Seems the motive is crystal clear,” pondered Lily.

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Cash Leap

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Lost Leads – ep. 7

“The window,” said Lily. “Was it open when you arrived?”

“Yes it was,” replied Sally.

“I see there are policemen fishing something out of the pool below,” observed Lily.

“Shares ma’am,” stated Sally, thumbing through her notes. “She’d invested heavily in swimming pool manufacturers.”

“Well it would appear,” said Lily, “her stocks dived.”

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Side Board

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Lost Leads – ep. 6

“It looks like there was a struggle,” observed Lily.

“Aye,” agreed Sally. “There must have been a tussle by the sideboard.”

“A smashed lamp,” noticed Lily. “Change and jewellery tray scattered on the floor. Scraps of a painting.”

“Was the painting in anything?” pondered Sally.

“There are bits of broken wood between here and the body,” said Lily.

“So the victim’s been framed,” replied Sally.

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Ko-FI

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I now have a Ko-Fi page. The new coffee icon at the bottom of my posts takes you there. I had a PayPal button which was limited on how much I can earn without being a registered charity from tips. Also, the button isn’t straightforward to make. PayPal tips button is a kludge. So, enter Ko-Fi.

Ko-Fi allows people to give small one-off tips of $3. It’s a great idea over Patreon because not everyone wants to subscribe to donate dollars every month. Some folk just prefer one-off tips. I like the idea of Ko-Fi too. Buying someone a cuppa. That’s just nice.

On payment, Lisa was my first coffee buyer. The change landed in my PayPal account within minutes. It comes out $2.57 after fees. Thank you, Lisa!

If you’d like to buy me a cuppa, please do click the link below, and I take PG tips with a little bit of cows milk.

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Bugged Head

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For this weeks colour collective, I really wanted to use my orange bug. It didn’t work in my portrait format though. So we get creative! I double up on his legs so they look like little tentacles and gave him a standing body. A little unnerving, but my bright orange bug works well as a head…

A quick shout out to my friend Rose, over at Magpie at Midnight, who has just signed up to support my over on Patreon.

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If you love the Little Fears and you have a few pennies to buy me a coffee, you can hit the buttons below to sponsor me on Patreon or tip me on Ko-Fi. Donations are currently going towards paying off Yuffies bail after she was arrested for raising the dead and making them dance to 80s pop songs.

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GDPR & WordPress

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Grr. I’m pro-GDPR. Data security and privacy are concerns of mine. But how the piss-feckery did Facebook and the like think they were going to continue to abuse peoples data without something like this having to come into force.

We, good people of the EU, are missing American websites today. Sorry about that. Also, Facebook, within 24 hours, haha, bloody ha.

For most of the internet, nothing changes. We just need to to have a few more warnings and we all need a privacy policy. For my self-hosted WordPress blog friends, being compliant is easy. Open Jetpack. Click the banner at the top about EU & Privacy. Fill in the privacy policy page template (takes 2 minutes) and you’re done. That’s it.

The only way that gets more involved is if you collect data and do anything else with it. Such as “download my free ebook, gimme your email address,” then add people to mailing lists. Or storing data outside of WordPress. Or if you’re collecting data and doing nefarious things with it. If you are collecting data and doing nefarious things with it, please stop. You’re being a dick and fucking it up for the rest of us.

To read my privacy policy, click here. It’s the WordPress template, with my email and web address on.

An edit to add, GJ’s description of how she summoned cookies and a privacy policy on the WordPress.com personal plan.

On a the personal plan site you navigate to the customise section, then go to widgets, select a section you want to add the privacy notice to, I used the lowest footer, footer 3. Select the consent and privacy widget, then update the details as required, setting how the banner reacts and the address of your privacy policy and publish. Done.

You can drop Gareth a thank you over at http://gjstevenscom.wordpress.com/

 

Another edit to add a tip from Aimer.

For anyone else on WordPress.com… WordPress adds the cookie banner automatically. If you add the cookie widget yourself, the banner never closes. Deleting the widget solves the problem.

You can drop Aimer a thank you over at https://aimerboyz.com/