This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I'm thinking about doing a tiny, daily art project next year. Like a daily doodle, with a theme (I know the theme already). There is a lot going on next year (writing books, getting married (!), learning to drive maybe) so this is probably madness, but I'm charging the iPad anyway...

We finished Split Fiction! Huge fun - I loved the anti-AI/pro-creativity message, the inventive gameplay, and being a farting pig (at one point you could draw with flowers & the inevitable happened)

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

AI always mean Arseholes Involved. It is a hollow and hollowing thing. It is a pollution of praxis and process and must be refused at all times.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

genAI is the devil. It's the enemy of art. If you use it in ANY part of your process, not only do you fuck over the environment, and fuck over your fellow artists, you are cheating yourself of everything that makes art worth doing.

in other news, I think I've eaten so much glazed gingerbread I can see into next week.

Last repost - I kinda hate that I missed the days when authors were just mysterious b&w photos on the back flap of a dust jacket. We were enigmatic then, we could be strange but still glam. Video content is the devil.

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

there's a supercut somewhere of Dennis Reynolds saying unhinged things and it's probably all of them

Discovering I’m a Playschool baby is a fabulous Christmas gift 🥰❤️

We've bought Split Fiction for us to play over Christmas - now which of the two fantasy authors in this household gets to play the fantasy author 👀

Okay, I'm posting it here so it feels more official - I am now off for the Christmas hols! No more work! Until after Christmas! Even though I have a new banana yellow notebook! It's fine! I can do this!

A new brush for @procreate.com is up and free for a limited time! Fluid Glaze is an extremely fun watercolor brush that loves a light touch. I have spent HOURS in #Procreate just noodling, can't stop, won't stop. Get it at www.patreon.com/posts/procre... or mute #zhillybrushes, you grinch. <3

Incredible work. If, like me, you stopped watching about 10 years ago you'll be reeling from the characters popping back up again. Also, we return to the greatest mystery in British telly: Why does everyone on the square want to get off with MAX BRANNING?? MAX BRANNING? WHY

we had our christmas dinner yesterday & the cheese board involved a life changing chutney. Get the festive chutney from Lidl you guys, it's fucking lush.

Happy winter solstice!

Princess Mononoke 🐺🌳

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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

It's that time of the year again, so once again I offer up my thanks and sympathies to everyone working in retail, this week and next. May you be blessed with kindly, smart, and above all, speedy customers, who get what they want and sod off.

finally watched Kpop Demon Hunters, loved it, what a treat

do not play this, it is evil (I joke, it is excellent and I love/hate it)

And this! So much fun and the art style was WONDERFUL

I'm playing this right now and it is lovely - if you are a fan of weird little guys, this is the game for you.

one of the nice things about Bristol is, no matter how loud your trousers are, someone is definitely wearing louder ones.

at the 60K word point with this book, which is, once again, the point where I rejig the back half of the plan. I don't quite know why it's always when I hit this many words, but here we are. It's vital work, but it always pains me slightly when I'm not putting words down on the page.

Time for a book giveaway! Over at Goodreads, @torbooks.bsky.social Nightfire are giving away 100 (!) copies of my forthcoming SF horror novel CRAWLSPACE! US-only, ends 12/22/25, details at the link! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

I don't know why this made me laugh so much but it did

I don't seek out reviews of my books - that means I avoid a lot of tricksy psychic damage, but it also means I miss the praise, where it exists. So I genuinely treasure every instance of someone getting in touch to tell me something lovely. You are the best.

'you can cradle to grave away every warm human word you could ever have said' 💔

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you. Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

the gutter man is coming to clean our gutters (steady) and every time I think: 'beware the judder man my dear when the moon is fat' that was TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO BY THE WAY help

Lynda La Plante as Tamara Novek nursing the bedridden employees of Rentaghost in a tableau reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch at his most fevered.

It used to be, when I told people I was a writer, they would ask: 'for children?' Now, there's nowt wrong with writing children's books (I'm writing for younger people right now) BUT it was always a curious assumption. I suspect men do not get asked that question as often.

winter (i)

Lego CEO: You get that minifig of Timothy Olyphant from The Mandolorian finished? Designer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. CEO: what

Helping customers pick a book for someone else is something I really miss about bookselling, so I had an absolute ball with this post! If you ever need a recommendation, tag me!!

Yes this is more like it

Prints in da shop raising money for a really big hammer www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks

This has cropped up in my timeline again and it remains one of my favourite things ever

feeling the December urge to get a new hobby. I wish my brain could be more specific than that, but here we are.

oh shit it's December tomorrow which means I can no longer pretend Christmas isn't looming

Have you picked up a copy of TITANCHILD by @sennydreadful.bsky.social in paperback yet?🐉 The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices. https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜

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