Another fave ones of these is the entrance to Arkham Asylum in Batman Begins being the Wannabe stairs

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Having never seen this map before and admiring Shona’s jigsaw of it on here earlier, I sat down in the lobby of the haunted castle hotel we’re staying in tonight and began flicking through the interesting looking book on the table, Pictorial Britain and Ireland (1936) only to find…😱

Believe it or not, I've even seen what amount to fake agents, who aren't properly vetted by smaller writer conferences and they have zero clients but make some money pretending to be, basically, and doing talks and workshops at a level low enough to avoid detection.

Our flight to Inverness has been diverted to Aberdeen because of the fog. BA have nicely booked us all into a hotel. Unfortunately, while it’s a lovely hotel, it’s also in Heathrow.🤦‍♀️ Siiiimply Haaaving a Wonderful Boxing Day! 🎵

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

A pre Christmas reminder of the most fun I've had writing a book ever. A spiky, difficult man who can't let down his walls. A street kid bent on vengeance. A monster no one knows if they can trust. All dragged into a murderous conspiracy. And there's crows. So very many crows.

Tonight's sunset clouds. Holy mackerel.

the catchiest sex-ed BOP you will ever hear

it wouldn't be christmas without me badly photoshopping my book into something in a shameless attempt to convince you to buy it for yourself or an unsuspecting recipient (Triggernometry Finals! Available on kindle or DRM-free via Payhip!) payhip.com/StarkHolborn www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

every so often people rediscover r/neverbrokeabone and it's always a joy to behold the response

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

Ooh, I know a lot of you who might want this on your Christmas lists!

Been sprucing up the back of our downstairs toilet door. It’s not perfect, but I’m quite pleased with it nonetheless.

Is it greedy to want both?

My favourite cinema moment will always and forever be when we took my late Granny to see “The World is Not Enough” (I think in the Pearl and Dean cinema in Ashton Lane in Glasgow). The last film she’d seen at the cinema was The Graduate.

You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.

Has anyone got any suggestions for recent Scottish fiction that might be suitable to use an excerpt from for my GCSE resit students? I’m planning the Burns Night week lessons for spring but they’re not studying poetry. (Might still sneak some in the shorter of the two lessons though!)

"I'm not in denial... I'm in open rebellion." Same, Ethan Hawke. Same.

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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

All I want for Christmas is for everyone to get for themselves exactly what they hope for immigrants, disabled and trans people.

And persists into adulthood.

These are wonderful!

Such as our Neil Williamson's Disappointed Skeptics Club! thedisappointedskepticsclub.bandcamp.com/album/my-aut...

As we've had a lot of new followers join us recently, we thought now would be a good time to reshare our bumper Starter Pack of superb Solaris Authors! Everyone that we can find on BlueSky, all in one place, to light up your feed with feline shenanigans, strong opinions on jam & of course - BOOKS!

10am: at the cinema with @angelacleland.co.uk and coffees, chips, cakes and a massive popcorn. The nerves of a long film - would we feel hungry or need a wee? Decided to spend the last 9 months of my PhD dressing like Galinda in beautiful dresses. Oh, those dresses.

The National Trust wins organisations on social media today.

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CHECK IT OUUUUUUUUUT! I am *so* delighted with this cover, it's amazing! June 2026 still feels like a long way off, but I'm really looking forward to everyone meeting Kitt Carver, Two-Tongue Derna, Sulian the Swallowmage, and the rest of the cast. And, of course, the slydewasps.

UK FRIENDS, let's not forget with all this Mortedant talk that tomorrow, HEART OF THE WYRDWOOD is released in paperback so if you've been waiting you can complete what I promise is a very, very strange but hopefully rewarding, journey.

Incredibly good poem in the latest @perversemag.bsky.social

I love these, because they illustrate the (now) somewhat alien Victorian codes of sentiment and emotional expression (let's foster tenderhearted feelings by looking at something cute but sad), but you just know there were a few outliers who received these and interpreted them as a threat.

Scots Gaelic is the most goth of Gaelics.

Come see me in Birmingham on the 3rd (this Weds) from 5pm at Waterstones Birmingham. I'll be tired, I'll be wired and I'll be delighted to see anyone at all! :-)

Got a new cat flap with an app that records what the creatures are up to. It’s given us a fascinating insight into their wild evening.

This is such a low-key burn

Somebody should make an Alien vs Predator stapler and staple remover set. I would buy it.

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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts. Are you going to tell them? Or shall I?

How much money must you have earned to have paid “millions” in taxes? Follow up question, how have you earned enough to pay millions in taxes, but somehow a few grand extra has ruined your retirement plans?

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤 #art #painting #portrait #illustration

Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."

I saw a thing on one of the socialwebs yesterday about allocating a “scary hour” where you do a couple of the tasks you’ve been avoiding. Decided I would do scary hour 10-11 today and it has worked a treat. I have done two scary tasks and feel like a boss.

Today I plan to tidy my study and get on with The Next Thing. So of course I had an idea for a new thing in the shower. Is it a short story? A long story? Don’t know yet. But it is science fiction and definitely worthy of some scribbling before I forget what it was. What’s with the shower and ideas?

I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social