Just checking in with one of the muted extended family group chats. The last message reads, "through the sadness, I hope you all have a fruitful 2026. Jan X" I shit you not.

I am Team Write The Thing You Want To Write. Too many people will tell you that you will only sell fiction if you follow the Hero's Journey, or if you outline with a beat sheet, or if you make your characters cosy and 'likeable'. Ignore them.

Fred Ward walked so that John Berthal could run.

Not now, AI bot account, ive only got the energy for one existential crisis at a time, and right now its fascism.

The Pirates of the Caribbean films are mostly junk, but that scene in the third (i think?) where the baddie captain walks down in slow motion as his ship is torn apart, fucking slaps.

Yaaaaaaas! My tattoo artist has just announced they're on the new series of the Great Pottery Throwdown. Can't wait for everyone to see how talented Fynn is.

The Goblins & Galaxies year one set is now available! Get four magazines full of exciting, fantastical tales in print or digital editions in the Goblins & Galaxies store: https://bit.ly/49lPmwq

Seeing a major SFF place saying they're "looking forward" to a show, filmed during a strike, and produced by fascists.

I love Jumanji, but the idea that Alan lived half a lifetime in a wild enchanted jungle, and then had to go back to being a boy in a pre-teen body is more of a horror than anything in the game.

How long can I keep justifying evening beers with 'well its Christmas?'

David Jonsson is the best living actor.

I love sci fi and fantasy, but way too many of y'all need to calm down your exposition. We get it, there are Excel spreadsheets. "And the Ninkynorks, the third kings of Blorkin, rode on their Thwumpers to the Capital, Horgadordor..."

Anyone who brags about not paying taxes is a prick. Some celebs think its a flex, it's really not.

FYI, its ethically and environmentally fine to ask the magic eight ball questions. Little fella has been forgotten in the Gen AI era.

Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

No one knows what day of the week it is, the days may not even exist anymore. We've evolved past formal meals, we sustain ourselves by grazing on what the elders call 'picky bits'. I have not been sober in days, but I have not been drunk. Always gently buzzing. Send help. This cannot go on.

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Heavy is the head that's too fat for the paper, cracker crown.

My grandad used to call us every Christmas morning. "Have you heard? What, I can't believe you haven't heard!? Christmas is cancelled this year! Yeah, the whole thing, called off. You'll have to return all the presents." Pause for sniggers. "Go get your sister." And she'd ge the same routine.

I'm pretty comfortable at the gym, I feel I know my way around. But this effigy of the steampunk owl god has me intrigued.

I've been trying to read outside of my traditional, safe SFF bubble recently. Got recommended this by someone with generally great taste (hi @f-shep.bsky.social) and it didn’t disappoint. Its got an unashamedly blunt and fun narrative voice. Smashed through it in a couple of days. Delightful.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called the SpiceNazguls

Share your mood for the weekend (through exhaustion, not drugs!)

I dont mind an ambiguous ending or a complicated ending... but its profoundly unsatisfying when you hit a, "I have to go Google what the fuck that was all about" ending.

Mould isn't coming to your house - its already here. My new Mould for Houses bootcamp gives people the tools on how to live around, and even embrace, the mould* *definitely DON'T try to get rid of the mould problem. Your mates who live in old fashioned - mould free - houses are just luddites.

If you see this, repost with your favourite onscreen moment from SF, Fantasy or Horror.

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

Not that I'm easy to please, but two deer leapt out in front of me on my drive in, stared at me, and then leapt over the Cornish hedgerow on the other side of the road, and I was sat there like...

Sometimes, those "hey, look at what you were up to this time last year" notifications really ambush you. He was such a handsome little swine.

Staying up way too late to finish a first draft of a story because the words are flowing. Let's hope it's not all tired nonsense when I check it tomorrow.

I could watch a million Knives Out films. They know exactly what they are, I feel like everyone is having a great time.

Am I gonna let something as silly as losing a football match ruin my weekend?

April 2026...

give the gift of a reminder of your own mortality this season! :-D

All art comes from being horny, self-loathing, or needing extrernal validation*, or a combination of all three. AI can't be any of these things, thats why it sucks. *I hear some people can create from a positive place; love, hope, pride etc. Sounds like witchcraft to me.

Throwback to this time last year when the HR girls accidentally made the bleakest Christmas decoration of all time.

Remove a few lyrics from Santa Claus is coming to town & it makes a horror story intro You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why... He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake!

This way to sacrifice your baby to the toilet gods

I'm usually good with a rejection - the game is the game - but I found a perfect home for my favourite story, and the 'thanks but...' came through today.

As if I didnt already want these DCC hardbacks enough, look under the sleeve.

How your email finds me.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

You will be visited by three spirits* *and one noble steed

My arm is slinged so everything is talk to text right now, which made for some fun typos. One week left on our kickstarter! eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

"Be kind" because hes admitted his comments might be divisive? Some neck on the lad Part of a government that spends all day trying to scare us about immigration and war, whilst cutting funding to services and foreign aid. Telling us to "be kind" because his mate dialed down his twatness a notch

I watched the latest season of the Witcher a few weeks back. Trying the Rats prequel thing today. I cannot believe they were meant to be likeable characters? Like, I'm not calling the show bad, but surely everyone was sort of glad when Bonhart started doing his thing?

I’m pleased to announce that we are the winners of the first ever FIFA World Cup Literature Prize for Indie Publishers! Take that, Donald.

I was discussing the second Wicked film with my FD at work, and how I hated some of the implied messaging, and she casually dropped a, "you can't ever just enjoy something, can you?" I've never felt more seen. 😂😂