This was a great interview with Murderbot production designer Sue Chan: tvobsessive.com/2026/06/19/s...

printing this one out for the home office

My Beatle thoughts are in this lovely fanzine! wontyoucomeouttoplay.substack.com/p/your-story...

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

out here on google looking up images of Black revolutionaries and freedom struggle activists laughing and enjoying themselves it's honestly really nice.

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

I forgot about this!! My nearest record store was 1.5hrs bus journey away. I remember seeing the music video for Stereo by Pavement on some channel 4 teen programme and then writing to Domino for a catalogue to buy a copy of Brighten The Corners.

Very jealous of this deep sea pen being in cold dark water for the next few days

My madness & creativity conference paper is up online now!

My madness & creativity conference paper is up online now!

Dandelion Acryla gouache

For reference, these are the two versions of "This Boy" I talk about in my essay: Ringo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIvE... John: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5D...

So many common threads in our stories here, I felt awfully moved and yes, proud reading them all 🥲

The Fab Four: queerer than u think!

Every conversation I've had about this essay: me: ...Beatles and trans masc identities! them: *confused* but they're icons of cishet, establishment, dad-endorsed masculinity? me: ikr? but consider: they weren't always them: ! both: 🌈!!! me: ofc they are still quite problematic 😔 them: yes 😔

Rose-scented battlements at Stirling Castle yesterday 🌸🏰🌹

a trans knight to celebrate my 2 years on testosterone anniversary! 🏳️‍⚧️✨⚔️

The Fab Four: queerer than u think!

Around 40% of mental health professionals experience emotional exhaustion. But some of the programmes designed to help them are making burnout worse, not better. New systematic review on The Mental Elf 👇 buff.ly/nHUera7 #MentalHealth #NHS #Research #EvidenceBasedPractice

My Beatle thoughts are in this lovely fanzine! wontyoucomeouttoplay.substack.com/p/your-story...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. @atthisarts.com www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/si...

Surveillance takes many forms: fascists stalking marginalized communities, companies tracking employee productivity metrics to dole out punishment, and menstruation apps using user data in criminal prosecutions. All this and more in UNDER A MALEVOLENT EYE: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/unde...

Thanks to everybody at the Figments conference for letting me talk at you about Inner Worlds! A copy of the paper will be up in the website later this week inner-worlds.ghost.io

Had a really good day at the madness and creativity conference! Glad to be back in my hotel room now though 😴

Aww, cheers! Nice to think about my troll ladies again 😊

Evening in the park

When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.

Aww, cheers! Nice to think about my troll ladies again 😊

The Raincoats Manifesto ✦ 10 Rules for Life from the British Post Punk Pioneers

After not doing any non fiction writing for ages I've got two things coming out next week: - "Be more real" an article about @innerworlds.bsky.social , speculative fiction, and mental health. - "This Boy, That Boy" a personal essay about The Beatles, gender, and you guessed it, mental health.

Have you signed up for this weekend's talks on the ghost-story writer Amelia Edwards and Dark Tourism? Free to access and online. Come join us!

I miss her all the time

Pretty sure this book is up many of your alleyways. Go take a look.

Ditto in dialogue with Shadow Ditto

Where fiber history meets Pride. This is a large piece (10x28') of one of the two original 30x60' pride flags, the only known surviving section of either. They were designed, hand dyed and sewn by a community of queer artists. The colors are slightly different from most rainbow flags today.

For our book GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA, Furcifer and I delved into ancient scripture, colonial-era reports, anthropology theses, & folklore from tribal communities of Chhota Nagpur & the Northeast. Along with 300+ monsters, there's a big bibliography! www.blaft.com/products/gho...

patreon request of Denise Bryson 🏳️‍⚧️ happy pride!

Step into 1968 Oakland with Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez! 🕯️ A queer Latine witch must navigate dark magic & class divides to save a cursed heiress. A lush, bone-chilling Gothic debut. 🥀 Grab your copy now! 📚 www.aycarambagifts.com/product-page... #LatineLit #GothicHorror #QueerBooks #CynthiaGomez #Muñeca

This Caribbean Heritage Month, try THE NIGHTWARD, a scifantasy THE WITCHER meets West Indian mythology. - It's a woman's world - + gender based magic - Where a child queen flees a coup - Alongside a young bodyguard with secrets. - In a place that's not what it seems. www.amazon.com/Nightward-No...

We did a really interesting story a few years ago about how different whale falls around the ocean might actually create a kind of web that deep-sea species can hop between hakaimagazine.com/news/how-dea...

The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

✶ PRIDE MONTH ✶

From queer horror romance LEVITICUS to Mexico’s first-ever stop-motion feature, here are six movies from all over the world that deserve your eyeballs this June.

You know what, I love little guys, I'm gonna make a thread. Will update every time I think of more 🔽🧵: - Faience Hippo (William) Middle Kingdom. Egypt - Amber Bear. Mesolithic or Proto-Neolithic. Poland - Hedgehog holding bowl. Early Cycladic II period. Greece. - Bowl with feet. Predynastic. Egypt.

If you like mystical folksy prog rock. You'll probably dig The Emerald Dawn.

I got to see my brother do an absolutely wild drum solo last night with his band The Emerald Dawn. He is ridiculously talented and I am so proud of him! The whole band were great - if you like prog, check them out! www.theemeralddawn.net

Man, I really miss Darwyn Cooke.