Yes, I thought about which franchise is which book.

Did...did @bransonreese.bsky.social do this?

Sioux do pseudo Siouxsie and the Banshees, Xi bans she, Susie sues Xi, Sudoku cues dosido, see?

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Are you ready to enter the Tomb of the Golden Skull? A new Fighting Fantasy gamebook is on its way, written by Sir Ian Livingstone and featuring both cover and internal artwork by Karl Kopinski. Watch this space for more news soon... #fightingfantasy #gamebooks @ian-livingstone.bsky.social

A misread gives birth to a thought: Gundam of Green Gables

Iain m banks licensed live yoghurt culture would have been amazing

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. Also, if you're a writer, don't forget to repeat the cue. (Like I did initially) "The five o'clock shadows were long, and my own was coming in, as I made an accounting of the day I had spent, focused on something that hadn't happened. Yet."

Guess what’s coming next week?!! Cheetah & Cheshire trade is landing at all your favourite stores. If you missed out on the boldest heist in DC history, now’s the time to check out how this misfit team manage to outwit and successfully Rob the Justice League! Written by @gregrucka.com Art by Me!

I can accept the Muppets being in commercials because they’re showbiz people. I cannot accept the Sesame Street Muppets being in commercials because they’re educators.

By this logic, Fellowship of the Ring is a rom-com

Huge loss for transphobes in Australia today www.starobserver.com.au/news/giggle-...

Daffy Duck: "Listen buster! You must walk without RHYTHM to avoid attracting the worm." Bugs, grinning, holds up a phonograph playing salsa music. Daffy visibly trembles as he restrains himself from donning a Carmen Miranda hat...

Good lord I could have lost so much money.

Some real *Dark Science* being worked in the APCO Service Station Culinary Research Department

You might think you know where this one is going, but...

If I saw this cover in a book store,, money would fly out of my wallet

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

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Not trying to get on the case of this reader (whom I don't know and is entitled to their view) but I've heard this more than once, that it's performative or an affectation. Yes! That's the goal! It intentionally provides a distancing effect, as if viewing a remote place and time.

Rewatched this the other night myself (as I do every few years) and it remains impeccable. Unparalleled in the field.

It’s national siblings day Post some siblings

Pausing a moment amidst ~everything~ to rave for a minute about @hironennes.bsky.social's *spectacular* Works of Vermin, breaking containment to shove it into everyone's hands before I even finish. The prose is immaculate, the world conjured hallucinatory but hauntingly believable. Run, don't walk.

A couple of pieces based on Michael Moorcock's New Wave classic, Behold the Man. Will probably do a couple more at some point

The thing about North Americans not being able to pronounce 'Craig' makes no sense. Do they say that predictions are vegg? Are people tried for war crimes in the Hegg?

imagine if tabletop RPGs had caught on a century earlier, in the 1870s instead of 1970s. we debate the Moscow School vs. the Tunisia School of designs. we have a decades-old subgenre called "verdylikes." some pith-helmeted Victorian makes a stat array using phrenology. there are modernist RPGs

As I recall the correct reaction to Super Solvers: Outnumbered.

Dear Alan Moore, you know how From Hell was about Jack the Ripper making sacrifices to bring in the new century? WELL!

For International Trans Day of Visibility, I'll say this: a trans person has improved your life. Wrote a song you love. Developed your medication. Made a ladder that didn't collapse under you. Stopped a fire at your neighbours. Made those cookies you like. Maybe you didn't know. And yet. See it.

As an appendix to Saturday's essay explaining the New Wave, I've posted a list of select novels from that period, which I thought Science Fiction World might be interested in publishing. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

Hey! I'm the next stretch goal for the Public Domain kickstarter. When they reach 5000 backers, I'll be writing a mystery - inspired by the Silver Sisterhood, the pagan S&M "nuns" who funded themselves via sexually explicit text adventures. Delighted to (hopefully) be part of Public Access.

And now... A man who ALWAYS needs an introduction... Obliak the Mind Eraser!

Increasingly come to the belief that people are not seeking criticism in the modern era to discuss texts but to provide an orthodox list of canon texts which vindicate their membership in a consumer-tribe, where personality is manifested as loyalty to a particular brand.

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

This is, in many senses, my strongest aesthetic position. Real "on this rock will I build my church" stuff

Can we get someone to do a read-through of the first chapter of A Wizard of Earthsea as counterprogramming?

They also disappear and die when they don't.

Everything is obviously awful, but I had a really good day at the Clunes Booktown Festival and I'm very excited for my new game of Seven-Part-Pact, so at least there's that!

Reminder that I'll be at @bwp-eug.bsky.social tomorrow - Wednesday - signing from 5:30 to 7:00pm!

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

You HRT and RT? Buddy, that's half my feed.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Noce to see Klaus Janson get a gallery show in NYC, and my pal George Gustines write about it in the NYtimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...

I will destroy her

Your periodic reminder that one of Steven Soderbergh's finest films is on the Criterion Channel. (No, I'm not being hyperbolic. I'd cheerfully put it in his top five.)

What's good about this is we canonically know that this look can be adapted to all body types.

Today in Australian Millennial aging, realised that the Youth Group cover of Forever Young (the one from The OC that was everywhere for a bit) is further away in time from now than the Youth Group cover was from the original Alphaville version.