Currently reading Fellowship of the Ring. It feels like a welcome home. Small note: LoTR is a tragedy. The Ring stole the lives of Smèagol, Bilbo, and Frodo each. Frodo had only come of age when it came to him, and had been working on him for at least a decade before the quest begins.

It is my beloved Yorkshire in all its rough and weird glory. The merging of rural and industrial, the woodlands and steelworks and collieries, and villages perched on hills and clustered in the Don Valley. Its people steadfast, loud, honest, hard, and kind like the winter.

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THE MEME IS REAL

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs

Thoth - A Wizard

Admittedly, I was the flakey one who somehow managed to scrap something great together near enough on the fly.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

This is how I flirt:

Mood

Mine is about a house that gains awareness. It immediately wants to end itself and all those who live within out of sheer unending pain and loathing.

I just want to write and moan about the absolute state of the culture to other people who just want to read and moan about the absolute state of the culture.

Just finished Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval. Interesting, definitely a lot of psychological things to go through, and beautifully written. It captures alienation and otherness in a very genuine way. Disturbing? Perhaps to some. I would personally call it uncanny.

Liberalism, in my view, fails because it presupposes who is and is not a human being. In the Age of Enlightenment women were not humans, they were property upon marriage. Black people were wholesaled to retailers as commodities.

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to thi k for yourself anymore." That is the most frightening sentence I have read for a long time.

"Useless Cretins"

Working on the Faction Paradox project I will be pitching Obverse with - it is growing into a full blown novel as it turns out.

Every endeavour I take on is a sincere pursuit of the Sublime and my own amusement.

Hate consumes. All all who hate perish, especially those who disguise their hate of one as love for another. To quote the Bard: These violent delights have violent ends.

Chaps, I broke the Bluesky Rule again and engaged directly in discourse. I think I might have put my foot in it this time without meaning to.

Retroactive curses - cursing someone, their father, their father's father, all the way down.

I give up.

This I am currently reading is really quite trippy. A small universe of worlds orbit a star in which a pregnant goddess dwells. She has created said universe to teach her unborn child empathy. Occasionally clunky, but some genuinely interesting ideas. Find it and give it a look.

Is anyone else just really confused as to why Corbyn and Sultana did not just defect to any of the existent socialist parties instead of doing this "Your Party" nonsense? They would have had a party machinery at their disposal, and a ready made platform they agreed with. #corbyn

That moment when you realise that people tag writers in bad reviews in the hopes that an attention attracting argument ensues - nothing like drama to drive the grift. #writing

post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September:

Currently reading The Shadow Eater by AA Attanasio. Rather enjoying it. He rather likes colours and adjectives. #reading

There comes a difficult time in one's life when one must put away childish things. It is hard, the heartbreak is real, but one emerges into a larger world all the same.

Remember: Logan Paul not being a real wrestler is not a promo, nor is it a gimmick. It is a point of fact. Cena is absolutely right. #wwe #wrestling

I hate the terms "plotter" and "pantser", and every time I hear the explanation as to why they exist I hate them more. The literary equivalent of calling oneself a "Monica."

It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday! If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors #publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress alt text in pictures please

I shan't be seeing the third Avatar.

I have just learned that "water sommeliers" exist. Here I am, someone who feels an intense out-of-placeness with the rest of the world, and there are people out there who taste water for a living I look upon these works and despair.

Back in more civilised times Farage would have been denounced as a Mosleyite and swiftly forgotten.

I say @support.bsky.team - Dorian Dawes is one of the most insightful people on this platform. Come on, now.

I have no idea how to describe this debauchery.

I enjoy writing. I bally hate the Business of Writing.

The Lure Of The Underground, by Alfred Leete, 1927.

All I am saying is that the Atlee government did not get in and say "let there be red" and lo there was socialism - there was thirty years of history that had occurred which allowed that to happen.

postcard from somewhere else

Make them hurt, lads.

Sometimes, not often, my characters survive.

Even if this is a joke about WorldCon it speaks volumes that it is believable.

I am currently feeling rather like the quintessence of dust. Does anyone have any good news?

I feel as though I have just worked something out: Whenever genAI is used to generate an image of a living thing, that living thing is always giving off pain signals. They always look as though their existence is agony.

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

I do not want to learn. I want to WIN. ALL THE TIME. JUST WIN.

Annual reminder, chaps: I never want a Hugo. I will never work towards a Hugo. If I am ever shortlisted for a Hugo I will treat it as a personal failure that my readers would want to punish me.