“I’m just writing fan fiction all the time, basically” Ahead of their new queer sci-fi heartbreaker DELAY opening at Bristol Old Vic, Sleepdogs - aka Timothy X Atack (@timatack.bsky.social) and Tanuja Amarasuriya - chat to Ben Kulvichit

Cast just announced for DELAY, a queer sci-fi heartbreaker I've written, on at Bristol Old Vic in June... JYUDDAH JAMES is playing Lin. ALEX LAWTHER as the voice of Silas. VERA CHOK as the voice of Auto.

Wrote a letter in the Guardian -- responding to another letter on authors and AI... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Editing my novel today, so I found a themed office space.

This is so so good -- one of the most concise, cogent, and useful takes I've read on what we're currently calling generative AI. And so much of it resonates with the misuse of AI in the artistic world, too. 'Devaluing that which has already been devalued.'

I've written some more on 'being a caring artist in a capitalist world', if anyone fancies some light cogitation of a Friday. sleepdogs.org/2025/02/dont... Stay powerful.

I've written this week's Book At Bedtime on Radio 4 (a long short story, I suppose.) Also available as a binge listen on BBC Sounds, for the next 5 weeks. Love and ghosts. Funny, sad, strange, lovely. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Flashback to when I was a kid and used every lego brick I had to build an enormous vault with only a single tiny trapdoor on top – so that all the lego people could do was fall into it, without immediate means of retrieval. Spare a thought for my parents.

Have had a bunch of emails from folks asking about the music of mine used on Radio 4's serialisation of ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey. Here's a string ensemble version... #orbitalsamanthaharvey #bookerprizewinner #bbcradio4 #stringsinspace #newmusic www.instagram.com/reel/DDXanLS...

Some Bluesky positivity. After a relentless couple of years for rejections and dead-ends, I've some recent cause for hope. At the darkest moments, I'd begun some stubbornly positive writing about being a creative artist under modern pressures... here's a first salvo: sleepdogs.org/2024/12/dont...

It's that time of year. You know the tune.

Just got ID'd in M&S Croydon. No joke. Maybe it's a context thing, that's the only explanation I have. Anyway. Be careful out there, everyone.

If you clicked on this and it was a blank page: 10/10, no notes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9qW... ... and this entire album, in fact...

Yes, it's in June next year... And yes, my first post is self-promotion, how infra dig, I know. But I reckon this is going to be the real deal. DELAY at Bristol Old Vic: bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/delay