Signed for my next book this morning & it'll be out in about a year. A few people read it and said things like beautiful, devastating, threads a fine needle, the pieces fit together so intricately, & that they want to hate the mc but they simply can't (yes, he's the worst™️). Hope you're excited!!

"...our results show that the sperm whale communication system is, in principle, capable of representing a large space of possible meanings, using similar mechanisms to those employed by human sound production and representation systems." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

▫️ the underneath ▫️

We must imagine ouroboros vomiting itself.

It's crop circle season again and there have already been some new creations. 🌾🛸 This awesome one appeared at Jack's Castle Plantation, near Alfred's Tower, on the 8th May. Photo credit, with thanks: Nick Bull at Stonehenge Dronescape. ⭐ #cropcircles #CropCircle #Wiltshire

Goodnight.

Painting created by Mavis Gensler c.1969, in the art therapy department at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. Eyes appear as a motif in all her surviving works, which apart from the eyes detail, are abstract & feature circles & webs enclosed in darkness or bright rainbows

"Overall, not recommended for the serious Salt and Vinegar fan."

I'll only take disclosure seriously if it's delivered by Vic Rattlehead.

Great one from a brilliant collection. Bloody love this one from it too. Rob's work has a properly destabilising effect. Gospel was weird in that arcane way Bruno Schulz is weird, yet completely different, unique. Deserves a rerelease I reckon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tuB...

Not really a spelling one, which I'm generally terrible at, but I sometimes pause over where and were.

Hello I am Chloe I’m an artist, I sell my original work online. I realise not everyone can afford art but if you like my work perhaps share these kinds of posts, it helps me. There are a few different galleries to browse on my website. www.chloecumming.com

Such a good album this. First CD, as in not a tape or record, I ever bought.

Plate from Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, '𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘪 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪 𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪' (Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world, circa 1585). #WyrdWednesday

Here's a link to my Collected short fiction book out through @shoreinf.bsky.social. I'll be launching the book at Satellite 9 on May 24th 😎 www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

The Passage to Eternity by Gabriel Jurkić, 1918

woodwose, by lara cobden

And now someone has seen a big cat on the golf course and decided to skip the tenth hole and take a four shot penalty rather than go near it.

From Merrily Harpur's Mystery Big Cats.

Currently reading Merrily Harpur's Mystery Big Cats and I'm struck by how many ABC sightings have multiple witnesses. Yet the evidence for them being physical is scant and not as should be expected. Interesting one. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 149 - Gavin Miller - Scotland's history with UFOs @drgavinmiller.bsky.social #podcast #paranormal #UFOs #Scotland #Ufology #wyrdwednesday podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

youtu.be/lVyZPwJwQpM?... - from 6.47 until the drums come in at 7.21 - Force Majeure indeed!

Such a good book.

I made a doc with some resources for learning about the Trickster docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What are everyone's favorite books/papers of lit theory/narratology/rhetoric/poetics/etc? Asking for a friend who's an autodidact in this area and in a rut and running up against the limits of his knowledge and in constant danger of reinventing the wheel.

And here’s Joe - a dinosaur theme park flash story with hotdogs. Give it a go. It comes with or without mayo. And has plenty of dinosaurs. #ShortStories open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Viz 355

1.45 is no time to wake up.

Sorry I missed your call, I was wandering around

I went camping once and there was a couple at the site who had brought their electric bass guitars along. I would hear them each morning on the way to the toilet having an unamplified slap bass jam inside their tent. It's hard to imagine a happier couple.

Painting created c.midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us. Image from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides. The original is presumed lost

Recommendations for book bloggers who might review my collection of short ghost stories, please Probably better that they’re particularly interested in weird fiction

And under the strange nightmare light of the supermarket, aisle nine, a dismal death of the self.

The TG Jones Mandela effect.

Had this on my shelf for a while but just flew through it. Brilliant book. I see it's cheap on Amazon too.

Incredible book. One of my faves.

Like alt text but a description of the posters body language and facial expressions.

A weird fiction story about someone trying to define weird fiction.

I wasn't really familiar with John Cheever but had a copy of his stories sitting on my shelf. I read The Swimmer (obvs) and then randomly, The Scarlet Moving Van. I was a bit surprised these were perfect examples of weird fiction. At least to me. The Swimmer feels like an American Aickman story.

This is really bugging me. I'm not a responsible or functional enough person to own wireless headphones.

My copy of Keshed arrived. Can't wait to get into this.

I submitted three stories in Jan, a rare thing for me, and got my first rejection. It was very encouraging though, which is almost as good as an acceptance.

Antics. (she is not trapped, don't listen to her)

Had to get a new phone and apparently it was incorrect to assume it would have a headphone jack.

Only a few days left to submit your short story to our anthology. We are seeking short stories for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary and arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism & aestheticism. #booksky #writingopportunity 👇

The gates are opening again. Apocalypse Party is accepting submissions and pitches, with reading beginning at the end of March. We’ll be choosing only a handful of manuscripts, so send us the work you believe in most. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to send us your work, this is it.

Me reading fiction: why are you explaining anything to me? Leave this open to interpretation. Less is more. Productive ambiguity. Never hold my hand. Me reading nonfiction: where is your thesis? Structure this argument more. What is your evidence for this?! Make this connection explicit. Cite more.

Hag stones.