If you got to the end of Stranger Things and said "I wish I had more stories with a gay sorcerer from a small town fighting an eldritch power while crafting a found family," then I've got you covered. Three series, urban/rural and high fantasy available however you read. davidrslayton.com/books/

So, I've finally set up a Patreon (it's still ugly lol I need time to make it look good)! Right now you can just join for free! But what I'm interested in, is if I set up a payment, what would be most interested in seeing? Worldbuilding ideas? Voting for video topics? Discord server? Maps/items?

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I have author interview slots available from March onwards! If you'd like to showcase your work, let me know. #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity

I wanted to share the highlights of what I got up to throughout 2025 🧵

They renamed the "gay agenda" and some people are like, "Wow, look at this new thing! We've never any seen anything like it before." You've been had.

@hannafordjenny.bsky.social Soooo... 😁

I do have to underline here: Britain is internationally unique in having a national press that acts like a protection racket run by the most disgusting and repellent people in the country. It isn’t like this elsewhere, it’s just us.

No cheating, reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s)

FINALLY

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

The sequel to The Shape of Monsters will be coming out soon. I'm just waiting on the publisher to confirm the release date with me, I've seen the cover, Omari Douglas is finished recording... Your next dose of monstrous queer upfuckery is on its way, and my grin is evil.

Still nothing has happened. Covid damages blood vessels. It’s causing heart damage amongst other things.

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

"but it helps me do research fast--" I don't give a fuck. Regulate this shit and put the people who enabled it in fucking *jail* and then we can talk.

I take back everything reasonable I said during the SFWA debate. Until we have regulations in place on this monster shit, I am unreasonable. I am reactionary. I am anti-progress. They are posting pictures of naked 14 year olds, WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE.

For the most part I try to make what other folks are doing not my business. Twitter was enabling some pretty horrifying shit for a long time, but putting a "take this child actress's dress off" button on there is a level of "what the fuck are you doing on this site" that is hard to grapple with.

giving a bunch of racist, misogynist, actual nazis a button to virtually strip any person is just a depravity it is hard to fucking fathom. also I've crossed a fucking rubicon on AI tonight. If the cost of it is creating revenge porn of children and murder/suicides, WHAT IS FUCKING WORTH THAT.

Hey I don't think you should use a website that generates CSAM on demand

Ive never died and I'm not about to start now.

GOOD NEWS! A group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukemia have seen their cancer driven into REMISSION by an innovative immune therapy known as BE-CAR7. 82% of patients reached deep remission and 64% of patients have now been disease-free and OFF therapy for THREE years.

Hi, I'm, uhhh... a bookshelf, a garden pond, a lorry driver, influenza, and Ian Levine.

Missing out on Heated Rivalry because it's only available on a Murdoch platform in the UK. I'm not from Liverpool, but I'll always remember what Murdoch did, and I will never give him a fucking penny.

Happy new year, friends! We're manifesting a brighter, more magical 2026 for us and all of you. Thanks so much for your support- we hope you'll keep following Basil's adventures this year as well 💫

Every time we tell people what is happening, what is transparently and obviously taking place, and we are derided as chicken littles magnifying issues as if we enjoy proclaiming our suffering. When are are proven to be manifestly correct - well, what to do about all the damage already done? Oops!

For information on the history of queer and radical organizing and how to start doing this work, tune into @thefreeradical.org's Liberation is a Riot series! Remember, the NYT does not have a monopoly on people's views. Fighting back is not only possible, it's necessary.

Thanks to everyone for supporting this piece! If you read it and want more solutions for how to go forward, we'd strongly recommend checking our back catalogue. For a couple recs: For handling the ongoing genocide of trans people and building community support, see @madycast.com's amazing piece!

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Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy. No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Happy New Year all! A quick recap of 2025, and a shout out to all the groups, events, publications, platforms and podcasts I created with or was part of. Delighted to share the stage with T.L. Huchu for @srfantasyclub.bsky.social's January meeting. 1/ #chinese #popculture #nonfiction #sff #culture

Apparently, 10Dance / @poopraven.bsky.social's Inheritance series fanfic. Thanks, brain. Thanks a whole lot.

My year end wrap up on StoryGraph tells me I reached my set goals but didn’t reach beyond it. I hit some rough reading slumps. But hey, my most read author was @poopraven.bsky.social .

honestly tho, as soon as you start talking about prose the way people talk about comics and children, you realise how absurd it sounds. At least I hope you do.

Prose is a GREAT gateway drug to real books (comics)

It doesn't HAVE to be a comic of course. Sometimes children should be allowed to read easier things if they're not ready for comics. Start them on text-only books until they're ready, don't push them into the world of sequential art, let them stay in the word-only stage as long as they like

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

Good morning! Happy new year! May you create and find joy and happiness in 2026 🎉🥳🎉

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It's been my whole personality for like two years now. Three? Who knows. Anyway. Come join us in the Discord Server so you can yell at us and we can yell back.

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I'm off to see in the new year the way I want 2026 to go: rewatching 10Dance then having an early night 🤣

One of the things I credit my 20 year relationship success with is that we share the same values. Ultimately that's what politics is. What do you value?

Happy new year. May 2026 be filled with UBI, the eradication of billionaire wealth and power, death to AI, and a surge in socialists achieving positions in governments.

Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK

Interesting conversation between two people who basically want what most of us want - a peaceful, harmonious, looked after world. It’s not too much to hope for.

I wonder what part of lower bills, tax billionaires they're panicking about most? Cry harder. Join.greenparty.org.uk