New JOHN CARPENTER, folks. From upcoming album (and graphic novel) “Cathedral.” @thehorrormaster.bsky.social

Happy second book birthday to Tales of Mystery: Dead for a Spell, featuring my story, "A Matter of Taste" Join Memris Proge, dandy necromancer, on a quest across the city to discover why the local cafes have become so disappointing. I was also honoured to write a foreword for this collection.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Guess who just yowled until I came up and gave her fusses number three and four? (Sofa Fuss and Bed Fuss are both now apparently considered equally important to a rounded fuss diet)

In the modern period drama, everyone talks about situationships and wears the same corset. Historian @ellerygillian.bsky.social has had enough:

As someone who now works in admin for a psychology department, there is no way this undergrad's dissertation is passing an ethics test and the academic setting her assignment should be fired.

Also friendly reminder that the Luddites weren‘t anti-tech they were pro workers rights and safety and anti-capitalist so you know, feel free to call me that.

My copy of The Shadows That We Carry arrived today! Looking forward to diving into my fellow #HorrorWritersChat authors' stories. Please consider buying a copy, to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of the much-missed Matt Mason. Links in quote post below 👇

Me: Vesper, what is it? Vesper: Fuss me. Me: You've already had a fuss this morning. Vesper: I've had one fuss, yes. But what about second fuss?

no one can stop you from creating nasty little recipes, forging new frontiers in fusion cuisine. you can combine doro wat and red beans & rice. you can put 43 cloves of garlic in it. it’s actually completely legal to eat a ton of spicy hard boiled eggs. the government has no power over onions.

THEN I remembered how many people had recommended me THE WOLF AND HIS KING by @finnlongman.com and it turned out they were right. 1) always a delight to read arthuriana written by an actual mediaevalist, 2) what if a sad beautiful man was a secret werewolf and his liege lord was so so so so into him

Vesper likes to sit and watch me write in faint adoration of Mum, but she has unfortunate Resting Sullen Face which always makes her look like she's sulking.

it can feel right now like little things don't make a difference. i have it on good authority that just ten of us giving a tenner a month would go a long way to making this possible as a regular thing. i'll donation match the first 3 of you who do a recurring £10 monthly. 🏳️‍⚧️ opencollective.com/tlc

ENGAGING WITH ART EVERY DAY: VOL 1 In this month's newsletter, I discuss my current life project: taking the time to experience at least one new piece of art every single day. Good, bad, ugly, pretty, it doesn't matter. Here is some of what I've experienced so far and why I want to share it

10 bands I've obsessed over at some point Lordi Powerwolf Caladan Brood Paul Simon Turisas Nightwish Bellowhead Brutalligators Green Lung Steeleye Span

Bones of Contention In this Ealing-like monastic crime caper, the Houses of Otreya and Angiley compete over her relic, and underhanded trickery descends into chaos when local ruffians see a chance for a royal ransom But as she passes from coffin to coffin what will Bilhildis think...? #booksky 📚💙

What Saints Fear 3 tales of dark monastic fantasy in which the faith of the Keepers of Khriam is tested by: - occultist clerics addicted to demons - saints claiming need of rescue - factory-farmed relics #booksky 📚💙

As I suffer in my home office with a cold not bad enough to justify logging off, I can't help but feel like a scribe in a cloister and that make-believe warms me. If you also need to cheer yourself up, why not partake of a #MonasticMonday treat? I can promise heists, demons and more! #booksky 📚💙

Even the reclamation of the term "queer" in activism & scholarship is about recasting our otherness & our deviance as positive things, as grounds for change. It's a good idea to familiarize ourselves with those histories before smearing someone as "unsafe" for engaging with them.

As I suffer in my home office with a cold not bad enough to justify logging off, I can't help but feel like a scribe in a cloister and that make-believe warms me. If you also need to cheer yourself up, why not partake of a #MonasticMonday treat? I can promise heists, demons and more! #booksky 📚💙

quilt beetle watercolor on BFK Rives paper

Today’s tattoo! Been wanting to grow my popculture portfolio and a client in Brno came through with this awesome Digimon idea! 🖤

ANNOUNCING: VIRTUAL DUNGEON CRAWL 2026 Now accepting submissions from musicians and animators! DUNGEON SYNTH ARTISTS: If you make fantasy music, please let me know if you'd like to submit a short video of you performing your music for this year's festival! DM me ASAP! ziri.neocities.org/virtual/

And if you'd like to support this kind of free-to-view activity, please consider becoming a Nunkie Patron here: www.patreon.com/c/RobertLloy... Livestreams will recommence in a month.

Thanks to those who have tuned in to the recent livestreams by the likes of E F Benson, FitzJames O'Brien and Arthur Conan Doyle. All stories from 2020 onwards can be found at the Nunkie YouTube page - watch and subscribe for free here www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms

I had a similar thing happen where I spent weeks tracking down a thing in a Latin text that people kept saying was there but wasn't, and eventually chased it down to a footnote in a 1930s translation that said "This thing resembles that thing," which got misquoted as "The text says this is that".

An old art I forgot I did of a little mushroom warrior - digital drawing #mushroom #myconid #mushroomman #ttrpgart #ttrpg

slugs stay whimsical to me #Art

About to pass 1,200 subscribers for my newsletter, which feels pretty unreal. I'm proud of the essays and other writing I produce over there. It's my public journal, my art diary, and where I try to share the work that I truly care about You can subscribe or read the entire archive for free here:

This is the kind of upsetting food I would apply to MasterChef for, just so I could make it and make the judges pity me.

[crunchy fried chicken] tagine and crunchy fried [chicken tagine] are two different prospects, with crunchy [fried chicken tagine] being a lurking third option.

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you? Four In A Bed, so I guess @liminalitea.bsky.social and I are travelling the country being insufferable about vegetarian cooked breakfasts.

Excited to announce that my story, Of Ghouls & Goulash, will be in vol.5 of A Summer of SFF from Worldstone Press! Join Memris Proge, dandy necromancer, on his quest to sample the ultimate stew, and stumble into a magical Fight Club in the process.... Back the Kickstarter here 👇

To write, illustrate and self publish a children's book that sells, you need time, significant funds up front, contacts and housing security, maybe a partner who supports you, or 18 years of banking industry investments maybe. It's not a case of ladies being bolder. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning Womble! Currently reading The Shadows That We Carry: A Horror Anthology from the authors of the #HorrorWritersChat and for some light relief Field Guide For the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K England

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𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 open for offers on TH, linked below <3

I think this is the first time I've seen my home town in the news. I can see the tea rooms having a field day.

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk The Man of Property - John Galsworthy Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope

Predator Neil Gaiman trying to make a soft comeback on social media to boost his book sales by appealing to the fans who are desperate for him to be innocent. Don't give him an inch. He's trying to be a clever, sneaky bastard. Show him we don't forget.

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

To counter misery discourse, some stuff I have enjoyed recently: - The 1802 edition of Belinda (content note for ambient 19th century racism despite good intentions) - Akira (manga) - Octopath Traveler 0 - Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-Zi - 28 Years Later

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

Also their tiny naff pop-up cafe will correctly gender you and interprets "a slice of cake" as "a quarter of the damn cake".

Sorry, I know this is likely to upset people, but I have given up caring. If you support Starmer and Labour right now you are supporting a government which in the last nearly two years has proven itself more racist, xenophobic, anti-human rights, anti-trans rights etc than the Tories managed in 14

In hindsight I should have expected the first talk to involve a detailed fictionalised narrative of mutual masturbation in Hyde Park c.1928.

How to feel young in your thirties - go to hang out at the local history fair.

Currently on a 9 day streak of sales, so thank you to everyone taking a chance here on these stories and I hope you discover some fantastic new talent along the way!