Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper
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Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
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It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site. 1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
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Apparently Alan Moore says something like this as well, but honestly, if you're writing in a genre go out and find a a couple of mediocre books published in it. Reading a bad Dan Brown knock off will show you what Dan Brown does that is good!
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I watched Peter Gunn a 1960s private investigator TV show.
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I Watch TV: Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn (TV Series) Peter Gunn is a private investigator* in a dark, waterfront city with plenty of organised crime, unorganised c...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-watch-tv-peter-gunn.html
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Bryn Hammond
about 9 hours ago
Proud of my profile of JAS in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3
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This is why you remove Detect Magic from starting spell lists
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Kaleidotrope
about 13 hours ago
Discover what the buzz is all about in
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’s new story “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.”
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
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about 19 hours ago
hung out with some beetle people, mentioned fairy shrimp, and they mentioned a specialist ground beetle which is a fairy shrimp predator. how can you know that much of the story and then not know the best part, which is that the beetles only hunt at night because the shrimp GLOW IN THE DARK
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
about 13 hours ago
The Goon, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Prince Goon The Voyage of the Goon Treader The Silver Goon The Horse and His Goon The Goon’s Nephew The Last Goon
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I watched Saltburn, a blackly funny thriller about obsession, class and a big house.
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I Watch Films: Saltburn
Saltburn Oliver Quick is a student at Oxford University in 2006. Initially out of place due to not being upper class he befriends Feli...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-watch-films-saltburn.html
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My wood library is raising a lot of questions that are not answered by my wood library (because it's pieces of wood, not reference books)
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I am LITERALLY recorded performatively reading a Kalediotrope story in a file that you can listen to on the Kaleidotrope website. The evidence is IN THE MAGAZINE.
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
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about 22 hours ago
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This is why you remove Detect Magic from starting spell lists
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about 14 hours ago
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Shaenon K. Garrity
about 14 hours ago
One of the Little Free Libraries got a pile of books on autism, folklore and mythology, and finding your gender identity, and that's how I know there's a Bluesky user in the neighborhood
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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜
about 16 hours ago
Everyone needs a cosmic horror cooking competition book. If you don’t have (pork???) I’m sure you can substitute….
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Jo
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It's been years, but you said something in there about the twee "oh noes my writers block" being bs but if you're having straight up agonizing problems working, it's something else and you have to sort it out. (I got mental health help + started getting sober after reading that.)
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Adam Roberts
about 18 hours ago
I like the way Anthony Burgess uses "gorblimey" as a verb, here, and would like to see it more widely used.
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William Shakespeare
about 20 hours ago
Vast sin-concealing chaos
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
about 21 hours ago
16) Sword & sorcery can be community. Ever since THIEVES' WORLD petered out, we've largely lost the idea of sharecropper universes in fantasy; people seem more happy with LitRPG worlds based on D&D and World of Warcraft. But S&S has always been in communion with other S&S works, building off ideas.
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Szkin 🏳️⚧️ 🔜Dragonmeet
15 days ago
this is the best thing ever actually
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Jucika
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
about 22 hours ago
In a mood. 1 like = 1 hot take on sword & sorcery
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega
about 21 hours ago
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
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A.C. Wise
about 23 hours ago
It's that time of year again! I've started collecting my annual list of eligibility and recommendation lists and award resources. Check out what people have done and loved this year and send me your own posts to add to the list!
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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
https://acwise.net/what-have-you-done-what-have-you-loved-2025/
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I am LITERALLY recorded performatively reading a Kalediotrope story in a file that you can listen to on the Kaleidotrope website. The evidence is IN THE MAGAZINE.
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...
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about 22 hours ago
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John Allison
1 day ago
The Thought Bubble Festival is on this weekend, your chance to meet me and talk all things C*nan in a safe space. Muscles, swords, strength, beheadings, thews, Crom, serpent men. Remember that while others have tried to realise the Cimmerian in comics, only one man has truly delivered.
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Space Opera Plots
1 day ago
The powerful Dockers Guild on Herculan Station has slowed operations to a crawl with ships queuing to dock, undock or get anything loaded or unloaded. The station authorities have asked you to look into the recent death of one of the Guild's masters.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
about 1 year ago
Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.
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Fusion Fragment
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We are exactly four (4!) downloads away from setting a new FF annual record* for most downloads! It's a perfect time to grab yourself a free download of FF#26!
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
(*I mean we're way ahead if I include Saros, but I still wanna beat the FF-only record)
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Issue #26
“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/
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My wood library is raising a lot of questions that are not answered by my wood library (because it's pieces of wood, not reference books)
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Jen Donohue
about 1 month ago
did you know? "Dare Seize the Fire" is my latest short story that you can just read for free online right now?
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Dare Seize the Fire, Jennifer R. Donohue
This isn’t how I’m supposed to die.
https://futurefire.net/2025.73/fiction/dare.html
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I watched Saltburn, a blackly funny thriller about obsession, class and a big house.
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I Watch Films: Saltburn
Saltburn Oliver Quick is a student at Oxford University in 2006. Initially out of place due to not being upper class he befriends Feli...
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-watch-films-saltburn.html
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Dave Dellecese
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World’s greatest detectives.
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Every eighteen months or so people learn about the SS Richard Montgomery, this is why you shouldn't go to Sheppey
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Obviously you should buy Necropolis from
@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by
@thisisguan.bsky.social
with stories from
@faithallington.bsky.social
@carlc75.bsky.social
Huijia Li,
@livstrom.bsky.social
and also me.
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That guy writing about beekeepers sounds like he knows what he's talking about
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Monster Of The Week 296 is PartyPlane, they are high as a kite and not coming down, we're not invited to this party, you know I spend weeks booking interviews and these monsters constantly flake off.
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Finally an excuse to use the 450mm Lawrence Of Arabia lens!
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The creature tells Victor that to be complete he requires a companion - to look after his horses. The Groom Of Frankenstein.
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Morbid Minute
2 days ago
Artist link:
emibozstudios.bigcartel.com
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Sid Menon
8 months ago
who else remembers this classic james bond one-liner!!
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Every eighteen months or so people learn about the SS Richard Montgomery, this is why you shouldn't go to Sheppey
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John Chrostek
1 day ago
Let’s face facts: James Bond is dead. No one will accept him coming back to life unless someone fetches him from hell. It’s time for a new iconic British male film role to define our 21st century: The Candler. The Candler is the only one who can go to hell, find Bond and bring him home
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The creature tells Victor that to be complete he requires a companion - to look after his horses. The Groom Of Frankenstein.
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Finally an excuse to use the 450mm Lawrence Of Arabia lens!
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Hannya Kay
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I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥
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The Final Programme retconned into being a Bond Film.
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Kai Delmas
3 days ago
I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙
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Obviously you should buy Necropolis from
@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
but while you're there have you considered getting Duel edited by
@thisisguan.bsky.social
with stories from
@faithallington.bsky.social
@carlc75.bsky.social
Huijia Li,
@livstrom.bsky.social
and also me.
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mumblo
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watch this if you wanna know what puzzle games you need to wishlist:
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4 NEW puzzle games you're going to want to wishlist
YouTube video by DigitalMumbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPmRp-O-_dU
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Rebecca Summerling (she/her)
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Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon!
@alexfox.bsky.social
@omersarae.bsky.social
@nightgleaming.bsky.social
@improbablerex.bsky.social
and Victoria! cover art by
@warls.bsky.social
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A film named after a tattoo on a woman's back
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