I'm pleased to announce that I'll be on a panel at World Fantasy Con! I'll be talking about Queer Horror at 11am on Saturday in the Edinburgh room. Otherwise, I'm volunteering at the art show, and you can find me sitting behind the desk trying to tempt you into spending money on other people's art.

My new story is out in The Pink Hydra today! www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022...

My new story is out in The Pink Hydra today! www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022...

The Pink Hydra #5 is out today, with fiction & poetry by @hexthervvv.bsky.social, @deeholloway.bsky.social, @jasterwrites.bsky.social, @maryjorabe.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social, @pixieb.bsky.social & @reasie.bsky.social www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510

We REALLY need your help to fill the Govan Sarcophagus with donations for our urgent fundraiser! tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

"She is far from the first objectionable employer either of us have worked under..." Pulp horror from @hexthervvv.bsky.social coming this Friday! 🏚️💉🩸🔪

COVER REVEAL! 🎉 After what feels like a lifetime, I finally get to show you what I've been working on the last few years! The long-awaited sequel, VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS! Coming Halloween 2025! You can pre-order here! lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

My new story, Four Flowers in Formaldehyde, comes out in Pink Hydra on October 3rd. The story is heavily influenced by "mad science" horror films of the mid-20th century - where deadly experiments are performed in the basements of crumbling gothic manors in pursuit of youth, beauty and immortality.

I may have got a teeny tiny touch carried away at the library

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

I have made people watch Deep Fried Masters with me at least 3 times

NEW FIRE EMBLEM!!!!!

I'm drinking coffee and reading through line edits for a story coming out with @thepinkhydra.com later this month. Emmylou has been a great editor to work with, and I love what she's doing with the magazine - so if you're at a loose end today, why not read some free stories from another issue?

I saw so many bugs (and bug related crafts) at the Invertebrate show today

Riding the high of the bag search security guard at Barrowlands telling me I had a snazzy wee bag last night. She looks at hundreds of bags every week, she is an expert.

✨Calling all gamers! ✨Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity are looking for you (yes, YOU!) to fundraise for Games for the Weans! So if you’re a streamer looking to raise funds or a studio / publisher / dev looking to support a fab charity, get in touch! 💜

Fringe day out! Seeing The Bacchae, Ascension and Kanpur 1857, and eating delicious fried chicken with peach hot sauce in the gardens

new bug day

I really enjoyed Materialists

Background paintings from Castle in the Sky (1986), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli Pieces painted by Nizo Yamamoto, Toshiro Nozaki and Mutsuo Koseki

Day trip to Edinburgh to catch some films at EIFF and eat delicious food

I don't think The Silmarillion would ever work as a live action movie or series. Its true destiny is to be the nightmarish product of a Czech stop motion animator from 1979 that's only discovered in an attic years after its creator's death.

There's a bird outside my house with a cry that sounds exactly like the noise my fridge makes when I leave the door open

I had such a good time spending most of my budget for the month at Sequential Scotland

The Phantom of the Paradise circa. 2022

It's EXACTLY what your dirty mind is thinking 😉😏 This story joins other explicitly queer horror offerings - a sapphic Frankensteinian tale by @hexthervvv.bsky.social, a Green Knight -esque story of Arthurian tragedy and twisted fate by McKynzie Bair - but it's definitely the most smutty. 😍

I think she gave me a spare hair tie in the toilets at AXM once

I had such an amazing holiday weekend at Fantasy Forest! Thank you to my most delightful crew who were equally excited about dressing up in nerdy costumes and having a silly fantastic time.

We're halfway through our crowdfunding campaign, and over halfway to getting our newest comics printed! Three fantastic autobio comics from three creators with connections to Ireland. Help us spread the word by sharing the post below 🐉👇

I made the perhaps inadvisable decision to go to the zoo during a heat wave. It was a sleepy day for everyone except the adorable molting teen penguins, since they have a pool, the lucky little bastards.

1620s butchfemme

[to the tune of feliz navidad] david cronenberg

Some cute bits and pieces I picked up at the Barras today

how long do you think it would take me to do the half-straightened-half-curled quirked up 90s girl hair Jennifer Jason Leigh is wearing in eXistenZ?

If you're in the Glasgow area, please consider signing this petition about proposed cuts to school librarians. I loved my school library, and I don't want future teenagers to miss out on a wonderful place to loiter and read manga. chng.it/FV7K2bfWp2

“Fire emblem three houses would’ve been shorter if they added a therapist” persona 5 royal tried this and it went really bad

Congratulations to everyone nominated! I'm really pleased to be jurying Best Collection, it's an amazing showing for independent presses this year 💪

OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification

Every time I start a new BG3 game I take a brand new screenshot of Gale telling me he needs to get his hands on a powerful magical item and absorb the Weave inside

I'm almost at the last week of the Scottish History evening course I've been taking for the past few months. It's been so rewarding to do something that forces me to push my brain. I've been doing weekly readings! I wrote a little essay! Also it helps that the late Stuart dynasty is unhinged.

I definitely went over my budget at Cymera and still didn't pick up everything I wanted

Off work and gearing up to go to Cymera tomorrow!

Bela Lugosi’s Head.

Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. It has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights. You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri... #Trans #Nonbinary #TransRights

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

Sinners (2025)

Me and Anubis are laughing at how heavy your heart is, man. He’s doing bits. Like acting like he can’t even lift it with both hands haha. Acting like he’s doing bicep curls with it. I’m like, damn, Anubis is in his bag