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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nothing I love more than a British writer setting a story in the US and then having characters go on at length about candyfloss

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"A seemingly simple narrative that hinted at a deep well of humanity and charm" - AIPT COMICS "A wonderfully grounded yet creative piece of fiction fiction with a surprising framing device" - ILLUMINATED Digital: ramonkey.itch.io/down-north-w... Physical: strangerspublishing.com/products/dow...

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 16/09/2026

I own three copies of issue 1 and have read all three. It's that good! So do yourself a favor and go read this before the next issue comes out next month!

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

be ready cause I'm gonna be sooooo insisting with this, we've worked so hard

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Believe me when I say Ramon has masterminded something awesome here, and the next issue will take you to even more fantastic and unexpected places. And I wrote a song for this one!

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My friend @aickmanwill.bsky.social and I are making a bronze age-inspired sci-fantasy comic: Down North, Where No One Goes. We've received few but great lil reviews of issue 1 (available digital and physical). So, we hope you like issue 2! Coming *very* soon! Less than a month! Help us, share! 💀🖤

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Even outside of The Problem, I can't tell you how little I would like to read a 1,260 page novel by China Mieville (or anybody, really)

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I legitimately think less of anyone who seeks to illustrate a point using the work of Randall Munroe

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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How lucky I am to be able to collaborate with artists I had long admired, and to find out they are delightful people.

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Seth Jacob @sethjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I really like Prometheus, but I think one of its problems is that it makes all of human life revolve around the Alien mythology. I prefer the idea that the xenomorph wasnt particularly special…it was one monster in a vast, infinite dark full of monsters. Thats more interesting than the xeno itself.

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

After I absolutely loathed his first collection, people kept telling me that John Langan's later stuff was much better and to check some of that out. My question, after a long series of second chances, is "how much later is later"

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

The reality of it is that none of you losers want to make art. If you wanted to make art you'd shut up and go do it. What you want is attention and recognition and praise and frankly you'll have a better shot at it quitting your job to become a human pet.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

All you worthless wastes of skin have had TWO+ YEARS with these tools now. Go make something undeniable. Go make something people can't help but take notice of. You fucking can't, and honestly I don't think it's the "tools" I think you are all personally devoid of a soul.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2026

These people will never shut the fuck up and make something worthwhile with their stupid slop machines but they will endlessly whine and whine and whine and whine about not getting credit for being able to pull the arm on a slot machine. Simply not enough scorn heaped upon them yet.

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Customer Care Skeleton @ccskeleton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is one of the best comic book anthologies I ever had the pleasure of reading. Great writing and art, and a true love letter to the spirit of Wolfe's New Sun. I don't know how accessible it is to get it now, but even just the PDF/ e-book is worth having. I read it first on my kobo, then print

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 11/05/2025

Weird fiction and cyberpunk authors need to watch more 1970s neonoir, fantasy authors need to read more pre-1950s grotesque fantasy books, I will not be explaining myself at this or any other time.

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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I did not realize this was still available! THE BOOK OF FULIGIN, the Gene Wolfe / Urth anthology fan comic by many of the best artists on here including some of my friends. I ordered a copy!

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It was one of the honors of my life when Ramon asked me to be part of this project. Still unreal to share a table of contents with such a murderer's row of brilliant artists and writers, and to know some of them as friends.

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Book of Fuligin is a weird sci-fantasy comics anthology in honor of Gene Wolfe that me and a bunch of excellent artists created in 2022-24. I realized that many people who follow me here don't know about it, so it's time to change that.

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Another totally hypothetical niche curse would be having a 'preeminent expert' for an important SFF author publishing all their analytical work through the imprint of a famous white supremacist. Again, totally hypothetical!

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Z. Bill @zbill.itch.io · 17/08/2026

Never Gonna Stop this Ape on Mars! My snake-tossing cryptic retro adventure, Encroacher: Snakes, is OUT NOW!

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Crimson Diamond is 2 years old today!! 🎉🎉 I've planned fun stuff! 1️⃣ the game is 30% off, its deepest discount EVER: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/ 2️⃣ Party tonight, 8pm Eastern! Giveaways, cake, 2 awesome announcements! Celebrate with me! twitch.tv/a_maplemystery

A cropped version of The Crimson Diamond key art, featuring Nancy Maple with a striped party hat, fireworks, and bright stars in the sky. In hand-written type, it says: "Thanks for 2 years of The Crimson Diamond."

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My problem with online SFF book discussion is that it's obsessively present-oriented: recent releases, hot new writers, this year's award shortlists. Not many conversations recalling or reevaluating work from 30, 20, even just 10 years ago. (Except maybe Omelas, every six months.)

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ocean, dog, gorgeous comic by @ramonkey.bsky.social . Nice morning.

POV photograph of me and my dog at the beach reading Down North Where No One Goes

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If a warlock wanted to curse a genre he could perhaps 1) make every single written work within its confines feature a foreword by the same sex criminal or maybe 2) have the most lucrative entry be authored by a crazed bigot and hang on a minute

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

R.I.P. John Crowley. One of the greatest modern writers in the English language and author of several of my favorite novels-- rewired my brain like few authors have, and with some of the most sublimely beautiful prose I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One of the greatest, all the way up through his brilliant final novel. What a loss.

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm told Ishiguro has written some great books, but I can't bring myself to pick up anything else by the mind that produced The Buried Giant

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 29/07/2026

This is fucking reprehensible.

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Feels like there's a pattern online where people slip into thinking of a book/movie/etc. as intrinsically Good or Bad, like critical Calvinism. And if someone praises a movie we've decided is Bad, or slams one deemed Good, their motives are suspect and their actual argument tends to get lost.

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hey beautiful people! Our first issue has a Goodreads site (even if it doesn't show up in Google). Tell us what you think there or on itch! Bye cheers www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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Down North, Where No One Goes 1

In the midst of a war into the far future, a group of c…

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So just checking, nobody actually sees it when you post here right

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I heard a joke about Pelops, but it was a disaster when I brought it out at a dinner party. Tried to pick up the pieces afterward but still got the cold shoulder.

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sell your comic in five words "Bronze Age Weird Science Fiction" (Iinks below)

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Perhaps a minority opinion, but the only negative I can see about the impending death of Letterboxd is that I personally won't be holding the gun

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A closer look at the stratiotai, the bulk of the ranks of the Empire of Ile. In the first image, a katepano watches over the final gasps of a battle against Justiciáticans. The second image shows them resting before said battle, under the ever-vigilant fly of two apii.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If AI was this wonderful, amazing thing, that is so much better than artists and developers and voice actors, that results in a better product, then surely we'd see organic demand for it? Surely there'd be comments everywhere from players demanding AI generated elements from game developers, right?

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tim Swindle cryarsing about AI disclosure being a scarlet letter lets slip something significant here, because if AI was all that slop jockeys claim it was, then surely such a disclosure would be a mark of pride, even a selling point! Surely people would be clamouring for AI games. But they're not.

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Remember this? @aickmanwill.bsky.social and I are making a neat-looking comic, first issue now available digital and physical 😎 I'm exploring ways of having it more accessible; like next digital issues with reduced prices, and possibly as free webcomic in the future. Would you be into that?

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Wesley Osam @mwosam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Apart from anything else, AI is not a tool for creativity: in art, in writing, its function is to prevent you from exercising your creativity. It is, itself, a barrier to entry, nudging you away from participating in culture and towards prompting an algorithm to participate for you.

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Gugames @gugames.eu · 18/06/2026

Creating is the best part of doing stuff. 99% of those who use AI are bypassing the fun part, it means they never cared about creation, so when they say "it unlocks creativity" it just means "it allows me to roleplay as a creative person"

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Will Aickman @aickmanwill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I was lucky enough to get an original copy of Burzok's back when it was first on sale and have thought about it once a week or so ever since. Don't let this unexpected second bite at the apple pass you by!

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Departing for Thrax.

An illustration inspired by Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun-- Severian, wearing a black cloak made of Fuligin, is walking toward a set of stairs, behind him a ruinous city littered with remnants of an ancient missile launchpad.

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