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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11h

Hill Sprints and Engine Health, Over on my Patreon [ No Paywall ] www.patreon.com/AliceFraser/posts/h…

Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I sat down with Justine Sloane-Lees to talk about audiobook production, narration, trust, intention, and how to ruin an audiobook. We also talked about getting older not‑by‑accident and making your life what you want it to be www.podbean.com/eas/pb-caf35-1b6ee40 youtu.be/XQmd9Qt

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is Healing in Sci Fi and Fantasy. Tell me your favourite interesting uses or mechanisms of healing in movies, tv, books, anime, games etc!

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At long last! They’re here! Tall Tales & Murder, a bonkers caper, very loosely based on the brilliant novels by @caimhmc.bsky.social, starts on RTÉ and RTÉPlayer tonight. It is, as they rightly say, gas.

The cast of the new TV drama Tall Tales & Murders. Grinner (Aidan Gillen), Bridget (Ella Lily Hyland), Paul (Casey Walsh), Bunny (Brian Doherty), Wesley (Packy Lee), Ma Baker (Phillipa Dunne) and Matron (Aisling O’Sullivan).

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Post-Production Existential Crisis. Over on my Patreon [ No Paywall ] www.patreon.com/AliceFraser/posts/p…

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're worried about the reviews your book or record might have on the internet, remember the Himalayas have a 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Google Maps.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do you believe you’re right about everything? If you don’t believe you’re right about everything, what do you believe you’re probably wrong about? If you don’t know what you’re wrong about, what are you sure you’re right about?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here it is.

diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw?
Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play.
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to cat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty". There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My two year old has woken up quite annoyed that his eyebrows are not detachable, and he’s blaming me

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Christmas rom com where she comes to a small town from her big city job and falls in love with a down home local guy who works as a carpenter and then convinces him to come live with her somewhere you can get good matcha and midnight noodles.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A mafia boss says to knuckles the street rat, “you’ll sleep with the fishes”, and then it’s a merman enemies to lovers epic smut.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can’t believe I didn’t know about this in time to submit the last post back in the day

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: they cancelled “muck up day” because the principal’s son went to the boys school across from the girls school and some girls kidnapped him and put him in a bin and delivered him to the principal for a muck up day prank and she didn’t think it was funny.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leading a horse to water is at LEAST significantly easier and safer than attempting to strangle one... brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

brainmage.itch.io

i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE

An award-winning comedy choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It took jimothy for me to realise that Timothy is also a funny sounding name.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why do they call them “in-laws you don’t get on with” when “by-laws” was right there being wasted on shit like balconies.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Like, what brand of horse are we talking? Where’s the water. Let’s get all that sorted before we bring in the drinking logistics.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not 100% sure I *could* lead a horse to water, now you mention it.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man, I love a sign where they use quote marks to indicate a word is important but my inner voice reads it as distancing / sarcastic. This post brought to you by, “Great” Coffee, Great “Value”

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Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@alicefraser.bsky.social Well this is incredible in a week I move into a flat where this tram is now my nearest form of transport. open.spotify.com/episode/2KdE...

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Isle of Man Horse Taxis are back!

Top Stories! · Episode

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New course! Starts October 18th. Sign up at: www.gralefrit.co.uk

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ye gods Screenshot from an email I just got from someone, which I am just sharing to say: PAY NO ONE. You, as the creative person, should get paid. These truckloads of bullshit are easy to cut through: Who’s getting paid? If it’s not you, run away. It’s a scam.

I have allegedly been offered an opportunity to publish my book with Henry Holt. They are asking for two things:
A Universal Media Core Dispatch and an Executive Acquisition Pitch. They are telling me that they need these two things and that I should use a Hollywood screenwriter. They are charging a huge amount of money. I am just wondering if this seems legit or if they are trying to take me to the cleaners.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So funny how I’m the only one without an accent

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If so some eason you do choose to work for free (for example, for a charity, or to support a small local enterprise), consider sending them an invoice for your usual fee, and mark it void. That way, they'll know the value of what you're giving them.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am never more in my element than during the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur when the Jewish people are mandated to deliver a year’s worth of apologies.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My two year old is talking in his sleep, “hi mummy, this is my baby. Meet my baby, hi baby.”

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As adults they tend to decide it’s more mature to go by their full name Codex Arcana and then they get eaten by a creature

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hm. I have just found out that someone used Ai generated elements in a portrait of me that they submitted to a portrait prize and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Like, it’s not my art. But I’m in it. Do I even get to have an opinion about it?

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do highly recommend this. The writing workshops have been so valuable to me.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Speaking of which, join my bloody Patreon, it’s extremely good value for money, and also you can join it for free in which case it’s even better value for no money. Patreon.com/alicefraser

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One downside of algorithmic enshittification is artists get trained to be repetitive. If I’m told 2% of my audience will see any given post, it’s an incentive to repeat a joke or a plug 50x. Which means the most loyal people who TRY to follow all your stuff will get hosepiped away by boredom.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here is another old joke that I like.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cream of the 4 y/o art crop from today. “Toothy the swirl monster and an Egg who is dismayed”

Toothy the swirl monster and a dismayed egg

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did a cannonball run to London yesterday to talk about good men for the guilty feminist podcast at the London podcast festival. It was so silly and so much fun and so nice.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of a meeting: could this be an email? Of an email: could this be a text? Of a post: Could This Be A Thought?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A ridiculously quick trip to London! Links for A Passion for Passion below: alicefraser.com/apfp www.thebuglepodcast.com/store/p/a-p…

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is The Politics of The Magic Sysyem Thinking about sci-fi & fantasy where the magic (or technology) is at the heart of politics. Think Babel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, wormhole control, etc. Our guest is @joznorris.bsky.social

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL puts his hand in the BOX and pulls out an iphone] PAUL’S INNER MONOLOGUE: Dopamine is the mind-killer

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Year’s resolutions: 1) more art that serves no purpose and in mediums and formats that I have no skills in just for fun 4) go back & sabotage myself before I finish building that Time Machine 5) delete 3 2) Handwrite my emails - ) build a Time Machine

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I decided when I was however old making up my signature that I was either going to be a teacher or an author and in either case I’d have to scrawl a lot of signatures so i made mine quite small.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1) things getting my neck while I was asleep (mosquitos, air, vampires) 2) jaws which I’d watched at Annie Jollife’s house with head under pillow thus proving that the shark is way scarier when you can’t see it. 3) jaws in the bath but weirdly not the beach

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Look, if you knock around Plato’s cave long enough, you’ll find the prostate.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

people *want* a simp but it is tremendously and almost universally bad for people to have a simp

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Friction-maxxing? In my day we used to call that “dry-humping on the dance floor in jeans”

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