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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Only a few chapters in and already delighted to be back in this world. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you enjoyed Between Two Fires, try Christopher Buehlman’s other work. This series has great characters, an interesting world, and very vivid prose.

Front cover of The Daughter’s War, second entry in Christopher Buehlman’s Blacktongue series. It depicts a warrior on a ruined battlefield beneath a crimson sky.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aberdeen’s gothic spires are made for horror, and that’s before you even see the people/ghouls who walk the streets.

Marischal College, Aberdeen - gothic spires lit from below against a black sky, long-exposure light trails on the road in front.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So many cool characters in this though, especially among the villains. The Thrawn performance is stellar.

Shin Hati & Baylan Skoll (Ahsoka still).

Grand Admiral Thrawn (Ahsoka promo art).

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really enjoyed this piece. That final paragraph, though. Feels bad man. remapradio.com/articles/zer...

Final paragraph in which the writer expresses the idea that Zero Company probably would’ve gotten an expansion and a sequel in better times, but we’re not in better times sadly.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As much as I loved the trailer, I’m not sure how I feel about the key art??? I think it’s the relatively long helmet design and the posture, the way the neck is so far forward. And the colour scheme maybe? It has a very masculine 90s character energy.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Stolen from Reddit. The fact that I learned this by staring at the rectangle in my hands made the revelation all the more horrifying.

Screenshot of an exchange in which OP points out that humans are obsessed with rectangles, and then asks readers to see for themselves by taking a look around their environment and noticing how many rectangles there are around them.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You know what’s cooler than an eclipse? A ghost moon (that’s actually the eclipse being reflected by the lens).

A photo of the sun during the eclipse, which is far too bright for the camera, but above the sun is a small ghostly green-blue miniature eclipse

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What do you MEAN Capcom made a first-person shooter in the PS2 generation with a supernatural western horror aesthetic and Havok physics?!

Cover art of Darkwatch for PS2, featuring a gothic western character with dual firearms against a cool blue moon.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reading The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen and it’s so funny in a contemporary age to read the account of a 19th century Englishman travelling to a relatively young America and being like “This place is barren and awful; why would anybody want to live here?”

Long excerpt of The Three Impostors, describing an utterly bleak vision of America at the time.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Also pretty awkward that developer Naughty Dog changed its X banner to this…

Naughty Dog’s X banner showcasing various physical discs of the studio’s games.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Getting a cat shelf was worth it for the new photo angles alone…

Gary’s British shorthair Mila, photographed from below as she sits on a new cat shelf. Her face is very tiny and very grumpy.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Big, big recommendation for The Blacktongue Thief. Very colourful, lively prose, and a fun sword & sorcery story with creativity and heart. (Same author as Between Two Fires, if you’ve heard the well-deserved praise behind that).

Cover art for Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief, depicting two silhouetted figures walking towards a tower in a fantasy setting, with prominent use of the colours yellow, black, and white.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’m learning that a lot of people interpreted Don’t Look Up as being exclusively about climate change denial, and not about political polarisation, tribalism, outrage culture, both-sides-ism, and inept governance. Like…what? It’s about that *on the surface*. How are people only seeing this now?

Meme comparing the experience of watching Don’t Look Up in 2021 compared to 2026, implying the modern viewing experience is darker, and less funny.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

And this one, I don’t know the name. But it was very moving!

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I took plenty of clips, but none of them will ever do justice to what it felt like to be there. They all feel so flat in comparison. The orchestra had complete control over our heartstrings the whole time and played our emotions with surgical precision. Goosebumps throughout.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This was a magical, transcendental experience. Those are truly the only two words that come close to capturing it.

Eventim Apollo exterior in London. The billing reads “CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33” in solid black capitals.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I must once again sing the praises of Orlando’s run on Scarlet Witch. One of the best Marvel runs in years. Such a great comic (or rather series of comics).

Cover art for volume one of Orlando’s Scarlet Witch arc, beginning her contemporary “The Last Door” storyline setup. It depicts Wanda in red weaving a spell, her hair segueing into a red galaxy pattern.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Been practicing Genji lately. Always wanted to get into this character. He can be so fun when you get it right.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Mila broke her favourite Amazon box and has begun to explore alternative options.

Gary’s cat Mila, a white British shorthair, looking sad next to crushed Amazon box.

Gary’s cat Mila, a white British shorthair, looking wary as she sits upon a printer.

Gary’s cat Mila, a white British shorthair, loafing on a printer. Her eyes are closed and her fur is all messy as she relaxes deeply.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Went on an absolute rampage in King’s Row. Battle frenzy. Awesome hero.

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Gary Alexander Stott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @garyastott.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Got my first quad kill with her ult. Chef’s kiss moment.

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