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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 11/10/2026

Because space. Thought it was later in the series, though.

Cover of Fighting Fantasy book 4: Starship Traveller by Steve Jackson.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 10/10/2026

Good turn out, lovely to meet many local authors and readers.

A hall filled with book stalls and people.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 28/09/2026

I think it was a Dead Lions LARP group.

Mick Herron spy novel Dead Lions, which has shenanigans happening in Oxfordshire.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 26/09/2026

If you see this, post a random wrestling picture.

Jeff Hardy getting dropped on his nads on the top rope.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Only one game to play for the hedgehog hospital.

Cover of Dragonroar rpg including giant war hedgehog wielding a battle axe.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 18/09/2026

His brother ended up as a Chapter serf.

Boney from Trapdoor. A claymation skull.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Who did Andrew Garfield piss off to deserve this lazy swipe? Ah. Wikipedia tells us “Garfield has publicly expressed support for Palestine … Garfield has often criticised the capitalist system and consumerism.”

Text from article reads: that stars Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man: No way Home)

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 07/09/2026

Local growth for local people... A lot of local shops opening soon?

BBC news screen shot of John Healey with the chyron reading:

Chancellor: Local leaders to deliver local growth

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not-quite Star Trek…

A still from 80s sci-fi “game show” The Adventure Game. A group of regular folks survey a grid of linked stepping stones across the void of space. One of them will attempt to cross and inevitably get destroyed by the roving energy vortex which was frankly terrifying to a ten year old Gav.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 30/08/2026

Mine doesn’t. (iPhone)

Shot of Google maps. Lake Ontario is marked Lake Ontario.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be an album cover.

A close-up of a bloodshot eye with a red blotch next to the iris, a window reflected on the pupil.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 12/08/2026

His codec was a bit bigger though.

Stop motion animation of Mr Spoon from Button Moon, standing in front of a radar thing with a big round button.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Lesser known FOXHOUND operative.

Backing cardboard for a utensil that says Solid Spoon.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 01/08/2026

(Though I contest that Old Painless is what Blain calls himself rather than a name for the minigun).

T-shirt

Picture of a multi-barrelled cannon.

Text reads: Old Painless 6 barrelled rotary Gatling gun.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 22/07/2026

Maybe misinterpreted this scene.

Derek Smalls, rock legend of This is Spinal Tap, is beeped at an airport x-ray machine and has to pull a foil-wrapped cucumber out of his skin tight trousers.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 21/07/2026

Drexl: [In the Night Club after he has beaten Clarence] He must have thought it was eyelashes day. It ain't eyelashes day, is it? Marty: Nah man, It ain't eyelashes day.

Two Bluesky posts from my feed. The first is about an F1 driver’s eyelashes. The second is about Andy Burnham’s eyelashes.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 20/07/2026

The traditional way to cook haggis is to wait until it explodes. That’s when you know it’s ready. Right?

Photo of an oven interior with haggis splattered over the side and bottom.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Can I petition the internet to change the term for black cats from Voids to Arae, please?

The Arae: Spirits Of Curses
The Arae were female spirits who enforced curses, particularly those sworn by people who had been wronged. Their name translates roughly to "curses" in Greek, and they represented the physical manifestation of vengeance.
These frightening spirits featured:
• Black bodies that absorbed light
• Bloodshot eyes that never blinked
• Snake-like hair similar to the Furies
• Long talons for ripping flesh
• Wings that made no sound in flight
In the underworld, they punished the souls of oath-breakers and those who had harmed others, tormenting them with the same suffering they had caused in life.
The Arae highlight the Greek belief in divine justice - that no evil deed goes unpunished, even if that punishment must wait until death.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 17/07/2026

It’s getting nearly impossible to detect AI spam… /sarcasm

Email:

Dear Gary,

I hope you're doing well. I recently came across your upcoming release, AP Environmental Science Premium, 2027, and was impressed by how comprehensively it prepares students for success while making environmental science more approachable and engaging

It's clear that your years of teaching experience have shaped a resource that will be invaluable to both students and educators.

I'm Jim Davidson, and I organize the Denver Gay Book Club, a thoughtfully curated LGBTQ+ reading community of over 1,000 active members who also enjoy discovering impactful nonfiction and educational works that inspire learning and meaningful conversation.

Although your book is still awaiting its August 4 release, I'd love to explore the possibility of featuring it in our community around launch time. We enjoy highlighting authors whose work informs, empowers, and encourages readers to engage with important issues, and I believe your book would make a valuable addition.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Excited about this new anime show.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 15/06/2026

I think the Storm of Vengeance cover is one of my all-time favourites. Battle Magic box is another.

The cover is mostly cold blues with a wizard on the mid left during lightning bolts. A fire-wreathed bright wizard staves with dust out stretch occupying the reds-and-oranges of the bottom right quarter.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 14/06/2026

Inspired to give this a go with some ‘Cotswold Crunch’ flour mix. Needed to turn it sooner as my over temp isn’t even front-to-back, hence the dark patch.

A round casserole-dish shaped malted loaf on a cooling rack.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 14/06/2026

Started this yesterday. Rec’d on a panel at World FantasyCon. Might have been @tiffaniangus.bsky.social but might not…

A green book with black text and illustration of a pitcher plant.

ZOË SCHLANGER

THE LIGHT EATERS
How the New Science of Plant Intelligence
Expands Our View of Life on Earth

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 13/06/2026

I was gifted a copy of Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms and I found this in it the other day.

Very old paper bookmark advertising

The Seaside
Convalescent Hospital.
Seaford, Sussex.
patron:
HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
FOUNDED 1860.
Annual Expenditure £3,049
Certain Income £147
Balance £2,902
TO BE OBTAINED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Other Side will interest YOU.

Reverse of bookmark with line drawing of the convalescent home.

The Seaside Convalescent
Hospital, Seaford.
UNENDOWED. For Convalescents UNDENOMINATIONAL.
of either sex over ten years of age.
120 BEDS. *
* OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND
OVER 35,000 PATIENTS ADMITTED.
Chairman
- - Sir WILLIAM BULL, M.P.
Treasurer -
- - G. J. MARJORIBANKS.
Secretary: Willoughby Bullock,
12, Clifford's Inn, London, E.C.
The Secretary will gladly send Report and
Full Particulars.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 06/06/2026

Look at the state of this one. (Bart proving again that he can sleep in any position)

A black cat asleep on a big bean bag. He is lying on his side with hind legs stretch alongside his body towards his head, between his forelegs which are pointing bumwarda.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 05/06/2026

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it. The Vronski Dossier continues to look at the strange new arrivals in Zeo Genesis. #miniatures #gaming #nerdlings www.zeogenesis.com/blog/vronski...

A mock technical readout and footage of a six-limbed alien and its weapons. Text reads
Hostile Type One (HT1)
Clearly Terrestiral
-Sauropsida?
- Endoskeleton
-Hexapodal body.
3 bilateral pairings
-Double opposing pollexical digits
HT-1 small arms V1
HT -1 melee arms V1

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 01/06/2026

It’s the aerial assassin. (ok, I’m done now)

Wrestler Will Ospreay with a tv aerial crudely photoshopped into his hand.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 31/05/2026

Just finished the excellent The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre and about to start Dead Lions by Mick Herron (on an espionage kick at the moment…)

Paperback of Mick Herron’s Dead Lions showing a black silhouette of a tall office block against a graduated yellow background. Has the tagline ‘Not all secrets go to the grave’.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 26/05/2026

As an indication of scale, the downed Zeo is a Soldat.

Black and white illustration of an armored mech suit with gun and shield. It is about twice as tall as the trooper next to it and much bulkier.

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Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.uk · 26/05/2026

Turns out that we're not alone in the universe. Check out the Vronski Dossiers for the latest intel on these invaders of the One Hundred Suns. www.zeogenesis.com/blog/vronski... #ZeoGenesis #Nerdlings #Miniatures #TabletopGames #Gaming