Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsSmall Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 01/10/2026We're looking for a new director! Are you passionate about Scottish small press? Do you want to make a substantial impact for Scotland's self-publishing creators? Then you might be the perfect fit for the Small Press Scotland team! 📌 See the full details: smallpress.scot/jobs/director 12831
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My son plays World Eaters and is very much 'They're nerfed NOW but I'll just play for fun until we get a new codex' and that feels healthy to me? 220
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wading through listings of 'Our mission is to make people's lives better...' (Yay, good, I'm on board!) '...through the application of Generative AI!' (boooooooo) 101
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Things happen, and I've been lucky until now. It's just the tedium of job sites that I've got to survive now. 100
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh god now I've got no excuse to not drive stuff my kids have forgotten into school for them. Not like I can pretend I have a meeting. FFS 140
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yep. Restructure of my department meant my role was made redundant. Am on a month's garden leave which I know I should be using productively but job listings are so booooooring 110
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsDavid Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Who remembers back in the 1970s wearing a mask like this from the corner shop, with a bit of slack elastic at the back, dressing in a black bin bag and hollowing out a turnip for a lantern? Not for Halloween or anything, just because we couldn't afford clothes or electricity, and were so ugly. 5598
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Spent the first Monday afternoon of my unemployment painting over printouts of my work with white acrylic paint. Which really is sort of what anybody could have seen coming. 170
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Having read about the Cornell case maybe its better that times change. 010
Reposted by Gareth A Hopkins2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mick McMahon 010714
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331189223973
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Messaging my wife about how Bill's spending his weekend. It's not that I'm disappointed, it's just... well, times change. 191
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Using birdsong field samples in your music is like wearing t-shirt emblazoned with a slogan in a language you don’t understand. Those birds could be chirping something really fucked up and if that music gets played somewhere that other birds can hear it, what are they going to think? 5306
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsI Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026Sole skip today so far - give it a listen iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/go-babyiheartnoise.bandcamp.comGo Baby, by Turkish Delightfrom the album IHN005 // Howcha Magowcha 112
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They should also loudly sing songs other than the ones being played on stage so that the performers know the kind of thing the crowd is interested in hearing. 170
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026These are some artists if you are into music but want to go deeper: The Captain And Tennille Billy Joel Black Sabbath Barry Manilow Helene Fischer Iannis Xenakis Noreaga Avril Lavigne Chris De Burgh 10406
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today's post of The Curse is a bumper crop of 5 pages which everyone can see at the link here: www.patreon.com/posts/169588...patreon.comThe Curse 060 - 064 (bumper free for everyone post) | Gareth A HopkinsHere's more progress on pages from 'The Curse'. I'm working toward a sequel to the graphic novel I made with Choku Dawa back in 2017, Found 022
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Spent longer trying to find something I wanted to watch while drawing this than I actually spent drawing it. 092
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Absolutely. "Aber" means 'mouth of the river', so every "Aber-" place is just 'where that river hits the coast'. "Llan" means 'Church of'. And then 'Llanfairpwllgwyn..." (the very long place name) is just a very, very specific description of where to find a place. 021
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is how everything's named in Wales too, but because it's in Welsh nobody realises. 140
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have just started FX2, I really hope it's as good as I remember it being when I was 12 010
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know this side steps the points you're making, but I'd like to send that weasel into space without a space suit on. 100
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have done about 85 pages for this sequel to Found Forest Floor, for an intended 250. It's getting grungier with each pass, and I'm mostly very happy with it. 0133
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For a while Bill tried to bring every dinnertime conversation around to the pAper chase or Warhammer. Now it's The Work Of David Lynch. Martha tried avoiding engaging with it for as long as she could but made the mistake of blurting 'I don't even know what a Twin Peaks is'. 020
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just do whatever. Those challenges are supposed to be there to encourage people to have fun with drawing. Whatever makes it fun for you is the right thing to do. 010
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When you stream music, all the shitty internet companies can track what you’re listening to and use that information against you. But when you listen to tapes, only some tape reserves like STR can gather that data, and we will never use it against you, unless there is a very good reason to. 3523
Reposted by Gareth A Hopkinssaint vagrant @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ink practice from 2022 ft. my SUPERPOSE guys 529971
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Watching the 201t Scott Adkins vehicle Close Range. 171
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I had one earbud in, on the side of my head that she wouldn't have been able to see. 000
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Got to say "I'm laughing at a podcast, I'm not insane" to a stranger in the street this evening. 230
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I just did my first formal job interview since 2005 and I think it went pretty well, and as the interview started I got an email from someone else interested in maybe employing me. And then I got a new Patreon subscriber. AND my next graphic novel is going really well. AND my dog is asleep for once. 020
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In the 30min run-up to a job interview I re-read my cover letter and apparently "I currently lead a multidisciplinary, high perming team..." 170
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsHippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Heading into the weekend like 1101
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'The Curse' graphic novel - how it started, how it's going. 0206
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Weird little autocorrect there. I didn't type 'to go for himself'. I typed 'to go fuck himself'. 010
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of his posts popped up at the top of my Facebook. Blocked him before I had the chance to tell him to go for himself. 110
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you like posts about the writing process from the kind of person who writes things like "Ground teeth/Damp keyboard mist/Misfire misfired" then have I got a post on my Patreon for you (free to read) www.patreon.com/grthink/post...patreon.comThe Curse writing process | Gareth A HopkinsI've started capturing phrases and thoughts that will hopefully become the script for whatever 'The Curse' becomes ('The Curse' is the worki 033
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsKat Ellis @katellis37.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🤭 youtu.be/wEolSjlcqng?...youtu.beNeil Fox on the Brass Eye specialYouTube video by englishrefugee 1104
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And it's not called Teenage Wasteland. What a nob. 120
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you. 14498106
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 13/09/2026At the moment I'm working toward a kind of sequel to Found Forest Floor, which was my first chunky piece of work. When i made that I sped up the process of churning pages by not drawing very much and doing a lot of quick (arguably unsophisticated) changes digitally. I've not quite got there yet. 0101
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Enjoying drawing although the films I've been watching have been terrible. 0161
Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A new low last night after I found myself licking honey off the back of a page I'd been working on while watching the 2024 Roadhouse film. Not the lowest low, I hasten to add. Just a new one. 181
Reposted by Gareth A HopkinsHippyadam @hippyadam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Heading into the weekend like 1123
