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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just attended a fantastic talk on aircraft accident investigation. Came away with three story ideas. It pays authors to be exposed to ideas outside of their comfort zones - even if the speaker did use a Hookland rule: “Don’t anger the ancient gods.”

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Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TV today would never have the teaser to an action adventure show be "My cat is pregnant" and we're poorer for it.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3h

Remember the battle of Cable Street. London, 4 October 1936. Also remember that they shall not pass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 2h

Want to know what happened next / before / sideways? Of many possibilities, I recommend Peri and the Piscon Paradox – an evil future self, a wet fish, an even wetter fish, and very funny indeed… Up until the last thing she shouts; one of the most horrifying punches in the whole of Doctor Who.

Nicola Bryant performs Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles 5.07 – Peri and the Piscon Paradox by Nev Fountain, with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor
The cover features an older Peri, the Fifth and Sixth Doctors and the terrifying Piscon warlord Zarl – a very big fish indeed!

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 5h

But the point is, the October 2025 announcement of a Christmas special for 2026 was completely do-able. But for whatever reason, nothing happens for six months, during which RTD writes another show and Billie Piper is booked up. By the time RTD is sent a contract in March 2026, making a

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 5h

This is interesting and I am not remotely surprised but nevertheless delighted that it more-or-less tallies with what I thought was going on. But a couple of extra thoughts... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3h

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Illuminated @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social · 3h

It came to me in a dream. #comics

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 7h

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 02/10/2026

Clarkesworld gave me my first professional publication, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be in their 20yr anniversary issue. Happy birthday, @clarkesworldmagazine.com! And with one of my favourite stories, too: "Roams the Planet of Our Grief," where a trans boy talks to the dead. As one does.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 3h

By Zdzisław Beksiński

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 13h

Guys, I’m speechless. Gonna be sharing this award with my 8-year-old since this poem was inspired by their question “why do we never see fireflies in the winter?” Huge thanks to the Ignyte organizers, all the voters/readers, and to @thedeadlands.com for giving this one a wonderful home!

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Lara S. Ramblings (The S Stands for Silly) @larasramblings.bsky.social · 11h

Also just weird to go from Bell of Doom where the Doctor is good-naturedly chortling to her and then in the opening moments of The Steel Sky he calls her stupid and annoying like five times.

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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 22h

You NEED to read Gene Wolfe. It's GOOD for you. It's IMPORTANT for your BRAIN and/or SKELETON. Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase! www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima... via @humble

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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books

Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking I may pick up the gothic WIP I abandoned 14K words in last year. (I'd watched del Toro's Frankenstein and almost threw the whole thing out because I felt that it was running over a lot of the same ground, but I think the parallels are a LOT less strong than they felt at the time.)

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Abby Denton is a Rabbit for Halloween Every Year @abbydenton.com · 12h

Not sure why, but I can't get enough of this 1985 magazine cover. That green demon is just chilling naked. I bet he's a fun hang.

painted magazine cover with a man mugging another man, having summoned a demon to help menace him, with very 70s mustaches all around

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

that this is over the daylight savings bill of all things is ten times funnier

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 21h

The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh! And speaking of guidelines and policies: WE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4 AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN ‼️ Please send us the stories and poems only you could write! We can’t wait to read your work!

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14h

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 14h

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

if you’ve ever wondered about this one: he’s dressed like a pirate and he has a cockatoo that, instead of “pieces of eight”, says “twelve and a half percent” which, if you do the math, is 1/8 god dammit, Terry

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Moist had worked hard at his profession and considered himself pretty good at it, but if he had been wearing his hat, he would have taken it off right now. He was in the presence of a master. He could feel it in the hand, see it in that one commanding eye. Were things otherwise, he would have humbly begged to be taken on as an apprentice, scrub the man’s floors, cook his food, just to sit at the feet of greatness and learn how to do the three-card trick using whole banks. If Moist was any judge, any judge at all, the man in front of him was the biggest fraud he’d ever met. And he advertised it. That was . . . style. The pirate curls, the eyepatch, even the damn parrot. Twelve and a half percent, for heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone spot that? He told them what he was, and they laughed and loved him for it. It was breathtaking. If Moist von Lipwig had been a career killer, it would have been like meeting a man who’d devised a way to destroy civilizations.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thrilled to share the cover art for "From An Antique Land," a new short story @reactorsff.bsky.social will publish on November 18! Art by Jon Juarez, editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social

red overhanging rock and blue ruins below.

From an Antique Land

by Jeff VanderMeer

Illustrated by Jon Juarez

Edited by Ann VanderMeer

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14h

Oh we're deep into Harlan Ellison territory now.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 15h

I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla.

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Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm fascinated by the generations that pass between the paragraphs of history. For example, Mesolithic foraging cultures coexisted in an uneasy balance with early Neolithic farmers, retreating beyond a buffer of a day's travel. From arm's length they traded, intermarried, and raided for generations.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 15h

this is what funding for the arts looks like

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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 15h

"I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about." - JRR Tolkien 'The Lost Road' a book idea that seems more & more autobiographical, his protagonist agonizing about strange words & languages coming into his mind unbidden but welcome.

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The Enigma of Amigara Walt @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 15h

This right here is the mountaintop.

Batman tells a crew of men to take their tools and leave a dig site. Beautiful illustration by Norm Breyfogle in Batman: Birth of the Demon.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖞 𝕱𝖊𝖓 @danfenlon.bsky.social · 17h

Possible hot take emerald twilight is sinestro's best look

Sinestro standing infront of the battery taunting hal

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Bryce? @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 16h

loish getting accused of using AI is so fucking dismal like in my mind i feel like she practically invented making digital art that looks Like That like. i know there were other artists and thats reductive but. AI is aping specifically loish so hard

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Abby Denton is a Rabbit for Halloween Every Year @abbydenton.com · 16h

clenching my little rabbit fists and cheering when he goes I DO IT BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT! Because it's decent. And above all, it's kind.

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Abby Denton is a Rabbit for Halloween Every Year @abbydenton.com · 16h

Bill Potts is so cool. I hope everyone knows Bill Potts is cool.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway, a movie culture without the possibility of insane overpriced whiffs will be a less healthy movie culture, and I'll eat these words the day that I can say that David Ellison has taken at least three big creative gambles, but I'm not holding my breath. x

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

will get old and die waiting for someone to say "At least you tried." When I worked at EW, I used to say that our five worst selling covers of the year should be the five stories we most believed in. Because when you pander and sell badly, you accomplish nothing. Same is true in movies, I think. >

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 17h

"We're all stories, in the end"

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

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Neil Kleid @neilkleid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah this is why there’s been a huge move to Kickstarter again, I believe . Things are getting tougher for creator owned books at the moment — especially if you’re not a “name” — unless there’s a crazy unique or amazing hook (Beneath the Trees, e.g.) Zac’s thread here is pretty spot on, sadly.

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Amy "Thunderjam" Chase @amythunderjam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had multiple instances as well of publishers pitching me a short logline/unfinished idea, and looking to me to re-pitch it to them fleshed out, while they maintain the rights for having the idea in the first place. So what looks creator-owned is really WFH. Wonder if that'll become a new norm.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Despite record sales across the industry the state of the creator-owned market seems dire right now. Multiple publishers are scaling back their line, a few don't seem to know what they want, others have pretty much shifted focused to entirely licensed books. It's weird!

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Witch King was basically fucked the moment he entered the battle.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 17h

"It's true you don't see many **[Rohirrim] women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for **[Rohirrim] men. Aragorn: It's the beards." Love this thread.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17h

Goodnight from the women of Weychester, marching the night with torches and placards reading: WEREWOLVES LIVE AMONG US. Goodnight from the Lightfoot Travelling Curiosity Show, its punters journeying home sure they’ve seen spirits trapped in bell jars. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Joe Dredd? Yeah, I've heard of him

Judge Dredd pointing while a caption reads YOU'RE FUCKING NICKED by Dan McDaid. Happy #DayofDREDD

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, I have been expecting "wellness radium" to happen, I really wish I had been wrong and also that this doesn't get more popular.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

Mr Turner was widely considered to be a fine gentleman, even on the unusual occasions when caught out of doors on a full moon. As his friend Mr Cmnb-/78 remarked, sheep are common and good company rare.

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