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Nope. Jonathan Harker vs *me*. Jonny Sims. I actually beat the Archivist in the final by, like, half a percent.

Basically all of them. My brackets were apparently vs General John MacNamara, vs John Arbuckle, vs John Keating, vs Jean Valjean and vs Jonathan Harker

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently I've been voted "Tumblr's favourite John", which is equal parts flattering and baffling. Or is it perhaps a curse? Impossible to say.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've seen people call my dad a nepotism hire, and I've got to refute this - I auditioned many, many my dads before casting my dad as Jurgen Leitner, and he was simply the best fit.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oooh, lovely stuff! For some reason as I was typing it out I did have the thought "I bet Wangleberry would get a kick out of this", so glad I was correct!

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I believe at the exact moment I could be learning how a Victorian failure to understand Buddhism could supercharge my bank account, I will instead by watching Jed the dog begin his ghoulish transformation into the Thing. And that's Ok.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a part of me that would genuinely like to go, if only out of morbid curiosity, but unfortunately I'm going to be watching Horror movies for 24-hours straight when it happens, so ah well.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But my absolute favourite, the one that absolutely floored me, is a talk titled "Amplify Your Wealth: Releasing Money Blocks Through The Akashic Records" THE AKASHIC FUCKING RECORDS ARE GONNA MAKE ME RICH. I can't handle it. Sometimes it feels like everything on earth is a Prosperity Gospel grift.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's obviously the classics: the whitest person in the world listed as a "Shamanic Shadow Reader"; the one practising "Quantum Healing and Past Life Regression"; the "Miracle Molecule" of Shungite; oh, and apparently we have "Angelic" Reiki now - didn't realise they'd dropped the new DLC.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Frank picked me up a flyer for a local Hallowe'en festival of new-agey, spiritually, woo stuff and... Goodness, it is something else. The word salad of of self-help, motivational speaking and occult terminology is so unhinged and the obvious grift is so potent that it's genuinely delightful to me.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey now, y'all know me - I'm a bit of a private hater, but rarely a public dunker. I take a "whatever floats your boat" attitude and with a lot of esoteric stuff I'm of the opinion that we don't know what we don't know and what is "mundane" or "scientific" is always changing. BUT.

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flips_bad🐀 @badflips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@jonnysims.bsky.social I'm convinced this wretched thing is cursed. every time i bring it with me to read on the subway it is record breaking heat and i can feel my flesh liquify and my bones soften into a putty

a copy of 'The Burn Line' by Jonathan Sims. the cover art depicts a tube carriage emerging from the maw of a melting, dripping skull against a deep red background

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also when designers learn a few academic terms then start relentlessly misapplying them. It's like, I promise you, nobody's GMing style is "maladaptive".

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love TTRPGs, but nothing makes me respect them less as a medium than reading discourse about them. Every time people starts subtweeting about some take, I'll get to the bottom of it and it'll be the stupidest thing I've ever read. Like, not ever worth discussing levels of stupid.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PAC's look always made me imagine an episode of Flight of the Concords where he played the former third member who got kicked out years back and returned to challenge them to a fight. They're overconfident cause he was always notoriously weedy, then PAC takes off his shirt.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think that's the old Hoover building out in Ealing. Used to pass it on the bus all the time - one of the best surviving bits of Art Deco out there.

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Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com · 17/09/2026

Pre-order From the Library of Jurgen Leitner from @welbooks.bsky.social to get a book plate signed by @premeemohamed.com and @jonnysims.bsky.social, an art print designed by @jojofraga.bsky.social, and a letter signed by @jonnysims.bsky.social and @alexanderjnewall.bsky.social.

An image showcasing Queen’s Park Books’ offer for From the Library of Jurgen Leitner. From left to right: A 3D mock-up of a book, From the Library of Jurgen Leitner; An art print featuring a figure holding a book, standing amongst stacks of books, water coming up to their ankles. In the foreground, a person on their back reaches desperately towards the viewer, as if they are drowning in the shallow water. This image is labelled “Jurgen Leitner art print by Joana Fraga; A blurred letter with photographs of Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall, labelled “Signed letter from Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall”. Below the images is another label reading: “with a signed book plate from Premee Mohamed and Jonathan Sims”.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That's fair - I've not read the books so I'm basing it entirely off Guiness' mannerisms and how Ann is deployed in the TV series. I will say I don't think superintelligence would be required, though, as that sort of cover marriage was not uncommon at the time, especially for upper class gay men.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For me its the one between Guinness and Terrance Rigby in the park

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Obviously that's not something that's within the text directly, but it's a very easy reading to make, and I think quite an interesting one.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So, his "failed marriage" to Ann is often deployed against him in a way that gives him the advantage of being dismissed or underestimated. And while not being without affection, if we take a reading of Smiley as a gay man, then it changes his marital situation from sad to extremely canny.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'd also forgotten how gay it is, in ways that one is tempted to read as unintentional until you realise Le Carre was working for MI5/6 during the time of the Lavender Scare and it's inspired by the Cambridge 5. It knows what it's doing. (Also Smiley's marriage reads quite differently in that light)

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think there's a degree of cultural shift to it - Ian Richardson plays him as an old boys club "good sort" that I think doesn't read the same way now as it did in the 60s/70s among the almost exclusively posh Oxbridge secret services.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The ice-cold ruthlessness that Alec Guiness can suddenly put into his eyes behind the bumbling old man facade is legitimately breathtaking.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also, people who complain about a movie or TV show going on too long after the main plot conflict has resolved are weak. Give me forty minutes of dealing with the emotional ramifications of the plot! Give me four separate scenes diving into the motivation of the antagonist! Yes!

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just finished a long-overdue rewatch of the 1979 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" adaptation with Alec Guiness. Fuck me we used to have acting, didn't we?

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He can get you acquitted with relative ease. Makes getting mistrials such a breeze!

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brutally precisent to. Love to have a 1970s TV play that explicitly states "We're in a battle for England's soul and here's what happens if we lose", then watch it 50 years later and go "Oh yeah. You were right and we lost that one big time."

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh absolutely, I just know that the first time I watched it everyone had built it up as "folk horror" and I was so busy looking for the spooks I missed a lot of the really fascinating stuff it's doing.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I always think calling it folk horror is actually doing it a bit of disservice, both in terms of setting viewers up for a certain degree of disappointment (it isn't actually horror), but also it kinda of short changes Penda's Fen on how weird and interesting it is.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just read the patron preview for the next strip of @bransonreese.bsky.social's Swanboy and goddammit how can I be this hype for a fuckin webcomic? Is it 2009? That's not how its supposed to work anymore. This is embarrassing.

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@jonnysims.bsky.social is BACK on Workers' Lit for a Patreon-exclusive episode with @ayshaufarah.bsky.social. That's right, it's more Aysha's Author Corner! Discussion includes Jonny's new novel, "The Burn Line," (go buy it!), trains, oppressive heat, the fun ins and outs of horror, and more!

Aysha's Author Corner podcast episode art, Jonathan Sims interview episode

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The run since the Giallo arc has been insane to watch. Every single strip a stone-cold banger.

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Rusty Quill @rustyquill.com · 02/09/2026

Just announced: the @waterstones.bsky.social Exclusive Edition of From the Library of Jurgen Leitner by @premeemohamed.com and @jonnysims.bsky.social. Pre-order now: www.waterstones.com/book/from-th...

A mock-up of two side-by-side hardback books. On the left is the book with a dust jacket on, featuring a green coloured illustration of a man with wings strapped to his arms on a black background. He is upside down on the book cover, as if he is falling. The pages of the book have sprayed edges, featuring the same illustration of the winged man. On the right is the same book without the dust jacket, which features an illustration in silver foil of a library checkout card with various books being taken out of the library by different people. An arrow pointing to the book on the right reads “Silver foil under dust jacket.”. Text on the image reads: “Waterstones Exclusive Edition: Pre-order now.”

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A clip from the Workers' Lit's episode on "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, ft. @jonnysims.bsky.social, who frankly we'd gladly listen to even if he were just reading the phone book. Listen now on the Workers' Lit feed wherever you get your podcasts!

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Had a great time in this one - I got to talk about how great The King in Yellow is, despite The King in Yellow being kinda mid in a lot of ways.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Had a great time recording this and a time reading it!

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Lili Hill @dr-lil-hill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#booksky 💙📚 Fantastic take on a monster here! This found-family mystery turned action-horror will absolutely keep you on the edge of your seat. What I loved most about this page-turner was the threat of a monster attack bringing together this otherwise unconnected group in such a fabulous way.

Bookcover of The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims. Cover shows a red background with a large white dripping skull with a London underground train car in the gaping jaw.

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

While many people have taken the subway in London without incident, things go monstrously bad for the five strap holders in Jonathan Sims' new creature feature #horror novel "The Burn Line." To find out why (no spoilers), check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🚇🩸

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The Burn Line · Jonathan Sims · Exclusive Interview · paulsemel.com

Exclusive Interview: "The Burn Line" Author Jonathan Sims \ In which he talks about his creature feature horror novel.

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Notes From the Shelf @notesfromtheshelf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Book Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims My full review for The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims, an atmospheric horror novel with a shocking creature reveal, unsettling social commentary, and plenty of tension.

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Book Review: The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims

My full review for The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims, an atmospheric horror novel with a shocking creature reveal, unsettling social commentary, and plenty of tension.

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🐋 haden 🪐 @yavin4.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

book mail! (that technically wasn’t supposed to come til tomorrow!) rubbing my gay little hands all over it

paperback copy of THE BURN LINE by jonathan sims. the cover is red with black text for the title. in the center is a burning skull with a subway car coming out of its open mouth

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Em Tucker @em-tucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Look what came in the mail today! The cover is way cool! And I can't wait to read it. @jonnysims.bsky.social Bonus: The texture is "gritty-er" than the usual matte covers, which is a much better sensory experience.

Image of the US cover version of "The Burn Line" by Jonathan Sims. Cover is red with a melting skull at the center with a train coming out of the mouth.

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks for reading! Glad you enjoyed it

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