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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🌙🦇 @dungeonlust.com · 30/09/2026

Me getting ready for spooky posting in October.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That Tiger Tiger cover is unhinged.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the past, when I had admins I didn’t like, I would sign their work email for dozens of newsletters from astrology to weather.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Freas’s defense, he was assigned to write a cover for a Bradbury story in Planet Stories. Most of his stories to that point were Martian stories. Also, having a rad lady doing rad things was a common motif of both him and the magazine. There you go.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Got my author copies of Wars in the Stars from Flame Tree Press. Pretty great lineup of classic and contemporary Space Opera about war. My story “The Wreck” is also pretty amazing. 10/10, would write again.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I had to pee in my front yard in front of that school bus of children because my bathroom door was locked.” “Why not unlock it?” “You’re missing the point.”

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Live BCS #466: "Sous Lumière Aigre" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Guy got behind his cart and pushed it forward. To his displeasure, amid the shushing song of cicadas and the loud creak of the wheels, he also heard soft footsteps following behind. Damn girl." beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sous...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Sous Lumière Aigre by Jonathan Louis Duckworth

He had neither the energy nor the interest to argue. Nor to talk at all. With a grunt, Guy got behind his cart and pushed it forward. The night would only get darker, and he had a long way to go to th...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Getaway is a banger. All Thompson is pretty great, especially Savage Night.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The SCP debacle with A24 is a great example. Yes, following the share alike license means they might not make a gigazillion dollars, but they may make close to a billion dollars because fans will buy it. But they won’t have all the money forever and ever.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For clarity, I adore MR James stories. It’s the OG SCP Foundation.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

M.R. James really wrote a dozen variations on: “Oh wow, this old object is spooky. Better go to the library! Here’s the entire story of Lord Davis Atticutty, gentleman and satanist who was eaten by a tree.”

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This one is a title from one of my short stories: The Only Ethical Consumption is the Consumer. Figured it fits your theme.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We need Wyloch’s Armory to craft this scene.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“You can’t buy happiness.” Yeah, but Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron ships cost money, so that’s objectively wrong.

A pile of Jazzwares Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron ships.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Counter: Sam Altman likely asked ChatGPT, and it told them to hold it in BC because it half remembered an article about the shooting and was like, “Don’t trials happen in the jurisdiction?” And here we are.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That’s pretty ableist of you, bro.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Uh… no. As mentioned above, Color Out of Space is a difficult to watch (because of the body horror) fantastic adaptation. Also, most people say Reanimator. I don’t because of that scene. You know the one.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wait wait wait, Wizards didn’t publish the were shark that infringes on his…. Oh my God.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Everyone I know will be subjected to a dramatic reading of this lawsuit.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Head canon: Watto is full of it and never installed the slave chips he told them he did, he just uses the narrative of it to scare the Skywalkers. Qui Gon knows he’s lying.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s Nintendo Direct announcements were wild.

A fake cover for Book of the New Sun on Switch 2

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

AI has led to an unusual number of heel turns in Hollywood.

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ICYMI, this came out a few weeks ago, and is one of the most ambitious works I've yet published. If you're a lover of scifi, gothic fiction, and complicated relationships/power dynamics, this might be a story for you!

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flame Tree Press’s Wars in the Stars anthology is coming out soon. My short story “The Wreck” is one of the new stories featured in it. I’m thinking of doing a breakdown of every story when it comes out if the Gods of Teaching are amenable.

WARS
IN THE
STARS SHORT STORIES
WARS IN THE STARS SHORT STORIES
Collecting the very best stories of war and escapades from across the galaxy, in which political allegiances are formed, other worlds discovered, aliens confronted and empires built and destroyed.
Often impacted by environmental factors, governments, technology, and heroic individuals, the stories in this anthology ask us to explore all perspectives, Celebrating the epic adventure of space travel while also asking hard-hitting questions about war, this is a gripping new collection of stories from contemporary and classic authors
FLAME TREE

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Edgar Rice Burroughs was the GOAT.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some interior magazine illustrations for EE Smith's story "Galactic Patrol" - from parts 3&4 (of 6) serialised in Astounding's November and December 1937 issues (Artist: HW Wesso). [Artwork from parts 1&2 were in the previous anniversary post]:

Interior magazine artwork from the serialisation of EE Smith's "Galactic Patrol" part 3, in Astounding, November 1937

More interior magazine artwork from the serialisation of EE Smith's "Galactic Patrol" part 3, in Astounding, November 1937

More interior magazine artwork from the serialisation of EE Smith's "Galactic Patrol" part 4, in Astounding, December 1937

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m so annoyed that I forgot Robert Bloch created De Vermis Mysteriis. Then again, Robert Bloch wrote so many stories that half the Mythos is probably something Bloch wrote in a busy afternoon.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the kind of store where you meet a cat named Edgar Allan Paws and find a lightly used copy of De Vermis Mysteriis.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wolfe invented the machine that extrudes Pringles then later in life grew a Pringles guy mustache. History’s greatest villain.

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Leo @infrabeige.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Book of the New Sun retold by dril

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of old pulp magazines. My favorite discovery is the Captains Future series: a magazine focused around one character, each issue containing a novel by Edmond Hamilton (and later other authors). Hamilton was a master of pacing and action, but not of… subtlety.

An excerpt from a Captain Future magazine: "The secret that would give its finder unlimited power” — A look of fear distorted his studious face. His whisper was thick with apprehension.
"If somebody evil got the whole secret, it would be a night-mare!"

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you want more hard hitting feminist analysis, check out my story “The Wreck” in Flame Tree’s upcoming Wars in the Stars anthology. It’s got some great people in it including myself, lol. www.flametreepublishing.com/wars-in-the-...

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Wars in the Stars Short Stories - Flame Tree Publishing

Collecting the very best stories of war and escapades from across the galaxy, in which political allegiances are formed, other worlds discovered, alie

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

No grand point here. Just funny seeing a book advocating against single sex/gender spaces while their son is writing books in which these same parents quote the Bible to explain to their kids why it’s okay for them to buy fun stuff but not their kids (it’s messed up).

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Rowling, a Holocaust denier who claims no trans people died in the Holocaust because they don’t exist, has advocated against non-gendered single occupant restrooms because a man might go take a whizz after her, and that would threaten her. Especially trans-women, whom she sees as scum.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Now, as woke as the Berenstains apparently were (a Jew and a fellow Episcopalian), I don’t think they’d advocate for eliminating ALL single sex spaces, but it’s interesting how they highlight the internal rot that happens when we are constantly dividing things by sex and gender.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Joanne “Voldemort was Anti-Hitler” Knutter Rowling has been harping online about the importance of single sex spaces and how if you don’t divide people based on who makes large gametes, you’re a sexist man who hates women… by dressing as them?

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So, we have a story about single sex spaces where girls are excluded until they make a space for all genders and the boys recognize that segregation hurts everyone. To nail home my point requires a trip to The Bad Place.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Suitably ashamed for their behavior, Brother and his gang take down their segregation sign and replace it with “Girls Welcome!”

GIRLS WELCOME!
"Love to!" said Sister, and while the whole gang headed for Frog Pond, Brother ran ahead and quickly changed the clubhouse sign to say
"Bear Country Boys Club-GIRLS WELCOME"!
The berries were delicious.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mama has Papa grill salmon and honeycomb to attract the boys (milkshakes would have worked but that reference wouldn’t exist for another twenty years), and then they are invited into the rad treehouse to share their bounty.

Brother Bear chowing down on honey and salmon in the girls’ clubhouse and saying, "How would you like to come back to our place for dessert?" said Brother. "Our berry crop is ripe for picking."

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mama has another idea: for Sister to get all her girl friends together to form a cool club, with a tree house built by Papa, a master carpenter, as their base of operations. Sister wants to make a sign saying “No Boys Allowed” but Mama stops her.

With Papa Bear's help they built a very fine clubhouse high up in the old climbing tree.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sister tells her parents about how Brother and his friends are absolute tossers. Papa, appropriately, threatens to destroy their clubhouse if they don’t let her in. Presumably with the National Guard escorting her into the clubhouse.

"You're absolutely right!" roared Papa.
"It isn't fair! Come, were going back there and make them take you into their silly club-and if they don't, I'm going to tear that clubhouse limb from limb!"

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The boys go missing for three days (she never thinks to ask brother where their gang has been hanging out). Then she discovers they built a clubhouse. To her annoyance, they post a sign saying “No Girls Allowed.”

The boys build a clubhouse and post a sign saying “No girls allowed” in red all caps, so you know they mean it.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In the story, Sister Bear is the only girl in her brother’s friend group. It’s made clear she has female friends, but her and Brother got a bear gang going on, and Mama and Papa even point out the Smurfette issue. Sister ends up beating the boys in all their gang.

"I agree,
" said Mama. "But
think back-how would you have liked it when you were a cub if some little girl could outrun, outclimb, and outhit you?"
Brother and his friends didn't like losing either. And what made it worse was the way Sister celebrated every time she won.
Papa thought for a moment.
Her victory dance and cartwheels were annoying, but it was the war whoops that really got on everybodys nerves.
"I wouldn't have liked it," he said.

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Les Taylor @lestaylorwriter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Perusing books for my daughter, my wife reread this banger from Stan and Jan Berenstain (not stein). At first expecting a sexist screed, the book is about something very relevant to today…

Cover of The Berenstain Bears’ “No Girls Allowed”

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