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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/08/2026

Plotting out some additional meat on the bone for Witches 3. Man, I managed to cram literally every Bone-Deep Special Blorbo Vibe I had as a kid into this story. Have a look at this collage of influences 😆 Maybe when it comes out, you can join Leonardo DiCaprio point meme with me lmao

Screenshot, Madoka Magica (2011). One of the Witch's Labyrinths

Screenshot, Final Fantasy X. Specifically a shot from the final scene. I couldn't look up the entire clip to get a better one because I will just cry

Yami Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh looking at an offscreen character like it's POV the fridge sees me coming at 1 am

Screenshot, Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie (1999). The spurned sorceress who is the antagonist of the film shatters a twister made to contain her into useless raindrops.
I obviously couldn't include the entire clip but the "It is unforgivable...... it is unforgivable... UNFORGIVABLE!" from the dub has clearly lived in my head for 25 years.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/08/2026

Shoulder at least! I want to reproduce the Plastic Love album cover 😆

Album cover: Mariya Takeuchi's Plastic Love

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/08/2026

🐦 Become ungovernable 🐦

A roof with anti-pigeon spikes where the spikes have been ripped off the top and are hanging off the edge

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 08/07/2026

undergoing ego death in a business park

Me: “I hate these places. I think it’s just cos literally every job I’ve ever had has been in one of them and I don’t drive”
Ari: “they’re miserable fucking places. The amount of times I’ve been out to them for job interviews and stuff. They’re a special purgatory”
Me: “I know. The thing is, I keep finding myself in fancier and fancier ones and somehow the fancier they are the more they just feel like a dead mall”

Me: “the dead mall has literally covered me with ants. Not a metaphor. They are crawling all over me on the train home”
Ari: what cursed place have you entered
Me: Edinburgh
Ari: *shudder*

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 06/07/2026

Who says you can’t run away from your problems!?

Bike path by the road past Kirkintilloch heading towards the Antonine Wall

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 11/04/2026

You wanna watch making jokes like that, you'll catch her ire. You'll just be going about your day and then

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 03/04/2026

I know nothing about Supergirl but she is my new favourite This is the energy I am taking into the summer of 2026

Supergirl, pissed, the laser beams are charging behind her eyes

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 03/04/2026

Zoned out on my run and now I get to walk back from Westerton in the rain. Very pretty ☺️

Forth and Clyde Canal in the rain just before Lock 27

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/03/2026

Unprompted conversation with the sensitivity reader about Witches 3 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Ari: You write grief extremely well lmao
Me: thank you [keyboard smashing]
Me: In my defense, it's mostly because I am grief extremely badly

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 25/03/2026

“bröther what are you wearing on your head” “bröther it is the latest fashion from Galar”

Two plushes sit on the couch — Quagsire and Slowpoke. Slowpoke has a yellow microfibre cloth on his head, making him look a little bit like a Galarian Slowpoke

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 23/03/2026

I stopped paying for Discord a few months ago during a belt-tightening One of its features that I used was having different profile pictures on different servers. But I've just decided it's better that the Serious Writer/writing convention Discords will have to look at this wee guy:

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 23/03/2026

Me at midnight last night, hour 36 of migraine, hot and cold flushes, unable to keep water down, wondering if this time it really was a brain tumour

Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four (2003) getting hit by cosmic radiation

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/03/2026

Planning my first completely new writing project since 2021, so it's that time of the year where I start giving other writing software the glad-eye lmao

Meme: Man (labelled "Me") leers at passing woman (labelled "LibreOffice"), while his presumed partner (labelled "Scrivener") looks at him with disgust

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 06/03/2026

Today's run. It was a beautiful morning. I spent the run brainstorming the project after the Witches trilogy is done Was hit by inspiration and opened Notes app to dictate because I couldn't type. Halfway through it switched on Caps Lock so the notes start screaming 😆 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Little path down by the Maryhill Locks. It is early out, and frosty. The sun is peeking through behind the trees, casting mist over the entire background.

The Forth and Clyde Canal, lined with trees. It is foggy out, though my phone has captured more colour than there was at the time. Two large river birds that I don't know the names of fly down the canal away from the camera.

A little dirt path worn off the side of the tarmac, completely worn in by feet and tire treads. Completely obscured by trees, the sun shines from directly behind the path. She's looking a lil numinous. A lil liminal. Dare I say...... enchanted

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 01/03/2026

Men wailing and gnashing their teeth because they’re not 6 foot, while the internet is out here thirsting for this tiny mafia man

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 27/02/2026

Happy thirtieth, #Pokémon ❤️ Show us what you’ve got today

Me and my partner Pokémon (Athena the shiny Slowking) stand in front of a mountain with a “let’s go!” pose

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 17/02/2026

Just declared podcast bankruptcy

Nicole Kidman, caught by a paparazzi after her divorce, jubilant in a car park

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 14/02/2026

Out on my bike like “oh it’s so pretty. Omg my fingers are cold. Oh shit my fingers are cold. OH FUCKIN HEL—“

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 07/02/2026

Got overwhelmed, bailed on life, cycled 15 miles. Standing in a field with mud on my arse.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 10/01/2026

@remotecore.bsky.social gifted me a wee sticker today by @rachillu.bsky.social! So cute! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Orange notebook. Three Pokémon stickers (not relevant to the tweet), and a happy cat in a trans mug

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 26/12/2025

Finally finished my four year WIP. The best thing I’ve ever written ❤️ The Witches fly again ☺️ lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 03/12/2025

VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS is on discount over the winter holidays!! Perfect for people who want to feel spooky and depressed over the break. Make your Yuletide gay 👹 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/11/2025

Glasgow weather office: “OH GOD, A GIANT ALIEN BALL IN THE SKY”

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/11/2025

Me reaching at the first image of Nicnevin and looking up at you like

Shrek pulling a “lol this is gay as hell Shona” face

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 18/11/2025

The rapture of coming into the group chat like "A second update has hit the AITA post."

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 16/11/2025

Could a depressed person make this?? lukebelcourt.com/witches

Cover of 'Vampires in Park Circus' now available at your local bookstore

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 01/11/2025

Stood up with full intention to go to a panel, then bailed and sat on a bench Brighton is gorgeous!

Seafront view from a grassy patch overlooking the Brighton i360 which I think is some kind of ride to view the city?

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 31/10/2025

It’s out!!! It’s left the nest!!! Available now in paperback and ebook! 😭😭

End of Shawshank Redemption. Andy DuFresne holds his hands up to the sky in the rain after digging out of a jail cell for 10 years with a spoon

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 28/10/2025

Three days to go, my friends 👀 Don’t miss out as the Coven of Merchant City enter their darkest hour… Get your pre-orders in now: lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 25/10/2025

It's six days until Witches 2 releases! 💜✨ Get your pre-orders in and fill your Samhain with queer witches and vampires! Also, a reminder Witches of Merchant City is now available for £10 GBP/$12 USD, sporting the beautiful new cover art! lukebelcourt.com/witches

The 2025 cover of Witches of Merchant City, drawn by Jenni Coutts.

The cover for Vampires in Park Circus, drawn by Jenni Coutts.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/10/2025

Don't usually post my Pokémon stuff but at 5:11pm I became the proud owner of a Shiny Alpha Mega Slowbro I'm not sure if I'm the first person in the world to own one, but I'm almost definitely the first person in the world to own one caught in a Moon Ball 💜 As a Slowpoke collector, I am BUZZIN

Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro and the player sit at a cafe

Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Alpha Slowbro next to (Large Sized) Slowbro from my gameplay.

Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro stands close to the camera, glaikit look on his face, while the player does a pose in the background

Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro has Mega Evolved so the Shellder has eaten his entire body. His face pokes out nonplussed.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 21/10/2025

10 days til release!! Beyond excited for this book to finally be in people’s hands! Writing this was a four year project for me, and there were a lot of times when I thought it was literally never going to happen. It’s the best thing I’ve ever written. I hope you like it half as much as I do <3

The cover for Vampires in Park Circus. It is drawn in the same style as the 2025 Witches cover -- fine black lineart, but the colour scheme is red rather than teal.

A woman with long flowing black hair in a Kate Bush-esque gown runs towards the viewer. She looks behind her, afraid. Park Church Tower, a notable landmark in the centre of Park Circus, looms behind her. The same golden magic from the first book explodes from her head like psychic power.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 14/10/2025

"Grief is a dangerous thing in the hands of a necromancer..." Not caught up in time for the release of VAMPIRES? In the UK, the paperback of WITCHES OF MERCHANT CITY is now available for a tenner! (And in the US for $12!) shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

The new front cover of Witches of Merchant City, drawn by Jenni Coutts. Intricate black-and-white lineart depicts a woman with a side-cut and a black leather jacket, in front of Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Golden energy crackles from her hands, and green clouds swirl behind.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 07/10/2025

AAAAA I feel so, fuckin VALIDATED RIGHT NOWWWW I knew it!!! I fuckin smelt it in the water!!! Thank you senpai 🙏🏽

The Wikipedia entry for the Apologetic Apostrophe

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/09/2025

Ebook preorders are live on all platforms! Paperback pre-orders are live in the US on Barnes and Noble, UK coming ASAP Look at this gorgeous cover! Rendered by the wonderful @jennicoutts.bsky.social, who somehow managed to turn my disconnected ramblings into art I’ve been staring at for days 😂

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 30/09/2025

COVER REVEAL! 🎉 After what feels like a lifetime, I finally get to show you what I've been working on the last few years! The long-awaited sequel, VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS! Coming Halloween 2025! You can pre-order here! lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

A photograph of the cover for Vampires in Park Circus. It is drawn in the same style as the 2025 Witches cover -- fine black lineart, but the colour scheme is red rather than teal.
A woman with long flowing black hair in a Kate Bush-esque gown runs towards the viewer. She looks behind her, afraid. Park Church Tower, a notable landmark in the centre of Park Circus, looms behind her. The same golden magic from the first book explodes from her head like psychic power.
The photograph is taken in a park, with tree cover behind it.

The epigraph to the book:

"A vampire moves to Scotland and makes friends with a local human at a bar.
'It's hard, not being able to go out in direct sunlight,' the vampire says.
'How long has it been since you've seen the sun?' the local asks.
'Since I died, nine years ago,' the vampire says. 'You?'
The local finishes his drink. 'Fifteen long years. I remember it like it was yesterday.'
- Anonymous

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 25/09/2025

I refuse to believe it. Every time I think it will be easier! Every time I forget this hell, this pit of Tartarus! And every time my boulder rolls back down the hill, the raven devours my liver, et cetera, et cetera, ET CETERA!!!

Andy Dufresne standing in the rain, eyes closed as he prostrates towards the sky at the end of Shawshank Redemption

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 20/09/2025

I cannot explain the context of this scene in Witches 3, but there are a couple of chapters where it dips into other genres and yesterday I was writing epic fantasy I need you to know this is what I think all epic fantasy sounds like

Scrivener screenshot:
“Do not forget A’Rah Bellah, your grandmother comes from the Kingdom of Wiie’Shight Baggs to the south. Treachery is in your blood, fair maiden.”

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 19/09/2025

A thing of beauty ✨ Now in circulation! lukebelcourt.com/witches/one....

The new paperback cover for Witches of Merchant city, with a white curtain backdrop

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 17/09/2025

It feels so fitting to me that all of Scrivener’s newsletters look like this on mobile. I wonder if they used the Compile feature

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 12/09/2025

The canal is made of matcha

Photo of the canal, the algae has gotten so thick this time of year by the locks that it literally looks like big green goop

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 10/09/2025

A friend asked me a brief question about how two different Pokémon games connected and I spent an hour drawing a diagram on my iPad... I need other people to see this so it's not completely wasted

An A4-sized diagram showing how all the Pokémon main series games connect together.
If you read it top to bottom, it goes by release date, separated into layers by what console they came out on.
If you read it left to right, it goes by in-world chronology. It gets vague towards the bottom-right of the diagram, which annoys people who are even bigger anoraks than me about this sort of thing

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 08/09/2025

😵‍💫😵‍💫 my friend Malamar…. MY FRIEND MALAMAR!! #MyFriendMalamar #MalamarMoments

A heavily filtered photo from Pokémon Scarlet with love hearts everywhere. The player smiles vacantly at the camera while Shiny Malamar stands menacingly behind them

Pokémon summary from Pokémon Scarlet: Shiny Malamar has been caught in a Friend Ball, is nicknamed “My Friend”, and has been given the title “My Friend the Great Friend”.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 07/09/2025

Pokémon card scalpers be like

A picture of Lawrence III, the antagonist of Pokémon the Movie 2000. He has a truly diabolical green hairline with big wispy sideburns and is looking vacantly into the middle distance while holding an Ancient Mew card like it's the only thing that gives his life meaning.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 03/09/2025

COVER EVOLUTION!! With the release of the sequel incoming, WITCHES OF MERCHANT CITY has gotten a brand new cover drawn by the inimitable @jennicoutts.bsky.social! Look at it!! *grabby hands*

The new 2025 cover for Witches of Merchant City. It is drawn with fine black lineart with teal rumbling clouds in the background on a starry night. The protagonist, Holly Winter, stands in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow City Centre, her leather jacket swirling behind her as golden magic crackles from her hands.

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 28/08/2025

The ancient texts of wisdom, preserved for future generations

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 23/08/2025

I love my bike 😭 I love being able to go out and feel the wind. A wee flock of sparrows just flew alongside me and I swear every time I go out to fuck about I’m like

The opening of Pokémon Emerald. The protagonist, May, rides her bike alongside a menagerie of Pokémon

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Luke Belcourt @lukebelcourt.com · 16/08/2025

I cannot stop thinking about Pokémon World Championships 2025 Jacket Pikachu Look at him 😭😭😭

Pikachu sits in the front seat of a car, he looks surprised and very round. Poking into the shot are Jigglypuff and Fennekin

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