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Martyn

@martynpedler.com
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Writer, academic, brain in a jar. Creative Writing PhD in superhero stories. You can see my stuff at martynpedler.com

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27m
A real depression tell is when good things happen and they don't move the needle on your mood. Anyway, ask me how my med change is going!
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 38m
Just me, I guess.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 2h
Does anyone else remember that episode of Scooby-Doo where they took off the villain's mask and underneath was another mask and under that was another mask and the episode still continues to this day?
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 12h
The new EVIL DEAD is an effective horror movie but a very confusing part of the franchise, tonally speaking. Why use the name at all?
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 14h
I think the parasocial element is about to become huge as an alternative.
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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social · 14h
For @thecurbau.bsky.social I interviewed Michael Schwarz the director of the Monster Fest opener THE ONLY ONE which is co-written by the awesome @martynpedler.com www.thecurb.com.au/michael-schw...
thecurb.com.au
Michael Schwarz on his clever and fun small town slasher The Only One
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a ...
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 14h
"Why would I listen to the music of artists I respect when I could listen to knock-offs of their music instead?"
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 15h
Been writing a lot of flash fiction, and wrote a novel too, but I'm trying to write a, like, 3000 word short story and I'm finding the length so confusing.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
Nice long interview with THE ONLY ONE director Michael Schwarz over at @thecurbau.bsky.social about the movie as a kind of "suburban Giallo".
thecurb.com.au
Michael Schwarz on his clever and fun small town slasher The Only One
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a ...
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 23h
I like my coffee black and my threats existential.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
My headcanon about Bang & Olufsen is that Bang is a hulk-like brute and Olufsen is a little guy who has to keep Bang calm so they can make quality stereo equipment together.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
This also made me laugh.
One thing that made me giggle is how right the movie is in that there's at least one goth in every town.

Michael Schwarz: I think that's Martyn.

Martyn understands that really well. That's usually him.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
(Yes, my name is misspelled. Yes, I'm used to it.)
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
Nice long interview with THE ONLY ONE director Michael Schwarz over at @thecurbau.bsky.social about the movie as a kind of "suburban Giallo".
thecurb.com.au
Michael Schwarz on his clever and fun small town slasher The Only One
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a ...
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
The government acknowledges its social media ban for under-16s was mostly based on... vibes.
theguardian.com
Australian government concedes no scientific consensus on social media harms for teenagers – but ‘credible risks’ justify ban
Commonwealth tells high court its proposed laws to let users opt out of algorithms would ultimately have the same effect as the ban
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They really made Donald O'Connor do all those "Make Em Laugh" flips on cement. Gene Kelly, you handsome Jigsaw
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
Eep. "It’s the kind of movie about evil billionaires that evil billionaires would enjoy, which makes it the worst kind of movie about evil billionaires."
thewrap.com
‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Gives 110% in This Powerless, Self-Adulating Claptrap
Tom Cruise give his all in "Digger," Alejandro González Iñárritu’s smug, self-aware social commentary that's like bad "SNL."
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
VIGIL is working for me better as a novel; I didn't love BARDO until I listened to the full-cast audio version.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
George Saunders' VIGIL is a kinda sequel to LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, huh? It's not a bad thing – just surprising to hew so closely to the same conceits.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
Once you know how much of house dust is skin cells, you realise we're all gravediggers at heart.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
Making THE MATRIX should guarantee you creative opportunities for life! Anyway, this is a great interview.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
"And then what happened was, it’s not that public opinion shifted, it’s that billionaires started pumping out negative propaganda against trans people."
variety.com
Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’
‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
The guys at the Doomsday Clock arguing about who has the steadiest hands to move it *this close* to midnight.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 29/09/2026
I often think about how being a "smart" kid gave me absolutely terrible study skills. I had to learn how to buckle down much later in life and it was hard! I don't have kids, but I think "praise them for hard work, not for braininess" is really good advice.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
Sometimes I like to imagine the mountain of cocaine that was the reward for thinking up "when he pours, he reigns" as the tagline for COCKTAIL.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
That's exactly it.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
I think it's kinda funny that for all Alan Moore's high-minded artistry he's also an all-timer at writing tough-guy quips.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
Thanks! He's such a grumpy old man!
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
Ace is 15 years old today! We got him when he was eight, so I've always wanted him to have at least eight years with us to equal his rough start...
A little black and white dog sitting up in his bed and staring at the camera, ears up.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
Has anyone written a cosmic horror story from the point of view of the cosmic horror?
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 28/09/2026
I've had a hell of a day. Changing psych meds is no small thing. Regular transmission will resume soon.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Agreed!
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Anything with Jimmy and Kim? Great! Anything with Gus and the gangs... less so. (I'm in the minority here, but I think more backstory for Gus made him less interesting, not more.) But I have to give the show credit for doing a whole season about "digging a big hole".
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
My take is that some parts of BETTER CALL SAUL are better than BREAKING BAD, but other parts are not – I'd still say BREAKING BAD comes out ahead overall.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Now? Ridless.
Headline: it's officially the end of an era for Ridley Scott.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Music is none of my business. I'll stick to random tones, thank you very much.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
With friends like these etc.
A tweet: My five year old has the soul of Orson Welles.

We were outside school and he 'put a kiss in my pocket for later.'

Extremely touched by this, I gave him two back.

He dug out the second one, THEATRICALLY CRUSHED IT IN HIS FIST and said 'one is enough.'

And a comment: 

This is 100% how I imagine you as a child
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Sigh. Yeah, totally.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
It's very funny that the Mandalorian has a perfectly trimmed moustache under the helmet he never takes off. "The moustache is just for me, dude."
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
You know JG Ballard is British because his initials stand for "Jolly Good".
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
"...because the chorus is the mechanism. Societies don’t collapse because millions pick up weapons. They collapse because millions approve and normalize cruelty."
thegrimhistorian.substack.com
Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Oof. Good luck.
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Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People and their assumptions. I am not a clown, I am dressed as a clown.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 27/09/2026
Winning every chess match by pointing out the pieces are only small carved figures that I can easily move any way I want.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
My favourite thing is when I'm walking the dog and strangers smile when they see him. They don't need to smile at me; just at him.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
I often think this about Jack the Ripper.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
I'm a triple threat: I sing, I dance, I poison the city's water supply.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
The fact that Batman has a villain called Man-Bat suggests his true nemesis might be spoonerism.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
I like a film with a dozen different company logos in the credits. You know they really worked to get it off the ground.
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 26/09/2026
"Consider what it means to give AI human characteristics... just as it dehumanises in order to kill Palestinians."
overland.org.au
Killer robots - Overland literary journal
To cite the words of a former Israeli intelligence officer, Gaza became an 'assassination factory'. In this sense, AI's true role has been to create a sense of distance from, and provide an alibi for,...
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