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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 15/09/2026

There's just so many interesting patterns in the world! I want to quit my job so I don't have to rush everywhere so much and I can slow down and just look at moss and stuff

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 15/09/2026

You should all absolutely reply with your own texture photos, btw

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 15/09/2026

Other people's con photos: panels; meeting famous authors; group shots with friends My photos of World Fantasy Con last year:

A photo of a stony beach. As in, straight down at the stones. No sea, no horizon. There is a worn brick with the word WARN stamped in it, though! That's cool!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 15/09/2026

The autistic experience of scrolling back through your photos: every now and then, a photo that is fully and entirely just a texture you liked

A close up photo of some tree bark with lichen. That's it. That's the whole frame.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/09/2026

I don't tend to use the effects—I leave any and all cleverness to Eric and Wilson, they're far better at it than I am anyway—but it seems like there's a lot not in 4.0 yet. Once they are in, tho, the interface does feel a lot more modern and useable. I'll jump as soon as I can, tbh.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/09/2026

The Death of Robin Hood is not a great film, I don't think, and could reductively be described as "Geralt and Merida star in The Northman", but it is kind of haunting me nonetheless. It has that same hypnotic, dreamy pacing as The Northman, or The Green Knight, and the soundtrack is stunning.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/09/2026

My particular ADHD brain can't stay focused at only 1x, especially when I already know what's being said (cos I said it, and am reading it alongside, too), so I miss more stuff at 1x than I do at 1.8x, weirdly. I'll often check pauses are the right length at 1x, tho, esp. after a big deletion

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/09/2026

I mean, my "editing audio" is very much just "cutting out breaths and flubbed lines", then @intenselyeric.bsky.social and @curiousmind.bsky.social do the actual audio wizardry after, so I usually go about 1.8x—1.9x... to the point my voice at 1x sounds weird now, and I can't judge pacing that slow

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/09/2026

oh man, had gotten all excited about Audacity 4 and how pretty it was, only to discover play-at-speed isn't implemented yet. Like I have the patience to edit at 1x!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 06/09/2026

It is becoming a running in-joke in our family that each and every one of us do this without even meaning to about: squirrels; pigeons; robins; great tits; dunnocks; and, though only when reviewing the wildlife cam footage, but most exciting of all, hedgehog.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 06/09/2026

The angel on my shoulder: "ADHD is a complex + layered disability, defined by external perceptions of its challenges and the ways it irritates others, with an understanding of the internal experience only slowly being uncovered through community conversation" The devil on my shoulder: "Squirrel!"

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 06/09/2026

One of the inherent contradictions at the heart of my current existence is that I abhor the reductive stereotype of ADHD as just shouting "Squirrel!" mid-sentence whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one

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Kohala @kohala.life · 21/05/2026

@meactnet.bsky.social A must-listen story from @podcastle.org as well as @mattdovey.com’s delicious rant at the end! podcastle.org Episode 944, Mail Order Magic. Thanks to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, author!

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PodCastle

PodCastle - The Fantasy Fiction Podcast

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 09/04/2026

I just read Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E.M. Faulds for the first time and fuck does it hit home about disability and mental health and wanting to tear the system down. Excellent writing and a well deserved win!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/04/2026

De rigeur probably not exactly the right phrase there, but on reflection I quite like the unexpected implications

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/04/2026

I mean it was 100% not any attic I've ever seen, let alone possessed, but that's de rigeur for dreams right, the duality of "this is not mine in any recognisable way except, somehow, emotionally"

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/04/2026

Always a big fan of crafting entire edifices around a single pun. That sort of commitment is too often lacking in these days of ironic detachment and plausible deniability over investment in anything.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/04/2026

Had a dream about a dream about my late father-in-law last night, wherein his spirit visited to tell me where to find some things in the attic, and it all feels weirdly meaningful given that neither he nor the meta dream have ever figured for me before. Weirdly discombobulated as a result.

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement

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Tony Wolf @tonywolfness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Alan Moore on now.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 01/04/2026

Duolingo has many flaws, I'm sure, but it sure does know its audience when it teaches you "I want to quit" as the first sentence in a module on discussing work

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

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Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 01/04/2026

Yeah, not bad! Work life is very busy, but mostly it's just being in a healthier place with social media and existing more in real life than online. How's you?

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 05/01/2026

I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily

A sheet of paper stuck up by a hotel stairwell. It reads: "Please use Room 101 as a toilet, upstairs first room on the left. Thank you"

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

what a story to go out on!! we are so grateful to all of you for reading for sending in your stories and poems and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 27/12/2025

I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 21/12/2025

(Also HOLY SHIT how cool is that drawing of a fiship? That's so perfect, honestly, I love and adore that)

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 21/12/2025

Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.

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Jessie Roy @jessieroywrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 02/12/2025

Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 21/11/2025

1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. * the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers

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Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office

Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...

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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post. It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial. I won't make any further comment here.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 20/11/2025

Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 20/11/2025

It was, in every way it could have been, my pleasure and my honour 🩵

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Diana Dima @dianadima.com · 19/11/2025

New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...

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PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle

Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 08/11/2025

If Oliver Cromwell banned this shit I'd be all for it tbh

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 08/11/2025

I was raised by two grandmas on home baked mince pies and in 35 years of eating them I have never had to use a goddamn teaspoon before

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 08/11/2025

Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site

This zine was not created by AI. It took me a year to write, from early 2023 to early 2024. I spent several more months agonizing over edits, desperately rephrasing sentences out of coherence and back again. Even with all of that work, it isn't perfect. It will never be perfect. I will never be perfect. Imperfect people will read it and I love that for us.

This zine was not created by AI. I wrote it and rewrote it during a really hard time in my life. Many times, it seemed like I'd turned 40 and had been unceremoniously dropped back to Square One by life. I couldn't see how I could make anything work. So, I made a zine.

This zine was not created by AI. Every time I almost gave up, I worked through it instead. By the time it was finished, it felt like a small epiphany for how I wanted to make art going forward.

This zine was not created by AI. Finishing it was a gift I gave myself when I felt devalued and defeated. It's a love letter to myself, horror movies, and I guess to all of us.

This zine was not created by AI. It was created by me.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 31/10/2025

Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 30/10/2025

Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain. Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 21/10/2025

"with something close to terror" might be the part of all this that resonates most, even as I nod along to everything else

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 18/10/2025

From this side of the Atlantic, it's mostly depressing 😭 we are in an awful place right now

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/10/2025

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

patrick cosmos' now international theory of "everyone is twelve now"

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