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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can’t, you don’t seem to have messages turn on! But I’ll be done with my panel in Room 3 at 2pm?

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For folks curious about my other works - sapphic and trans SEA pirate fantasy set in a fantastical Southeast Asia.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think it's different lengths across the span, but I'd say the front and top is probably a shade under eight inches. I'm pretty experienced at judging eight inches by eye. (because that was charge range in Necromunda '95)

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well my response was to point at my hair and say "this long", and she got frustrated and indicated through gestures that she expected me to know how far DOWN it would go if it was loose, WHICH DOESN'T MAKE ANY MORE SENSE.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well I only have one tape measure to hand, since I'm in Glasgow and my Warhammer stuff is in Nottingham. Plus I didn't remember I had the tape measure until after she'd got out of the lift.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was going to follow that up with rhetorically asking you, Bluesky reader, whether she was expecting me to pull a tape measure out and measure it, but then I realised that I do indeed have a tape measure in my bag, for in case I’ve forgotten my other tape measure when playing Warhammer.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Of all the inane questions I’ve been asked about my hair, “so how long is your hair?” being asked by someone staring directly at it has to be right up there.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

FantasyCon! I’m around today, come see me on Dungeons & Disorderly in the Flame Tree room at 6pm, and DJing the disco at 9pm in the Main Room (I’m taking requests)!

Mike, a white person with a black mohawk, in a black vest top with the letters ‘NON’ on it in a font made up of tiny white ones and zeroes, and black trousers with red stripes. He’s taking a picture of himself in a hotel room mirror.

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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wes Streeting "completely wrong" says professor he hired to do review Is an accurate headline the BBC could have run

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think you should be asking her that really.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now I'm imagining Brian Blessed doing Brock Lesnar's finisher.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

...they certainly do in some stores. I was literally just in GW Glasgow. WHW certainly has them.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026

Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

WHAT HOW DID I MISS THIS TOMORROW!!!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can recommend @teresadrawsthings.bsky.social, she’s just done something kind of similar for me

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

just BBC radio's flagship news & current affairs programme framing outright racism as "controversy", no biggie

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"over-reliant on flashbacks" please I've seen The Untamed.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean he’s a guy in a furry waistcoat, I’ve not seen any actual weasels yet

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh and the blood mage has an irreverent weasel demon he keeps in a pouch.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’ve got a blood mage, a chirpy demon hunter with a stuffed toy, his surly mate with one sleeve and a giant sword, a pair of arguably queer-coded femme fatales, and occasional techno. I’ve certainly watched worse.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Next up for occasional series the language of which I utterly don’t understand, it’s Veil Of Shadows. Fantasy C-drama, everyone’s ludicrously beautiful, it’s also a massively over-dramatic murder mystery where everyone’s under a death curse and they’re all hunting a demon but also might *be* demons?

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, it's alcohol, but it's alcohol *inside chocolates*. The cutoff age was fourteen for crying out loud.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would you say the multiverse of Oz is different to fandoms like Marvel, DC, Star Trek and Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, etc?

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got ID'd trying to buy cherry brandy chocolates once when I was in my late 20s (I think). And got ID'd to buy a junior hacksaw the day before my 30th birthday.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The land moves, and the Winter Knight rides… Throne Questoris has been a long time coming & I’m so excited to see it announced! I hope you enjoy spending time in the strange, bleak, icy wastes of Bayoux as much as I did :-) 💀🖤❄️

The cover of Throne Questoris, a Warhammer 40,000 book by Victoria Hayward

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Vincent Knotley @vincentknotley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s a new Black Library novel on the way. It’s called Throne Questoris. It features Imperial Knights. Oh and it’s written by the Deathworlder (one of my favourite recent novels’) author, @writervh.bsky.social Very hyped for this. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some people also seem to think that authors can impose changes on a published book for “future printings”… and like, if you’re self publishing then *maybe*, but if it’s Warhammer then it’s kind of out of my hands by that point (even if their critiques are 100% correct rather than just opinions)

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I would absolutely be at this if I wasn’t doing Fantasy Economics next door :(

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're looking for a highly original fantasy series which is nonetheless entirely engrossing and readable, you should not be sleeping on @aptshadow.bsky.social's Tyrant Philosophers.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And you CAN dance. If you want to. You can leave your friends behind…

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I try to plan ahead a bit for stuff like this, so I’m not left scrabbling around while my brain goes “…but do we know *any* songs?”, but I never really know exactly who’s going to come along or what they’re going to dance to.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone coming to @britfantasysoc.bsky.social's Fantasycon this weekend who'll be at the disco... get your requests in now!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This evening! 8pm BST, 3pm EST, come join @legkicktko.bsky.social and myself (I'll be in chat this week) for more nonsense simulated wrestling, where you can join the federation and create your own wrestler to compete! www.twitch.tv/legkicktko

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have many questions and want precisely zero answers.

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