Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 2hI *am* on programming at Fantasycon, but I would love to hang out 000
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3hI really don’t like the term “world building,” and I realize that it’s a me problem more than anything else. I’m trying to evoke with setting 040
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 3hOn Vernon? They used to give mama a little extra every time she went in because she was a good-looking woman 110
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4hFishmonger had head on prawns. There’s also a wet market right next to my work, but I didn’t feel like wrasslin’ live crabs 110
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4hBritish going on 9 months now, and I still hate coronation chicken and Heinz tinned beans 6140
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4hI’m not on any programming at WFC, so who all wants to hang out? 120
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 4hIt is Black History Month in Britain, and International Creole Heritage Month, LGBTQ+ History Month in the US. If you want a book that celebrates all of the above … uk.bookshop.org/p/books/call...uk.bookshop.orgCall and ResponseIn these deftly written stories of the fantastic, Christopher Caldwell unravels the complicities of personhood and gender, slavery and war. Winner of the Crawford Award. Saints and sailors, scoundrels... 01614
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 5hIt can play with all of the other collections keeping me safe from the grackles in Window Boy 020
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23hI’d be a more normal person if I hadn’t imprinted on another Kyle… McLachlan in Lynch’s Dune knife fighting in rubber with a loincloth wearing Sting 010
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23h2? He was Jeff Metcalf on Homefront. That was I. Like 1991 100
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23hMy mama had to sing Ave Maria at bedtime for months after 010
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 23hThey ought to make Covid vaccine that doesn’t give me the sweats/chills or an arm that feels like it was hit by a hammer 090
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Arlington assists me into my brocade culottes and byssus hose one leg at a time like everyone else 082
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’m pretty sure I mentioned a Lorca poem in an interview recently 110
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Y’all gotta stop asking my opinion on literary sff, people’ll think I’m fancy 2182
Reposted by Christopher CaldwellGlasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Christopher Caldwell will be at #Fantasycon for the following... Friday 1700 - Reading (Hebrides) 1900 - The Importance of Literary Focussed SFFH (Panel 2) Sunday 1200 - Queer to the Story's Bones (Panel 2) - Christopher Caldwell ..so go hear him! @britfantasysoc.bsky.social 062
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t see After the Hunt, so maybe that’s my new hated film 010
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I liked Queer and Challengers, which means it’s time for him to make a film I loathe 110
Reposted by Christopher CaldwellA Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A little longer episode for a little longer shortlist: @chloroformtea.bsky.social & @casella.bsky.social talk through the 9 books on the @ursulakleguin.com Fiction Prize shortlist!ancillaryreviewofbooks.orgA Meal of Thorns 60- 2026 UKLG List with Roseanna PendleburyOnly in its 5th year of operation, the Le Guin Fiction prize has already become something of a critical darling, with very interesting shortlists and winners that rarely overlap with other genre aw… 22513
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think I was 5 when Disney re-released Fantasia. 070
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Leviathan is set around 1820, which is the year the Essex sank. I did so much research for that and Lonesome Sea (1813) 040
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(There is actually historical precedent. Like the sinking of the Essex in 1820) 0151
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A reviewer once commented that they found the idea of Sperm Whales ramming the whaling ship in Canst Thou Draw out the Leviathan unbelievable. I am vindicated. 36619
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There are over the top pantomime villain performances 110
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is vulgar, crass, and loud. The satire is heavy handed. It’s also sort of melancholy with a sweet, hopeful emotional core. 110
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sometimes. I hated Birdman and thought Bardo was great. 010
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026NB, I despised Birdman. I lived Bardo. It’s not like either. 200
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s crass. Vulgar. Heavy handed. And America deserves worse. 010
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This weekend I took myself out to a Shostakovich symphony, handpulled noodles, and the cinema to see Digger. I’m a fun date, even if I don’t put out. 0130
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Imagine knowing that woke meant “aware of the realities and crushing strictures of white supremacy” and then using it the way the racists who co-opted it do. 0222
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Will Smith should have slapped him harder. 3312
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m opposed to doing an infogram for Fantasycon. I did one for Worldcon and learned I hate canva. 0110
Reposted by Christopher CaldwellJen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026GOOD MORNING HAPPY SUNDAY FUND APEX MAGAZINE FOR 2027 they are at $6620 of their $21,000 base goal donate! share! read Apex! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...kickstarter.comApex Magazine 2027An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. 0910
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Street Life from Sharky’s Machine started playing in this Tesco and the Venture Bros. triggered a fight or flight response 150
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am so cold. It’s supposed to be 16c, but it sure doesn’t feel it 040