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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎶Wooah I'm halfway there! Wooah-OH! To SATAN'S INTEGER!🎶

Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For decades I've told everyone that the best business name in Teesside was the Stockton's pet grooming salon "Doggy Style". Today, I drove down Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough, and learned of a new challenger.

A van marked "Hump It & Dump It", with the tagline "We don't talk rubbish - We shift it". The business' details are also on the van, but I ain't writing all that. I'm glad for them though. Or sorry that happened.

(Photo is five years old, but I saw a sign for them earlier today while wedding ring shopping.)

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good morning, Womble :) I'm reliving my youth with this bad boy. Not sure I ever finished this properly, but this time the Lizard King WILL fall!

The original cover of Ian Livingstone's Island Of The Lizard King, featuring a lizard man sporting in no particular order, a pirate' cutlass, a pet panther, and some kind of arachnid as a crown (technically this is called a "gonchong", fact fans!)

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The title for this essay came from thinking "What Lies Beneath" was too obvious a reference, and also because I think more people should see the bonkers action/fantasy/horror film "What Waits Below" - Indiana Jones (played by Robert Powell) meets The Descent. It's impossibly dumb.

The film poster for What Waits Below. An illustration of Robert Powell, shirt half-open, handing from a rope in a cavern. A blonde Lara Croft-esque woman is hanging onto the same arm he's using to hold himself up. Robert CARES NOT, however. Her weight is NOTHING to his EXTREME MANLINESS.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That led to some digging around in the history of medical symbols we use in this world, which was fun. I probably should have dug more into why snakes are used here, especially since there's so little else to talk about. Maybe for the book.

Three images. From left to right, a caduceus (two snakes wrapped around a rod with wings), the Aquan medical symbol (a winged merman in a circle, with their tail wrapped around a rod), and a Rod of Asclepius (a single snake wrapped around a rod)

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reunited with our dog after over a fortnight. Clearly, he's delighted to see us once again.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Drinking this in a pathetic attempt to recapture my youth.

A blue Buzzball. It looks like a barium enema in a fishbowl.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cumbrian shenanigans (specifically Sandscale Haws).

Mountains on the other side of the beach, including Scafell Pike.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Discovered in the house at which we're currently staying. What the absolute fuck?

A copy of David Icke's "The Answer". There is no cover artwork, presumably because literally no-one wanted to accept the job of making it, but the cover also reads "The man who has been proved right again and again".

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Checking out some scruffy ghets with noisy guitars.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Doing some writing (about the Flintstones, OBVIOUSLY).

An old school friend of mine thought it would be ironic and whimsical to hire a bouncy castle large and sturdy enough for us as undergraduates for her 21st birthday party. The “adult bouncy castle” she hired certainly was large enough, I suppose. It also required squeezing through giant inflatable labial lips to get inside. She at least didn’t need to keep telling people how to get to her house – the fifteen-foot-tall jet-black gas-engorged phallus extending proudly skywards from the centre of the castle made for an extremely handy locator.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still searching for that perfect album, but these four got me through a LOT.

Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister

Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just starting up May, and what in the goddamn hell is this JK fucking Rowling-ass haunted doll doing on my TV screen? Why is it not IMMEDIATELY on fire?

The world's most transphobic doll stares lifelessly out of a box, judging its new owner for wearing an eye patch, which is UNLADYLIKE.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Tonight's Alkaline Trio gig was unfortunately cancelled, so we're engaging in the closest available alternative: Eldritch Horror. All female team too, because why not?

A game of Eldritch Horror about to begin.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Think I'm going to get an entire bonus post out of how much this one image annoys me.

A screenshot from "Memento Mori" (SNW) in which we learn the Gorn language is a variation on Morse code, that somehow has exactly the same letters as the Roman alphabet, and which spells its words identically to English.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is good news, and it matters beyond the ponds themselves. It's a reminder that, as others have said, the horrifying rollback of trans rights in the UK over the last year and change has happened wholly without a democratic mandate. When the people get a say, they demand inclusion.

Article header reading "Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules." It goes on to say "Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies' and Highgate Men's ponds in north-west London". Then there's a picture of someone diving into water, below which it says "A public consultation found 86% of the 38,000 respondents favoured retaining the ponds' existing trans-inclusive arrangements. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA"

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Came second in a quiz lads. This is the haul.

A cyan abomination of a layered shot. Work tomorrow will be TAXING.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

These lads, without question. Almost the earliest writing I ever did, at like 12 years old, was fanfic for these rubbery wee horrors. (Picture from Review All Monsters)

One half of the first collection of Monster In My Pocket. Nostalgia level: genuinely painful.

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Good SquidDance Macabre @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

On Repentance And Repair, by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. An absolutely amazing book on the ways in which harm needs to be identified, addressed, and atoned for, and how society's focus on "forgiveness" isn't just irrelevant to that work, it actually makes that work harder.