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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe I should just retire, move to Italy, and paint shit.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 12h

The Antara audiobook casting shenanigans are shenaniganing.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13h

'Forged in Fiyah' is here. Behold, the table of contents. If you don't want to be left out there faking the funk, get thee to your favourite retailer and buy it.

Cover 'Forged in Fiyah' shows man and woman with hammers on an anvil with a holy grail looking thing with sparkly glowy magic swirls, in a forest

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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 14h

Don't ignore a cat's warning...

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 20h

Less snarky observation of the same phenomenon: my father used to advise us to listen to the BBC to improve our English. I'm not sure I should give the same advice to my bairns.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What does it mean when you dream of Darkseid?

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can tell it's autumn because of that after-summer ashiness. The Black folks know what I mean. Time to weaponise the moisturisers. (It's interesting how accurate bodily woes are the older you get. I can tell when it's winter by the ache of an old joint injury)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man and cub, luchadore tagteam. (Might delete later)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Egregious error in subtitles of Godfather of Harlem (s2E8) where Black folks speaking in Korean are said to be speaking Arabic (probably because it's occurring in a mosque). [No, I don't speak Korean, but I know the phrases associated with Taekwondo.] Subtitling has gone to shit in recent years.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The best thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once. The worst thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"What is required is not a lot of words but effectual ones." -Seneca / Letter XXXVIII (Transl. Robin Campbell)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, noes! People are realising they don't have to put up with unpleasantness for decades. They can simply...not.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Incoming. (Yes, I know 'Ink coming' was right there, but folks would have finger-wagged)

Red paper, fountain pen, October Inks written

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This Lucas Museum of Narrative Art building is giving Zaha Hadid.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A strange dog jumped on me while I was waiting in line yesterday, so I petted her. Her owner (a woman) caught up and said: "That's odd. She doesn't usually like men. Never, in fact." I just smiled, stayed with the dog until it was my turn. One of the high points of my week.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You fall right into their hands when you parrot 'gone rogue'.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel like a pod person today. Maybe the nutrients used to grow me were somewhat deficient. I'm operating like the Cost Saver version of myself.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, you are enough. Don't believe anything contrary to that.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, it was Galactus. You know Galactus. Giant planet eater, pointy hat, name like an off-brand polysaccharide...

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Iceland is amazing because of the people.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmm. Never done DKR fanart before, which is wild, given the number of times I read it.. . Not great, but I rushed it in a 15 min lunchbreak.

Batman in silhouette against lightning in the background

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"All those secrets You've been concealing, Say you're happy now Once more, with feeling..."

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, 'omoba' is a non-gendered Yoruba word for the child of a monarch. Literally, "child of the monarch" Omo = child (non-gendered) Ba = short for 'oba', which means 'king'

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My son has declared he wants to be an artist. Good lord, what have I done?

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From the people who brought you drapetomania (the mental illness that makes slaves attempt escape), comes a new, slick diagnosis for our times.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is "fantaspionage" the next big thing? Can we MAKE it the next big thing? @mcflycahill90.bsky.social (Audition for the Fox) speaks with @premeemohamed.com (Wickhills) about genre, weird cities, and who is the having the worst time in a story:

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“What Kind of Person Would a City Like Wickhills Produce?”: A Conversation With Premee Mohamed - Reactor

On crafting the perfect spy story, and building a magical city.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading about how hard Mahershala Ali trained for Blade is heartbreaking.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, I've always admired Subterranean Press. I was sad to hear the bad news about them earlier this year. I'm pleased that THE KING STREET GOLEM will be among the last books of theirs.

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Giveaway time! Who wants to celebrate the arrival of fall by winning an early copy of @tadethompson.bsky.social's not-yet-up-for-preorder THE KING STREET GOLEM? Tell us your favorite fall read to enter. Open int'l, ends Sept. 30 at noon ET.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hmm. The number of randos doing drive-bys has suddenly increased. *Prepares blocking trigger finger*

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Study of Emil Nolde's expressionist woodcut 'Prophet' (1912).

Ink drawn copy of a woodcut of an old sad man

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was a plot point in The Rosewater Redemption.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, I'm having thumb-is-a-finger/thumb-is-not-a-finger discourse in my house. I'm the referee. I have to remind myself that though these arguments are older than my great grandfather's xiphisternum, they are new to the kids, and they must work their way through them. I must not be bored. (I am)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Overheard: "They hate Hal Jordan. Me(sotto voce): Yes, we all hate Hal Jordan, because Hal Jordan ruins everything.

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