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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7h

Hooklanders talk of dusk as 'hurry home'. It's an attempt to express that creeping sense of peril that comes upon you in certain places as the sun goes down. Twilight terror. Another cup of tea declined. The Highway Code ignored. The true rush hour of the county. – #MattAdams

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 6h

i meant to order this for myself and then forgot, but it turns out james bought it as a first wedding anniversary present because technically a book is paper 10/10, great husbanding, would marry again!

A pink & blue hardback version of The Hobbit, illustrated by Tove Jansson, sitting on a wooden coffee table

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 15h

quite possibly! i suspect the people at channel 4 also thought it was a fluffy bunny Easter film, so your nan fell prey to the same instinct 😅

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 15h

i love that back in the day channel 4 (i think?!) always played it on Easter Sunday so every year i traumatised myself by watching it while the grown-ups cooked Easter dinner at my gran’s house - for some reason it never occurred to me not to watch 😅

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 15h

the 1990 film of Roald Dahl’s The Witches - not the actual witches, but the moment when the girl in the portrait fades away into nothing accompanied by an eerie soundtrack. it haunted me

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you can help support me whilst I'm still waiting to be paid. paypal: paypal.com/paypalme/rac... buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/rachelcdailey

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am genuinely so unwell right now and awaiting immunotherapy. I'm due somewhere between £1,300 and almost £2,000 in pay and holidays from @thecanaryuk.bsky.social, which was supposed to tide me over so I can recover. Other former staff and I just want what's owed to us

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

if my eyes turn a terrifying blue we’ll all know to worry!!!

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe I’ll just do a bit more sewing…or…no, no, of course, sorry, you’re right I should just go fuck myself instead

A small fluffy cute black cat sitting on an embroidery in progress with a skeptical/defiant look on her pretty face.
The embroidery cloth is on a puffy hot pink quilt, in the background there is a big bay window with the gloomy evening sky visible and the window ledge has many house plants on top of a cabinet with kitsch clutter in it

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ohhh Susan this is the LOVELIEST message to get thank you SO much!!! You’ve made my day 🥰

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaaaand we're off. TWISTED PIKE published today. www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hate to do this but my now former employer hasn't paid my final pay and holiday pay, which I was planning on using as a buffer whilst I'm too sick to work. If my work has helped you and you can support me: buymeacoffee.com/rachelcdailey

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I'm a disability rights journalist who focuses on holding the government and media to account over the way they treat disabled people.However, I’m also disabled and right now my immune system is ...

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a piece in this about medieval martyrs, pub lore, and Victorian yearning. I am giving the people what they want.

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com

A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i quite genuinely didn’t sleep at all last night due to a combination of a new steroid course + quitting smoking + general illness & i’m sitting here still a bit too jittery to sleep at 2:30pm and now i’m concerned that life is imitating art am I one of the Sleepless now? 😳

Laura’s book Awakened featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you know anyone looking to get into journalism? Maybe with a disability or chronic illness? I’m writing a free newsletter that gives tips & advice on breaking into journalism. Also, gossip. If you know anyone who might find it useful, please pass on! Subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/frances336

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Press Access | Frances Ryan | Substack

The things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Click to read Press Access, by Frances Ryan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As everyone has observed already, if ONLY she'd dressed in a balaclava and shouted at a hotel, all this could've been avoided!

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

day 3: the only thing standing between me & a cigarette is my video game-honed desire not to lose progress on these rings

Screenshot of 3 green rings on the smoke free app, the first showing 100% (all nicotine expelled from the body), the second showing 78% and that in 13 hours taste and smell will have returned to normal, and the third showing 66% and saying in one day breathing should have returned to normal

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh! Tis #Caturday. Have I got a cat for you! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products?cat... (also, a solution for your yule card choice)

A vast shaggy black cat towers over an old Icelandic village in the snow. At the bottom of the composition, Viking/Celtic zoomorphic knotwork. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I hope He feels guilt for what His absence has made of us, for what His abandonment has done to us, for what His indifference has grown in us, which is the darkness between stars and the moment of falling and the conviction that we are broken..." @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social

A photo of a copy of the 2025 Angry Robot edition of Awakened by Laura Elliott. The cover, a monstrous blue-eyed raven carrying the Tower of London on its back, is by Sarah O'Flaherty.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

day 2: my throat is killing me 😭

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s brilliant but it scared the crap out of me

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i fell off the No Smoking wagon while writing book two this year but as of today i’m back on the No Smoking wagon and honestly this is rubbish. i hate it. the other wagon is better why does it also give you cancer

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m told it’s the last day to vote for Who Wants Normal? for Readers’ Choice at the Diverse Book awards! If you like my writing or are slightly above indifferent, you can click this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A graphic of the three formats of WWN: hardback, audio, and Kindle. The front cover is orange with yellow and lilac stripes.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happiest of pub days to this gorgeous, monstrous book!! Go get this thing asap! 🖤🏚️🧙

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happiest of book birthdays!!!! I’m away for a few days next week and I have it packed as part of my holiday reading - very excited!!!

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s some Iris Liklikuwata art to make your Wednesday a little better.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

Happy book birthday to Avis Lovelock! Go read my thoughts then buy the novel

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My second published story of the year with @electricliterature.com , and definitely one of my favourite flashes I've written! If you enjoy dark tales about bones and the sea, then check it out ✨️💙💀🦀 First line below, and free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...

The Bone Hermit by Lyndsey Croal
It's very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I drew my little heart out for this *amazing book* So...get one or several. That way I'll get to draw my little heart out two more times! And we can *all* have cheese and a house, bit more cheese, maybe..

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 23/09/2026

GUYS I HAVE CREATED THE WORLDS WORST UNBOXING VIDEO! There is nothing polished and filtered and uh...well-groomed about this one. It's the realio dealio

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hwaet! i highly doubt this will actually be in Old English

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

omg! happy birthday to you all! what a time to be born!!!!

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

33. Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain by Zakia Sewell this one’s a lovely journey through the wheel of the year, as Zakia visits traditional and new folkloric festivals to uncover how they might help build a newer, more diverse national identity

Laura’s hand holding the book Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell, which is a bright green book with a golden chalice on the front

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

finished reading it today! my brain!!!

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