Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialGrumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 21/09/2026 218129392339
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Very recently Dead Ink had to close their physical store because of costs. Heartbreaking. I recommend any horror fan look at what they're publishing. 000
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there. 10579161
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/ 91121682104
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Unedited, we have historic example of how far we have come. The problematic works we loved helped us grow, we should be willing to measure them by their own merits, distasteful as they could be. Unedited, but with understanding that they are not exemplars to follow 000
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The past is a well-trod country. Travellers have told us of the many facets that belie its antiquated sceneries. With the perspective of the modern, I feel, it is best to holiday in the past with an open mind, a willingness to leave when we find it distasteful, and always with guidebook in hand. 100
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But I feel we, as a society, often don't reckon with how ephemeral all works of art are. They are not only dated by their time and their creator, but also by the fact that time cannot stop. Often, a beloved author is published for the last time, then perhaps forgotten. 100
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anthony Hope's Prince of Zenda was a literary phenomenon that spawned a whole subgenre of adventure literature. Yet I feel most readers will never have heard of it. Let alone his other works. I think older texts should be unedited. Hell, I'm a queer Lovecraft fan. He was as problematic as they come. 110
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's an understandable impulse I've seen from older readers to want the thing they KNOW is amazing, but has been out of print for decades. Then, we have artists beyond living memory, many people might not be able to name Victorian best sellers whose books just slipped away over the decades. 100
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As a former bookseller, currently academic librarian, the amount of old texts I've handled in the last few years could boggle the mind. I don't think we should edit older texts, save perhaps updated introductions. What gets me, is most readers I meet don't realise just how much gets lost to time. 100
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Unsolicited writing advice, no 2052: Consider writing diverse characters, not because they represent you, but because they are part of the world you inhabit. Why write a small world when you can write a wide one? 512822
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialdawn of the debb @debbshock.com · 12/09/2026I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish. 1785007998
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How to be a Writer: Encounter plot hole Jump down plot hole Find another hole at bottom of plot hole and fall down that Repeat Possibly several times Curse a little Tastefully, though Because you are an Artist Tea 723229
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You're more organised than me. I'm in the process of moving them all about from one bookcase to another as and when I can make space, so they're all in random places 111
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379832140
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Strid, Yorkshire, 05/10/2025 000
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Liverpool Rain, 31, 10, 2021 001
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan 182516587
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, as drawn by Peter Falk 522140
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialChristopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Jeebus! 2 bucks You can find it on eBookDaily's bargain Kindle books list: ebookdaily.com/bargain-kind...ebookdaily.comFeatured on eBookDaily Bargains- $1.99'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal' by Christopher Moore is featured on eBookDaily's best Kindle book bargains 1911319
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialFirst Among Equals @pyncster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 655541796
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026@twonks.bsky.social 221657286
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2026DC's Secret Origins issue 40 (May 1989) was the absolute peak Gorilla cover. 3126
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Rob Gonsalves - "The Sun Sets Sail" (2001) 414139557
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I keep being reminded of those hilarious 80s commercials that started with “has this ever happened to you?” and showed someone having hilariously exaggerated trouble watering a plant or emptying a garbage can. No, that has never happened to me because I live in reality not in a commercial. 1773552
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness. 44691822018
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Harper Collins has been reprinting editions of Lovecraft with these Tim White covers recently. They're so much more eye catching than a lot of other books on shelves. Really hope we see more eighties inspired art coming back to books soon. 010
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'll always remember the top comment under this video from its release until Bowie's death was; "He's done it. He's a genius." 010
tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social @tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Very grateful to the staff of @gutter.bsky.social for the opportunity to be published in their 34th issue. 010
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I read this story long before the pandemic, but it's forever associated with the pandemic for me now because in April 2020, my makeshift home desk was by a window overlooking an elevated train station, and I could see the trains come in, doors open to empty cars, no one get on or off, doors close 215128
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialAdam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast. 10346161517
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialswirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026EPIC #ArtWork. The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez Just… amazing. ❤️ 8874991462
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026My painting SUNFLOWERS 945171503
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Rain, Portland Street crossing Oxford Road, Manchester, painting by Rob Pointon. 493052266
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialIan Salmon @ianrsalmon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I don’t *have* to be writing at this very moment, though there are projects I could be working on. But. I’m 200 pages into this bloody magnificent book and I can’t put it down. It’s like zooming into the Zapruder film and focussing on the people on the pavements. It’s like a series of… (1/2) 1144
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialEdward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Vincent van Gogh - Street in Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890 Oil on canvas 29 × 36 3/8 in | 73.7 × 92.4 cm Ateneum, Helsinki 319523
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My painting STORMY WAVE 261694144
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialfravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 19/04/2026by artist JB Cornish 1077814687
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My painting MIDWEST PRAIRIE 18108094
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialJim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026My painting SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS 573425311
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #Archaeology 482370475
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 10/04/2026NEW Archaeologists uncover one of Scandinavia's oldest ship burials at Herlaugshaugen, Norway, indicating cultural connections around the North Sea prior to the Viking Age. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 0309
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialPandora's Box @pandorasbox2.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Zeizsław Bekiński. 1462
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialHorror DNA @horrordna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026eBook deal! Check out this killer @datlow.bsky.social bundle over at @humblebundle.com! 29 books for under $20? Yes, please, and thank you! #horror #ad #booksky #amreading #scifi #fantasy humblebundleinc.sjv.io/6kGz1qhumblebundleinc.sjv.ioHumble Book Bundle: The Best of Ellen Datlow Anthologies by Open RoadExpand your library with this collection of anthologies edited by award-winning sci-fi, fantasy, and horror editor Ellen Datlow! Every purchase supports Active Minds! 0136
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.social⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 09/04/2026Found my new lamp set 1827150
Reposted by tomsalmonwrites.bsky.socialAnkaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy. 20982323
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e)
