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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This place is bloody terrifying. I STILL don't know what it does, or did, precisely, but there's NOBODY THERE. Just endless corridors of Space Odyssey little old man/monolith vibes.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Voguing in the Department of Lands.

Spindly git in a black coat holds awkward mantis-like pose in a long white corridor with chequered black and white tiles and general 2001 Beyond Jupiter vibe.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

<Herzog Voice> Mucilaginous cubes of torment. Glistening colours, but of a preschool whose walls are daubed with despair. Why so acrid? How can a benevolent god so deform a thing of nature, the root crop, into this abysmal being? </Herzog Voice>

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I should think my references to the Goon Show would place me in the near geriatric bracket! But no! And NO, I received no message from you! A pox on this.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Alas! I have, unusually and annoyingly, a ZOOM meeting with someone in London this evening, so cannot go out shindigging. Please email me next time you're headed to this pastel-hued monstrosity! I am AWFUL at keeping tabs on socials, and I exceedingly wish to meet you. Also I know good wine bars.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social Ahoy there! This app apparently thinks I'm a child (which I am, but only emotionally) and won't let me access DMs. Did you do this age verification malarkey? How can I tell it I'm a withering husk?

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

How to market your work

In 1930 the poet and classicist A. E. Housman published the final volume of his edition of an obscure astrological poem by the Roman author Manilius. He had labored on the project for al-most thirty years. All five of its volumes, he wrote, "were produced at my own expense and offered to the public at much less than cost price; but this unscrupulous artifice did not overcome the natural disrelish of mankind for the combination of a tedious author with an odious editor."

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

OH BLOODY HELL. This is why I need to check in here more than once in a blue baboon. I live in Newtown for godsake! How long are you in Sydney?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think the author started crying halfway through

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I will buy the tweaked papery thing, yes.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Another of Ruby's paintings - "The Music Room" (Oil, 61 x 61 cm). Many of her works feature rooms impetuously abandoned by someone mid-work, and I find that slightly unsettling and very charming, and possibly worthy of psychological investigation. #art #painting www.instagram.com/p/C2N2wCXh1A...

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I have fortuitously come into possession of a tablet. This will function a BIT like a Kindle, I think? I do like the idea of carting around a library like some sort of literary bagworm.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

MORE city scribbleau (Ink and Dip Pen) #art #ink

Spidery black ink blot in the vague shape of a city skyline reflecting itself.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My excellent idea is to have a late afternoon coffee instead of a snack because dinner will happen in the next two hours & I’d rather not spoil it & want, instead, to live in hell & feel my teeth grow new nerves & experience a deep interior trembling that resembles panic until then.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"The first questions are easy. The first, it's a picture of a shark, a lion, a horse, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?' But by the end … they say I'm the only person ever to successfully draw a clock face. One doctor said it didn't look like a clock face. He's not a doctor anymore."

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

As it’s the anniworsery of this nonsense, I have created a little free downloadable sample as a generalised punishment. It’s 3 levels of the hell flung up as a PDF on Bookfunnel. Download at whim! dl.bookfunnel.com/4jmf3hjokz #booksky #artsky #absurdism #fantasynovellas

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S.M. Pritchard @smpritchard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Barnard 175, a dense cloud of interstellar dust. It's 1400 light-years away in the constellation of Cepehus and is part of the much larger molecular cloud complex known as the Cepheus Flare. The illuminated region is the reflection nebula VdB 152. About 7 hours total integration over two nights. 🔭

$A dense starfield, with several predominantly bright blue stars. There is an especially bright blue star with 4 large diffraction spikes in the lower right side of the image. In the center is a dimmer blue star. Behind the star is a dense cloud of dark dust that extends all the way up to the top of the image, somewhat like a vast plume of smoke. The cloud obscures the stars behind it and visibly reddens them. The blue star in the center is illuminating a patch of the cloud near its tip, creating a small blue reflection nebula.$

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It's just...just...MALICIOUS STINGINESS. Why NOT hire an artist for godsake! Think of the joy - a different artist for each writer, to match the vibe. It's so bloody barren and dispiriting...

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

(Ah! There's a #skybrarian #booksky hashtag thingy! HATS OFF TO LIBRARIANS IN GENERAL THEN 🍷!)

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great news for the many fans of author, Rob Palk

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

(I ENJOYED THE BOOK OBVIOUSLY. The little reading box I hate. To be clear.)

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Excellent! Animal Lovers was the first eBook I ever purchased, and I loathed the ereading experience so egreatly that I eabandoned it. Would very much like a papery copy when it's reissued.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Delightful people with amazing nails finding my wretched little book at obscure libraries is the only thing distracting me from the rampant horrors of the world. Apparently there are THREE copies at San Francisco Public Library (for whatever irrational reason). Thank you, kind and unusual librarian!

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I am polychromatically angry.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Asking ChatGPT to evaluate my research idea

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is delightful news! Which one of your books has the individual touching all the ham? I remember that from following you on the old site of unspeakable horrors. Very pleased to see you again here!

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The "finally" suggests there's either a long waiting list for these, or else you've simply been denying yourself for years and have at last succumbed to temptation.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We should all write a novel called something like “The Invisible Metallurgist of Accidental Regrets” or “The Afternoon Society of Disconsolate Ferrymen” and retire to a vineyard in Crete.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Watching Withnail for the hundredth time. There’s something eternally poignant and relatable about a flailing wet thespian with plastic bags on his feet trapped in a liminal landscape. #📽️Film

A frightening and luridly-coloured ink scribble of Withnail giving a frozen, ghastly smile, with the words "I don't know that my acquaintance did to upset you, but it's nothing to do with me".

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Read this (FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING by @erinvincent.bsky.social) in one sitting last night. Absolutely tremendous book. Invents a new genre (biblionumeromancy?) while powerfully investigating grief and randomness and weird resonances across art and life. Couldn't recommend it more highly.

The Upswell edition of FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING by Erin Vincent

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Stick a trilby on a tower of empty box wines and invoke the spirit.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Melbournians should absolutely put their fancy pants on and go to this shindig (shindogg?) to support Mr Winkler's masterful and peculiar literary endeavours.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Wearing a little bow tie to the poetry reading.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Love! Laughter! Tremendous sheep costumes!

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

If any Sydneysiders feel like a respite from all the horrors of the world, there's a delightful production of "As You Like It" on at Flight Path Theatre, ending this Saturday, alas! Very much worth a romp to Marrickville! #shakespeare #ink #art

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Instead of just outright banning killer robots in the classroom, we should be having discussions about the *ethical use* of killer robots

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

And a fierce ability to do nothing with it! (Possibly making a book cover portfolio would be a good start, eh Valliard?)

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Pitiful pitch to do the cover for the international version. I can scribble miserable hounds! (sort of)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Trans people want to have sex and make art and talk about sports and do all the shit everyone likes, and instead we have to think about Nazi freaks all day. This sucks eggs.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Am finally part of a book group where I feel as though I fit in, so watch me proceed to alienate everyone in the group in a fit of social overexcitement as I failure to notice boundaries/cues.

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wrote this faintly overladen piece during a vestibular migraine, and I think it shows. Deep gratitude to Sūdō Journal for including "An Inconvenience to the Insouciant" in their latest illumined volume. sudojournal.com/latest-issue/ #pasquinade #poetry #satire #hellscape

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Horribly, pathetically pleased by this monstrously kind review because terrifying my fellow writers back to their work was precisely the reason I wrote the wretched thing. Lest we all be trapped in a procrastinating hell of our own devising! #booksky #writingcommunity #weirdfiction

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 09/10/2025

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain. Shame, really!

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A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Things must be getting grim if we're bringing out the big guns/the Four Zoas!

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Fuck this garbage. Think of all the talented artists in Glasgow who you could have chosen from to get a payday from this gig instead of the money being handed over to a slop merchant.

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