Alys Werewilfred Earl
@alysdragon.bsky.social
Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter - reached in, twisted its fist, and changed everything about me.
Sexy, disturbing, and perfect, perfect, perfect prose.
Sexy, disturbing, and perfect, perfect, perfect prose.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter - reached in, twisted its fist, and changed everything about me.
Sexy, disturbing, and perfect, perfect, perfect prose.
Sexy, disturbing, and perfect, perfect, perfect prose.
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No one tells you how much of this writing life is maintaining a one-sided cold war against some writer you feel wronged you years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
No one tells you how much of this writing life is maintaining a one-sided cold war against some writer you feel wronged you years ago.
*disengage social anxiety*
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
*disengage social anxiety*
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This is why the 1971-74 Hamilton/Mankiewicz Bonds were my faves as a kid.
Cos they get this.
"Kung fu! Christopher Lee! A funhouse! A little guy! A laser gun! A Chinese junk! Comedy sheriff! Robot gangsters and cowboys! A flying car! Britt Ekland in a bikini! A kid falling in a river! Belly dancer!"
Cos they get this.
"Kung fu! Christopher Lee! A funhouse! A little guy! A laser gun! A Chinese junk! Comedy sheriff! Robot gangsters and cowboys! A flying car! Britt Ekland in a bikini! A kid falling in a river! Belly dancer!"
Obligatory millenial *phwoar* moment for silver-fox Brosnan.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
Maiden, Mother(fucker), and Crone, if you will
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is why the 1971-74 Hamilton/Mankiewicz Bonds were my faves as a kid.
Cos they get this.
"Kung fu! Christopher Lee! A funhouse! A little guy! A laser gun! A Chinese junk! Comedy sheriff! Robot gangsters and cowboys! A flying car! Britt Ekland in a bikini! A kid falling in a river! Belly dancer!"
Cos they get this.
"Kung fu! Christopher Lee! A funhouse! A little guy! A laser gun! A Chinese junk! Comedy sheriff! Robot gangsters and cowboys! A flying car! Britt Ekland in a bikini! A kid falling in a river! Belly dancer!"
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I'll be reading from my story 'Little Gibbet' from 'Darkness Most Fowl' on November 23rd at 1pm ET (6pm GMT) on FB, YT, and Insta - I'll post watch links asap!
You can also get the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Darkness-Mos...
#booksky #indieauthors #smallpress #horrorbooks #horror #horrorpodcast
You can also get the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Darkness-Mos...
#booksky #indieauthors #smallpress #horrorbooks #horror #horrorpodcast
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'll be reading from my story 'Little Gibbet' from 'Darkness Most Fowl' on November 23rd at 1pm ET (6pm GMT) on FB, YT, and Insta - I'll post watch links asap!
You can also get the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Darkness-Mos...
#booksky #indieauthors #smallpress #horrorbooks #horror #horrorpodcast
You can also get the book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Darkness-Mos...
#booksky #indieauthors #smallpress #horrorbooks #horror #horrorpodcast
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Pretending to be a boy was a shit way to survive my childhood. I would not recommend forcing children to pretend to be a different gender.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Pretending to be a boy was a shit way to survive my childhood. I would not recommend forcing children to pretend to be a different gender.
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My default understanding is that "James Bond" is a fairy summoned by Doctor John Dee and bound to serve England since Elizabethan times through his trap-name ("Bond") but in general no you can't assume he's always the same guy
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My default understanding is that "James Bond" is a fairy summoned by Doctor John Dee and bound to serve England since Elizabethan times through his trap-name ("Bond") but in general no you can't assume he's always the same guy
Obligatory millenial *phwoar* moment for silver-fox Brosnan.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
Maiden, Mother(fucker), and Crone, if you will
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Obligatory millenial *phwoar* moment for silver-fox Brosnan.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
Okay, right: here’s how you make a a Bond movie.
Step one: You go to your average school playground and round up some daft wee boys (age 7-9). Ask them what would be cool.
Omit anything with dinosaurs or superpowers.
One of the annoying things about being a grownup is that there’s always a *thing* that you need. And sometimes it’s a sensible thing, that you could have conceived of having need of in your twenties, and sometimes it’s a little frost-proofing coat for a patio rose.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One of the annoying things about being a grownup is that there’s always a *thing* that you need. And sometimes it’s a sensible thing, that you could have conceived of having need of in your twenties, and sometimes it’s a little frost-proofing coat for a patio rose.
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Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone,
Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
gofund.me
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.
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My favourite Blu-ray bonus feature format is Kim Newman in a waistcoat, leaning on a patchwork quilt, in his relatably cluttered house, monologuing at the camera while surrounded by books he wants to promote.
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My favourite Blu-ray bonus feature format is Kim Newman in a waistcoat, leaning on a patchwork quilt, in his relatably cluttered house, monologuing at the camera while surrounded by books he wants to promote.
The problem with playing with form in poetry is I always feel like such a wanker when I get my edits and have to be like, “The n in ‘night’ this line needs to be lined up with the final e of the line before.”
Like, Fred, no one cares about this shit.
Like, Fred, no one cares about this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The problem with playing with form in poetry is I always feel like such a wanker when I get my edits and have to be like, “The n in ‘night’ this line needs to be lined up with the final e of the line before.”
Like, Fred, no one cares about this shit.
Like, Fred, no one cares about this shit.
I’ve read a handful of books lately(?) (over the last 10 years) which do something I find very interesting around the conversation of being - in modern parlance - gay, rather than necessarily.
I don’t really love the distinction, as it’s often a reactionary dogwhistle? But there’s something in it.
I don’t really love the distinction, as it’s often a reactionary dogwhistle? But there’s something in it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I’ve read a handful of books lately(?) (over the last 10 years) which do something I find very interesting around the conversation of being - in modern parlance - gay, rather than necessarily.
I don’t really love the distinction, as it’s often a reactionary dogwhistle? But there’s something in it.
I don’t really love the distinction, as it’s often a reactionary dogwhistle? But there’s something in it.
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Fantastic news!!! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
‘Hero’ crew member injured in train mass stabbing regains consciousness
Samir Zitouni was wounded as he protected passengers during attack on an LNER train travelling from Doncaster to London
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Fantastic news!!! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
If you write micros, please do submit for this! We’ve had some great work already, but can always stand to see more.
One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you write micros, please do submit for this! We’ve had some great work already, but can always stand to see more.
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One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?
The chat in the bathroom this morning, “Someone has taken it! What towel snatch? What puff pinch? What FLANNEL BANDIT??”
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The chat in the bathroom this morning, “Someone has taken it! What towel snatch? What puff pinch? What FLANNEL BANDIT??”
I love having two cats because you’ll be sitting somewhere and one of them will approach you normally, and then SUDDENLY CHANGE COURSE with a crackle and hiss because SHENANIGANS HAVE OCCURRED.
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I love having two cats because you’ll be sitting somewhere and one of them will approach you normally, and then SUDDENLY CHANGE COURSE with a crackle and hiss because SHENANIGANS HAVE OCCURRED.
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“Well, we made a nice mess of that one, didn't we? Let's try for a lower fatality rate this time.”
Peaches, as close as she might ever come to expressing remorse: forthenby.com/2025/11/05/2...
Peaches, as close as she might ever come to expressing remorse: forthenby.com/2025/11/05/2...
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Well, we made a nice mess of that one, didn't we? Let's try for a lower fatality rate this time.”
Peaches, as close as she might ever come to expressing remorse: forthenby.com/2025/11/05/2...
Peaches, as close as she might ever come to expressing remorse: forthenby.com/2025/11/05/2...
People who fall in love with books regardless of genre, I guess. The weird, the mystic, the non-judgemental. Those hanging on to reality by a fine thread.
Basically, me at 17.
Basically, me at 17.
What kind of audience do you hope to reach with your work? Who do you think needs it the most? #WritingPrompt
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
People who fall in love with books regardless of genre, I guess. The weird, the mystic, the non-judgemental. Those hanging on to reality by a fine thread.
Basically, me at 17.
Basically, me at 17.
God, whenever you see one of those “teacher faces consequences for being needlessly homo/transphobic it’s never *just* that, is it? It’s always a full spectrum of bullying and unprofessional conduct.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
God, whenever you see one of those “teacher faces consequences for being needlessly homo/transphobic it’s never *just* that, is it? It’s always a full spectrum of bullying and unprofessional conduct.
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To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.
Sophie's article is back up with a statement from the ICB. They are lying. They threatened Well BN with closure if they weren't given access to our childs records. Well BN held off for months, trying to stop them.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.