Andy Best
@andybest.bsky.social
Writer and musician. Current thing: fantasy novel Aertelis is live and 'wide', including all library services. UBL: https://books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
Blog: write.as/aertelis/
My stuff is at andrewbest.net
Blog: write.as/aertelis/
My stuff is at andrewbest.net
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Andy Best
@andybest.bsky.social
· Mar 14
Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?
I've got you covered. And it's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky
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I've got you covered. And it's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky
📚💙
Had a weird dream I was hanging with Mia Goth in Shanghai, she was dressed in black and lay down in the shallow water of a dank mall fountain with stained tiles so I took a picture and we called it 'O-pee-lia' after the Millais painting, then texted it to Scorsese.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Had a weird dream I was hanging with Mia Goth in Shanghai, she was dressed in black and lay down in the shallow water of a dank mall fountain with stained tiles so I took a picture and we called it 'O-pee-lia' after the Millais painting, then texted it to Scorsese.
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When obvious big new show that everyone knows about starts, posting any kind of spoilers, marked or otherwise gets the mute, and I don't think about socials enough to remember to unmute that often. Also I'm of no consequence as a follower so it works itself out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
When obvious big new show that everyone knows about starts, posting any kind of spoilers, marked or otherwise gets the mute, and I don't think about socials enough to remember to unmute that often. Also I'm of no consequence as a follower so it works itself out.
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Hard Drive was saddened to her about the passing of Molag Bal. We may not have always agreed with his methods, but he worked to enslave all of humanity and harvest their souls with the grace and poise the position demanded. Our thoughts go out to all his Daedric brethren in this difficult time.
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hard Drive was saddened to her about the passing of Molag Bal. We may not have always agreed with his methods, but he worked to enslave all of humanity and harvest their souls with the grace and poise the position demanded. Our thoughts go out to all his Daedric brethren in this difficult time.
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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PARENTS BE VIGILANT! CHECK YOUR KIDS' HALLOWEEN CANDY! I hear there's some real bangers in there you can probably snag without them noticing.
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
PARENTS BE VIGILANT! CHECK YOUR KIDS' HALLOWEEN CANDY! I hear there's some real bangers in there you can probably snag without them noticing.
The Witcher feels like the producers handed the franchise over to Canon Films after season 1.
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Witcher feels like the producers handed the franchise over to Canon Films after season 1.
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It's always a good day to abolish the monarchy.
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It's always a good day to abolish the monarchy.
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I thought I'd gone to the limits. I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible. It’s Hellraiser 🎁, and This Film is Lit. 📚 🎞️ Listen here: https://bit.ly/4of5Pbh
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I thought I'd gone to the limits. I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible. It’s Hellraiser 🎁, and This Film is Lit. 📚 🎞️ Listen here: https://bit.ly/4of5Pbh
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Here's my Linktree where you can still find me no matter where I go.
linktr.ee/gileadartist
linktr.ee/gileadartist
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Here's my Linktree where you can still find me no matter where I go.
linktr.ee/gileadartist
linktr.ee/gileadartist
Then: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Now: [sees audio message in chat]
Now: [sees audio message in chat]
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Then: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Now: [sees audio message in chat]
Now: [sees audio message in chat]
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Too many people falling for and sharing clickbait, which is what the creators of such things want you to do.
Ignoring is often the best option.
You don’t need those takes, and you don’t need to help proliferate them.
Ignoring is often the best option.
You don’t need those takes, and you don’t need to help proliferate them.
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Too many people falling for and sharing clickbait, which is what the creators of such things want you to do.
Ignoring is often the best option.
You don’t need those takes, and you don’t need to help proliferate them.
Ignoring is often the best option.
You don’t need those takes, and you don’t need to help proliferate them.
Thinking back to when the most obnoxious thing under a post would be 'first.' Except for all the abuse that was there from day one. Never mind.
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thinking back to when the most obnoxious thing under a post would be 'first.' Except for all the abuse that was there from day one. Never mind.
If you came from below the middle class to become erudite and creatively skilled, in spite of the barriers, then don't replicate their cultural modes. Your superpower is being able to shrug off that which seems immutable to them. Be direct, unironic and present.
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you came from below the middle class to become erudite and creatively skilled, in spite of the barriers, then don't replicate their cultural modes. Your superpower is being able to shrug off that which seems immutable to them. Be direct, unironic and present.
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the real issues that drive liberals to action are suspending Jimmy Kimmel and demolishing a part of a house built by enslaved people.
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
the real issues that drive liberals to action are suspending Jimmy Kimmel and demolishing a part of a house built by enslaved people.
Finished Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Written during and set at the start of WW2, it's darkly comic but bleak as characters who are dangerously ill, alcoholic, and even sympathetic to fascism enact a nihilistic faux-bohemian life, as the world collapses.
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Finished Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Written during and set at the start of WW2, it's darkly comic but bleak as characters who are dangerously ill, alcoholic, and even sympathetic to fascism enact a nihilistic faux-bohemian life, as the world collapses.
re: post below this about watching things directly, another problem is that a lot of people have brain rot from the tropes site and extreme online fandoms, so that they start books on audio at 1.5 speed, check about 5-10 pages and say, nah, this is not my trope/MC combination - DNF. It's so bad.
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
re: post below this about watching things directly, another problem is that a lot of people have brain rot from the tropes site and extreme online fandoms, so that they start books on audio at 1.5 speed, check about 5-10 pages and say, nah, this is not my trope/MC combination - DNF. It's so bad.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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A hoot of a movie!
Me and the family rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves the other night. It is delightful, this generation's Princess Bride. Very funny, charming, and inventive, it deserved to make a billion dollars. Cold comfort for the filmmakers, but I'd say it'll be rediscovered eventually.
October 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A hoot of a movie!
What the fuck, Emilia Jones is Aled Jones's kid? I'm so old aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
What the fuck, Emilia Jones is Aled Jones's kid? I'm so old aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Task, like Inglesby's previous show Mare of Eastown, is brilliant.
October 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Task, like Inglesby's previous show Mare of Eastown, is brilliant.
Still thinking about Gary Neville's interview of Daniel Levy on the Overlap, the brief moment of clarity among the platitudes and effortless lying of the CEO class: discussing club ownership and spending issues, Levy says, Gary, can you think of a single time government regulation has worked? ...
October 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Still thinking about Gary Neville's interview of Daniel Levy on the Overlap, the brief moment of clarity among the platitudes and effortless lying of the CEO class: discussing club ownership and spending issues, Levy says, Gary, can you think of a single time government regulation has worked? ...
Denying them air and blocking doesn't fully work if we regularly post screenshots of their posts into our followers' feeds. It's not that we can't discuss stuff, it's the directly sharing of posts that are otherwise blocked.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Denying them air and blocking doesn't fully work if we regularly post screenshots of their posts into our followers' feeds. It's not that we can't discuss stuff, it's the directly sharing of posts that are otherwise blocked.
Pre-war existential novels are about hating the bourgeoisie, but hating yourself more for being no better, then manifesting this dissonance through anti-social behavior.
[insert joke about social media here]
[insert joke about social media here]
October 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Pre-war existential novels are about hating the bourgeoisie, but hating yourself more for being no better, then manifesting this dissonance through anti-social behavior.
[insert joke about social media here]
[insert joke about social media here]
Reading novel Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, who wrote the plays Rope and Gaslight. Let's check out the existential musings of a man slowly drinking himself to death in the face of encroaching fascism and crushing capitalism.
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Reading novel Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, who wrote the plays Rope and Gaslight. Let's check out the existential musings of a man slowly drinking himself to death in the face of encroaching fascism and crushing capitalism.