E.Saxey
@esaxey.bsky.social
Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
Wondering why London blue topaz is so named. I think it's a 1980s coinage. (They're irradiated to turn them inky blue, they have to be stored for a couple of years after.)
February 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Wondering why London blue topaz is so named. I think it's a 1980s coinage. (They're irradiated to turn them inky blue, they have to be stored for a couple of years after.)
Sea-skating!
I have a pretty halcyon life, and a desire (for writing) to know the physical symptoms of extreme emotions. I save a folder of things like this, so I can feel my heart fist-squeezed with fear whenever I need it.
I have a pretty halcyon life, and a desire (for writing) to know the physical symptoms of extreme emotions. I save a folder of things like this, so I can feel my heart fist-squeezed with fear whenever I need it.
Interrupting my regularly scheduled programming to announce the happy news that the Baltic Sea froze over, generating vast surfaces suitable for long-distance skating. My old friend Jens Liljestrand and I took some time off to explore the edge of the archipelago today, and it was glorious ❄️❄️❄️
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Sea-skating!
I have a pretty halcyon life, and a desire (for writing) to know the physical symptoms of extreme emotions. I save a folder of things like this, so I can feel my heart fist-squeezed with fear whenever I need it.
I have a pretty halcyon life, and a desire (for writing) to know the physical symptoms of extreme emotions. I save a folder of things like this, so I can feel my heart fist-squeezed with fear whenever I need it.
Age verification? Nis nu cwicra nan þe ic him modsefan minne durre
sweotule asecgan.
sweotule asecgan.
10 PRINT “AGE VERIFICATION”
20 GOTO 10
RUN
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Age verification? I voted for Dukakis.
February 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Age verification? Nis nu cwicra nan þe ic him modsefan minne durre
sweotule asecgan.
sweotule asecgan.
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✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Ropey human art can strike a chord which more polished GenAI can't, and I'm hoping Hourly Comics Day (tomorrow) can demonstrate that. Although it's a lovely showcase for artists, I invite newcomers to join me in doodles that serve an emotional purpose and look like squashed spiders.
February 7, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Ropey human art can strike a chord which more polished GenAI can't, and I'm hoping Hourly Comics Day (tomorrow) can demonstrate that. Although it's a lovely showcase for artists, I invite newcomers to join me in doodles that serve an emotional purpose and look like squashed spiders.
Recent Wuthering Heights chat has reminded me I nicked my name (in part) from the pen name of Emily Brontë. I prefer the fiction of her sisters but I know my limits, so didn't try to walk the world as a Currer or an Acton.
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Recent Wuthering Heights chat has reminded me I nicked my name (in part) from the pen name of Emily Brontë. I prefer the fiction of her sisters but I know my limits, so didn't try to walk the world as a Currer or an Acton.
Sign up, this one's going to be 🔥scorching🔥.
Folk horror returns to the forefront with the latest run of STRANGE AS FOLK, running on the 9th May online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #folklore #writing #writers #authors #fiction #horror #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorfiction #horrorauthors
February 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Sign up, this one's going to be 🔥scorching🔥.
I think of this passage quite often - esp. how others "would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes / Feed on one another". So much sharking, lately.
This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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February 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
I think of this passage quite often - esp. how others "would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes / Feed on one another". So much sharking, lately.
Hidden orange collars, and two long blue ribbon-like feathers in the centre of their tail fans.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Hidden orange collars, and two long blue ribbon-like feathers in the centre of their tail fans.
Thinking of the balance in speculative fictions between exploring the premise and digging into the characters. Am currently enjoying something which started off doing trick shots with the novum, but is broadening into making me care about the cast.
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Thinking of the balance in speculative fictions between exploring the premise and digging into the characters. Am currently enjoying something which started off doing trick shots with the novum, but is broadening into making me care about the cast.
My assertion last night that "people find The Thing attractive" required some clarification.
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
My assertion last night that "people find The Thing attractive" required some clarification.
I was walking into a field, away from artificial lights, to watch for meteors last year. I thought: I wish someone would turn off that glaring garage lamp. It was the full moon.
When you're in a city you don't quite appreciate just how bright a full moon is.
I'm out in the countryside now where there is almost no light pollution. There was a full moon yesterday and even though it was behind clouds I could have gotten up to all kinds of shenanigans without a flashlight.
I'm out in the countryside now where there is almost no light pollution. There was a full moon yesterday and even though it was behind clouds I could have gotten up to all kinds of shenanigans without a flashlight.
February 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I was walking into a field, away from artificial lights, to watch for meteors last year. I thought: I wish someone would turn off that glaring garage lamp. It was the full moon.
Perfect ambiguous phrasing. Bad news, but in which direction?
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Perfect ambiguous phrasing. Bad news, but in which direction?
I love unreliable narrators but am considering writing an *entirely* reliable narrator. Mercilessly self-aware, never gulled by others, god-like capacity to weigh causality. Drug-immune, never suffers those handy fictional forms of insanity. Barely subjective. Holds nothing back. Safe pair of hands.
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I love unreliable narrators but am considering writing an *entirely* reliable narrator. Mercilessly self-aware, never gulled by others, god-like capacity to weigh causality. Drug-immune, never suffers those handy fictional forms of insanity. Barely subjective. Holds nothing back. Safe pair of hands.
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imagine making gods of your limtations
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
imagine making gods of your limtations
Winter Lights at Canary Wharf this year has fewer solid things which glow, and more ethereal guests who dance, which I preferred.
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Winter Lights at Canary Wharf this year has fewer solid things which glow, and more ethereal guests who dance, which I preferred.
Thanks to a hard-to-read karaoke songbook at the weekend, I sang a song I didn't know, which was great. But now I have a tune that I still don't know stuck in my head.
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Thanks to a hard-to-read karaoke songbook at the weekend, I sang a song I didn't know, which was great. But now I have a tune that I still don't know stuck in my head.
I was working in a café today when an older woman asked me to take a photo of her and her friend, hugging and chuckling under this poster.
www.handmadenottingham.com/collections/...
www.handmadenottingham.com/collections/...
January 25, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I was working in a café today when an older woman asked me to take a photo of her and her friend, hugging and chuckling under this poster.
www.handmadenottingham.com/collections/...
www.handmadenottingham.com/collections/...
For Burns night, a poem by Yeats. Keep thinking lately about the ways we mythologise both friends and political figures.
"Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train / Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head..."
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"Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train / Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head..."
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Beautiful Lofty Things by W.B. Yeats | Poetry Ireland
Read Beautiful Lofty Things by W.B. Yeats, from Issue 116 of Poetry Ireland Review
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January 25, 2026 at 1:22 PM
For Burns night, a poem by Yeats. Keep thinking lately about the ways we mythologise both friends and political figures.
"Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train / Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head..."
share.google/UyHzJOAMxilV...
"Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train / Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head..."
share.google/UyHzJOAMxilV...
Ambushed by the T.J.Eckleburg bus advert.
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Ambushed by the T.J.Eckleburg bus advert.
Cat, grey in the dark. Carreras Cigarette Factory, Camden.
(Hard to capture the scale of incongruous objects; I think this cat is taller than I am.)
(Hard to capture the scale of incongruous objects; I think this cat is taller than I am.)
January 22, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Cat, grey in the dark. Carreras Cigarette Factory, Camden.
(Hard to capture the scale of incongruous objects; I think this cat is taller than I am.)
(Hard to capture the scale of incongruous objects; I think this cat is taller than I am.)
Does anyone else gets a pretty sharp camera obscura effect when using blackout curtains? I don't see it referenced in fiction, it would be a decent way to spy without meaning to.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Does anyone else gets a pretty sharp camera obscura effect when using blackout curtains? I don't see it referenced in fiction, it would be a decent way to spy without meaning to.
‘Daddy, why is it a cow stops? It gets a bit of the way, but then it doesn’t seem able to get any further, ever.'
That led us on to the question of limited intelligence ...
It was about ten days after that that we first heard about Chocky.
- John Christopher
That led us on to the question of limited intelligence ...
It was about ten days after that that we first heard about Chocky.
- John Christopher
January 19, 2026 at 5:18 PM
‘Daddy, why is it a cow stops? It gets a bit of the way, but then it doesn’t seem able to get any further, ever.'
That led us on to the question of limited intelligence ...
It was about ten days after that that we first heard about Chocky.
- John Christopher
That led us on to the question of limited intelligence ...
It was about ten days after that that we first heard about Chocky.
- John Christopher